skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High-speed racing using teleoperation over 4G/LTE (YouTube) [video]
Quite exceptional
Yeah, but you don't have access to those people all the time. If I have a free tool on my laptop that can do everything better than me at my command, it feels silly to spend the time to master the instrument.
> Banning them doesn’t get rid of them.

Check historical instances of gun bans. They don’t line up with this assertion.

> They will be emboldened by knowing that every potential victim they come across will be unarmed.

Check historical instances of gun bans. They don’t line up with this assertion.

> What is preventing a government from declaring marshal law and suspending elections as soon as the citizens are disarmed?

The same thing that prevents this in countries with gun bans.
It's the blockchain mania all again.
The brain turns the raw input from the eyes into the rich, layered visual experience we have of the world:

- basic features (color, brightness and contrast, edges and shapes, motion and direction)

- depth and spatial relationships

- recognition

- location and movement

- focus and attention

- prediction and filling in gaps

“Seeing” real world requires much more than simply seeing with one eye.
The Psychology Behind Fearlessness
Notes from the SF Party Scene
Plenty of USAID wasteful spending was already cut as well
I'll quote the line more explicitly from this article:

> If nobody on the list accepts it, then as a last resort the kernel will attempt to treat it as a shell script without a shebang line.

They said that the kernel is responsible for invoking the shell. I honestly think this was just a brain fart and the author meant to put shell and not kernel. With both words flying around in your head, it's an easy mistake to make.

But, the again, the article goes on to talk about how it decides to even try that last step:

> Interesting side note: The kernel decides whether or not to try to parse a file as a shell script by whether or not it contains a line break in the first few hundred bytes — specifically if it contains a line break before the first zero byte. Thus a data file that just happens to have a "\n" near the top can produce some odd-looking error messages if you try to execute it.

So I don't know.
Because we shouldn't be cutting research, healthcare and social security if we want to have a future as a society.
> if you develop your product by following your analytics, you'll inevitably converge on something that just shoves content into the faces of an indiscriminating userbase, because that's what the median user of any given service wants

Except you're making the mistake of thinking these services are optimizing for their userbase.
They are not.
They are optimizing for revenue and profit growth,
a very different target.
More ads,
cheaper and easier-to-product content,
lower opex.

They are converging to churning out the least offensive slop at the cheapest cost with the maximum revenue.

None of the analytics are about what people using the product want,
they are about making the most money and growing the fastest.
Nothing would look like the services mentioned in the article if they listened to what the users really preferred.
>You assume the everyone's needs are solved together.

No, I am not assuming that. "Together" are not required. It's just combination of needs, ability to satisfy them and ability to exchange - creates jobs. And nothing of this will be thwarted by AI.

>More likely is that the property owning class acquire AI robots to provide cheap labor

Doesn't matter. Your everyday person either will be able to afford this cheap AI labor for themselves (no problem that required solving) or if AI labor for them are unaffordable - will create jobs for other people (there will be jobs on market everywhere)
Department of Veteran's affairs budget was $328.1 billion and should probably be counted along with DoD since it's commitments made for former DoD recruits.
If you think vibe code is better please hit me up, I have some more garbage to sell you
Less than a quarter of it, but over 50% of those who voted (Trump got 77.3 million votes on a population of around 340 million)

Those who didn’t vote will have had different reasons, including “don’t care”, “my candidate will win, anyways”, “no time”, and “registering to vote was too hard for me”. We don’t know the distribution of that.
I'm no fan of the Pentagon and certainly think it's a money sieve, but why are you asserting that this $5.1B is "actual waste" and also not imaginary?
I agree, but there's probably a lot of people who would love calligraphy who never even try it out, because it seems useless.
That's literally what has been happening forever though. Think how complex the abstractions are from something like SQL to the actual CPU instructions that are being executed on a modern OS.

The thing I'm most excited about with 'vibe coding' isn't really existing software developers making things. It's people with deep domain knowledge who can't program can now build stuff. It's more of an excel replacement imo as it gets into the mainstream.

I am sure that most LLM generated software projects are more easily understood at a code level than the average excel 'megasheet' created by this kind of person, and certainly will be less brittle to a certain degree.
The US style also has much smaller and cheaper plugs, and the cords are all basically the same size anyway. I don’t recall any UK appliances being notably less bulky or anything either (though when running 220v, you can have electric kettles which aren’t lame, which is nice).

Notably, pretty much everywhere else in the world also uses similar branch circuit type designs and 220v and their plugs and appliances are also not notably more bulky either.

The difference in wire diameter between say 6amps and 15 amps isn’t that noticeable. 15 and 30 is.
I did this analogy in the past and I was way downvoted. Just for clarification, I use vibe-coding a lot in side projects where I don't know if I am going to release it at all, or when I know that a mistake in the code won't crash a business.

However, when I do vibe-coding, I feel like a PM asking a remote team to do code and I get back the response asap. It could be good or it could be bad, but if I don't check it, I am just a PM trusting 100% what my engineer (team) did. How did this work in reality before IA? Well, the engineers had to have some kind of responsability and testing, and assuring that what they did was OK. Now that part is completely "disabled", and the PM Is responsable for the tech aspect as well, without the knowledge (and I am avoiding all the deploy / infra perspective).
I agree, and I feel the beauty oftentimes comes from the intrinsic love evident in the machine. Looking at a Ferrari it's evident Enzo had a passion for autos. This can also cross boundaries (eating at fine dining restaurants, fine art gallery layouts, etc.) and is probably discernible in MOST things people put out.
The article doesn't say the length of the contract or really anything about what it was for.
Public health research is good. Bombing civilians in the third world is bad. Do you get it now?
>existing, actual waste

Where are you getting that this is "actual" waste, because you read some mean things about consultants? Go easy on the kool aid.
If you're trying to convince me that I was somehow part of the problem, it's not reaching me. I was as low(ly) as you can get in the "tech industry stack". While I still had some measure of agency as an engineer I added a crayon color picker to MacOS, added most of the PDF features people like in MacOS Preview. That was as much "driving the ship" as I was allowed — until I wasn't even allowed that.

I could have skipped sooner maybe?

Once I had kids though I found I had a higher tolerance for a job getting shittier, a lower tolerance for restarting in a new career. So I put up with a worsening job for them.

I quit the moment my last daughter left for college.
Your public tax dollars picked Tesla and SpaceX as winners vs losers, through billions of dollars of subsidies.
I agree that them becoming big and successful trends them toward mediocre products and quality, though also enables big jumps like Apple Silicon too.
It is unfortunate but most users here are just partizans fueled with propaganda. I do not remember this place being such an echo chamber 10 years ago...
I haven't used Bazel but I have used buck1 extensively, and the daemonized mode was quite buggy and often required the process to be killed. Quite frequently the process was just wedged, and even when it wasn't, memory leaks were quite common. Standard black box debuggers like strace and DTrace also become harder to use (e.g. you need to attribute a particular set of syscalls to a client, and a mindless "strace buck build ..." doesn't do what you want).

Daemonization is sometimes necessary, but it introduces lifecycle management problems that get in the way of robustness. Daemonization simply because your choice of programming language has bad startup times doesn't seem like a great idea to me.

I think on-disk cache invalidation and in-memory cache invalidation are distinctly different in practice.
It's cheaper just to buy the hardware from China and install their OS on it. They overcharge for a lot of their products including their mini pc which you can just boy from aliexpress and install coreboot on it for way cheaper, https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Top-mini-pc-i7-10....
Cos now that money can now go straight to more Starlink for the pentagon.
Don't be hard on yourself. None of us are born with this knowledge :-)

If you ever shoot, just remember it is a really good idea to wash your hands afterwards (using the dlead soap if possible). It is not a bad idea to have a change of clothes and to wash your clothes right away as well.
Vibe coding is inevitably going to collapse in on itself.
The opinion here isn't homogenous. You'll find a wide range of opinion. It will shift based on which posters are active at a given time, or even from minor nuances in the story.
There is no point in the cruelty because the cruelty is the point.
Agreed, blind people and sighted people are able to experience different kinds of beauty that are inaccessible to each other. As a sighted person, if there was a technology that could describe the beauty that a blind person experiences in a given moment I would think that would be pretty cool to try.

> Please, don't hype accessibility just for your personal fun. There are people out there with real problems, and dangling impossible solutions before their "eyes" is pretty much cruel

Do you think it's going to be impossible forever? bandwidth and latency seem like the surest things to improve in AI tech
Which USAID spending? I haven't seen anything that I would say is both wasteful and significant.
I don't even care about profit. My success indicator is "making something I couldn't make before". Since AI can do it, I can't justify learning an instrument, even if I might enjoy the process a bit.
> An inconsistent stream of ever-changing content

Instagram. I have clicked through an ad, yes AN AD, and came back to get to another ad and had it refreshed away.

I hope they are doing this because it works for them, somehow.

PS: LinkedIn does this too.
What methodology is used for lead testing ? I eared about blood sampling but that quote from the article make me wonder the effectiveness:

> the half-life of lead in the blood (meaning the amount of time needed for the concentration to drop to half) is relatively short, at only 28 days, that’s not the same as the half-life in the body. Some of the lead in the blood will not be eliminated, but it will actually go into the soft tissue, i.e. kidneys, liver, brain, where the half-life is a few months, and more annoyingly, into the bones, where the half-life is between 10 to 30 years. What’s more, from here, lead can leach back into the bloodstream, from where it can once again get into the soft tissue and cause more damage
The LessWrong-style AI risk is "AI becomes so superhuman that it is indistinguishable from God and decides to destroy all humans and we are completely powerless against its quasi-divine capabilities."
I'm sure PaywallBuster has reviewed these and confirmed they were one-year spending before making their statement.
I don’t think that was generally the case. Your comment reminds me of this 1937 footage I saw recently: https://youtu.be/o4xkucZ40Fw?t=1m50s
The examples in this blog are of online streaming media changing from a wide searchable library to an unsearchable tailored recommendation feed.

As I understand, licensing dynamics were the main reason for Netflix's change, not pure product design. In 2012, most movie studios licensed their catalog to Netflix, while 7 years later they took away the licensing to compete with proprietary walled streaming platforms. Due to the smaller catalog, Netflix could not design that open searchable streaming library; they changed their design to make the best of the more limited library.
Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
Vibe coding looks amazing at first, especially if you don't know how to code.

You click a few things, move stuff around, and it feels like you're building something real. But then it gets messy. You try to change one thing, and ten other things break. It becomes frustrating fast.

But if you already know how to code, it's actually great. You can tell what went wrong, fix it, and keep going. It’s fun when you can fall back on your skills. Not so fun when you can’t.
It wasn't completely random or completely (in the current social media sense) algorithmic: There was a settings page where you could pick among dozens of broad topics you were actually interested in and it would only give you results people categorized under it.
>we do waste a ton of money on consultants

I bet the median skill of a Deloitte consultant is higher than that of the average government office worker.
Good luck riding your fast horse through most urban areas (and parking it... er stabling it). All of those things were routine in urban areas before car adoption (I believe Manhattan for instance often had stables in upper floors, leading to some interesting design to get horses up and down).
Here's the thing. What you're doing when you're vibe coding is iteratively creating specifications for software, which the LLM is capable of converting to runnable code. Insufficient specs will lead to code that doesn't do the right thing.

Chat is fundamentally the wrong interface for this. My instructions to the LLM in a chat session are effectively the software specifications, but chat encourages to treat them as ephemeral.

It's analogous to writing code in a high-level language, then deleting the code after it's compiled and keeping only the low-level bytecode.

In the case of vibe-coding, my specifications to the LLM _are_ the code, and the LLM-emitted code is a _artifact_ that can in principle be discarded and re-generated, assuming my specs are precise enough to ensure consistent outputs (the nondeterminism of LLMs is definitely a issue here.)

So I want tools that let me persist my specs, help me iterate on them, check them into version control, and help me test how the LLM interprets them. Not a chat.
Are we not seeing parallels here? No code was touted as a way to eliminate coding altogether. Loved by the business, didn't work in practice. Vibe coding; a way to eliminate (maybe reduce). I see the pitch, but the jury is out on how it will work in practice.
They don't care.
They now make more money selling ads and the user data they've collected.
Reuters is turning into a rag. The vast majority of cutting edge research is not taking place in ossified academia these days, and most Oxford/Cambridge PhDs get on a plane to the US the moment they're done with their degrees. How is that for brain drain?
You're right. Recently there was a thread about how some (many?) people know a field well but can't teach well, and some people know and teach well.
This post seems to suggest that no-code tools like Webflow and Retool are dead or dying. Nothing could be further from the truth - no-code is a booming business, moreso than many developers (who, by their nature, do not like or need such platforms) may realize.

Hearing professional developers talk about how no-code must be useless and/or dead, is kind of like hearing a professional swimmer say that floaties are dead.
Often times prop 65 is a lead issue. But perhaps most often it means that the company doesn't want to bother testing for lead rather than that the item definitely has lead.

With all things, be strategic- the importance of avoiding prop 65 is relative to the likelihood of it ending up in the body- so items in your kitchen, your garden, that young children would touch.
25% waste on single million is not bad. 25% waste on all millions spend is very bad... And that 25% is likely under estimated in many cases. Or at least some more from 75% is inefficiently used.

I admit probably not 25% of all millions is wasted. But even if that is half that would be 12.5% wasted... Or fourth 6.25%. Fixing of which would still be huge long term effect.

So my take is that this needs to be fixed on all levels and on all places.
You keep trying. You may have to take a lesser job to pay the bills, but you keep trying until you succeed. You also need to understand that the CS market has something of a glut right now and with companies downsizing for various reasons, jobs in CS are tight. When I went through the same thing, I took jobs at small companies, startups, etc., to pay the bills and I kept applying to other companies until I landed a job with one of them. You might also consider talking to consulting firms for contract work, something I've done before.

If you give up, you will certainly fail, so don't give up and realize that the hardships you may experience will make you stronger, more resilient, and better prepared to deal with hardships in the future.
I appreciate the in-depth response, and I agree for the most part; the issue is, I can choose to struggle on something more practical. I'd get less fulfillment, but in today's economy, it's a far safer option, and I'd still learn and grow.
Are you saying nobody will recognize old NSX as something special? R34?
looks like gateway address between SMTP and X.400
For all its other problems, f-strings make Python such a pleasure to work with.
C# has something similar IIRC.
It's too early to tell. We're only 24-36 months in.

We're still in the post Netscape, pre-dotcom-crash bubble.

Real applications are coming.
I'm surprised that the services don't seem to have updated for that reality yet; it feels like there's only one or two "hits" on each service per year. They did already adapt a bit by no longer releasing a whole season in one go, so you need at least three months of subscription for a 10 episode weekly series.

But what they need is rolling releases across the whole year, so that once one production is "done", the next one rolls around.

(maybe they already do, I don't know, I'm just thinking of Stranger Things which seems to be Netflix' main seller at the moment)
So I suppose my inability to not suffer is caused by my inability to not suffer!
Closures bring me joy.
"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." - Major General Smedley Butler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." - President Eisenhower

Military Spending and Tax Cuts for the wealthy have some of the lowest economic multipliers of all government activities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplier_(economics)

* Education spending: 2.4 (Federal Reserve research) Source: Federal Reserve

* Medicaid/healthcare: 2.0 Source: Congressional Budget Office Cbpp

* Food stamps (SNAP): 1.73-1.74 Sources: Mark Zandi/Moody's Analytics, Americanprogress, Manhattan Institute

* Unemployment insurance: 1.61-2.1 Sources: Blinder & Zandi; Urban Institute, Americanprogress

* Infrastructure spending: 1.0-2.5 Sources: CBO, Blinder & Zandi, Feyrer & Sacerdote, Americanprogress

* Military spending: 1.5 (average) Source: Federal Reserve

* Middle-class tax cuts: 0.6-1.5 Sources: CBO, Blinder & Zandi, Feyrer & Sacerdote, Americanprogress

* Upper-income tax cuts: 0.2-0.6 Sources: CBO, Blinder & Zandi, Americanprogress

* Permanent extension of all Bush-era tax cuts: 0.35 Source: Moody's Analytics model, Cbpp

Dollar-for-dollar, social program spending consistently produces higher economic returns than military spending or tax cuts, especially tax cuts for the wealthy.

$1 billion spent on education or transit creates more than twice as many jobs (17,687-19,795) as the same amount spent on defense (8,555). -Cigionline

In fact, military spending can actually slow economic growth over time; a 1% military spending increase can reduce economic growth by 9% over 20 years.

Zandi's analysis of 2010 tax legislation found that 90% of economic growth and job creation came from unemployment insurance extensions and targeted tax credits, while high-end tax cuts had "only very small economic impacts." - Cbpp

Jack Ma was completely correct: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-...
> There are few unicorns in Europe

I don't think that unicorns, which tend to have a quasi-monopolistic position in their market segment, are healthy for society, or even for the economy (in the long run), vs many smaller companies.

So I see this as a good thing. The problem is that the draw of unicorns in the US does create a brain drain for those attracted by the prospect of becoming rich.

It's quite difficult to become rich in Europe, compared to the US. It's mostly "old money" that's passed down. But you can be successful and comfortable. Is it important to be "rich"?
Voter turnout was 64%, so really only 32% voted for it.
systemd/particleos is an immutable Linux distribution built with mkosi:

"systemd ParticleOS" (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649088
> 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.

Are you me? I'm a systems thinker and I, too, have to stop and analyze workflows and try to "fix" things. Probably why I ended up in process/management consulting.
Mpox Outbreak in Africa Traced Back to Squirrels
That’s fair!

My comment applies to a few pedantics I know personally, who stubbornly double space after periods when typing in regular situations.
Since I make most things in Rust nowadays, and the article references the pointlessness of FastCGI when you can write native Rust apps, FastCGI has, for me, entered the realm of the forever undying. I configured it many times in the past, so may it rest in peace. (Not sure why that deserves a downvote.)
The dark humor in this is that any such technologically advanced future where humans have a meaningful say will eventually look like one of abundant luxury communism: it's just that the oligarchs' version will have a lot of people die first before the oligarchs enjoy their abundance.

The third option is that the oligarchy fully internalizes its pursuit of ruthless concentration of power. But in that case, someone will probably create an AI that's better at playing the power game, and at that point, it's over for the oligarchs.
Yes, exactly. They are basically all the same and use the same app.