skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had a play around with it, I'm impressed. I was very worried and put-off when I saw the nice-looking UI and flashy transitions, but this actually plays quite nicely with my database.

Unfortunately it doesn't work on Firefox 115 ESR due to

Intl.Segmenter is not a constructor

It's just a blank screen. So it is infected by the JS change treadmill somewhat.

I have a few other thoughts from my first try:

When using Directus on a pre-existing DB, your foreign keys need to have exactly the same type as the primary keys they are referencing for Directus to pick up on the relationship. For example, if you have `customer.id INT PRIMARY KEY`, you must reference it with `order.customer_id INT FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES customer (id)`. You cannot do `order.customer_id INT NOT NULL FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES customer (id)` , else Directus won't notice.

I also found it fairly slow to pick up on schema changes I made in the DB directly, and I didn't see an obvious way to force it to discover.

When using Directus to manage the DB schema, I found the tables it created to have a generally sane and simple schema, which is refreshing. I liked the choices here more than nocodb.

I can't comment on the REST/GraphQL generation. I'm mainly interested in the admin panel features.

The compose file they provide here works: https://docs.directus.io/self-hosted/docker-guide.html

Overall I think this works best if your data model is very clean. It would probably be painful to onboard a complex legacy DB. I think this is totally fine as a small-scale org data management tool. I was going to make one of these, but I don't need to now. Thanks for sharing.
3 is "doing anything the government doesn't like", which includes, for example, buying drugs, or funding protests against mass murder.
One (joking) thing I heard long long ago - no idea where - is nature was vastly creative & made such a rich world, but there was one thing it could create - plastic - and for that it had to create humanity. Has stuck with me for a long time. Like plastic will.
> electrons cannot move very far before they collide with an atom which changes their direction

And yet we know it’s mostly just empty space. I’m assuming it’s more because of the electromagnic force being particularly strong at those scales rather than a straight up “collision” right?
Don't forget Boeing moved their headquarters and leadership to DC. Making the widgets is just the inconvenient part management doesn't really care about/need to be involved with, the focus worthy part of their business is government extraction in Boeing corporate's minds. Our corporate class is such short sigted trash.
Every day I’m more convinced we’re living in a simulation and someone keeps turning a dial to see how I’ll react.
What kind of code is the LLM writing for you that you see as such a big win?

Sorry, about the interrogation, but I'm curious to understand this disconnect
between us. To me, for my way of working, LLM's are obviously mostly useless, destructive to the process even.
Pharmacy are drug marketing companies. They have essentially outsourced drug R&D to universities
> although it gets increasingly bad at it at the tails.

In my experience, typical measures of intelligence become less meaningful with those who have a combination of unusually high and unusually low abilities on different dimensions of intelligence. With the majority of people most abilities tend to correlate but in a significant minority they don't.
This is what makes this whole discussion so difficult. The US government isn’t as efficient as it could be. No one with any exposure to its inner workings will disagree with that. But the discussion is being framed as “well either you love the government or you love DOGE” but that’s a completely false dichotomy.

I strongly support DOGE’s publicly stated mission. But that’s not what they are doing. The data is there. You can’t save money by cutting people who make $100k a year. We know how to save the government money. We know that every $1 spent on the IRS nets more than $1 and every $1 taken away loses more than $1.[0] We already have agencies and organizations which publicly list fraud.[1]

As this article states the cruelty is the point. That’s been very clearly stated if not directly in the EO but by those involved. We can only move the discussion forward by actually talking about that. If you believe that making the bureaucracy afraid to do their job is a good idea then that’s an opinion you’re allowed to have. But hiding behind the facade of “efficiency” isn’t going to help get anything done.

[0] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60037
[1] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105833

(New account since I’m closer to this than I’d like to be)
This is just sad, I'll stick to my Ollama
Don't overestimate "young people speaking english" especially with current demography you still need to tap ones that are excluded from English as there will be much more of those.

I do see opportunities with LLMs as making all kind of platforms language agnostic - you should be able to write your own language and read your own language even if other person is from different country using different language.
Not only this. Every group (work, school, uni) now uses whatsapp/other for communication, and if you own an older device you sometimes cant use said apps, so you are obligated to have a newer phone or else you will become isolated.

And Android/iOS has closed source code that makes you unable to update.
The speed of fibre optic cabling has more to do with signal integrity and bandwidth than any difference in propagation delay. In fact, in some cases a signal can travel faster on a copper wire (0.8c) than it can through an optical fibre (0.6c).
In my experience working there - it comes and goes in waves. Layoffs happen, people leave and start their own studios. We saw consolidation under publishers in the 90’s and people laud it as one of the best periods of games.

I do think we lost our way a little from around about 2018-2022 where we had these absolutely gargantuan flops like Concord that were a symptom of many things, but I really really believe we’re in another golden age right now.
1. How do you intend to pay for it?
2. How do you intend to enforce it?
3. How do you intend to defend it?

How many tanks can you deploy? IFVs? Artillery? How much ammunition can you supply? How many fighters are in service and mission ready? Bombers? Tanker aircraft? Transport? Helicopters? How many battalions (of any type) can be formed/deployed?

Repeat the same exercise in the context of a navy.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/584035/defense-expenditu...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1294391/nato-tank-streng...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293688/nato-aircraft-st...
The green one? I checked the first screenshot in paint.net, they all equal. Maybe gamma/balance issues?
Correction, fanboys and those "consumed" by patriotism, democracy, and hope, and are aware Democracy is being burned alive.
To be even more pedantic, it is 60-80% of the speed of light through vacuum. Because the speed of light in those media is 60-80% of the speed of light in vacuum.
The USA is big enough that people won't travel to the capital.

And a significant part of the USA is cheering these actions. Many from ignorance, some from malice, and some are true believers.
Microsoft's carbon emissions rose 30% since 2020 due to data center expansion
>I wouldn't argue that seconds is a legitimate slow down

Seconds are an eternity in the domain of computing.
Canadian government IT is mostly all Microsoft. The government can't even send themselves email without it going through Microsoft, a company based in a country (USA) that wants to take over Canada. Insanity.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. This is the second time I've had to ask you this in the last day—not a good sign.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43151226 is also not cool
The rich undoubtedly have class consciousness. They understand they gain when tax cuts are made and loans are given out.

Then they turn around and propagandize against class consciousness for the rest of us.

Unions need to make bigger a comeback before I can believe that the working class has class consciousness.
A doctor dismissing something they don’t know the cause of as psychological is common, but that doesn’t mean the diagnosis is correct.

Many things used to be thought of as psychological before we found the underlying physical causes. It’s just as meaningless an explanation as “God did it.”
No Feigning Surprise
It is still a lot better than the nothing that exists in EU as free speech. Also the current government does not care about laws and the previous did not want free speech, but in the end there is plenty of it.
FOIA makes the US gov't one of the more transparent democracies, as a counterpoint. So much so it started getting copied by them.

https://reason.com/2024/12/26/foia-for-all/
Toothless indeed. The whole "It's early days" narrative is so misguided. The smartphone is maybe a year older than crypto, but a roaring success. Nobody needs to explain [1] how great smartphones are, because they're obviously useful.

Similarly, within a decade of the invention of the WWW, there were heaps of successful and useful sites (amazon, Bloomberg, Wired, Friendster, ...).

[1] Note that Steve Jobs, when he introduced the iPhone, did have to explain it. He carefully explained that it was an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator, demonstrated how to unlock it, how to scroll, how to open apps, etc. But then people got it. With crypto, after 15 years "you just don't get it".
The contract address will be the same but the transaction address should be different because transactions include the chainid in them. Otherwise you could easily replay transactions on other chains.
U.S.'s chipmaking sector is ringing the alarm about chip war with China
My issue tends to be that themes that try to emulate a different OS can only do it in style, not in function. So while a screenshot might look similar, it won't function in the same way as the OS it's trying to be, which leads to compromises all over the place... and the aforementioned jank.

Gnome, for example, doesn't have a minimize concept. There is an extension to add it, but it's janky and feels weird. No amount of theming is going to change this, when the underlying system wasn't designed around it.
> The Dollar is expected to lose almost all value over the lifetime of a person. Warren Buffett once noted that the Dollar already lost over 90% of it's value during his lifetime. With Bitcoin, there is no such expectation.

You’ve taken the wrong lesson from this, and the fact that Warren Buffett isn’t a pauper should be your biggest clue.

This is why it’s important to invest real dollars in productive assets.

The actual issue that needs solving is that real wages haven’t been rising to match inflation for the last nearly fifty years.
Or license plates!!!
This administration has no logic, that much is established. They are driven by two different philosophies - a burn it all down and build again and another stop all immigration now. Both these philosophies are both unified by racism/dictatorship tendencies
Serious Q, what are most people doing with their phones so much? Social media? Work? Watching rando YT vids?

My wife's vice seems to FB, but unsure if that's what everyone else is doing.
I use OpenBSD. I love it, but I recommend reading warnings on the label.

I would say FreeBSD is somewhat like Ubuntu is to Linux - easy to get setup, works for more people.

There isn’t anything like OpenBSD in the Linux world - where the primary focus is system correctness, even at the cost of user convenience at times.
Is this really all European? A couple things where it seeks your claim is wrong…

MRNA - Pfizer, Moderna, and DARPA (who was involved in funding research) are all American. Just not BioNTech

Stable diffusion - the original diffusion paper was at Stanford in the US, not Europe

EUV - a DARPA project whose tech was licensed to ASML

That said, American tech depends on getting great talent from all over.
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We had to ask you this just recently. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please be empathetic to people who do not understand what is going on, but who have tremendous responsibility to the business. The business problem is always a superset of the technology problem.

Yes, of course you aren't able to fix it while you are on the phone with them. A conference call will not fix the code. They know that too. But they also need meaningful information and updates in order to do their jobs, which often requires them to provide updates to others like important customers, shareholders, the CEO, or even the government. They may also need this in order to plan out other activities.

Providing useful information and frequent updates (not "contractual" updates) to them with this in mind would go a long way toward solving the whole business problem that is created by the technical problem. It might also get them off your back sooner, and with more respect for you.

There are two critical pieces of information that would help an executive very much:
Do we know what the problem is? and Do we know what the solution is? A simple yes/no on both of those would be a great start.
Exploitation
How common is your un-named city? <10k pop, combination of economic opportunity and still affordable (after wfh tech crowd moved in) for someone starting out earning $40/hr to afford a house and family.
Parasocial relationships are a thing, later I've been way too fond of Twin Peaks or some streamers, for instance.
When it comes to quantities, point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing. Simply put: "1, 2, 3, 4, many". Designers should be conscious when quantities might cross this (approx) subitizing threshold, and consider increasing the dimensionality with nesting or other techniques, rather than allow the size of simple visual sets to become overwhelming to users.

Whether intentional or not, the Windows example has exactly 4 icons in that column, and the rest are blank space. This makes it easy to visually navigate to, and identify, those emphasized options.
What's the irrevocable USP that Bitcoin has? Is it because it was first, like Yahoo, MySpace, and Friendster?
I honestly can't see how writing integration tests before code would even look in practice, that puzzle usually isn't even close to finished at that point in time.

It sometimes makes sense for unit tests; I'll occasionally do that when I'm unsure about the API of the code I'm writing since it allows me to spend some time in the user's shoes.

But like I said, I don't do fundamentalism.
Since they support so many databases the integration with specific providers is very shallow - e.g. they do not allow to make use of SQL views.

I personally found the typescript support disappointing in general but specifically around strict null handling. Their graphql schema was also declaring far to many fields as nullable which was a deal breaker for me looking for at least one way to generate precise typescript typings.
The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis America is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of America from some of its most fundamental values: values shared with Europe.

Free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
Who pockets the profit is absolutely relevant because you are arguing that companies externalize all costs and pass them onto the consumer/employee.

In a world you imagine where there are 0 taxes on corporations, how do you punish said corporation for malicious behavior or actions? Because by similar logic, any monetary punishment is useless and results in them simply passing it down. Do you punish the people working there? Who do you choose to punish, especially if the people responsible are gone and dead?
I have to respectfully disagree - turning over basically unlimited power to reshape the entire bureaucracy to an unelected person isn’t the way to do it either. It’s not a binary choice.
The metrics are wrong, and they can be looked up from Apple’s Design Resources.
Being able to create currency is a feature, not a bug.

The idea that an economy has a fixed amount of currency makes no sense. You want it to be available to facilitate transactions.
The wallet is a smart contract (specifically a gnosis safe), the malicious message they signed transferred ownership of that smart contract wallet to the attacker so they could then do whatever they want with it.
It still answers Elon Musk as the biggest misinformation spreader - https://x.com/i/grok/share/5N2eKM8sRiaCQB6eOoYZUUwIv
Yes, it's always the user's fault if they lose their crypto, because crypto outsources the hard parts, such as key management, to the user.
For normies, does this work on Ubuntu?
These are cuts to enrich the extremely wealthy, not for a lean-mean-fighting industry. Your whole conception is off. They don’t need or care if the entire country does better overall, they care about personal wealth. It’s Obama wasn’t trying anything of the sort.
Nobody has told Trump about the solar panels on the White House because they are still there.
George Carlin standup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rld0KDcan_w
One of the most unpleasant surprises I had when researching colleges for my kids was how little merit aid is offered by not just "top tier" but good colleges in general.

Our state school does not have much merit scholarships (and I'm not talking about $500 per year for 4.0 GPA/1500+ SAT, which is not even available to all applicants, that's just insulting). There are colleges which are definitely in the bottom of the rankings where you can get in with 0 tuition or even full ride (no tuition+free room and board) AND you can get some stipend thrown on top. I now have a choice: pay $45K (tuition with room and board) per year for my very academically strong kids at my (reasonably good) state school or $0 at the likes of Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida, and to a smaller extent Arizona and Texas (well the last ones would not be free, but at least less than half of the state uni). What do you think I will encourage my kids to do???
I assume the GP is trolling. A fake curiosity in the form of an easily searched-for question. By asking it, they sow doubt on the previous consensus.
Unlock DeepSeek-R1 Inference Performance on AMD Instinct MI300X GPU
I'm not sure that was the point of the poster's question about electricity, because I've heard the same assertion made by science writers and such.

Our current BFF, ChatGPT, says the question is about "charge" in that we don't know why particles have a charge. So what is a "charge" and why? Gravity is also presented as a thing we don't fundamentally (ontologically) know about. Interesting!

And not disagreeing with the desire to keep asking, nor with the desire to find a final answer. The author of the article puts it fairly well:

We don’t have philosophically satisfying insights into the universe at subatomic scales...there’s no straightforward explanation of what a bound electron actually does: it’s not orbiting the nucleus or spinning around its own axis in any conventional sense. Most simply, it just exists as a particular distribution of an electrostatic field in space.
Let's also note we are aware of the possible corridor of impact, so if you don't live near the equator in Central America or Africa the chance of hitting YOUR city is 0%. News articles conveniently leave out this detail so they can continue to spike fear and clicks with every micro-refinement.
“Telemetry” for “keylogging our fart app’s users” because everyone wishes they were doing something cool and/or meaningful.
I am sure both companies have NDAs and contractual agreements in place that can be enforced and monitored.
I was at a Ubuntu conference in Korea a few years ago and there was this kid with a Macbook running Linux but it was themed perfectly to MacOS.

It was all very amusing until he tried to present and the HDMI didn't work.
Don't like someone's politics? Just revoke their passport. Sounds like the idea of someone that wants freedom and democracy for all.
There we agree, slavery and total control was always the goal for these people.
Proton Docs has seemed fine to me.
It is so long, and I did not enjoy my time there. "Alright, here is the third or fourth energy door unlocking puzzle to slog through". It was so much slower paced you lose the thread from the human world of what you are even doing anymore.
It's important to remember that none of Elon's companies would exist without decades of massive government assistance. Loans, funding, tax credits, government contracts, etc.

So what we have here is the absolute dumbest of people dismantling the machinery of American empire, cheered on by people who think their material conditions suck because there are a dozen trans people who play college athletics and not because billionaires have robbed them blind so they can be slightly wealthier.

USAID is a perfect example of this. USAID spends its budget on American companies and then it uses that product for influence in other countries. American empire cannot exist without exploiting the Global South. Foreign policy and military power exist to subjugate other countries. Domestic policy is simply dividing up the spoils.

All that's happening here is a massive self-own to American Empire that leaves a massive void China will fill. All of this will destroy Tesla. Elon is killing the market for Teslas, making them more expensive and any retributive tariffs by China will most likely target Tesla and the materials required to build batteries.

I'm rapidly becoming an accelerationist because there is no opposition to this and nothing will stop American decline at this point.
The dog fully understands that the phone is the humans stick.
From the sample of my direct neighborhood I can tell that there are many empty former warehouses that could be turned into housing stock. I don't see the city developing any of those neither.
In memoriam
> based on murders we have still been seeing day to day, I’m not sure prosecutors have been scaring criminals into good behavior on any significant scale.

If the benchmark is perfection, no one can meet that standard. On top of the 20B in recovered consumer relief, they’ve levied another 5B in fines. It’s also important to look at their progress [1] where they’ve taken > 350 enforcement actions since they started. They were on track to be quite successful at enforcement actions until Trump’s first term when he started trying to cripple them. Same with penalty relief btw. Most of the dollars returned were under Democratic presidents.

No agency within the government can do well when the administration is purposefully trying to cripple you in the first place.

> https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/enforcement-by-t...
I actually did four paid mock interviews, but only one did I specify Google. The first three told me I was awesome. For the last one (google interviewer) I specifically asked them to be extra critical, and they wrote a huge amount of valuable feedback.
> He says he came up with the scheme while he was abusing Adderall, which he started taking to deal with his long hours at Wells Fargo.

Very loose connection there...

> it changed the person that I was while I was on it. This is a no-joke drug. It’s medical-grade meth.”

Okay, that I agree with.
And who exactly is going to make him do that? A court order? Who’s going to enforce it?
> In cryptocurrencies, by design, "the code is law". And this law does not predict reversing transactions.

Unless you're one of the devs, and you just fork the chain, like Ethereum.
I'm not sure that there is that much forethought. Perhaps?

However, you don't even need a honeypot - for example, Saddam Hussein's purge.

(I'm not a political or historical scholar, so it's entirely possible there are details or nuances I'm not aware of or don't fully understand, but it's what came to mind when I read this.)