skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China also recently (just days ago) flew two new sixth gen fighters.

China doesn’t really have a 5th generation fighter yet, it is more a roadmap item than a finished product. There is zero evidence they have 6th generation systems. These terms have meaning. The US has been flying 6th generation prototypes for years, they just don’t post photographs. The US has been flying production 5th generation fighters for 20 years. They have a long lead and it isn’t like they stopped development.

Also, appearances are largely immaterial to being classified as 5th or 6th generation. Most of the relevant properties for classification are not casually observable.
>You need a common culture to govern a country

Or, an Empire.

The EU is decidedly not that, however. Perhaps this article was published 10-20 years too soon, and one day in the future an Imperial American (or French) bureaucracy decides that it's time to bring the friends across the pond closer into the orbit of the Imperial State.

Joking, of course. The problems within the United States today (where I am made to care about the goings on in States not my own) are of course the same problems this hypothetical Empire would face.
I would expect that nobody has that data, not that the reporter omitted it.
I was going to post an AITA (Am I the A*Hole?) question about this, but thought the more technical bent of the HN community would give me an answer more in-line with my own INTP self.

And yes... I know... this is a very North-American focused submission. European and Asian countries seem to have a simpler system where tips are unneeded at best and sometimes interpreted as an insult.

I believe you should tip 15% or 20% based on how good you thought the service and meal was. 25% if it was exceptional. I understand people may have different percentages they use.

But the weird thing is for some reason I feel strongly that tips should be calculated based on the pre-tax subtotal and not on the post-tax total bill. Emily Post seems to agree with me. I have no idea why I feel so strongly about this, but at dinner tonight the restaurant had "Suggested Tips" on the bill that were calculated based on the post-tax total. I think I think the restaurateur is being shady by cheezing out a bit more cash for their servers so they can skimp on the hourly pay.

I sort of think of myself as a center-right kinda guy, so it seems strange I would feel this way.

Do other self-identifying right or right-of-center (or hell, left or left-of-center) people feel this way about tips? Is it a political thing? Is it just the time and place I was raised?
Usually a buyout or merger.
That’s a lot of words to say “companies sometimes blatantly lie in public statements”.
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I'm currently thinking of rewriting a personal website from next.js to plain html/css/js. Just don't want no bundling no more.
My reasons are similar to yours, but one that's been itching at me was the loss of clicking view source and learning about code directly from a page with ease.

Didn't know I could still do typescript and just have my workflow strip the annotations out though. That's really worth exploring.
Ok. Thanks for your contribution to the discussion.
I do not know about Perplexity because I avoid it. Instead, I prefer and pay for Claude over Perplexity because Claude offers actual privacy protections. All other services take in my data and use it to further train their models and that does not sit well with me because I had a stalker. It’s obvious that Perplexity is following the Google route of using people as products.
Can we please get a broader TL;DR of what happened? Who is RailsWorld? Was there increased competition from a global conference?

Is RailsConf attendance declining enough to sunset the conference?
Gross production is sales $$$, it's not actual output of widgets. I imagine if measure gross production by some units of stuff made, PRC would be far ahead.
And about 100 years ago, the Irish rebelled and won their independence from England. And those that didn't are no longer being treated this way, and haven't been for more than 50 years.

So what exactly should the English learn from Canadians today? Even the Irish in Northern Ireland have more freedom and autonomy than the First Nations have in Canada, not less.
I bought two things recently: some temperature sensors for a smart home and some cable clips to hide some wiring under a cabinet.

Both were mass produced in China and both shipped with 3M branded adhesive mounting pads. An apt and literal representation of global manufacturing — US made chemicals, Chinese electronics, one clinging to the other.
Does the video editor allow combining clips of various resolution and aspect ratios?
Housing isn't the only thing that "solves" immigration issues. The immigrants have to, you know, assimilate.

For whatever reason this step has been deleted from the usual policy matrix, and as a result we've been running a great experiment over the last 20+ years in Canada, Europe, and the US.
Well, probably not USAians .. but not nobody.

eg: National Project on Drink Spiking: Investigating the nature and extent of drink spiking in Australia

https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/national-...

Wastewater shows spike in illicit drug consumption in Queensland

https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2024/03/wastewater-shows-...
No worries, I understand. The author admitted to me that he was lying via DM, that he often does this for attention.
Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk
Certainly. The reality of the political situation though is that China is an authoritarian country ruled by the PRC, increasingly acting more like a dictatorship. While China’s economy, society and people have 100% the right to grow as much as they would like, those of us living in (sonewhat) liberal democracies would still want to contain the power of the PRC (and the cult of Xi Jinping).
a good source for implementing b-tree using golang: https://build-your-own.org/database/04_btree_code_1
I’ve always found that you.com features are ahead of their time on paper, but the UX is so bad it’s hard to figure out how to get the most of it / keep me coming back. Great ideas and great technical founder, but just not a compelling product.

I just logged in now and they have a whole agents section with no clear value prop shown. I tapped on the “Genius Agent” and it seems like it just selected a “Genius” filter that had already been on the screen?
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Why would you pay for something that treats you as a product? I would gladly pay for youtube if there was: no paid sponsorships, no ads, no algorythm manipulations, no collection of behavioral information, no clickbaits, no shitty content promoted and so on and so. Basically a service where the side paying is a consumer, not a product. Paying for service that is already extracting value from you in ways that are not respectable is insane.
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GTM is just sales + marketing
If you have references or sources I'd love to go through them.

I'm an Indian who has lived in Canada for a decade now, and I haven't seen or heard much about Indian immigration specifically for joining gangs or anything like that.

If anything there's more evidence that Canada's immigration crisis is a result of ridiculous barriers for high skilled workers if they don't have a degree from a North American university. Countless tales of medical professionals having to redo certifications because Canada doesn't accept their pre-existing education.
Claiming recursion is taught badly and then trying to teach recursion immediately via call stacks is certainly a choice. The guts of how your favorite compiler implements recursion is hardly what I would call "the correct way" to teach the concept.

It's not shocking that students snooze their way through discrete math, try their hardest to forget induction proofs, and the arrive in algorithms or some other higher level class and try their hardest to forget recursion/dynamic programming.

The reality is the concepts are hard and demand practice to obtain familiarity. There is no quick path to mathematical maturity. If you try your hardest to phone in induction then surprise surprise recursion is nonsensical to you.
If you are interested in this subject, Carl Zimmer wrote a great book that has all sorts of examples of parasites that control their host: "Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures"

https://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatu...
The oldest Gen-z is still in their late 20s or early 30s. Could be that could change in about 10 years?
Yup, I can concur. Having tried numerous different note-taking, project-management, PIM solutions over the years - Evernote, Workflowy, Notion, Todoist, rememberthemilk, Trello, etc., I have finally ended up with Org-mode and later Org-Roam. Nothing else even comes close to the versatility, control and liberating and empowering experience.

Sure, learning Emacs and Org-mode is quite some journey. But it's absolutely worth the time and effort.

I even try different new things from time to time - out of curiosity, and because so many times before, I have felt like being stuck in a bubble. And so far, I have not found anything much better than Org-mode.
My understanding is it's a one time purchase, lifetime update for a single user. If you misunderstood this I am guessing because you didn't click on the "license option" buttons because it sounded like subscription software. That's a good thing for the dev to know, because I agree, this doesn't seem like something I would pay for monthly or yearly, but I might buy.
> Packer's other claim to fame: being the first person in the world to buy an iPhone, on June 29, 2007 at Apple Fifth Avenue in New York City, after having camped out for five days in front of the store.

Another source for that information is greg’s own blog, note the domain name too: https://firstinline.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/hello-world/
Files and directories are actors in KeyKOS, which is one of those experiments someone did once that's worth reading about for new ideas.
> easily preventable is doing a lot of work here.

It isn't. It's the most basic value proposition of TypeScript.

> This is assuming the types are already written and never need to be maintained.

No, it doesn't.

You need to write software so that you get an application that does what you wish it to do. Does this surprise you? This is not something that was invented by TypeScript.

When a software developer wants to prevent bugs when adding features, what they do is add preconditions and post-conditions to enforce invariants, and they handle code paths specific to both the happy path and failure modes. What static typing does is ensure these checks can be done at compile time, and that failure modes can be prevented by ensuring data types that do not meet conditions cannot be passed to functions.

TypeScript allows developers to check preconditions and post-conditions by defining types and adding type assertions that verifies whether an object is of a certain type, and then assert at compile-time if they meet preconditions and post-conditions. If they specify a type that has specific characteristics, the typescript compiler helps them by automatically checking preconditions and post-conditions, and prevent code paths that are proven to be failure-prone.

This is the very basic of software development. This can only be interpreted as "maintenance" or "extra work" by someone who thinks it's ok if the program crashes and malfunctions if preventable failure modes are not prevented. This is not a trait of a programming language. This is a trait of your and the level of quality at which you do your job.
You don't need immigrants either way.

The idea that a country must import more immigrants because birthrates are not increasing or are below replacement is just "number go up" economics. It's the same trite and annoying arguments that some Bitcoin boosters make (the ones who don't actually understand the underlying technology, there's a parallel there).

Japan, for one example, isn't going to collapse. Or should they import 50M immigrants from across the planet to make sure the numbers in the spreadsheets go up?
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Seems people were surprised you can't trust Chrome extensions again, again.
I prototyped https://github.com/emberian/serde-reflect if anyone is interested
Ah yeah, good point. That makes more sense.
> TVs and monitors: Big winner is Vietnam. Mexico overtook China as the import leader

This doesn't make sense to me, do they do some high level assembly of components? I think China took over global market of TV panels manufacturing for example:

With this transaction, Chinese manufacturers’ market share of the LCD panels used in TVs will increase from 66% to 72%, with nearly 100% share in ultra-large 90 – 115 inch screens.

The market share of Chinese OLED panel manufacturers is forecasted to increase from 47.9% this year to 50.2% next year, surpassing the OLED shipment share of Korean companies.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyshih/2024/10/13/chinese-ma...

It sounds like it could be that China losing in cheap assembling tasks, but significantly gaining in high tech manufacturing.
Some people don't like protectionism because in the long term it's worse for both countries. You have a short term benefit of protecting a handful of jobs in exchange for vastly more expensive goods for everyone as well as more expensive inputs to your other products undercutting other local industries. Protectionism is popular because the benifits for the few are visible while the downsides are diffuse but add up. And in the end your business ends up going out of business anyway like the Soviet factories
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Considering OpenAI has consumed almost all human generated data, it's pretty much a dead end now, like anything ANN.
Does everyone have memory loss?

People in high school had after school jobs. Retirees did something on the side for some extra cash to send to their grand-kids. For whatever reason, after "tech" had its moment in the sun (and on Wall Street) the downward wage pressure went to 11. And that's why everyone is so insistent on more immigrants.
"it is never too late to start a career in middle management" goes the old joke
Perplexity’s business model is still following the Google model of selling people to advertisers. The only LLM service with privacy protection I found so far is Claude. If I am paying for a subscription I would expect privacy to be included. How come people do not care?
At least his physique is evidence that has a better practical understanding of health than 95% of Americans his age (and at the majority of Americans half his age, more than half of whom are overweight).
I don’t see o1 in their model list. That’s the only model that produces decent answers to my questions.
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This comment cuts straight to my immediate thought when reading - did they dig into the separate bits that people thought a managers job entailed, and which bits where appealing or not?

Cos apparently* "double the amount (30%) would opt for a flat, team-based structure if given the choice" so team work is seen as important.

So what functions would people like in a team? Mentors? Facilitators? Which of these might they actually want to do themselves if it wasn't seen as tainted by the phrase "middle management"?

* I can't see any link to actual data or what questions were used, so we are all working of a thin PR statement which isn't the best.
Google's white paper on AI Agents
The next big LLM trends in 2025 to watch
The file itself would be the state of the actor. So it makes sense to me (if I were to implement a file-system with actors).
> Ghettos and enclaves aren't really a thing in Canada like they are in the US.

I know you are making mostly an anecdotal claim, but if you compare Seattle and Vancouver, and more aptly, their suburbs Bellevue and Richmond, I think the American side is more assimilated simply because we don’t have the percentages of Chinese that the Vancouver area has.
Suitable for all ages, I think, though there are a couple of cuss words a few dozen chapters deep ...!
I'm not sure if I missed something in the article, but it appears to me that the article does not take in to account the change in supply due to change in effective wage caused by decreased utilization. The supply of drivers available would be based on what money drivers actually take home, not just the nominal price, so any decrease in the money taken home would result in a decrease in supply, meaning the positive impact on drivers wages would be larger than that computed in the article.
Bosnia, Serbia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic are all separate countries today. Of course, not all Bosnians, Serbs, Slovak, and Czechs live in the respective nation states, and there is still strife. But I still fail to grasp what, say, the Czech Republic could learn about how to treat its Slovak minority from how Canada trays its First Nations minorities.

Should different Slovak communities in the Czech Republic have their own lands and make their own laws? What if they're living in the same village as Czechs, how will they split the territory there?

There is simply no valid comparison between how populations in Europe live and have developed up to today, and how things sit in Canada with the First Nations.

And note, the Basque country in Spain is already an autonomous region with significant ability to do its own governance. The Basques there have been practicing their own traditions and using their own language since the fascist dictatorship fell. The Catalans of Catalunya (one of the richest regions of Spain, mind you) also speak their own language and are not in any other way culturally suppressed, again, since the fascist dictatorship fell. The reason for their struggle for independence is mostly their perception that they are being dragged down economically by the poorer parts of Spain (i.e. the strictly Spanish-speaking South).
Or he has more time to work out because he’s rich. Or steroids. Could be a ton of reasons why he looks like a freak.
It's personal/relative, but I'd consider both the Korean and Vietnamese wars to be China's proxy war after their CCP war with the Kuomintang. They did pretty well on well (Vietnam) and preserved the status quo on the other (Korea).
Maybe true. But how do you get quality into the equation.

Is all the garbage on temu/shein also part of the gross production KPI? I couldn’t care less about these cheap plastic widgets.
It's that the guy who won this time is a horrible human being and is the head of a party that seems barely interested in governing, but more in enriching themselves even if it means sacrificing rights and privileges of those they govern. The guy that won last time is not as horrible a human being and was interested in governing for all Americans.

So when the oligarch heads of companies decide to donate to the new guy's big party, it's tantamount to simply ignoring all the truly shitty things the new guy and his party have done and have said they're going to do, because it's more important to the oligarchs that the real power in the land[1] look favourably upon them and their designs. It has been made abundantly clear that currying that favour costs money.

[1] Make no mistake, the US government is more powerful than all of the tech companies in the country and its new leader intends to wield that power as capriciously as he sees fit.
Yes, but $$$ is the currently the most accurate metric of "units of stuff" by their usefulness. At least there's no other widely used metric. So $$$ is the most correct way to measure the output.
"Wow all these Goths have moved into my town, but they don't speak Latin, they speak Gothic. How exiting!"

- Anonymous Roman Citizen, 412 AD
> infected mantises were attracted to sources with stronger horizontally polarized light.

I wish the article provided and explanation for the mechanism.
According to wikipedia it is not legal to sell or consume in the US.

>In the United States (US) and Turkey, the botanical specimen (plant) Catha edulis is not prohibited, but the consumption and distribution of harvested leaves or possession for recreational use is illegal.
> Some people don't like protectionism because in the long term it's worse for both countries.

I keep seeing these statements on here and they're utterly misleading. Protectionism is a spectrum. It is practiced by every single country. It's a very bold assumption to make that if every country would completely eliminate everything resembling it, this would benefit everyone. The opposite is very likely. There are numerous cases of protectionist policies where the country instituting them very clearly benefited from them, even in the long run. I have spent more than a decade in two countries, each having been on a different part of the protectionist spectrum since many decades ago. It is clear as day that the more protectionist one has, throughout, continuing to this day, seen very large benefits from this policy, larger than the benefits from the less protectionist country.

We really need to stop propagating this myth among the educated in the West, it's just as harmful as "trickle-down economics" used to be before it became common knowledge that it's a fairy tale.
Invading Thailand and Vietnam would likely lead to a military alliance of them US, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and possibly South Korea. If they just want Taiwan at least for now it seems like a bad idea to get all the other countries to enter the war
Well, this is pretty concerning all on its own:

> Instead of adopting the fixes we proposed, F-Droid wrote and merged their
own patch [10], ignoring repeated warnings it had significant flaws
(including an incorrect implementation of v1 signature verification and
making it impossible to have APKs with rotated keys in a repository).

This concerns me more than the vulnerabilities themselves. It's a pretty serious failure in leadership and shows that F-Droid is still driven by egos, not sound software engineering practices and a genuine interest in doing right for the community.

F-Droid has numerous issues:

* glacially slow to release updates even when security patches are released

* not enforcing 2FA for developer accounts

* no automatic vulnerability or malware scanning

...and more problems: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
Perhaps I too should have offered a prize to the first to solve it!