skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant quote from the article:

“A preliminary report by the N.T.S.B. found that a helicopter and a commercial plane nearly collided at least once a month near Reagan from 2011 to 2024, raising concerns about how the F.A.A. had overlooked such a hazard at one of the nation’s busiest airports.”

Wow.
I think comparing US politicians and Chinese politicians in this way is very disingenuous. Our political systems are incredibly different on a foundational level.

And to further make the point, the US has been the center of innovation for decades. There’s a reason Silicon Valley is in the US. Other countries are catching up, but wasn’t that always to be expected?
“ Okay. So the abundance agenda calls for an expert-laden, big-government apparatus to build high-speed rail, and a lean skeleton crew that outsources all the key logistics and execution layers to the private sector for a mass vaccination campaign. It’s difficult to detect a usable framework here.”

Having read about 4 different critiques of the book, this maybe closest to a well thought out one. However, it still gives in to the hyper-partisan times looking for a straightforward template to apply in every situation when actually “it depends” is the right answer.

How to build quickly and efficiently while managing everyone’s expectation is tricky business and not every situation will fall neatly under left-right (big government or small government?!) dichotomies!

The core thesis is to optimize to build quick not for some consistent politics du jour.
it's not different in the US, there is not a market of misinformation about WWII here. There is the the anti-war left alleging that that the allies committed war crimes and their opponents rejecting those arguments, but it's easy to find what happened in Dresden, Holocaust, etc, the disagreement is on interpretation.
Could be database migrations?
What nearby available AP could possibly have open access in 2025?

For real, I haven't seen an "Open" Wifi network that wasn't a Coffee shop or Airport in over 10 years.

Yes, it's insidious and evil, but I'd argue the attack surface is almost nonexistent in 2025.
My beard isn't long enough to understand any of this.

Is Sonic a reference to crass commercialism, the diminished attention span of young people, or the iteration speed of the platform?
not since they binned 2.7
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I mean, it's hardly surprising CloudFlare will tell you this is a useful product. But it is to securing a web application what regex is to parsing HTML.
Could you recommend a usb CD drive for ripping audio CDs? A local library that I frequent has an extensive jazz collection and I'd like to rip it before they remove it, as I think it's just a matter of time before they do so.
> Thing is, it's not even "too much theory".

I would agree with you. I feel like watching videos where someone goes "hey, so here's this pattern that completely unlocks the neck for you, don't be stuck in a box anymore!" and all they're showing you is where the various notes in a key are along the neck (now I know that, but I wouldn't have known that before...) and it's WAY more confusing than if you just learn how the pentatonic scale works and how to find the notes in a key etc. And the funny thing is, the only reason I was stuck in that box in the first place is because of silly rote memorization without understanding why you play the various notes in a scale etc., it just feels like this thing that kind of compounds when you just learn patterns vs. just learning the underlying principles.

But again, I'm completely amateur at this stuff still, and I don't have any experience teaching other folks an instrument, so it's hard for me to say with any certainty that we should be teaching it one way or another I guess.
At one point my store "does not exist". That's some poorly planned migration.
Sort of like the first debugging tip here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682602
Reference: https://c9x.me/compile/bib/ubc.pdf#page=4

Both the parent comment and the referenced paper fail to mention the out-of-bounds access of d[16]. At best, the paper says:

> The compiler assumed that no out-of-bounds access to d would happen, and from that derived that k is at most 15 after the access

Here is my analysis. By unrolling the loop and tracing the statements and values, we get:

k = 0; dd = d[k];
k is 0; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 1; dd = d[k];
k is 1; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 2; dd = d[k];
k is 2; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 3; dd = d[k];
k is 3; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 4; dd = d[k];
k is 4; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 5; dd = d[k];
k is 5; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 6; dd = d[k];
k is 6; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 7; dd = d[k];
k is 7; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 8; dd = d[k];
k is 8; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 9; dd = d[k];
k is 9; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 10; dd = d[k];
k is 10; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 11; dd = d[k];
k is 11; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 12; dd = d[k];
k is 12; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 13; dd = d[k];
k is 13; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 14; dd = d[k];
k is 14; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 15; dd = d[k];
k is 15; k < 16 is true; loop body; ++k; k is 16; dd = d[k]; OUT OF BOUNDS!

As long as we enter the loop, the loop must eventually execute undefined behavior. Furthermore, every instance of testing `k < 16` is true before we hit UB. Therefore it can be simplified to true without loss of functionality, because after we hit UB, we are allowed to do absolutely anything. In my ancestor post where I said that any mistake, no matter how small, can have unbounded consequences, I fully mean it and believe it.

Please stop blaming the compiler. The problem is buggy code. Either fix the code, or fix the language specification so that wild reads either return an arbitrary value or crashes cleanly at that instruction.

Note that we cannot change the spec to give definite behavior to writing out of bounds, because it is always possible to overwrite something critical like a return address or an instruction, and then it is literally undefined behavior and anything can happen.

> I mean thats just sort of nuts, how do you loop over an array then in an UB free manner?

The code is significantly transformed, but the nasty behavior can be prevented by designing code that does not read out of bounds! The trick is that the test `k < 16` must be false before any attempt to read/write `d[k]`. Which 99.99% of programmers get right, especially by writing a loop in the standard way and not in the obtuse way demonstrated in the referenced code. The obvious and correct implementation is:

for (int k = 0; k < 16; k++) {
int dd = d[k];
satd += dd < 0 ? -dd : dd;
}

The fact that the SPEC code chose to load `d[k]` before checking that `k` is still in bounds is an overly clever, counterproductive "jumping the gun" tactic. Putting assignment statements into indexing expressions is also needless obfuscation (which I untangled in the unrolled analysis).
300-700 years is still many many generations. Remember waste will continue to be produced, during this time.

It’s not a simple fix :)
You’re not wrong, and that’s by design. Laws entrench power of those wealthy enough to afford competent lawyers, and thus build a system of rules that increases their advantage at the expense of others. Thus we have a society whose laws make it exceedingly easy to solely focus on profit per quarter, and impossibly difficult to plan or execute on a longer timeline (e.g., government policy). There’s always another election to campaign on, a scandal to dust up, a controversy to stir. Nothing gets done, apathy rises, and the empire wanes until - often suddenly - the floor falls out beneath it and the whole thing collapses.

Societies require vision of a future, something engineers are apt at creating. Empires require labyrinths of laws to entrench power, which lawyers excel at litigating. A thriving country requires both to be balanced, such that its benefits are distributed to all.
This is a downright weird review. The crux of the complaint against Klein's book is that it's about values and avoids specific policy prescriptions. The lack of those policy arguments leads the reviewer to question Klein's commitment. But there's nobody in all of American political discourse that complaint falls more flat on than Ezra Klein.

The review draws a comparison between Abundance and Marc Andreesen's "Time To Build" essay, for... no discernible reason. It then points out that pmarca was ultimately hypocritical about building (he opposed development in his own town, of Atherton). I don't understand what that has to do with anything. Klein is a YIMBY. So am I. I spent my spare time working to clear the way for multifamily housing to get built right next door to my own. What the fuck do I care what pmarca did?

I think that, to understand this review, you have to understand the internal dynamics of the Democratic coalition. Progressives (the left of the party) hate Klein, and, for reasons passing understanding, the YIMBY movement writ large. The progressives have a prescription for rehabilitating the national coalition: massive public spending programs and single-payer health care. Klein and Thompson advocate for a different strategy: building a track record of demonstrated competence, and stanching/reversing the outflow of residents from blue states to red states that actually build housing. That there might be a strategy that doesn't involve a progressive takeover of the state and national parties is a problem for the movement; hence: stuff like this.

You'll see the same thing happening with Matt Breunig and Malcolm Harris' reviews, posted upthread.
Anil Dash on what DOGE really means. Procurement Capture [0]

> Tycoons don't like any game that's not rigged in their favor. And right now, government spending at the federal level is mostly controlled by an agency called the General Services Administration, which oversees procurement. Is it complicated? Sure! Sometimes the complexity is for the same reasons that processes are inefficient around the office at your job, and that's frustrating. But sometimes it's good, because they're trying to make sure nobody is buying $800 hammers. It's not perfect, and it's overly complex, but it is not totally captured by the richest guys in the world right now.

> Now, imagine you were a tycoon who is also a defense contractor that is trying to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of military equipment to the government, and you know that the procurement process requires them to go with the lowest bidder. But, since you're a dude with hundreds of billions of dollars, it doesn't seem fair that the system isn't even more rigged in your favor. How would you "fix" this system? Well, you'd have to capture procurement, so that it was rigged to only buy stuff from you and your friends, at whatever price you guys want. And if it could screw your competitors along the way, and punish them for not kissing your ass? That would be a bonus.

[0] https://www.anildash.com//2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-captur...
The Phone Book of the Internet
This isn't the same though. With EventTarget, if one of the callback throws, the later callbacks would still get called. With yours the later callbacks don't get called.
Yeah. Thanks for saying this. Please let be the real sciences real that have propelled the humanity forward with painstakingly detailed analysis by peer reviews and what not.

Let's keep AI for vibe coding, cat images and memes etc.
>The switch to [ZFS on Linux] as upstream

https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/eurobsdcon/jude-the_future_o...
Current waste takes tens of thousands of years to stop being radioactive. Until then we need to hide it from all living life. In the meantime we continue to create waste.

We are getting better shrinking from thousands to a single thousand.. but we still create waste while we argue where to store the new waste.

It doesn’t scale.
I've come to loath Mark Andreessen as just an out-of-date reactionary who cannot take it that culture around him has moved on. Apparently he is also big hypocrite:

> Two years after Marc Andreessen published “It’s Time to Build,” The Atlantic’s Jerusalem Demsas uncovered that Andreessen’s town of Atherton, CA had planned to do just that — build multifamily homes! — but was met with ferocious opposition from, well, a venture capitalist by the name of Marc Andreessen. As he and his wife wrote in a letter to the mayor and town council:

>> Subject line: IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development!
>> I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton … Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July. They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic.
I just started reading it, but the housing part of it is spot on, something I know very well from years of working to try and make my city and state's housing situation better.

The effects of the housing shortage are very real and something that can absolutely be worked on at the local and state level.

Not enough housing means:

* Longer commutes, which means more CO2, less time with friends and family, more stress, and more sprawl.

* People don't move to where the opportunities are any more.

* People do move there, but age out when they want to have a family and there's no appropriate housing.

The 'Abundance' idea is kind of vague. It makes for a good slogan, but the housing part of it is sorely needed, and it's one of the very rare issues in this day and age in the US that's not completely partisan.
There is a Linux driver for ZFS.
> No unimpacted areas of service

That's poor phrasing with the double negative, but I think it means everything is affected.
Litigiousness is actually fine. We just need to prioritize building more courts, making smaller districts, etc . The law doesn't have to be slow.
It’s an equally bad solution. Let’s learn from our mistakes yeah? :D
The photos show soldering to Li-ion battery terminals. Doesn't that cause internal heat damage as opposed to spot welding?
Fascism and white supremacy aren't interchangeable terms. The formal definition has refined, although the colloquial usage hasn't kept up.

Check out this summary of Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism essay, with 14 characteristics of fascist movements/regimes.

https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the...

Like many diagnostic criteria, it's not sufficient to only check one or two of the boxes. It's also worth being honest and examining the aspects of American culture that have made it particularly susceptible to fascism.
From another good review of the book:

> “One of the personally amusing aspects of reading Abundance is that it kept reminding me of a two-hour discussion I had with Ezra Klein in 2019 about Medicare for All. […] In our discussion, Klein balked at making Medicare for All the centerpiece of a Democratic health care agenda because he thought it was not politically practical. […] At one point in the discussion, he asks how would I overcome employer opposition to the change, and I responded that we will just have to beat it, which he clearly did not find persuasive.

> “It’s not hard to imagine having the same conversation about Abundance but with the roles reversed. Whatever the merits of their proposals, Klein and Thompson are pushing an agenda that requires direct confrontation with many powerful, entrenched constituencies.”

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/the-abundanc...
Show HN: Perplexity for Scientific/Academic Research
Both advocate deregulation and increasing economic growth.

Of course you can debate the difference at the margin ad nauseam, something the authors are doing more authoritatively than you and I could on every single podcast on the planet, trying hard to differentiate themselves from libertarians that preceded them decades ago. I remain unconvinced.
> basically advocating for and co-opting many of the core economic ideas of the current administration

That seems laughable. Which policies specifically are you talking about? Trust me, no one would more like this to be true than I. But... good grief.
I like Ezra Klein a lot. But what’s odd about his Abundance theory is that he can’t bring himself to admit that nowhere in the U.S. comes closer to what he’s describing than Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon’s California.

The tragedy of muscular-government urbanism today is that it’s stuck in a political coalition with toxic empaths that will fill your nice public spaces with drug addicts, criminals, and illegal aliens. They won’t let you have nice public spaces until you first fix poverty, drug addiction, racism, and the economies of Latin American and Middle Eastern countries.
I know Dave was still trying to figure out exactly how Starlink worked, and how he could help with its performance characteristics, at least two years after that talk, as he sent me a draft of a document related to that.
Another review: https://thebaffler.com/latest/whats-the-matter-with-abundanc...
I don't laugh but it is an interesting idea. Most of the theoretical physics starts that way and then gradually verifying such assumptions with great care and experimentation over multiple generations of scientists.
hey Bill, may I ask what happened to the recent senior backend role? Looks like the posting just disappeared after only few days.
DCA is used by Washington VIPs.
Very convenient for anyone working for or with the federal government.
They really don't want to be inconvenienced by the distance to Dulles or BWI,
and have kept the airport open despite rising risks.
any CD-R drive can do that, and they are dirt cheap (you should only say CD for audio which refers to audio output rather than the audio CDs themselves) CD-R drives can read audio CDs.

so can DVD-R drives with computer interfaces.
Could we just print using yellow paper to make the dots indistinguishable from the background?
Concerning zoning laws, when my father built his house, he really had to be clever in order to dodge the local county's regulations.

1. He had to hire a biologist to convince the county inspectors that the property was not wetlands.

2. The county claimed that he couldn't put in a driveway due to regulations, but my dad found an old satellite image archive, which showed there was a prexisting logging road from decades earlier. This was a loophole that allowed him to install the driveway.

So much of the housing crisis is caused by overregulation, at least in my home state of Washington.
if one listener throws it will break the entire channel
Because of when they were born.
I've only read maybe 30 pages of the book, but I think the article misses the point (I hope) the book is making: there are regulations that serve a purpose, and regulations that don't, and we can, to at least some extent, tell the difference based on the regulations themselves or their impact on past projects.

If that's true, then we can shed regulations, speed the process of government, and make it more effective at actually doing things.

It might be difficult to tell which regulations are causing problems, or which are needless, or maybe that's not the point of the book; but criticizing the book for not pre-identifying exactly which regulations need to end seems overly demanding: we first need to agree that there are needless regulations that slow progress. If the book helps us reach that conclusion, it's served a purpose.

Also, as a small nit: "even a positive-sum world contains winners and losers." That needs cites I think. I'm sure there's someone in the U.S. who is worse off than a 15th century peasant, but there are precious few of them, too few to use that phrase to describe them.
This is great. Is there a version of this that does p2p off-grid messaging?
Use cases from:
1. Coordination between group members during camping in the wilderness. A mesh solution that works across iOS and Android would be ideal but mesh isn't a hard requirement either.
2. Messaging within a group who's flying together but across different seats/sections at cruising altitude in a long haul flight.
NIMBY-ism vs YIMBY-ism isn't some margin difference. It's Klein's whole thesis.
That $140B is a very concrete number with documentation to back up all 7279 line items in great detail. Nearly 1000x more than this $200M Cybertruck inventory. So yes, peanuts compared to the waste and fraud they've found. Your somewhat unrelated claim about the IRS is from a pay-walled source, and one that is historically rather biased against conservatism I might add. Are they claiming that the reduction in force reduced audits or something which somehow equates to $500B? I'd like to see equally detailed evidence for their claim.
While I don't disagree, issue is that this is something that was Jobst's responsibility for presenting to dispute Mitchell's evidence of having been harmed due to the allegation to have driven someone to suicide.

It's disappointing to Jobst credibility, especially since I remember Jobst hyping up/bragging about the court case as an easy slam dunk for Jobst.
Outsourcing WAF is a double-edged sword.

I would have thought a large company like GitHub or Microsoft can have their own WAF team for their apps.

(NPM is owned by GitHub, and GitHub is owned by Microsoft)
Possibly. There's nothing more scary than database migrations.

What you assume about your staging might not hold true for your production.
> Is there some external factor?

Only if you consider the systemic economic inequities the US has accumulated since the Reagan era "external factors"
Bezier curves (the regular kind) cannot represent circles and ellipses, this is true. However, rational Bezier curves can [1]. I don't know if PostScript has a rational Bezier primitive, but some drawing libraries do. A prominent example of a library that does is Skia, the rendering engine behind Chrome and Android.

[1] - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Rational_B%C...
Sixty Seconds of How Compute-Storage Decoupling Saves Costs [video]
We also created fixi, which is sort of preact to htmx’s react:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi

a goal of fixi is to be smaller uncompressed than preact is compressed, to force us to be minimalist
The Case Against Collaboration (2022)
Feel free to act outraged. I am not going to further debate this charged topic. The authors are literally on every podcast trying to contrast themselves from various aspects of DOGE or deregulation and ideas that came before from Peter Thiel et al. That proves the point is not as far-fetched and crazy to debate, even if you disagree with the conclusion.
> 1. Understand the system: Read the manual, read everything in depth, know the fundamentals, know the road map, understand your tools, and look up the details.

Maybe? Although it seems more like it's actually #5:

> 5. Change one thing at a time: Isolate the key factor, grab the brass bar with both hands (understand what's wrong before fixing), change one test at a time, compare it with a good one, and determine what you changed since the last time it worked.

where in my imagined scenario, a student that just finished the lab successfully could pull out their DIP-8 device and swap in the author's to validate that it was possible to make it work in a known good environment.
It looks like a cheap mock-up for a sci-fi movie --- with quality, reliability and usability to match. It's a truck that just can't do what a truck is supposed to do.