skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with all the social & economical issues within & outside of the U.S., they should in my view occupy the power vacuum for the time being. The real issue is then not that U.S. is evil, but that you cannot both be the tyrant playing zero sum with China & Russia, and the gentleman.

Security wise U.S. cannot even if they can intervene with socially bad policy except to prevent widespread civil arrest etc which is why CIA exists. U.S. pre-emptive wars were good for the military-industrial apparatus that keeps them in power & made sure others can't get those places. In global strategy terms, I suspevt Web3 & DeFi should be seen as an economical third party that reduces Chinese & Russian share of the Western economical pie at times dollar weakens.

The public can never understand that you need to be "though" to win because might makes right in statescraft & geopoli, so the U.S has to censor the internet including inside NATO to prevent economical ties' risk of dying due political pressure. It's understandable. If the game is played classified, and most humans hesitate to pull a gun's trigger, they have no idea about the world inside the entities that protect them. They cannot see that it's a very very zero-sum world, hobbesian world.

This is different from human history because WWII ±25 years we boiled over the techno-industrial pot, and nowadays all of the seemingly evil work of US & its agencies is, actually, necessary for the survival of mankind.
I wrote this post because I don't hear anybody talking about this or planning for it. I've been telling people, including university administrators, about this issue for the past two years, and while my arguments seem to resonate, it seems like there are too many short-term crises to plan for long-term impacts of AI in terms of the declining value of a college education.
Just lost my father to pancreatic cancer as well a couple weeks ago. They caught it very early with a CT scan, performed a significant surgery followed by radiation and chemo. The chemo nearly killed him. Had a couple ok months after chemo, but then it spread and the last couple weeks were awful. Even catching this stupid cancer really early often isn't enough - I hate it.
It never was "the most popular language in the world".

Rails maybe was popular in the US at some point but it was always niche in the rest of the world.
> On the other hand, if TSMC rejects the proposals, the U.S. government could impose a 100% tariff on chips made in Taiwan.

Seems like a bluff... at least taken literally. Is the US really going to put a 100% tax on the core component of the computing industry?

If this actually played out it would be pretty bad for the US economy.

I suppose the unstated implication us that the US could just take the IP by force.
For those "centrists" who voted for this... I have nothing positive to say to them. Nor to those "centrists" who didn't vote at all because "both sides are bad".

I've got zero reason to think that this is going to snap anybody out of anything. I strongly suspect that they're busy coming up with rationalizations that this is OK and they should do the same thing next time.
Recycling of Post-Consumer Waste Polystyrene Using Commercial Plastic Additives
Yeah, it's actually a little weird because typically as people become richer they become more risk-averse, as you have more to lose.
Destroy in what way?
tres commas!
> You can just read the wikipedia on it

Smith-Mundt was a restriction on State. It did nothing to restrict the CIA, or USAID for that matter.

It was also motivated by concerns that State harboured communist sympathies. Saying the Act was motivated by concerns around "what would happen if [American propaganda] was turned inward" is factually false, unsupported by contemporaneous accounts of the bill's backers.

> I am, fyi, not right wing; and not pro-trump

Didn't think you were (and neither am I).

Deep State comes in two flavours. One is the lizard-man crap that appeals to people who can't handle uncertainty. The other is a hypothesis about power in America. The section of the latter that overlaps with the left is based on a sub-hypothesis: that money buying messaging equals power.

The problem with this linkage is it's empirically false. Jeb Bush outspent Trump. Harris outspent Trump. Cambridge Analytica was 2016's AI scare (and Democrats' turn at election denial). Money buys power, but through direct messaging, the acquisition of proximity and--sometimes--bribes.

> we have, during the pandemic, the deployment of all of this machinery at once

And? Nothing happened. People who dissented had the space in which to dissent. They did so openly, peacefully and in spaces old and new.

To put it bluntly, we don't give our adversaries abroad that room. To the extent DOGE might help America, it's in showing us what a real deep state looks like. I'm hoping it doesn't come to it. But someone's e.g. Social Security or government-contract payments failing after an offensive tweet, not due to civic action or private citizens' actions, but due to a Kafkaesque arm of the state--that is the power of the deep state.
I’m in the same boat, working at a startup where taking on multiple projects isn’t really a choice. No matter how careful I am with planning, I still end up overwhelmed. Curious to see what others suggest!

One thing that helps me a bit: I try to prioritize based on impact—if something doesn’t directly contribute to growth, engagement, or key goals, I push it down the list. But still, balancing everything is tough. How do you manage?
You're of course mostly right. In my defense, I'd say it's mostly informed "java bad" bandwagoning ;)

Java is impossibly verbose and the language is sort of dumb. I understand why it's often used in corporate setting as the lowest common denominator: even the less bright can write it and read it.
Is there a link to the contract somewhere?
The fact that there are huge costs in the USA to even periodic medical checkups has severely impacted longevity in the USA to the point it ranks close to Cuba in longevity. Those with a health plan are close to the highest ranked nations. The poor without a plan at all are around ~4-5 less long lived. There is a nice rabbit hole in this data.
https://www.google.com/search?q=longevity+charts&rlz=1C1CHZN...

This has a huge GDP cost in the USA, that needs to be addressed.
The causes are big pharma/hospo/AMA/insuro/lobbyo....
One wonders why the AMA is there? - they limit the numbers of doctors trained in Universities/training hospitals to forestall price competition among doctors by various means. Dentists do the same.
Prices are only going to go down, Gemini Flash is dirt cheap as compared to GPT 4o mini, and soon Open AI will also hopefully bring prices further down.

They will keep prices high for tech like O3 which is leading the market but probably it will also come down as competition arises and their infra also gets optimised.
You’re not biting because it’s true.

Linux said no brigading. Hector resigns twice and in the second time, despite saying he wouldn’t elaborate on Rust vs Linux, proceeds to blame Linus and start another social media brigade.
> - "an upstream language community which refuses to make any kind of backwards compatibility guarantees" -> Rust has a stability guarantee since 1.0 in 2015. Any backwards incompatibilities are explicitly opt-in through the edition system, or fixing a compiler bug.

The most charitable interpretation I can imagine is that the Rust-in-Linux project needs specific nightly features, and those don't get stability guarantees. But I think this is still pretty unfair to complain about; my impression is there's a lot of appetite on the Rust side to get those stabilized.

I also think...

> we know, through very bitter experience, that 95+% of the time, once the code is accepted, the engineers which contribute the code will disappear, never to be seen again.

...that while there's truth in this, there's also a large extent to which it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Someone might want to stick it out to get their work into mainstream once, but then take a look at the process once it's in the mirror and say never again.

...and:

> Instead of complaining about maintainers for who are unreasonably caring about these things, when they are desparately under-resourced to do as good of a job as they industry demands, how about meeting us half-way and helping us with these sort of long-term code health issues?

It's really hard for me to not see "let's actually write down the contract for these functions, ideally via the type system" as doing exactly that. Which seems to me to be the central idea Ted Ts'o was ranting about in that infamous video.
Depends on the project. I have found Pinephone users quite nice overall as a kernel developer.

Anyway, if your project involves convincing hundreds of maintainers to increase their cognitive/work load in order to include your fancy new foreign workflow breaking language into their project, you have to expect pushback.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line TLDR is it's the idea that the police are the one thing stopping society from instantly dissolving into chaos so they shouldn't be questioned (even when they kneel on someone's neck until they die)
He was in the right place at the right time to make more money than a human being can fathom spending. Maybe he'll be that again.

Or something.
Ellison is in the CCP?
Small discussion (19 points, 2 days ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020119
"C is fine if you know what you're doing" is the "trust me, bro" approach to software engineering. Even experienced "C kernel wizards" make stupid mistakes. Also, nobody actually knows what a pointer is, not even the wizards; we keep learning new things about them every time someone finds a combination of optimizations that cause miscompiles[0]. For something as security-critical as an OS kernel, the correct approach is to have automatic verification - i.e. code can't stab you in the back if it can't compile.

[0] Pointer provenance was discovered this way
> Maybe I’m just more aware of it now vs. 20-30 years ago, but I feel the division with our country just keeps growing more and more with each passing year/presidency.

I keep seeing this. Within my still living parents’ lifetime, people were literally and legally “divided” by Jim Crow laws and segregation. America wasn’t exactly a great egalitarian nation in the 60s.

Not to mention Vietnam and Kent State.
> You don't get to "put back" security for SSN data when it's already been accessed by foreign governments.

"Good" news then, this is already the case! Or should very much be assumed to be the case, following the various GSA hacks.
Its quite a well-known wisdom. I think someone in one of Nintendo or Sony's studios has said it too, in the form of: a complaint is worth twice a compliment.

Satisfied customers will tell you they think your stuff is great, but dissatisfied customers will be able to hone in on exactly where the problem is.

You can even extend this to personal life: if someone tells you your shabby car doesn't fit with the nice suits you wear, you can either take it as a personal attack and get irritated, or take it as feedback and wash your car, spruce up the upholstery and replace the missing wheel cap. In effect they helped you take note of something.
Something related to wealth inequality rather than an absolute number.
And yet, the only immortally he will obtain is history remembering him…unfavorably. Paperclip maximizers are weird, but at least we all die eventually. Checks and balances.
In the early aughts, I spent a lot of time writing and maintaining Open Source software. I burned out on that because of rude users. I had one guy track me down offline and phone me at all hours to demand that I drop everything and fix a bug for him. When I pointed out that my day job came first because I have to pay bills, he went on an online screed accusing me of holding him hostage unless he paid for fixes and listing my cell number so people could "encourage me to be a better developer."

In those days, I was part of a core development team for a project with a fairly large community. A few bad users and a few bad development team members is all it takes to poison something like that.

Now I barely even contribute to Open Source projects even when I fix them for my own uses.
If i understand correctly, chrome is using windows own font rendering capabilities which should be the preferred method?
Shared hosting providers have had such installers, typically as part of cPanel, for decades.
An example would be Fantastico https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastico_(web_hosting)

You’re not going to get per-request billing, but shared hosting is typically as cheap as you’re going to get for “always-on” web hosting.
To anyone sad about this:

The alternative offered was Kamala Harris. Thanks DNC.

First-past-the-post voting practically guarantees a two party system emerges over time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

The US gov has been worn way at for decades by unscrupulous people seeking power and made so unpleasant to work in that few young people want to go into political leadership - and those that do don’t get far enough to have impact (eg. Buttigieg).. hence, old ass presidents.

Truly impactful movers and shakers have easy access to capital in the US, can keep their companies and lives private, and achieve a very comfortable life. Why would anyone choose politics over that?

Finally, the US gov system of checks and balances was designed assuming it could be perfected incrementally, but long-lived systems also need cycles of renewal - think of a forest. That design flaw is showing up now as key systems are getting cracked open by opportunists.
psychologically people hate these theoretical limits, even though the vast majority will never, ever find them applicable
> Agreed, supporting apple devices is going to be a maintenance nightmare as it goes against the wishes of apple. At best, apple involuntarily makes reverse incompatible changes which breaks the drivers and at worst apple specifically sabotages the drivers to keep people in the walled garden.

Apple explicitly chose to provide a way to boot third-party operating systems when designing how the M-series SoC boots. Their SoC stuff dates in some components AFAIK back to the very first iPod SoCs in its design.

I would understand that attitude if someone wished to, say, upstream code for PlayStations or other game consoles because that is a bunch of fights waiting to happen, but Apple hasn't made any move directly against FOSS OSes on their computers in the past and there is no reason to believe that will change.
> there are so much better ways

...which doesn't matter at all.

The people in charge decided on their preferred ways of communication. You may believe that there are better ways out there, and I may even agree with you, but ultimately it's completely irrelevant. People responsible decided that this is what works for them and, to be honest, they don't even owe you an explanation. You're being asked to collaborate in this specific way and if you're unable to do it, it's on you. If you want to change it, work your way to become a person who decides on this stuff in the project, or convince the people already responsible. Notice how neither of those are technical tasks and that they don't depend on technical superiority of your proposed methods either.
Nobody needs them. That's a ridiculous statement. Everyone is replaceable.
What we want is now irrelevant. Prob shoulda voted harder or something.
I wish this comment wasn't downvoted. HN has a marvelous self-censoring system where a few people passionate about blocking a topic will make sure it's never discussed here regardless of the overall community interest, all while maintaining the rouse that there is no censorship and it's the community that runs the site.

I used to collect posts on climate change that briefly made it to the front page since they would immediately be removed as soon as people started to realize the effects of climate change are severe. Plenty of interesting technical things to discuss around that topic, but after long enough most people realized that it wasn't worth trying to discuss that.

Most online communities today are manipulated and their messaging controlled, each through a variety of of means. I hope people are becoming increasingly skeptical of any apparent zeitgeist they think they're reading from Reddit, X, and yes, even HN. Our opinions are being shaped by a propaganda system never before imagined in history, and at the same time people seem to possess the least critical thinking skills I've seen over the course of my life.
LO has helped me in the past with some projects that would crash MSFT Word (they were *.docx files, the irony...). But I wish it had a better, more modern UI (icons too small and outdated).
This looks potentially promising. Always interested in replacements for proprietary web software.
Importantly, not on income, but on wealth in general. It removes the ability for extremely wealthy people to get around paying much tax with things like capital gains.
Beggar Thy Neighbor, Beggar Thyself
> The workplace equivalent is you publishing a whistle blowing article against a team in your company because they'd not accept a pull request you worked very hard on.

The workplace equivalent is your CEO making a public statement that your work is to be supported, then not firing people who openly gloat about their intent to sabotage your work.
Generally, ORM's try to present a high-level abstraction of your data and data model than the engine does natively.

That makes it the ORM's responsibility to implement the abstraction in a good way. Problems come in when the "good" way depends on factors the ORM doesn't consider or expose well.

I actually mean transpiler in a mainly syntactic sense, and would want it to avoid higher-level abstractions (after all, as you point out, ORMs have that ground covered).
I'd trust that more than a Russian court for sure.

Though having seen the enormous German self-flagellation about Nazism and WWII, I wouldn't be surprised if their courts overcompensated somewhat in the other direction...
Still garbage with random groups I can follow
I will never be a billionaire, but don't want to live in a world with this sentiment.
Now there are news articles saying Tesla was “removed” just because it was reworded to say “electric vehicles” instead:

https://time.com/7221880/state-department-2025-procurement-f...

I doubt any reasonable person sincerely believes the contract will ultimately go to a company other than Tesla. Musk is claiming to be cutting “waste” and “fraud” while lining his own pockets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8PndpFPL8g Hank Green - "Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment"

There are many ways to explain what is going on right now. One partial explanation that makes sense to me is that whenever a new form of media comes out (Printing press, Radio, Social Media) - our brains are not prepared for it, and the balance of power shifts like gravity has been temporarily cancelled.

Book recommendation: Amanda Ripley "High Conflict"
Encoding assumptions and invariants in the type system is a spectrum. Rust, by it's very nature, places you quite far along that spectrum immediately. One should consider if the correctness achieved by this is worth the extra work. However, if there is one place where correctness is paramount, surely it's the Linux Kernel.

> [..]Attempting to do so results in code that is harder to read and write.

> You have a choice between code that statically asserts all assumptions in the type system but doesn't exist, is slow, or a pain to work with, and code that is beautiful, obvious, performant, but does contain the occasional bug.

I don't think you are expressing objective truth, this is all rather subjective. I find code that encodes many assumptions in the type system beautiful and obvious. In part this is due to familiarity, of course something like this will seem inscrutable to someone who doesn't know Rust, in the same way that C looks inscrutable to someone who doesn't know any programming.
> Which is a moot point because the agreement right now is that Rust code is allowed to break, so the C developer in question can just ignore Rust

So then the argument that even semantics encoded in the Rust types, can be out of the date compared to the actual code, is actually a real thing? I read that somewhere else here in the comments, but didn't understand how the types could ever be out-of-date, but this would explain that argument.
For anyone else like me who wasn't familiar with what semiconductor packaging is -

https://news.skhynix.com/semiconductor-back-end-process-epis...
The majority of criminals have no idea that their their iMessage encryption keys and iMessages are synced into the cloud and available to law enforcement with a warrant. No need to break devices security, no need for back doors.
I know someone who open sourced their full genome sequence. They did it because their demographics were severely underrepresented in the DNA data, which is largely a collection of European ancestry. If I assumed the best in Larry Ellison, I would hope that this follows the advances in Indigenous LLM's, where AI is able to preserve languages that are being lost daily. My hope would be that AI could also preserve the ancestry of indigenous and underrepresented populations through DNA.
The article is about medical research on human subjects. And quickly concedes that a great many technically-need-permission things which you might do are of no actual interest to the gov't.

EDIT: <sigh/> The second sentence of the article is -

> Like, let’s eat potatoes and see if we lose weight.

- which, in the minds of 95% of likely jury members, is not "medical research". Nor, at small scale, of plausible interest to the gov't.

If the US Gov't is looking for excuses to crush me, or I've got enough money to be worth a lawsuit, then nothing resembling medical research is needed for them to go ahead with those. Doubtless, I evilly conspired to not pay $0.06 of Use Tax in 2003. And some poor innocent was traumatized for life by my cat looking at them cross-eyed, in a photo I put on the web.

And, notice my phrasing - "of no actual interest to the gov't". Not "IAAL, and you're 100.00% okay to run with this".
If you were to amass 200B, you'd be unrecognizable to your current self.
Did they 'have' to label employees as low performers?

Every layoff I've ever been in did not mention such things, often they were shift or role related ... not explicitly stated to be performance related. Sure there were the folks or two you knew were on the block first, but also others who worked on a dead product or so forth.

Seems like a strangely unnecessary thing to note.
At the same time:

* You become that rich only if hoarding money brings you joy and is your key driver

* You can buy a lot of things, thus one of the few challenges is becoming richer than the peers
What would be the result of the 100% tariff? Making the imports more expensive OR buying even more tech from China.

The second one sounds like the worst possible result I can Imagine.

Stablishing the packaging plant in the US sounds like the best option. The US would be copying what China does, but much better than partnering with a US company in the fab space. Technology transfer is unacceptable for Taiwan's survival (geopolitics)
Are we using the same HN? There is a clear anti-Trump sentiment in every one of the dozen-or-so threads on the subject every day. Almost every pro-DOGE comment is downvoted. Are you seeing something different, or are you just upset that people who disagree are allowed to participate at all?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038288
The best things that Bezos (and arguably Bill Gates) did was get divorced. Observe the ex-wives doing what a normal/sane person would do with that amount of money.
That's not an edge case. Cutting services that people depend on to live will kill them. That's a guarantee.