skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think there is a decent argument that some of the nihilism we see in the population comes from seeing a general unwillingness to jail or proportionately punish wealthy criminals.

You are so right. Whatever the benefit of having laws at all is, it evaporates when laws are selectively not applied.

We're seeing the consequencefs of it today, in the "content creation" business and many other. It's a dog eat dog situation. Truth lost any relevance. As the influencer you know very well that whatever you're feeding your audience is empty hope, dreams and fantasy. As long as the check from IG/YT/TikTok is big enough, you don't care. Why care?
The issue is pretty obvious to most normal people. My ex bought a Purism phone and laptop, said he would switch to Linux the moment they arrived at his doorstep. He ended up buying a new Macbook and iPhone before any of his Purism hardware started shipping. He might still be using the Apple hardware too.

I love FOSS as much as the next guy but you're being outright facetious if you can't see Purism's problem.
That is the premise of the "Feeling Great" book and its CBT approach. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54930681-feeling-great
Deloitte and Accenture would be considered the worst US companies if Monsanto/Bayer and Nestlé didn’t exist. Their work is always waste.
I've long wondered why Amazon made it harder to buy products from them, why they've decreased the [customer] value of their search, decreased the value of the filters, decreased the value of the reviews...

I mean the answer has to be "they make more money this way" but for me it's means I groan internally before going to Amazon because finding the product I want will be almost impossible - it's even hard if I already visited and already found what I wanted to buy, finding it again, near impossible. Not even basics like search by product manufacturer actually work.

Sites with usable search are a relative joy.
You cannot ultimately chain people to their desks. What you either get is a "soft" withdrawal of labour (people refuse to take the job if they have any other choice available, as we're discussing upthread, so you get dregs), or the whole thing explodes into "illegal" strikes. Which are harder to resolve, because you made sure there's no one organisation to negotiate with.
I never said that the US is free in any way
This clockwork lookin' fella seems to have been characterized sometime around 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9gJkPxU
I wonder if like cars, LLMs will be as equally destructive to our social fabric.
This is frequently stated, but is there any evidence that the "epiphany" is actually required for learning?
i slow charge it overnight as well, it takes like 6 hours. i think that has kept the battery in a good shape
Shout out to Archery GB - https://archerygb.org/ - because if you're going to be firing arrows, you really really should know how to do it safely. Bows are not toys.
"Not Just Measles": Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline
Well, there is a setting to turn it off.
By almost everyone who has done a comparison.

VMs have a full OS that needs to be maintained (patched, upgraded when EOL, etc.).

Hypervisors traditionally cost a metric crapton of money per core. Yes, Proxmox is pretty good, but it's the exception, not the norm. They're also relatively slow in spinning up new VMs (kind of by definition, it takes a lot of time to emulate a full blown replica of hardware vs just starting a process in a cgroup/jail).

And most of all, VMs are just solving the wrong problem. You don't care about emulating hardware, you care about running some workload. Maybe it needs specific hardware or a virtual version of it, but more likely than not, it's a regular batch processor or API that can happily run in a container with almost none of the overhead of a full VM.
The Government _can't_ be streamlined because the right incentives are not in place, and human beings respond to incentives.

For example: if a bureaucrat does not use up their budget, it is (often) reduced proportionately in the next iteration. So these people have an incentive to use up the entire budget, if they want to have any hope of getting their requests next year. As a result, they will often do wasteful spending. I know this from experience, because in my previous life as code monkey in a small-ish government contractor, my boss had made it an art form to figure out who had extra money left over near the end of the fiscal year and pitch them ideas. A few 100K here, a few 100K there and the company was making decent money just mooching off of the leftovers from Federal budgets.

If you want to fix the Federal government, you have to incentivize the officials to be rewarded for saving money.
2025.15: Liberation and Whiplash
i think we are approximately 30T beyond "slow and thoughtful approach to cutting". if you want your program to be considered carefully, pass it with the necessary tax increases to fund it. don't just punt the tax receipts problem to the next guy.

of course, if Trump is doing this all so he can pass his tax cuts as seems almost certain, he is no better. but frankly yes, the US needs deep cuts and concordant tax receipts increases to maintain a sustainable debt trajectory and price stability/productivity for the middle/working class.
I guess this is a relatively common observation nowadays
https://medium.com/luminasticity/your-greatest-strength-is-y...
ES2015 template strings from the beginning supported "tagged template literals" where the tag is a function that gets the template itself and the objects passed to the "holes" in the template as separate arguments. From there that function can do things like turn the holes themselves into something like SQL Parameter syntax and wrap the things that go in those holes in properly escaped SQL Parameters.

`some template {someVar}` was f-strings and someFunction`some template {someVar}` was more like what these t-strings provide to Python. t-strings return an object (called Template) with the template and the things that go into the "holes", versus tagged templates are a function calling pattern, but t-strings are still basically the other, richer half of ES2015+ template strings.
> Who is currently saying they want a "faster computer"?

well... I definitely want more performance per watt. And I stress "performance", because more MIPS are useless if wasted.
>And it would be reckless to assume the shocks are over, or that foreign investors’ faith in American assets, now shaken, can be magically restored. How much more can the system take before something really does break?
AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem
The most artist heavy platform is twitter.
The trouble with that is plenty of extensions legitimately need to run on all sites all the time for the user to get the value they want. Ad blockers, coupons for all stores, etc.
My guess is that most Bluesky users are doing their own thing and never noticed this until after it was over and appeared in the news. But it does seem like there is a large crowd of nasty people in Bluesky, and that seems like a bad sign.
Htmx is the exact opposite of what they're talking about. There are two concepts here: how you render and where you keep state.

HTMX is real time in the sense that it updates over the wire, but you're still keeping all state on the server side.

I don't want to reload the page to open a drawer. You'll notice HN isn't exactly mobile friendly because that requires hiding enough options that you need drawers or other ways to shrink and expand. You can do that with CSS, but that's still state, just state localized to that page load.

And there are sites that have unavoidably complex session state. You can have a resource that's on half the pages but is expensive to compute. I don't want to load it every time when almost none of it changes. I don't want to cache it on the server if it's a big payload

There's a world of difference between no state and over bloated SPAs
Communication and customer relations issues. My experience, and that of many others online, was that Purism was not transparent or apparently honest about things like timelines and delays. People also had problems with getting Purism to honor refunds, warranties (I had this issue), and similar, exacerbated by communication. This continued to happen over a period of years.

I'm not here to relitigate the whole Purism saga. I bought 4 Purism products, was one of the first people in the world to own a Librem 5, I invested (donated?). I love the company mission, I think it's fantastic that you're daily driving a Librem 5. But I'm not ready to engage again myself, and that's too bad, but I think a lot of people ended up feeling the same way.
I thought that was pretty clear; I mean that Grok's "unbiased" training seems to align it with anti-Musk positions pretty regularly. As such, I'm not super fearful of it being picked to run the US government right now.

Further examples: https://decrypt.co/310771/elon-musks-grok-ai-is-turning-agai...

> For instance, if you ask Grok: “Who is the biggest spreader of misinformation on X?” it replies that “Based on available reports and analyses, Elon Musk is frequently identified as one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X."
Nice idea. I'd love to try it in my project. One thing I am missing is that the LLM can only be triggered by user actions on the UI or some asynchronous data fetching logic. Is it possible to make it autonomous?

Maybe useEffect can help agent stay in an infinite loop? The "foot gun" is finally useful!
One of the great things about arbitrarily breaking contracts is that you save money in the short term, and signal future contractors that they need to charge even more exorbitant rates in future government contracts because you can never be sure if/when you will get paid.
Who's that and do they work for Netflix?

Tbh I don't mind the previews as long as they don't make the UI lag*. I was just pointing out that they don't save bandwidth.

* I'm also aware that they're blatant lies and have little connection with what's in the actual movie.
It's already back on the brink.
I don't know about the standard navy officer school but the naval academy only stopped teaching it for like a ten year period and then brought it back.

Funny enough though serious rec sailors are the most likely to know it well I think. They are much more likely to be in a situation where it's necessary and they have fewer shipboard obligations compared to a naval officer so more time/boredom to use futzing with it. It does take practice.
This seems so far from the truth IMO.

I go and play pickleball outside at the park with friends for several hours a week.

All I spent was $50 on a paddle and $70 shoes and a $2 ball, and I could have spent less...

I play about 3 times a week for 2-3 hours at a time, so about 6-9 hours a week.

The paddle will last years, not exactly sure about the shoes, but still, you can play with your street shoes and it would be fine...

Anyways, even for a single 5 month stretch of warm weather for me way up in Wisconsin, this is less than $1 per hour. I spent $122 and I will play 120-180 hours easily from May-Sept outside for free.

This is the same for playing tennis, or basketball or soccer or frisbee golf, etc etc at the park with friends, or even with meetup groups if you don't have friends to play with.

This is so much cheaper entertainment than video gaming.

What about meetup groups that I go to play board games with people? I do this several hours a month too and it costs me nothing but the gas to get there. The meetup group often provides all the board games for free and there a dozens to choose from.

I can come up with tons of more examples of basically free or very cheap entertainment.
Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000
The first startup I ever worked for used Python server pages, .psp file extension.
No, those are very different. If the alternatives did not exist, or even if its as though they did not exist, then you are looking to produce something new for the sake or delivering any solution.

If the alternatives just suck and you realize you can do so much better then your goal is wildly different. Its not about any solution because you already know what the baseline and acceptance criteria are. Its only about not feeling the pain that other solutions provide. You are otherwise providing the same solution and just doing it in a way that's like chocolate and caviar.
They’re missing multi-machine orchestration: Run thousands of jails on these dozen machines. Don’t bother me with the details at runtime.

They are also missing an ergonomic tool like dockerfiles. The following file, plus a cli tool for “run N copies on my M machines” should be enough to run bsd in prod, and it is not:

“FROM openbsd:latest ; CMD pkg -i apache ; echo “apache=enabled >> /etc/rc.defaults ; COPY public_html /var/www/ ; CMD init”

I don’t think writing the tooling would be that difficult, but it was missing the last time I looked.
Canaries in the Coalmine
Worth noting the 10 year are spiking again today and are currently at a higher level than Wednesday:
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y?count...

(though they have started recovering some since I posted this originally)
Wow, I hadn’t thought of it like that before. I’ve recently been finding real insights in such reframing.
DOE withdraws, postpones multiple appliance energy efficiency rules
If that were indeed the case, your employer might not be investing so much in automation. They don't want to give up bargaining power any more than you do.
There is a difference between thinking about the context of a problem and "critical thinking" about the problem or its possible solutions.

There is a measurable decrease in critical thinking skills when people consistently offload the thinking about a problem to an LLM. This is where the primary difference is between solving problems with an LLM vs having it solved for you with an LLM. And, that is cause for concern.

Two studies on impact of LLMs and generative AI on critical thinking:

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6

https://slejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40561-...
I've become so disenchanted with internet vitriol that it's surreal seeing these trolls attack a social media presence that's geniunely deserving. Still, I wouldn't invite any of these people to my house.
Yeah they'll move it in-house... after they just fired all the new hires from this year. I'm sure they'll be able to find a bunch of experienced devs with clearances who want to work near DC for 50k/yr.
The warning is only for <h1>s inside a section, so GP’s example — where the only h1 is at the top level — would not be flagged.
These methods are typical of authoritarian regimes to crush any protests that threaten the dominant powers. We can easily see that one of the dominant powers in this authoritarian regime is Israel. (Not "the Jews", many of whom took part in the protests- but Israel and its Zionist supporters in the US).

And it is so powerful that even in the face of repression and limitations to freedom of speech that clearly go to its advantage, you don't dare to point your finger at it but claim that it's just an excuse for something different.
Then employers will stop caring about the degree...
I still see it today
It's a problem of nixpkgs. It would be cool to have an Alpine-like alternative package set focused on minimal package size.
the US has at-will employment, save it with the hyperbole. There are plenty of non-unionized jobs people would love to have.

Collective bargaining against private actors is fine. There should be no collective bargaining against the democratic will of the people, any more than some random group of federal workers has veto power over law passed bu congress. It is simply not how democracy works.
Why does this matter? Government either gives loans and demands they are paid back, or pays for deliverables. If you have to keep your fingers in the books to feel good about what's happening, it was a badly structured contract.
This is a misframing of the sentiment. No one believes there isn't waste in government. We just don't believe 5 under 20 year olds, some with criminal backgrounds, others whose only qualification is Elon Musk likes them, are good at identifying what's waste and what's important.

And we would like to see a measured approach to reducing waste, with some findings released to the people about what the plan is going forward and why the cuts make sense, rather than "just fire every probational employee" or "just 50% slash the SEC" or whatever else they are doing currently.
> This is not a really a problem in "regular" programming languages

https://go.dev/wiki/Comments#directives :-D
That's entirely possible. I use Strava a lot and sometimes challenges or segment leaderboards show activities that are obviously invalid. And then when you look at the details you see bizarre GPS (GNSS) tracks in Eastern Europe or Russia that are characteristic of jamming or spoofing. GPS is great but it's really dangerous to rely on it for primary navigation.
In my experience, that's probably not a good presumption anymore.

It feels to me like usability testing and quality assurance have both joined security and accessibility on the back burner now.
Oh, it's fine. They can hire help from Russia to secure our infrastructure for a very low price. With the tariffs it doesn't really make sense for China to bid, or they'd be paying US!

Eventual costs, well that's not really a concern and neither is national defense.
Show HN: I built an app to stop me from always being late
I've been wanting to change my habit of always being late so I built an app to help me.

The app is built in SwiftUI and uses live activities, notification, and dynamic islands to keep me aware of exactly when to leave.

I'd love to get your thoughts on it.
Yea, iTunes (renamed Apple Music) is getting bad. The only thing I care about is what I've cared about since 2000: Playing a bunch of MP3 files in my collection. That functionality is now relegated to "third tab from the left," shoved aside behind a glass case like a relic from a former era.
, is typically “unquote.” Clojure is the only “mainstream” Lisp that allows , as whitespace. Has meaning in CL and Scheme.
> I think it’s fair to believe that democracy has failure modes where we say, “Nope, this outcome didn’t work.” For example, if fellow citizens start getting rounded up in camps or deported, regardless of due process, what the electorate wants and the votes communicate are no longer relevant.

That's a tricky line, because it's on the path to: "You have the 'freedom' to vote for whoever you like, just as long as they're a Communist who will loyally implement Communist policies."

Personally, I don't think many people in the US are actually committed democrats. They're mostly partisans committed to their party/ideology, and there's a lot of maneuvering to confuse people that their party's policy is set in stone ("constitutional/constitutionally required") and entrench it against democratic action.
Muscle memory. I could probably get by with something cheaper but I have been using photoshop for thirty years at this point, I know hot keys and workflows at a spiritual level at this point.
How do we know that isn't enforced here too?
You should probably read the article... the author did not say that Netflix and TikTok are the faster horse, the opposite actually. You seem really focused on the quote for some reason.
There's a presumption in the logic of your statement here that if there is any waste in a program, it must be cut.

It turns out that there is generally waste in all operations; it doesn't follow that all operations should be terminated.
func(a, b) is basically the same as (func a b). You're just moving the parens around. '+' is extra 'strange' because in most languages it isn't used like other functions: imagine if you had to write +(1, 2) in every C-like.
Has anyone actually stopped using Photoshop?

What are they migrating to?
> YouTube. YouTube: Once a video catalog with social discovery. Now? TikTok.

I hate YouTube Shorts with a passion. They are low-effort engagement bait. They cannot be disabled.

Even worse, my Google TV will not play them when my phone is connected to it, and my phone will not play them when it is connected to my TV. Both devices can play them fine, they just don’t want to play them when they are connected.

There can be no good technical reason for this. It’s just delivering a bad experience because it can.
WSGI and FastCGI are not mutually exclusive. They talk to each other. They can both be part of the same stack.
I think the most important word in the OP is

> My kids all love _making_ art

There's a real human sense of accomplishment and ownership when you put your own effort into making your own creations real. Typing words into a box to make a picture is a fun novelty, and might be useful to people who have to shovel images out the door, but I've never felt anything like the same satisfaction, and I'd imagine kids feel that innately.
By what definition of "ideal"? You just hid all the complexity in those undefined `convert` and `format` methods.
AIs still aren't autonomous. The model doesn't make anything unless a human directs it to. It's just another layer of abstraction above the camera or paintbrush.
> Despite the warnings, we're allowing companies to build killer robot and are running a large scale experiment to build a god.

I am doing everything I can think of to stop AI companies from building a god (to borrow your words). Last year and this year I've donated five figures to nonprofits that are trying to slow down AI development. I write letters to legislators whenever the opportunity arises — I wrote a letter to Gavin Newsom urging him to support SB-1047, which unfortunately he did not do; also wrote a letter to Scott Weiner offering support and encouraging him to keep trying.

You could do the same. I'm not confident about what's the best thing to do and I think the things I've done probably didn't help, but they are worth trying anyway.
Honestly, Adobe deserves it. Their early cancellation fees is atrocious.
Is there a way to record the screen WITH AUDIO and save it?
I'm already moving into Linux for one of my laptops. If the drivers and desktop experiences are good enough (or bad enough in Windows) I might move 100% to Linux in a few years.
truly the mcMaster-Carr of video
I have this popup in Win 10 that will not go away, out of nowhere "DING" "Would you like to use Adobe PDF?" It's built into Windows like wth
Oh, not at all.

AI goggles telling you who to kill is bad.

If they wind up implememented anyways, the program being cut very short via friendly-fire against the direct perpetrator of its implementation seems like the best bad-case scenario.

Like when Taliban bomb makers accidentally blow themselves up.
The US civil war was fought over slavery. Was that worth fighting for? I think so. Human rights are worth defending with force, imho. Last line of defense when politics breaks down, as history repeatedly teaches.

Isn’t the communism boogeyman tired at this point? Perhaps we have a disconnect if I’m arguing human rights and you’re arguing economic systems as what the fight is over politically.
Either way you're taking on a big task because of the pain you were suffering, and only when some pain threshold is exceeded. That's the core of TFA. It's the same.
I forgot that DOE could refer to the Department Of Energy or the Department Of Education.
you might want to consider fixi, our ultra-minimalist implementation of general hypermedia controls:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi
A reminder that photopea.com is a great photoshop alternative and it's web-based
Surely you can find a bigger hill these days.
> Why they would foster a doom-scrolling experience I really can't really explain

Entertainment is a zero-sum market. More time spent doom scrolling means less time spent on another service, which probably reduces their churn (also, ads)