skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you are restoring functionality that previously worked and then stopped, or are you creating new functionality

Good maintenance prevents something from stopping to work in the first place. I'd frame maintenance as someone's care and effort to put up with something (Bernard Moitessier and "built to be low-maintenance" from my linked article [1] comes to mind), so I'm in strong disagreement with your distinction as stated.

Maintenance, unlike building, is a task that will inevitably occur, but it's the question if you want to put up with it and how you're doing it. Building while ignoring maintenance is just complete negligence, and if you want to allow yourself and others to be negligent, I repaired quite a bit already to understand that fixing stuff can require quite a lot of unforeseen (re-)building. I honestly think this mindset was appropriate 10-30 years ago, but doesn't sit well in our current climate anymore, whether politically, economically nor otherwise.

> I would also extend the notion of functionality to include what people perceive as value. So new art that makes someone feel something would be creation.

I wanted to avoid bringing art into this discussion because art exists purely by maintaining a dialog about it. Artifacts need to be created first, sure, but as soon as they're published they'll just become excerpts to advance in that dialog (hopefully), and there's still the artist/viewer dichotomy in the perception of value and its affiliation of feelings. Making those pieces parts of art history requires maintenance, and that's the same collective effort as with technology.

> it seems like PG left maintenance out of his proposed value system.

Seems like we're spot on.
In the event of an ejection, the belief is that jet is uncontrollable. In highlight with perfect knowledge, we know this wasn't the case, but in the pilot's mind, the jet was going down. It could go down with him on board, or it could go down without him on board. I think he made the right decision given the circumstances.
I think you severely underestimate how poorly the average small business experience is with the small website production market.

It's not just the price. Most I know feel scammed and would jump at the bit of getting rid of those "service providers"
interesting that he's never photographed. I guess that's one way to prevent the narrative from being flipped (and his fashion choices being scrutinized)
they may have measurable effects in our physical reality, eg. the behavior of the individual and even be correlated with other physical processes.

however, there may be hidden variables outside of our physical reality that are actually mechanizing the result. some such processes may be non-deterministic, which is why i used randomness as an example.

what i'm implying is analogous but opposite to the concept of a philosophical zombie. there may be a ghost in the machine which no measurement can reveal.
IRL is messy. Iv seen a compilation of russian fiber drone fails vid recently. Sharp turns, excessive acceleration, but mostly flying near tree branches and other dynamic objects - wind gust yanking on already laid fiber.

Comes down to pilot quality, with time even fetal alcohol syndrome victims will learn how to operate them reliably.
I'm always surprised about this line of thinking. Surely an active duty pilot is going to keep his mouth shut, whereas as we see, as a retired one he's happy to talk to the papers.
The Windows dominance really puts things in perspective... Even with the rise of mobile and Macs making some headway, it's amazing how entrenched it still is on the desktop.
A lot of top comments from HN age badly or are just blatantly incorrect/false. People are captured in their own ideology which gets reinforced by the eco chamber effect here, and so refuse to acknowledge the possibility they might be wrong or that the real world is vastly different than the one in their eco chamber (like the fact that most of the world uses Windows).

Especially true for SW engineers and other privileged people (politicians are an even better example) who due to their high status and wealth assume that if they got a well paid job, then they must be super smart and right at any other topics or areas, and then end up shocked that their viewpoint gets demolished by the masses or by the end results down the line.

In a way it's like how democracy works: it doesn't matter what is right and what is wrong, the opinion that ends up denominating is what the the masses perceive as being right.
True. However, did you notice the emojis used in relation to the leaked Huthi attack? It’s difficult to place confidence in individuals wielding significant power when they conduct themselves like adolescents.
Lots of this is incredible:

> Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy

Mexico, Greenland, Canada, ... there's never been a more interventionist US president.

> DOGE and Fiscal Discipline: The goal of cutting $1 trillion from the federal budget, a major libertarian priority.

That doesn't make it align with classical liberal principles - especially when they discard the rule of law and do it as a dictator. Cutting government is an act of Congress, not the executive.

> Deregulation: Slashed hundreds of federal regulations across multiple sectors, reducing government interference in markets and individual enterprise.

Who intervenes more in business than Trump? For example, he is forcing them to abandon DEI and ESG; he is extorting law firms; he extorts funds and capitulation from other companies.

> Judicial Restraint: Appointed constitutionalist judges committed to limiting federal overreach and upholding individual rights.

The judges have eliminated many legal restraints on government, for example fabricating legal immunities for the President that are not in the Constitution.

> Freedom of Speech: Consistently opposes online censorship.

He's forcing independent, private universities to abandon freedom of speech, arresting people based on their speech - extremes never before seen.

People are widely afraid to criticize Trump for fear of retribution - that's never really happened with an US president.
He's supposed to spend the next 5 seconds actually testing the flight controls to see what's working and what isn't. He's supposed to look at the backup instruments to see what his status is. He's supposed to try the backup radio to see if someone outside can help him figure out his status.

Instead, he switched the flight mode from STOL to forward flight, misinterpreted the result of that as his engine spooling down, didn't see if he could maneuver the aircraft, didn't do anything with the backup instruments except glance at them, didn't try the backup radio, and punched out.

Sure, he was descending. Did he try to pull up? Did he look at the backup instruments while doing so to see if their response to that agreed with his actions, and thus gain some information as to whether both the flight controls and backup instruments were functional? Seems like he didn't.

I'm not saying I would have made a different decision in his situation. I'm not a pilot, and I can't fathom what being in that situation would have been like. But it sounds like that third mishap report, as well as the Marine brass, believed he should have known that he had more time to ascertain his plane's capabilities at the time.

> This was as textbook a reaction as they could have asked for.

He was a test pilot who was later given command of a group responsible for that textbook. It sounds like he's not supposed to just follow the textbook; he's supposed to know when the textbook is too vague, and dig deeper. Yes, it seems, even in a crisis situation where he might die if he delays his decisions for too long.

And I'm not saying he absolutely should have gone down with the plane if that's what would have happened. But also consider that it seems like a near miracle that the plane didn't eventually come down in a residential area, for instance, and kill a bunch of people, especially considering how long it continued flying after he ejected. It sounds like he only considered that after he was on the ground. He needed to be thinking about that before he pulled that ejection lever.
Truly blows my mind anyone who doesn't embrace suiting up once in awhile.

Must be a frustrating, passive, kinda sad way to live life.

I suit up when I go to buy a $5 lotto ticket.
They also refuse to update the electronic countermeasures systems installed in Ukraine's F16. Not a kill switch, but it is impacting the usefulness of the planes.

Whether actual kill switches exist is unknown. But if you were a European country, would you take the chance of buying fighters from a country threatening to invade multiple of your allies based on their assurance that the rumors about kill switches are nothing but unsubstantiated rumors?
You can’t trust public statements for reasoning.

One retailer I liked blamed “shifting consumer demand for their demise but they also doubled their store count by like 100 within two years. Consumer demand did shift but they also legitimately f’d up.
Because of extraterritorial rights they have over data centers and facilities to intrude into otherwise secured communications. Bert is right to flag this, but it is (as I understand it) a statement to capability not evidenced to be happening.

You would think by now European and other geopolitical circles were considering how they want to become more resilient in the face of a US state prepared to rip up informal and formal agreements to modus operandi. That said, wasn't the evidence the US actively snooped European political leaders phone communication revealed some years ago?
My understanding is that insults are illegal as well as certain expressions of Naziism.
My tinfoil hat theory is perversely US probably wants LESS foreign F35 orders. US accounts for 80% of long term F35 procurement (~2500/3100). Capitalization / replacement of airframes across US forces is at attrocious levels. If anything US better off absorbing 100% of next 20 years of LH production, and get full F35 buy years earlier, i.e. by late 2030 instead of projected 2045s sharing with partners. Especially now LH seems to have finally sorted out Tech Refresh 3. US probably wants LH to focus on upgrading/delivering US airframes and get as much US airframes to TR3 and then block4 standards. IIRC airforce general said he would not want take pre TR3 F35s to Pacific fight. If US is serious about countering PRC in decade of concern, they need all the airframes.
Responding in good faith, here. As far as I can tell, what people who voted for Trump have a problem with - and are thus quite happy with as far as action from this Administration is concerned - is that while there are ostensibly only three branches of the Federal Government (the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial), there is in fact a fourth. This fourth branch is the administrative state, and it is (in their telling, not stating this as fact necessarily) an unelected branch that has overwhelmingly leaned left since Richard Nixon, and has an enormous amount of control over the direction of government. One example is USAID, which is a broad way for federal dollars to be spent on various pet projects, prioritized by career bureaucrats with expansive (and expensive) resumes. Trump exerting control over how these dollars are spent is something they like, because they think it's weird (and I see their point) that the executive branch spends a ton of money that the elected officers in that branch may not want spent in that manner. (Yes, I am aware, some or most of this money is congressionally authorized in some manner, debatable, and honestly it's good to have that debate). Anyway, some people like seeing a chief executive asserting control over the executive branch. It's not really more complicated than that, and pearl clutching about "fascism" is pretty boring, because that is a word with specific meaning. Unless you want to expand that meaning, I suppose.
If you're going down in zero visibility, what good can you do staying in the jet?
How'd you get it stable on that? IME it tended to crash even more that regular 9x did.
Isn't the dictator telling people what to say/think/do far more than any government leader in US history?
To me that smells like a plane that is too expensive to lose and someone higher up was looking for an excuse.

Sure the pilot with his life on the line could have risked the investment into his education on top of the investment into the aircraft to figure out whether an ill-prepared procedure was really ill-prepared — but should that really be the expectation?

If you rely on your pilot having to interpret written procedure in a very specific way by mind magic, that is on those who wrote the procedure. I am not sure if "ignores the procedure of a aircraft that expensive" is the skill you are looking for, even if it safes the aircraft for the moment.
Doing something is better than nothing.
One day the bowler hat and bowtie will come back!
Did a redesign of my leaderboard app: https://leaderboard.fun and planning on adding mobile apps for iOS and Android :)
That guy really got me into men's style.
I did the exact same thing - mounted a shiny new board straight onto the case, powered it on, and… nothing. Spent hours troubleshooting before realizing I'd basically shorted the whole thing
Very cool!

Is there an equivalent tool for Windows 11? I've used MSMG Toolkit and NTLite in the past to slim down the ISO, but it was a very manual and tedious process, and I still have to babysit the installation itself. I would like a tool that takes a predefined config file of what to remove, and then creates a fully unassisted installer. Obviously bypassing the online account shenanigans.
If flying and powering and destroying a Jetson at scale cheap enough?
> 60-90 seconds

Thats impressive speed for an install that not just copies pre-installed system, but also includes Hardware detection and selective driver installation phase.
i love small apps like these

just a feedback: app becomes super laggy when you try to edit a gif. if you do make a fix, can you share the solution here in the reply? i too struggle with it in some of my apps haha

also, i can't find the button to reset the canvas so i can upload again
Working on a text client for the web: https://youtu.be/Q_w6_zDwNWM

JavaScript works, scrolling - but layout is still being figured out! Also missing are form controls, etc etc.

It's meant to just be text (no images, etc) and to work in your terminal. It's NOT meant to alter/condense the layout to something like "reader mode" - just to be a faithful "GUI -> TUI" rendering in the terminal.

Like Lynx, but upgraded for the modern web. So maybe I'll call it Jaguar, but probably not! The idea is that other options like Brow.sh may be overcomplicated, hard to maintain, focused on a kind of graphical fidelity. Whereas this is more BBS style text only, but still usable. Minimum viable text, so to speak.

Leave your email if you want to know when it's ready to try out: https://tally.so/r/wbzYzo
> I find it difficult to sympathize with those who actually perpetrate foreign invasions, be they Russian or American. It’s hard to care about justice for someone whose job and daily practice is to blow up people they’ve never met and never posed a threat to them.

I completely agree, but I feel this is an entierly different topic (no less important). What they did to him is clearly wrong and the importance of this conclusion is to help us think about similar situations in other settings than the US air force. It is like a philosophical dilema, should you punish someone for trying to save their life and causing damage that could have been avoided? Not everyone answers the same.

Again I agree with your angle, it's perfectly valid
I've been building https://notionbackups.com for almost 4 years now.

It's mostly feature complete at this point, but there are still some rough edges.

Notion's API is far from complete, and updates are few and far between. This has led me to work around some of its limitations in creative ways. For example, there is still no way to create top-level pages in Notion, which makes restores impossible. Instead, I ask customers to create a top-level page themselves and write backups there.

Personally, the hardest part of working on a project for an extended period is not getting burnt out repeteadly. Sometimes it helps to work on something else, and other times you just need to step away from the game entirely for a while
My wife has a sense of fashion and I do not. When we go out she's always dressed precisely and, left without guidance, I look like a hike might break out at any minute.

Relwen's excellent. Sturdy clothes with utility -- my concern -- good looking for a variety of semi-casual to formal occasions. I wear their hunting jacket as a general purpose blazer.
Apple may launch AI doctor with iOS 19, has hired real doctors to train it
That isn't a justification; if the students think that it helps they can take notes of their own initiative; handing out a copy of the slides doesn't disadvantage anyone. The lecturers are just making a petty power play because they want to feel important standing in front of a bunch of eager young students

There simply isn't any pedagogical justification for withholding information post-lecture that was deemed important enough to be included in a lecture. Everyone knows this material is critical to understanding the course. If professors want simple optimisations to help students learn then they would be doing something like organising lecture material to promote spaced repetition.
Looks super cute, but doesn't seem to work in Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin apparently only blocking CF Insights (clicking the big green button does nothing).
Leaders and others on the right have been embracing white (male) supremacy and Nazis, including Musk. It's not subtle; it's often brazen.

> some people literally think _every_ one of them is a literal, actual Nazi

I've never heard that. Can you give an example?

I think much of what you say comes from the right-wing disinformation machine - it's their talking points, and doesn't reflect anything I've experienced. Can you provide some evidence for any of it?
Is creation of an SEZ and causing a metro of 8 million people in about 40 years an exercise in government restraint/deregulation? The US has to make forward thinking, intentional decisions about the direction of the country, and so far it seems to be delegating direction to folks who mostly want their own enterprises to succeed.

Edit: 40 years not 4
The kill switch first reported wasn't for jets, but was for HIMARS[0], which stopped receiving data for strikes.

But everyone viewed this kill switch as a way broader than HIMARS, and rightfully so.

It will be foolish to assume that the USA has the capacity to turn HIMARS targeting capacity off, literally incapacitating the system which was built in the 90s, but somehow won't be able to kill switch a F35... This is disingenuous.

No country should trust their national security on the whims of one guy sitting in the White House, that can decide to side with the enemy and make your jets stop working because of disabled services.

[0]https://x.com/olliecarroll/status/1897340316942000271
I'm always shocked whenever I see someone having hundreds or even thousands of unread notifications. It pains me to see that instead of controlling their feed to only what interests them, they've just let everything pile up forever, completely unread.

For example, on Discord, I sometimes see people with unreads for every server, and dozens to hundreds of completely unread DMs, just because they don't know that you can turn notifications off for the stuff you don't care about. Instead of doing that they just learned to ignore everything, leading to a disorganized mess.

I'm somewhat familiar with what typically leads to this (usually something like ADHD), but when you let it go for so many years it's such a big task to fix it that the fixing never happens and you're just kind of screwed for eternity.

In Discord, I have no unread servers and no unread DMs, despite being at the server limit. This is because all my servers are completely silenced and all my DMs are read immediately. My only unread email is one I marked as such because I still plan to reply to it soon. I have the attention for every single notification because I aggressively optimize the notifications I receive to the point where they all are typically things I care about. Back in the day I would instantly report every email to SpamCop, typically in under one minute, but I eventually stopped doing that because there's no point.

I simultaneously do and don't understand people who just submit to a flood of irrelevant garbage. Control it!!
Musk gives away $1M cheques ahead of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election
Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?
As a software engineer. To boost your career in this era.
Couple of dumb thoughts:

- Can another drone grab the fiber and walk back to your base?

- Can you use the fiber to a master drone which acts as a repeater/controller for normal RF drones? Yes you can still jam them, but with the tx/rx closer to the action you need a more effective jammer.

- How much power can these types of fiber optic cable carry? A couple watts max? Yes I know that's not what the intent is I'm just curious if you could use it that way.

- On the one hand glass isn't the worst thing we could be dumping into the environment but damn that sounds like some wicked splinters... Sure, war is never kind to the environment. Just saying...
That is why I stick with my ISP[1] even tough they are a bit more expensive (CHF 64.75 per month is still very cheap) than others. I have an OTO (Optical Termination Outlet) port with 25gbits in both directions and nothing else. No GNAT and no other bullshit.

They have a "nerdmode" switch on their website.

[1] https://www.init7.net/de/internet/fiber7/
I love that you went all-in with a 1024x768 monitor
I can't quite parse your statement, but if you mean that bytemuck doesn't let you "rely on the exact binary layout of something in memory", then yes, it does: it lets you cast from a Pod type to another Pod type, which exposes the memory layout of both types.
Truly blows my mind people buy $5 lotto tickets.
Ejection Notices
You're protecting your data wrong – Introducing the Protected Query Pattern
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Somehow kids were able to make friendships before everyone was online all the time. Perhaps they don't need to be spending time discussing the newest tiktoks. Maybe their friends should be hanging out and doing things.
Yep. I gave a similar speech on the first day of every English 101 class I ever taught. (Though, damn, I wish I'd had as concise a formulation as your list of skills. Nicely done.) In my case I largely hoped to head off the resentment that STEM majors frequently expressed about how come they were required to take something so irrelevant to their eventual careers as writing. It sometimes worked.
The right, as they have for decades, would find something to demonize - it has nothing to do with campus politics.

Also, you can't compare their power to a US president, congressional majority, and Supreme Court justices. How many people live on campuses and how many are in the country? And finally, they didn't seek to take power from others, but to empower them - whether or not you like to see that happen or their strategies.
Linux detects all your hardware and use drivers accordingly at every boot - some seconds
But it doesn’t confirm improving the speed of the compiler at all. Looks like the trend is flat.

This comment from Odersky also says that Dotty was not automatically faster than 2.12:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884317
The USA commander in chief said otherwise; You're spreading disinformation ;)
Why not create a GPT
Simple reference counting fails as soon as you have a graph that might have loops in it.
The soviet russians nuked Chernobyl with this attitude, it must be good
Can you give me the example of one regulation that China doesn‘t have that make them more competitive?