skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I haven’t used Remix but I’ve avoided it for exactly the same reason, that I might become a victim of their latest business model.

They got their start way back with React-Router. At the time, their business was React Training. They’d train people how to use React. React Router had this curious tendency to change its API drastically with each release. Stuff you depended on would suddenly go away, and you’d be told “That’s not the right way to build apps anymore. This is the True Way.” It really sucked, but it seemed like a good way to drive demand for training.

Then they came up with Remix. Remix has been pretty stable, but when looking at React Router, I kept noticing there was stuff that felt more like an app framework than a router. It felt like it’s pulling me into Remix. Then last year they announced that they’re merging Remix and React Router. So if I was already dependent on React Router, I’d be fully committed to Remix, whether I wanted to be or not.

What new shiny thing or new business model will they be chasing next year? I’m not willing to risk finding out.
How do these deep fields compare against other telescopes' deep fields (Hubble, JWST, &c.)?

edit: Trying to answer my own question: I understand they're around 10,000 times larger that Hubble's deep fields, each (three deep field zones)[a], with about 1/10th the sensitivity (limiting magnitude +27 in the optical bands[b], compared against Hubble's +29.1–30.3 [c]). Or that's the sensitivity it will reach, eventually; the one they've released now is still incomplete.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deep_fields

[b] https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa51857-...

[c] https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2017/12/aa30833-...
> I just find it sad that instead of focusing on improving how we build things and reducing the need for so much mindless, tedious, repetious, mechanical work, we're content to just build bad things faster with AI and call it a win.

The AI is doing precisely that: reducing the mindless, tedious, repetitious, mechanical work. And what "vibe coding" wants you to embrace is treating high-level code as if it were compiled assembly: an implementation detail you never want to look at or care about if you can help it.

Yes, in some sense AI isn't fixing anything, because all that "mindless, tedious, repetitious, mechanical" code still exists, it's just autogenerated. I too wish we could've first eliminated the need for that entirely. But we didn't, because most programmers and the industry at large still don't understand where the problem is in the first place. They can't see we've long reached Pareto frontier in our programming languages, that we're being limited by the default paradigm of working directly on plaintext codebase that's a single source of truth.

So yeah, in this sense, LLMs aren't fixing anything - they're just an abstraction layer on top of our exhausted coding paradigm.
Others also noted this is AI slop.
I don’t agree with the current direction, but I also think most people don’t understand how large the US defense budget is relative to other countries.

The US defense budget is around $850 billion.

Depending on the year you look at, the US defense budget is larger than around 7-9 of the next largest budgets from other countries combined.

If you add up all of the countries in the world, the global total is around $2.5 trillion. The United States makes up 1/3rd of that.

The US defense budget also hasn’t been a target for cuts, which is a topic of debate.

So while there’s a lot of headlines being made about other countries increasing their defense spending, the numbers are closer to a rounding error in the US defense budget than a massive global power shift. People scoff at the idea of the US being a global military powerhouse because they don’t like the idea, but the bottom line is that when you look at the numbers there really is a reason that the US military is so important, and it comes down to sheer size and spending.
So... I started scimming through the artcle, and they basically convert the money to cryptocurrency? Don't know if the article really contained anything other interesting details.
I vaguely remember the published description of TREE-META crediting META-II, though I might be confabulating that. More broadly, I don't think any compiler-compiler is unrelated to META-II.
Texas private school's use of 'AI tutor' rockets student test scores to top%
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Nice, I really enjoyed listening to a couple of the ones you added. They were at the top of the page when I loaded it, and I listened to and enjoyed them before connecting them with your comment.
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A lot of devs love climbing. Problem solving is part of it, especially if you climb a route for the first time. Very different area but similar approaches need to be deployed to succeed.

Plus its properly great and fulfilling activity that very few sports can deliver (IMHO), not requiring massive investment or some ridiculously long and difficult trips to just get to it (gyms, if you want to climb in Patagonia or Antarctic then its a different game altogether).
Imo the microness is not about size but about the architecture of running drivers/services in fault-resistant separation from the kernel
This is now a falacy. We’ve burnt through the time we had to do this. Nuclear solutions now cost much more comparatively.

Solar won and it’s the storage of cheaply generated power than now needs maximum investment and support.

Nuclear continues to be discussed mainly because it reverses the decentralisation of energy reliance that’s occurring as solar spreads.
thanks, I'll investigate my local gym!

update: they use trueblue
I’ve thought for over a decade that we need to plan for climate change as a certainty.

Even if the US and Europe made huge emission cuts, the rest of the world will not. I’m sure developing nations will stay poor if we ask nicely. “Hey Africa. We know about the three centuries of exploitation and colonialism but hey… could you do us a favor now and stay poor to fix the problem we mostly created? Thanks!”

There is no chance of this happening.

There’s only one realistic solution. If renewable plus storage or some other non carbon based source can actually be cheaper and easier to deploy than coal and gas, it might replace them. As it stands coal and gas remain the cheapest sources of power (though the gap has narrowed) in most regions. They are also easy to deploy with a global market in both generation equipment and fuel and a huge global talent pool of people who know how to do it.
Two little-appreciated privacy features in Safari not mentioned in the article:

Each private browsing tab has its own cookie / data bucket[1]; and

Private browsing tabs and windows are preserved across restarts. (This is optional and can be configured to forget them upon restart.)

These make it practical to use private browsing for nearly all browsing, which isn't really the case in other browsers, where private browsing is clearly designed as an occasional-use thing. (And of course if you use private browsing for most things, you can still open regular windows for sites where you want to stay logged in.)

[1] If a link or script in a tab opens a new tab or window, then they share the same cookie bucket. This preserves compatibility with sites that require such a flow.
https://archive.ph/2024.10.04-034615/https://www.theatlantic...
That sounds terrible, did you take any legal action?
Elephants remember: companies using "block lists" to not rehire some employees
Also worth checking out Drew DeVault's Helios Microkernel, which is based on SeL4.

https://ares-os.org/docs/helios/
Nonprofit Software Heritage maintains largest public collection of source code
> fighting for its survival

From what? There's no serious indication of a russian threat to invade western europe.

> climate change can wait

That's actually the exact opposite of the truth. Like "rust never sleeps", neither does any other ongoing chemical process. Climate change will keep on chugging 24/7 and receive exactly the amount of productive attention it's already received, which is none. Every effort by equity since the broad awareness of this reality has been to obstruct any action that would disrupt current revenue streams.

Any educated, and even marginally objective person cannot deny the ongoing disaster of human environmental devastation in all forms, and it's ever increasing impact on all human activity.

However all major investors in the status quo are also clear on another fact: they're old enough to be dead before the worst of the consequences come to bear. So they advocate burning it down for profit today, and fuck the future.

I'm also old enough to not have to face to worst of it, but I actually feel we should steward our environment, not just burn it down for this quarters returns.

All of this is in addition to the reality that peace is more economically productive, and war is just one big murderous disaster. The use of military force through the so called cold war, and into the present, has left us with these festering military operations that are depriving all of us from a peaceful and productive life, and for what? So some hyper-rich asshole can have more. That's what "glory of god and country" is all about. Getting the idiot herd to dismember itself to see which ruling class asshat gets more stuff.
Based on previous actions by Russia, like the 2014 Invasion in Ukraine. But mostly I took this scenario from what one expert wrote (Carlo Masala), but it is just that, one scenario.

But this is similar to what other expert say, that the more concerning weak point in NATO is political. And if Russia could successfully drive a wedge between the NATO states it becomes vulnerable even if the total conventional military of its members is superior to Russian forces.
Having the same LLM create the tests is one of the "advantages" of using AI coding.
Thats the core of the argument. We are switching from a 100% deterministic and controlled worldview (in software terms) to a scenario where it's probabilistic, and we haven't updated ourselves accordingly. Best of n (with parallelization) is probably the simplest fix instead of such rigorous prompt engineering. Still many teams do want a deterministic output and spend a lot of time on prompts (as opposed to evals to choose the best output).
I have difficultly understanding this point of view, although I'm sure it is not uncommon.

Why do people believe it would it be an economically good decision to buy land and build houses in Germany, a place with negative GDP, no long term energy independence solution except for returning to coal, sharp curtailments on basic free speech, press, and assembly, and a massive military build-up which will require high levels of debt, cutting social spending, or both?

Is it more about a question of national feeling and patriotism and the details aren't as important as the national pride, or is there an underlying economic analysis? It's also possible that Germany will simply deindustrialize, financialize, do debt-based stimulus, and accelerate the pace of mass migration further, which would indeed be good for home prices for remote owners who continue to live abroad.
Keep in mind: republicans are low information voters, and additionally they tend to be single issue voters.

So 99% of them probably don't care about this particular thing. They care about abortion, or "corruption", or welfare queens, or something else.

They have no idea the entire point of this exercise is to gut our public infrastructure so they can give hand-outs to their cronies companies to do the exact same job, but more expensive.
> EU’s combined military budget is already far bigger than Russia’s.

But it is much smaller than the US' military spending, who is at this point a hostile foreign nation.
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Some folks in the graphics programming community are allergic to these kind of modern ideas.

They are now putting up with JITs in GPGPUs, thanks to the market pressure from folks using languages like Julia and Python, that rather keep using those languages than having to rewrite their algorithms in C or C++.

These are communities that even adopting C over Assembly, and C++ over C, has been an uphill battle, let alone something like a JIT, that is like calling for the pitchforks and torches.

By the way, one of the key languages used in the Connection Machine mentioned on the article was StarLisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp
* for households in which at least one resident participates in a qualified public assistance program

Seems like an extremely important detail that would make Ars' headline less clickbaity.
Related Meta keeps 'block' lists of ex-employees – and even a VP can't get you off them (43 points, 17 days ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280435
> For low income residents

Congress seems to struggle with simple concepts, but somehow they're able to fix prices accurately for telecom services. I wonder what kind of discovery went into fixing this price.

> Each ISP would also be required to "make commercially reasonable efforts to promote and advertise" these plans, including … promotional materials sent to consumers in eligible households. [emphasis mine]

Economics aside, they seem to be capable of making the best decisions surrounding marketing as well. I do find the concept of government-mandated junk mail to be somewhat interesting, especially coming from the same-ish government that made a big deal about plastic straws. Again, was there some sort of research into the efficacy of telecom marketing-by-junkmail or did it just seem kind of expected to whomever was writing the bill for the congressperson?
> But maybe I'm just less frustrated by the pain, or less inclined to admit the pain to myself or to others, or less inclined to trust myself. Maybe believing feels good, so I want to do it.

That wouldn’t be the placebo effect then, it would be more of a psychological phenomenon in the realm of how your mental outlook can influence how you experience pain. That is also heavily studied.

Edit: This video is good intro to the placebo effect: “Harnessing the power of placebos” Alia Crumb, 2017 (video) https://youtu.be/WcQnSW1wpGA?si=A2tzqvd45BLiMADW

Edit 2: I think what you’re describing is generally called “pain tolerance”.
The difference in Germany is that they made a historic change to their consitution where they are now able to grow their military by borrowing way more money. They are not moving money away from healthcare and infrastructure, they are actually creating a way to increase their military budget without having to move money away from healthcare and infrastructure (because in Germany, the money is sorely needed there as well).
There's a lot more to this equation than defense spending.

Also it's not fair to compare the US to Germany. The US compared to the combined EU spending is more of a fair comparison.
I’m not sure the word fallacy means what you think it means
Its much worse, just look at the map. Global warming would be massively beneficial to russia - north sea would be better used by navy (whatever remains out of it) and shipping lanes, permafrost disappearing makes much more land usable. They have massive oil and gas reserves that they need to sell, half of their economy runs off this.
The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain
Is that really true 120 years ago? We have a lot of hindsight bias, but things really weren’t amazing for the average person in the US even one hundred years ago.

Today, the average person has affordable access to a lot of things that may have been luxuries, or simply didn’t exist, 100-200 years ago. Running water, electricity, internet, mobile phones, modern sanitation & infrastructure, and any number of tiny cheap devices that improve QoL.

And yes, we also have huge problems with wealth disparity and late stage capitalism.

The problem is, we should not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Like, we do not have widespread food scarcity problems today. Extremely advanced medical technology is available, if too expensive.

Our tech bubble is only one small part of actual technology. There is still very cool research going on in other fields. Big tech is all about personal computing & social media, and yeah, AI in this area is dubious and hard to get excited about.

At the same time, there are SO MANY other areas of technology which can have huge impacts on humanity. For example, the tech behind modern AI models has already produced breakthrough research in the field of protein folding. (https://youtu.be/P_fHJIYENdI) This will have a big impact on our ability to solve biological problems.

All that to say… let’s stop being so closed-minded about tech. Yes, the big tech social media, app, and SaaS companies are not going to give us a utopian future. But technology is way more than that. It includes robotics advances for cheap manufacturing, cheap energy from small scale hydro or even nuclear installations, advances in our ability to fight diseases and viruses (the COVID vaccine would not have been possible as quickly without modern technology), more clever & efficient construction techniques, and the list goes on and on. Tech is absolutely solving tons of real problems that we face. We can be excited for that and also not care about the next knock-off AI wrapper SaaS company.
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Someone with my identical full name has for the past few years kept providing my old and unused gmail email address to various entities.

This has included banks, shops, and a company which apparently offers training to help you acquire a gun license in Poland.

I now know where this person lives (from order confirmation emails). I know this person's date of birth. I also know this person's PESEL (Polish national identification number) because one of the banks "protected" a document intended for this person by using part of the PESEL as a password (I just brute-forced that part). The other part is just an encoding of the birth date.

So I now have enough information to impersonate someone just because a number of organisations screwed up by not verifying ownership of an email address.
Hyperbole?

The current US president already threatened annexation of Greenland, which is a Danish territory, not to mention the ongoing trade war.

There's no hyperbole there.
Have european arms races against a real or perceived russian threat historically led to stability in europe?
Of course!

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry [2005]

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age [2000]

Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date [1996]

Palo Alto [2023] (This is more for capturing the full scope of San Francisco / Palo Alto since the founding of California as a state)

Those are some off the top of my head right now being away from my library, probably also the most impactful to me in no specific order.
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A comparison of testing criticality across countries would be interesting to read if someone knows a decent reference. My sense (which I don't trust) is that test results matter at-least-as much or more in other places than they do in the US. For example, are England's A-levels or China's gaokao tests or Germany's Abitur tests more or less important than US SATs/ACTs?
My sense was OKRs came later for both Intel and Google. Do you know around what year/size they started?

I worked with some ex-Google person who tried to get us to use OKRs. That totally didn't work. Larger company.

Like many things I don't think they're necessarily a bad idea it's just that good ideas always lose to culture. With the right culture/leadership it's not the process that matters. I.e. OKRs aren't going to fix an organization that isn't aligned and conversely there are infinite other ways to align an organization with the right culture and leadership. So in practice, like other things, it just ends up making things worse because it's never a real fix.
We understand the schtick, it just seems like a grave miscalculation of the return on investment for the US.
Came to say this - it’s good because it was made with love and respect for kids and parents rather than to just turn children into frogs and sell them plastic figurines. Rare sight.
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Based on the way Russia has been gradually pushing more and more. Step by step. Slowly.

They take what they want. They are appeased. A couple years nothing happens. They take what they want. They are appeased … etc.

Invading Ukraine should be a clear warning that Russia will not just stop. For appeasement to end and for Europe to seriously look for viable paths to peace. Not just yearlong pauses in fighting that allow Russia to regain strength. That is not peace.
> the debunked theory that certain diseases like alzheimer's and autism are caused by viruses

No. Not only is it not "debunked", it is not even "a theory".

> cannot be true because that would mean that they are caused by inflammatory insult

No. Something being caused by a virus does not imply that the mechanism is "inflammatory insult".

> and that would mean that vaccines contribute to or cause certain diseases

No. That certain viral infections may cause ill effects by means of inflammatory processes does not imply that "vaccines contribute to or cause certain diseases".
This is largely what I believe to be true also.

"We have a lot of leverage, and even if we don't, then we don't have to pay to be the worlds police" - is largely how I (also a european) have seen Trumps actions.

The "issue", is that this is a populist take.

It's weirdly not in Americas interest to take that stance, because they are a defacto world government with the amount of soft power they are able to exert, militarily and in trade.

So, the GP is quite right, people are waking up to the idea that this soft power was running kinda deep and we shouldn't just allow ourselves to get soft too.

Just like an insurance company will find a way not to pay: the US may never have actually come to the aid of Europe; and nobody thought about that, they just accepted most of what the US was asking in the hope that they would.

The lesson will be painful in the short-term, but I'm also hopeful that we take it seriously and start investing in ourselves.
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> When I read this, as an American it really strikes me what a trade-off the implementation of social democracy is. It does seem like they are correlated.

In my experience working with some former European entrepreneurs, the startup problem isn’t really directly related to anything about social democracy or safety nets or even taxes.

They talked about how difficult, painful, and risky it was for them to start and operate a company at every turn. Even things like bankruptcy and allowing founders to move on with their lives if their startup fails, which we take for granted here, are not a given in European countries.

It’s not just the government to blame. The private banking and even societal norms are very different in ways that we don’t even consider in the United States.

The US is very friendly to funding and building startups. I didn’t appreciate it until talking to ex-founders from various European countries as well as many founders here who explicitly left EU countries for America because they wanted to start a company.
Worth mentioning that the evidence says that patents don't have an effect on new drug creation/inventions. Evidence is collected here http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht..., pretty neat to know that Italy/Switzerland had a patentless pharma industry until quite recently.

Having said that, I think you're right that under this system, research/capital definitely gets directed in a different way.
Very cool, and great selection of tracks.

It would help a lot if a track had breaks and fills as well as the main rhythm.