skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix's primary goal used to be to attract new subscribers. Now it's a more about maintaining subscribers and finding new ways to monetize the existing subscriber base. That's why you're seeing things like "sharing" subscriptions, and advertising, and premium plans.
"Don't mean to be negative" and manage to say it's garbage in the same sentence... A lot can be accomplished by a pen and a paper but a lot more with a computer, otherwise Notion and Evernote and this type of app will be a total disaster, but it's not. There is actually an example of a path to learn excel in screenshot on the main page.
The back-end of my solution is quite complex but it DO give customers a complete guided path to practice every type of skill. It also include some ressources like youtube video/blog article to read etc to help.
But the program is really a plus, what really help to practice is the notion template I spent days making and adjusting which help to have a clear path of what to do and keeping an eye on the progress which also help to keep the motivation of doing. Our customer are real but anonymized and I did a lot of others template in notion :)
I'm not talking about programmers using LLMs.

I'm talking about people talking in english to an AI on one screen, and compiled functioning programs appearing on the other. An "app playground" where you just tell your phone what you need an app to do, and a new bespoke app is now in your app draw.

Forget about UIs too. They won't be that important. You don't need a tree of options and menus, tool bars and buttons. You would just tell the program what you want it to do..."Don't put my signature on this email"..."wrap the text around this image properly"(cough msword cough)..."split these two parts and move the red one to the top layer"...or even "Create a button that does this and place it over there".
I mean the constitution was effectively ruled to be unconstitutional with the presidential immunity case, so what does anything even matter anymore?
Calculators, abacuses etc are tools that let you do math easier than in your head. People have done original math on all sorts of things.

Generative AI forces us to reconsider what original means because it's producing a "remix" of what it has seen before with no credit going to those who created those original works.
What would you call actually ad-free broadcasts then?
Every EU nation should be thinking about how to fast track and incentivize American immigration.
You can go online and do everything before your flight or get a paper form at some point at the airport.
The point is to bring the knowledge to people that the advertising is incorporated into the product. Lots of people don’t know the extra long car chase scene isn’t due to the director’s artistic preference, but rather economic preference, at the viewer’s expense.

There is a clear conflict of interest that can only be addressed by buyers being knowledgeable.
Cool product.

> No more wasting time crafting complex SQL queries

I always wondered about this sentiment; isn't the time spent crafting complex queries a good thing when trying to understand a problem domain? I.e. incrementally refining your mental model of the data model
Don't worry, you have undoubtedly violated several statutes today alone. When there is no due process for your "enemies", there is no due process for anyone.
Perhaps there is a trend in letting an algo decide instead of the user.
Did a quick stalk based on your Brazilian name... I am talking about your competitor ofc!

I have an account with you guys too but haven't kept up with the developments at all. I do wonder what direction you're going in - particularly given the tech company valuation the US market has given ya.

(I don't expect you to reply to this)
Surely you mean (+ (, 1 2))

;)
Agreed. Many people I know who work in state government are always on or planning their next vacation, or in the middle of another home renovation, and lightly joke about their “work from home.”

It’s just incredibly clear that there is no inventive to actually perform, and combined with environments such as WFH that need to be outcomes-based, it starts just looking like a fairytale life paid for by other people.

This happens in the private sector as well, but tends to correct over time - hence big tech’s layoffs, especially of managers and nontechnical staff, after the excesses of 2021-2022.

I don’t think this is true of all state employees, but it seems to happen more with the educated professional class with more abstract work.
It's very, very complicated. It's so far past the maximum effort line of most linux users as to be in its own class of tools. Reproducibility in the imperative package space is worth a lot. Lots of other tools are built on RPM/DEB packages that offer similar advantages of Nix -- Ansible, for one. This is more of a "rising tide raises all boats" situation.
The tourist experience does not accurately reflect the attitude of a country's policy towards foreigners or its racial minorities. Every country wants to have tourists entering the country, spending money inside of it, and leaving; it's one of those economic benefits that's so strong that even countries with huge overtourism problems find it difficult to manage the demand.

First, let's talk about immigration. This tends to be a better barometer of a country's attitudes towards foreigners and integration. East Asia in general tends to be extremely restrictive, but China is harder to get into by orders of magnitude. For context:

- Japan has 3.41 million foreign residents out of a population of 123.7 million (2.76%)

- China (PRC) has 0.85 million foreign residents (excluding HK/Macau/TW) out of a population of 1,411.78 million (0.06%)

This data is sourced from 2020 and 2024[0], which means it could have been lowered by COVID; so let's talk about permanent residents. Japan has about 900k permanent residents[1] compared to China's... 12k[2]. That's two orders of magnitude lower.

Ok, but who's trying to get into China? I mean, Americans would never want to emigrate to China, right? Well, sure, I'll give you that, but China borders plenty of countries that would consider moving to the PRC to be a material benefit (e.g. North Korea and Myanmar).

China has an immigration policy that would make Donald Trump blush. But so what?

Second, let's talk about the one atrocity Mao wasn't willing to commit: Han chauvinism.

China has a particular concern for territorial integrity. That's why they obsess over getting back control over Taiwan, an island full of people who want nothing to do with the mainland, and why they absorbed Hong Kong into themselves 20 years ahead of what they'd agreed to. The problem is that, especially on China's more ambiguously defined eastern borders, nobody there wants to actually be part of China. This terrifies Xi Jinping.

And what does Xi do when he's terrified? He builds concentration camps. The eastern part of China, Xinjiang, is full of concentration camps where the Uighur population was rounded up, enslaved, indoctrinated, and sterilized; in the name of "anti-terrorism". This alone is enough for me to slap the "ethnofascist" label on Xi regardless of what political ideology he claims to subscribe to.

[0] The Chinese data comes from the 2020 Chinese census, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Chinese_census and this article: https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2022/number/5/ar... via Wikipedia

For Japan's 2024 statistics, Wikipedia sourced them from:

https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/publications/press/13_00047.html

https://www.stat.go.jp/data/jinsui/new.html

[1] https://www.jcer.or.jp/english/japans-immigration-policy-de-...

Note that this excludes "special permanent residents", most of whom are victims of Imperial Japan's brutal occupation of Korea and Taiwan who got permanent residency in Japan as part of WWII peace treaties.

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3234679/chi...
> "This is not achievable," one commenter named Monocasa wrote. "There is not enough rewritable microcode to do this even as a super slow hack. And even if all of the microcode were rewritable, microcode is kind of a fallback pathway on modern x86 cores with the fast path being hardwired decode for x86 instructions. And even if that were not the case the microcode decode and jump is itself hardwired for x86 instruction formats. And even if that were not the case the micro-ops are very non-RISC."
It feels simplistic, but if the primary problem is fissures and pockets forming, I'd assume they would be full of air. If you know the volume of the wheel and the density per pound, you could weigh it on a very precise scale
There is an out of print book from the 50's that's a great resource for bow making.

The full title is, "The Archer's Craft; a Sheaf of Notes on Certain Matters Concerning Archers and Archery, the making of archers' Tackle and the Art of Hunting with the Bow" and the author is Adrian Eliot Hodgkin.
Yeah, but that's going to make your spreadsheet look different.
All the more reason to aggressively nip this in the bud so we can get to work repairing the horrible damage they've done to our country.
Makes me think about the attitude that Mao-era China had about dogs.
"What about Nix tho?" is the "Rewrite it in Rust" of reproducible builds.
they should’ve just skipped 11 like they skipped 9
> an app on my phone that instantly calculates futures prices and margin requirements for given position sizes and predicted market movements.

That sounds like something for which one should be spending the money on professionally developed and well-tested software. What's the expression? Penny wise, pound foolish.
Your stance seems to be at odds with the freedom of association protected by the US Constitution.
> One of my laments is that there is no automatic equivalent force in the government. Agencies grow and grow, projects grow and grow, all totally decoupled from whether they are achieving any progress whatsoever towards the agency's mission.

There was. It's the GAO and the inspectors general of the agencies, both of which have been gutted by this administration.

> I'm not defending the specific actions of this administration (for which I simply don't know enough), but it is refreshing to see the government rummaging through its mess and cutting stuff that is irrational, corrupt, and not serving the mission.

LMAO, you're not defending the specific actions, but you know enough about the actions to know that they are "cutting stuff that is irrational". This is a defense of DOGE but with the "no, i'm NOT defending Musk" veneer that doesn't pass muster. You're giving this administration the benefit of the doubt and a large amount of good faith that they have not earned.
I've never thought about it this way, but it's funny to think that horses are largely self driving on roads.
I guess my point is that you actually have to write the impure code somehow and it's hard, external world has tendencies to fail, needs to be retried, coordinated with other things. You have to fake all these issues. In your web server examples, if you need to a cache layer for certain part of the data, you really can't without encoding it to the state management tooling. And this point you are writing a lot of non-functional code in order to glue it together with pure functions and maybe do some simple transformation in the middle. Is it worth it?

I have respect for OCaml, but that's mostly because it allows you to write mutable code fairly easily.

Roc codifies the world vs core split, but I'm skeptical how much of the world logic can be actually reused across multiple instances of FP applications.
I think the premise of the argument is you don't need to compete in the marketplace because you can just tell the robots what you want and they will happily produce it.

The fallacy that people are making is they look at the current state of things as 'the way it'll always be' while the AI companies, and I mean all the AI companies, are looking to corner the market so have no moral issues with taking out a whole swath of skilled jobs.

The cost to compete with another business's software is a high-end GPU.
You can't just spend your troubles away forever. It might temporarily alleviate things, but long term it will collapse the entire system. At some point there need to be painful austerity measures - budget cuts, increased taxes, and the like. It's unpopular to do painful things, but it's necessary for survival.
I accidentally read this as "There are bees here, lets leave immediately. Why dont the humans?" and for a split second I thought the elephants were concerned by our lack of fear of bees.
> Ya'll

Can you please explain this contraction?
Typically, the customs declaration is filled out on the airplane. This can be done through a mobile app (which most frequent travelers do), in which case, customs might have it before you've even left the plane.

If it's done on paper, this is done at the passport check, before you've picked up your checked luggage, and well before picking a customs lane.

I've certainly been randomly chosen for a screening, and when that happened, a customs agent went up to me (deliberately) shortly after I got my luggage. I forget why, but they have flags for suspicious behavior. I think it might have been because I came back with one more bag than I left with, or some intermediate destination.

There are also, in some airports, customs dogs sniffing things between luggage pickup and customs who can also flag for screens.

So none of this sounds too unusual to me, except for the final step: being shipped off to a detention center. I've never brought in anything improper, but I know people who came to the US with illicit food. The outcome was:

1) A rather serious fine

2) Being screened literally every time they passed into the US

The second was more obnoxious. Every time they came into the US for at least the next half-decade, customs would unpack their bags.
>I think this is placing the blame on the victims rather than the policies that are actually allowing these things to happen.

If you're a fisherman on a lake and a fish just jumps in your boat, is it your fault or the fish's fault? You were just doing your fisherman job.

You(individually) can't change the bad policies of the country you emigrated to because you're not a citizen with voting rights, right? But you can adapt your behavior to not fall in the trap of those bad policies, right?

All you have to do is lay low and not break any laws or do things that attract attention of the authorities, like you know, travelling with undeclared embryos, which is not something average travelers usually do.

"Yeah but your country's laws are stupid, so give me a break" is not a defense that ever works for immigrants, which means they're at the mercy of trigger happy border enforcement agents who are just following the law, which says they can deport anyone for any reason they see fit.

I think many western people with powerful passports don't realize, that when you're a guest in a country (especially with a weak passport) you really need to be a lot more paranoid than the locals on the rules and regulations of the host country since you'll have no local rights and no embassy to bail you out if you fuck up. The speed limit says 100? Well, you drive at 90 just to be sure. Yeah, it sucks, but that's life.
So, I've dug into the kernel code. I can't find anywhere that has a fallback mechanism. When it fails, the errors bubble up. I might not be looking in all the correct places, but I believe the shell is responsible for attempting to execute the process.

I also put together two version of the same call to a shebangless script in Python, one with `shell=True` and the other without. It's only the one that calls into the shell that successfully runs the script. The strace outputs corroborate my theory.

Without shell=True (truncated)

[pid 961626] execve("./sh.sh", ["./sh.sh"], 0x7fff7bae94a0 /* 66 vars */) = -1 ENOEXEC (Exec format error)

With shell=True (truncated)

[pid 961623] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "./sh.sh"], 0x7ffd75009e50 /* 66 vars */) = 0
[pid 961624] execve("./sh.sh", ["./sh.sh"], 0x5980a07c70a8 /* 66 vars */) = -1 ENOEXEC (Exec format error)
[pid 961624] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "./sh.sh"], 0x5980a07c70a8 /* 66 vars */) = 0
Companies should stay off social media … Unless they are social companies. Companies that try to advertise on social media to their consumer base do harm to the social aspect. This is why twitter and Facebook and instagram went from healthy social interactions to just marketing fluffs giving the media companies heavier valuation
Because it's my money and I want to know how it's being spent, whether it's the government or a private company spending it. I had no choice in where that money went, so I need transparency on how it's being spent.

That's why every government contractor has to report what they are doing with their government money.
I don't think the majority view is so much there is no waste in the other areas. With most people I talk to, the objection is mostly with the methods employed and the lack of accountability.

For me, I wouldn't have objected to Musk / DOGE going in and actually doing an audit of everything to look for waste, fraud and abuse. And if actual waste, fraud and abuse are found, where evidence and details are provided, I'd personally celebrate that.
nice to see they're in this too.

https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/18/rbos-project-hits-miles...
I agree, it's just that the town square will exist regardless because of the billions of people and the propensity of most of them to gravitate to the most mainstream option. It feels ideal that that's quarantined on Twitter so the more niche spaces stay high quality.
I’m talking about when anyone post on social media. It’s all about engagement. People don’t post on social media in the hopes that no one sees or replies to them. So I find it silly that people are upset at Adobe for having the most generic “hey we joined, show us what you’re working on” versus the useless engagement posts that are templates of “most people can’t figure out what the answer is” when the image is “two plus two equals ?”.

To your point of useful info, I’m sure Adobe would get there. They just joined the site and got bullied off. I doubt they’re going to care about the site now, but it’d be funny if they tried a second post and just trudged through it.
>Celebrating the 'democratization' of these skills is just showing adversity to basic learning and thinking.

The reality is that you cannot become an expert in everything. I have songs I'd love to compose in my head, but it would be totally impractical for me to go through the hundreds/thousands of hours of training that would be needed to realize these songs in reality. Nor am I particularly motivated to pay someone else to sit there for hours trying to compose what I am telling them.

This is true for hundreds of activities. Things I want to do, but cannot devote the time to learn the intermediate steps to get there.
>they can't actually pay enough to hire senior developers directly due to the constraints imposed by the GS pay scales.

I did a coop with the navy in college, and would have gladly converted over to a full time GS employee on graduation, but:

1. Actual, honest to god GS dev positions were super rare outside of DC

2. The application process through the usaJobs website had a ridiculous amount of red tape

3. As you pointed out, the salaries were laughably low, even if you included benefits like the pension and healthcare.

I eventually gave up and went with the private sector. I had interviews in a week, an offer within days, and was paid more than someone with years of experience on the GS scale.

I was bummed about missing out on the opportunity for a pension, but the higher salary helped me hit FI by my mid 30's. When the ACA passed I effectively had access to health insurance on the private market for the first time in my life.

TLDR: I would have been a fool to go into GS as a dev. Giving up on that was the best thing I've ever done.
Belittling them is the only approach that will work. They have such a thin skin and fragile egos that making logical arguments, following procedure, or addressing this via well established "norms" just results in them getting their rocks off on telling you to F off. See [0] just as one example of many.

On the other hand, pointing out the lunacy of their actions, their hypocrisy, and malice through satire, parody and straight up bullying is the only way to truly break through the shell they've built around that fragile ego they're carrying around. Just my opinion.

[0] https://shop.gop.com/products/liberal-tears-mug
Because their main selling point is to run the copies concurrently with the original.
It’s no Supra, but the FRS is a sporty little car that was marketed in a fairly affordable range. It’s also basically a BRZ. It’s a little sad that’s no longer an option.

The WRX has a turbocharged Boxer engine, manual gearbox or optional CVT, and all-wheel drive. It’s a sedan, but it does a 13.9 second quarter mile stock off the showroom floor. That’s not bad.
Corev-CLI
DJT got rid of the middlemen (lobbyists)?
NT 3.51 Best

These are also mixing two separate streams: Win3.x/9x/ME and NT+
That's what https://yaml-multiline.info is for! I know the author's on HN, I hope they chime in here :)

Amusingly, the Stack Overflow answer you linked in your contribution is the second result in a Google search for "YAML multiline string" or the like, after yaml-multiline.info; the two combined appear to the canonical resource on the web.
I think I am in the same boat as you. Knowing how the sausage is made only makes the flaws noticed even more offensive.

But I do think the GP has a point about the intentional friction and bullshit introduced into lots of modern software that wasn't even a twinkling in some CEOs eye way back when. Software has become adversarial to the user. Psychology has been weaponized to induce behaviors in users. Instead of users feeling utility and choice in using the software, they feel burdened, controlled. Or at least, I do. I try to make smart choices about what software I use to maintain my own volition.

These kinds of flaws are fundamentally different from the kinds of flaws in software from the past if only because of the order of magnitude increase of resources that can be mustered to accomplish it. And because they are exploitative.
I don't know about bandwidth from device to brain. Maybe Neuralink or something similar?

It has been tried a lot. I saw the first sonar-alike navigation aid in the early 90s. It basically translated detected obstacles into vibration. Thats where you start to realize that bandwidth is the issue. Because a single, or maybe even a group of, vibrations, doesn't really tell you anything about the nature of the obstacle.
Now, we're at a point where vision models (if they dont hallucinate, DANGER!!!) can actually destinguish different obstacles and even describe them. Nice. However, you're pretty much limited to speech synthesis as an information channel. That is not that bad, but very distracting when you move about outside. After all, blind people already use their ears to learn about their surroundings. There isn't much, if any, bandwidth left to stick some constantly chatting voice in. You end up deminishing your actual senses input about the surroundings, which is also dangerous. Nothing beats the turn-around time of your own ears or tactile info you might get from your cane...

So, to answer your question: Maybe. I haven't seen a technology that can squeeze some more bandwidth out of the current situation yet.
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military
At Dulles, you pickup your bags after customs. If they want to search your bags, they will regardless.