skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's driven by a combination of cost/pricing and innovation. We're nowhere close to the limits of either battery or solar technology. We're looking at decades of further innovation, learning effects, etc. Assuming anything else would probably be a mistake. Many respectable reporting on energy falls into the trap of being too conservative. E.g. the IEA is a repeat offender on this. Many of their estimates for decades ahead get overtaken within years of being issued.

The real question is at what relative cost level it turns into an S-curve. Right now renewables are mostly cheaper than non renewables and transitioning to a lot cheaper. A lot might turn into one or more orders of magnitude. Where does it stop? Two? Three?

What's the ultimate cost of a mwh of power? It's probably a lot lower than what people currently pay. Renewables have a bit of upfront cost but the marginal cost of using the equipment is close to zero.

Lower cost of energy opens up new use cases and drives the market up. Basically it causes people to electrify more things. Even things that we currently think of as too costly. As those things get electrified, they get cheaper. And there are people that make the investment and benefit and people that don't and get pushed out of the market.
Penetration is practice, sanitation is basically use gloves and an autoclave.
My point wasn't that there are no naturally occurring harms, but that foods which on their own are otherwise considered safe may take on a different safety profile when altered depending on the nature of that alteration.

e.g. we're beginning to realize that eating highly processed meats on a regular basis can cause GI problems/cancer in the long run while eating some of the components individually and prepared differently does not.
FYI with pipefail enabled, if one of the pipes fails, your step will fail, there will be no error output, you won't know why it failed.

Pipefail also doesn't prevent more complex error states. For example this step from your config:

curl -L "https://github.com/casey/just/releases/download/${{ matrix.just-version }}/just-${{ matrix.just-version }}-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz" \
| sudo tar -C /usr/local/bin -xzv just

Here's the different error conditions you will run into:

1. curl succeeds, sudo succeeds, tar succeeds, but just fails to extract from the tarball. Tar reports error, step fails.

2. curl succeeds, sudo succeeds, tar fails. Sudo reports error, step fails.

3. curl succeeds, sudo fails. Shell reports error, step fails.

4. curl begins running. sudo begins running in a subshell/pipe. tar begins running under the sudo pipe, extracting half of the just binary. curl fails due to network error. Due to pipefail being enabled, shell exits immediately. There is no error message. A corrupt executable is left on-disk (which will be attempted to run if your step had failure-skipping enabled)
Seeing someone wearing a suit for a dev interview would make me think one of the following:

(1) This person really really needs the job. Probably is in a bad negotiation position, due to this urgent need.

(2) Are you here to impress people with looks, or with your skills?

(3) They take looks way more serious than they should, maybe not focussing enough on the technical side of things.

(4) Hopefully this is not an "EnTeRpRiSe software" developer, and if they are, hopefully they don't work on my team and if they are, hopefully my next up manager does not get blinded by fancy clothes, instead of technical reasoning.

That said, I would try to keep an open mind about the person, but they would be initially sorted into the category of managerial or close to management, rather than close to the other engineers, which is not a positive signal to send.
I mean, patents only apply in the nation where they're granted. So "ignoring" IP is just a matter of refusing to recognize foreign patents, which is something that all nations do implicitly.

Also, in most foreign countries, court cases are cheap. (They could literally be 100x cheaper to litigate than they would be in the US.)

If you're talking about in a US context specifically, then if absolutely necessary the federal government could either buy or nationalize the patents in dispute, just as all states nationalize land from time to time under eminent domain. Zvi recently wrote about this in the context of the state buying the Ozempic patent: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/sleep-diet-exercise-...

> [The US Government] should buy out the patents to such drugs.

> This solves the consumption side. It removes the deadweight loss triangle from lost consumption. It removes the hardship of those who struggle to pay, as we can then allow generic competition to do its thing and charge near marginal cost. It would be super popular. It uses government’s low financing costs to provide locked-in up front cold hard cash to Novo Nordisk, presumably the best way to get them and others to invest the maximum in more R&D.

> There are lots of obvious gains here, for on the order of $100 billion. Cut the check.
> stopped by a court because this counted as unfair competition with private entities

I came across this recently as well. This is one of the most insane aspects of our current zeitgeist.

In a world where VC unicorns and megacorps commonly engage in dumping behavior to coerce market share, public orgs still need to walk on eggshells so they don't outcompete the "uwu smol bean" private sector. Even when they are providing what could be considered a public good or necessity, like weather info. Totally insane.
Indeed. The deeply alien nature of MVS and its descendants is fascinating. It's not only a difference in commands, but also the underlying concepts that don't map cleanly to concepts we got used to in Unix and Windows that causes a lot of confusion. For instance, a TSO user being unable to log in from different terminals at the same time confused me a lot until someone told me TSO users are not the same as Unix users. Also, a VM is not the same as a VMWare VM.
Shoot yourself in the foot...guess we shouldn't have depended on that foot to walk for so long.
Fred Flintstone wasn’t just looking to work behind a desk though. He was looking for a promotion to management. In those days a desk job meant that you had some authority. You had worked your way through the ranks and put in your time. It was a sign that the company values you and you would be taken care of. Gold wristwatches and all that.

Plenty of people still work in the data entry mines, even though that’s a desk job. In a lot of ways being an Uber driver about as cushy as a desk job in terms of physical demand on the body, but it certainly isn’t a status position.
This is the big question. Will the new normal be feature bloat/enshittification in 1/10 the time? Or 10x speed of refactoring to evolve more rapidly? Or 10x the number of crappy apps and marginal SaaS offerings?

We're still in the hype side of the cycle, where there are some successes but lots of inconclusive struggle, and employers like mine forbid the tools out of IP and security concerns. If the tools prove their worth, there'll be a shrinking of developer ranks. Email shrank the mail room, web sites shrank the printing business, robots shrank the skilled manufacturing base.
Start going to tradeshows for every possible industry you can think of, and bring resumes.

People who network in person almost always have an advantage compared to people with similar qualifications who sit at home and send out resumes.

You are guaranteed to make more connections if you speak to people at the booths. If you take a genuine curiosity in what they do there's usually something interesting to talk about.
> Machine tools are not designed by extremely skilled machinists

But they're built by extremely skilled machinists. I've practiced engineering for decades but I wouldn't even want to be in the same room as any object I've personally made being spun up the first time.
okay then tax and redistribute, don’t try to pick winners and do stupid industrial policy that makes everyone poorer.
Where is the disconnect between the US being the #2 manufacturer in the world and my sense of doom and gloom about Trumps trade-war attack on our trading partners?

I suspect it's this:

> Advanced manufacturing technology development can be found throughout the United States. In Indiana for example, Rolls Royce, which makes jet engines, employs thousands of engineers. Zimmer Biomet makes surgical products in Warsaw, Indiana, a city that has become a national hub for orthopedic products.

So much of what I buy as an individual is imported. My fruit comes from South America, my electronics come from Asia, my outdoor equipment comes from Canada (and the raw fabrics probably sourced from China).
Whether it is correct or not (I don’t know), that statement was based on current apparent (again, correct?) political realities, not ethnicity or race.
What's the point of what?
Question is what domain/field is the next virgin frontier for hackers, unspoiled of commercial greed and integrated and locked down solutions, where you can still not only buy things but also own them, and rebuild from parts what you bought when it breaks down?
It would take you 10+ years of skilled labor savings in any case to afford a homestead capable of sufficient farming and hunting output to sustain a family. Because you are competing not with homesteaders but rich professionals or pensioned .gov retirees who want some escape from the pollution/crime/cramp of the city.

Even if all of US became homesteaders this would likely still be at least a little bit the case, because foreigners would simply buy the property instead. Take a look at places like Spain, Portugal, etc and the high land prices are based on global competition not vs the low local wages.
Counterpoint: The only people who voted for Harris more than Biden were old white people (especially old white women).

The biggest shift towards right wing authoritarianism from a demographic perspective is among the young (specifically young brown/black men in America). This is happening globally at a rapid and unprecedented pace.

Get ready for a conservative, violent, radicalized youth. A Clockwork Orange but with 4chan like characteristics.

I'm not pessimistic about Boomers anymore. They're becoming teddybears as they age.
And you do realise these are long-term investments by pension funds and governments right?

You aren’t actually getting paid with the actual money invested, they usually already calculate with 108-110% coverage, and already assume life-long coverage with an average far exceeded average lifespan, precisely to take this into account
It would be nice if it worked in Brave when Brave Shields are up. The Atlantic seems to load an absurd amount of trackers, even for paid subscribers.
The unions got crushed, when the sovyeet union caved in. There main negotation power was the threat of a takeover by a of a viable economical alternative. It was just a illusion though..
You missed independent search engine Mojeek (UK), and which Kagi uses.
I found surprising that IBM's CMS had commands like "DIR" and "TYPE".
But do we have concrete examples of what they actually provide and how do they compare to the three majors public cloud providers?

For example I can't tell if they have serverless offerings (particularly FaaS)

Their public facing website is very similar to OVH or Scaleway

Their Terraform provider is... not reassuring

I guess from your username that you may have more intel about them, so I'm interested!
If you are trying to advance your career, I feel prepping for interviews is probably the number one most important thing you can do, unless you are freakishly gifted at acing interviews with no prep.
His homepage is also a wealth of information:
https://sites.google.com/view/ernietech/home
Direct government investment in new firms is politically complicated in the US, I think. Also, yeah, execution could be a problem. There'd need to be some sort of compliance mechanism to ensure that people don't just take the money and buy fancy cars. At the same time, it can't be too heavy-handed, or bureaucratic checks-and-balances will bog down the entire program and destroy any momentum it might have had.
Kagi is not independent: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

Disclaimer: I work at Brave.
> slopper

new 2025 slang just dropped
Wealth inequality seems like completely perpendicular subject. What does on shoring lower paying jobs and ballooning the cost of goods do to help that?
Anything to help people move away from dependence on Microsoft Windows.
I'm concerned about the glut of hardware incompatible with W11- now is a great time to switch to Linux Mint Debian Edition, for one great example. When I played games, including via Steam, it worked great, except for ones with uncooperative anti-cheat, in which case I didn't care because it was just another nail in the coffin of using games as self-medication (this may not be the most common use-case).

Keep in mind the opportunity cost of playing games beyond "wind-down" time. Raising a kid gave my life more meaning and helped me get out of the compulsive gaming. It's nice to not be drugged with bread and circuses anymore.
Theoretically it would work without this permission but it wouldn't be convenient: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice/discussions/362
>As if Godwin's Law, it amuses me how not a single animal intelligence discussion on HN goes without a Children of Time reference, which has a race of uplifted animals the article mentioned - in this case crows

At the time of writing this comment, there is not a single reference to Children of Time in this thread other than the one you have added.
I think maybe with two people working a blue collar job that is much more realistic objective, once better wealth distribution has been figured out.
I literally have no idea what you are talking about. Declarative languages are great for specifying these sorts of things.
> The state of the art (and has been for eons) is hand scraping

No, it absolutely is not. Optics machine tools make things flat and accurate within a few atoms. Cheap surface plates are more precise than any human could hope to achieve by hand.

Hand scraping is remarkable- skill can get you ~micron cutting depth. It would be totally obsolete except that the rough crosshatch pattern it creates is useful for retaining oil. Modern tools, especially the most precise tools, are not hand scraped. Cheap clone knee mills are hand scraped. Single-point diamond cutters run on air bearings with no oil, because the oil gap in plain ways is too large.

Hand scraping is thoroughly limited by the viscosity of the marking fluid. You identify high spots by painting a flat blue and rubbing it on another flat part. If the whole surface rubs off then you can't tell where to scrape. The fluid does not spread out in single atom thickness.
> I am certain there are good people in North Korea but it would be hard to figure folks allegiances. A lifetime of propaganda can really do something to the mind.

What sources have taught you about life in Korea?
>So "ignoring" IP is just a matter of refusing to recognize foreign patents, which is something that all nations do implicitly.

That's not true at all. US companies register patents in all foreign jurisdictions as well. It wasn't legal for Chinese companies to copy all that US IP, they were just able to do it because to stop them, our diplomats would have basically had to persuade the Chinese government not to develop.
Huh. It actually is ASCII and not EBCDIC. I didn't know ASCII block mode terminals existed:

https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/IBM_3151

https://www.ardent-tool.com/3151/
The state always could go after your family, but it seems like some are much better at not doing that than others.

The state is a coercive institution, but seeing how Australia is a liberal democracy with a constitution I would want to see some actual proof of threatening families.
I find it absolutely wild that he did it in just his grundies.
i think that the factor determining which jobs get usurped by AI first isn't going to be based on the cognitive difficulty as much as it is about robotic difficulty and interaction with the physical world.

if you job consists of reading from a computer -> thinking -> entering things back into a computer, you're on the top of the list because you don't need to set up a bunch of new sensors and actuators. In other words… the easier it is to do your job remotely, the more likely it is you’ll get automated away
> What if there are no open positions on my experience and I have to pivot to another completely different tech stack that I studied in my spare time? What then? Should I be unemployed?

If you studied and worked with the tech in your free time, you can say so, and show your work. If not, this is the same as lying anywhere else. What if I want to perform brain surgery, but I'm not qualified? Should I be unemployed? Of course I should, as far as brain surgery goes, but there are other jobs out there I can do while I train.

> We're still taking about SW engineering here, not medicine or rocket science.

SW engineering is a critical component of both medicine and rocket science, and doing it wrong can kill people. Beyond that, you'd be harming others by taking the job from someone who put in the work to actually be qualified, and harming your future coworkers by deceiving them.

So the real answer to your question depends on how much you value other people and your principles, compared to valuing yourself and getting what you want. If you don't want to wrestle with that, just add some personal projects to your personal studying.
Yes, I'm in the same situation. The majority of my work is on private repositories, even though I've contributed to public repositories for many years. This tool wouldn't accurately reflect my current skills.
The "retreat" (in which direction) from the "current situation" (US richest country in the world, as they keep reminding us "Europoors"). What's the US supposed to look like after this purge?
To me, the issue comes when something weird is going on in CI that isn't happening locally, and you're stuck debugging it with that typical insanity.

Yeah, it may be that you'll get the exact same versions of things installed, but that doesn't help when some other weird thing is going on.

If you haven't experienced this, well, keep doing what you're doing if you want, but just file this reflection away for if/when you do hit this issue.
Show HN: RankPoll – Ranked-choice polling with Condorcet analysis
> Well, I can vote so that the thing my government does to me is something I want.

You better hope that your interests closely align with those of millions of your compatriots.

And that no one with political power has a personal vendetta against you.
Nor have ill-spent credulity and breathless hype and been dismissed from journalism (generally).
Love the intentionality this introduces- will be sharing with my entire team!
C["have you tried turning it off and __ again?"]grats! [stinger]n p[bet against an outcome]ing it daily and really en[ode to ___]ing it.
> pays executives and shareholders from taxpayer

Maybe 2010-2024, but 2025 has seen CHIPS Act deprioritized in favor of foreign (e.g. TSMC $100B) investment in US manufacturing.
If you make a bad hire you stop looking to fill that role, and then if you fire them 2-3 months later you are back at square zero.
What happens if you miss-type the email or phone number when making a payment? Is there any confirmation of the persons name?
Does anyone understand the economics of private equity buying a company like Quartz only to dismantle it and sell off its parts? Aside from brand destruction, it seems like a difficult way to actually make money? I mean can an email list be _that_ valuable?
The number one most important thing you can do is to learn how to actually do the job. Your ability to pass interviews will follow from that. If the place you're applying to has an interview process that does not align well with the job, then you might not want to apply there -- they will be hiring a lot of people who are not a best fit for the role, and that's the environment you might end up working in.
None of these systems is global yet. We still have to get a physical card with a magnet, then enter the number of this card and its date of issue and another 3 digit number to the google wallet in order to pay with our phone . And now when i buy a sex toy, everyone including a girl in VISA, my bank, google , my tax service, they all have to know.
Show HN: HNSW index for vector embeddings in approx 500 LOC
Hi HN,

I built RankPoll (https://rankpoll.me) to solve the "where should we eat?" problem. My friends and I used StrawPoll, but it always devolved into strategic voting. People would pick their "safe" second choice instead of their actual preference to avoid splitting the vote.

While exploring alternatives, I found several ranked-choice polling sites using Instant Runoff or score voting. But after diving into voting theory, I became convinced that Condorcet methods were superior. These methods select the option that would win head-to-head against every other option (when such a "Condorcet winner" exists).

Key features:
- No account required
- Mobile-friendly drag-and-drop interface
- Real-time results with detailed analytics
- Compare results across multiple voting systems
- Full Condorcet analysis showing all pairwise matchups

We've been using it for a few months now to settle dinner debates, plan watch parties, and choose meeting times. The results have been great: no more strategic voting, and everyone feels their true preferences are properly considered.

I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially from those interested in voting theory or anyone who's faced similar group decision-making challenges.
I am waiting for when I could provide these a scene snippet from "Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy" (or any book) and it could draw that for me. The gold planets, the waking up on the beach, total perspective vortex etc.

I like the book, but there are quite a few scenes which are quite hard to visualize and make sense. An image generator that can follow that language and detail will be amazing. Even more awesome will be if it remains consistent in follow ups.
A16Z seeks to raise $20B megafund amid global interest in US AI startups
Reading the prompts reminds me of this interesting short story from Steven Millhauser called "Cat 'N Mouse"[1]

Would be really cool to just use this (or parts of it) as one of the prompts and see what results.

[1] - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/04/19/cat-n-mouse
Rural Trump voters should be quite happy about this. Financial fraud goes with voting fraud, they should be happy that it's inconvenient.
Great comment, and I love the thought process. My answer to the question: What is the difference? Humans and corporations are exceedingly predictable. We know what they both want, generally. We also rely on human issues as a limiting factor.

For an AI controlled corporation, I don't know what it wants or what to expect. And if decision making happens at the speed of light, by the time we have any warning it may be too late to react. Usually with human concerns, we get lots of warnings but wait longer than we should to respond.
As far as dynamic behavior, why can't you just do physics simulations?

From my understanding of chemistry you don't really need to model inner shell electrons at all. And you can get pretty far without needing quantum physics (e.g. "water is an electrical dipole" is a sufficient model, you don't need to think about the orbital structures of hydrogen and oxygen).
i hate this expansion of national security justification and securitization rhetoric - whether it is the US justifying tariffs or deportation or Brazilians justifying no fair play under the law or trying to jail presidential candidates.
Why would they do this rather than just raising the price?
I believe github used to have a service like this but they shut it down.
I wish Gitlab and Github provide a paid api with this metadata so talent sources can reach put people based on contribution and experience.