skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to prevail in any war in a post-nuclear age. Profiting from a war with China is a total fantasy, it would be the end of both countries, even if we had as little trade with them as with the Soviet Union.

The reason we are not manufacturing everything ourselves is that our incumbents refuse to allow anything to replace them, whether that is a more efficient company or a more able manager. They have the sway within the US to get what they want, and so things like patents and approval processes (which China does not have to the same degree, because for all of their flaws the government is more powerful there than the established manufacturers), will stop anyone from improving on GM within Michigan. The competition comes from within a country they can't determine the policy of.

Germany is suffering from a similar ailment. They are stagnating because for fifty years successive administrations have equated success with success of their majors.
People buy iPhones for their software, which is all made here. Otherwise all phones are black rectangles. The hardware isn’t that important.
Fair point. Creation might not be such a challenge, but sustaining operations might be. On the other, hand I feel like the amount of content that would be beneficial to me in search results has not grown as fast as computing and networking cost decreased, so maybe it gets easier over time.
I make fresh tomato pasta sauces this way as well as the cheese based ones sometimes. A bit of butter and olive oil in the sauce, minimal water in with the pasta (I really like orecchiette) and finish the pasta off in the sauce with a bit of the minimal remaining water. Very clingy, very silky.
Turn it into vodka and sent it to Russia. Infinite demand
nah, not crazy. it's pretty crazy to think that sort of shit doesn't happen.
Nice build! I work on...similar actuators and, well, it's a lot easier to just drive the steering column. :)
This version of Labour has been against the left of their own party and trying (unsuccessfully) to court the right.

They would call it centrist "practical" "adults in the room" or whatever, while those 'left' behind simply see it as a slide to the right.

It looks like they want to be more like the Democrats in the US who are roughly where the UK conservatives used to be before everything shifted rightward.

(Of course left/right is a simplification we can substitute ordinary folk vs vested interests).
Yes, it definitely is. Once you notice the signs of PR, you can see this was being written because Apple's privacy story fell apart.

This is really about hiding their entire SIRI recording your conversations without your permission.
Another example would be ctrl+alt+del, ctrl+c, ctrl+v, etc, etc.

Like you said people learn what they're expected to learn.
I feel like the biggest problems are legislative incompetence and corruption. You have people proposing laws without considering how people will respond to them, or choosing a "compromise" authored by the perpetrators of the original offense.

People say things like "corporate profits are too high, we need to tax them more" but the actual reasons corporate profits are high are lax antitrust enforcement and regulatory capture and the proposed tax increase would apply predominantly to domestic businesses, increase the incentives for offshoring and create even more advantage for large international corporations. But tax increases are popular in Washington because then they get more money to transfer to cronies, so it keeps getting proposed as a "solution" instead of solving the actual problems.
For those interested in more details, I've written a technical blog post in English explaining the design decisions and implementation details:
https://blog.kinto-technologies.com/posts/2024-12-25_copy_pa...

It covers:
- Why I chose the tasklet pattern
- How the zero-config approach works
- Detailed usage examples

The blog post is available in English, making it accessible to the global developer community.
The vertical integration is why the $110 phone exists in the first place…

If you arbitarily move the pricing bar then of course there may be more competitive small companies, relative to the new baseline.
I have the same view on my own FOSS work (also expressed in its license) and generally also don't think that FOSS authors should feel that their users are obligated to give them anything (beyond the conditions of the license).

Though we as a community can still have views regarding kids hacking things trying to profit off decades of hard work by a large community. Different if they contribute back obvioisly. There are lots of compromise models out there.

Edit: Softened unreasonably provocative expressions
JWT implementation with HashiCorp Vault's signature
Interesting read. But I wonder, does pip not have some way to force installation from another index that would work as expected?
I generally agree, but “China is doomed because autocracy” has been on the media since 2000s. There’s been literally two new generations of people that have been born. The country seems fairly stable as of now.
Knowing Facebook this just means that's what they want publicly to be known, but they are probably starting an intensive new program without labeling these things as AI and trying to hide it.
It baffles me that this isn't mentioned in the page, but a deck like this is extremely useful for testing while designing a new boardgame. They are very versatile and can likely emulate whatever wacky system you come up with for your game, which means you can iterate without having to print a new deck new each time.
Thats a bad comparison, coding has been done by people for thousands of man-years, your problem with coding is laziness, there is nothing mentally or physically stopping you from learning to code.

I do agree with your second paragraph and it’s more that you DON’T want to code versus you being unable to code.

:)
That’s the one I was talking about. Thanks for the correction. :)
I don’t think that you’re correct about US O&G revenue.

The US produces 13M barrels of crude and condensate per day: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545

The lowest recent spot price is $69.5: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_PRI_SPT_S1_D.htm

This tells you that annual production of just crude oil is > $300B/yr. The US also has plenty of downstream processing after production (https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_unc_dcu_nus_m.htm), which means that total annual revenue must be significantly greater than this.
How do you find a good volunteer organization? I volunteered for a couple years at different orgs, and it was a bad experience. All the bad parts of the workplace but with worse people and no pay.
I remember how until quite recently, the West viewed the East, particularly China, as a backward region. People would even dismissively use the term 'Chinese junk'. In a remarkably short time, that perception has completely flipped. Now it's the West that seems to be falling behind...
> One in three U.S. adults has been arrested by age 23.

Does that seem crazy to anyone else? I'm in Ireland and can't think of one person in my extended family and friends that has any interaction with the police beyond routine insurance/DUI checkpoints or reporting incidents like car accidents.
I think the blueness is because clouds at dawn and dusk reflect atmospheric colors more, whereas midday the clouds light up as more of a white from diffusing sunlight. 100% made up theory on my part, but I think it makes sense?

I asked o1 to estimate colors by hour and its reasoning and estimates seem fairly convincing[1], and also show more saturated blues dawn and dusk, though it did not model clouds.

1. https://chatgpt.com/share/67795fe3-9ac8-8009-9922-153f40c509...
According to you, is it possible to do a programming job well while not deriving enjoyment from it?
Chinas total population isn’t really that relevant for what their economy will end up looking like. China is essentially a handful of moderately wealthy coastal areas (perhaps comparable to USA in population but still far behind in GDP/capita) and a huge inland area of very poor people. There’s not much reason to think all those 100s of millions of people will become as wealthy as the average American or European any time soon. It’s not just demographics. Geography is a huge challenge as well.
I don’t know if China will “fall back”. But stagnation seems very likely. If they backslide it’ll probably be due to some political turmoil, like what happened in when the Soviet Union collapsed. Nearly impossible to predict.
If you look at what’s happening with regular people inside China, there does seem to be a sense that things are getting worse, not better. I have friends with family in China that said exactly that this New Year’s Eve.. There’s a lot of incidents with people driving their cars into crowds of people as a revenge against society, and other similarly worrying signs.
Many factories are being moved out of China. It might not be enough to show up on statistics yet, but it’s a process that has undeniably started and will probably accelerate.
China has a huge bet on batteries, EVs and solar panels to make up for what they’re loosing. That’s going really well right now. But I don’t think it’s a winning strategy long term. USA and EU seems to be wanting to protect their industries and on-shore or near-shore a lot of that stuff. The manufacturing of those things are highly automated. Eventually most of the materials will come from local recycling.
China could get a very strong and balanced economy if they had a good strategy based on self sustainable local consumption, rather can just export. But I just don’t see that they’re taking that seriously. Most of the policies are still geared towards supporting/subsidising higher exports.
I don’t understand the “automatic” here-yes, reputation takes time to build, but if you run your own mail server with SPF/DKIM/DMARC set up correctly why is the default posture “block it” before there’s any reputation?

Just like other cases, I won’t accept that it’s “just lazy” on the part of big tech companies. They clearly know how to adjust their internal view/reputation of a domain once it starts being used for “misbehaviour” and spam such that they start blocking it.

Thus they could clearly start by not doing so-and, maybe, they’re “really touchy” about domains with no initial “internal score” such that if a new domain pops up and starts spamming people they catch it fast. Its not necessary to break open Internet protocols, though, unless they want the breakage.
thank god for the wayback machine
But all that is just tuning, and demosaicing is only non-trivial if you want to "fake" a higher resolution -- otherwise just downsample. Same with denoising.

The main point is actually what you say in #3 -- that they are linear. That's what I mean by being accurate.

Compressing the dynamic range is an artistic choice that will not make an image look like what our eyes see. Film, for example, is more tolerant to overexposure because it has a nonlinear response -- but that's objectively incorrect. Our eyes already compress the dynamic range in a kind of ~logarithmic way. So you don't want to do that on image data, or it ends up being done twice! Which is precisely why bad HDR images can look so fake. Artistically you'll always have to deal with whether you want to compress dynamic range and how.

But my main point stands -- the data coming from CMOS is objectively accurate in a way that film is not. It's linear. It's not compressing range at the top or anything like that, or oversaturating certain colors, etc.
>"The patient believed that the vaccine caused her breast growth; however, her concerns were not adequately addressed by her primary care physicians, leading to mistrust in the healthcare system. [...] Physicians should consider and value patient concerns when developing therapeutic relationships."

This was precisely my experience after experiencing severe neurological symptoms (I couldn't write, couldn't type, couldn't even walk anymore) two weeks after a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination. As an engineer I understand that correlation is not causation, but please; it is a pretty damn good clue, especially when literally nothing else had recently changed in my life. But I may as well have been talking to a brick wall, especially when talking to specialists. It's gotten to the point that you can't have a rational conversation about that damn vaccine even with your doctors.
Pretty! But daylight savings time messes with the aesthetic.
no money no mission
> I know that people claim that open source is more secure because anyone can audit it, but I wonder how closely its security actually interrogated. Seems like it could be a massive instance of the bystander effect.

It depends on the software. Something widely used and critical to people who are willing to put resources in is a lot more likely to be audited. Something that can be audited has got to be better than something that cannot be.

> All of it gives me a bias towards using official sources from companies like Apple and Google, who presumably hire the talent and institute the processes to do things right.

I am not entirely convinced about that, given the number of instances we have of well funded companies not doing it right.

> You know anyone who cares has already taken shots at Android and iOS, and they're still standing.

There has been quite a lot of mobile malware and security issues, and malicious apps in app stores. Being more locked down eliminates some things (e.g. phishing to install malware) but they are far from perfect.
It's kind of ridiculous that this occurs

It hasn't 'occurred' at all. People extrapolated what they saw in the 50s to cars the size of houses, personal flying cars and robot helpers too.
What is 1T? Given the context I am assuming tablespoon, but that’s not an abbreviation I’ve ever encountered before (tbsp being the only abbreviation I have seen).
The trouble with the "not found in nature" business is that we have found far less than 1% of of the viral features that exist in nature. If you go pick a random subset of a randomly selected viral genome and determine its function, you're virtually guaranteed to have found something in nature which--until then--was not found in nature. We only bother doing that kind of research after a virus has started making people sick because it's expensive.

It's called a spillover event and not a spillover status quo because it's new to us. To argue that it's manmade because we didn't see it coming is a gross overestimation of man's ability to make such things and of his ability to anticipate them. Even if we can glue things together that we found in nature, the threatening part is not the glue.

The rest appears to be politics and has no bearing on what science might learn from COVID. Especially the first link, which reads more like a bunch of people patting their boss on the back in hopes that they don't get fired and nothing like the result of any kind of research. Nevermind their conflict of interest, what would congresspeople know about it in the first place?

Some may release viruses of surprising structure on purpose or by accident, and nature does it also. That makes it relevant to understand ways to prevent and mitigate the impact of such events, but the nationalities of the people involved just doesn't impact the science in any way.

I would be interested in reading the paper about the furin cleavage. Are you sure your link 3 is going to the right place?
IDK, writing things like kernel modules to improve the reliability of a complex system doesn't really sound like a task sysadmins get paid for.

Yes, a lot of coding (mostly in scripting languages) is normal, mostly to automate tasks and improve visibility into the system, to make data digestible for tools like Grafana, but other optimizations seem to be out of bounds.

But I most likely do lack the insights you have.
It was reprinted elsewhere, in an agile book (which one?) which this (more readable than linked) copy [1] is from. I think the other one might be from another edition of the same book. I ordered Computing A Human Activity a few weeks ago, its still in shipping, probably got the cheapest remaining copy.

[1] https://pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985programming.pdf
It wasn’t an american car. Did they have OBD I style regulation in Europe? I think that might have been the driver for electronic injection.
cool, so no other country except US should buy that crap
> Most of these 38% won’t be able to tell the difference between a phone pic taken 5 or more years ago.

That is an arbitrary statement, that came from your biases and not observation. Maybe in best of lighting some 5-year-old photos maybe as good as latest flagship.
And he is personally responsible for so much misery on Earth that he can likely never do enough good to make up for it, not that he's going to try.

The reason he never looks happy is because he is never happy. Same with his fellow oligarchs; they can get pleasure in bunches but never happiness, they can be smug but never have peace. Happiness is what happens as a result of your helping others become happier; there is no shortcut, there is no other way.

Zuck has only ever worked for himself and his "peers". History is riddled with those losers, the richer the worser. It is not just human nature but the nature of the universe vis a vis our human responsibility as choosers of goodness or its opposites.
Some of those people are. Buffet is sitting on $325B in cash for example.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/22/buffett-heads-into-2025-with...
i can see why in highly segregated communities it might be more effective to have detectives who know xyz about a certain community, especially since criminal gangs tend to self-associate by race/ethnicity

would a police group dedicated to investigating the mafia be a violation of the civil rights act?
If you were right about this; countries never would've fallen apart when the human population was much smaller than it is today, but it happened a lot, so you're not.

Another thing that disproves this is long lived empires. Japan's been around what like, a millennia and a half? Rome was almost around a thousand years, etc.

(Are you gonna argue Japan's a monoculture? Definitely not! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_Japan)
It’s just going to be another Anom-style honeypot in the end, isn’t it?
It is probably a bit of both.

From the same Wikipedia article

> symptoms can include slight or partial paralysis, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, agitation, abnormal behavior, paranoia, terror, and hallucinations

There is more than just pain here. The virus changes the host behavior, making it more aggressive, so it is very possible that it also promotes a panic reaction to pain.
> They're trying to create personal social interaction with a non-person without real intelligence, conscience or morals.

So, they rediscovered Internet trolls?
Apparently any kind of information gathering for scientific purposes has 'obvious military applications'.

This article is trying hard to make a lost research device into an international incident. Make up your own mind; don't be convinced by this irresponsible drivel.

Not defending any national government. Just observing that this anti-research anti-science crowd is getting out of hand.
Meh, we’re a rebellious group. Honestly though I would be more interested in what percentage of this ratio are repeat offenders.
>Purism is selling the Librem 5 USA at $1,600

That's actually worse than it seems on the surface. $1,600 might seem only twice as expensive as a "normal" phone (eg. iPhone 16, $799), but if you look at the specs it's much closer to a low-end phone that sells for >$100. For instance the redmi a3[1] sells for ~$75 and is better in every aspect CPU, GPU, display, memory, storage, battery.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_a3-12822.php
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Highlight related to an analemma: the figure the sun traces if you make a parametric plot of its position in the sky at fixed time T as a function of the day of the year d, ie f_T(d) = (azimuth,elevation).

https://solar-center.stanford.edu/art/analemma.html
This copy is readable https://pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985programming.pdf
> Meh, we’re a rebellious group.

Definitely not the explanation.
I feel that these days "wrongthink" is a dogwhistle, by all means, just use X or pravda social.
This seems very similar to ssh-j.com (open source: https://bitbucket.org/ValdikSS/dropbear-sshj)
The sender gets multiple points in the process to make changes. So if the recipient died or the nature of the relationship changed such that a gust would no longer be appropriate you can always stop the gift.
(...) One reason for the company’s struggles was a push to embrace AI and other automation tools in recent years, according to some staffers. " - whether that’s a valid excuse or not remains to be seen. But it’s surprising that accounting is so complex that AI couldn’t be applied in this case.
In your car example, there is something producing a force that makes it start moving again.

You say that a particle that reaches the apex must immediately fall away. When it reaches the apex with zero velocity, what causes it to fall away? The only way a particle’s velocity can change is if a force acts on it. What force acts on this particle to make it fall away? And a more practical question, what direction does it fall?
Unfortunately the spin cycle has anyone, including a lot of HN, believing that all militia members are the most violent and evil people living in the world.

Ironic given I reserve that title for ISIS who seems to have just recently radicalized another person to run over a bunch of people in New Orleans.

I have no particular love for these militias, but I’m not ignorant enough to believe the stuff media goes about parroting.
Thoughtfulness simplified! That's the motto.
yea thats life.
Congrats to the Raya Cash team, its cool.
But thats life, even rust projects can get no light.
happens, life moves on.
Some middlemen are critical. I used to be more skeptical of "mere merchants" but they often take significant risks to supply us with things we need at exactly the time we need them and not a moment before. They provide a service to you by efficiently getting products into your hands, and they provide a service to the producers by handling all the logistics of distribution. Some middlemen don't add significant value, such as drop shippers (IMO). But even they might be seen as providing some value, such as making it more convenient for you to buy and assuming risks on your behalf.

People don't ever ignore corporate America's actual price gouging. I think they are sometimes conditioned to see price gouging where there is none. Domestic costs are very high, and foreign costs are low (perhaps even suspiciously low; our competition is willing to operate at a loss to put us out of business). Don't get me wrong, it would be awesome if there was some obvious price gouging at work that could be cut to solve all our problems. But it is usually just market forces that drive prices high.
Are there any must-know options for receiving grants?
As the last 15 years has shown, being ally only works until US decides to choose themselves first. Even weird comments about Canada’s independence can sway population’s perception. There are genuine conversations about “maybe we shouldn’t have severed our ties with China” on the ground nowadays.
I just deleted a few hundred words reply trying to add some additional context to it. But I guess in the spirit of not adding any more drama to Ruby and Rails may be the answer above is good enough.

But if there is one thing I want to add is how good the Rails Foundation is being run. Amanda Perino is insanely great. Money is actually being spent on Marketing and Tutorial as well as documentation. More value output per dollar, which in turns means more sponsor willing to invest.
The NetBSD Core Group statement on version control systems (2025)