MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aatd86 | 2025-12-16 13:04:23+00:00
I'd posit that it is trying to wrestle it back actually. It lost it when their industries went abroad. From a global perspective this is good because it makes peace more sustainable if the world is interlinked and interconnected. National interests being distributed all over. Alignment of incentives. The issue is that it is not without friction. People's interests don't align so flawlessly.

The knee-jerk reaction is protectionism but it is too late. The other parts of the world have caught up. And that is normal and sound. It rebalances the world. It is a new equilibrium. This is just the natural way for most closed systems where there is a gradient.

What is weird is that it is almost like watching a movie. Meaning that the current technological push into AI, energy and robotics is likely to spearhead us into a whole new kind of economics (post-money/post-work kind of). And probably requires to open the system (find new territory beyond the existing). The point is that it will probably offset the current protectionist trend.

Wondering how AI will affect governance...
by ancillary | 2025-12-16 13:06:07+00:00
My understanding is that it's not subject to the same tax it would have been as income, since the federal estate tax only applies to value above ~14 million per individual. So, my understanding is that a married couple can pass 25 million in stocks to their heirs and pay nearly no taxes on it because it's under the estate tax threshold and the capital gains cost basis got reset on their death. But not everyone can do this because you need enough assets or other business the bank wants to handle for them to be happy lending you money for years, and only people with a lot of assets have either of those things.

(I'm happy to be wrong about this, since it seems unfair, but AFAIK this is how it works?)
by pjc50 | 2025-12-16 13:06:20+00:00
The Lancet had numbers around 600k, but that included the wider context of deaths due to the temporary collapse of society, medical services, electricity supplies, ongoing violence and insurgency, and so on.

The long consequence of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions was providing Russia with a pretext for its own interventions, from the various caucasus states to Syria to Ukraine.
by dwd | 2025-12-16 13:06:23+00:00
> English is hard, even for native speakers. But it's also wonderful! English loves to steal words from other languages, and good writers love to choose the right word. It's like having an expansive wardrobe and picking just the right outfit for every event.

Very true. Take this passage:

‘I am called Strider,’ he said in a low voice. ‘I am very pleased to meet you, Master – Underhill, if old Butterbur got your name right.’

In an early draft Tolkien used a different word as the character was originally a hobbit, rather than a long-legged Ranger:

‘I’m Trotter,’ he said in a low voice. ‘I am very pleased to meet you, Mr — Hill, if old Barnabas had your name right?’
by watwut | 2025-12-16 13:06:47+00:00
> The American people are sick to death of it. Some politicians smartly harnessed that sentiment.

Except that MAGA cheers on new wars. They prefer "ministry of the war", they like the threats to annex Canada and Greenland. They enjoy fishermen boats being destroyed and want to bomb Venezuela.

This is not about distaste toward foreign wars. This is about wanting more of them, wanting more torture and wanting more violence. This is about wanting to feel and appear more manly and getting there via more violence.
by user_7832 | 2025-12-16 13:07:03+00:00
> That's why I'm saying: if you, as a writer, bring no taste because you're the equivalent of a code money, what are you expecting?

You're assuming "Writer laid of must be because org did not find them to be a very good writer".

The issue,

#1, unless you're yourself an editor or a former writer, you really can't distinguish between moderate and excellent writing. (I know someone personally who's very experienced, and I struggled while actively trying to make out the tells in the quality of writing. The difference between good and great writing can be very subtle.)

Bigger issue #2 is, the board DGAF about any of this.

If they can get a sloppy write up for free with their chatgpt subscription instead of a fair human price, who cares if the quality and brand value drops and the company goes bankrupt? That's an issue 5 years from now, good thing the CEO's already retired by then, right?
by romanfll | 2025-12-16 13:08:07+00:00
Thanks for your comment.

To clarify: K is a fixed hyperparameter in this implementation, strictly independent of N. Whether we process 9k points or 90k points, we keep K at ~100. We found that increasing K yields diminishing returns very quickly. Since the landmarks are generated along a fixed synthetic topology, increasing K essentially just increases resolution along that specific curve, but once you have enough landmarks to define the curve's structure, adding more doesn't reveal new topology… it just adds computational cost to the distance matrix calculation. Re: sqrt(N): That is purely a coincidence!
by clbrmbr | 2025-12-16 13:08:14+00:00
> given a sequence of {k^2+1} distinct real numbers, one can find a subsequence of length {k+1} which is either increasing or decreasing

{-2, 1, -1, 1/2, -1/2, 1/3, -1/3, 1/4, … -1/(k/2)} is a sequence of {k^2+1} distinct real numbers, but the longest increasing or decreasing subsequences are of length 2, not k+1.

What am I missing?
by deaux | 2025-12-16 13:08:25+00:00
They didn't care about being a huge driver behind a genocide, why would they possibly care about people getting scammed out of cancer fundraiser donations. Once you find out that someone has worked at any point for Meta past say, 2020, you know everything you need about them.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-12-16 13:08:38+00:00
Not only that, which I agree with, but also consider the US demographics are extremely advantageous over other nations. There is a chance the US isn’t losing control but is pulling away because the rest of the world has increasingly less to offer it. The US is energy and food independent and with increased automation is on a path to industrial independence. As a small example, Chinese had thought they had the US on hook with rare earths, well it’s starting to look now like that threat led to Americans looking around for them and then discovering, oh wait, we do have them, let’s go dig them out, and in 5 years it’s possible the US will be rare earth independent. What happens when the US is increasingly independent and isolationist? do you really think that will be a problem for it? or instead a problem for others?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-12-16 13:08:40+00:00
The transistors are experimental, and no one is building high-performance chips out of them.

You can't just scale current silicon nodes to some other substrate.

Even if you could, there's a huge difference between managing the temperature of a single transistor, managing temps on a wafer, and managing temps in a block of servers running close to the melting point of copper.
by Wilder7977 | 2025-12-16 13:08:50+00:00
In my organization we have RFCs, PRDs, ADRs etc. and I would say that the process is fairly broken. That said, I think what you mention is an important but not the only failure mode of a proposals process.

In some cases I have seen, people use RFCs to steamroll decisions when they are the only stakeholders. Here the waste comes from the fact that the proposal becomes just a bureaucratic step or a way to diffuse responsibility.

In the case you mention (which I have seen many times) I would say the general issue is that the goals and the constraints are not qualified sufficiently. If that's the case, then there are only 2 cases: there is an objective way to measure if an objection or comment makes sense or not, or it is subjective. If it's objective, then consensus is easy to reach, if it's subjective, it needs to be acknowledged and usually the decisions falls on those who are responsible for the outcome (e.g., the team who needs to maintain or build the thing).

Of course, the debate can move to constraints, goals or even ways to measure, but these are generally more straightforward.
by kakacik | 2025-12-16 13:09:06+00:00
Yeah 5 mins is not true, its 1 minute actual 'charging' as in refill from empty to full.

I don't know what your family does on the gas station, but my wife and 2 small kids can cover toilet visit (as long as there was no accident) for all 3 combined under 5 mins. So can I with paying, so at the end its 5 mins stop total all counted in. Eating as in lunch is once a day, and when we travel we certainly don't need restaurant experience of sitting around, quick sandwich is more than enough, driving on full stomach sucks anyway.

Never understood people loitering around gas stations for long time, but then again when we travel its often 500km or more, the typical trip cca 2x a year back home is 1500km.

EVs are not for us for quite some time, US EVs seemingly never.
by FacelessJim | 2025-12-16 13:09:06+00:00
Yeah, it didn’t have the explosive success that rust had. Most probably due to a mixture of factors, like the niche/academic background and not being really a language to look at if you didn’t do numerc computing (at the beginning) and therefore out of the mouth of many developers on the internet. And also some aspects of the language being a bit undercooked. But, there’s a but, it is nonetheless growing, as you probably know having read the releases, the new big thing is the introduction of AOT compilaton. But there’s even more stuff cooking now, strict mode for having harder static guaratees at compile time, language syntax evolution mechanisms (think rust editions), cancellation and more stuff I can’t recall at the moment. Julia is an incredibly ambitious project (one might say too ambitious) and it shows both in the fact that the polish is still not there after all this time, but it is also starting to flex its muscles. The speed is real, and the development cycle is something that really spoiled me at this point.
by vanviegen | 2025-12-16 13:09:17+00:00
> with workers averaging 400 hours less time at work per year than their American counterparts

If true (seems dubious to me), that's a ~20% difference. The difference in wages is a lot larger than that though, at least for tech workers. So that doesn't really explain why German tech can't compete against US tech.

Also, there's quite a bit of evidence that a better work/life balance improves productivity.

I think vacation time is a red herring. My guess is that the various forms of worker protection, making it impossible or very laborious+expensive to get rid of disfunctional team members, are a much larger factor.

But also, let's not forget that the major difference between the state of the economy in the US and the EU is Silicon Valley. Without its tech companies, the US doesn't amount to all that much anymore. This could also be explained as a historical fluke with lots of momentum.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-16 13:09:24+00:00
I built a data processing system for sprawling commercial batch jobs that had a sort of compiler that build a set of production rules to run the ‘control plane’ which would set up and tear down reactive pipelines, key-value stores, triple stores, etc. that comprised the ‘data plane’ —- for a system designed to run on one SMP machine that can extract parallelism at multiple levels.
by tmountain | 2025-12-16 13:09:34+00:00
I have concerns about the authoritarian tendencies of the current admin, but I think the word "fascism" should be avoided in these types of discussions, as it's such a loaded term that it's hard to know exactly what's implied. The main risks I see are the erosion of democratic norms (weakening of core institutions) and a reduced access to due process, particularly for non-citizens. You see this in ICE deportations to offshore prisons without any clear indication of what happens next. Threats to invade territories for which the U.S. has no basis for occupation (i.e., Greenland and Panama) further raise concerns. As well as use of federal force against protesters, targeting dissent and media pressure (threats to revoke broadcast licenses), surveillance and visa revocations used for political gains, and purges and restructuring of law enforcement. The list could go on, but the threats are real.
by haar | 2025-12-16 13:10:41+00:00
LazyVim is about as easy as it gets in the Vim space for a fully-fledged (but customizable) editor.

https://www.lazyvim.org/installation

Then run `LazyExtras` and you get a prompt that shows things like:

Recommended Languages: (2) ○ lang.docker   mason.nvim  nvim-lspconfig  nvim-treesitter  none-ls.nvim  nvim-lint ○ lang.toml   nvim-lspconfig

Hit x against a couple and you're off to the races.

[lang.docker and lang.toml are examples of things you're selecting, the list after is what is being installed and configured for that thing]

For things like integrating a debugger, or to run your tests directly inline from the editor might require more customisation though.
by tormeh | 2025-12-16 13:10:46+00:00
Exactly. Divide the code in impure and pure functions. The pure functions can be easily unit tested. The impure ones can often be integration tested. The rest you'll just have to live with (or cover with whole-process integration tests). For tests spanning larger chunks of your code base it might be worth it to mock impure code. Never mock pure code - that's madness.
by kamaal | 2025-12-16 13:10:58+00:00
>>If top is bunch of sloppy clowns, whole company is going to be the same.

This happens so often at big companies as well. Management is always assumed to be correct, and the pay grade argument always kicks in(They are paid more because you are beneath them). And this starts to show up everywhere. You can't take any initiative without sanction from the top, and they are often clueless as to what the ask is. Most of the times its rejected just to assert authority, and not on the grounds of merit.

Top bosses are also very envious and proactively trying to kill rising talent out of fear- people better than them, will replace them. To that end no good thing ever happens, if you push too hard you will be eliminated in interest of self preservation.

So by and large no good thing is ever suggested, or tried or happens. Eventually until whole business(es) die out. This happens in every company, no matter what companies claim about hiring, retaining and promoting talent. This is just how every place works.
by fusslo | 2025-12-16 13:11:00+00:00
> The people in charge probably don't even know Curacao isn't part of Venezuela

assuming Lieutenant General Evan Lamar Pettus is in charge

"""

Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering, United States Air Force Academy

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Bellevue University

Master of Science in Logistics Sciences, Air Force Institute of Technology

Master of Strategic Studies, Air War College

Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training

U.S. Air Force Weapons School graduate

Squadron Officer School

Air Command and Staff College

Combined/Joint Forces Land Component Commander Course

Combined Force Air Component Commander Course

Senior Joint Information Operations Applications Course

Combined Force Maritime Component Commander Course

Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course

Operational and Leadership Training

Qualified as a command pilot with more than 2,700 flight hours in aircraft including the F-15E and A-10, and multiple combat deployments (Operations Northern Watch, Southern Watch, Allied Force, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Inherent Resolve).

Completed F-15E Weapons Instructor Course

"""

but yeah, he probably doesn't know Curacao isn't part of Venezuela.
by Swenrekcah | 2025-12-16 13:11:28+00:00
In the higher income countries the hours worked have fallen, however it may be that in lower income countries they have increased.

That is to say, due to more work opportunities more people have gotten jobs that count towards measured work hours and GDP. Including households who used to have one person working jobs that count towards metrics now have two.

I don’t have numbers for this though, just an informed guess.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-12-16 13:11:56+00:00
I feel this tension, but I think something has gone awry if people feel like every comment has to be addressed to everyone’s satisfaction. Comments are not commitments, and commenters don’t have an equal stake in the decision—they certainly don’t own the decision, and it’s okay to disagree and commit.

It’s also probably worth being explicit that there is a cost to inaction that can exceed the costs of building the wrong thing. A year or two ago I was lead on a project where we didn’t know the answer to a big ambiguous problem—we just didn’t have a good way to get the information necessary to make the right decision—different people had different ideas about what we should do. So we identified the smallest thing we could build that would be useful such that we could get more information from real world use, knowing full well we might have to rebuild something else from the ground up. And we did! But we were able to get the confidence we needed to build the right thing later! And we got there much faster than if we had tried to deliberate and speculate about what that thing would be.

Also, in that saga, one engineer in particular was really adamant that we address his particular set of concerns. He was unable to disagree and commit—he was kind of religious about all concerns being addressed before moving forward with anything. He had a very difficult time understanding that the RFC process existed to meet business goals—the business did not exist to slot into his ideal RFC process. He is no longer with the company.
by worldsavior | 2025-12-16 13:11:57+00:00
So what? Every Israeli now is a scammer? Are you racist?

Do you know how many scammers are from India? Do you know how many scammers are from the US? Jeffery Epstein was from the US, is every US citizen now a pedophile?

How the country origin is related to them being scammers? They're scammers because they're shitty people, it's not related where they're from.
by abhgh | 2025-12-16 13:12:05+00:00
Thank you. Your comment about LLMs to semantically parse diverse data, as a first step, makes sense. In fact come to think of it, in the area of prompt optimization too - such as MIPROv2 [1] - the LLM is used to create initial prompt guesses based on its understanding of data. And I agree that UMAP still works well out of the box and has been pretty much like this since its introduction.

[1] Section C.1 in the Appendix here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11695
by input_sh | 2025-12-16 13:12:06+00:00
> But who can audit the reporting?

The same people that audit your taxes, roughly with the same consequences for lying. Except the IRS is far more likely to send unannounced auditors to NGOs than they are to send them to for-profit companies or individuals. It's more of a hassle to get/retain tax-free status than it is to simply pay your taxes like everyone else (as it should be).

> Is that it?

Let me guess: you haven't clicked on "view filing", which leads to a roughly 20-pages-long document.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-16 13:12:14+00:00
VSCodium has been my go-to. VS Code was great for a bit but (even long before this) it was already suffering from the cancer that is "being a microsoft product" and it was being bloated to death like everything else they ship, but VSCodium seems to keep enough distance to be immune. Will it stay that way? Who's to say. I hope so though.
by xg15 | 2025-12-16 13:12:43+00:00
Is there any specification on how "far" a zero-width joiner can reach? I thought a ZWJ would only affect the codepoints directly adjacent to it, but here we have sequence of 5 codepoints and only one ZWJ for all of them (which is also the only codepoint that signals that "special treatment" should be applied here).

So how would a parser know all five codepoints make up a grapheme cluster and not just the inner three?

Edit: Ok, didn't realize the "Fitzpatrick" codepoints are modifiers that I guess always refer to the previous codepoint. So there is essentially an "operator precedence" defined between modifiers and ZWJs.
by krior | 2025-12-16 13:13:03+00:00
Every citizen in a democracy has a responsibility for the actions of their government. Voting does not magically absolve you from that.

And its hard to see the nuance from the outside when all you hear are threats of economic turmoil, death, destruction and war. Every action of the american government regarding my country has been hostile so far, so forgive me for loosing my patience with the american public. All that talk about "land of the free, home of the brave", but as soon as their government threatens the "free world" americans fold over like lawnchairs. Its incredibly dissapointing.
by watwut | 2025-12-16 13:13:35+00:00
Frankly, bullshit. The center is ruling the democratic party, actively suppressing left and frequently tacitly enabling the far right. Meanwhile, left barely does anything. They are not rocking the boat, they are powerless.

Both Obama and Biden were center choice. The whole democratic party is ruled by centrist politicians and ideology which is why they cant oppose the increasingly radical republicans all that effectively.
by skywhopper | 2025-12-16 13:13:55+00:00
They are decimating academic research into health care tech in general. There’s been mixed messaging from the administration on GLP-1s (although if they keep pushing on the eugenics theme, they will solidify as anti on those as well soon enough) but that wasn’t really the point. I named mRNA and GLP-1s as two examples of modern tech revolutions that are not AI or space-related. Those are the modern tech breakthroughs, not AI and definitely not space launches. (I went back and edited the post to make it clearer what I meant by “both”).
by deaux | 2025-12-16 13:14:05+00:00
There is 1 (one) comment that is definitely very dodgy [0]. Saying 1 comment out of 250+ is a "fest" however, is of course the tried and true tactic of "anything remotely negative of anything connected to the country or any of its citizens must be racist".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286734
by tmountain | 2025-12-16 13:14:16+00:00
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Many people's views are shaped by algorithms and established without any grounding in actual facts. The last election was largely decided based on affordability with a healthy dose of nostalgia for an economy that no longer exists. The democrats made a huge mistake running Harris without a real primary. Biden should have stepped down long before the election, yadda yadda yadda.
by ck2 | 2025-12-16 13:14:41+00:00
I mean Musk almost singlehandedly has killed hundreds of thousands of kids worldwide in 2025 alone by destroying USAID medicine and basic nutrition distribution, while it literally rots in warehouses now

If we are going to have cancer stories and gun violence stories daily in the news, shouldn't the kids dying be a daily coverage?

Credit to BBC who every few weeks does show the kids dying in the hospital but US news does not mention it anymore since the summer

Still dying. More in 2026. Even more in 2027. Even more in 2028.

Even if USAID is restored in 2029 it will take awhile to rebuild and all those dead kids aren't coming back ever.

Oh and they didn't just quietly die. They suffered for weeks, months and died

Musk did that. But yeah keep using X and buying his cars
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-12-16 13:15:11+00:00
Curious, asking the people who admittedly couldn't save them in the first place.

Ask a biologist, or theorist, or someone following trends in technology. But a doctor? Not gonna have any better idea about that, than they do about what constitutes a minimum daily dose for a vitamin. Originally those things were set by polling doctors, and they were essentially set at random.