skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it is demonstrably true for many people that luck or family influence or money played a factor.

They may have had to compete with other people in the same advantages in the same business - which may not be very many.

There is an overlap between people who build businesses and heirs of fortunes. Far more people increase an existing fortune than become rich from scratch.
Chinese naval assets, most particularly their large transports and landing craft, would be extremely vulnerable to antiship missiles. They're building those anyway, which suggests they have some sort of plan to use them after the antiship missile threat has been eliminated in the region. The most plausible way to accomplish that is to paralyze the American response by having Taiwan capitulate very fast, before the invasion actually takes place. Starting and finishing the war with the rapid destruction of key American military bases and surface assets (almost certainly using missiles, not a "sneaky carrier group") could shock Taiwan into a rapid capitulation, which in turn could neutralize (politically) the American fast attack subs that could otherwise decimate the vulnerable invasion fleet (which they are building, regardless of how little sense it makes to us.)
What I find ridiculous is that USA spends more on the interest on the national debt than either on Medicare or on the Department of Defense.
> How hard is it to check your monthly bank statement

Mind-boggling to me that you'd even have to do that. I get instant notifications for all purchases, we're in 2025.

Once they stole my number and 10 minutes later I had already contested the charge, blocked the card and requested a new one.
federally only is about $1.6Trillion, the rest is state taxes and never goes near the federal government to cover the interest on their debt. ($1.8Trillion at a poultry 5% interest)
Right! The dems are stuck doing the responsible boring and non eye catching thing.

Economists, policy makers etc. increasingly have to make the dems carry the weight, in a political and media market which moves so fast that facts can’t even matter.

In this situation, is it a surprise that they could deal with Covid, undo 2008, end nafta, or any number of great things, but still lose faith of the populace because they didn’t hit the populist taking points?

It now very much feels like an era of talking points, and damn the facts.

In which case either making the talking points stick, or change the talking points.
When an elected official goes far beyond their legal powers to take control of the country, that's called a coup. Yes, even if they were perfectly legally elected.
I think one aspect not covered in your comment is whether or not all voters are getting an accurate representation of what's happening. If what they read/see just confirms their favoured view, it might be hard to say with confidence that any portion of the population do want what is actually happening at any given point.

Or separately, whether they feel very strongly about some things that are happening, enough to overlook other things that they'd likely disagree with but don't understand or care about as much.
> genuinely lost a lot of reputation

Billionaires also genuinely lost a lot of reputation. Present discussion and times stands proof. "Billionaires are dead", to mirror PG's sentiment. Surely you agree that having an opinion on rich people's predictive powers is at least as relevant and justified as having an opinion on MS's future.

PG called MS dead by observing a cultural/fashion trend among a sliver of the IT crowd and predicted a larger shift that never happened to any meaningful degree. He missed that what he was looking at wasn't truly of interest to MS. The 90% of regular users were and they had way more inertia than what PG though the few people in his line of sight could oppose.

> how rich and pretentious he is

Rich yes. "Pretentious" is your assessment. I made no moral judgement on the man. Just counterbalancing the common narrative seen even here that rich people have a superior intellects, they see things others don't even in the dark uncertainty of the future. In reality it's mostly bias, successes are praised, failures downplayed. It tricks people into believing rich people are oracles, or that not rich means not intelligent. You don't object to the praising and you'll fight to support that bias? That looks disingenuous.

> If he's wrong, why not just say why?

I did, repeatedly. You just cared more about responding than about understanding. No amount of "saying why" will change your mind because there's always some other place to shift the goal posts. "It's cultural but actually technical. It's dead but just dead for some coders. It's just a few coders but SV is all that matters. Time proved it wrong but it surprised everyone." You'll also put words in my mouth that I absolutely never suggested hoping it brings my argument low enough that you think you have a chance of fighting it. Not in a million throwaway accounts ;).
Then you have the problem that Congress overrules you.

> The number of flights at Reagan National is capped because of its congestion. But lawmakers have an interest in boosting direct flights to their states – for themselves and their constituents – because the airport is more convenient to downtown than Dulles International Airport

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/30/safety-...

So the knew the airport was already at max number of flights that it could handle safely and yet they still increased the number of flights in pure selfishness.
Even if it's a delusion, people believe it and I think we should take it seriously and help them see through that delusion.

I'm not advocating for shutting down these departments at all, or slashing and burning research.

I'm hoping that we can help people realize that people love them and care about them and support them more than they could ever imagine, even if they're a white man.

I say this as a white man who has dated black women and had them say some really harsh things about me as a white man, only to realize that often it was an internal conflict that they had about being black but also liking some things from white culture. Some of them had been called white by their own black communities, and so feeling stuck between those worlds.

I think the vast majority of us just need to learn how to deal with emotional attacks, to realize life is combat and everyone is trying to deal with innumerable conflicts at the same time, all the time.
Not necessarily, I used to use Apple Reminders initially because it was free, i found the value of a good TODOs app by using it extensively.

Then once I loved using Todo apps, I migrated to Todoist and started paying for a Todo app.

Apple Reminders is the reason why I pay for Todoist app, it helped me learn it, same reason why I moved from free iMovies app to a paid video editing app.

Same reason why I moved from Free Apple Notes to Bear Notes + Muse App (both paid subscriptions)

In a way, provided other apps keep accelerating and moving ahead of apple, apple’s free apps kinda end up working as free trial sessions for showcasing the Utility of a good App.

Also, its a good thing apple ends up commoditizing free entry-level apps, there’s a billion software out there to build for different industries, its the only way, the prices of software will fall, which means more money in our pockets to spend on other things. So it’s fine, just as long as people don’t forget to innovate, that’s the way a free market should be.

What is anti-competitive tho, is stuff like Apple Music and Spotify, where spotify has to pay 30% cut to apple while apple music doesnt have to pay anything. But as long as apple is commoditizing entry-level apps, for other fast moving startups that can be a good thing, as they can show better value to customers who already have tried out free apple apps and see the value of those softwares.

I would have never paid for all those apps each month, were it not for apple’s free apps that helped me see the value in it.
why you mixed [Argentinians want to "take over" The Falklands] between [Russians want to "take over" Ukraine] and [Americans want to "take over" Greenland]

is it because of nationalism?
This will probably decide it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

If one party wants to do things democratically at all cost, and the other party wants to bring down democracy, then the latter will win.
Microsoft sends telemetry and displays ads all over Windows unless it is 11 Enterprise.
>If someone wins the lottery and gets rich, society isn’t better off.

Actually, society is much better off since the money is dispersed into the economy faster and to a much greater degree than most other windfalls.

And most other windfalls are crafted to accumulate money from the economy, so the difference in who ends up with the money is another major factor.
Ask HN: Cheaper Alternatives to OpenAI Whisper for Voice Agents?
I’m building a voice-enabled conversational agent and looking for more cost-effective ASR solutions than OpenAI Whisper. Any affordable, maybe open-source, options that support natural, real-time conversations? Thanks!
> And one of the things I really like is the ability to entirely block domains, so for example I never get any Pinterest links cluttering up the results the now

Note you can do this on Google using the uBlacklist extension [1]. You can select domains but also use patterns to match specific URLs, like `somedomain.com/someprefix/*`.

[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmia...
In practice, Guile is usually not compiled in. Whereas I've never seen a version of make without `load` and its supporting infrastructure.
They consistently grow net income by 30% each year. What an I missing in this report?
vTPM only works if there's a real TPM available.
Not for Windows
Watching Gaza get razed has pretty much ended any sense I had that liberal society is capable of learning lessons or improving itself. I grew up a good liberal, but as an adult I realize that so much of peoples' attraction to liberalism is simply inability to resolve conflict, center values in society, or establish a shared culture. There are better ideals to structure society around, like material rights.

Fwiw i also believe we should dismantle our government as it is not, actually, very democratic and doesn't actually function well and mostly exists to serve itself and its corporate clients. The current parties are simply the last people on earth I'd trust to do it.
Once upon a time in a country of the Universe some wise leader decided that there should be twice the number of graduates than before, so they made the education more accessible, accepting twice as many people than before. However, one - evil and ugly - department in the unversity was a barrier. They failed much more students than before with their old and ugly exams, so with some convincing they improved their exams reducing the level of expectations and voila, there were much more graduates designing buildings and other critical infrastructures than ever before, everyone lived happily ever after.... ?
> you guys elected him overwhelmingly to do exactly that

Most certainly not overwhelmingly:

Trump: 49.80%
Harris: 48.32%

This is one of the more frustrating aspects of the United States. Not even 1.5% more and the result is "near total evisceration of the federal government" compared to "largely the same".

The result is even worse with the Senate. 55.9m votes for Democratic Senators, 54.4m for Republican Senators, and yet Republicans ended up with 53 seats.

And this doesn't even get into gerrymandering for House seats, which is predominantly Republican-driven.

This is by a good margin not a representative government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_Senate_elec...
The video demonstrates a second common trick: making use of the black frame "outside" the screen buffer. Once the first demos showed it was possible it quickly spread and nearly everyone used it.

It's been a while, but I recall that you had to do some fancy interrupt timing stuff for that. To find where that was in the code, the same procedure applied that we used to find the handler for background in the code of games: search for 0x78 (SEI), which temporarily blocked interrupts so background stuff could be installed ("pseudo-multitasking").

We used to purchase a tape or 5 1/4" floppy disk with a game per month and instead of playing the game, we competed who could remove the music from the game the fastest (so that it could play in the background alone, e.g. while writing code). In the end that was a matter of just seconds for previously unseen machine code using a hex monitor/disassembler. The advantage of such a "teenage sports" is you will never forget that "169 = A9 = load accumulator" and the rest of the MOS 6510 opcode table, even after not using it for 40 years.

I wonder what today's kids will remember? (They seem to have to Google each Python keyword, and they can't do anything if WiFi is down for an hour, which worries me.)
That's an Arm version of Windows though. The main reasons to install Windows revolve around the need to use Windows only x86/x64 versions of drivers or software.
I thought this cited criticism is interesting:

> Culdesac is a far cry from "the incremental urbanism and thickening our cities need. A dozen or even a thousand Culdesacs can’t solve that problem," because they would lack long-term growth benefits including "the resilience of a system where many hands have built the neighborhood and have a financial stake in it" and would reflect "a zoning and finance stream that favors industrial over incremental production."

It's interesting that one of the most walkable, lively and beautiful urban centers —Paris—was not built this way, but was the result of a big reform by Eugene Haussmann that flattened the "previous Paris" and put his new version on top, which was extremely centrally planned.

The idea of a community incrementally building their infrastructure together based on arising needs and desires is beautiful. But it's not practical in the 2020s where housing is much harder to build due to regulation, zoning etc.

Plus this "incremental" approach can go wrong as well. People forget that for the longest time, cities had higher mortality because they just grew organically and some of that wasn't actually great for humans.

The things we see have survived for a reason. Most cities have gotten rid of A LOT of things that grew "incrementally".

I think this incremental approach is a romantic idea and more is right than wrong about it. But it's also the 2020s where housing is crazy expensive and we have higher expectations of buildings and neighborhoods.
Hear hear - Utrecht might be the finest city in the world, too.

And Europe is missing a gigantic opportunity right now. The fact that talent is cheap, there's a strong social safety net, and we don't have enormous amounts of entrepreneurship is really strange.
Whatever different side you are seeing is the act, the name calling is part of his normal behavior. I don't want to say too much, but I have a family member who had to deal with Trump briefly in the 00s. From the things I heard back then, I know for sure that he tries to bully people to get what he wants and will end up shouting threats if things don't go his way.
Like chlamydia.
It's likely a lot more as nobody's been counting for almost a year. Their genocide has been a slow burn since 48.
The author learns that Java is not a Functional Programming language; lambdas ain't enough!
Understandable, they have to reevaluate the effort and probably adjust pricing. Upwards.

> DHL B2C shipments to the EU are generally held in customs until the duty is paid, which makes it slow but ensures DHL isn't left holding the bag when people decide they don't want to pay unexpected import duties.

Nothing is unexpected with DHL considering the amount of paperwork they want you to fill each time :) Even if you check "retain my data for next time and don't send me this form again".

They indeed send me a payment link and i pay for customs online before the package starts moving.

I don't do Asia->EU shipments but I get prototypes maybe 2-3 times per year from the US. We gave up on DHL and are using UPS now... they want 800% less forms, cost much less and take about the same time to deliver.
Mockito, Type Checking, and the Perils of DSL Design
Polling tends to show public support for certain disciplines (e.g. medicine, engineering, hard science) and not others (e.g. social sciences)

I don’t think the public resent intelligence per se, but rather dislike when it is combined with judgementalism
The framers designed a system of government to be allergic to kings, having just fought off a king a couple years earlier.
> Gradual, dependently typed languages are the future

I really interested why the author thinks this.

I've seen the general sentiment wrt "the future" go from C to C++ to Java to Ruby to JS (also server-side) and Python.

My own sentiment went from Ruby to Haskell to, well, Kotlin I guess...

I looked into Idris (dependently typed), but did not think it would fit the Overton window[1], to be a reasonable expectation for the future.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Slicing a slice is full of gotchas. I tend to forget all the rules and avoid it whenever I can.
US doesn't innovate anymore. Looking forward to seeing what Comac and China bring to the table before 2030.
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia remain insane weirdos to me. Focus on more important things.

I just want to set up a linter that’s standard for the language and let CI deal with it. Anything other than that is mental to me.
So what I'm saying is that if Israel had attempted total eradication they would kill more than 2.5% of them.

I also think that if Hamas had the means they would have been happy to totally eradicate Israel, civilians and all, so I can't say I have much sympathy for them. The civilian deaths are tragic but given these numbers I think it's pretty clear that they are collateral damage from fighting Hamas, not a target in themselves.
To me, being extremely picky rhymes with not wanting a relationship.

I live in france and somebody said on the radio that the state family fund (CAF) should organize dancing ball for people to meet.

Maybe the core problem is that dating apps should not make money, or at least find another way to make money.
> AST via reflection

I literally am a paid ML compiler engineer and I have no idea what this means. You understand that reflection, ala looking in a mirror is about being about to identify a type's type at runtime. It has nothing to do with the AST.
It was botched from the start because there's so many opportunities for unchecked exceptions as well. Without a more sophisticated type system that represented nullability, you can get NullPointerException anywhere. Divide by zero. And so on.

You also have a problem similar to "monads and logging": if you want to log from anywhere in your program, your logging function needs to be exception-tight and deal with all the possible problems such as running out of disk space, otherwise you have to add those everywhere.
Not the OP, but I believe any distribution of limited resources could be seen as inherently discriminatory or racist or classist or whatever ist one wants.

If there is only 1 job but 10 candidates, the job has to go to someone. If everyone has the same scores on an exam, what's the fair way? Flip a coin? Perhaps. What if there are intangible skills/knowledge that are important for the job? One person has a better score on the exam, another person speaks a language (or dialect) that is important for the job. Maybe 9 of 10 come from one academic background, the 10th comes from a different one...which may actually provide a different perspective and provide new insights and break group think. Maybe one comes from a culture that is more confrontational, which means they may speak out more than others.

So many factors are intangible or at least not explicit and I think that's where "merit" can become so dimensionally reduced, not realizing how multidimensional each individual is.
And the LTSC version won't keep trying to upgrade itself. LTSC enterprise version of Windows or bust.
"Community" is not the same as "nation state". Maybe getting the two concepts confused is why you seem not to have quite grasped at least one of them.
>People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia remain insane weirdos to me.

Um, "minutiae", erm, uh.
Yes, exactly. So those "huge fines" won't really scare a normal company since it would not apply to them
Microsoft Proposes Web Notifications API Support for Incoming Calls
>there's a deep strain of anti-expert feeling throughout

Probably because the experts are telling them that if they want a future, everyone is going to have to compromise their current lifestyle. Not a popular message. People will always be sceptical and hostile towards people who say "you can't have X". People are always happy to believe people who say "Vote for me and you have as much X as you want!"
High performance memory systems aren't register based anyways.
It is the primary reason I use Kagi. I have become horrified by the widespread use of censorship for political reasons in search engines like Google. I'm not a child. I can make up my own mind.
I find that hard to believe, but I don't really know anything so I can't dispute you.
I am exactly who you are talking about, I live in a very purple city in the midwest. I grew up in a town of 3000 people, my family was Amish 4 generations ago. I'm also a 90s kid and grew up on south park. Turned into a redneck hippy.

It's a complete social poison pill in the city to have voted a certain way. Have had the same look of "how could you be that dumb" from people ranging from strippers to lawyers.

All I want is love and belonging, not sure how to feel love when I've heard the word "barbarian" to describe certain types of people. Not sure how to feel love when men's loneliness and suicide problems aren't being prioritized

Yeah, the hurt turns into anger sometimes, but yes, I need them too. For me to exist, my opposite has to exist, and I should love us both.
> Multi signature wallets exist.

Well... with a traditional bank, everyone knows that in a pinch you can just show up at any branch of your bank, present a government issued ID card and get your money. That doesn't need an user manual or any technical knowledge.

Setting up multi-sig wallets and actually working disaster protection however? That needs a looot of knowledge.
Sage: Burning Away Git Complexity
> Good management is invaluable. (I went most of my career before seeing it done well)

Yes, and: it's difficult to describe, must be led from the top, and extremely difficult to evaluate from above.
He seemed to mostly talk about combat, flying a VIP person out of the white house during an attack would be some form of combat IMO.
I didn’t know even know this. TIL, thanks.
US Tech companies products are not safe long before Trump.
Do yourself a favor and move your organizational data to an European provider.
It is a suprisingly hard thing to implement well. I have no idea how many times I have implemented slice-like things in C (back in the 1990-2000s when I mostly wrote C) and it was one of those things I never managed to be happy with.
> Typed languages are essential on teams with mixed experience levels

I like this one because it puts this endless dilemma in a human context. Most discussions are technical (static typing ease refactoring and safety, dynamic typing is easier to learn and better for interactive programming etc.) and ignore the users, the programmers.
One thing I would keep in mind. There are some parts of the project that you really cannot fill by chat output.

I had crucial area with threads. Code generated by chat seemed to be ok, but had one flaw. My initial code written manually was bug free. chat-generated output was not. It was difficult to catch it via inspection.