skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We once had a purse stolen out of a car (our bad, shouldn't have been left out there, and we left the car unlocked, total fuckup on our part).

A credit card from it was used twice at a gas station (cameras galore) that is not near anything—except it's the last gas station on the route to the local, rural-located (little other reason to be out there) Amazon distribution center. We lived in a typical dead-end shitty suburban neighborhood where nobody ever passes through who doesn't live there, except delivery drivers. It was an Amazon delivery driver who stole it, I'm not even Sherlock Holmes and I figured that out in about two minutes with one CC statement and a Maps search.

The cops took a report, didn't give a fuck about the fact that it'd almost certainly take take comically little work to catch the perp and informed us they didn't intend to even try, then... fucking charged us for a copy of the police report we needed for the CC companies.

Definitely didn't feel protected, and only "served" in the sense of "you got served!"

I can only assume resistance to the "defund the police" movement comes entirely from people who've never dealt with them. Ok, our issue was pretty minor, sure it was about the easiest damn case to investigate in all of history but they only have so many people—but I've got a half-dozen other stories like that, from employers, relatives, and friends, and they're all the same, even with much bigger-ticket and serial(!) thefts. They're completely useless, the amount I'm happy to pay them unless they significantly improve is zero dollars. That's before even factoring in their fucked-up "warrior culture", normalized rampant civil rights violations, and lots of murders. Like, putting aside the abuse, they're just goddamn useless at their supposed primary function.
You could have a model that receives the generated raw text and then is trained to display it in whatever style. Whether it looks like a font or not is irrelevant.
I'm an Apple software developer. :-)
I really appreciate the sentiment of the article. I am always annoyed when colleagues say that clothing is made by robots or something like that. To the extent that textiles can b automated they have been automated. A wool sweater has a lot of steps each of which involve a mixture of advanced power tools and human hands.
A few things to add to the author's points: the 70s-90s mark the big change in clothing with the phasing in of the multi-fiber agreement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Fibre_Arrangement). This basically opened the door for outsourcing of garment manufacture from 1st world to 3rd world countries. It also meant the end of the first world textiles industry, and a serious drop in quality. To a certain extent this might have been an inevitable measure, but that also feels like a cop out for the ability of the most influential group of people in history to make policy decisions.

Something that kind of annoys me about the author's take is that while they profess a lot of empathy for the third world workers who are being (heavily) exploited in textile manufacturing (which is terrible), they don't mention their first world neighbors who were also put out of a job by such outsourcing arrangements. The author is correct that people elsewhere are just as capable as people here, but there is more too it than that. Outsourcing is/was inspired by a desire for lower costs and higher margins, but it is a very anti-social way to achieve these goals. The problem with outsourcing arrangements is that the decision makers cared about cost more than anything else and they had a lot of contempt for the people doing the actual work. Naturally these forces combine to lower the quality.
It is easy for the modern left in America to see this contempt for labor as racism when it happens in foreign countries, but they don't seem to see that this same animosity is applied to their neighbors. This feels a bit callous and I think this misses the bigger point that when we devalue work and when we devalue craftsmanship we get lousy outcomes.
I haven’t used recent versions but I remember trying to use it like 6 years ago on a project and trying to figure out how to display an SVG was ridiculous. The solution was a specific next-svg package… but that’s not a great experience to need to find Next-specific packages for common uses. We ended up going with CRA at the time, today I imagine we would’ve chose React/Vite but we also didn’t need any benefits of SSR for the project
> That doesn't seem to jive with the way I live vs the literal log fucking cabin they lived in.

I propose that different goods have different trajectories. Lighting is better and cheaper than 100 years ago. Boots maybe aren't.
I am Indian. Not sure if this is because there are too many of us but except for part of cities these days, social connections like these are normal.

I have at least a dozen neighbours, I can walk in (uninvited), have tea and gossip. And not all of them are necessarily my friends. Some are.

Pretty much everyone I know has their little neighbourhood circle like this.
> There’s a vulnerability in Signal where you can set up linked devices that replicate your signal messages.

You mean the desktop linking feature? If that's considered a vulnerability, then so is being able to chat with someone after getting their public key unverified from an overseas server, the primary mode in which everyone uses it (including the people in this chat, evidently, since no out-of-band key exchange was performed)...

Not to mention the "vulnerability" where you copy the phone's storage and get the key material onto another device to do with what you will, which may be harder or easier depending on the hardware but I'd trust any sufficiently funded security agency to be able to do this for common devices
That’s the idea! This is at the heart of our upcoming Azure Front Door Edge Actions platform. Our CTO Mark Russinovich talked more about this at Ignite last fall:

https://youtu.be/EYCA0cR1dkI
OK, I would challenge you to find a single case, reported in the media, in which a defendant took a plea deal rather than face charges that included mandatory sex offender registration for nothing more than public urination. If that has ever happened, surely it would've been reported on at least once, right?
LOL, this is not gonna work, just give up, relax, and enjoy the atmosphere

btw i submitted the original video here weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43316936

sadly it is not discussable, hi @yorwba, can you please explain the difference between flagged and be restricted to discuss?
Have u had any luck with engineering/schematics/wireframe diagrams such as [1] ??

[1] https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pasted-ima...
Anything but building significantly upwards, amirite?
Both are chat rooms.
I’d recommend against it. The most prominent aspect of it, the “feat:”, “fix:”, etc. labels, are better done with git trailers. The “module” that appears in parens could be another trailer, if you so desire. You don’t consume valuable bytes in the short message and you lose nothing in terms of search-ability. You could probably even use the trailer values to reconstruct conventional commit format if you really need to see it in that way.
What is AI readiness and does your org have it?
Ask HN: What are your contrarian views?
Asked the same question a few years ago [0], sparked some great threads. Time for an update!

There are lots of smart people in this community who are deeply specialised in all sorts of domains.
I'll bet there are some fascinating counter-consensus views at the edges on what the future holds in these domains.

Let's hear them!

What do you think is true in your domain that most of your peers don't?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30322001
jwz makes the list -- against his will.
Individuals aren't, but US citizens, collectively, are at fault for the behavior of the US government.
Microsoft introduces deep research and analysis tools for Copilot
Gleam has a subset of OTP functionality already [1]. It also compiles extremely quickly. I haven't made any huge projects yet, but I've used some fairly chunky libraries and everything compiles super quick.

[1] https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
> Commoditization generally sucks.

Only for the thing being commoditized. It's a feature for the one doing the commoditizing. I can see why if you care about the Quality of the application itself more than the user experience, this is a concern, and I suppose it all comes down to who you define as your "users" - the people on the targeted platform vs. a more broad selection of platforms.
It is not correct to assert this. More precise is to say: it is unlikely that all of the gospels were written by the names we now associate with them -- at least not insofar as these names relate to the 12 disciples.

The truth is we don't know who wrote the gospels. The evidence is that they are quite early (i.e. for Mark, consensus is late 60s so perhaps 30-40 years after Jesus' death). In fact, many scholars think 'Mark' was written by 'Mark Antony' who is mentioned in Acts. And John may have been written by a 'John the Elder' who is mentioned elsewhere. These are educated guesses though -- the evidence is circumstantial.
I was sued in the US once. Between all the stuff it took about 3mo.

You can't just spew blanket judgements when the actual course of events depends so heavily on the specific facts. I question the intelligence of anyone who managed to have a lawsuit going on for 2yr and not come away with an understanding that specific facts matter greatly.
Worth noting:

- Historically, human civilizations needed nothing resembling a "wiped out" disaster to completely collapse. Put a bit of stress on 'em (modest & local climate change, "mining out" some so-convenient resource, or whatever), or just give 'em a few generations of "the good life" to get complacent, and things often collapsed. Usually, the "why?" amounted to "it's easy to be short-sighted and stupid, and that's pretty much how they behaved".

- A human civilization built on pre-1800-ish technology can suffer fairly complete collapse, and the survivors rebuild pretty quickly - repeatedly if needed. The vast majority of the population are relatively self-sufficient farmers. Livestock breeds. They grow their own seeds. There is little long-distance transportation, and that's mostly via wooden boats / barges / ships. And all the skills and knowledge needed to maintain (or rebuild) a "95%" version of a fallen civilization can fit into a few dozen human heads.

- Today's human civilization would fare vastly worse in any sort of "complete collapse" scenario. Supply chains, even for critical parts of our infrastructure, are global. And you'd need tens of thousands of experts to have all the skills required to rebuild a "95%" version of today's world.
I think there's maybe a value discrepancy as well. Admittedly I fall more on what I perceive to be the European side of this, so that's my bias here.

As someone of moderate wealth (high earner, investments), I still live in the same small house in the same inexpensive city I did when I was earning a quarter of what I do now. Americans talk about "starter houses" and moving up, but that's a consumptive pattern I don't value. Instead, I value the financial freedom of not having a mortgage and having stable, well-constructed housing that I continuously improve. I could afford the bigger house but I don't want it.

As for cars, I have 2 but they rarely get used. One is a business van for transporting large equipment and the other is a cheap hatchback. I bike most places though, and drive only a couple times a week. I understand their utility as a tool, but if I could get away without owning one I would.

Money is nice, but financial security with social safety nets and public healthcare is a trade-off I'd gladly make.
Marathon runners undergo reversible reductions in myelin in brain during a race
(looks at laptop running a Node app hosted in minikube running on Podman in WSL2 in Windows) of course. easy peasy
Seconding the need for a video. We need a way to preview this without it costing you money. I had to charge you a few dimes to grasp this excellent work. The description does not do it justice; people need to see this in motion. The progressive build-up of a single frame, too. I encourage you to post the Show HN soon.
My question is; Why even have a "wallet" at this point?

My teens use these little things that attach to their phones to hold gym key, debit card and ID.

I use a traditional "wallet" or billfold as my abuelo used to call them, but I am positively a dinosaur using one. Also, the darn thing hurts my back if I leave it in my back pocket while driving/sitting.

Heck, I have been eyeing those crossbody bags or saccoche to hold the things that are in my wallet.
100% agree. The worst offenders imho are DRY and inheritance. In most cases it causes garbage code that adheres to some lofty goals but sucks to be maintained. We actually do the opposite of DRY: isolate behaviour, even when shared. If complex enough and shared: build a lib. But one use case = one app functionality. We are so happy and productive with that. Throw in ports + adapters and use cases (= one feature) and you're set.
Improving Boot on Ventura and Later
>Test doctors and judges and hair stylists alike based on whether they can do the job

This is exactly what the piece of paper shows when you get it from an accredited and reputable institution.

What is your proposal? Do surgery until you stop killing people to prove that you can do them now?
The facts I stated were established irrespective of anything Clinton did or didn't do, so we can step past your smokescreen.

The Mueller report did not clear Trump. Clearly you did not read it, it's damning. Only according to Trump is he cleared by that report.

The Mueller Report Vol I firmly establishes that the Russians sought to interfere in the 2016 election, they explicitly preferred Trump over Clinton and aimed to help him by 1) hacking her campaign and 2) spreading misinformation on social media. It further found that despite the Trump administration claiming they the campaign had 0 contacts with Russian nationals, in fact they had over 100 contacts.

One such contact was a Russian spy named Natalia Veselnitskaya. She met in Trump Tower with Don Jr, Jared Kushner, and Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort. They discussed relaxing international relations with Russia, in exchange for providing dirt on the Clinton campaign. These facts were admitted to by the members of that meeting, after they first attempted to cover it up with a lie that the meeting was to discuss adoption of Russian orphans. Absurd.

It's also a fact that Donald Trump aided in the dissemination of the hacked materials, as he referenced them constantly and even implored Russia to find more. The Mueller reports found that GRU operatives actively responded to that public request from Trump. Again, this is all in Vol I of the report.

Then there's the smoking gun, the fact that Paul Manafort was caught funneling internal campaign data to Konstantin Kilimnik, a known Russian intelligence officer. This was not in the Mueller Report, but established later by the Senate Intel Committee in volume VI of their report on Russian active measures during the 2016 election, at a time it was chaired by none other than current Secretary of State, then Senator, Republican Marco Rubio. It was further confirmed by the Department of Treasury.

So I ask you again: where's the lie?

Because the facts found by investigators show collusion happened. Russia wanted Trump to win, and Trump wanted to win; the two coordinated publicly and in private; the campaign lied about it every step of the way; and they obstructed any investigation as much as they could, which included firing the FBI director, and lying about the contents of the Mueller report when it was finally released.

It's a stain of historical magnitude on the office of the presidency, and the fact it wasn't dealt with properly in 2016 is a direct cause of us being in this thread today, right now, discussing imbeciles in the highest echelons of government conducting themselves like people who can get away with anything. Because they already have.
Thanks for the detailed reply! I see custom policy/assertions on kernel behavior as powerful. As a current osquery user managing a fleet of 10k+ hosts (mostly Linux boxes) I find the query model resonates in terms of ux. We have a set of SQL pipelines that run on top of it at my org. osq works well for monitoring but not detections. So this direction is interesting, I'll forward to my detection eng folks
> supervised agent

This is the trick. Human in the loop, not human hiding in an ivory tower after uttering a single command. This is ~effectively what I see a lot of shops doing right now:

"Clean up the codebase please. Apply best practices :D. OH. By the way, heres a laundry list of 100 things to NOT do: <list begins>".

I get a lot more uplift out of use cases like:

"Please generate a custom Stream implementation that is read-only and sources bytes from an underlying chunked representation. Mock the chunk loading part. Primarily demonstrate the ReadAsync method and transition logic between chunks."
Small claims courts, traffic courts and every other area of the legal apparatus should not be wield by potentially incompetent people. We already have enough problems with these swords when being held by competent people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
Leading AI models fail new test of artificial general intelligence
Some of us think of ourselves as democratic citizens, not just solipsistic consumers. I guess that's where the difference comes from.
Yes. It's become a popular opinion over time. People lauding GoF today should be viewed with skepticism.
Researchers Found a Greener Way to Make Fuel for Nuclear Fusion–By Accident
I have translated the Chinese. I still have no idea what point you're trying to make. You ask it questions about some kind of band, and it answers. Are you saying the answers are wrong?
Line-drying is very different from "hand-washing".

I "line-dry" (drying rack) a lot of my clothes (pretty much all my dress pants, dress shirts, anything that I don't want shrinking in a hot dryer). But I don't use a bucket or tub to handwash and handwring my clothes; I still machine-wash on delicate with cold water even if I line dry. I've never met anyone who hand washes, in any country (though I know it's popular in many less-developed nations, I haven't met anyone who does).

I have occasionally handwashed very expensive wool sweaters, but I prefer dry-cleaning them, not only because of the labor but also because if I let them soak even just a little too long the wool fibers start separating and permanently changes the sweater.
>It's a common misconception.

I think this makes it sound like I'm repeating something I've heard. It's my experience, not just some preconceived notion I have. I find it much easier to use something like Next.js, Remix, etc. (if we are comparing frameworks) than Astro for more dynamic web apps.

I would be very surprised to hear someone who prefers to build substantial dynamic SPA in Astro. But if that's you I'd love to hear more.
TL;DR: AI summaries and bullet points for everything will change human communication to that format.

The problem with this post is that, despite mentioning programming languages in the title, the examples are about writing emails. The author forgets to address programming at all, which is very much a use case and will remain one as processors only run compiled machine code and not bullet points.
I can think of at least one person this applies to for a seven figure company. Some people are not looking for the accoloades, the prestige - they get a problem and provide a solution and don't care much for personally communicating the 'how'- they expect others to be intelligent enough to know the 'why' to be mutually understood and don't care too much for explaining the how.

An unfortunate situation where people are able to solve problems but are burdened with having to pimp it to others. In the minds of these people, it is pimping. People on the scale I guess. And they have extreme value, 10x people.

Unfortunately society capitalises on people being able to 'sell' rather than the value. Maybe AI can cut through that bullshit.
I think design patterns should be more descriptive, but people try to use them prescriptively.

Being able to say "circuit breaker" pattern or "visitor" is a time efficient way to communicate complicated ideas. Its value is being able to conserve the limited bandwidth speaking has.

Bad coders will always find something or another to justify their work with and it just so happens the most popular book is often referenced, for good and bad.
Those who did not vote but could have, effectively voted for whoever ended up being the winner. By choosing not to vote, they were indicating they were OK with whoever won.
That certainly is a more extensive collection of code comments, but I just love the humor in the Register's article.
> The author of this article is Dan Crum a FT journalist respected for his investigations of financial fraud

He had to just post a retraction and apology in the FT admitting he was wrong, so not well respected anymore. Of course the media won't report the retraction after regurgitating the original article.

Not the first "expert" to use their reputation to successfully influence the public discourse with falsehoods.
Jacob Barandes, a New Formulation of Quantum Theory [video]
Off-topic, but "Build Times" is a great name for a blog.
>Justice is expensive.

Nitpick: Process is expensive. Process does not yield justice by itself. It (assuming it's crafted right) just makes the outcomes more consistent.
It stuns me that anyone ever believed in that myth.
I took it as more like, people might kinda think to themselves, “this shirt was made by my friend with time and love instead of just, you know, coming off the production line” as if mass produced clothing is just made by some big corporate machine. But of course someone somewhere is actually putting in work to make a shirt for you, always.
I don't think any of our allies stopped buying our weapons during his first campaign.

https://reason.com/2025/03/17/allies-cancel-orders-of-f-35s-...

How do you not see that this time is different?
Here is how I use it: As a writing assistant that lives in my IDE, and as a very very cool and sophisticated rubber duck that can answer me.

Something I do quite a lot is throwing back and forth a discussion over a particular piece of code, usually provided with little to no context (because that's my task to worry about), hammering it until we get that functionality correct, then presenting it with broader context to fit it in (or I simply do that part by hand).

Here is how I don't use it: As an agent that gets broad goals that he is supposed to fulfill on its own.

Why? Because the time and effort I have to invest to ensure that the output of an agentic system is in line with what I actually try to accomplish, is simply too much, for all the reasons outlined in this excellent article.

Ironically, this is even more true, since using AI as an incredibly capable writing assistant, already speeds up my workflow considerably. So in a way, less agentic AI empowers me in a way that makes me more critical of the additional time I'd have to invest to play around the quirks of agentic AI.
Compared to other modes of operation, CRF doesn't work better or worse at any arbitrary bitrate. In itself it doesn't do anything fundamentally different about how changes between frames are analyzed or how the changes are encoded. It's a "constant quality" mode of operation, and it will use as much data as it deems necessary in order to meet the quality target. That is, CRF produces a varying bitrate product and you have no actual control over the final bitrate requirement.