MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crystal_revenge | 2026-03-06 18:54:25+00:00
I think you're missing the point. A large part of the things we import from those countries indirectly come from China, so it's disingenuous to claim that China is not a major contributor to the US economy based solely on what we import directly from them.

For example the US's top product imported from Mexico are vehicles, electrical equipment and machinery. But those things are assembled from parts produced in China. So if you reduce China's use of energy you not only impact the direct trade that we benefit from but also the indirect trade.

And you still haven't addressed the way the global financial system is so tightly interconnected. GCC countries invest an estimated $1 trillion in the US, but a large chunk of that wealth comes from oil being sold to Asia, with China being one of the major purchasers.

The point stands that you can't meaningfully disconnect US energy usage from Chinese energy usage. If, for example, we were to stop GCC export to China (and not sell that oil in order to fight climate change) the US economy would ultimately collapse (this is in fact one of the major strategic levers that Iran has right now).
by godelski | 2026-03-06 18:54:27+00:00
> But no one ever mentions the hundreds of times it quietly wrote code that is better than most engineers can write.

Your experience is the exact opposite of mine. I have people constantly telling me how LLMs are perfectly one shotting things. I see it from friend groups, coworkers, and even here on HN. It's also what the big tech companies are often saying too.

I'm sorry, but to say that nobody is talking about success and just concentrating on failure is entirely disingenuous. You claim the group is a minority, yet all evidence points otherwise. The LLM companies wouldn't be so successful if people didn't believe it was useful.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-06 18:54:30+00:00
yeah, absolutely, i was not intending to start some big inquisition against you or anything.

just like you were genuinely trying to understand where pjmlp was coming from, i was genuinely trying to understand what you would get out of an answer to your question (or, like, what the next reply could even be other than "ok, cool").
by doctorwho42 | 2026-03-06 18:54:34+00:00
> to reach the end of the road...

This is honestly the best way I have ever heard this described! It really is that 'end of the road' feeling that I get, once I have experienced a large chunk of the game loop, that has me disconnect from games and feel hollow.

This is probably why I keep going back to huge modpacks for Minecraft with a friend. It is so open and expansive, with so much to do, that you never really feel like it's the end... You just feel like you have had your fill, until next time.

I personally only got to watch my older brother play UO, and then he brought me into the launch of WoW which was a pivotal experience. But the end game always felt like it falls flat.
by Analemma_ | 2026-03-06 18:54:50+00:00
This feels like a take from 10 years ago, when Intel was struggling to deliver 10nm but a lot of people assumed it would all shake out in the end. I could see a defensible case for betting on x86 then, and most of the author’s bullet points seem tailored for that era.

But now? I can’t think of a single segment where x86 is doing well. Its out of mobile entirely, it’s slowly getting squeezed out of servers as e.g. Graviton takes over, it has no presence in the AI gold rush, and in consumer desktops/laptops it’s position is precarious at best.

I’m quite bearish on x86.
by realityfactchex | 2026-03-06 18:55:00+00:00
The 50 studies in the cited 2015 book ought to span a range of time, and their keywords could be used to search literature for more recent material.

> Has there been any new information since then?

Since you asked, there apparently was a 2017 followup book by the same author. These links are for that book:

https://harvoa.org/chs/pr/dusbk2.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Ultrasound-Causation-Microcephaly-Vir...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36466945-ultrasound-caus...
by pcthrowaway | 2026-03-06 18:55:07+00:00
90% of Canadians live within 100 km of the U.S. border, it's not much different than traveling elsewhere in Canada.

Granted, as someone who lives ~40 km from the border, I'm broke and can't afford to travel, but I'm also avoiding the U.S. and have been further than 100 km from home on a number of occasions in the past year.
by andrewljohnson | 2026-03-06 18:55:12+00:00
We use Mercury’s treasury account to get yields on cash, and what appeals to me is it is easy to manage. I don’t have to worry about setting up processes to move money around and it’s integrated with my bank account, and we wouldn’t want to switch even for a higher yield… the operational burden is more important to us than yield.

I think the yield is about 3.2% based on how we set it up to be as liquid as possible. We could have accepted less liquidity for more like 3.8%
by happytoexplain | 2026-03-06 18:55:19+00:00
Why are you writing in this defensive manner? The post isn't an anti-AI screed, it's a "I screwed up, here's what I did and how to avoid it."

There is a total mismatch between what's written and how you're responding. We don't normally call people idiots for trying to help others avoid their mistakes.
by stavarotti | 2026-03-06 18:55:24+00:00
If you found this post helpful, follow me for more content like this.

I publish a weekly newsletter where I share practical insights on data and AI.

It focuses on projects I'm working on + interesting tools and resources I've recently tried: https://alexeyondata.substack.com

It's hard to take the author seriously when this immediately follows the post. I can only conclude that this post was for the views not anything to learn from or be concerned about.
by SuzyLi | 2026-03-06 18:56:12+00:00
Thanks for trying it out! Glad the synced views helped.

A shareable permalink is a great idea. Since the tool currently runs entirely client-side with no backend, the likely approach would be encoding the schema and binary directly into the URL (probably compressed + base64). I’ll experiment with this since it would make sharing repro cases in issues or PRs much easier.
by stevenhuang | 2026-03-06 18:56:48+00:00
Whether investors will see returns soon enough to service their debt loads is entirely another matter. I do agree the likely course of action is we get a crash of sorts, since the only way their investments pan out is if labour is replaced entirely which of course sounds unlikely in near term.

My point is the cat is out of the bag. It doesn't take massive investments to achieve iterative improvements on SOTA. As long as the technology does not plateau, smaller labs have shown it's possible to advance the frontiers independent of large companies/investments.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-03-06 18:56:49+00:00
"China" is analogous to "France," not "Europe."

There was a civil war inside China, with the rulers of both competing sides claiming the entire country as their own for decades after the shooting ended. Inside Taiwanese politics, there has been a shift relatively recently (in the last 20 years), but it would be a major shift if that were actually implemented as official policy.

> Many States may try to make claims for the title to support their legitimacy and heavenly mandate to rule, but that doesn't make it true.

We live in a post-WWII world of national sovereignty and inviolable borders (or at least we did until very recently). That's what China rests on for its claims, legally speaking.
by cess11 | 2026-03-06 18:57:12+00:00
They said they would retaliate against US assets in the region if they were attacked, and then the US attacked, so now they kind of have to. In 1973 OAPEC announced that they were going to stop selling oil to countries that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur war, which rather quickly caused the US to rein in the israelis. Perhaps Iran is making a similar bet now.

Iran is a very large country, to make it into "a parking lot" would take many years, during which time we'd have a global recession and core US partners in the region would collapse.

Unlike what some would have you believe, the iranian leaders are generally quite thoughtful and educated. It's not an Idi Amin regime, or the occident would be supporting it.
by nine_k | 2026-03-06 18:57:16+00:00
I would say the opposite here. The perpetrator has rejected multiple Claude's warnings about bad consequences, and multiple Claude's suggestions to act in safer ways. It reminds me of an impatient boss who demands that an engineer stopped all this nonsense talk about safety, and just did the damn thing quick and dirty.

Those guys who blew up the Chernobyl NPP also had to deliberately disable multiple safety check systems which would have prevented the catastrophe. Well, you get what you ask for.
by Trasmatta | 2026-03-06 18:57:24+00:00
Purely anecdotal, but I'm a senior engineer with about 15 years of experience and a decently impressive resume. In the past, I almost always get to at least the interviewing stage, and have frequently received multiple offers at the same time. Recruiters used to spam me constantly.

I haven't heard from a recruiter in probably 6 months. I recently put my feelers out and applied to a handful of positions I was qualified for, and got rejection letters from all of them.
by sedatk | 2026-03-06 18:57:26+00:00
> The only solution is to educate our children

That’s correct, it’s been correct for decades, and parents just won’t do it, not the majority at least. Either they want the state to raise their kids for them, or the task is so complicated and costly that they’re not willing to do it.

But the harms continue to happen, and we’re now left at the mercy of tech-illiterate lawmakers.
by cardanome | 2026-03-06 18:57:37+00:00
Wow this is the worst hasbara attempt I have seen in a long time.

The irony is that I was actually defending Israel in a sense as I don't make it solely responsible for the Iran war. But you would rather agree with literal antisemites than admit any weakness of the oh so superior people of Israel.

You are completely delusional. Do you really think the Arab states would play ball with with Israel if daddy US didn't force them? The people of the world hate Israel for its crimes against humanity.

You couldn't even defeat Hamas. You had to seek an armistice that only one sides respects: Hamas. You have broken it nearly every day. You still refuse to sent basic aid into Gaza.

> Did you ever notice when the Western press dutifully announced the Gaza death toll, the source was the "Gaza Health Ministry"? In other words, Hamas -- which allows NO press freedom of any kind -- is free to make up the death toll that forms the basis for mindless screaming of "genocide."

uhm

> Israeli officials appeared to accept that some 70,000 Palestinians have died in the war in Gaza. Israel had long disputed the figures from Gaza's health ministry, saying the agency was run by Hamas.

https://www.dw.com/en/israel-broadly-accepts-gaza-ministry-d...

I guess you didn't get the memo.

> Consider that Hamas's own charter explicitly calls for the death of all Jews -- genocide, anyone -- along with other non-Muslims (so Christians and nonbelievers are next).

Oh yeah, it says such horrible things like:

> The Palestinian people are one people, made up of all Palestinians, inside and outside of Palestine, irrespective of their religion, culture or political affiliation.

or

> Hamas believes that the message of Islam upholds the values of truth, justice, freedom and dignity and prohibits all forms of injustice and incriminates oppressors irrespective of their religion, race, gender or nationality. Islam is against all forms of religious, ethnic or sectarian extremism and bigotry.

or

> Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170510123932/http://hamas.ps/e...

I know you were not referring to the charter of 2017 but of 1988 because why play fair. But what you said is even a gross misrepresentation of the charter of 1988.

I sadly don't have time to debunk all the other lies that have been debunked thousands of times already.

The day will come when those that commit crimes against humanity will face the consequences.

Palestine will be free.
by badc0ffee | 2026-03-06 18:57:38+00:00
I think there are some parts of Canada worth visiting from the US:

* Montreal - it's a big-ish city, without piss in the subways. Also the restaurant scene is good, and the old town is worth seeing.

* Quebec City - again, the old town is worth seeing. There's not much else in the US/Canada like it.

* Alberta Rockies - The corridor between Banff and Jasper is beautiful. Also, Waterton is decent. It's right across the border from Glacier NP in Montana, but less crowded. And for skiers, the Alberta Rockies also probably had the best snow in North America this past year.
by lowkey_ | 2026-03-06 18:58:33+00:00
Agreed on the bimodal, but I don't think this is junior vs. senior - I think it's just competence being rooted out.

The majority of engineers, in my hiring experience, failed very simple tests pre-AI. In a world where anyone can code, they're no better than previously non-technical people. The CS degree is no longer protection.

The gap between average and the best engineers now, though, is even higher. The best engineers can visualize the whole architecture in their head, and describe exactly what they want to an AI - their productivity is multiplied, and they rarely get slowed down.

While this could be done by junior or senior, I think junior usually has the slight advantage in being more AI-native and knowing how to effectively prompt and work with AI, though not always.
by renewiltord | 2026-03-06 18:58:48+00:00
This is true, but sometimes I wonder if it is the biggest problem. Fortunately, the local environmental organizations explained to me that while it is a big problem it is much more important that we oppose infill housing and embrace sprawl because the former causes shadows to fall on parks used by underserved minorities.

Another thing I have wondered is whether it is ethical to oppose solar power because I don’t like how it looks. Again here the environmentalists have an answer. Yes it is.

Recently I was wondering about geothermal power as well, but I learned that the good people of black rock city believe that we should leave no trace and a geothermal plant would leave a trace so it’s far preferable to drive a large number of ICE vehicles to the desert.

In general, I think that we probably exaggerate climate change a lot. It’s not a big deal, at least when compared to things like sunshine for a park for underserved minorities.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-06 18:58:57+00:00
I was working in 2000 in Atlanta GA at boring old enterprises companies with 4 years of experience back then. If you were working for/targeting profitable non tech companies, the world was your oyster.

I was working at a company that printed bills for utility companies and had offers from banks, insurance companies etc. The world didn’t stop buying Coca Cola, flying Delta or stop buying stuff from Home Depot because of the dot com crash
by ezst | 2026-03-06 18:59:00+00:00
> OECD countries' past emissions are causing the warming we see today.

China passed EU's cumulative emissions in 2014, if I remember correctly. It's totally fair to blame industrialised countries for their share in causing global warming, irrespective if that happened in the early days of industrialisation and was propped up by dirty energy sources. Though, it's morally much harder to give a pass to countries polluting now using the same sources.
by elevaet | 2026-03-06 18:59:04+00:00
Cool, nice work!

I've been building a MORPG version of a kind of Ultima 3.5 on the side in spurts for the last 5 years using Go, postgres, and React on the frontend. Top view tile graphics, old school keyboard control/commands. It's pretty janky still, but I hope to do a Show HN at some point.

I think I need to take some inspiration from you and partition the world into sectors, I have a n^2 scaling problem right now as there are more PC and NPC in the world.
by aspenmartin | 2026-03-06 18:59:08+00:00
I do disagree with the notion that you have to slog through a problem to learn efficiently. That it's either "the easy way [bad, you dont learn] or the hard way [good you do learn]" is a false dichotomy. Agents / LLMs are like having an always-on, highly adept teacher who can synthesize information in an intuitive way, and that you can explore a topic with. That's extremely efficient and effective for learning. There is maybe a tradeoff somewhat in some things, but this idea that LLMs make you not learn doesn't feel right; they allow you to learn _as much as you want and about the things that you want_, which wasn't before. You had to learn, inefficiently(!), a bunch of crap you didn't want to in order to learn the thing you _did_ want to. I will not miss those days.
by doubleg | 2026-03-06 19:00:26+00:00
To work on this problem check out https://workonclimate.org/
Founded by two ex-Google employees.

From their About:
“Work on Climate quickly built the world’s largest and most successful community of its sort – with tens of thousands of members around the globe, thousands of whom have found climate jobs and started companies”.

Not affiliated but I ran into this initiative recently.
by jdwithit | 2026-03-06 19:00:32+00:00
Very cool work! This is giving me a big nostalgia hit, as a LONG time ago (when UO was a current game ;) I maintained a C++ UO emulator called UOX3. To be clear I absolutely did not initially develop it or even write any particularly large or difficult features. I just took over maintaining the codebase, taking patches and cutting releases, managing the community, that sort of thing. The original author decided to step away and I had apparently been enough of a busybody in the tool's community that he tapped me to lead it for a while. I also helped some Canadian guy with money, hardware, and bandwidth to burn run a private server based on UOX. Both were delightful experiences and I learned a ton.

In hindsight I am very glad Origin was not overly litigious and didn't send the FBI to my house for "hacking" their game. No DMCA or similar yet in those days.
by general_reveal | 2026-03-06 19:00:47+00:00
High performance and low performance shake out is absolutely, utterly absolutely, not what’s happening.

Once the tech is built, you optimize for “competence” on a team.

We don’t know what the long term products or paradigms are yet. It’s a product and sector shakeout. The people you hire or don’t hire won’t matter today, most of you will have no place in tech unless you are prepared to define new paradigms (have a vision).

This is a build dope shit or get out situation, not the “uh I’m looking for a stable job”. Nope.
by 0xy | 2026-03-06 19:01:07+00:00
>in hope that nobody fact checks them

I'd love you to fact check them, but I'm a little puzzled why you didn't already. You appear to have just made unfounded claims about the accuracy of my claims with no counterpoints. Maybe you can fix that?

On chicken prices, I used the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [1]

On the fraudulent broadband scheme, I used Politico's coverage of the $42B fraud. [2]

On the EV scheme, Reuters covered this $7.5B scheme's many problems. [3]

I eagerly await your rebuttal of BLS, Politico and Reuters!

[1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/04/biden-broadband-pro...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/slow-charge-poin...
by eudamoniac | 2026-03-06 19:01:20+00:00
I just don't want to use it. It may or may not be a big deal, I lean toward it not being, but even if it is I would prefer not to use it, so I'm going to resist it as far as possible. I don't pretend it's about any higher principle than me not liking it. I'll wait to get put on a PIP and then I'll do exactly what they ask.
by bigfishrunning | 2026-03-06 19:01:40+00:00
I would settle for "available". Where I live, i have a 40 minute commute to work by car. I live in a suburb of a midsize american city.

When i bought my house, i looked into public transportation options. Instead of a 40 minute car ride, i could drive for 5 minutes and then take 3 hours (and 2 bus transfers) to get to my office by bus.

I would love to get some reading done on my commute, and would be willing to spend an hour on a bus or train instead of 40 minutes fighting traffic in my car, but it's just not really feasable. I think this situation is extremely common.
by yibg | 2026-03-06 19:01:45+00:00
There are 2 separate topics that seem to get bundled together a lot.

1. Should we deport illegal immigrants? While there are some debate here (sanctuary cities, immigration reform etc), it's not the primary cause of the current ICE repulsion.

2. How deportations are done currently. Mass round ups, targeting everyone, including those with no criminal record, the violence involved. This is what most people are against.
by wat10000 | 2026-03-06 19:01:49+00:00
"The majority" I'll grant you, but I'd say 43.4% is close enough to "half" for these purposes. It's only a touch lower than his poll numbers right before the election.

Compare with Kier Starmer, who as of this writing has not sent armed goons into his own cities, wrecked all of his international trade and tourism, alienated his allies, or once again invaded the Middle East. His approval rating is about 20%!
by pixelatedindex | 2026-03-06 19:01:51+00:00
Isn’t it a bit hypocritical to bring up laws, when the current administration really doesn’t adhere to them? Congress today barely does any work, Supreme Court is entirely partisan, and the president is taking bribes in the open.

In any case it’s not the deportation that most people necessarily have an issue with, it’s how they go about doing it. Obama deported quite a few.
by stackedinserter | 2026-03-06 19:02:19+00:00
Are there real positions these days?

I get rejection for every single position that I apply to. Often I read literally a description of myself in job posting, and it's still "we decided to no move forward".

At the same time, I hire people and see that 8/10 candidates are just trash. Not in the sense they "are not aligned", or "emit wrong vibes", or other bs. They literally can't write a single line of code, on their own laptop, in their own IDE.

Make it make sense.
by shashurup | 2026-03-06 19:02:19+00:00
I don't see that everything except Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Siberia and Antarctica was inhabitable.
For instance in Eocene the climate remained fairly warm and homogeneous (the most uniform in the Cenozoic).

From the equator to the poles, forests grew. Fossilized remains of cypress and sequoia have been found on the Arctic Ellesmere Island, and palms — in Alaska and northern Europe.

Equatorial and tropical forests (with palms, fig trees, and sandalwood trees) persisted in Africa, South America, India, and Australia.

Eucalypts, sequoias spread widely, and new types of broad‑leaved trees appeared.

By the end of the Eocene, rainforests were preserved only in the equatorial parts of South America, Africa, India, and Australia — due to the onset of cooling.
by matthest | 2026-03-06 19:02:35+00:00
From this angle, what's the difference between Meta and a junk food company?

Both sell things that are bad for you, but that the consumer has complete control over whether or not to consume.

And not all of what Meta is selling is bad. There's a lot of information exchanged on Facebook, Instagram, etc. that are good for society. Like health/nutrition advice, etc.