skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true in the sense that everyone has the same number of hours in the day, and someone who is 25 and single and lives in a studio apartment 3 blocks from the office will by definition be able to spend more time working than someone who lives 90 minutes from the office in the suburbs and has 4 school-aged kids.

But there are absolutely different levels of work ethic and stamina between people. And I'm not even talking about willingness which obviously varies, but some people can work for 12 hours straight and some people are just physically incapable of doing it.
Ahhh, So THESE are the “Moonies” I’ve heard cult-y references to in pop culture for decades…
> It is not well established at this point. I get the impression you're reading a textbook on economics, and not how it works in the real world.

You're writing this from the comfort of your home where you're enjoying the fruits of the most significant quality of life improvements over 200 years. Hedonistic adaptation has blinded you to all of the evidence that's staring in the face, like the screen you're reading on right now.

> however, companies took this as an opportunity to increase their profit margins more than they need to. They specifically bragged about this in quarterly earnings calls.

Temporary aberrations from extreme disruptions do not refute the general rule.
> Why is Florida at the top?

As you mention, the number of electors per state varies by quite a bit. E.g., in the 2012 election covered by the chart, Florida had 29 electors, Ohio had 18 electors, and North Carolina had 15 electors, which is why those three states appear at the top.

The main important effect is that (with only some small exceptions) if a candidate wins a simple majority of the votes in a state, then they receive all of that state's electors. E.g., if a candidate wins 50.01% of the Florida vote, they get 29 electors, but if they win 49.99% of the vote, they get 0 electors. See: the 2000 election, where the overall outcome depended on a few hundred votes in this way.

This means there's a lot of focus on 'flipping' states one way or the other, since their electoral votes all come in blocks. What the chart is showing is that if Romney won Florida, he could afford to lose a few other contested states and still win the national election. But if Obama won Florida (as he in fact did), then Romney would need every other state to go his way (very unlikely!) if he still wanted to have a chance.

That is to say, Florida really was extremely important, given the structure of U.S. presidential elections: it would make or break a candidate's whole campaign, regardless of what happened in the rest of the country. And similarly, the remaining states are ordered by decreasing importance.

Of course, while results are being counted, you also see simpler diagrams of the current situation. The classic format is a map of the country with each state colored red or blue depending on which way it flips. This is often accompanied by a horizonal line with a red bar growing from one side, a blue bar growing from the other side, and a line in the middle. But people are interested in which states are more important than others, which creates the imagery of 'paths to win'.
I'm not sure about this. Why do we constantly need new ways of presenting data?

My main concern is that eventually it becomes easy to read and interpret data, especially for people that are not used to it, that are less data- or science-savvy in a way. That it's accessible.

It's good to try to find better ways to present certain cases, but also it's only needed as far as it's useful, and otherwise I feel consistency is way better instead of keeping churning out new ways to look at it that require an effort on the consumer part (no matter how beautiful / well presented this is) to figure out what they want to know out of it.

Innovation for the sake of usefulness is good. Innovation for the sake of innovation feels... definitely not as good (although I wouldn't discard it completely).
Terrible idea, SPF is very hostile to (legitimate) forwarding. In general SPF should actually die.
The difference is legal, not technical. You don't have the right to redistribute copyrighted material with permission, except according to exceptions to copyright law (which are narrow enough to not apply here). Cisco gives permission for users to use the software only if downloaded directly from Cisco, and doesn't grant anybody permission to mirror and redistribute it.

Can you tell if a copy was downloaded from Cisco directly? No. Does it make a technical difference? No. But those are the rules Cisco chose, and so there it is.

One potential reason I can think of for this happening is Cisco being required to count the number of downloads of the software (or something like that). But, in the end, there's no requirement that there be logical sense to a rule like this.
Do you think that software comes out of thin air? It takes time and effort to develop and maintain software. The fact that it doesn't cost to reproduce it doesn't mean it doesn't cost to create it in the first place.
>unsafe and unpredictable.

Just llike the Electron.
Good point. Wikipedia has a good clarification:

> The axiomatization of arithmetic provided by Peano axioms is commonly called Peano arithmetic.

(Ironically, there is no Wikipedia page for Peano Arithmetic, but presumably it can be derived axiomatically by applying the Peano Axiom Wikipedia page to the Arithmetic Wikipedia page wink emoji)
Another option:

SSH certificates have been around for a while now, so you can create an in-house SSH CA, so that they are short-lived (compared to on-laptop keys) and you have to authenticate to get a fresh one.

To automate getting SSH certs there are a number of options, including the step-ca project, which can talk to OAUTH/OIDC systems (Google, Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Keycloak):

* https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca/provisioners/#oauthoidc-s...

as well as cloud providers:

* https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca/provisioners/#cloud-provi...

There are commercial offerings as well:

* https://www.google.com/search?q=centrally+managed+ssh+certif...
I thought the $1 millions were protection money?
Did btrfs improve recently? I tried using it in production several years ago, but was heavily disappointed regarding performance. It was not even comparable to ZFS.
My guess is you were using the reference AOM encoder. This is actually a real branding problem! It was never designed for encoding speed, and it shows.

SVT-AV1 is the production encoder you should be using. It's high quality and fast in software, and should really always be the default.
I've experienced something similar and I believe D3 is not to blame.

I took 5k iu oil softgels and got a unique and indescribable BAD feeling. It crept up very gradually over the course of a month and a half and I had a hard time realizing what was happening. It took me over a month to recover after I stopped.

Another time I've taken 2k iu dry D3 and had zero side-effects.

A couple of years after that D3 mishap, I tried some omega-3 and after a two weeks I realized that that unique bad feeling was making a comeback.

Again, another time I tried a different brand of omega-3 I had no side-effects.

I have a bunch of food sensitivities. So I believe that was a reaction to some contaminants in the oil.
So really nothing beats running on a good surface completely barefoot; it is amazing, but it is also not always practical, and is definitely not necessary to get most of the barefoot benefits.

Nor for that matter are odd looking feet gloves, ultra-thin soles, expensive sandals etc.

What does matter though is a) having a shoe that allows the mechanics of the lower leg and foot to work; zero drop, no arch supports and a wide toe box are essential. And b) taking the time to build up the wasted musculature (mostly in the feet) that may well have had a lifetime of being splinted and not being used as it was evolved for.

Least that's the sample size of one experience of a late fifties, 100kg who did multiple marathons, half's etc both before and after switching to barefoot and minimalist shoes after coming across the Born to Run book in 2010 while trying to figure out how to avoid injuries.

(bonus injury prevention tip would be off-road running in the green. Not only good for the head, but the added terrain variety varies the loads on the joints and helps train core stability)
Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
Perhaps there's a way you could remotely render a page in Firefox, Safari, etc? And then stream into the viewport.
>what other issues are there?

Being able to leave the building with it and show random people on the street your phone screen.

the fact that one of the group chat members was in Moscow at the time is an issue too.
B non-ironically was (I guess) - it means magnetic field.

A, no idea.

Also might I add the speed of light is (lower-case) c, not C
They used lowercase on the actual page, the HN title is what's wrong.
In the case of baseball the main point of contention is the intersection of the ball's trajectory with the batter box, something that (1) is completely objective and (2) can be determined by sensors better than the players, spectators or umpire.

It's completely different from, say, VAR [1] in soccer or the other kind of football where there will always be something subjective about yellow cards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee
I would argue that Triton is in fact higher-level than HIP. Plus, it is more specialised for specific use cases.
What is Trump doing that isn’t lawful or constitutional? And why aren’t there any repercussions (as far as I know) for that?

Interesting point regarding unions. I hadn’t considered that.
They do have a duty to look after the health of the company but in this case it’s complicated because the time to do something was years ago (say, when it was first obvious he’d been lying about FSD). Tesla is wildly over-valued as a car manufacturer or even a large tech company, and that’s all due to Musk’s ability to talk it up. If they act against him, the share price will drop significantly and stay there, because there are a lot of car makers and Tesla just isn’t a standout in 2025.

That’d be best for the company long-term but they’d have to survive the inevitable lawsuits first, not to mention the high likelihood of physical violence if Musk tweets about it. I think the board are basically sitting around praying that the horse learns to sing before they’re forced to act.
Yeah I'm firmly on the LLMs are actually sentient train so this was a bit of a distressing read
Jeff has 5 kids (mentioned in the video). I'm surprised he had 6 hours to fluff around with a dishwasher in the first place. I have 2 and certainly am careful about how I spend any free time I manage to find.
The same NIST who standardized the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm?
> Gödel's incompleteness theorems have given mathematicians an identity crisis for nearly a century now.

I don't think this is at all true.
Douglas Adams's flatmate on life, laughter and creation of Hitchhiker's Guide
I understand it logically, that wealthy people live in information silos, but my mind can't get over the cognitive dissonance that almost everyone paying attention knew that a second Trump administration would bring tremendous chaos (because the first did) but somehow, I have to imagine a person who is very smart and capable in their area, and very able to consume and process large amounts of information thought:

"When tech people got involved in the government, they thought Trump was going to take more of a surgical approach and act less like a wrecking ball."

Like as a business leader, I imagine that having only two political parties puts you in a situation where you may have to make a voting decision based more on practicality than ideology, and that Democrats and Republicans support winners and losers that don't always match up with ideology. I can totally see how you would say, Trump is better for this particular industry because reasons, and that's why I'm going to support him, but the above is just delusional.
Not precisely analogous, but maybe the most famous case of this sort of thing is Gerald Ratner, who caused his jewelry company's stock to fall by 80% when he publicly stated that his company's products were crap. Thus was born the phrase "doing a Ratner".

This article contains other examples of CEOs devastating their businesses in similar ways.

https://thehustle.co/gerald-ratners-billion-dollar-speech
Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born?
https://archive.ph/WxBqJ
Contrary to the roid rage induced beliefs of non competitive personal trainer body builders a lot of people don’t go to the gym to see that kind of “progress” they see a professional climber or ultra race runner and call them weak, because they don’t know any better.
That's a very good idea. I'd love it if cars had this.
That sucks, thanks for the heads up. I guess we bought one of the last decent models then.
It's a way to make sense of chaos and generate a narrative to follow, also how millions of individual votes get reduced into large scale trends (gen alpha men want X, Boomer women living in suburbs want Y, etc).

People are invested in the outcome and want to know if things are headed in the direction they desire.
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wow, that's a nice rant

How do you say "I REPEAT: THE ROAD TO [SECULAR] HELL IS PAVED WITH VERBAL INTRINSIC REINFORCEMENT SIGNALING" in russian? I think I would understand it better in russian
Personal Knowledgebases
I've done this in C with the C preprocessor and Java with m4[0].

The upside of doing it natively is that it keeps the build simpler. And everybody at least knows about the existence of the C preprocessor, even if they don't know it well. And it's fairly limited, which prevents you from getting too clever.

The big downside of doing it with the C preprocessor is that the resulting code looks like vomit if it's more than a line or two because of the lack of line breaks in the generated code. Debugging it is unenjoyable. I'd recommend against doing anything super clever.

The upside of doing it out of band is that your generated source files look decent. m4 tends to introduce a little extra whitespace, but it's nothing objectionable. Plus you get more power if you really need it.

The downside is that almost nobody knows m4[1]. If you choose something else, it becomes a question of what, does anyone else know it, and is it available everywhere you need to build.

Honestly, integrating m4 into the build in ant really wasn't too bad. We were building on one OS on two different architectures. For anything truly cross-platform, you'll likely run into all the usual issues.

ETA: Getting an IDE to understand the out of band generation might be a hassle, as other folks have mentioned. I'm a vim kinda guy for most coding, and doing it either way was pretty frictionless. The generated java code was read-only and trivial, so there wasn't a lot of reason to ever look at it. By the time you get to debugging, it would entirely transparent because you're just looking at another set of java files.

[0] This was so long ago, I no longer remember why it seemed like a good idea. I think there was an interface, a trivial implementation, and some other thing? Maybe something JNI-related? At least at first, things were changing often enough that I didn't want to have to keep three things in sync by hand.

[1] Including me. I re-learn just enough to get done with the job at hand every time I need it.
What alternative would you suggest if you want an application that runs on: iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows? Linux aside.

Also, depending on which technologies you choose, your web application will be much more stable (i.e. requiring less updates of dependencies) than most alternatives.
BigQuery pricing model cost us $10k in 22 seconds
zero relevance to the pricing.
What we can learn from watching reality stars apologize
Some of this made me viscerally uncomfortable, despite knowing it's just math and whatever behind the scenes. Call it being emotional or silly or whatever, that's fine. But seeing those broken, repeated "please" and "help" makes the emotional side of my brain take control over the logic side. It feels cruel, even though I know it's just some statistics/tokens/etc.
Author of TFA here: I like Risky Biz a lot.
> We are equals with very different goals.

I think it would do most developers a lot of good if they were to pretend like they were a servant class to the customer & team for a period of time.

They will hopefully learn that a contest of egos is not enjoyable at scale over long timeframes. A happy customer provides a much bigger dopamine rush than getting some smart-ass jab in on your coworkers.

A job done right and seeing the recipient legitimately happy about what's been done for them should be the #1 goal of a person who identifies as being a fucking genius with computers. Most people suck at this and you should be helping them out, not competing with them in some bullshit heirarchy that only exists in your own head.
Quidget
Ask HN: Use Cases of LLMs for Software Teams
I tried to come up with good ideas for LLM usage in our software department.

Sadly I couldn't come up with much besides what I would rather title "personal LLM" usage (e.g. using copilot suggestions, use chat features such as generating boilerplate).

Is there anything that you folks introduced and are happy with?
No official link I can see but many social media posts from different people seeing it.
Oh man, maybe HN should not allow commenting until at least the link is clicked.
and Balay, i'm currently looking to renovate my kitchen right now and you can buy the same appliance in any of the 3 brands (Bosch, Balay and Siemens).
I'm not sure why every conversation about politics on HN brings out everyone's inner asshole. I asked a simple question—how are they different? I'm not being polemic or "making a point". I asked a simple question because I am a simple man and do not understand what makes these situations so different.

On the surface, a popular president is voted into office on promises of "cutting government inefficiencies" and then proceeds to do just that. Not sure if that's "not looking very hard", but those look pretty similar to me.

I happen to hold my politics very loosely, and so (at the risk of being downvoted by angry HN commenters) I asked, "How are they different?"

Sorry I don't spend hours every day reading up on politics and comparing international presidential trends.
It wasn't the symbol for the speed of light, it was the symbol for the Lorenz Constant.
Churchill was known to be very problematic and his career outside of the war wasn't exactly stellar as he had some dubious opinions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29701767

Newton was known to be very egotistical and his grudge with Hooke was well known: https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/isaac-newton-dark-si...

Einstein was generally considered a very kind and generous man, outside of his marriages: https://www.grunge.com/264270/the-dark-side-of-albert-einste...

I don't know much about da Vinci, though he designed machines for war and he must have performed a lot of macabre work on cadavers for his research into anatomy (not that studying anatomy is a bad thing).
This appears to have been posted by a serial spammer and troll who has abused HN with dozens of accounts, including these ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WhiteCracker

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MestizoPower

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BlackJeffBezos

Given that history, plus the lack of verifiable details here, I believe this story is fabricated.

The post itself was killed by a spam filter. I'm not going to unkill it.

Please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with.
> pfdietz [flagged] [dead]: Oh great, more inherently untestable speculation about origin of life.

What is the value in this kind of speculation? I think that it can help provide direction for future research. If we think these soda lakes were the cradle of life, then we could look for remnants of early (even though finding that is quite unlikely). We could also try to replicate (steps of) abiogenesis in the lab in conditions mimicking soda lakes and plausible variations thereof. If that yields promising results it could inform exobiology speculation, and as to the purpose of that speculation, it could inform where we send probes in the very long term.
That's an interesting point. But why would that impact how Trumps cuts are different than Milei's? Beyond possibly just having a bigger global impact?
He, and Trump, do not meet the definition of fascism. He is not pushing the supremacy of the State. He is not stating the State must control all aspects of society. He is not forcing businesses to close because they don't support the State. He is not banning other political parties. He is not Anti-Democracy. He is not Anti-Liberalism. They do not practice Hegelian Dialectic. These are the requirements for Fascism.

Musk and Trump - are well within the bounds of Liberalism. They may not be John Rawls. Trump is a Neo-Liberal protectionist. Musk tends to be more classical liberalism.
Capacitive touch buttons are #1 on my hate list for "inventions". They have all the downsides of touchscreens with none of the upsides, and they're imitating a control device so perfect that it basically hasn't been changed since its invention (the button).
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Wouldn't a have been used for acceleration?
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My guess is that the backlash was factored in. Even prior to his government role, Elon had stated plans to quit Tesla and take all their ML tech and engineers to xAI (if they didn't give him the 55b pay package), so he has at least one backup plan we know about. He also has more ownership over SpaceEx than Tesla which gets its money from the government, so backlash from customers doesn't really matter to him in the grand scheme of things. However, that's just a worst-case scenario, more likely is that sales will recover as the news-cycle wanes and new subsidies entice MAGA buyers.
I think they could have pulled that off with a full-time CEO. The quality-control problems didn’t seem intractable, but they didn’t have the equivalent of a Shotwell providing the sober engineering execution which a hype-chasing CEO was never going to deliver.
The biggest problem there is that it's a statistical gamble, and often times the damage isn't apparent for months or years later, which is plenty far enough removed from the decision that the manager isn't going to remember let alone realize "he told me so." And you reporting "I told you so" even in very easy, factual, and respectful professional language will typicall not be well received. There's also a decent chance that when the thing breaks or you get breached, you'll be blamed for it, or at least be on the defensive.

Now that said, I've worked with a lot of IT/engineering people who are pretty obstructionist to normal business operations and sometimes need to be told, "yeah, we're accepting the risk, move forward with the plan." Sometimes it's for good reasons, other times it's just our normal humanity asserting itself in different ways. It's a hard problem for sure.
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