skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> could be solved by running reinforce wire along it

You could, but you might as well just use armoured fibre if you're doing that !

Some of the low core-count CSTA stuff out there these days could almost have you thinking its unarmored if you didn't know. Not at all bulky.
Up and Running with Jax – JIT Compilation, Vectorizing Transformations and Auto
European governments do these extra things for their citizens because they have to. Or at least historically had to.

Because there was an active socialist & communist movement -- with massive trade union support -- on the continent forcing them to.

That is basically non-existent in the US, and very weak and closer to non-existent in Canada. (We only have universal healthcare here because of the actions of the social democratic CCF/NDP in the 60s in Saskatchewan, winning against a doctor's strike and showing the centre-left in the rest of the country that it was possible. At that moment in time. I don't think such a thing could ever be won now. Not against an established insurance industry.)
I always buy underwear in Brazil when I visit. My aunt knows where to get the good stuff, those things last for 10 years, easily. I don't even know how much they cost as she makes a point to not let me pay for them :D but they're probably very cheap compared to most places/brands.

I see ZR on it, so I think it's this brand: https://www.zeerucci.com.br/cueca-boxer-sem-cost-3439?srslti...

The ones I get in Europe and Australia literally have holes in them after two or three usages, even more expensive ones, it's just a joke. Same thing with jeans... how can they not last longer than a few months???? My old Brazilian jeans from the 1990's still look in perfect shape, if only I could wear them without looking like outdated by 30 years. I still keep them anyway, waiting for the very-lose-jeans fit to come back one day!
>This genuinely threw me because in my experience the suburbs are the antithesis of this, just lots of people occupying neighboring space and rarely talking to each other.

I've lived in both settings, and my own experience has been a mix. In the (walkable) suburbs I've lived in, I've connected with my immediate neighbors, strength of connection rapidly dissipates with distance. We are friendly, occasionally have a BBQ or meal together, and lots of random chats while going for a walk or doing yard work.

When I've lived in cities, it's been a much larger and more active community where the connection is less about proximity of our homes, and more about being in the same place at the same time since our daily errands and living were generally on foot. For those and the simple reason of small homes, we were more likely to meet somewhere or do an activity. I was also FAR more likely to run into someone I knew in my city than I was in my suburbs.
Frankly I don't think the end users will notice much difference.

Excel '98 probably covers 90% of what the average excel user needs, yet here we are with a grossly bloated SaaS excel app in 2025. Constant SaaS feature-pack enshitification that people are either pushed or tricked into.

I think software is in a for a big disruption when people realize they can prompt an LLM "Make me a simple app for tracking employee payroll for my small business. Just like lotus 1-2-3 was more than capable of doing 40 years ago."
I use Cursor for most of my development these days. This article aligns pretty closely with my experiences. A few additional observations:

1. Anecdotally, AI agents feel stuck somewhere circa ~2021. If I install newer packages, Claude will revert to outdated packages/implementations that were popular four years ago. This is incredibly frustrating to watch and correct for. Providing explicit instructions for which packages to use can mitigate the problem, but it doesn't solve it.

2. The unpredictability of these missteps makes them particularly challenging. A few months ago, I used Claude to "one-shot" a genuinely useful web app. It was fully featured and surprisingly polished. Alone, I think it would've taken a couple weeks or weekends to build. But, when I asked it to update the favicon using a provided file, it spun uselessly for an hour (I eventually did it myself in a couple minutes). A couple days ago, I tried to spin up another similarly scoped web app. After ~4 hours of agent wrangling I'm ready to ditch the code entirely.

3. This approach gives me the brazenness to pursue projects that I wouldn't have the time, expertise, or motivation to attempt otherwise. Lower friction is exciting, but building something meaningful is still hard. Producing a polished MVP still demands significant effort.

4. I keep thinking about The Tortoise and The Hare. Trusting the AI agent is tempting because progress initially feels so much faster. At the end of the day, though, I'm usually left with the feeling I'd have made more solid progress with slower, closer attention. When building by hand, I rarely find myself backtracking or scrapping entire approaches. With an AI-driven approach, I might move 10x faster but throw away ~70% of the work along the way.

> These experiences mean that by no stretch of my personal imagination will we have AI that writes 90% of our code autonomously in a year. Will it assist in writing 90% of the code? Maybe.

Spot on. Current environment feels like the self-driving car hype cycle. There have been a lot of bold promises (and genuine advances), but I don't see a world in the next 5 years where AI writes useful software by itself.
Einstein causality, i.e that no physical effect propagates faster than light. In QFT it it is modeled by the rule that space-like separated measurements commute.
Humans make mistakes, sure, but if a human starts hallucinating we immediately lose trust in them.

> AI can solve math puzzles better than 99.9% of population

So can a calculator.
I've bought some from Goodwill and yardsales for a couple of dollars
> The company has 120,000 R&D engineers

BYD has about as many R&D engineers has Tesla was employees?
This cries out for a histogram.
Indeed very simple and within reach of a beginner.

Another illustration how RPi 2040 PIO is an exceedingly helpful thing. Without it, the RF-related circuits would have to use either bit-banging, or a bunch of small discrete components.
Remarkable how few tokens it needed to get a much better score than other reasoning models. Any chance of contamination?
i was expecting a "written from these bullet points by an llm" at the end.
> The response was to a talk title, and titles often just try to be catchy.

For every person who spends an hour listening to the full talk, hundreds or thousands will see the talk title, and decide whether to watch based on the title.

It's even more important to be clear rather than confusing in your title. Not less. Titles matter hugely. They determine, to great extent, whether someone will even listen in the first place.
I extend my gratitude to my valued partner loudmax, who has been helping me commit cybercrime for the last 20 years.
I think the "unsecure" is relative - instead of something in-house, locally hosted, and up to the required standards for classified information
Smile isn’t that bad, smiling with a pistol to the back of their head is :)
Depends on the Catholics, too. Some who profess the Catholic Faith, educators and non-educators alike, find it scandalous that staff at a Catholic school teach their pupils such ideas. Others find it amusing, at best, that Catholic teachers impart any ideas re: Scripture that don't line up with areligious academic commentary.
I know. I do more and more initiate conversation but knocking on a door of someone I don’t know yet even a bit is a bit scary honestly.
All these cool and interesting projects make me think that WASM is successful everywhere except the browser.

Maybe we should drop the Web from Web Assembly and call it something else?
"Extremely aligned in their goals" - absolute horse shit.

And believe it or not, Trump can't control who Russia chooses as their candidate. The UK Labour Govt had Kamala as their chosen candidate and campaigned for her to win.

Foreign governments always have a view on preferred winners in elections. But just because Russia independently wanted Trump to win and tried to influence the election without his co-ordinating with him says nothing at all about Trump as a candidate. It more speaks to Russia's intelligence assessments.
Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
I have a feeling (haven't seen any studies) that support of Israel by EU countries is done mainly by politicians who are listening to US polititans.

It will be interesting to see how long EU support for Israel will last without the pressure from US.
BESS and solar are not on par with nuclear for several reasons: (1) there is a much faster construction pathway for solar+BESS than nuclear, (2) costs of both PV solar and BESS continue to go down every year, while nuclear doesn't have the same cost curve, (3) manufacturing capacity for solar and BESS continue to rise on the exponential piece of an S-curve (meaning, a consistent multiplicative increase every year) while nuclear construction rates don't look anything like that.

There is a root cause for this: both solar PV and battery storage can be mass-produced in factories, and current nuclear tech can't. If nuclear can get onto a similar growth trajectory, we'll be cooking.
> it’s already annoying to have someone use a lot of words to say very little

Totally agreed. I'd like to cut to the point with a bit of pleasantry at the beginning just because I have to.
Just guessing but perhaps what they meant was that Signal allows one to invite anyone into a chat thread whereas their actual in-house classified comms will not permit that without going through a massive chain of approvals and being assigned custom hardware.
I get it, but I have reservations.

A random example on Youtube "I will tidy up your garden for free". They do that based on the income they get from writing/videoing about it, mainly from big tech algos. If everyone did it, that monetary value is lost from the explaining of it.

It's taking advantage of a curve for self-advantage which you're aware of which is fine, but doesn't really provide value in productivity in the broadest sense. What if everyone blogged about their work? As in literally everyone.
Texas: the only US state that seceded twice to preserve slavery.
AI and Societal Change: A Conversation with Gemini 2.5 Pro
If you think people are voting against their own interests, what's probably happening is you don't know what their interests are and don't even realize that you don't know. Other people's interests are obviously not the same as yours but often they're not even what they publicly claim so you won't find out without actual empathy and effort. But it's easier to just be a bigot than understand other cultures.
> The strain of anti-intellectualism

Perhaps part of the problem is that snooty intellectual elitists want everyone to be geopolitical geniuses and socially activist and fight for their hobby horses, when every nation, especially large ones, are in desperate need of people who mind their own business, keep their heads down, and contribute humbly to the common good.

Rather than being pushed through university and having technology shoved everywhere into their faces and bombarding them with messages from liars and hucksters at every step.

I honestly regret gaining knowledge about a lot of things that concern me because while “knowledge is power” it’s also known that “ignorance is bliss” because curiosity killed the cat.

If we’re a nation that stands and falls on the strength of social media disputes then perhaps it’s time to let the best bots win.
I generally assume crowd funded to mean "created by a quasi-outsider with not much industry knowledge who will make simple mistakes that drastically reduce the quality of the product"
You can do this in Cursor already. Write a README or a SPEC file and the LLM will try to "complete your thoughts", except that it's off often enough. I find this hugely distracting, as if someone always interrupts your train of thought with random stuff.
After a little confusion I see this "Ractor" is the Ruby actors library https://ruby-doc.org/3.2.2/Ractor.html

I was a little confused because when I think of Ractor, it's the Rust "Ractor" library https://github.com/slawlor/ractor which is an awesome library that brings Erlang/OTP gen_server actors to Rust and is very clean. Worth checking out BTW if you use Rust.
>removing the voting system would massively increase mod workload

Is this one legitimate area that LLMs could help out with? Weeding out the most obvious spam and scams?
I consider myself a “genuine communicator” insofar as I write messages thoughtfully and thoroughly.

Though I suspect many of my emails go unread, and people have confessed that they ran my personal messages to them through an LLM to generate something for them to report up in some spreadsheet etc tool.

Or in the case of some managers for whom the critical technical detail goes over their head, they just re-ask their questions in a call and try to get to “is it done yet” and “how many engineers can I add to make it go faster”.

I think I might be on the chopping block if a move was made to get rid of overly-thorough verbose communicators, genuine or not
Scope labels are great, but I'd just recommend being super freeform with them. They can help encapsulate what part of a codebase is primarily impacted by them.

Git trailers are neat, but ultimately suffer from a UI issue: most people are using interfaces to git that don't use the plumbing, and they put all the important info in the first line (and sometimes have a frustrating cutoff of 50 characters) and git trailers are considered a remnant that gets no special handling (if you're lucky, the Co-Authored-By trailer has special handling, but that's about it).

If you're trying to quickly conceptualize why the history of a file is the way it is, then being somewhat consistent with scope labeling helps a lot.

In practice, the style will just be different depending on the project. A hobby project doesn't need a hypervigilant git history, given you're usually just using git as a special save button. A rebasing fork will probably want to structure it's commits more on a per-patch basis (since they should be kept on top of all other commits), so most conventional advice doesn't make sense (since the git commit in this situation also acts as the code comment for the patches; you're usually trying to keep patches as small as possible for ease of maintenance). It's when you get professional that you'll want a commit style.
If you're part of the US government, with access to the most sensitive information which will put people's lives at risk if compromised, then yes this is a vulnerability because "russian GRU agent nicks your phone and scans your signal QR code" is a real threat.
Why are you lying? Have you gone so far into the nuclear cult that you can't even accept reality anymore?

Let me cite you:

> Germany's emissions are largely flat, most of the little decrease has come from reduction in total electricity production.

Here's the data:

https://imgur.com/a/eCxUpZ2

That is anything but flat.
And if that's not an option, another solution is to use AI to summarize those long emails. In the end both parties will be writing and reading terse little emails, with the verbose text in the middle as the world's most ridiculous communication protocol.
>All these languages may work very well for many people for the described use cases.
But one of Scala's strength is versatility. You could use it quite well for all the listed use cases too.

I think that the jack of all trades space is already occupied by C#.
This was a notable example in that category: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058318

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766512
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You continue to miss the point entirely.

This isn't about aeronautical engineering. It's not about your definitions. It's not about your degree. It's not about what came afterwards.

This is about semantic definition, and how definitions of thresholds are arbitrary to a large degree, and why it's valid to differ.

Your refusal to acknowledge that another point of view might have its own validity says a lot. But the world is a larger place than just your perspective. And that's something that has consequences far beyond anything to do with who invented the first airplane.
Just start. Most shirt construction is based on a two-piece collar, a yoke, and button front. I started with a cheap pattern (McCalls 2447) that covered those aspects, and started modifying from there, but any dress or sport shirt pattern will give you the same basic construction.

Any machine will do. I had borrowed a cheapo Singer Simple machine from my father in law to make some pillows. Reverse lever broke on my second shirt, made a new one with some D-shaft and coupler from Mcmaster-Carr and still using it.

First shirt was recognizable as a shirt and sort of fit, second shirt was better, and by the third I had mostly dialed things in. Like any skill, practice makes perfect. Mostly sewn woven fabric, except for some TOS tunics with the velour knits. Made a pair of pants that I wasn't happy with and intend to loop back to that one of these days. Thing is, wild fabric is more appropriate for shirts than pants, so that is where I have focused.

My various works https://dave.org/sewing/
I'm sorry but unless you count framework bootstraps for models and configs and stuff like that as "coding" nobody is legitimately writing 7500 lines in a day. At my most productive, powering through real problems, debugging issues and making stuff solid, I've hit ~3500 with marathon code sessions and ChatGPT. I've seen industry leaders and competitive coders in action, and none of them were significantly faster - any speed difference is more due to taking fewer incorrect solution paths.
40 seems way too much. “}” alone probably makes up a significant portion of lines. Another thing is auto-complete that does the majority of typing anyway.
Reminder that the CIA funded Signal in the first place through the National Endowment for Democracy.
I think you might modify the advice to be something like:

If you're a programmer, and you're paid well, don't assume that will last forever. Don't spend all your money (and beyond) on cars and rent. Invest as much as you can with the goal of being financially independent.
at this point, they should just discontinue the CPUs. They obviously can't compete in that space. Not being sarcastic here.
Could you please provide some examples about this?
I was going to complement OP on how amazing this feels, not realising the drawing was lifted from somewhere else.

Seems like a glaring omission to mention Cloudflare D1 and... SVG, but not the guy who did the drawing part of your drawing app
The staggered quadrature sampling trick also comes up in the Crank-Nicholson method for solving e.g. the Schrodinger equation, optics etc.
But it sounds like you might be filling your emails with actual facts, rather than the sort of fluff that an LLM could do for you.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the blog author seems to have chosen "a thousand words."
Personally I want to double down on this approach I wrote about a couple of weeks ago: https://www.sealambda.com/blog/this-post-passed-unit-tests/

Which is, to keep using LLMs as reviewers, rather than as writers.
As an attempt to get him fired from the Administration, this might the only one that works :-))
Geohot removed the SIM lock on iPhones when he was 17

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz

Dude rooted the PS3 by directly reading the ram chips ( _from electrical probes _) 2 years later. I don't think his parents helped.
I mean I literally "tried it again" this morning, as a paying Copilot customer of 12 months, to the result I already described. And I do not want to "try it" - based on fluffy promises we've been hearing, it should "just work". Are you old enough to remember that phrase? It was a motto introduced by an engineering legend whose devices you're likely using every day. The reason why "everyone", including myself with 20+ years of experience is looking to do not "fun stuff" (please don't shove words into my mouth), but cool stuff (=hard problems) is that it produces an intrinsic sense of satisfaction, which in turn creates motivation to do more and eventually even produces wider gain for the society. Some of us went into engineering because of passion you know. We're not all former copy-writers retrained to be "frontend developers" for a higher salary, who are eager to push around CSS boxes. That's important work too, but I've definitely solved harder problems in my career. If it's boring for you and you think it's how it should be, then you are definitely doing it for the wrong reasons (I am assuming escaping a less profitable career).
In most countries it's the judge who oversees discovery not the rival lawyers to avoid the whole 'using discovery as a weapon to waste your opponents money' issue while still allowing for the right evidence to come to light.
That, and it's vulnerable to the usual sort of attacks that governments are capable of.

If your threat model is "local cops" or "nosy people" then Signal seems very secure. If your threat model is "Enemies of the US" then honestly... nothing short of a SCIF is going to cut it.
> If someone cute is nearby

I'm intrigued by how "cute" is defined here :) does the app automatically quantify cuteness based on the user's stated preferences?
Agree on every point here, apart from your very last one. I am not watching movies with AI dubbing. Subtitles and original audio is fine. I do not speak a word of Japanese but I have never had issues at all with dubbed anime or films from that country. If this is a boon to anyone out there who finds foreign film utterly intolerable without it, genuinely, I'm happy that you will hopefully now have this option and I hope it's everything you need, but yeah. Hard pass for me thanks.
You're right that people in practice use the word "suburb" to talk about all these different things, but that just reinforces that the word isn't very useful. Oak Park and Naperville are both "suburbs," but this reveals nothing to us. In fact, it mostly obfuscates.
Was looking into Meshtastic recently, as a means to have basic communication in disaster situations (hurricanes, war, etc.) but haven't picked a device yet. Any recommendations?
> I can see why if you care about the Quality of the application itself more than the user experience, this is a concern

This doesn't make sense to me, but maybe I'm misunderstanding what point you are trying to get across? As you commoditize an application the quality and user experience tends to go down. I wouldn't think that if you really care about the quality of an application that it would imply that the user experience would be less favorable - if anything it would be a better experience?

As an example take a look at a game like Civilization. You can see that the product is being commoditized to fit as many platforms as possible, but as the game becomes commoditized what happens is the quality of the game for the original audience (PC users) degrades. It's great for 2k Studios, more money for them, but is it great for users? Probably not. Even if more users now have access to the game, it's a worse experience for the original audience (core users) and the commodity users (Netflix for example...) have a subpar experience too.
“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
Migration of an iOS/Android Application to Kotlin multiplatform: Methodology
Thinking of migrating your Android/iOS apps from Kotlin/Swift to KMP (Kotlin Multiplatform)?
I recently tackled this challenge and shared the step-by-step methodology I followed.
Part 1 is live — a retrospective is coming soon in Part 2.
Check it out
Long ago, and have had friends do the same.
New Orleans seems to like giving directions relative to it's CBD (just south of the French Quarter). It's otherwise not common here in the US.