skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't believe that, or you would have moved to be out from under this ultimate tyranny. Somalia, perhaps.

Your argument is the classic Randist Libertarian one: "There is no such thing as society, everything I did I earned myself with no reference to anyone." It is, of course, complete and utter garbage. Government spending is the only known way of constructing projects that are not attractive money-makers: rural electrification, communications systems, roads, water treatment, education. In order to keep currency flowing, governments remove it from circulation via taxation.
4chan regime.
Arc at work, Safari at home.
Thanks I’ll check that out. Can reading such books really help?
I think what he’s saying is the type signature alone isn’t enough, but in some languages like Haskell, people do imagine if the program type checks, it’s good. But that isn’t necessarily true, you need a ton of other context to actually have a proper functioning program, and the reverse function is an example of this.

I didn’t say Haskell was bad though. I love Haskell in a different way from clojure.
Just like the Supreme Court :(
Same. But mine was an android app. github.com/crouther
a heterosexual trans woman is interested in men. trans women are not men. fuck right off with your ignorant bigotry.
> We may be looking at a lost decade.

We're looking at the US wilfully letting go of the possibiility of remaining the most powerful nation in the world.

Reduced health, reduced education, reduced funding for research, reduced international aid programs (which both garner goodwill whilst also creating a bulwark against those who profit from misery), reduced oversight / regulation of the power of capital, alienation of prior allies, reduced safety nets for the vulnerable, increased rhetoric against poorly defined 'foreign types', anti-intellectualism.

It's a helluva vacuum being created, and I'm not particularly optimistic about what's going to fill it.
Yup, worth a CWE but not a CVE.
tnetstrings[1] was a later refinement of netstrings.

I liked it, but alas it never seemed to really take off.

[1]: https://tnetstrings.info/
If robots can bring everyone to and from work it would be over for manual driving. People dont buy cars to drive in extreme weather in remote areas.
Plus, you know.. experts in the industry saying otherwise [Real estate agents on fake posts linking home sales to federal layoffs: ‘Facts simply do not support these reports’](https://wtop.com/real-estate/2025/02/social-media-posts-fals...)
Why don't you care about nuclear safety, dmix? Is that the waste you're talking about?
this thread is making me very hungry
'It “creeping in” to something Rust can’t support won’t happen'

The exact same argument could be made for future architectural changes, as OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD build requirements will now beat Polyglot Linux in every metric of porting complexity moving forwards.

We can't have it both ways... Best regards =3
Potential cellular 'master switch' capable of reversing senescence
Random non-technical people dealing with CSVs is probably one of the best usecases for current AI tools too.
This violates consent, though. Consent matters, regardless of how much handwaving occurs after people choose to violate it.

The other such places you describe also violate consent. Same criminal acts: coercion by violence.

I do indeed believe in the things I have said, and I have indeed emigrated from the United States for many such reasons, principally among them my objection to being forced to fund neverending war.

Unfortunately the US Government still taxes me remotely.
Ah yes the Verizon protocols were such a good contribution to standards.
> You've spent more time comparing API testing tools than most people spend deciding on a house. Postman, Insomnia, Bruno... we get it, you're in a complicated relationship with HTTP requests.

LOL! The roast is just brutal.
I can’t remember who first said it, but watching crypto evolve is like speedrunning why 150yr of securities laws, practices, and regulations exist.

Counterparty risk (including custodianship) is monstrous in crypto. It’s sort of amusingly ridiculous in the same way most tech trends that are trying to break the status quo stumble into the reasons certain rules and regulations exist.
Government subsidies should exist in general because fundamentally, humans are very bad at making long-term decisions. Institutions, taxes and transfers are how we make sure that society is oriented away from people's short-term preferences and towards long-term benefit to all.
Nice!

It seems very very similar. I open sourced the code to MyCoder here: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder I'll compare them. Off hand I think both CodeBuff and Claude Coder are missing the web debugging tools I added to MyCoder.
To repeat popular quotes, there's a lot of walking up to fences gaily and then tearing them down, and a lot of "Government doesn't work, vote for us and we'll prove it"

Not much to say. If anyone is truly on the fence, please remember this and vote against it in 2026. Vote early, vote often. Vote local. I promise that killing trans people and defunding science is not going to make gas cheaper or anything.
QE isn't money printing, it's a duration swap.

Financial conditions tightened after 2008, despite QE. The money supply in the broader sense (global liquidity) tightened significantly because of banking regulations limiting balance sheet size, and because of collateral requirements massively tightening up. No more sending CMBS into repo to originate systemic leverage - it's treasuries or nothing. Repo within the US is about 5 trillion today, and probably about 20 trillion globally (with USD assets at the core of the chain), so the 2008 style collateral crisis was massively deflationary despite the various liquidity injections.

There is also a cost for the QE activity - the central bank takes on interest rate risk, essentially putting on a giant prop trade on short-term interest rates (and the results of such an unwind were seen post 2020, especially in areas like the housing price surge and the banking collapse).

QE is not money printing though. It's a misconception. In some ways it can tighten. It takes high quality collateral out of the system and exchanges it for bank reserves which are extremely limited. As the QE "money printing" got obscene, banks had massive amounts of excess reserves and further reserve accumulation from QE was not an injection of liquidity at all. It really had almost no effect. If you remember, trillions of dollars of reserves were parked back at the Fed in Reverse Repo, and when inflation forced interest rates up, the inflationary loop was accelerated by the interest on reserves - the risk never goes away, it transforms and slashes around. In the '10s though, there was arguably collateral scarcity from QE, and indeed it is undeniable that a giant bond bubble was built up with 0% (negative in Europe) long term debt. Meanwhile leverage was zero cost or even negative real cost, which showed up in massive asset inflation (bank reserves from QE mostly don't propagate to the real economy. Even bank lending post 2008 has little to do with reserves.)
To everyone in this thread referring to trans women as men... fuck right the hell off with your ignorant bigotry.
I know nothing about the Thai or Vietnamese languages, but it seems like all their proper nouns have "Thai" or "Viet" in them.
The problem with Parquet is it’s static. Not good for use cases that involve continuous writes and updates. Although I have had good results with DuckDB and Parquet files in object storage. Fast load times.

If you host your own embedding model, then you can transmit numpy float32 compressed arrays as bytes, then decode back into numpy arrays.

Personally I prefer using SQLite with usearch extension. Binary vectors then rerank top 100 with float32. It’s about 2 ms for ~20k items, which beats LanceDB in my tests. Maybe Lance wins on bigger collections. But for my use case it works great, as each user has their own dedicated SQLite file.

For portability there’s Litestream.
The people eliminating are stealing more than what they're eliminating.
Great China.
Social skills and mental health!, I've been working pretty hard on learning how to make friends, showing my admiration to girls and become generally an outgoing and honest person, I used to be somewhat afraid of talking to strangers because I was quite worried that people might hurt me, and now I'm feeling more comfortable having conversation with new friends with less trust issues, though I pushed myself a bit too hard to recently I got plenty of panic attacks, I know it's a phase, so I'll keep working on it!
People gotta touch grass. I want to say it's cars too: it's easy to be on your phone and hard to meet up with friends.
If people are very bad at making long term decisions, then how would a government (made of people) somehow mitigate this? Governments also have demonstrated their fundamental inability to outperform in making long-term decisions.

“People are bad, therefore let’s throw organizations of even more people at the problem” doesn’t even pass the laugh test.

In fact, not only does this “solution” not solve the problem, it creates a whole host of new ones: corruption, graft, human rights abuses, and perpetuation of the status quo due to codification.
I think the extreme political hardlining makes this happen too.

I've never been to the US but this extreme-right stuff has made its way to Holland too. They already gained 30% of votes in the last election. Meaning I had to drop a lot of friends. Once they start screaming about "woke" or bitching about trans people they are forever out of my life.

At first I used to try to reason with them. I thought sure, it's just a misunderstanding. I'll just explain it and give some official links and we can move past this. I explained countless times that no, kids aren't given gender surgery. No there's no deep state trying to make people gay (as if you even could!). No, nobody would ever go through a whole transition just so they can perv in the women's bathroom. The very idea is just insane if you know what it entails.

But there was no point. These guys just want to be so angry they're foaming at the mouth. They actually enjoy their hate, there's no way they let something as trivial as facts get in the way. They wave official statistics and reports away as 'deep state propaganda' or 'the woke agenda'. It doesn't matter that what they're angry about isn't true and makes no sense. They just want to be angry and 'stick it to the man'.

One of my ex-'friends' even asked me seriously if I had plans to transition. I said no, why would you even think that? I'm very happy with my gender and identity and always have been. Well, he said, several of your friends are trans and they spread it around. I quizzed him on it thinking he was just trolling but no, he really believes this. Heard it in some podcast. Just... WTF. This is exactly why we need education on these subjects in schools.

But anyway, so I have no time anymore for that kind of negativity in my life and I'm sick of arguing about this. And listening to all this hate. So I'm done. Note that I'm not disrespecting them or calling them names. I'm not even angry at them, if anything I'm just sad. But I just don't want to interact with them anymore.

The good thing though is that I did get closer to my progressive and LGBT friends. We never talk about this because we all hate negativity, we just roll our eyes at the news. But we realize we need to stick together to defend ourselves when the time comes.

As far as the cause I'm basically blaming social media for it. They strive for engagement to maximise their eyeball time and hate is a very powerful driver of engagement. It might not even have been a conscious choice by these companies. But I am getting very worried now where this is heading.
Makes me wonder, how about changing your blog to a mailing list?
Demonstrating a Quantum Edge in a Coloring Game
Bad at what?

I agree most poetry is bad at hitting my subjective quality markers, at tickling my sense of sophistication and meaning. I don't even like the majority of poetry from poets that I love. I fell in love with Cummings as a teenager and checked out his collected works and realized quickly that while I found some transcendent (and worth the slog through what wasn't), I also found the majority of the work of one of the most famous 20th C poets pretty meh.

Even for those who can outrace Sturgeon's Law (which I think Cummings achieved), it's an art, not or science, hit or miss. And alongside issues of quality, skill, and probability of hits there will also always be subjectivity in how a work hits each member of an audience.

Still... bad for what? As well as being an art, poetry is a humanity. The two chord punk rock song is definitely doing less and less sophisticated things than a Palestrina motet or even Steve Reich's studies in subtly changing simplicity and we lose something when we can't appreciate sophistication and intricacy (with or without being able to articulate the specifics). But we also lose something when we can't appreciate simple expression even with mediocre articulation.

Bad poems are probably doing something well enough alongside being bad at meeting various standards.
Cash only => good. "Bistro" in the name => bad.
Is there some censorship on this site we can't mention TWO Sieg Heils on national television?

That isn't the Kardashians. The Kardashians may be masters of propaganda, but they didn't organize the killing factories for 20 million people and kill another 20-40 million civilian deaths.

Nothing could demonstrate someone's cluelessness about fascism, Nazis, and history than that comment. You also don't know what "communism" is and it's other 50-100 million civilian deaths, so kudos to you doubling down on your ignorance.
No I really haven’t overcome the setbacks, they have really overturned my life.

On paper I am doing all the “right” things, but inside I am a shell of a person. I’ve been in this situation before, and I’m always proactive, but I’m just a husk of a human being at this point.

Cultural background is western, family background is that I’m from a very fucked up dysfunctional family.

In terms of liking myself, I’ve never been able to answer that question. I thought having solid morals would do that, but I’ve broken my own morals several times - so that’s a no go. I thought getting fit would do it, but it became quite disordered. I thought making friends would do it, but I fundamentally can’t connect or relate to most people. My best friend is an elderly academic Chinese man, I’m a 30 something white guy.

My inner dialogue is pretty horrible. I’m extremely hard on myself and it’s only gotten worse with age. When I achieve things I say I’m proud of myself but that’s it. Yes I feel like I have to earn my confidence.
(ODNI) the Games They Play: Russian Strategic Political Deceptions (2008) [pdf]
They couldn’t do what they did to the probationary employees, either, but they did. There’s a layoff process, and they didn’t follow it.

Your reasons aren’t a good justification for what they did, because they’re breaking the rules anyway.
I read Stratechery. He’s had some novel thoughts. He just repeats them ad nauseam.

He’s made quite a living from blogging.

https://blockbuster.thoughtleader.school/p/how-ben-thompson-...
The trouble with Parquet (and columnar storage) in ML is,

1. You don't really care too-much about accessing subsets of columns

2. You can't easily append stuff to closed Parquet files.

3. Batched-row access is presumably slower due to lower cache-hits.

It's okay for map-reduce style stuff where this doesn't matter, but in ML these limitations are an annoyance.

HDF5 (or Zarr, less portably) solves some/many of these issues but it's not quite a settled affair.
Where’s the math actually done, on device or on your server?

Feedback: the compound interest calculator doesn’t support continual compounding? That’s surprising, and also the easiest to compute.
Of course non-probationary employees can be fired, don’t be so credulous. OPM has a whole process for a RIF, which is actually what is happening, DOGE is just lying on the separation paperwork blaming individual poor performance, because following the law and treating employees like they’re human beings is hard and it’s easier to falsify some paperwork.
Part of the problem with a directory of forkable themes like Hugo has is the security risk that comes from untrusted code. The Go templating language is pretty simple and easy to sandbox, but MKWS uses sh as the templating language so there's a lot more risk.
Yeah. As with many things, having a bubble is not wrong _if_ you are aware of it and _if_ you control it and you chose it.

As Technology Connections recently said, it's worrying that people have had hostile bubbles built around them and not noticed.
lmao the author specifically calls you, yes you, out in the post:

> Talky free verse, prose poetry, or spoken word—while seemingly accessible—can also upset readers whose major exposure to poetry was through high school English. The absence of traditional markers they studied in class, like end-rhyme or meter, becomes instant evidence that something is “not real poetry” for this perpetually precocious crowd.

I thought this was half sarcasm when I read it, but no, here you are, in the comments.
U.S. Economy Being Powered by the Richest 10%
In which case, the need for the spec should be obvious from the onset. Nobody though that html would be used the way it was used today. But we now know the same things as they knew back then, meaning that we do not know nothing, we don't know what will be used and need interoperability. Also, specs means nothing if each implementation can and will do whatever they want (ie. Chrome vs Firefox vs Edge)
Most people are bad at making long-term decisions. Some are not. Biases can be overcome with sustained training and dedication.

Using taxes to fund basic research is one of many ways our institutions have a countervailing effect towards long-term thinking. In fact we should be taxing much more and doing much, much more of it.

This is explicitly anti-majoritarian, yes.

Corruption is indeed a potential issue, and we should focus on ways to e.g. root out peer review rings. But the numbers we're talking about are tiny.
I can think of a large number of vastly worse tyrannies.

The outcome of this is not going to be a smaller government that achieves 80% of its previous goals with 70% of the spending. The outcome of this is going to be massively chaotic organizations and less efficiency because of the huge fucking wrecking balls slammed into everything by people that have publicly spoken about their goal to destroy the post-new-deal society and replace it with CEO-kings running fiefdoms.
Fbound builder, inheritable and composable Java builder without a FactoryFactory
What US centered industry has continued to innovate new technologies in their fields that have benefits other than increasing shareholder value at all costs?
Sorry but you've been lied to
it's $240 per year for an app in production, plus $6 for the domain plus compute costs.

with that money you can pay claude to dockerize and deploy to a vps
So therefore that allows the President to go back on a trade agreement he personally signed in his last term? I'm not going to disagree Canada should do more about reducing Fentanyl, nor that Canada can't control it with better policies. I am not clear on why this allows the United States to go back on agreements and allows the President to threaten with tariffs that seem to change weekly.
Will aider and Claude Code meaningfully interpret a wireframe/mockup I put in the context as a PNG file? Or several mockups in a PDF? What success have people seen in this area?
It is a big win, but in the Oregon version at least it excludes large sectors like vehicles which is obviously a big expense to most US consumers. Hopefully it will continue to be extended.
What I mean is that there's a very old part of everyone's brain that floods them with stress-hormones if it thinks they might be exiled to be eaten by tigers, and while the system is insistent and disruptive, the good news is that it isn't too picky.

Just being a member of some regularly-meeting group can help. It doesn't require (or necessarily respond) to things like "knowing my cosmic purpose" or "being the best at X", although some people try to sate it that way.

In other words, psychological safety needs are the foundation for other forms of confidence.
Zelensky sent Trump list of all 'ceasefires' violated by Russia
If this is true at all, it only applies to cities. Many fantastic seafood restaurants are on or near the docks in regions economically dependent on seafood production.
Those concepts are not science fiction, they were very often used in the past already. Just read about how the most famous dictators in history came to power, and what they did first.

Discrediting scientist is a standard step for most dictators. They only keep the bare minimum they need for the military and surveillance.
Finally someone using GIS data for the great good of humanity.
On HN, "revolutionary" is an adjective, and it means making a lot of money. :)
Anyone else have a problem where input on iOS is incredibly slow and keys are missed? Disabled content blockers and tried in privacy too and it was nearly unusable.
I've suggested this elsewhere too, but have you considered a mailing list instead?

It ticks the boxes about notoriety—which appears to be the main concern of the OP author—with the added benefit of being more difficult for AI systems to crawl for training data.

Perhaps we'll see more bloggers going the way of a bespoke mailing list.
The situation is definitely more complex than "FDR solved it", but I don't think this kind of economic uptake could have happened in the clogged up economy of the Gilded Age. Breaking monopolies and redistributing tax money through government work programs definitely had an impact.
'What If' Tariff Impact Scenario Calculator
Well on the topic of kebab, good Persian restaurants usually have better decor.
Do think that it’s _not_ consent when people all over the country spend decades voting for representatives who create and maintain research programs? Unlike this, those were very deliberate proposals with extensive public debate.

Do you think there was consent to have a guy who wasn’t on the ballot do things which the guy who was on the ballot said he wouldn’t do, with zero involvement or consent from the people’s representatives?
Irony being here that your straw man quote is just as bad faith as the studies are.
Is your job super-safe? If so, that's awesome :-) The whole marketing thing only becomes important if you have to get a new one, and then it can become important very quickly.
Another example of not quite pragmatic advice is Screaming Architecture. If you take some time to think about it, it’s actually not a good idea. One of the blog posts I’m working on is a counter argument to it.
You forgot "wilfully letting go of democracy". US democracy is far away from dying, but who knows how much longer it can keep holding up.