skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's just asking what are the specific proposals that should be enacted... That's it...
Like know that you've read the book which exact law has to be passed / destroyed to increase housing supply... Without causing mass civil unrest... Which law has to be passed to get the high speed rail build in the next 3 years... Without destroying nature / being routed through poor people's home under eminent domain and not through some rich ass hole with the right connections...

He's coming at if from his pov that he's aware of the problem but is looking for solutions... Which the author's don't give...

The problem is that human made laws deal with... Human beings... And hence with game theory...

So the intent of the law != Outcome of the law.

If you just throw away the law without considering Chesterton's fence etc you are probably throwing away the baby with the bathwater... And to fix it perfectly is basically impossible as it always is in complex matters... (if it was possible ie there wouldn't be accountants who can save millions/billions for cooperations...)

The book is describing problems that a lot of people, especially on this forum, are well aware off. However instead of saying - we need to do this, or even proposing a wiki/forum/whatever to specifically fix all those individual problems/ laws it just repeats what a lot of people are already aware off in a long spun out book.

Best other book I can think of that is similar in a way (and a best seller) is thinking fast and slow with the end conclusion being ~~~ eeeuhm there is no actual way to fix your thinking but hey maybe being aware off the 2 systems might help even though we've said this whole time that it doesn't really work.

So yeah, what specific solutions have you found in this book?
If you agree that there aren't any... Maybe you just were looking for A and got A and he was hoping to get B and only got A ?

He's saying it's a problem book instead of a solution book and you are repeating but yes it's a great problem book... Why does there need to be a solution book.
So maybe the marketing is at fault ?

(Anyway written at night on a phone so sorry for the badly written reply, I just noticed how you repeated more or less the same message and felt like communication was not being achieved despite lots of words being exchanged - I will clarify with a clearer head tomorrow to any reply - Hanoi time zone)
Interview with a Vibe Coder in 2025
The idea that there is no opportunity in these policies is peak Silicon Valley head-in-the-sandedness.

Yes, they’re destructive to the country. But they still also create massive loopholes and thus opportunities for profit.
Sure you can. Red rose in a field of green for example. Human eyes evolved to see the colours the way they do precisely because they were working in a world where nearly everything is colourful and some things needed to stand out.
Multi-Token Attention
What are you talking about? The burden is on you to explain how manipulating the chemical makeup of the atmosphere DOESN'T have a direct impact, even at the tiniest levels (1ppm).

At the levels we're at now, CO2e imbalances definitely impact every single weather event on the planet to some degree, and you'd have to be delusional not to accept that.
https://www.reveai.art/ ???
I guess a more accurate way to say it is that I never heard of doing anything like that in my career on sailboats.

Its cheap and relatively low effort, but I just don't see the benefit. Modern cans typically already have a plastic coating on the inside that will take care of things getting in through any pinholes, and to preserve flavor.

I spent close to a decade as a professional sailboat captain, including on long offshore passages. I never saw a single can of suspect food, and it wasn't something that is ever talked about. Even in survival kits you would see canned goods that weren't wrapped in plastic.

Really, if you are in the business of minimizing risk, you don't undertake an open ocean voyage in a 19 ft. sailboat.
I've never met a principal or vice principal who was not either bullied as a child or a bully.

Something about having healthy self esteem in childhood causes you to avoid education administration career paths.
Exactly. My work-provided chat app and email automatically contains the whole company's contacts. And the messages show up on people's work devices.

If I wanted to use a personal chat or personal email, I'd need to know their personal details, or copy-paste their work info, it would confuse which accounts they reply to... it would make no sense at all.

I keep my work convos and personal convos separate not just because it's company policy, but it's 100x easier for me.
> its quality bar has very much been the target for Element X

I sincerely hope you get there, but it's really hard to believe it at the moment. You're not even at feature parity with the app (Element vs Element X) you're replacing, and it's been out for a bit now.

i.e, you have significant user experience related features that keep people using Element (open graph previews, just to name one).
tbh i drink a coffee in the morning every day, no sugar, i think it tastes objectively terrible, like bitter dirt, but it's hijacked my reward pathway in the same way that nicotine or ethanol does, that it makes me enjoy the taste somehow
Can you share any details with the rest of us, without any specifics, so we might be able to better understand your side of the story?

Your comment was marked dead, by the way. Your account might be flagged as spam because your most recent few submissions were also dead. Might wanna email HN about that if you want to post here more.
The Exchange server hardware was so underpowered (or the software so ill-designed for large mailboxes) that Exchange powered searches would fail, but ones run on the local pst would complete successfully (if slowly). This was on an HDD. SSD would be much faster.
Have solar panels become that popular in the last ten years, and are people retrofitting old boats? All my prior great lakes sailing experience was on boats that would use the diesel motor to recharge batteries.
was really hoping the threshold is 65,535 because I'm much more likely to reach it counting backwards.
They vote for their economic interests, in the sense that they vote in the way that they believe furthers those interests. Whether that vote actually furthers those interests is another matter. Republicans have been very successful at convincing people that they’re the ones who are good for the economy and everyone who works hard will prosper under their policies.
Fair critique! I tried to find a more accessible Wikipedia article but they all look like this...

Simply put, it's a topological defect or discontinuity, but that makes it sounds worse than it really is. I find it easiest to visualize with magnets. They want to align with their neighbors, so in general you get big blocks (domains) where all particles are aligned. What happens at the border when blocks with different alignments meet? We call that a domain wall. That's literally all it is!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_defect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_domain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_wall_(magnetism)

You can find domains walls in magnets, metallic crystal grain structures, liquid crystals, pretty much anything that wants to self-align. One issue: gravity doesn't particularly want to self-align. Or does it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking

I've only got a surface understanding of this stuff myself. Best of luck in your research!
Yeah, because they use Google Cloud. /s

If you think Wikipedia is delivering over a metered link, turn in your nerd card at the front desk.
Location: Netherlands

Remote: Open to any type of work. Remote preferred.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, AWS, Snowflake, SQL, Typescript, React, Postgres, Terraform

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacfloreshuerta/

Email:isaac@flores-huerta.com

I'm in a bit of a chicken & egg situation as my partner recently landed a job in the Netherlands, so we're relocating soon. I'm currently job hunting and will need visa sponsorship for now. I'm a mid-career software engineer with a strong foundation in data engineering and a broad, generalist background, mostly working for startups. Open to any opportunities!
I don't think thats the way most of them see it. Right-wing propaganda has effectively convinced them that unions, government regulations, worker and environmental protections, etc. are all bad and the free market will magically solve everything.
That's not my point of view at all, and I have little issue with what happened and have no concern about Mozilla and privacy.

The endless repetition of these comments is becoming spammy - they have nothing to say but the exact same thing again. We get it; you don't need to repeat it. It's like someone writing, at every opportunity, 'I don't trust Meta' and adding nothing more.
Weren’t things like that 25% steel and aluminum tariff added in response to Trump’s earlier tariffs, and allowed to lapse in 2020?

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/886/oj/eng

https://www.gtlaw.com/en/insights/2025/3/eu-to-impose-tariff...
Bandwidth is dirt cheap. I do 30 petabytes per month.
Location: Greece

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: EU or UK

Technologies: Rust, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://shorturl.at/0ZdaL

Email: cplamprakos@proton.me
Just responding to point (1) and (2) which seemed related to human institutions, not habitability.
Use a cloud sync solution like 1Password or Bitwarden. That way all your 2FA is in the cloud and available on all your devices.

It is less secure but way more convenient.
> I find myself unable to separate the coffee from that fact

Well at least you admit it.

> Now its so prevalent that no one can see the original causes.

I know plenty of people who drink coffee without taking a break to do so. I know plenty of people who drink coffee and are more productive outside of work than people who do not drink coffee at all. I know plenty of employers who do not provide coffee breaks nor free coffee.

Moreover, if drinking coffee makes someone pleasant to be around while not-drinking coffee makes that same person un-pleasant to be around, then perhaps the productivity benefits and original causes aren't so important anymore.
Mozilla should've been what Proton is. A company that sells privacy focused services. They went off chasing too many geese and now they are panicking. I don't think I would trust this service at this point.
It's definitely now in the wrong spot. I assume that once upon a time there was one rack against the wall, and it was only slightly irresponsibly placed, and now there are two racks and hey kids, heat rises.

The extinguisher should be directly inside the door so as not to attract someone to traverse farther into the building without an escape plan.

Of course if he did so then there would be no extinguishers in the picture and then we would also bitch about it.
Non-public streams wouldn’t be published without DRM, or at least not as publicly retrievable (i.e. without any authentication) M3U playlists, would they?
And that unless people donate right now, Wikipedia is actually at risk.

I've seen far too many comments of people who fell for that lie and donated even though they really didn't have money to spare, because the fear of losing such an important resource drove them to it.
Rustcraft: Clean slate POSIX shell, written in Rust
The posixutils-rs project just merged a full, POSIX compliant shell.
Haven't heard much complaints about the hardware. Seems like a good iterative evolution. even the $450 price point was somewhat expected.

As always, it's the software pricing that makes everything absurd. They jumped straight to $80 in a mere 2-3 years for them after Tears of the Kingdom's $70. And Mario Kart hits further beyond with $90. I wonder how that will fare in this economy. Will consumers still take upon that because Mario?
Its not like the classical models are any good in terms for performance in real situations, as they have proven to be unable to predict anything over the past 40 years better than a basic linear extrapolation from the trend would have.

Current macro-economics models are arguably not much better than a broken clock in terms of predicting power.
Ty! Ashish, excited to chat more about this tech.
Monkeys.zip is a live experiment based on the Infinite Monkey Theorem
It is not wikipedia shaping things.
It's politics, travel and lunches.

The foundation does not csre about wikipedia. They dont even try to clean it up from the agents who "shape" articles.
You very often can see a situation where two admins help each other. Nobody reviews this really. I mean you can ask a "check user" - who will decline to check if the admins arent sock puppet accounts / multi accounts.

Nobody from foundation fights the deletionist, dishonest admin clique and people who discourage everyone feom editing wikipedia by racing to have the most reverts.

(Also what is with the random quotes added to every article now, that look like writing of 12 year olds. No more concise articles)
What is your bubble?
What is supposed to be the default, though? Presumably not something that goes on your phone, right?

That said I’m not sure how leaders are supposed to quickly collaborate across time and space anymore. Not every location has a SCIF, but I suppose that’s the high bar we should hold.
I have found that "Quick Filter Bar" is often much better at searching if you know which folder the email is in.
I don't disagree, but I think the bigger risk is just that big companies who can and should throw some financial support your way, just won't if it's permissively licensed. They've demonstrated repeatedly that they'll just take the software and use it, including making (sometimes substantial) money on it, and none of that will flow back up.
I wonder if the correct solution here is build the shed far away from house and trees, on a cinderblock foundation filled in the middle with 8+ inches of sand, and you just stand back with the garden hose to keep everything around it moist.
the key idea is to admit/realize that a program is a graph, and that a flat string of characters is not an ideal way to store such complex structures.

once that leap is made, a whole lot of the complexities of namespaces, modules, source control, and parsing become much simpler/better. this comes at the cost of more complexity in the editor/infrastructure, but that is a singular place while in return it is simplifying every program written.
>Difficulty is set at 4 leading zeroes, unless you're coming from US in which case there's also a tariff of 5 more leading zeroes.

isn't linux afraid of retaliatory tariffs? should I stock up on linuxes just in case? I've already beefed up toilet paper reserves.
I love this essay, and it very closely mirrors my own feelings about the topic. Thanks for writing/sharing it.

I’m perpetually bamboozled by my fellow software engineering colleagues who insist on proudly shouting from the rooftops “Look at me, ma! I’m vibe coding!” as if it’s some badge of honor to see who can churn out the greatest quantities of shitcode the fastest and completely surrender any last scraps of their cognitive abilities to the best LLM provider of the current moment.
This would have been an epic April 1st joke :)
This is infinitely better than using CloudFlare. I hope it works and more people adopt it.
Location: Portland, OR, USA

Remote: Yes, remote or hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Bash, C, Lua, Linux

Resume/CV: https://pastebin.com/FnUt0cw9

Email: cameronking@protonmail.com

Gotta get a job so I can buy food for my cat.

Everyone likes me. I work hard until I burn out. Use me with intention, but... please use me because I need to get a job so I can buy food for my cat. I can learn any language in a weekend, I can bang on Linux computers until they work, and I'm cripplingly honest and kind and I won't deceive you or try to hide.

Interested primarily in back-end roles.
Any chance there's some way, going forwards, to dual-purpose these webserver PoW's, so they solve some socially beneficial compute problem at the same time? I recall reading ideas like that in the early days of cryptocurrency, before humans ruined it.

- Server: here's a bit of a cancer protein

- Client: okay, here's some compute

- Verifier: the compute checks out

- Server: okay, you are authorized to access cat.gif
Ok, I don't like that mess too
this is really cool but something I would want to self-host, especially for pastebin.
The irony is that what appears to be the update which messed me up was to introduce cloud sync.
Yes, and then the next two mods could be "heck" and "gosh"! Maybe "dadgummit" if the powers-that-be are feeling spicy. :-)
Wouldn't be surprised at all if Nintendo was getting ahead of tarriffs. Would also explain the region locking coming back for Switch 2.
Dan and Tom can speak to this, but by my reading of the guidelines, "criticism of the current administration" and "views on topics like gender" are both explicitly prohibited:

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

It has nothing to do with being on the side of "the opposition" or "the man," it's because those sorts of posts inevitably lead to the same, repetitive, off-topic debates and flame wars.

Flagging should be used as a cudgel against posts that break the rules. There are plenty of places on the internet to debate politics and gender; HN is not one of them.
> What on earth makes you think that the same engineers responsible for fluid and smooth UI/UX are the ones who’d ever influence the cryptography/privacy/security?

Did you even read my comment? I gave an example of how privacy directly impacts UX: GMail couldn't automatically add your events to your calendar if it could not read the content of your emails. I never talked about engineers, just the technical reality. If you don't have it, you can't read it. That seemed absolutely obvious to me: the best UX for a car would be one that doesn't need a source of energy, fits in my pockets and instantly teleports me anywhere I want. Go ask your engineers to make a car that allows that perfect UX, and see how they react.

Telegram has no E2EE except for the secret chats. Last time I checked, the secret chats were not synchronized between devices (i.e. the privacy has an obvious impact on the UX).

So no, I don't think it was an odd comment. It just feels like you don't know how it works technically.
My point mostly that you're probably not actually close friends with people you can't discuss politics with. And if you are, then you are interested in different types of friendships than I am.
I paid $90 US for Bart Vs The Space Mutants around that time. I think Street Fighter 2 CE for Genesis was $80 around 1993? Different times for sure.
Show HN: OpenAPI access to SaaS/PaaS/IaaS for your LLMs. No more MCP clutter.
Hey all, we built a search engine for LLMs to easily find and use APIs from different vendors.

Our initial release supports GitHub, Cloudflare, Bunny, Supabase, Box, Koyeb, Render, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode, Stripe, & Plaid.

In the homepage we provided one-click demos with digitalocean, cloudflare, stripe, and github.

Why we built this:

- We want LLMs to adapt. Usual approach is to hard-code the tools / actions they can do. We built this so LLMs can search and execute actions on the fly.

- We want to reduce redundancy. Writing MCP layers on top of OpenAPI specs brings in coverage limitations and versioning drifts. We built this so LLMs can have direct access to OpenAPI specs.

- We want to be more efficient. Entire OpenAPI specs from large vendors won't fit in context windows. We built this so they can just find what the exactly need and be able to use it.

Think of it like Google, but instead of finding information, it's for finding actions that your LLMs can execute.

You can read more info at homepage on https://uncomplexities.com/.

The usage instructions for LLMs are at https://api.uncomplexities.com/.

Our homepage demo, it's claude 3.7 instructed with "You MUST use the Uncomplexities API to correctly format our REST API operations. Read the usage instructions at https://api-cdn.uncomplexities.com/ or https://api.uncomplexities.com/ before we interact with any SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS."

Currently our goal is to provide a free public search engine of all saas/paas/iaas that has public-facing apis. thankfully cdns are a thing and we have some internal caches in place for the search operations so we can manage the costs.

We have more plans soon:

- open source core parts of it including pre-processed datasets

- add more usage guide for user and for developers

- improvements in indexing and search

- commoditizing some of the compliments, trying to build a business on top of it so we can sustain the free public stuff

please give us your feedback, thank you
Then we disagree on the value of Wikipedia. "History" has historically been written by those in positions of power and is biased by that. It feels very much in line with Wikipedia's value proposition of being a "free source of history" that they are trying to improve equity and unbias that source by adding more underrepresented voices. Funding racial equity programs seems a reasonable way of achieving that.

This thread (public link: https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579776106034757633) mostly suggests that is where that funding is going. It also picks on a few specific cases and positions them as bad, but given that the thread is written from the standpoint that racial equity is bad, I'm not inclined to take the couple of cherry picked examples at face value. There are valid reasons to critique them.
I think I'd rather have the extinguisher near the door.

If you are outside, it does not tempt you to cross the room. If you are inside, you run for the door, and then turn around and decide if maybe you should just keep running.
Why not? Public broadcast TV stations want to be viewed, just like web radio streams!

That said, the first one I tried (a German public broadcaster) was showing a static image of “this programme is currently unavailable for legal reasons”. (I believe they do IP-based geofencing for legal/broadcasting rights reasons.)
This is my biggest complaint about AI.

Instead of creating easy-to-navigate help sections of the website, and explaining the product and everything clearly, the flashy vendors simply put everything behind an opaque model as if that's somehow better.

Then you have to guess what to type to get the most basic info about fees, terms and procedures of a service.

You want to see how the Pros are doing it? Well, they're not using any AI! Tesla, for example, still has a regular PDF and a regular section-based manual (in HTML) where you can read the details about your car.

$TSLA is priced as being the most innovative auto manufacturer, and they're clearly proficient with the AI (Autopilot/FSD), yet when it comes to user's manual, clearly they're following the same process as all the legacy automakers always have had (besides not hiding the PDF behind a parts paywall, and having an open-access HTML version of the manual, too, of course). Why? Because that actually works!
Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations
> Being the devil's advocate

Honestly, just don’t. The world doesn’t really need hypothetical antagonism anymore.
I didn't critique their security model, I said you wanting greater convenience to exfiltrate keys and documents, even if its to a system that is more secure for you, is not arguing for better security and privacy in their product.