skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The peak of this was probably flying pallets of dollar bills into Baghdad and "losing track of them".

Honorable mention to running air conditioners in Afghanistan using gasoline that had to be trucked several thousand miles through loosely-held territory at the cost of several service member's lives over the years.

It's one of those situations where the roles have been briefly reversed, the left complaining about military spending and the right promoting it. Except the new budget is apparently going to spend MORE on the military, which is almost certainly going to be wasted since there's no clear justification or plan for it.

Since Eisenhower and before everyone has known that a lot of military spending was pork-barrel jobs programs for various states, plus a certain amount of overt corruption (see "Fat Leonard"). But the media environment and right-wing prevented any serious questioning of military spending.
I also wish to remember that the Libertarian party exists haha
Is a lossy compressed game extracted with lossy error correction
I've heard this called the "Tyranny of the Marginal User".

To keep the line going up, platforms have to appeal to wider and wider swaths of a population, eventually lapping at the shores of a population that really doesn't care or want this service. But if you can hook them with some dopamine in a 5-second video, or a quest to rediscover some neat thing that they saw two page-loads ago but is now mysteriously gone from the very same list it appeared in, then you've clawed one additional user into your metrics and the VCs give you a treat.

These people don't care about the service and they're the worst users to cater to, but everyone caters to them because they're the only ones left. Hence, TikTokization.
I wasn't aware the Klippel scanner can do low-frequency measurements - any idea how?
It does feel that ICE was designed to protect the country from the worst abusers of the immigration and ignored the fact that it will affect everyone else as well, going to the jail for a few weeks due to visa issues is too much.
Can can git rich by growing slowly in many cases - but it will be a long hard road. You could instead sell out today and get rich instantly.

If you start the slow growth path at 30 and retire at 65 you will overall make more money from that thing vs someone who sells out at 35. There are some catches though. The person who sells out can go on to the next thing which in sum total may be more sell out enough to make far more over their lifetime, while the slow growth plan you are stuck. The slow growth is over very slow at first, you often spend 10 years making far less than someone who is "working for the man", then 15 more years more or less even, and only then start making good money. There is no guarantee that you will be successful, some people spend their entire life making less than they could "working for the man"; others go bankrupt when a new VC competitor suddenly gets better by enough to take your customers.

There is no right answer. VC money sometimes is the best answer - but many people who reaching for VC money when their better long term answer would be to grow slow.
Sure. But the point is that the people who advocate cutting the waste never propose going after the big wins first. Instead we cut all the little things that actually helps people and use arguments to the effect that the waste was adding up in the aggregate. OR, we could just not spend a trillion dollars on the military.
Binge watching TV series. The easiest signal that you don’t want to continue watching a movie would be to thumbs down it.
Just like with no-code, vibe-coding has the same "interface problem". With no-code you were locked down to using the provided editor and had to constantly flight it to get what you wanted. Now it's no different except you are not typing natural language into a prompt and fighting it to get the correct output.

Vibe coding just like no-code will work to a degree, as you can easily build simple apps with either solution. It's just when you start building something bigger that both systems completely fall apart. While I welcome both technologies and think that it will help non-technical folks write code and build stuff. The world is still powered by "large" software and that's the stuff that you can't just vibe code your way through.
Now the UK should swiftly follow suit in sacking these cowboys. The taxpayer is being charged extortionate rates in some cases for fresh graduates who know effectively nothing at all about what they talk about. At the same time, we should increase salary banding for technical roles to the market rate. We will get the experience we need for much, much less.
> from space programs to science funding.

... which have also been randomly cut.
OP is dunking on Tiktok, but the comments and quality of dialog on Tiktok are far better than any other social network, even with more than a billion users.
I dunno, I'm pretty old and am used to an Internet without walled gardens and super apps, using different tools for different tasks, so seems fine to me. But I agree it would be convenient.
I think you're right!

A short while ago, I noticed I only used Netflix to watch 2 classic comfort shows, and I started to doubt if it was worth a 2-classic-comfort-shows-as-a-service subscription. I tried looking through the catalog to see what else I was paying for and ended up cancelling my subscription.

Netflix does an amazing job in giving the impression that they have an endless library of top quality content, but in reality, it seems like it's only a handful good shows and some filler, but presented in a way that makes it look like there's way more than it actually is.
Sorry, I did indeed misunderstand the sentence due to its phrasing.
I cannot edit my comment for some reason.

I like your fix the most.
I love how it makes life seem slow paced. If this was a wallpaper I would stare at it all day
This is pretty damn sweet.
Those subsidies also went to Boing and ULA, who also bid on those contracts.

This is such a debunked argument but I guess its undebunkable because its a branch you can hang onto about how the only reason SpaceX exists is the government.
Question is why hasn't Blue Origin managed the same then, or Arianaspace in the EU.
This was written as VC fluff. It is impossible to agree with an argument of having control over code when theres a middleman which interprets natural language.

The human won't understand how the codebase works when the codebase is developed by AI. Coupled to the fact AI misunderstands and gets things wrong, any company worth an audit needs more assurances
See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings
Doing all that would hugely increase opex,
a non-starter for companies,
especially the ones prioritizing growth over everything else.
Tbf I don’t think the parent meant all Lexuses (Lexes? Lexi?) are soulless, just theirs. But the brand has its fans.
The VM vs container debate is fascinating. They are separate yet slowly merging concepts that are becoming more blurred as technology becomes cheaper and faster. If the real bottleneck to scale is adaptable code, then it is foolish to dismiss the VM as outdated tech when it can be completely rehomed in 2 seconds. That megabyte of python code managing your containers would still be busy checking it's dependencies in that same timeframe.
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part V: What Tactics?
It's a brilliant on-ramp for that, too, with high free usage caps that let you get projects up and running at no cost.

Firebase hosting only charges you when an actual thing you've deployed starts getting significant usage. It's a terrific option for small devs who still want custom domains, backend data, and the freedom to code in JS/TS in the browser.
That's faster that in takes the US Congress to agree on a budget extension for the next year.
That's what judges and juries are for. Law is not computer code.
Citation would be helpful for these two claims
Amazing. I'm not an EE and the first half of that sentence had be believing you.
How Much Do Private Jet Engines Cost?
This sounds like a useful tool, but why as a Chrome extension?

I don't want an extension to have access to all the websites I visit and all the content.

When I sign a contract, I can pass the document through a local LLM, without sending sensitive data to OpenAI/Google.

Does it support offline-mode and local LLMs (like Ollama)?
I don't totally trust this DOGE crew and think we should keep a hawks eye on them but the whole "they are cutting waste so they can funnel the money to themselves!" conspiracy theories making the rounds are pretty bizarre... And to what end, aren't many of these people already extremely wealthy? I sure hope I'm wrong.
>This remains to be seen.

No, that's just logic. AI doesn't thwart the ability of people to satisfy their needs (getting richer).

>Inequality is worse now than it was 20 years ago despite technology progressing.

And people are still richer than ever before (if we take into account the policies that are thwarting society's ability to satisfy each other's needs and that have nothing to do with technologies)
Congratulations on getting into competition! I started competing and intentionally practicing to get better about 4 years ago after a long time of being a safe but casual shooter. In the last year I have won some major Glock-sponsored GSSF matches - 1st place Amateur out of 140 at their national championship Talladega, AL. One more win and they are going to bump me to master class. I do not reload my own ammo so I have less lead exposure there. I am very careful with my range routine though. I have dedicated cross trainer shoes as my range shoes that I put in a plastic bag in the trunk of the car on the way home. I wash my hands with the dlead soap right away (have wipes in my bag for outdoor use). Finally, I put my clothes directly in the wash when I get home to reduce tracking anything inside particularly since I have small children at home.
But this doesn't explain what the incentive for Netflix is if you pay for subscription regardless.
I just want to pile in that the old netflix layout was top tier. I LOVED it and because of it, stumbled onto tons of awesome movies I never heard of at the time and were actually interesting. Their algorithm back then was the best. I never had a problem finding movies to ACTUALLY WATCH. The whole reason I quit my subscription a few years ago was for the fact I end up burning up time "looking" for something to watch. Then don't. I stopped paying for the "movie browsing simulator" a little after The Witcher 1st season. A few months ago, I got another month because I thought it might be better. Ha. No.

In this case, it's less "faster horse" and more "quit with the stupid fucking song and dance, and give me the damn thing I paid for without all this extra stupid bullshit that makes the experience worse."
they're a order of magnitude higher for some reasons though. I work in consulting, and occasionally larger enterprises approach our firm. We almost always decline because their requirements from vendor screening, to change review boards, to just the amount of sheer meetings it takes to enact a change to a title change on the website home page - its not worth it.

A couple times we made the mistake of giving a 'go away' number and they took it, and then i had to deal with the insanity of F500 business...
If tickles your fancy may I also suggest trying Nix to build docker images?

Personally I've soured on the Dockerfile approach as it feels like we're just shuffling bytes around rather than composing something.

https://nix.dev/tutorials/nixos/building-and-running-docker-...
Sorry to hear that. Not our fault, and it won't make your life any better to be bitter about it. It certainly doesn't help you, in the least, to be attacking folks in a public professional forum.

You're also not the only one doing charity work.

Just sayin'.
For the unenlightened soul, where is lion's share of that money being spent? (preferably in more detail than just "tax cuts")
Hire a clown, expect a circus
Gv – Golang build tool for web
Didn’t they at one point fail to account for Trillions of dollars in their budget? How do you do that? The scale for me is unimaginable.
The day I jumped Chesterton's fence
Yes.

Sometimes it's hard to convince people that this works in reverse too. Traits like lack of commitment or emotional distance from work also means they'll be less affected when the org goes in pure chaos mode or the work is boring as hell.

Diversity is also about these kind of differences inside the org.
Trump is not all bad, I mean, he makes guys like me look like fucking geniuses.
Agreed, the article's perspective is much narrower and I think it makes total sense.

Previous no-code tools could work but required total buy-in. On the other hand you can have Claude generate a small throwaway frontend that relies on Web technologies you'd be using anyway.

My mental model for this is "Excel++". It has similar strengths (very powerful, users don't need developers to write every last line) and similar weaknesses (easy to make a mess or go down blind alleys if you don't know what you're doing).
Not sure if related, but I really enjoy Playnite: https://playnite.link/

Being able to manage my directory across Steam/Origin/Epic Games/Ubisoft, Amazon Games, etc.
What a bunch of bunk, and this is how you can tell:

"Hej there, I'm Kenneth.
I'm a partner at AlleyCorp, a New York-based venture capital firm, where I focus on AI, developer tools, and infrastructure."
> They are the ones getting faster horses.

To a point, until stage 3 enshittification hits,
and the business claws back all the value.
OpenSCAD is such a good school of functional programming. There is no "time" or flow of execution. Or variables, scopes and environments. You are not constructing a program, but a static model which has desired properties in space and time.
What's the difference between that which optimized for what you call "engagement" and what the average user wants?

Presumably the best thing for Netflix is to have a happy userbase, so why do you assume it wouldn't optimize for that?
Pretty frustrating to be nearly 50 and this is literally the exact playbook over the last half century. Reagan / Bush / Trump - 20 years of absolute shit policy (and results) when it comes to the deficit that everyone cares about.
I had a Librem 15 and I will never buy another Purism product again.

I wish it was good, but the product broke in less than two years. Worse yet, when it broke Purism couldn't help at all because they stopped making the 15s.

That will be a hard pass for me...
The former just aren't practical for small business and home consumers, though. Browsers just don't have good workflow for TOFU.

I agree on the latter, but that means your IoT devices being accessible through both networks and being able to discriminate which requests are coming from the insecure interface and which are coming from secure admin, which isn't practical for lay users to configure as well. I mean, a router admin screen can handle that but what about other devices?

I know it seems pedantic, but this UI problem is one of many reasons why everything goes through the Cloud instead of our own devices living on our own networks, and I don't like that controlling most IoT devices (except router admin screens) involves going out to the Internet and then back to my own network. It's insecure and stupid and violates basic privacy sensibilities.

Ideally I want end users to be able to buy a consumer device, plug it into their router, assign it a name and admin-user credentials (or notify it about their credential server if they've got one), and it's ready and secure without having to do elaborate network topology stuff or having to install a cert onto literally every LAN client who wants to access its public interface.
Is this caculator stolen from https://minnesota.pearsonaccessnext.com/stand-alone-calculat... ?
Trump has no mandate. He only barely won the election.
If people can't find a sustainable business model around that thing you want, it's just not going to be widely available.

It's hard to say for sure if Netflix could have/should have kept going in the direction they were going in 2012. But they didn't seem to think so.

You can't necessarily count on businesses springing up to satisfy your personal interests and tastes. Especially large-scale businesses, which are always going to gravitate toward the center of large markets. It's great when it happens, but it's basically just luck when it does.
They're not, they're saying that GP imagines genuine waste-saving will happen, when in fact it's more likely to be fabricated "waste" conjured up by Elmo and his army of teenagers.
Part of existing in society is being pragmatic, reasonable, and not having black or white thinking.
Strange how this keeps happening

At least the name was less on the nose than when Amazon did it.
I have experience in technology and biomedical research.

IT consultants, particularly from the large firms, are very overpriced for the value they provide. Blindly cutting NIH grants (even some of the ones that sound silly on paper) and funding for research institutions is doing great harm to progress in modern medicine.

Multiple things can be true at once.
Not totally bizarre given some actually bizarre stuff like trump & malania crypto coins or DJT.
I think the problem with vibe coding though is it’s not bi-directional, like if you have deep domain knowledge, unless you know how to code, how do you know that the code it just created actually does what you want it to, especially as it gets more complex and your new code changes old code. You could ask, but the devil is often in the details, especially if your domain is highly technical.
Could you open source it ? Would love to contribute.
We tried plumber at work and ran into enough issues (memory leaks, difficulty wrangling JSON in R, poor performance) that I don't think I could recommend it.
Cloudflare Containers coming in June 2025
Show HN: GitHub Action to visualize ubiquitous language and share it with AI
Ubi Doc is an open-source GitHub Action that automatically extracts ubiquitous language definitions from your code’s doc comments and generates an interactive HTML table.

Why Ubi Doc?
In Domain-Driven Design (DDD), maintaining a shared understanding of domain terminology is crucial. However, keeping this language documented and synchronized across a team can be challenging.

Ubi Doc solves this by:

Visualizing your ubiquitous language using GitHub Actions to generate an easy-to-navigate HTML report.

Sharing your ubiquitous language with AI-powered tools like Cline and GitHub Copilot, enhancing code assistance and improving development efficiency.
Not sure if the first video demo matches the hero statement. Professionals with deadlines doesn’t really map to “here is how to start a Minecraft server”
You do not become that, by quitting on the waver thin mint.
Current budget appears to be (via https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tax-cut... )

> $5.3 trillion in deficit-financed tax cuts (the combination of $3.8 trillion of tax cuts assumed to be “costless” under a current policy baseline plus $1.5 trillion in additional deficits permitted), deficit increases of $521 billion on defense and immigration spending, a minimum of $4 billion in spending cuts, and an increase in the debt limit of up to $5 trillion.

So savings plus new borrowing will be funded to tax cuts, which will likely prioritize those already on higher incomes, and corporations.
I’m someone that grew up with AltaVista and thus I’m pretty good with my search terms and modifiers. And I often remember specific phrases from the websites I’m looking for. However, Google is more and more optimised for people NOT knowing what they’re looking for and is now even ignoring “quotes” for exact terms unless you switch it to verbatim mode. Which is a shame.

I’m mostly using my personal SearXNG instance and am still finding what I’m looking for.

On systems where I don’t have access to that, I’m currently trying Mojeek and experiment with Marginalia. Both rather traditional search engines.

I’m not a big fan of using LLMs for this. I rather punch in 3-5 keywords instead of explaining to some LLM what I’m looking for.
What is waste in this context? Is it the delta from perfect efficiency? Is it working on things that have no value regardless of efficiency?

I worry that we’re not that good at measuring these things. And I suspect the measurement of waste is often considered waste.
Building a Simple Table, in Pictures
To this point, I've been using Qobuz as an alternative and it's recommendation engine is laughably bad, but the experience is somehow better. I'll get the most random songs pop up in the list, and sometimes it's a very pleasant surprise.

In the world of music discovery a bad recommendation engine is maybe better than a hyper-fine-tuned one.
The trend for decades has been shrinking the public workforce and replacing them with contractors, because Republicans have said that the private sector is more efficient. So the average government office worker is not a tech, they are a contract officer. The government does not have these skills internally at the level necessary, if they want this work done they have to contract it out. And if these contracts get cancelled that money will get spent with another contractor, and given how this administration has been acting it will a contractor that bends the knee and not one that the president has publicly voiced animosity for.
It is called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

Coined by author Michael Crichton:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.”
renv and rocker have really addressed these issues for using R in production

https://rstudio.github.io/renv/index.html

https://rocker-project.org/images/
It's not really a problem of "resistance", it's more about purchasing power, common and avoiding feeling ripped off.

People buy stuff competitively and that's it. There are modifiers, notably being rich enough that regular items prices make no difference to you, so you can buy all from your own country without affecting you too much.

But even if you are middle class, buying most items at a higher price just because they are from your country is just a waste of money from an individual utilitarian point of view.
It directly affects people and they always favor that, even if in the long run doing so might have a second order effect that will affect them in worse ways.

Tariffs, taxations and special legislation is actually the only way to make some product competitive for your own country. Especially when they are a participant in the trade willing to take a hit just to corner the market. This is basically what China did for many things, so here we are...
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