skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is work you can do to help end Apple's complicity (though Microsoft is directly participating in the genocide) - you can find the folks working on Apple here: https://applesagainstapartheid.com/
You work in the slop mines now.
In the mid 80s I used to pace the taking off B737s at Wellington, on the road next to the airport, on my CBX550F2 [1] and later on my K100RT. I could get to about 200 km/h before I had to slow for the corner. The planes were rotating at that point. The speed limit on that road is 50 km/h now, it was a little higher back then ... not enough obviously...

[1] https://hoult.org/cbx550.jpg
I've been saying for over a decade that crypto makes no sense for micropayments and the only reason traditional methods don't work is because they are run by rent-seeking middlemen like VISA.

Watching the Indian and Brazillian governements solve this problem by by building the payment networks themselves and removing the profit incentive has felt vindicating.
The proper way to do that is say, something like "Olivia (Matt)" and then continue. You use the preferred name, and if you need to refer to the deadname to disambiguate, you do it.

If you can avoid the need to disambiguate, you do that too. The name really is dead. You shouldn't use it if at all possible.
That's... not how things will roll out. Sure it looks nice on some paper diagram my 5 year old son could pop out, but reality is way, way more complex.

Also, here its US who is doing massive 'violations of international order'. You know which order I talk about? WTO for example, US is founding member, an org specifically designed and accepted to handle this. Various international agreements between close allies. And so on, news are full of whims of one bipolar old man stomping left and right.

What is actually and already happening is that US will lose a lot of customers world wide. That Amazon cloud or tesla car or weapons (machinists heh) or literally any other US product ain't so cool or even acceptable anymore. What will happen actually that rest of the world will replace US products. Not just government, but regular people. Nobody wants to drink US whiskey or wine anymore. Nobody wants any US product or service anymore.

If you think 4% of global population (and just 26% of global GDP) can on whims dictate lives of 96% of mankind by force, well, that's like your opinion man.
DWs recent doc showed fish thriving around offshore farms and high success rates of preventing bird strikes by painting the blades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3395_T1N-fo
Show HN: I built a 100% free Cursor rules generator
Alright, so doesn't that validate a lot of the feelings and opinions layed out in the OP? Have I broadened your worldview?
Lua has a sandboxed runtime so couldn't you kill rogue scripts after a timeout?
Sure that's a valid interpretation but it wasn't how I read it

> Both statements together are (enthusiasm + formal) > (enthusiasm without formal) > (formal without enthusiasm).

I don't think the last category (formal education without enthusiasm) really exists, I think it is a bit of a strawman being held up by people who are *~passionate~*

I suspect that without any enthusiasm, people will not make it through any kind of formal education program, in reality
That's awesome, congrats! I had a lot of fun solving today's puzzle.

One minor bit of feedback/request: maybe I'm too spoiled by code editors, but it would be nice to have a visual aid for identifying matching brackets -- maybe colorizing matching pairs ("rainbow brackets"), and/or a click-to-highlight feature that highlights the entire contents of a pair of braces for you. I felt like I was spending a lot of time trying to count bracket pairs, which made it hard to keep track of where I was in the puzzle and was less interesting than trying to solve the wordplay.
The average is probably between 10 and 20 years.

This is on top of an LCOE that is 5x that of solar or wind power and the need for catastrophe insurance to be provided essentially for free by the taxpayer on top of that.

(Fukushima cost about $1 trillion to clean up, the liability cap for US plants is about $250 million because otherwise private insurers who understand the risks better than you or I WILL NOT shoulder the liability)

The cost of nuclear can be dragged down by taking various risks that the people getting that sweet free catastrophe insurance would probably be happy with.
It can be easily gamed. The users are self-selected, and they have zero incentive to be honest or rigorous or provide good responses. Some have incentives the opposite way. (There was a report of a prediction market user who said they had won a market on Gemini models by manipulating the votes; LMArena swore furiously there had definitely been no manipulation but was conspicuously silent on any details.) And the release of more LMArena responses has shown that a lot of the user ratings are blatantly wrong: either they're basically fraudulent, or LMArena's current users are people whose ratings you should be optimizing against because they are so ignorant, lazy, and superficial.

At this point, when I look at the output from my Gemini-2.5-pro sessions, they are so high quality, and take so long to read, and check, and have an informed opinion on, I just can't trust the slapdash approach of LMArena in assuming that careless driveby maybe-didn't-even-read-the-responses-ain't-no-one-got-time-for-that-nerd-shit ratings mean much of anything. There have been red flags in the past and I've been taking them ever less seriously even as one of many benchmarks since early last year, but maybe this is the biggest backfire yet. And it's only going to get worse. At this rate, without major overhaul, you should take being #1 on LMArena seriously as useful and important news - as a reason to not use a model.

It's past time for LMArena people to sit down and have some thorough reflection on whether it is still worth running at all, and at what point they are doing more harm than good. No benchmark lives forever and it is normal and healthy to shut them down at some point after having been saturated, but some manage to live a lot longer than they should have...
It’s not at its worst ever. But many tech folks are coming off a period when they could waltz off one job into another in a week. That is not the norm for professional jobs. After dot-bomb the norm was lots of people left the industry forever and would you like does with that was not uncommon for many.
This automatic sense of entitlement to surveil users is the absolute embodiment of the banality of evil.

It's 2025 - we want informed consent and voluntary participation with the default assumption that no, we do not want you watching over our shoulders, and no, you are not entitled to covertly harvest all the data you want and monetize that without notifying users or asking permissions. The whole ToS gotcha game is bullshit, and it's way past time for this behavior to stop.

Ignorance and inertia bolstering the status quo doesn't make it any less wrong to pile more bullshit like this onto the existing massive pile of bullshit we put up with. It's still bullshit.
Not bad. That could work, but still the sentiment remains a bit elusive.

Yours does nail a couple strong elements to it.

It seems almost noble, or just is a celebration of quiet nobility. That is a part of it too.

I feel this is one of those times we would learn Germans have a dead on word like they often do.
> Depending on your workload there may be very good economical reasons to consider a mainframe instead of a number of rack-frames.

This may be true, but because there's basically no on ramp to running on a mainframe, there's no way anybody is going to try it unless they're already on a mainframe. Or maybe unless they really need something that only a mainframe can provide. But most companies can live with some downtime, and once you can live with some downtime, you have options for migration between sites, and options for migrating loads so you can swap parts on a stopped machine. Splurging on network infrastructure with multi-chasis redundancy is an easier step to take to get to a more reliable system than building against a totally different system architecture.
A similar scenario of a possible ancient industrial civilization on Earth was explored in a serious scientific paper not too long ago:

"The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...
Quantum Physics Is on the Wrong Track, Says Gerard 'T Hooft
That needs the help of AI to remove the background, and then maybe it'll be a cool picture.
200% of today's electricity consumption seems highly likely. Jevons paradox says that cheap electricity will increase consumption substantially.
One problem with this is my day job work (99.9% of my experience) isn't publicly posted and wouldn't be captured in the profile. The nature of my personal projects are significantly different than my job and result in different technologies being used to better fit the use case. Also, most of my personal projects are private and would be left out.

I guess this is just one more thing I feel is a barrier to equitable evaluation and hiring practices.
Mercurial had a prominent role in the creation myth. It didn't influence git, but it was there at the same time, for the same reason, and at one time, with an equal amount of influence. Bitbucket was once seen as fairly comparable to Github. People would choose git or hg for their projects with equal regularity. The users were familiar with both choices.

Linus never cared about hg, but lots of people that cared about git at one point would also be at least familiar with some notions from hg.
It's been typical for me to get hiring managers/interviewers who don't feel it's a good question format for the job (this might be a .NET/C# cultural thing though).

Since the day-to-day job rarely requires it, and I've gotten jobs without it, there's little incentive to change unless I want to.
I suspect elites will build a two-tiered AI system where only a select few get access to the cutting-edge stuff, while the rest of us get stuck with the leftovers.

They'll use their clout—money, lobbying, and media influence—to lock in their advantage and keep decision-making within their circle.

In the end, this setup would just widen the gap, cementing power imbalances as AI continues to reshape everything. UBI will become the bare minimum to keep the masses sedated.
I was generating pictures to use for a little game I made with my six and ten year old kids. They were so excited to see us go from idea to execution so quickly, they were laughing and we had a ton of fun. The only thing that disappointed me was I got throttled. We’d need to pay for API image gen to get it even faster.

I made a logo for an internal product that wouldn’t have had a logo otherwise at our company. I also make a lot of shitpost memes to my friends to trash talk in the long running turn based war game we’ve all been playing, like “make a cartoony image of a dog man and a Greek giant beating up a devil” and the picture it gave was just hilarious and perfect, like an old timey Popeye cartoon.

Two years ago I was spending three hours using local models like Stable Diffusion to get exactly what I wanted. I had to inpaint and generate 100 variations which would have been insanely expensive if I wasn’t powering it with my own hardware.

Now I get something good in minutes, it’s crazy really.
> how many developers log off at 5

Programming is an act of creation. Any creative worker - artists, sculptors, novelists, potters will agree, you cannot timebox your creation - it creeps back into your life even when you're away from your studio, from your desk.

I have worked in several different countries. With diverse teams of programmers of different levels of expertise. Different stacks, various types of industries. Most programmers are creators. Those who log off at 5, don't think about it and keep it separate from their lives are "office workers" at best - maybe not even programmers, I'm not sure what to call them. I met that kind of people only twice (with some stretching, maybe three times) during my work life. Both of them ended up switching to different roles later. So, yes, to a certain degree it is perhaps "an axiomatic quality" after all.
I'd like to provide you with some constructive feedback on your comment:

1. You should include what you think is interesting about the large language model's ability to solve the word puzzle. It's not obvious to me as a reader.

2. You shouldn't post the step-by-step solution to a puzzle, regardless of how it was derived. It's unlikely that anyone will read through it, and if they do, they're less likely to try the puzzle themselves.
Still a work in progress, so not much to tell.
It is a false cognafe, it's not pronounced "oo", but "ee". It's just onomatopoeia, that's why it's so similar.
I wish I remembered the series of math books that my school system used. It was during the "new math" movement. We learned about sets in first grade. Proofs were introduced fairly early. There were problems for which "no answer" was the correct answer.

If you could find a collection of the Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American, those were entertaining and required little background knowledge, but conveyed the fun of math.

Geometry is a good subject because it doesn't have very many prerequisites other than basic arithmetic, and the older textbooks were mostly about proofs. (Note I'm biased, proofs are what made math come alive for me).
https://www.unitree.com/g1/
16k humanoid robot
Very cool how some websites are still hunting for actual fun content and rewarding creators even in the middle of the internet's enshittification there are still a few bright spots
This graph might be more relevant: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...

The countries most talking about net-zero are indeed reducing their emissions. China is meanwhile trying to catch up to the standard of living of their Western counterparts, driving up emissions massively (while still having great per-capita values, there are just a lot of Chinese that previously lived on basically nothing)
"However, the prior Administration used the Justice Department to pursue a reckless strategy of regulation by prosecution."

Uh, what's the point of a regulation if you don't prosecute offenders?
Europe has SEPA payments. They are very fast and reliable, and separate from Swift.
16k humanoid robots
https://www.unitree.com/g1/
> I'm curious, as a software engineer when was the last time you've seriously worked under pressure?

Jetbrain's 2023 Developers’ Lifestyles survey states that around 29% of all developers work on weekends for work.

Having to work weekends is the last resort when working under pressure. Nearly 1/3 of all developers claim they are at that stage. No other profession has the concept of "crunch time".

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/lifestyle/
> If someone takes the code and builds a better business out of it so be it.

If that happens, hound them to hire you. Since you wrote it originally, you're the one who understands it the best. I expect that would make you an invaluable addition to their team.
How can I move along if EVERY online shop, mechanic, government body or school I tlak with NEEDS my email address to facilitate the contact, conversation or transaction?

What do you propose to these who are currently forced to provide email addresses to lead their daily lives uninterrupted?

And I'm not asking for the example appropriate for the primary school aged child or a senior living in the care home.

Just examples for the normal human adults.
If you are curious what it sounds like

https://youtu.be/cLOh9byyl1k?feature=shared
Whenever one of these well known gotcha prompts gets "solved" the question is always whether they actually solved the underlying reason it used to fail, or did they just have a bunch of third-world workers tag pictures of horses and astronauts until the model started handling that specific example more reliably. As the saying goes, every measure which becomes a target becomes a bad measure.
Does this look like it's coming to a plateau of even a slowdown to you ? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuel-consumption-b...

> To keep global warming to no more than 1.5°C – as called for in the Paris Agreement – emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

Even if we stopped right now we'd need to be back to ~2000 co2 emissions by 2030, that's in 5 years. Even if we had 5 years of covid with the same restrictions as we had in peak 2020 we wouldn't reach that point...
Is there an alternate link? This is just an ad for their premium sub.
> in fact is the entire point of what we do

Pump the brakes there

You may have bought into some PMs idea of what we do, but I'm not buying it

As professional, employed software
developers, the entire point of what we do is to provide value to our employers.

That isn't always by delivering features to users, it's certainly not always by delivering features faster
Framework pauses sales on laptops it will make a loss on
A 2s spinning circle may indeed be better than a 500ms flashing reload. Try it on your mom (“waaah why did it flash??”).

I also dislike SPAs but there is business value in this slow spinner that you shouldn’t discount.

Luckily, turbo or htmx solve this just as well. And maybe even more importantly, I can’t think of a modern browser that still flickers.
Come on, US is rich, even compared to Europe. Sure, its just pure money and not happiness, health, safety, high quality education or healthcare availability but raw numbers are there.

It will get poorer economically in upcoming years thanks to gov moves, the wheels have been set in motion. Maybe dollar will tank so that my first sentence won't be valid anymore. Not sure it will be balanced with rest above though.
It's like I've always said about self driving cars. Self driving cars always seem around 5 years away, until suddenly they're 6 months away. There's no in between. We're seeing that with Waymo.
You can buy something marketed as Irn Bru, but it's not really Irn Bru. Real Irn Bru does not contain artificial sweeteners.
Trump Team Mulls Exporter Tax Credit as Tariff Counterweight
Yes, 10 million deaths per year from air pollution are extremely specious.
As soon as I saw "second rock from the", I knew the top-level answer was going to be "Venus". At first I felt frustrated that it wouldn't let me enter the solution, but if it had accepted that then I would have missed out on the rest of the puzzle. In retrospect, I felt like having to work backwards from "Venus" and "sun" to figure out the lower-level clues was much more interesting then if it had just let me skip those clues.
No the DWD is not allowed to provide a weather app I believe. Because it would compete with commercial apps. It offers an app which issues weather warnings though.
His position seems to be that Quantum Mechanics is a statistical description of what we observe not the underlying theory of what's actually happening. He also believes that superposition is a mathematical trick and not real.
> The 2025 trump-cession guarantees that CO2 emissions will drop in 2025.

I do not want to start a whole political tirade so the following is meant more as humor:

Wouldn't that be ironic. Trump's actions help curb global climate change and bankrupts billionaires.
What possible purpose would that serve
Or geographic interconnection. There hasn't been an hour in the past 30 years where there was no wind or sun somewhere in Europe.
Nothing on this website (HN) requires anything other than unstyled html text. Yet it has a somewhat charming style, I think.
We Improve Liquidity of Energy Markets
Unstoppable force meets 104% tariff...
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Six Months with ClickHouse at CloudQuery (The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected)
Yeah, why does an engine include something useless like *checks notes... "multiplayer?"
Correct. Telemetry should _always_ be opt-in and explicitly an easy choice to not engage.

Any other mode of operation is morally bankrupt.
Facebook is still much higher status than Amazon or IBM or any other company the people from my undergrad join after college
I think there's a tacit expectation to fit into a mold and that mold is heavily skewed towards extroverted neurotypical traits.
I guess yes? https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/
Solar is nowhere near hitting limits that will require storage to continue growth. Like it could double several more times globally and not require storage to still make sense to roll out more.

But, storage is already growing at a pace similar to solar because it's cheaper than the alternatives.
Correcting the blatant misinformation about the topic:

- PIX project started in 2016, public launch in 2020

- It was not "launched" by any President; the Brazilian Central Bank is an independent authority, with it own mandate, not a branch of the executive power

- PIX was co-developed with institutions of the financial sector

- It's a protocol that participants must implement, not an app. The specification is even on GitHub. I don't know what you mean by "its code is nowhere to be found".

- The Brazilian Central Bank is acknowledged as a benchmark, rather than "proverbially incompetent public work force"
I think he is referring to the fact that the photograph is actually a photo of the real motorcycle with the photo I meant to post behind it, at a museum.

"On display in the Midwest Dream Car Collection museum" reads the caption."

I can't find the original, but here is another photo he took at the time:

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/103e0a_ac1383d327534f359c...
I think Meta sees AI and VR/AR as a platform. They got left behind on the mobile platform and forever have to contend with Apple semi-monopoly. They have no control and little influence over the ecosystem. It's an existential threat to them.

They have vowed not to make that mistake again so are pushing for an open future that won't be dominated by a few companies that could arbitrarily hurt Meta's business.

That's the stated rationale at least and I think it more or less makes sense
I mean, I thought it was an interesting read... I'm sorry you didn't
Vitriol
Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it
For OTR trucks, you have to factor in the battery degradation. A OTR truck easily gets to 1 million miles on an engine. Often times significantly more, and then its only a rebuild, not a replacement. While electricity is much cheaper than diesel, battery replacement cost amortization is a real thing to include in the accounting. I haven't done an OTR, but I did do amortization for a Ford Lightning. While a "battery fill up" is $2-3. The replacement battery is $30k iirc. That's $3000/yr in costs assuming 10 year lifetime. At that rate, its $62/wk in battery amortization. So, you're really spending $62+3/wk in "energy". That's still less than a tank ($90-100 at current prices), but the savings is significantly less than originally anticipated.
The CEO better not retire otherwise there wouldn't be a a new CEO hire either.
Apple has a US problem, not a China problem.
Sad because I /like/ wearing a suit, even to the grocery store. I know I must look weird, but I feel more comfortable with and confident in myself.
>There are always trade-offs.

This is pseudo-science and a common misconception. There is no genetic reason or support for mandatory detrimental tradeoffs.

Historic breeding programs often allow side effects as a practical matter, but that doesn't mean they are detrimental or required.

Sometimes genetic difference is all upside just like a mutation can be all downside.
Escalators are often in their original state for the life of them, apart from basic maintenance and a few repairs. Terrible things to work on