skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At least in the US prosecutors are obligated to disclose any exculpatory evidence they find, even if they don't plan to use it in court.

Once you're at that level of issue, you're already wasting massive amounts of time and money.
Or the ever classic ‘caught in an affair’ [https://petapixel.com/2021/12/13/speed-camera-photo-sent-to-...]

And attempts to reduce the problem [https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-believes-husband-cheating-sp...]
I observe the course catalog at one not small college now has options for a lot of majors—many of which weren’t terribly computer-heavy historically.
I'm skeptical of this. Used sales are a thing, plus I've gotten "new" products that had definitely been previously opened. Throwing away returned products seems to go against the ethos of squeezing every drop of profit out of things.
So head-smackingly stupid. But also exactly what you’d expect from a group of inexperienced young developers. What are the odds we'll end up with an 85% AI generated NextJS-powered app that melts down the second it's implemented?
If they screw this up the litigation could be the largest of all time.
WORD OF ADVICE FOR LLM BEARS!!

If you have tried to use LLMs and find them useless or without value, you should seriously consider learning how to correctly use them and doing more research. It is literally a skill issue and I promise you that you are in the process of being left behind. In the coming years Human + AI cooperatives are going to far surpass you in terms of efficiency and output. You are handicapping yourself by not becoming good at using them. These things can deliver massive value NOW. You are going to be a grumbling gray beard losing your job to 22 year old zoomers who spend 10 hours a day talking to LLMs.
>But everyone is grilling the author for publishing

What's the alternative? Having no quality bar for vulnerability reports, and give no pushback for poorly written vulnerability reports, even if they're crayon scribbles on a napkin? I agree that not everyone can write a detailed and thoroughly researched bug report like the ones project zero puts out, but I think most can agree that "you might want to stop using [software]" is well below any reasonable quality bar.

>Maybe they should sell it next time, no negative reaction that way

Yeah I'm sure 0day groups are going to be paying top dollar for weird crashes.
I'm sure a traffic camera number plate reader system can be programmed such that evidence of cloned tags was intentionally not captured or saved.
My idea was to convey was that the sense of identity attached to a people is weird. And that people are just people. You can get the same set of people(genetically, demographically same) to kill millions in a war and become pious afterwards and vice versa.

When I said people are the same it means the same people who created great environments can in all likelihood create hell within a generation span.
Might be more prosaic - could just be hard to find COBOL engineers, and the ones they do find might want extortionate rates.

Rewriting in something where engineers are cheaper and that can use commodity/cloud servers probably looks quite good on paper Vs paying IBM in blood.
>So long as your article has a decent enough structure – which this article makes it seem is the only thing that matters.

Author here.

I hope I didn't give the impression that structure is all that matters, as that's not what I believe.

I think all the usual advice about choosing an interesting topic and writing well apply too, but I tried to focus in this article on blogging advice I don't see people discuss.
That misses the fairly obvious point that Russia uses Roubles, which it issues.

If Russian Gas is sold for any foreign currency amount at all, then that is foreign currency it can use elsewhere. Russia can maintain the operational plant with its own money.

Market price is irrelevant. Gas is swapped for items Russia can't make itself. Russia isn't interested in foreign tokens. It's interested in foreign made stuff.
It’s very common that they don’t - and how would you know/prove it existed when it’s hard to even know who to ask?
Yes, those have existed for decades, with various degrees of success.
Having the "AI has arrived" conversation
I thought summarizing papers/stories/emails/meetings was one of the touted use cases of LLMs?

What are the use cases where the expected performance is high?
"one does not simply rewrite vim" is prior evidence to suggest: no, usually you brake of a rewrite unless you have a very good reason and made much better choices the second time around.
There is a difference between DP+ and DP++. DP+ uses external level shifter, DP++ uses passive adapter and the card switches different transmitter into the path internally.
That'd be Denmark but perhaps you're allowing for that to change?
The decreasing effectiveness of machine-local search is just developers fucking up integrations and indexing.

This is a solved problem since ~1970 -- they're just not spending enough time on it.
Why is it so hard to understand this? Five years ago on HN stories like this would collect comments with general revulsion to this sort of surveillance. Today there is a troubling sentiment that "we can't have a society without unlimited time history of every person's movements available for scrutiny."
> Getting more elaborate emoji tapbacks doesn't make up for fundamental instability and poor syncing behavior. C'mon!

Oh but you forgot about the “catch up” button they added 2 releases ago that takes you to the last unread message! …

… but only if said last message is within the N most recent messages, in the messages which are already “fetched” from local storage. If it’s more unread messages than that, the button is nowhere to be found.

Like they said “ok we can implement a catch up button but it’ll be hard to solve due to how we do paging.” “Ok we just won’t put the button on screen if we have to page then. Save the hard problem for the next release.” Then they just forgot about it.
I like your optimism.
They will most certainly just have a LLM "try" to write it

Then put it live in alpha

Screw up millions of people

Everyone is a beta-tester with Musk, no matter how dangerous to the product

And didn't just 21 out of 50 "DOGE" employees quit in protest?

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5308095/doge-staff-resi...

Is he going to outsource this to India with data access?

Musk "special hire" status ends June 1st, good luck getting it done by then or maybe this is the excuse he wants to keep going in continued violation of law
It would be nice to be able to trigger AOT somehow, e.g. as part of a Docker build, or as part of an app startup as you say. Then the software deployment can decide what to do.
Those kids today. Have you tried telling them they're wrong? The idea that you might have actually learned things, rather than spending fifty years staring at a blank wall utterly passes them by. Cancel you as soon as look at you, most of 'em.
I'm pretty sure that the Sackler family and Oxy did that.
They might also be able to rely on Canada ("LNG Canada" export facility starting up currently) in the near future for LNG imports. OgsyedIE's point about using exports to crowd out Russian gas is spot on, you have to drown the global LNG market in cheap gas until Russia fails.

US EIA: North America’s LNG export capacity is on track to more than double by 2028 - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62984 - September 3, 2024

France recently (~2 years) discovered a fossil hydrogen reserve (~46 million tons), but that will take time to develop and LNG imports are a potential bridge while also providing time for renewables and storage deployments to continue to push out gas for generation.

France strikes Hydrogen gold: World’s largest Hydrogen reserve worth $92 billion could make it a global leader in clean energy revolution - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/f... - March 24th, 2025

French drillers may have stumbled upon a mammoth hydrogen deposit - https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/french-drillers-may-... - September 20th, 2023

[EU] Electricity from renewable sources reaches 47% in 2024 - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d... - March 19th, 2025
I got into an argument with my science teacher in 4th or 5th grade about whether rivers could flow north, because on a globe, north is up.
Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors
To be fair the newest tools like Deep Research are actually quite good and hallucination is essentially not a real problem for them.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/de...
"looks good on paper"

So goes almost every project that wants to rewrite a giant legacy system from scratch. In reality the number of developer hours will massively eclipse the price you'd have paid those hard to find COBOL engineers.

But doing that would require the DOGE folks to admit that they don't actually know everything and need to defer to someone with more knowledge. So it can't possibly be allowed.
Years ago the long-gone and unlamented OrCAD Layout had a spreadsheet view of your nets that was a slightly better than good-enough interface for setting constraints for autorouting. Once you got your footprints, placement, constraints, and hand-routed nets locked down, you could iterate very quickly.

It's nice to see anyone at all working on PCB autorouters, which have been pretty stagnant since Cadence bought SPECCTRA in the nineties. The guys who wrote SPECCTRA went to the VLSI world iirc and never came back - I guess that's where all the fame and fortune is. Probably was a patent minefield for a while there too; might still be. Autoplacement was an utterly intractable problem back then, still seems to be, and it's probably ripe for a generative AI approach - a good generative AI first pass at parts placement could be a net time saver. The biggest problem would be convincing the cranks that you can be good even if you can't be perfect.

I'm sort of puzzled by the kids out there trying to do schematics-as-code. On the one hand, I would love to see that work as a backend format - especially where folks like the jitx guys seem to be making a lot of progress in encoding appnote and datasheet-level design rules into parts models. Reading every datasheet in the detail needed for commercial designs is more work than people expect, and so is getting junior engineers on board with the process. So any automation there is beneficial. The problem is that the approaches all seem rooted in this idea of schematics as data entry for layout, a kind of source code, rather than as design documentation with a carefully evolved visual language that needs to be accessible to people who won't have an EDA suite installed on their computer. I guess people who learned from puzzling out schematics in the Adafruit/Sparkfun/Shenzhen style with explicit wiring minimized might not understand the value of a good schematic.

The other thing is leaning too far into thinking-by-analogy and trying to make PCB-level design like VLSI design. I don't think it's entirely impossible - if we had better tools for DRC and validation, component-level design would look more like VLSI design. But the design space is so different, with such loose coupling between design, EDA/CAM/simulation, validation, fabricators, assemblers, component vendors, regulators/certifiers, and so on that just getting one corner of it really right would be a major accomplishment.
Baby Todd is a real phenomenon caused by kids not being able to say complex words. You want to say those complex words to them and they will repeat them back and they may make a baby version of it which is fine but it’s good to for you to keep using the complex words and the correct pronunciation so they learn.

Every one of my kids has a name that is hard for a baby to pronounce so they have a baby nickname, but we let them grow out of it.
There’s still time to edit your post. Look for the “edit” link in the header of your post.
The AI Coding Maelstrom
While there's some truth to that, neither SPF nor DKIM nor DMARC have anything at all to do with reputation.

They serve to authenticate that the sender is somewhat connected to the person who controls that sending domain.
Oh yeah, absolutely it was. Steepest learning curve of any software I've learned, but as you say, there comes a point where it suddenly "clicks" in your mind somewhere along the way, and then you find yourself actually using the tool as it was intended and it's glorious. The workflow of one hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard tapping hotkeys really just works for 3D modeling. I'm so very happy that they kept most all of that goodness through all their improvements over the years. Didn't brutally murder what made it good. Only improved and expanded upon it, and rearranged a few bits here and there for added convenience.
> In brief, “woke” means having awakened to having a particular type of “critical consciousness,” as these are understood within Critical Social Justice.

This is wildly wrong; for starters, “woke” predates critical theory; for another, there is no such thing as “Critical Social Justice”, which is just mashing together two terms right-wingers don’t like and misrepresent.
It is that or you can't recognize a tongue-in-cheek comment on goalpost shifting. Wiki page you linked has the original definition of the term from 1997, dig it up. Better yet, look at the history of that page in Wayback machine and see with your own eyes how ChatGPT release changed it.

For reference, 1997 original: By advanced artificial general intelligence, I mean AI systems that rival or surpass the human brain in complexity and speed, that can acquire, manipulate and reason with general knowledge, and that are usable in essentially any phase of industrial or military operations where a human intelligence would otherwise be needed.

2014 wiki requirements: reason, use strategy, solve puzzles, and make judgments under uncertainty;
represent knowledge, including commonsense knowledge; plan; learn; communicate in natural language;
and integrate all these skills towards common goals.
I agree with this so much. Imo a lot of the far right's argument is based on reducing "waste" Which they promptly redefine as "profit" and now everything is fixed.
Login to https://www.ssa.gov/ and click the "Your Social Security Statement" link at the top of your homepage to download a PDF or XML file of your earnings by year and total payments to SS and Medicare.
Studio Ghibli AI Slop
Everything is easy when you don't understand it.

What can an accounting system possibly do? Keep track of people, how much they're eligible for, and when you paid them last. DONE.

> SSA maintains more than 60 million lines of COBOL today, along with millions more lines of other legacy programming languages.

Months?! I hope they mean days. With ChatGPT and AWS, they'll be rolling! All of those millions of lines of code are clearly doing nothing useful.
> One pair of 32/32 might feel 'off' and the next is the best pair you've ever owned.

Honestly, even in the store, that's been a thing forever. You'd have to go to the department or mall store and try on a whole bunch.

Lately I've switched to a brand that has stretchier fabric (so small variations in size matter less) and more long-leg sizes (my size is 31 or 32/34 and difficult to find in department stores) and been content.
have you tried it recently? o3-mini-high is really impressive. If you ease into talking to it about your intent and outlining the possible edge and corner cases it will write nuanced rust code 1000 lines at a time no problem
As far as I know AliExpress doesn't do commingling; so on AliExpress at least you get products from the correct seller.

That is to say, Amazon under that coat of paint is probably worse.
Also re: lightning and living things, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044159 :

> "Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms" (2024)

> "Gamma rays convert CH4 to complex organic molecules [like glycine,], may explain origin of life" (2024)
To put it in perspective, I would note that the article title specifies "how to write blog posts", plural, not merely "how to write a blog post", singular. In other words, you're promoting a body of work, or for lack a better term, a "brand". If you want your brand to be authentic, it needs to reflect your personality. Thus, I think there is leeway for humor, even sarcasm, meandering, rambling, if that's what you tend to do. If you can establish a brand, an audience, then readers will stay with your blog posts because they were written by you, in spite of your style, or perhaps due to your style. Ultimately, of course, you need something interesting and/or important to say, but you don't need to present it robotically. Unless you are a robot! The negative oneth law of robotics is that a robot must not attempt humor.
I left Facebook because my friends aren't there any more. They've all left.

I'm not sure where they're going, which is kinda too bad. Facebook used to be a good tool for coordinating group events. We're back to group emails like it's the 90s again.
Unmanaged VM's created directly by customers still aren't relevant to this discussion. The whole point here is that everyone else uses some form of hardware assisted isolation between tenants, even in managed services that vend containers or other higher order compute primitives (i.e. Lambda, Cloud Functions, and hosted notebooks/shells).

Between first and second hand experience I can confidently say that, at a bare minimum, the majority of managed services at AWS, GCP, and even OCI use VM's to isolate tenant workloads. Not sure about OCI, but at least in GCP and AWS, security teams that review your service will assume that customers will break out of containers no matter how the container capabilities/permissions/configs are locked down.
> who committed their lives to your safety

Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have repeatedly held that police have no duty to provide protection to citizens in general.

If police were committing their lives to our safety, why would they use their limited funding pursuing court cases to affirm the opposite?
I’ve been decompiling a PS1 era game for the past year or so, and it was so nice to find Sony used GCC as their compiler. There’s a significant number of MIPS tools in GCC that still work, the source and patches from that version still exist, and are open source. PS2 seems similar, but for the PSP they chose MetroWorks instead, which introduces some challenges, primarily just knowing quirks about the compiler.

I wouldn’t be surprised if most languages supported by GCC (and possibly clang as a front end) could target many older systems as long as the runtime can be statically compiled into the final binary.
Yes, imaginary effectiveness seems like an accurate description.
here are three:

founding of the federal reserve: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/jekyll-island-c...

operation midnight climax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax

operation northwoods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Ah hah, this is what I think. LLMs are the ultimate bullshitting machines! When you need to produce some BS fast, an LLM is definitely the right tool for that job.
I was a little surprised to see the junta asking for outside assistance. I assumed they would be reluctant to let people in.
Like the majority of "Don't buy from Amazon" articles I've read, this one doesn't seem to make any mention (unless I missed it!) of if these Levis were shipped by _and_ sold by Amazon.

There's no doubt Amazon has a problem with fake or imposter products. But every post I seem to read about this is people who unwittingly by from a marketplace seller.

Of course Amazon should do better to regulate those marketplace sellers, but it seems similar to me to someone buying a Rolex from a street peddler in Times Square and being shocked it isn't the real thing.
Speaking for myself:

I have no aversion to Rust (I've read some of it, and while foreign, it comes across as much more pleasant than C or C++), but the way it's promoted often is grating. I'm getting really tired in particular of how the speed of Rust is universally described as "blazing", and how "written in Rust" has a sparkle emoji as mandatory punctuation. But maybe that's just because I'm, well, older than Python itself.

I don't really care that the reference implementation isn't self-hosting (although it's nice that PyPy exists). Using non-Python for support (other than IDEs - I don't care about those and don't see a need to make more of them at all) is a bit grating in that it suggests a lack of confidence in the language.

But much more importantly, when people praise uv, they seem to attribute everything they like about it to either a) the fact that it's written in Rust or b) the fact that it's not written in Python, and in a lot of cases it just doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

uv in particular is just being compared to a low bar. Consider: `pip install` without specifying a package to install (which will just report an error that you need to specify a package) on my machine takes almost half a second to complete. (And an additional .2 seconds with `--python`.) In the process, it imports more than 500 modules. Seriously. (On Linux you can test it yourself by hacking the wrapper script. You'll have to split the main() call onto a separate line to check in between that and sys.exit().)
I wouldn't call it a hate crime, and I'm not a fan of the "hate crime" classification in general, but there is hate involved. Every conversation I've seen online about an incident of Tesla vandalism has degenerated into a series of screeds about Elon Musk and a lot of dogpiling. Suggestions that maybe car selections of individual people don't amount to an unfettered endorsement of Elon Musk don't make much headway.

People aren't vandalizing Teslas as some kind of new tide pod thing.
Apple was incentivized to deliver a polished App Store DX when it first released, because it meant apps which meant iPhone sales.

Now that the platform is cemented, they don't have an incentive to cater to developers.
Typically cars get stolen for temporary-ish use - to commit a crime somewhere, go joyriding, to strip for parts, etc.

It might only be on the road for 2-8 hours. Maybe a day.

To catch someone during the window of opportunity it would make sense requires a lot of things to happen in quick succession - the owner needs to notice, a report with all the necessary details needs to be entered, and they need to go by a reader - and an officer needs to follow up in a timely fashion before the ‘lead’ goes stale.

Sometimes departments will have their acts together enough that it’s possible, but usually they don’t. Police departments are part of the government too, after all. Most of the time if the car is found at all, it will be found days later abandoned on the other side of town, or on blocks.

The ‘best’ often have an officer (or 2) obsessed with catching stolen cars, and some of them will catch 10-12 in a shift. It’s genuinely impressive watching them work.
Yeah, but imagine how horrific for the person who caused an altered timeline that didn't play out as they expected? Being the time traveler who caused it, I suspect they'd remember what they'd done and what they expected of the "future" they're "returning" (or traveling?) to. Imagine you've stepped into Rod Serling's Twilight Zone and got the "twist" ending to your time travel story... ;)
“If you explained trees to someone who’d never heard of them—towers that drink through their feet, turn light into food, and whisper through fungal cables—they’d think it’s the craziest tech ever invented.” Add this to the list
> Putin-funded "environmentalists"

Any evidence for that? I think a lot of people would not like fracking in their back yards, regardless of being "Putin-funded". Just regular garden variety NIMBY-ism