skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should add that upon reflection, I did have some really good "flipped classroom" experiences in college, especially in highly technical math and philosophy courses. But in those cases (a) homework was really vital, (b) significant work was never done in class, and (c) we never watched lectures at home. Instead, the activity at home (which did replace lectures) was reading textbooks (or papers) and doing homework. Then class time was like collective office hours.

Failure to do the homework made class time useless, the material was difficult, and the instructors were willing to give out failing grades. So doing the homework was vital even when it wasn't graded. Perhaps that can also work well here in the context of AI, at least for some subjects.
For being built by someone with ADHD, I'm disappointed I watched like 2 minutes of video and clicked around on the home screen and still have no idea what the app even does.
Empathy seems to be in rare supply these days. I've made the mistake of talking to these people about the human collateral of these decisions and it's waved off like I'm bringing up an unpleasant experience in a checkout line.
Personal choice suddenly does not matter, when one feels disgusted over trans people existing.

Personal choice is only for parents willingly exposing their kids to diseases.
> Also Windows and Mac have existed for decades and there's zero vetting there.

Isn't that only for applications? All the system software are provided and vetted by the OS developer.
Apple Music's library features much more closely mirror the iTunes style, i.e. you have a library you can browse outside of just the "liked songs" pseudo-playlist. For instance, in Spotify (AFAICT) there's no way to browse all the songs in your library by artist; you can only list the artists you've followed, which is unrelated to whose songs you've liked, and go to their general artist page.

Personally, this is the top contender for a reason for me to switch away from Spotify.
Always had time to support and mentor people with his incredible skills, would be online at 4am doing out of hours deployments with us, and inevitably get us out of the shit when something went wrong. I was frequently in awe of his technical capability and ability to come up with a solution for… anything!

On the human side, he was compassionate, deeply cared for his employees (and let us put our lives before work), and a genuinely fun, cool guy you wanted to know, wanted to get on a call with or play some games after work - I’m sat in the sun typing this while wearing a t-shirt he custom made for me.

Will, you are and always will be a legend mate!
Agree. My company ran a bunch of web servers on Windows 2K and Apache web server, because management was afraid of Linux (general FUD and Microsoft's lawsuit threats) and the engineering staff was afraid of Microsoft's IIS web server (security dumpster fire at the time). It was actually a pretty good system, super easy to maintain.
> there are still some decent technical staff who don't just chase the dollar

They are probably not chasing the job security either.
He knew virtually nothing about how to do my job, was technically incompetant to the point of struggling to move files between folders on his computer, but was very effective at insulating me from any bullshit wastes of time - meetings were kept to a minimum, any user complaints were filtered through him. Never requested progress reports on any of my work, trusted me to work autonomously, and if I ever needed help, he had a large rolodex of people he could get me in contact with.

He was the shit.
It's interesting reading conversations in this thread. Everyone wants government to hire competent individuals. Yet, when it comes to a personal choice, the very same individuals decline the lower compensation.

Everyone then wants government to pay salaries comparable to the private sector. Yet no one wants to pay extra (income, land, sales) taxes to actually support the massive increase in government spending that's needed to pay for those higher salaries.

It's classic cognitive dissonance in full effect leading to a tragedy of the commons. It goes to show that tech folks are no different from regular (DEI, MAGA, other) people.
There are a lot of good photoshop alternatives. Most are better at individual use cases than photoshop. For example, nearly all the alternatives are better at designing website comps because they are object-based instead of layer-based.
> query history and replay

For clarification- am I correct that what you are referring to as "time travel" is simply a history list of prior queries you've run? Can I today, run a query and see what the results would have been in the database last month (or yesterday, or 2 hours ago, etc)?
When deeply nested libraries generate PRNGs, all that layering becomes impure and must be treated like any other stateful or IO code. In Haskell, that typically means living with a monad transformer or effect system managing the whole stack, and relatively little pure code remains.

The messiness gets worse when libraries use different conventions to manage their PRNG statefulness. This is a non-issue in most languages but a mess in a 100% pure setting.
Comments by themselves provide enough value to justify their supports.

Plus non standard stuff is not a valid argument. As there are many tools which support non standard behaviour, because useful features like comment are considered non standard
Oh Life – A Game to Challenge Yourself
You and I must be operating with different sets of facts if this merits a one syllable response for you.

With all due humility and intellectual curiosity, why is it obviously never an antisemitic slur for you?
It is a different type.

You can verify that either via static typechecking, or at runtime.
This comment is distinctly incurious. Sure, it doesn't have to be a clinical diagnosis but that's also kinda the point of talking about it so casually: it doesn't always have to rise to the level of a clinical diagnosis. Some people will not be satisfied with the "we're just nerds" explanation and that's okay too. (Indeed, obsessive weirdos, eh?)
DOGE is involved - do you think anything is going back to useful programs? More likely they'll just buy more SpaceX and Tesla.
I'm going to push back a bit here: things are improving, and China is already as rich as Mexico...now I get that American's have a unjustly bad impression of Mexico because of poverty at the not very populated border, but Mexico isn't a poor country, nor is Thailand, etc...these are all middle income countries that are quickly approaching high income countries.

Having lived in China for 9 years, and left 9 years ago, I can't really justify calling China poor anymore. Ya, they have a huge rural area and they still have lots of poor people, but they have a huge middle class (even if it isn't a majority of the country) that can afford a lot of things.
Yeah, for sure. And yet the numbers are up. This is precisely what happens when products cross into the mainstream. They get worse for enthusiasts and get better for the average person (and more profitable).
Yep, I got the same exact dishwasher because it was highly rated, and noped out of connecting it to the cloud.

The only buttons I press though are power and start. Just make my dishes clean oh magic cleaning box.

I also hate the touch buttons too. My favorites were the old washers with the big clicking square block buttons. I also like for the modes when you pushed one down, the others would pop up.

Of course this was about 40 years ago, and such things are ancient history.
Does Spotify have a library option? I haven’t been a heavy Spotify user, but last time I tried it, it seemed like I could “follow” artists as a proxy to adding something to a library, but I found it all pretty confusing.

I know they have playlists, but I was looking more of the feature like, “these are all the songs I’m interested in, that I will use to build my playlists or shuffle… because I don’t want to try and remember everything as I wade through a 60m track library of all the songs available on Spotify.”
Does this mean subscriptions are coming to our bloody kitchen appliances? Sorry, I will learn to repair my own antique appliances if this is truly the case.
It is funny how at least the press written about this sort of research seems to imply only humans have language and some new evidence might challenge that notion.

Really if you ever own a pet, probably any pet I bet, you find that communication in a way that is arguably a language is pretty low level stuff in the animal kingdom. And it makes sense as it is quite useful for a species to communicate things about the world. You turn your community into a meta organism: rather than continuous appendages and nerve endings you might have a meerkat a couple hundred yards observing for predators for you sharing their own senses on their own body with you through their long distance communication abilities in the form of their vocalizations or body language. Now you can solely be a meerkat and get all this information about the area without having to evolve into some lovecraftian horror with a set of eyes and ears every 100 yards.
As a child at the beach, I would think noticing the clams would result in attempting to unearth them. Childhood curiosity about why there are bubbles.

Your explanation makes more sense, however.
Yes it is very much a thing in Japan, many sites are forced offline for "maintenance" in the early hours of every morning. Even physical ATMs can have business hours in Japan.
> Why are we reinventing the wheel so often instead of improving a common SDK or open framework?

Welcome to the world of software technology, can I interest you in one of the 87 JavaScript frameworks out there that all manipulate an HTML DOM in one way or another?

Setting the sarcasm aside, I think there are "AI" companies popping up which do these types of things - orchestration, agent libraries, etc. so it makes some sense for each AI company to have their own flavor of those available.

Edit to add: I put "AI" company in quotes because at a technical level these companies/apps aren't creating AI themselves, they are wrapping AI HTTP APIs.
Well, they are a lot more appealing than government jobs at least, and have a very strong system for recruiting and hiring people right out of college.
At Google SRE we often had very technical OKRs that were formulated with some 'number of 9s'. Like 99.9999% uptime or something like that. So getting two 9s of reproducibility seems like a reasonable first goal. I hope they will be adding more nines later.
There are software and scripts to decrapify Windows 11. After uninstalling and stopping everything that's not needed and making start menu and the bar behave like in Windows 7, it's quite decent.

This adds maybe 20 more minutes to install time but it's worth.
Both are good for security, but prioritization is important. The areas that are weakest in terms of security should get the most attention.
The tragedy of Lisp is that postfix-esque method notation just plain looks better, especially for people with the expectation of reading left-to-right.

let bar_x = x.bar()
let quux_y = y.quux()
return (bar_x, quux_y, z).foo()
The diversity of mediums chart at the end doesn't make any sense. What are the multiple lines? And at the end if he is saying everything converges to TikTok, wouldn't the TikTok point on the graph be on the axis for 0 diversity?
The capitalist world perhaps. Some countries properly invest in infrastructure and people because they're not captured by private equity.
You might be interested in https://github.com/posit-dev/plumber2
> cannot be taken seriously as a workable solution

... in your opinion. More regulation will just lead to more and more ineffectual bureaucracy. "More regulation" as an answer is why nothing gets built in California. "More regulation" is why the Vogtle Unit 4 in Georgia took 20 years to permit and complete, whereas the same can be done in under 5 years in China. "More regulation" is why it takes 10 years and $3 billion dollars to bring a pharmaceutical to market in the U.S.

More regulation simply empowers the parasitical lawyers to gum up the works even further. It doesn't produce better outcomes, it produces far fewer outcomes.

Burn it down. Send Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Bharat Aggarwal, Ching-Shih Chen, Carlo M. Croce, Andrew Jess Dannenberg, John Darsee, etc etc etc to prison. Start over again clean.

People who resist this idea act as if we're realizing incredible progress and all that would be lost. We aren't. Science and medicine are very, very stagnant, sclerotic, and riddled with fraud. The liberal arts are almost entirely useless (from a taxpayer's perspective).
Definitely. If 2K supported ClearType I would have stuck with it on my personal machines for another half a decade.
I'm hoping that wasn't a racist comment (that those other countries aren't worth it for some reason), I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. There is a lot of potential in emerging markets, potential that the Americans have ignored to their detriment (as we are experiencing now, we basically have no leverage over China because they expanded their markets enough over the course of a decade).
The Stack Grows Down
I do kind of recall the last US airport I went through internationally that there was weirdly no customs lanes or anything after baggage claim, just big one-way doors.

Not that you can reach that point without stating your declarations on the record. I think it was one of the kiosk stages.
I think that's a very myopic view of what Jobs did. I am of the opinion he was one of the greatest designers of all time.

Just because he didn't move pixels across the screen doesn't mean he wasn't setting the design language, defining taste, sweating detail and holding the vision. No-one would suggest that a show-runner didn't make TV, or that a director wasn't a filmmaker. Jony Ive's design changed (and improved) immensely one he was working closely with Jobs. Once Jobs was gone things drifted. Similarly Pixar was hyper-focused under Jobs then began to drift as soon as he was no longer involved.
No need for the scare quotes. The current federal budget is expanding, under the current administration.

Had they the slighest wish to shrink the debt, or at least not expand it further, tax cuts would have been out of the question until the budget allows for it.
That's a pretty good description of what happens at most airports I've been through.

> So none of this sounds too unusual to me, except for the final step: being shipped off to a detention center.

It's because her J-1 visa was cancelled. I am not sure if that was warranted or how threatening frog embryos are, so can't judge there. But if the J-1 visa is cancelled, the person usually has to exit the US and re-apply. She didn't necessarily lose her status as a J-1 student, but she may need a new visa. So the procedure here would have been to put her on a plane to Russia. However they asked her if it would be dangerous for her to be there, and it is, so she got sent to a detention center instead.
> They say they do: “Messages on her phone revealed she planned to smuggle the materials through customs without declaring them. She knowingly broke the law and took deliberate steps to evade it.”

I'd note that these are the same folks asserting people with no criminal records are convicted criminals.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5282379/trumps-mass-dep...

"In a press briefing last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked how many people arrested had a criminal record. She said, 'All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws, and, therefore, they are criminals, as far as this administration goes.' But Carlos came to the U.S. through a legal pathway, although the CBP One app he used was shut down by Trump as soon as he took office."
No it's not. I'm not talking about eligibility, that has nothing to do with how the cash flows, because the implication that you were making right at the front was that money goes straight from the government to the buyer. Which is absolutely not the case, Tesla has to file the paperwork and Transport Canadas pays out to Tesla. After that, TC doesn't have any say in where the money goes (also why TC can do this investigation now; they haven't released the money yet to Tesla).

Plus right now that's what Tesla's is one of the more believable scenarios I mentioned: : https://electrek.co/2025/04/09/tesla-canada-says-its-shady-4...

That they were rushing to fill out a backlog from sales from previous months. Not a massive rush of sales.
I am assuming that's pretty easy? Just apply to an EU university or job?
Cool. Go back to thinking we can only raise taxes on the middle class to pay for medicare and ignoring any taxes on the wealthy like you said in your first post. ( we simply cannot afford to be yeeting historically unheard of levels of money at the elderly without raising taxes significantly on the middle-class, that is the rub of our current fiscal situation
)

Your current fiscal situation is only right-wing talking points.
Adobe isn't trying to be ethical, they are trying to be more legally compliant, because they see that as a market opportunity. Otoh, artists complain about legal compliance of AIs not because that is what they care about, but because they see that as their only possible redress against a phenomenon they find distasteful. A legal reality where you can only train AI on content you've licensed would be the worst for everybody bar massive companies, legacy artists included.
> Going from a project with 1,000 to 1,000,000 lines of code is a tiny leap compared to going from 0 to 1000.

Are you sure the leap is tiny? It's a much easier problem to get only 1,000 lines of code to be correct, because the lines only have to be consistent with each other.
>the question here is why everybody traded security for convenience

I don't think security was traded away for convenience. Everything started with convenience, and security has been trying to gain ground ever since.

>happen for people to start taking security seriously

Law with enforced and non-trivial consequences are the only thing that will force people to take security seriously. And even then, most probably still wont.
Other people reading it will (hello) also are unlikely to take your side if you call random commenters here sociopaths.
It was not a fish. It was people doing active decision to abuse power. Both on low level (agents) and top level (president and his sociopathic circle).

They are not force of nature and it is 100% reasonable to blame them and only them.
> allowing an endrun of the the spirit of the GPL in gcc was never going to happen.

You're right:

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html

> If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC, I personally believe that the LLVM community would agree to assign the copyright of LLVM itself to the FSF and we can work through these details.
My takeaway:

The Nash Equilibrium of streaming UIs is a TikTok experience.

:-(
Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
Even if this is the case, “process” is immensely more important in government and military than in companies because government has the authority, the prerogative even, to use violence, ruin lives, and kill people. The onerous processes are in place to protect civilians.

When you shoot from the hip at a tech company, the bad outcome is that a lot of money gets wasted and people lose their jobs. When the federal government shoots from the hip, trust in the institution erodes and people die.

Not that there is no room for streamlining and reducing bureaucratic and IT bloat, but it is very important to remember that the government is not a business, and in many ways should be run very differently from a business.
> It is that it is means to end, not the end itself.

So is giving billions in aids to Israel every year, despite Israel being a rich country (and tens of billions in the last two years alone, and to bomb civilians, no less).

So is providing diplomatic cover to Israel in the UN and against institutions such as the International Criminal Court, at the cost of your own moral standing in the world.

So is passing laws punishing boycotts of Israel- which the US has done for many years, before Trump.

So is absorbing the cost of the instability caused by Israel in the Middle East and intervening in its defence every time they need it.

At what point will you start connecting the dots and realise that all these means to some different end always end up benefitting Israel, and no one else?
The Heir Conditioner
Sections are a very good idea for a tag that embedded a document in a lower hierarchy inside your document. The way that it should be from the beginning instead of having the global h1, h2... and hacking a structure out of them.

But then screen readers universally decided that no, instead of using sections to navigate a page, they will just ignore the spec and flatten everything into the top of the hierarchy. So nobody uses them.

(And yes, it shouldn't be a warning to use an h1 in a section with the default style either. They are just making a non-backwards-compatible change to the default style, fucking own it and have the old pages change.)
The story for private equity is similar. How else do you get some high flying MBA to care about running a plumbing business?
Show HN: Pg_CRDT – CRDTs in Postgres Using Automerge
A couple of years ago we shared[0] an experimental extension for CRDTs in Postgres. This was a good start, but it had a major limitation: CRDTs can be very chatty and so they quickly fill up the WAL.

We just released a new version which solves this problem: https://github.com/supabase/pg_crdt

The new approach uses UNLOGGED tables for documents and logged tables for changes. This enables us to merge changes efficiently in-memory, then persists just the changes directly to the WAL (previously it was sending the entire CRDT).

The new version also takes advantage an advanced in-memory object persistence feature in Postgres called "expanded datum"[1] and some optimizations to this feature that are coming in Postgres 18[2]. This allows for more complex operations without serializing and deserializing the documents between every operation, which gets progressively slower as documents grow.

What is a CRDT? A CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) is a data structure that syncs across multiple devices or users. They are used in multi-player applications like Figma and Notion. For example: A shared text editor where multiple people type at once, and everyone sees the same final result without manual conflict resolution.

The end goal here is that you will be able to store CRDTs as a data type in your database, and treat Postgres simply as a "peer". A good example would be storing text for a blog post:

create table posts (
id serial primary key,
title text not null
content autodoc not null default '{}'
);

Repo: https://github.com/supabase/pg_crdt

Docs: https://supabase.github.io/pg_crdt/automerge/

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[0] initial release/discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931971

[1] expanded datum: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html#S...

[2] PG18 optimizations: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3363452.1737483125%40s...
The source is the person doing the cutting. Of course they're not going to say "We're cutting essential staff for no reason"
Huh? Trump won the popular vote. Maybe make better arguments in the next election if you don't like the current leader, rather than a violent revolution to overturn a democratically elected leader
They're not bound by shame, so belittlement won't stop them either. Satire and parody is great, but it shouldn't downplay the risk given the stakes.