skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless the ai model is being run at build time to generate inputs to the build I disagree that the model, its prompts or its weights and seeds constitute part of “the build” for reproducibility purposes. Static source files generated by an AI and committed to source control are indistinguishable from a build perspective by source files generated by a human and committed to that same source control. We (reasonably) dont consider the IDE, the auto-complete tools or the reference manuals consulted to be requirements for a “reproducible” build and I don’t think the AI models or prompts are any different in that respect. They might be interesting pieces of information, and they might be useful for documenting intent of a given piece of code but if you can take the same source files and run them through the same compile process and get the same outputs, that’s “reproducible”.
1. One can use the browser's devtools (press F12 when browsing the site) to figure out the needed files.

2. Create a list of the files (files.txt).

https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/forest/Build/Buil...

https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/forest/Build/Buil...

https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/forest/Build/Buil...

https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/forest/Build/Buil...

https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/forest/Build/Buil...

https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/forest/Build/Unit...

https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/forest/index.html

3. Download the files using the browser or a downloader:

wget --input-file=files.txt --show-progress --directory-prefix=forest --force-directories
Though there could be some secondary downsides, this sounds like a nice opportunity for AMD too
It's not an uncommon viewpoint. Especially if you compare them to containers.
A low-privilege user that has access to the jails root directories? That server is setup pretty poorly.
Supercomputer models microtubule dynamics, offering new insights into diseases
Oh, that's a (n anti-) social game I've missed somehow, everything is civil in my bubble. Only have one blocked account in my profile that looks like a bot that followed me for no reason.
> It is therefore in the provider's interest to make you satisfied with less and/or cheaper content.

After getting annoyed by their interface that was showing 80% of content I have already seen, I've come to a realization:

Their incentive is not even to make me watch crap. No! Their best outcome for them is for me to watch nothing and still pay.

Showing me old shows gives me the warm feelings and make me associate them with Netflix, making me keep the subscription even

Hypnodrones are corporate dreams
This is a good insight, though I wouldn't limit it to software engineering.

I've discussed with my therapist many times that my biggest mental health challenges are from the exact same personality traits that bring me my greatest joy and value. Every maladaptive trait has its adaptive aspects and vice versa. If I were to try to eliminate those maladaptive aspects, I'd probably lose much of the adaptive side as well.

There is a real zen to being able to note that the things which cause the most anguish also cause the most joy and accepting both sides of that coin at the same time.
the problem is there is literally no incentive to make sure you are hiring the right people in government. nobody is sacked if you dont make your numbers, xyz.

higher salary bands are a neccessary but not sufficient condition to get competent operators.
yeah and then what. I don’t think desire is infinite.
https://archive.is/YqV82
For big companies like this, I like to go look at the activity on sdks and related projects. Typically activity will flat line before a sun setting announcement is made. Its hard to say how much lead time that buys you, but I have found it a useful barometer.

It seems like the firebase repos have had a fair amount of activity.

https://github.com/orgs/firebase/repositories
The backdoor is bringing heavily automated factories to the US. The viability of this might still be mixed right now, but at least in the future, even without tariffs, the golden goose of manufacturing is still "locally made by robots."
As of 2022 (when the outline algorithm was removed from the spec), it's a problem with your website implementation.
I thought the interesting thing was this quote from Hegseth:

> The contracts "represent non-essential spending on third party consultants" for services Pentagon employees can perform, Hegseth said in the memo released late on Thursday.

I obviously don't know the details of these specific contracts, but the general sentiment that qualified federal employees can do better than overpriced private contractors is something I agree with, at least in broad brushstrokes.

But, that said, this would appear to be in direct opposition to DOGE and the Project 2025 playbook - here is a recent article, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/30/doge-pr....

This is why I hate what DOGE is doing. I could definitely get behind a coherent effort to streamline the federal government and save money - BTW, this was done rather successfully by Clinton and Gore in the 90s, who eliminated a huge portion of the federal workforce, they just didn't go on stage with chainsaws to promote it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinv.... But now it's just "throwing bombs", and the overt corruption of the administration leaves me little faith that government will actually become more efficient with this current kakistocracy.
What do you mean 'they were caught by the system already'?

Claudine Gay is still employed by Harvard. According to her Wikipedia page, she is the "Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University".

And she wasn't exposed by folks in academia, but by people outside that system.
If you have to explain your conspiracy theory with "the majority of these people suffers from the same special kind of neuroticism", I suggest you get back to your whiteboard.

Or you can keep living in a Disney reality where uncle Scrooges are the norm and not the exception.
I was about to say you were being paranoid, then I read the article. It hadn’t occurred to me that anyone would be so reckless!

The proposed workflow involves cloning your dev environment and sharing it with the internet.

At most places, that’s equivalent to publishing your production keys, or at least github credentials.

Even for open source projects where confidentiality doesn’t matter, there are issues like using cargo/npm/etc keys to launch supply chain attacks.

Your nonce attack is harder to pull off, but more devastating if the attacker can man in the middle things like dependency downloads.
distros get unbelievable amounts of hate for not immediately integrating upstream changes, there's really no winning
Maybe, just maybe, the platforms that we use to engage socially with other human beings don't also have to be organized around engaging commercially with brands.
If we're only in the realm of video games, Nintendo has some of the highest prices for their games, and rarely drop below half price. This does factor in somewhat, since their games (assuming you get a physical version) maintain their value better.

I think Nintendo should include a few months of free online play for their flagship titles with Nintendo Online service. The fact that all online activity is basically gated to a monthly subscription is one of the few things I dislike as a consumer about Nintendo's product strategy.

If we're going across different "entertainment" forms, I would argue the cheapest form of entertainment is probably football, aka soccer, or something similar as that just requires a ball.
It's already a Twitter alternative that's superior by virtue of being in its pre-enshittification era.

It may never be a Twitter alternative in the sense of making anyone a billionaire, but I'm okay with that.
> and decided against buying it because I don't need it

One anecdote doesn't refute science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Scientific_appr...
YES! I want more tools to be deterministic. My wish-list has Proxmox config at the very top.
And/or they decide on cuts by ^F "diversity" or "transition" cutting of programs like the US seed vault which stores a lot of different crop seed varieties so we can restart our agriculture if there's a blight that knocks out our massive monocultures but it's getting axed now because it protects crop _diversity_... and that's suddenly a kill word for funding because we're being run by ideologues and idiots.
R works exactly as you describe. You can type `+`(1, 2) and get 3 because in R everything that happens is a function call even if a few binary functions get special sugar so you can type 1 + 2 for them as well. The user can of course make their own of these if they wrap them in precents. For example: `%plus%` = function(a, b) { `+`(a, b)}. A few computer algebra systems languages provide even more expressivity like yacas and fricas. The later even has a type system.
React turns out to be a powerful tool to management the state of anything hierarchical and dynamic.

For the UI, we can show stuff dynamically with JSX; and the JSX would include actions that let user modify the state; the updated the state would trigger a re-rendering of UI to reflect the latest the state.

What if we can apply this paradigm to model Human + AI interacting with a shared piece of state? We can let React and LLM see the same state and use the same tools to change that change.
They might immediately react to issues, and they might not, but anyone in that tray is still in limbo and everyone that filled out the forms but is now being... blocked from handing them over?... Is effectively in limbo too, just with slightly more knowledge of it.
So you think Adobe would get a resoundingly warm welcome on X?

Pretty sure they trashed their own brand with their subscription model. They're finding that out now.

I jumped to Affinity apps years ago when Adobe required a subscription — never looked back.
unions should not be able to negotiate against the collective will of the people and seniority based leveling has been a disaster for the government in the US, at least.
The reaction seems specific to Adobe which has (probably) not been a good steward of its role as a tool for creatives. I don’t think other big corps would get that reaction.
The big 3 get hired to protect managers. Hire a smaller consulting firm and the project goes sideways you both get fired. Hire a big firm and it goes sideways they get fired - until the next project.
TIL people contribute to Open Source for money.

Just FYI: everyone who contributes to OSS makes the same!
this narrative doesn't sound right. There isn't very much preventing anyone in any given other country from using NIH research. Moreover a substantial amount of NIH research grants goes to PIs or postdocs or grad-students who are Chinese nationals who then advance their careers back to their home country.
Personally, I get this from my interactions with the reviewers at the FDA. Absolutely buried in work, always make the best effort to improve your submission, etc.
Reconnects eventually when things time out, but in the meantime, there will be a lot of frustrated waiting.
> Just buy it directly from China and install Coreboot.

"Just" is doing a lot of work here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638323
> This isn't to say that most people are tasteless blobs; I think everyone is a connoisseur of something, it's just that for any given individual, that something probably isn't your product.

I think this is a great nuance that is often overlooked when discussing this.
Wait to see what happens when the firings in mass begins as Trump cuts social protections. Plus inflation will soon start that will make the Covid Inflation Rates look like good times.

So I expect a delayed huge raise in Crime thanks to Trump.

But at least gas prices will probably fall once the firings kick in. That is the only thing MAGA seems to cares about.
Vortex – temporary email service written in Rust
Yeah that’s going to be the problem. The pay bands are so low they would be lucky to get people with degrees at all. Definitely not talent
Big name.

Makes sense that this first shows up with companies who have high volume and are directly dealing with tariffs day to day. They don't want to eat the costs for long / if at all. Feels like a lot of companies with all the uncertainty didn't want to just proactively raise the prices, but as their suppliers and folks raise them it will spread.
I unfortunately pay for Spotify.

I also pay for Youtube premium, but I can't even switch to that because their music player is even worse than Spotify.

I really miss the good old days of music players that were _packed_ with features. The players of current streaming services are so basic. And as long as I can't find a replacement that fits my needs I don't really want to bother switching.
Also, never dry fire your bow. (i.e. Never pull and release it if you're not shooting an arrow.)

When you pull a bow, you're putting a significant amount of potential energy into it. Your back and arms do work that becomes tension in the limbs of the bow. When you fire an arrow, most of that energy goes into propelling the arrow down range. The bow is designed to do this. If there is no arrow, that energy has to go somewhere. Typically, it goes into vibrations that the bow is not designed to handle. This can cause delamination, cracks or even catastrophic failure in your face.

Just because a bow survives one dry fire doesn't mean it'll survive two or three or more. A bow that has been dry fired is not safe to use and needs to be checked out.
I read the news to judge what the propagandist want me to know, not to actually learn things.

I find skimming NYT’s and FOX’s headlines are perfectly satisfactory. If anything peaks my interest I do independent analysis, putting weight on primary sources. I often try to listen in on experts discussing the matter among themselves.
How is it implicit? The open parenthesis is before the function name rather than after, but the function isn’t called without both parentheses.

If you want to use commas, you can in Lisp dialects I’m familiar with—they’re optional because they’re treated as whitespace, but nothing is stopping you if you find them more readable!
It's not really implicit though, the first element of a list that is evaluated is always a function. So (FUN 1 2) is an explicit function call. The problem is that it doesn't look like C-like languages, not that it's not explicit.

In theory ' just means QUOTE, it should not be overloaded (although I've mostly done Common Lisp, so no idea if in other impl that changes). Can you show an example of overloaded meaning?
I'd counter that the cost to the American taxpayer is far less when you avoid the consultant upcharge, all else being equal.
tons of people are paid to contribute to oss..
At least that's cutting out the middleman -many big consulting firms are whitelabelling AI nonsense already.
> It is reductive to say that we just need to pay more, however. The civil service also needs better and more effective management. Consultants are used as both liability shields and to force through change, both of which are an abdication of management's responsibility.

Yes. The whole atmosphere is dysfunctional, because politicians don't trust the civil service. It's very attractive, and very neoliberal, to say that a state function is simply a service that can be contracted out. But not everything that matters can be specified in contracts! You eventually have to rely on staff judgement and common sense, including a shared sense of mission. That was how TfL breakup eventually didn't happen: people tried to turn the operating manuals into millions of lines of contracts, but it became unworkably complicated.

PFI was the worst aspect of this. Take the one thing government can unambiguously do cheaper than the private sector - borrow money - and contract that out with a value extraction layer on top of it.
Seems pretty consistent to me. People were also upset when IT employees got fired.

The general rule that employees good, contractors bad still holds. Even though people seem obsessed with the belief that firing public employees and replacing them with private contractors will make the government more “efficient”.
Is this a flux pattern for LLM? reminds of me https://cycle.js.org/
System rustc is also good on Arch Linux. I think system rustc-web is also fine on Debian.
IF you are running a successful business you are probably spending the majority of your time not on the thing you are enthusiastic about, but instead just business work. Many businesses fail because the owner doesn't spend enough time in the office - many businesses owners suddenly became a lot more successful when they spent more time in the office. They likely are good and and like doing what the business is about (running a backhoe, pulling wires, or whatever), but all the office work means they never get to do it. To the employees it looks like they sold out and don't get it anymore - but the employees don't realize it is because of that office work they get their paycheck on time.

As such it is not surprise things change. You can't go from making less money than you could elsewhere to making a nice income without a lot of office time.

Of course it is common to take the above too far. There is need for office work, but often those office employees forget that it is about the real world.
That quote is pretty dumb, I see it quoted a lot. It's arrogant, assuming, demeaning, elitist. And I don't think it's true. Who would say "a faster horse"? It doesn't make any sense, because people know/knew that horses are what they are.

A better, more constructive approach is to proactively identify how emerging technology can fit people's needs. And for sure, you need to verify that there is an actual need for what you are building, and then go build it.

Netflix and TikTok are not the "faster horse" here. Generative AI is clearly the "faster horse". It's a disruptive technology that will change the entire structure of society, much like the internal combustion engine. And no one said they wanted that either, that doesn't make people dumb, or user surveys pointless. Who is currently saying they want a "faster computer"?

Henry Ford saying that would probably be like hearing Sam Altman say "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster computer". It's not true, it doesn't match reality.
We aren't talking about something like spelling or digging a hole. We're talking about a fundamental cognitive skill: reading eight short paragraphs of text and extracting meaning from it.
> added most of the PDF features people like in MacOS Preview.

I'm not religious, but for this alone you deserve a life of blessings and happiness. The fact that I never ever have to fuck around with Adobe PDF apps to juggle PDFs is one of the load-bearing things keeping me sane in an insane world.
This is awesome... congrats to the Phoenix team!

Ever since going all-in on Phoenix/Elixir, I've been so much happier and excited to code.

Coming from Go where it felt like my soul was being drained every single day, it was a major step forward for me to actually enjoy writing code again.
Rich people get that way because they love money. Loving money means they want more and more and more, no matter how much they get.
A search for 'linux process live migration' picks up at least one repo that claims to have done it, and a bunch of other interesrting things.

For a very simple program, with limited I/O, it's not too hard; especially if you don't mind a significant pause to move. Difficulty comes when you have FDs to migrate and if you need to reduce the pausing. If you need to keep FDs to the filesystem or the program will load/store to the filesystem periodically, you'd need to do a filesystem migration too... If you need to keep FDs for network sockets, you've got to transfer those somehow.

If it's just stdin/out/err, you could probably do the migration in userspace with some difficulty if you need to keep pid constant (but maybe you don't need that either).

Minimal pausing involves letting the program run on the initial machine while you copy memory, setting pages to read-only so you can catch writes, and only pausing the program once the copy is substantially finished. Then you pause execution on the initial machine. If there's a significant amount of modified pages to copy over when you pause, you can still start execution on the new machine, as long as the modified pages are marked unavailable, if you background copy them before they're used great... if not, you have to block until the modified data comes through.

Probably you do this on two nearby machines with fast networking, and the program doesn't have a lot of writes all over memory, so the pause should be short.
> but also a huge rise in very explicitly leftist and anti-AI content in a way that did not previously exist - especially on economic/industry issues.

It's always existed; you just haven't been around it. It stretches back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; read about the Luddites, Blanketeers, and John Henry.

Humans generally don't like having their livelihoods threatened and that's happening more and more as the people who paid others for labor are finding ways to not pay people while simultaneously getting the fruits of labor. It used to just be physical tasks that were simple to automate; now, it's knowledge-based jobs.
still use my 2015 galaxy s6 every day

nothing has been repaired or replaced on it, same battery also

i was curious how long it would last so i kept using it. i run it in low power mode with screen dimmed. it only sees wifi, no actual phone calling. a lot of apps dont work anymore for it, but it plays videos fine, lets me take notes, and i can browse the internet so thats more than enough. fdroid app store is helpful to find older versions of apps that work
Dick Large? Probably had trouble with the diminutive form.
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Not particularly. What they do seem to have is a more artist-heavy community, and that community has been fucked over by Adobe over the last decade or so.
It is unfortunately not as unambiguous as one may like:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5191889/is-trump-runnin...
If it's down on the day that submissions open, then don't rush it. But when the window is closing there are thousands of dollars at stake for millions of people and I consider that pretty critical. It's not a generic outage. And it's also not unexpected. There's a lot less "Sorry wife, I'm not coming home today" when you scheduled it three months in advance.
As a lurker on both Bluesky and Twitter, I find Bluesky is a much more hostile place. Twitter is much more absurd but there is not as much anger.
Have you worked with body-shop consultants? I think I'd take my chances with an idealistic E-3.
My dude have you not been on twitter ever?
I think you’re taking things a little too literally.
[rant]

The thing that really pissed me off about Amazon Business is that they bought Small Parts and killed it off. Small Parts was a tiny version of McMaster-Carr that specialized in fasteners, small diameter fluid handling, short sections of specialty materials, and in general, quality "small parts."

If I bought directly from Small Parts, I knew I'd get exactly what I wanted. Ordering from Amazon Business? A complete crapshoot.
Going to www.smallparts.com now just redirects to an Amazon 404 page!

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> “What’s fueling your creativity right now?”

Hilarious thin marketspeak. But sure, blame the social platform.
> As a reader, I don't want page authors to start hard coding sizes into these elements, because then they'll be more likely to choose non-default values to make their page stand out a bit more.

Completely agree. In fact, this is what auditing tools should flag.

Let HTML be HTML!

Frankly, I think that the existing algorithm sounds correct, but I could be wrong.