skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are probably exceptional situations for each, but the US is far more for these things than against, to an extent that is unique and unprecedented. And that has improved lives and secured freedom not just for Americans but for many people around the world. Your negative take on the US isn’t convincing for me, as it is uncritical. Who champions free speech more, for example?
American Airlines plane, helicopter collide midair near D.C.-area airport
TIL some Porsche 911s had two reverse gears
>It painted weed and harder drugs as pointless and dangerous

It painted weed as something that if you took a single toke you'd end up shooting heroin shortly after.

The hyperbole, similar the parent comment insinuating that smoking weed is a guarantee of a shitty life, is ridiculously counter-productive.
A CRJ700 crashing into a Black Hawk sounds bad. :/

FR24 shows helicopters from various agencies doing many laps around the site, presumably looking for survivors.

https://i.imgur.com/SykzxUA.png
Obviously it will take some time for the full accident analysis but there have been quite a few near misses lately due to air traffic controller errors. Flight volume has been growing, airspace near airports is more congested, and controllers are overworked. Eventually all of the "Swiss cheese" holes line up. We're going to need to hire more controllers.

Also, it appears that one of the aircraft was a military (not police) H-60 Blackhawk helicopter.
It would be great if this was a desktop app. That way I wouldn't need to spin up another server
Automotive software is worse than you can possibly imagine. It is literally some of the most broken code I have seen in my entire career and that is the industry norm. Shockingly poor. In fairness, the constraints placed on automotive software production ensure this outcome. There is no room for good practice.

If I could walk everywhere the rest of my life, I would.
Meta to pay $25M to settle Trump lawsuit over ban
No argument here, I'm definitely judgmental on this stuff. I probably shouldn't be, hence why I said that my hatred was borderline irrational.

That said, I still find potheads completely insufferable.
Sorry for the whataboutism, but the US looks more and more hypocrite when they sell themselves as the paragons of democracy and free trade, ready to save the world from authoritarian China but are fine selling AI and AI hardware (and armament, but that's another matter...) to Israel's oppressive regime which clearly uses it to persecute and kill innocent Palestinians.

It's all just dirty politics, in the end none of the people in power care if selling such technology feeds a monster or not, as long as they get their bags of money.
POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.

I didn’t know what this acronym meant. Hopefully I saved someone a Google search.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
I actually like when I get the note that I need to pay for the upgrade. It's a good reminder that I still find Sublime valuable (so much that I use almost daily), and that I got 3-4 years of free upgrades for a fair price (vs. subscription models like 1Password, or version-specific rip-offs, like VMware Workstation).

It's one of my favorite piece of software. Obsidian being another one.
You conveniently left our everything else I mention and those companies aren't really leading. Bolt for example has an edge because everywhere in Europe they're been killing Uber or limiting it hardly, and in some countries it's still the case.

In most cases those companies are knockoffs of American companies and you've yet to mention cases were Europe is actually leading the way (aside from some unique cases it doesn't happen regularly)

P.s. Russia is not part of Europe, you can safely leave it out (and yes they've plenty of competitors to american companies telegram, Yandex, VK etc. we can't say the same for Europe)
This is something I have thought a little bit about. I think a registry would be useful and I know a few projects trying to set that up, but there may be multiple MCP servers for the same thing (already there are a few community implementations of an Atlassian server for e.g.).

It is conceivable that we make it completely dynamic where the agent first decides which set of servers it should need for its task/instruction. Another way of framing that is it should be possible to create agents themselves dynamically based on the objective.

I don’t have a good answer to this yet but if you want to help figure that out we can collaborate
Someone on HN giving kudos to Windows for once. Has hell frozen over.
I think it's a common experience for people who visit the death camps and witness the heaps of artifacts to feel the sheer weight of those places and reflect on their brutal history. At the very least, visitors ought to behave mournfully and respectfully while touring the grounds, especially as part of a political delegation, especially when living victims are traveling with them. After all, these are vast cemeteries where millions of people were systematically murdered, buried, and scattered. Generations wiped out for absolutely no reason.

Most first-hand accounts I've read of Musk depict him as a person utterly bereft of empathy. I don't think Julie Gray posted this account out of spite: I think she was genuinely disturbed by the visit.
You misunderstood my comment. I'm not talking about emissions due to exports or emissions due to building green tech.

I'm saying the people who live there would emit the same amount whether they were 10 countries or 1. "China bad because total emissions" only comes up because they're 1 country.

> their domestic [energy] demand is still massive and growing

Of course that will happen as they develop their economy and improve their standard of living. But most of the new energy generation - 83% in 2022 - coming online is all renewable.

Would you suggest they don't develop, and remain poor? They'd be justified in saying "You first, rich Westerner". People in gigantic SUVs shouldn't throw stones at people in electric cars.
cannabis is pretty safe for the average person, even heavy users. it's not good for you, but i think most of the effects like this are explained by selection effects. unhappy people use it to self-medicate.

however, using cannabis comes with a very big tail risk. if you are susceptible to psychosis, cannabis can cause it or make it much more severe. this is undoubtedly causal.

people take all kinds of worse risks in life which everyone agrees should be acceptable, so I think cannabis should be legal. but I also think that if people clearly understood this risk, most would choose to avoid cannabis.
have you tried it on perplexity yet?
People here will argue that. But the Chinese DNGAF.
It's 80/20, but in some tasks it's much better (e.g. translation)

Nonetheless the fact that you can just change a bit the prompt to instruct the model to do what you want makes everything much faster.

Yes the trade-off is that you need GPUs to make it run, but that's why we have cloud
> They seem scatterbrained and unable to remember what either of us said a minute ago.

I've never used weed and definitely have moments like this from time to time. I think I'm old. And that having 3000 Slack channels piping content into your brain 8 hours a day isn't real good either.

That said, I kind of understand the effect this thread is talking about. My youngest brother was doing a lot of smoking in high school and I definitely wonder about the long term effects.
G'day, I head up the Sublime Merge team.

Firstly, thanks for using it and supporting us!

If you haven't already, it would help immensely to get a bug report here: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_merge/issues/new/choose

I'll definitely look into this further and get it sorted
I read this in electroboom's voice. Much more entertaining that way.
> On the basis that they disagree with you

On the basis that they are objectively wrong. I mean, they are guessing about the intent behind some words, and then ascribing that intent as the unvarnished truth to the uttering individual. How can that be called mere disagreement?

> being able to repeat the rallying cries

That's a strawman extension of simply being able to agree with the statement "white lives matter", without actually engaging in the trolling.

> I have nothing to say to someone who hears the Fourteen Words, is fully informed about their context, and then agrees with them.

If so, it must be because it's boring to say something to me. I will not twist what you're saying, or give it a nefarious interpretation, or report you to some thought police or whatever. I will try to find an interpretation or context which makes it ring true.

No risk, no thrill.

I actually didn't know anything about the Fourteen Words; I looked it up though. It being famous doesn't really change anything. Regardless of it having code phrase status, it is almost certainly uttered with a racist intent behind it. Nevertheless, the intent is hidden; it is not explicitly recorded in the words.

I only agree with some of the words by finding a context for the words which allows them to be true. When I do that, I'm not necessarily doing that for the other person's benefit; mainly just to clarify my thinking and practice the habit of not jumping to hasty conclusions.

Words can be accompanied by other words that make the contex clear. I couldn't agree with "we must ensure a future for white children at the expense of non-white children" (or anything similar). I cannot find a context for that which is compatible with agreement, because it's not obvious how any possible context can erase the way non-white children are woven into that sentence. Ah, right; maybe some technical context in which "white", "black" and "children" are formal terms unrelated to their everyday meanings? But that would be too contrived to entertain. Any such context is firmly established in the discourse. Still, if you just overhear a fragment of some conversation between two people saying something similar, how do you know it's not that kind of context? Say some computer scientists are discussing some algorithm over a tree in which there are black and white nodes, some of those being children of other nodes. They can easily utter sentences that have a racist interpretation to someone within earshot, which could lead them to the wrong conclusion.
Damn. We’ve avoided a US airliner having a fatal crash since 2009.
I think this is a massive dark horse application of LLMs. Something like DeepSeek that is able to produce OpenSCAD code for complex parts is a game changer for a lot of industries and individuals. Effectively free part design, in a way that libraries of standard parts can rapidly be built, and the code version-controlled using standard software dev tooling.
Not really anymore, and I would bet that the way things are going, Twitter will be banned in the EU before Tiktok.
Thank you! Let me know if anything is missing for you and I can work on getting it added in.
Oh interesting, I got directed to Pixel Watch
Good finding. I don't see its timeline usually discussed in other Ethical hacking and responsible disclosures.
The advice to use 1uF or 2.2uF for typical projects is good. It's common to see higher value capacitors in modern reference designs because this is well known among people who actually engineer circuits instead of copy and paste from 20 year old wisdom.

Don't go to a larger package to get more capacitance, though. Capacitors that are physically larger will have worse higher frequency performance. The physical package is part of the limiting factor. Very high speed designs will prefer 0201 capacitors.

Also keep in mind the distribution of your decoupling capacitors. Putting a single 2.2uF in a board in place of multiple 100nF caps distributed around the PCB would be a mistake. The decoupling capacitor needs to be physically close to what you're trying to decouple.

For hobby projects and microcontrollers most of this just doesn't matter. Pick a capacitor and put it on the board. For real high speed work you have to consider the layout. Number, size, and location of vias around the capacitor has a big impact. Loop area is also a big factor. Don't use narrow traces or locate capacitors far away.
Did Snowden lose his citizenship? No. The US cannot revoke his citizenship per its laws. He fled to Russia and took an oath of citizenship there in 2022. But he didn’t renounce his US citizenship either.
You have a bunch of anecdotes where the only successful people from the same school and friend group are the ones that regularly smoked and still smoke weed? They have the best memories of the people you know?

>Weed isn't going to give you a leg up in life, but it's not a guarantee that you're going to end up in a dead end job and live with your parents forever either.

Sure, and smoking doesn't guarantee lung cancer. It sure as hell makes it more likely, though.
Google Gemini: How I got rid of the A.I. tool from Workspace
The original comment implies their “friends” are failures, which i don’t know about you but I wouldn’t say that about any of my friends, and wouldn’t expect any of my friends to say that about me.

Pointing that out is not a personal insult.
100%. As a kid growing up near a golf course I knew lots of kids who wanted to be a pro golfer (me too). Did they want to spend 10 hrs a day at the range hitting ball after ball? Not so much. Lots of people want to be Warren Buffett - do they want to read 10-ks for 10 hrs a day? Not so much.
Well, you can't have it both ways:

Some people like to complain that the stock market is very short termist, and valuations never reflect what happens in the long term. And here you complain that the stock market doesn't focus solely on short term pain, but is looking to some potential futures.
You can disable file access: https://duckdb.org/docs/operations_manual/securing_duckdb/ov...
I love Sublime Text editor. Have been using it for 15 years now and despite the fact most of my development is done inside of VSCode or other editors, I still use ST for large files and notes. I can confidently open up a 1gb SQL dump in ST and it won't break a sweat, try that in VSCode and you can see it freeze up for a bit and that's on a decent machine too.
Smoked a reasonable amount of weed in my life, starting as an adult. I have some issues with working memory, but minor ones; doesn’t effect my day-to-day. I was friends with a lot of top students in my undergrad, we all smoked fairly regularly.

Brain is like a muscle: smoking pot isn’t good for it, but there are plenty of daily ciggarette smokers who can run miles without a break; in the same way, if you need your brain for daily tasks, and you smoke pot every day, yes you would probably be better off without the weed, but you’re not going to be much worse than anyone else at your job.
It's even more fundamental than that.

Any data center project currently under way or with plans to open within the next year or two has already place orders with NVidia or will do so very soon. Due to demand and lead times, you have to order to critical parts and systems today if you want to have half a chance of receiving them a year from now. Hardware supply lines are long and complex. I like to say that you cannot run a compiler and end-up with a warehouse full of chips.

The next fundamental reality has to do with competition.

Suppose company A foolishly decides to build a data center with only 10% of the chips they originally wanted based on the hype around DeepSeek. In the meantime, company B sticks to the plan and, perhaps, decide to take add the 90% of chips data center A did not take.

The net result will be the company A will be absolutely destroyed by company B. They will have nearly twice the compute capacity, which will translate to a huge competitive advantage across many fronts.

In other words, the selloff is, at best, ill informed. Market forces caused FUD. The smart one's took it as an absolutely massive buying opportunity. All you have to do now is wait.
I believe that your perspective is harmful. I'm an accomplished staff engineer who has worked at multiple megacorps and valley darling companies including MANGAFANGA or whatever you call it and am highly goal oriented and passionate contributor. I started smoking weed at 13. I own multiple homes and live a well adjusted life with my wife. I support my parents and sisters. Without weed, I can get tunnel vision, or looped, trapped in the many contradictions and highly irrational layer 8 issues that permeate high stakes corporate decision making surrounding my technical efforts. Weed helps this all bother me less. I vape every day. Often on balconies at work. I'm afraid of schizophrenia, but besides that, weed has been a miracle drug for me. I have a psychiatrist, I've had pharmaceuticals, but really the plant has been the best thing for me and I wouldn't have gotten nearly as far as I have without it.
Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago
"US" is not a monolithic mind.
If that's the case, then nearly every software company should be counting the cost of Linus Torvalds development.
But if they told you, you'd make an informed decision
Did you ever think you’re just really dumb and think they are smart?
American Airlines CRJ-700 crashes into police helicopter near Reagan Airport
> In addition, the White House has put a hiring freeze in place, prohibiting the replacement of open government positions or the creation of new ones while the administration evaluates reductions in the workforce. The White House plans to release a memorandum with further guidance within 90 days. This has drawn criticism from lawmakers as the FAA has been ramping up controller hiring.

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2025-0...
G'day, I head up the Sublime Merge team.

I'd love to hear your feedback on how we can improve the blame functionality!
I can look into getting anything resolved there.
Ask HN: How to Move into Robotics Field?
I am a full-stack developer with four years of experience, and I am very interested in robotics. I have no experience in that field, so I’m wondering how to get into robotics and how to prepare for it while working my day job. Here are a few options I’ve been considering:

1. Move to a robotics company as an SDE and then gradually transition into a robotics-focused role.
2. Move into a role related to AI.
3. Move into a junior robotics position with a significant pay cut.

For options 2 and 3, I currently have no experience, so I need to prepare for them now.
I need some advice on how to navigate this career shift.
The video makes it look like the helicopter crashed into the airplane, not the other way around.
>You have a bunch of anecdotes where the only successful people from the same school and friend group are the ones that regularly smoked and still smoke weed?

I have a bunch of anecdotes where people I knew who regularly smoked weed throughout high school now range from successful to wildly successful.

I know a bunch of people that abstained and yet they work dead end jobs, have developed mental issues, and/or live with parents still.

Hence my conclusion that there might just be some other (more important) factors.
CRJ 700, Helicopter Midair in Washington
This reads like a…patriotic response to the situation at hand.
2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
The Death of Online Work
Hard disagree. I write for myself and still use the search functionality on my site [1] to find things quickly.

I also regularly read the work of Julia Evans, Brandur Leach, Armin Ronacher, and Patrick Dubroy, and none of them generate slop about the latest tech. On top of that, engineering blogs from Netflix, Uber, Stripe, and Salesforce are irreplaceable for me.

I use LLMs a ton and still think human writing is even more valuable now that generating formulaic junk is so easy.

[1]: https://rednafi.com/search
Sure but I know plenty of people who are dead sober who exhibit the same behavior.

I behave like that occasionally when I have too many unrelated tasks at once and am a little stressed. I hope people don't think it's because I was high.
That's assuming what a known prolific liar has said is true...

The most famous example would be him contacting ScarJo's agent to hire her to provide her voice for their text-to-speech bot, them being told to go pound sand, and doing it anyway, and then lying about (which they got away with until her agent released a statement saying they'd approached her and she told them to fuck off.)
Well I wasn't optimistic about OpenCL in the past, because nobody will bother with that when they can pay a little (or even a lot) more for Nvidia and use CUDA. Even though OpenCL might work in theory with whatever tools someone is using, it's unpopular and therefore less supported. But this time is different.
If you're referring to the downvotes on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42873211, I think that comment would have done better if you had omitted the swipes, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

e.g. "You are, in typical HN style, minimising the problem into insignificance" and "love how this is getting ratioed by egotistical self confessed x10 engineers". This is the sort of thing commenters here are asked to edit out of their comment, and when they don't, it's correct to downvote them (even though your underlying points may otherwise be correct).
Yep, the effects aren’t permanent. It seems people choose to be scatterbrained for some reason or another. I do smoke ocasionally and that is very little as I don’t like getting the anxiety/paranoia effects and weed is very potent these days. I only do it to zone off creatively, gives me the childhood magic which dampens the day to day stress. All in all it is a very positive experience. I do see kids these days overdoing it but hey, in my day kids were drinking more than today so these habits change over time
Yeah well I started smoking weed when I was 16 and I'm a poor man approaching retirement with no family or friends or assets and a tenuous job predicated in my ability to perform manual labor. Now what.
Especially if it was a member of a band before going solo.
While I was growing up, my family put so much salt on everything, even before tasting it. About once a month during the summer months my folks would surprise us by picking up pizza (with 8 growing kids, it was a lot of pizza). The top would be flopped open on the boxes, and then mom would start shaking the salt, and shaking, and shaking, and wouldn't stop until you could see a layer. We were all so used it that non-salty pizza was drab, just as you state.

I finally kicked the habit when I went to college. There were no salt shakers out on the tables. After the first semester I went home and nearly choked on the level of salt on the food.
It's a crazy accomplishment really, unimaginable how safe US commercial airplanes have been in the last two decades

So sad that streak finally ended
It's your belief that everyone at Stanford gets a scholarship of some kind?
I think you're discounting her subjective experience of paying attention to Musk and his behavior that day. I agree with you entirely that it's almost an abstract tragedy, difficult to relate to, and honestly overemphasized by Hollywood. But if I were there, I sure as shit would make an effort not to appear disinterested. It's just basic human decency (unlike, for example, those people who just whip out their smartphones to take photos and record videos from the outskirts of the damn place).

I don't think that's enough to call him a sociopath (at least not just that, lol). It feels like she was already set on using that word, but Musk is a pretty controversial figure these days.
There are some esoteric rules about what qualities for a merge and what doesn't. Sadly, I can never remember them
Sure, that makes sense. If the risk of something is 1 in 10, 10 people do it, you have 9 examples of people who have no problems and 1 example of someone with an issue.

I was thinking you were saying that you had examples of people who were successful because they smoked weed, where others similarly situated were unsuccessful having not smoked it.