skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better education or propaganda to brainwash people to keep producing? :) Funnily enough, USSR loved all sort of propaganda of the worker of the month, stachanovists and all that jazz :) Yet it didn't work. Maybe the real better education would be to teach people to enjoy peaceful idleness and live with less?

Ultimately people don't need that much to live. Once you remove consumerist desire to keep up with the jones, the only motivation is to get roof, food and some supplies to have fun with. Currently passing this threshold requires quite a bit of effort. Then there's relatively little extra effort to get somewhat nicer toys. Yes, some people will work extra hard and make €€€€, but vast majority of people ain't workaholics. If that base threshold was removed with UBI, then it'd be a massively different effort to get somewhat nicer toys. This would change the equation a lot. I've a feeling the jones might be in trouble then.
Week long meetings charging 300/hour etc
I still need to support Windows 7 in my industry. The last supported version is 1.20. Outdated is relative.
Even if they rolled out to 100% of the users on day 1, you'd sill have an heterogeneous audience with all the folks using older versions of Firefox. It likely takes (at least) many months before 99% of Firefox users upgrade to a any specific release.
It's tangentially relevant, but I've enjoyed this one, about hammock driven programming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Your only mistake is thinking those institutions are filled with competent people rather than being a jobs creation program for the inept
I think taxes on imports just got raised a bit.
When I was a kid, I made a bow using the instructions from Two Little Savages by Ernest Thompson Seton [1]. It was fun making it, but I didn't actually learn to use it properly.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13499/13499-h/13499-h.htm#2I...
This is an "old man shakes fist at clouds" opinion, but I think HD video is a huge waste of time/money for living room watching. Your eyes cannot effectively resolve that resolution at normal "couch" viewing distances for common TV sizes. This is kind of like how audio quality peaked at CDish quality. Anything better is largely inaudible.
Part of the problem specifically with Netflix is that they lost the rights to most of the good stuff, or at least the stuff that everyone wants to see, because the Disneys of the world set up their own streaming services and pulled their content from Netflix.

So in a way Netflix had to learn how to push slop. Because they can't make their own Star Wars or MCU or Friends or whatever. It's just not easy to build a catalog of reliably-profitable franchises. Especially when many of those franchises were born decades before Netflix even existed.

Even the good stuff Netflix has (like say Black Mirror) isn't going to be enough to keep customers unless they get people watching some slop.
Which isn't ideal, but easily better than the pentagon that has literally never passed a full audit since they started auditing them in 2018. I'm a huge fan of musk's company's, but I don't want my public tax dollars ever choosing winners/losers
It's time to re-download The Masters app, the best app in sports
Sure! Here's a more polished version:

"A reminder: Apple sells nearly 50 million iPhones(50 billion dollars)in China every year — and there’s no other market as lucrative to offset the loss.

As Jensen Huang aptly put it, the problem with China is that there’s no other China.

India is too poor and dysfunctional to offset loss of Chinese market.
It's a different calling convention. Call by value rather than call by name.
> What about forest fires in the years measured? Hurricane activity? Humidity and wind patterns? What was the data like in Chicago vs Seattle vs Houston, what were the state and municipal policies?

Yeah, exactly! I’m not saying Biden caused air quality to get worse in 2023. That was probably the Canadian forest fires that year. My point is that the reporting on this is bullshit. Lots of outlets ran stories about the 5% increase from 2016 to 2018 in this air quality metric. But then they ignored the much bigger fluctuations that came after.

I’m not saying the opposite happened, my point is that you cant trust the media any farther than you can throw it.
If this is submitted by the person who made the page:

There should be clear links to the class and how to sign up. I know this isn't a marketing page, but there's plenty of people who would gladly pay money to do this supervised. This seems like an ideal father-son activity with a teenager for summer break.
I get that, that's why you spend your time trying to find work, until you do have that nest egg. I spent my early 20's with multiple jobs (e.g., working as an LTE (Limited Term Employee) at the local University 30 hours a week and then working nights at a club 2.5 hours away Friday-Sunday - getting a couple hours of sleep Sunday night, driving back and going straight to my day job. I don't think I could do that now, but my LTE jobs were never that complicated (or high paying).
You can just refuse that BS in non-membership stores. After payment, your debts are settled and the merchandise is your property. If they want oversight they need to eliminate self-checkout and staff their registers.
What does it mean for a programming language to “support LLM”?
There is a flip side to this graph.

Every entertainment platform becomes video centric.

Every discussion platform becomes political.

As someone who prefers text and static images and doesn't like politics, this is really bothering me right now.

Adding to the list: image-sharing platforms, Instagram, Pinterest and Imgur, are also Tiktok now, specially if you use the apps instead of the website.

Tumblr and Flickr somehow have resisted Tiktok-fication so far.
Isn't that obvious? :)

I do wonder what happens if one of the tasks to be coordinated is "programming"?
That AI is dangerous and the closer we get to the danger zone the better it would be if the companies developing these technologies understand it might be better to slow down and make sure it's safe vs pushing ahead at maximum speed.
I'd run into problems before where I showed up at the desk at Planet Fitness, got told my cancellation would be forwarded to the manager and it wasn't.

When my evil twin made my situation at Planet Fitness untenable [1] "we" found the life hack of going to the desk with my tall and awkward looking son and an overweight and foul smelling friend which resulted in my not getting the runaround at all.

[1] fortunately the end of my evil twin
His whole thing is about environmental toxins probably being the cause of most of our problems, so no that doesn't seem likely.
> But who knows - maybe that really

> is the most profitable way to run a tech business.

Yes, I agree. This does seem to be the most profitable model for running a tech business: maximizing user engagement or increasing the time users spend on the platform. Whether that’s achieved through intentionally convoluted UI or by aggressively surfacing certain content, the end goal remains the same.

That said, I don’t think there’s much room left for significant innovation in video streaming interfaces. The core challenge continues to be content — whoever offers the best or most compelling library wins. UI changes might tweak engagement metrics by a few percentage points, but they’re marginal compared to the impact of strong content.

At the end of the day, if there’s a great movie or series to watch, people will show up. If the content isn’t there, no amount of clever interface design will convince someone to spend 30 minutes on something they’re not actually interested in.
If we're making breaking changes to the default CSS styles, I wish we'd include default styles for dark mode as well.

Mainly, I'd love for pages without any CSS to render in dark mode when the system+browser are set to dark mode.
Some tattoos are cool though:

https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/us-news/all-of-secretary-of-de...
$31 million: https://www.gq.com/story/patek-philippe-31-million-most-expe...
Huh, why should “continue watching” be the first row?

If I don’t care enough to finish a movie I may as well start a new one. At the very least it’s not a clear choice.
> And most people on this planet are more or less happy with whatever they're presented with because they don't care about technology.

I think this is a debatable statement. It could be true, but I am increasingly convinced that enshittification, TikTokification, AIfication, etc. is proceeding despite what the average person wants. Average does not mean gaping, uninspired idiot. I think people in general do notice that everything is broken, short-lived, watered down and ad-ridden. But what to do? When every company does it, voting with your wallet becomes practically impossible.
I think part of it's probably that the military is the largest discretionary spending in the US, and it's not especially popular, unlike say NASA or the NPS.
The article is more about the fact that the exposure risk hasn’t gone away after banning it in fuel and paint, and that it’s still everywhere and contaminated the soil.
Were these one-year contracts?
>After I cracked the trick of tillering

Guide to Bow Tillering:

https://straightgrainedboard.com/beginners-guide-on-bow-till...
I'm not really understanding what this does specifically. It looks like it creates the filesystem on the host machine using chroot and then tarballs it?

Is there an advantage to that over combining layers and using cache mounts to avoid those redundant downloads?

A side-by-side comparison of dive's output would be helpful (https://github.com/wagoodman/dive).

Also can you clarify what you mean by "requiring full rebuilds of all previous steps"?
Surprised in the article there's no mention of the failed Apple car.
>At the time, Apple’s data centers had about 50,000 GPUs that were more than five years old — far fewer than the hundreds of thousands of chips being bought at the time by A.I. leaders like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta, these people said.

I think people should give credit to Apple when they only have 50K GPU that were from 2018. I am surprised some of the AI function even worked at all.
Russian cable attacks 'threaten to cut off internet'
And even if that isn't the case right at this moment, they have to be prepared for rights-holders to fuck with them and they have to be prepared to cut production costs (or for a rival to spend big on production in a way they don't think they can match).

So regardless of the state of their content library it's necessary future-proofing.
Casually annexing land and killing women and children in the process, what's new?
It will not be announced.

Fun fact: the current Republican administration was pushing a budget that substantially increased the federal deficit. The one that was finally approved is still a massive budget deficit increase.

Obama reduced the deficit by nearly half during his presidency, the current FY2025 budget has authorized a $1.9 trillion deficit (6.2% of GDP), with reconciliation instructions potentially allowing for a staggering $3.3-5.8 trillion in additional deficit increases over the next decade.

* Obama's final deficit (2017): $666 billion

* Current 2025 projected deficit: $1.9 trillion

This represents an increase of approximately $1.23 trillion, or about 185% higher than Obama's final deficit. The current deficit is nearly triple what it was at the end of the Obama administration.

Republicans have mastered the art of fiscal hypocrisy: campaigning against deficits to win elections, then ballooning them with tax cuts for the wealthy, only to leave Democrats with the thankless job of fiscal cleanup—for which voters reliably punish them at the polls.
If you didn’t know all the accounting firms have massive IT consulting practices then do you really know about them?

I think Deloitte makes about half of their US revenue from various consulting projects.

https://www.projectworks.com/blog/2024-the-big-4s-revenue
Well... unless it's for temporary projects, government should just create the capacity in-house. Having to bring in consulting for everything because there is no know-how left is pointless.
Not to be a cynic, but I bet all this means is that Republican campaign contributions from Deloitte and Accenture will be down and Democratic contributions will go up and new contracts will be awarded in the future so that the wealth class (won't someone think of the poor shareholders) can continue to steal your money.
Sink or Swim: The fate of sinking tectonic plates depends on their ancient
This was my first thought as well. I wonder if he hired someone to build it and is paying some kind of monthly maintenance fee. Anyone here could contact this guy and offer to put the page behind a (probably ~free) CDN.
Optimistic scifi properties:

* The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (+ sequels)

* Monk & Robot by Becky Chambers (+ sequel)

* Most of, but not all of, Star Trek. This is getting infected with cynicism in some places, but still largely optimistic about a utopian future.

* The Martian by Andy Weir

* For All Mankind on Apple TV+

* Arrival movie

That's what I can think of since the 90s. Doubt it's a complete list, but really Becky Chambers is the optimistic voice in the domain, primarily since she focuses her works on interpersonal vs. galactic or societal dynamics.
I originally read this as "No, code is dead..." and thought here we go. I agree with the sentiment in this, and seems to line up with my experience with friends and colleagues of various persuasions. Certainly for anything React-like and front end heavy, people can scratch itches like never before. I still think it's heavily towards the "throwaway" and relatively small side of this, beyond that I think if you're not already somewhat familiar, you'll hit a brick wall.
Is there a reciprocal Gelman where ignorant outsiders assume things are unreasonable and wasteful but anyone with expertise knows better? (Examples come to mind of Sarah Palin ridiculing fruit fly genetics work or DOGE’s press conferences about children receiving social security when they were just receiving survivors benefits)
> It turns out people didn’t want less code — they wanted a better way to write code.

Wanting "a better way to write code" is one thing. Finding a way to usefully fit LLMs into your workflow is another thing. "Vibe coding" is yet another thing, distinct from the first two. Vibe coding is to programming as throwing a water balloon full of paint at a canvas is to painting. It works just as long as you don't actually care about the result.
Absolutely. I'm currently spending about $50 per workday in additional costs. But it's so much better - an entirely different experience.
I thought that got paused by tweet yesterday.
The problem with this little post is, that vibe coding just is not a "better" way to code. It strips development of something from all the fun developing, from circling around an idea, from figuring out something with your own brain, from trying and testing new stuff, from actually working as a developer...

If you genuinely "vibe-code 24/7", you don't develop software, you are translating business logic rules to a set of long explained commands and put it in a black box and hope it works...

Integrating AI in a meaningful way while keeping the same consistency and maintainability of a software project is hard, just throwing EVERYTHING at an LLM has not really worked out in the last few months to a year yet...
Miata, BRZ, Nissan Z, and GT-R? Toyota's GR86 is BRZ derived but still counts, though their Supra is a BMW. Honda's closest thing is the Civic Type R, but they're bringing back the Prelude soon. Mitsubishi are the odd one out, all they have is an SUV recycling the Eclipse's name.

There's no million dollar Japanese supercars competing against Lamborghinis and McLarens, but I wouldn't say they stopped making sports cars.
> Just curious if you have ever felt that it's hard to demonstrate your value to the organization if you're a "glue" guy like that. (I have also worked in several small companies, but only as a partner or an executive.)

I'm probably the outlier who don't care too much about showing my value to my employer as long as they pay me. Somehow getting appreciation (whether true-hearted or not) is not a huge motivation to me. The reason I moved forward with this role was because miscommunication or zero-communication bogged down my work and created potential hazards in the maintenance phase. I'd like to remove those obstacles so I stepped forward to clean it up. I always protect myself by ccing everyone and try to reduce my responsibility in all of these -- because it is not clean cut who should do this communication type of work.

Maybe that's why I hate it.
Out of curiosity, what were the 4 behaviours and alternatives?

Using the post’s framework, I wonder whether his “assholery” had any positive flipsides— maybe something like speaking openly when others (politely) wouldn’t?
The term "production-grade" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
The most alarming thing I have seen recently in regards to the push for Real ID, is in the Election EO that came out recently, either a passport or Real ID will be required to vote in federal elections.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/pres...
Sure, https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Top-mini-pc-i7-10... is the minipc they use. Just buy it directly from China and install Coreboot.
I initially confusingly read it as equivalent to "all code is alive". Perhaps title should be "No-code is dead".
Will those jobs pay them the same amount, allow them to have similar qualities of life?
> That would make sense for someone with all the relevant context about this story.

Earlier, for instance, you said "it sounds like he has done this before and refused to pay a fine". Could you not similarly say whether, based on the information we have now, it sounds to you as if the fine is reasonable?

My understanding of the context is that:

1. Nancy Faeser was photographed holding a sign saying "WE REMEMBER"

2. That picture was turned into a blank meme template to fill with text intended to be satirical/humorous (e.g: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnrNpDzXgAEsmtI.jpg - not actually humorous, but intended to be by its author)

3. Among those posting memes was David Bendels, who put "I hate freedom of speech!" (in black impact-font text) on the sign and posted it on X/Twitter

4. "Faeser was reportedly alerted to the post by the police, and subsequently filed a criminal complaint"

5. Bendels, who "has no prior criminal convictions", was initially ordered by the court to pay his daily income times 210

6. Bendels "filed an objection against the penalty, which automatically led to a trial"

7. The court considered the Bendels "made a deliberately false factual statement", and Bendels subsequently recieved a seven-month suspended prison sentence (plus a €1500 fine, and must "apologise in writing to Faeser")

> This case feels like the same thing -- it started with someone claiming that a journalist was jailed for sharing a meme, then I learned this is a complete distortion.

The original claim in this chain was:

> > A journalist in Germany was just sentenced to seven months for posting a meme of a politician where she holds up a sign saying "I hate free speech".

Which still seems true to me. I don't think anyone here is a crackpot.

> And if I'm being honest, I'm only writing this reply because it doesn't feel good to read "assuming you can be intellectually honest" while engaging in what I assumed was a cordial exchange, so I can't help but defend myself -- which I think I'll stop now and just let go.

Sorry - that probably came across as more accusatory than I intended. Meant to be read more as reasoning for my belief that you could admit it seems disproportionate based on current information, as opposed to an accusation that you haven't been intellectually honest thus far.
This is the cycle I keep seeing:

Most great products start out for enthusiasts and often by enthusiasts. They’re opinionated, sharp, sometimes rough, but exciting.

Then VC funding comes in, and the product has to appeal to a broader audience. Things get smoothed out and the metrics rule decisions.

Eventually, the original enthusiasts feel left out. The product’s no longer for them.

So a new product comes out, started again by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. And the cycle repeats - unless someone chooses to grow slowly and sustainably, without raising, and stays focused on the niche.
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
The Pentagon will never pass an audit. Some of that money goes into things the auditors do not have clearance for.
Yes, the scale is a huge part of it. If some program has a $1mil budget and you were to tell me that 25% of it was wasted. Well who cares? $250k in the US budget is a rounding error on a rounding error.

But if you were to tell me that 25% of the Pentagon's budget was waste? That's a big deal.

Yet somehow a certain segment of our population tends to focus on the small fries.
Panama deal allows US to deploy troops to canal
It might be a small percentage of the pentagon’s budget. But it’s still $5.1bn of taxpayer money being reigned in here. It’s $13 per person in the country. You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money - from space programs to science funding.
There are several Lisp implementations (including fully-fledged operating systems) which are implemented in Lisp top to bottom.
Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked
I feel like they just want the era of movies that existed in 2012 (as opposed to the ones they get on the front page today). The experience hasn't changed that much
It's funny, really.

My girlfriend thinks my cheap modern shitbox is more expensive than my old 90's 4x4 truck.
What's anti-social about it? You can follow people, you can talk to other people, you can write things for others to read and discuss. It's not advertisement-oriented, and thus doesn't try to keep the engagement high. But those are anti-features of social networks, not what they promise.
At this stage the cost is probably more in licensing fees and production costs than data streaming though.
According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive nearly a 50 percent cut in funding. After the agency received $7.5 billion for science in fiscal-year 2025, the Trump administration has proposed a science topline budget of just $3.9 billion for the coming fiscal year.
Not only can you get all the sounds in the world, it’s also much more neighbor- and recording-friendly.

But I should get that ancient Fender Princeton Reverb out of the basement to feel the wind in my hair again (and the ringing in my ears).
Having observed and been part of contracts involving these companies, it would take a lot to convince me that at least 80% of them don’t cost an order of magnitude (or more) more than they should.

It’s not usually the type of work, it’s the specific commercial model and mode of engagement with them that’s generally at fault, often aided and abetted by procurement processes.
During most of my single days, I didn't have to pretend to be poor as fuck. On the other hand, I didn't really need to impress my father.
So you are comparing existing, actual waste with your "imaginary" waste that might or might not happen... Go easy on the kool aid.
Texas Instruments is likely to sue you.

Change your domain name.

Don't advertise it as a TI-84. Advertise it as TI-84 compatible.
While I fully agree with you on the absence of good benchmarks and the growing LLM slop ...

"running a model trained in FP8 in 16bit, something noone would do, etc"

I did that because on the RTX 3090 - which can be a good bang per buck for inference - the FP8 support is nerfed at the driver level. So a kernel that upscales FP8 to FP16 inside SRAM, then does the matmul, then downscales to FP8 again can bring massive performance benefits on those consumer cards.

BTW, you can run a good DeepSeek3 quant on a single H200.