skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got to hand it to Elon Musk, I was in the “nothing ever happens” camp and he completely, absolutely proved me wrong. The Great men theory of history posits that a lot of History happens due to the action of a few great men. Great has a baggage of positive connotation, I prefer calling it the “Important People of History” theory (to also be gender neutral). It posits that if Hitler didn’t exist, Germany wouldn’t go down the path it did, if Gandhi didn’t exist, India wouldn’t go down the path it did. It is an alternative to the more modern view, that tries to find sociological, economic and environmental reasons for Historic Change. I leaned towards the Great Men View but was not fully convinced by it. Looking at Elon Musk, leads me to believe that this theory is true.

If Elon did not exist/ tie himself to Trump, I don’t think Trump could have done even 10% of the dismantling of the Administrative State that Elon has done. Elon has a certain will to power, flagrantly breaks all norms but advertises it on Twitter for his Twitter supporters, an insane sense of urgency to move fast, an ability to attract talented 20 yr olds to join him for “low pay”, and “100 hr weeks” that gets stuff done. The Trump ecosystem was mostly professional grifter (and crypto scammers), polemicists who only talked the talk, and a small set of true believers who never had a private sector job in their life. If it was just them, I might have been right in the “Nothing Ever Happens” camp. Elon and his ecosystem has given them fangs. They still probably can direct Elon, to a limit, at some things like H1b immigration they will probably concede to Elon but in return they will actually remake the government in their image. Elon is turning out to be one of the “Important People in History”.
Not really.

He wanted Romney to win the Republican primary, believing him to be more pro-tech than the other candidates, but he ultimately he supported and voted for Obama in that election.
The Byte Book of Pascal I think led to the creation of a lot of Pascal implementations.
What was the impact?
Scientists find that things do seem better in the morning
None of that seems very rational
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/unicode.z... wdym?
Yes, it's good to be careful to not label as people as fascists unless they do things like, for example, literally do the Nazi salute while publicly addressing a crowd.
iMessage/SMS is just one of the many sending options in the share sheet. WhatsApp or whatever your country uses will be there too.
Sure when you courier stuff into Canada but when it’s through the postal service, duty & sales tax collection is at the discretion of customs.

Customs used to check everything and tax/duty any parcel over $20 until ~2011 or so.

Not sure if it was because of cutbacks, rationalization (it’s a lot of paperwork to collect a couple bucks even with their, at the time, $6.95 fee), or a part of their reinvention as gun carrying “law enforcement” and consistent tax collection being beneath them.
A lot of the English reporting I'm reading said "reinforce" which implies addition. I don't speak spanish but the tweet from Sheinbaum also translates to "reinforce" if translation valid:

>1. Mexico will immediately reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.
Almost certainly caused by the need to figure out how to process packages that were previously de minimis exempted from tariffs.
I’ve seen tortoise users break their repo, struggle to understand the issue and then push it through, making it everyone’s problem. Git language is screwed, you cannot unscrew it with a right-click gui because you basically click some latin-looking hieroglyphs that you don’t know either way.
OSH Park has been doing 4 layer boards for at $10 per square inch for a set of 3 for years. Shipping included. 2 layer for $5/sq in. Much cheaper for anything but the largest boards.

It was actually only recently that China low volume manufacturing beat out OSH Park for very small boards once you factored in shipping.
My guy you aren't getting it. You were lied to. You bought it. You are just plain wrong and openly propagating a lie as fact and you seem to be doubling down.
There was just an election! The people literally just voted for this.
I very much might have. Everyone brings their own bias to the table.

But, remember the asymmetry in this space is large. The asymmetry of risk, of expectations, of outcome. It doesn't go to what you project as a hypothetical, it goes to the one I responded to. If you can show me a dating app with the right dynamics to demand the response you hypothesized, we can see how the numbers pan out. The one we have, it's the other direction of bias in expectation and behaviour.

Ask yourself why the asymmetry in hinge/bumble about who initiates contact exist.

With no intent of doxxing your bio page here says you're a social scientist. I'd welcome an understanding of if the current praxis in your field suggests the kind of cultural bias I projected isn't widespread, and if your field views this as "anti men" because I certainly didn't mean it to be, I simply think there is an inherent asymmetry to who has to act, and how they act, in the recommendations from this author in this space, which appears backed by data.
Are we to tether it's decline to the different immigrant groups that came after then?
Or try to rule by executive power while ignoring the Constitution, Congress, checks and balances...

Of course it's not only fascists who can be totalitarian, but totalitarianism is a bad smell in any form of government and should be avoided.
Not a coup. Trump said he was going to dismantle the government, and the majority empowered him to do so.
Bandwidth bottleneck applies only to non-batched inference on single accelerator setups.
The point isn't that Firefox is less exploitable it's that it has less blatant tracking than alternatives like Chrome. If you're an activist I'd imagine that exploits are a scary thought but the more direct threat is the tracking we (un)knowingly succumb to every day.
> Why has there never been serious Western alternatives to JLCPCB, PCBWay, JLCCNC etc.?

Because the West has to actually follow environmental and safety regulations. As opposed to write them down on paper and wipe your ass with it when the West isn't looking.

Evidence: I watched a tour video from one of these Chinese PCB houses and some of the workers were wearing surgical masks.

Not for COVID mind you, for presiding over open vats of boiling poison that would need a chemical respirator in any responsible country.
Show HN: Atlas – A General Purpose GPU Visualization Language
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I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions. Thanks for taking a look!
-- jon@kinda.science
> I find it hard to judge when things are in a good enough state to commit

Work in a feature branch. Commit often. Squash away the junk commits at the end.

> ...and especially good enough to have a title.

Who needs a title? It's perfectly fine to rapid-fire commits with no comment, to create quick save points as you work. Bind to a key in your editor.

I treat commits in a private branch the same as the undo log of the text editor. No one cares about the undo log of your editor as they never see it. The same should be true of your private feature branch commits. They are squashed away never to be seen by human eyes again.
Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium
> many women won't end up liking anyone.

The implication being that the 60th percentile women who don't like 60th percentile men would have liked 95th percentile men. But that's useless, because finding matches for those men was never your problem to begin with. And those men are also going to match with 95th percentile women and then choose them over the 60th percentile women anyway unless they're only looking for a hookup, so you're neither solving any problem for the platform nor any problem for the women.

> You have to be able to give women their "dream man" to retain them.

That's just a charade. The 60th percentile women on average can't actually land the 95th percentile men, but if you show them all the 95th percentile men then it reduces the rate at which they like the men they could actually land, which frustrates both the men and the women, because they're both looking for real matches that could actually go somewhere.

> showing a 60 percentile woman, men that around 60 percentile is a sure way to drive women away from your app

If you show them 95th percentile men then they like them but so do most other women, and then the men in that group will either not reply to most of them or will reply to all of them intending to ghost them after having sex or cheat on them, which... is a sure way to drive women away from your app.
Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.
> USA is a place where you can go from $100k to $100m

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" - John Steinbeck
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32989265
I think you're misrepresenting. His side won, and now they get to do what they want. It's always that way, no? Like, isn't that the point of an election?
> no one can cogently/concisely explain why

There are literally dozens of examples of comments in this thread doing exactly that. Perhaps those explanations don't resonate with you and that's fine.
Customs could just… not.

It’s at their discretion, just like someone bringing in more than their exemption of beer and deciding not not to charge duty.
> percentile vs parents' income percentile.

Wouldn't this be a much worse metric? It would have to net out to zero change on average by the definition of percentiles. If we take abs change to look at both downward and upward mobility, the measure wouldn't tell us where most downward mobility happened, up and down could all happen within the bottom 25% and none in the top 75% and this metric would say we are highly social mobile if there was a lot of movement there.
This reminds me of a story i read about in The Power Broker about Robert Moses. He wanted to tear down, i think, the old mayor's mansion or something, but someone got a court order to stop him. The date was set for a few days out. The night before the court date, he leveled the place and then went to court and said, "it's already done. There's no reason for me to be here." and that was it.
Sure, they ruled against the second moratorium, not the first. But it was a close ruling, because it's not as clear as you're making it sound. The CDC has very broad powers during a public health emergency.

Not saying I agree with what Trump's CDC tried to do, but it's not clear to me that the law bars them from taking extreme measures during a pandemic. It just has to be continually justified by facts on the ground.
This is not a credible definition. By this standard a traffic jam is a human rights violation.
When people ask how could IBM facilitate in the Holocaust, this is how it happens.

Google rushed to sell AI tools to Israel’s military after Hamas attack:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/google-...
> mistakenly convince ourselves that if I add one more feature,

Even non-technical founders make this error. Everyone wants to believe that "just one more feature" is the difference between make and break.

In my experience reducing features is better to begin with.
And forgo the revenue? Or, do the other carriers do a better job of meeting the imposts?
looks awful on mobile. i do appreciate that it’s very accessible though.
Nice story, but…

> Years ago a friend working in security told me that every telco operator in Elbonia

See info about the fictional country of Elbonia here, from the Dilbert comics:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert
yes but by the time you're using miri, why not just run zig with a separate static checker that does all the memory safety parts?

https://github.com/ityonemo/clr
It's worth distinguishing between R&D and science. In my experience in industry, R&D is very focused on product development. Sometimes on a little longer time horizon than engineering, but it's research to solve some problem that the company has. Sometimes that problem is also more broadly useful towards advancing human knowledge and understanding, but often it's not. At my last company, the R&D department focused entirely on 1) building algorithms for a specific product (nothing that advanced the state of the art, just applying well-established techniques to the company's particular hardware); and 2) helping market the company's products by letting them claim that they were clinically-proven. Would they ever publish anything that showed a result that wouldn't serve the company's interests? Of course not. Yes, I know there are some industrial labs that do more basic research, but I've never worked at one.

Also, industry isn't really doing that much to train the next generation of scientists.
Fentanyl is the likely reason behind this order:

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO24/20230517/115956/HHRG...

USPS is the preferred carrier for illicit drug distribution.
Operation Chokepoint 2.0 is what you're looking for here. The FDIC is accused of violating the APA and some constitutional amendments during the Biden presidency for it.
Not an American, but my 2c - a good chunk of people are actively trying to find a reason why their lives are worse than others, haven't gotten better in decades, and are seeing how life is fine across the pond despite not being the richest country in the world. They'll keep blaming everyone, and everything, and whatever comes into their sights. At the same time group of people will exploit it for their gains, as "fighting for a cause" is historically the best way to somewhat control people's emotions.

Every week a new target will be set, and no matter what will be done, people won't realize that the cause of their own problems are internal. Canada, Denmark, Mexico, Panama, you name it. At the same time there's a superpower (China) that is actively trying to unseat the leader. Superpower with more people, better manufacturing, more potential for the future income, more manpower, not cool with getting bullied and etc. That will also make the citizens unhappy, because "how dare China be better than us?!".

It also doesn't help that Americans aren't having children, which is objectively bad for the future of the leadership. The push for natalism, banning contraceptives, choice and etc. is points towards "you will have children no matter what and you will love it" scenario.

It's like a culmination of multiple problems that have been left rampant for the past couple of decades. Now they're trying to frantically swing the pendulum, but there's a chance that they'll end up pulling it a bit too hard so it will break.
i would hope we don't dismiss this the same way we dismissed project 2025 then end up surprised it was the plan all along
This stuff is a rounding error against SS, Medicare, and the military.
Reminds of Karpathy's pinned tweet since a long time: "The hottest new programming language is English."
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1617979122625712128
It puts the brain in our "art enjoyment mode" which also means lowered epistemological immune system. Cannabis should be used occasionally to play outside, make music, watch movies, etc. Not used daily when thinking about politics or stock trading :-/
Deploying OpenVMS x86 on Amazon EC2
I would think if you are a European national this situation would have a silver lining in perhaps incentivizing European scientific investment to remain at home and strengthen those nations' scientific research institutions and grant programs. If the U.S. sees fit to rework its institutions, that's its own business. If funding in the U.S. dries up, then doesn't it make sense to go your own way and seek funding in your home country?

So I think you're right. This could be a big opportunity for countries to poach some of these scientists or to repatriate those scientists who have left their home countries.
"with this one trick, you can get everyone to register a credit card!"

:)
How were you censored? Did the government make your ISP block your website? Did you get arrested for distributing a magazine?
If we want to predict things, look no further than Project 2025
Code is not law. Law is law. Very few people argue that code is law and it has become an anti-blockchain talking point.

Multi signature wallets exist.
if you need values associated with your error you can stash them in an in-out parameter
Not being able to easily write a program without Unicode being pulled in for Rust code was a reason I'd chosen C over Rust before. When targeting binary sizes measured in kilobytes, pulling in full unicode handling is not an option. Especially since programs that don't have direct human interaction rarely actually need unicode.
I don't remember seeing Ali ship directly from China either, and they were doing that long before this, I suspect due to cost reasons.
lol, I knew exactly who wrote this once I saw the complaint about shadowing being forbidden. The author and I were just arguing about it the other day on irc. While the author considers it an annoying language bug because it requires creating additional variable names (given refactoring was an unpalatable option). I consider it a feature.

Said arguments have become a recurring and frustrating refrain; when rust imposes some limit or restriction on how code is written, it's a good thing. But if Zig does, it's a problem?

The remainder of the points are quite hollow, far be it from me to complain when someone starts with a conclusion and works their way backwards into an argument... but here I'd have hoped for more content. The duck typing argument is based on minimal, or missing documentation, or the doc generator losing parts of the docs. And "comptime is probably not as interesting as it looks" the fact he calls it probably uninteresting highlights the lack of critical examination put here. comptime is an amazing feature, and enables a lot of impressive idioms that I enjoy writing.

> I’m also fed up of the skill issue culture. If Zig requires programmers to be flawless, well, I’m probably not a good fit for the role.

But hey, my joke was featured as the closing thought! Zig doesn't require one to be flawless. But it' also doesn't try to limit you, or box you into a narrow set of allowed operations. There is the risk that you write code that will crash. But having seen more code with unwrap() or expect() than without, I don't think that's the bar. The difference being I personally enjoy writing Zig code because zig tries to help you write code instead of preventing you from writing code. With that does come the need to learn and understand how the code works. Everything is a learnable skill; and I disagree with the author it's too hard to learn. I don't even think it's too hard for him, he's just appears unwilling.... and well he already made up his mind about which language is his favorite.
got so close to the point and then flew right past it. AI is never going to be great for this because the limit of "prompt engineering" just loops right back to normal programming
Is this also a lie?

From psychology department at University of Washington [1]:

> I advise deleting the statement below as it shows that URM [underrepresented minority] applications were singled out and evaluated differently than non-URM applications (which is not allowed as [redacted] noted)

> At a faculty meeting, someone whose name is redacted “informed faculty that the Hiring Committee had three outstanding candidates and so they used DEI to distinguish and select a first offer"

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity...
Fair Pricing
Canadian gag order on climate scientists repealed by Justin Trudeau.
Even for batched it applies if the batch size couldn't be super high due to memory size.
haha, I just asked ChatGPT and it references this HN post.

It's a small world.
I Created iPod Click Wheel for iPhone
> What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

Welp.
Imagine you start a new OSS RDBMS project. To help drive adoption you license a trademark from Oracle and call it "OracleBase", even though it has nothing much in common with the well known Oracle database other than also being an RDBMS.

Despite not being objectively better than competitors OracleBase is wildly successful and basically takes over the OSS RDBMS space. Multiple other projects and vendors are building on your specs. A popular and extensive ecosystem develops around it. Many peoples careers are invested in its growth and success.

One day you wake up in a cold sweat, suddenly remembering that the old trademark you licensed years ago is still there, pointed at your cathedral like a nuclear missile, with Larry Ellison's finger on the trigger.
> You absolutely want to attract people that want to make huge breakthroughs with unlikely odds of success.

It's fine to want that and to attract those kind of people. What you don't want is to attract people who want to do that in order to make a lot of money.
It is probably good to remember that this talks about the experience of a German, under Hitler's Nazi government.

This isn't a text that refers to current events. It talks about what happened. How things progressed. Why everybody just ambled along. How it was possible that so many just went along.

If you think there are parallels to current times, or if you feel this attacks you or your beliefs, there is value in thinking about "why". What is it about this story that reaches you? What are you willing to learn from it?
It’s harder to write correct unsafe Rust than correct Zig because (1) Rust uses references all over the place, but when writing unsafe code you must scrupulously avoid “producing” an invalid reference (even if you never deference it), and (2) there’s lots of syntax noise which obscures what the code is doing (though &raw is a step in the right direction).
Surely they can use DHL/UPS, right?
> The standard library not being equipped to handle Unicode is the entire problem.

what? unicode is in the standard library.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/unicode.z...
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FUL...

EDIT: you downvoted me for giving the other poster a primary source document from the original publisher, with no commentary? What are you mad about?
Really? I would think these orders are due to some combination of cocaine, Viagra, and Ambien.
How so? It just sends a link either in a message or email. Acceptance is done via a web page. How do online invitations ensure vendor lock in? What will prevent me from using another online invite system in the future? I’ve used a bunch in past like evite, paperless post and the cost to switch is nothing.