skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's just some theatrical ploy to make yourself feel better: what is the policy you have (or anyone) to retake the land under russian control? How do you intend to end the war?

Unfortunately there are no easy solutions to these questions (apart from Trump's "solution" to just give Putin everything he wants). Not having anything better, Europe will just continue what it has been doing - sending more munitions, fighter jets, tanks, javelins and whatever is needed as long as Ukraine needs it, hoping that after Putin dies the next leader of Russia will be less bloodthirsty.
Heavy lifting like sending 31 tanks while putin had 10000?
Yes, I suppose they can be blamed for not doing something like that when they get a 49.8% mandate. It would also alienate half their voter base, because it actually believes in the systems and due process.

(We can also blame them for not imprisoning, quicky and fairly trying, and executing Trump for sedition and treason when they could.)
New lawsuit alleges Apple Watch carbon neutral claims are 'false and misleading'
Samsung means "three stars" (unrelated to star ratings). Samtaesung is a constellation in the Chinese astronomical tradition that is considered to consist of three parts. (But each part has multiple stars.) So I'd say the reference is probably intentional.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168589

Although the title was not changed, if you don't read the actual post, it's misleading.

It makes connections to Apple when you launch it, and when you open project files.

It also makes connections when you build, although that is to be expected, since signing is required for uploading builds to the store.

It does not "constantly" phone home.
not with the youtube types. who say: I spent 670 hours trying to defeat this boss and died 555 times.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221756.
I don't see (or maybe don't recognize) any issues with the image that they're talking about (ringing, color shift, or fake details). It most certainly doesn't look awful to me, it looks exactly the same, only a bit sharper.
This needs to be repeated to anybody who'll listen to it.
so am i! (it's been a crazy month, but that's not very obvious from the outside.)
As it happens, in the elderly, a BMI at the lower range of "obesity" is better than having higher or lower weight.

Of course, with the shortage of geriatricians, most seniors are unlikely to find this out.
Windows actually has a built-in remote assistance tool now called Quick Assist. It provides a simple way to remotely control another Windows machine with user consent, without requiring third-party software. It's preinstalled on Windows 10 and 11—just launch 'Quick Assist' from the Start menu, generate a session code, and connect. While it's not as feature-rich as a full remote desktop solution, it's more than enough for parental IT support.
Sadly Trump has ended that as a solution. No one trusts the US's word that it will defend them now. Also, that defence now comes with a 'must kiss the king's ring' and 'protectorates must repay us with us dictating the terms when they are most vulnerable'.
Go to the docks, eventually someone might need a hand on a yacht/sailboat, even if it takes awhile.
Honest question. Which laws?
An idle idea I’ve had is that the healthcare bureaucracy in the U.S. can get so bad that one wishes one can hire a lawyer-type of role to navigate it as a paperwork proxy of sorts. But perhaps greater scope is needed- a personal medical advisor who has the domain knowledge, while being independent of the incentives that drive others in the health system.

I suppose in the past that would just be your family doctor, wasn’t it.
Well you ask a good question, but the examples they give ("optional ads" and "sponsored suggestions") only necessarily imply sharing some aggregates.

Like, for example, "we have this many users in this, that and that countries" - information which ads brokers might require to draw up a contract.

I suppose this is a change from the original "never and nothing" promise, but still a fair distance from the idea of selling of data that most people would imagine, like tracking and sharing your individual browser history.

[I guess I'm biased in favor of Mozilla. If they kick it, among full-featured browser engines only Chromium remains.]
You can get wegovy generic for $299/mo and Zepbound generic for $399/mo currently through telemedicine via compounding pharmacies, without insurance.
You aren’t using the paid version of ChatGPT are you? It does a real time search of the web for links.
This is interesting, but it feels like the beginning of a path to nowhere, since it only addresses bad downcasts and none of the other memory safety problems in C/C++. It's totally unclear if the technique they propose could compose with other memory safety techniques to get us to a memory-safe C++.

Also their story about finding allocation sites using static analysis is wishful thinking. There's just too much code out there that does super funky stuff at allocation sites.

And they forgot to cite Fil-C (and Fil-C++), which does achieve full memory safety (and has a complete story for what happens in downcasts). They also forgot to cite a lot of their other competition.
Headline buries the lede imo, should be "Xcode slows down builds by constantly phoning home". Given the walled garden nature of Apple and the app review process it's not really surprising that Xcode would be full of forced telemetry

Also not the worst thing for Apple to measure average build times or whether developers are discovering some new feature they added, that can be actually helpful for improving the product.
And rust. And elixir. And caml, which, after many years, settled on dune. And, apparently, common lisp, which settled on ASDF sometime before I reached puberty. And, probably, every language born after java.

Which is all the weirder : rich hickey could (should ?) have figure that "building infra" was one of the aspect where clojure was a great fit ("lein as an ant+maven killer.") To be fair, it wasn't as much in the zeitgeist at the time.

Still, a new language nowadays must have, on aday one, a package manager and a linter and a formatter and a test runner, etc... - just like it must have an LSP.

It's funny looking a zig trying to fight this.

It's funny watching roc reinventing that weel.

I guess jblow will rationalize against it for jai.

I wonder if someone is going to standardize "the rest" of the toolchain. ("Language dependency manager protocol", anyone ?)
I wonder if RA2 is coming. That was always my favorite of the C&C games.
If I need to double check the work why would I waste my time with the AI when I can just go straight to real sources?
Perhaps. Then you can use something else instead of Gini. e.g. comparing wealth 10th, 50th, 90th, 99th percentiles. That would exclude Bezos & co.

e.g.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/19...

I agree that this is probably a better metric. Easier to visualize and interpret than Gini.

> his nonsense

You could actually try making some coherent arguments before coming out with such conclusions?
People who are trying to buy a house may or may not want it, but people who currently own who are beneficiaries of this stand to lose a lot if their house lost its value, which they have undoubtedly financially planned around.

It doesn’t help that the move to 401ks from pensions was generally not good for beneficiaries and Social Security is facing a shortfall even before you consider current shenanigans.
You mean the ones you launch from Steam?
Similar the thing at the end with "I find it endearing". I mean, the author feels what he feels, but personally I find this LLM behavior disgusting and depressing.
Is it possible that the 18F website is no longer available? It doesn't seem to work anymore: https://18f.gsa.gov
It's not TurboTax, it's Grover Norquist. Republicans are already ideologically against easy tax filing because they're against taxes, they don't need corporate backing for that.

Using OpenSecrets in particular is misleading because it shows you donations fron "employees of corporations" to political campaigns and then people pretend it's donations from "corporations", which is obviously not the same thing. (and not allowed either)
Wasn't there an ADHD drug that was popular for hyper-productivity, in the years where being productive was all the hype?
Who absorbed 5 million Ukrainian refugees? Europe, not the US. (Even Canada took more). And there could be millions more yet depending on the ceasefire/settlement arrangement.

Who paid € billions more in energy costs since 2022? Europe, not the US. [0][1] Germany in particular got crucified, and its manufacturing base fled to China (also in part due to the German Greens' historic Cold-War opposition to nuclear, nut that's a long story).

[0]: https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/02/24/three-years-on-...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more...
Now consider how much phoning home Steam is doing…
Russia lags far behind the US in producing spaceships for some decades. There are other things necessary for the society to build and maintain companies capable of going to the stars.
ASL? 18F DC
Show HN: Super simple free full-stack boilerplate in 2 repos. Next FastAPI Pstg
I designed this to be two things, a super simple full stack setup (in this case 3 commands for the BE and 4 for the FE) and a really solid base for building on top of it with LLMs in ides like cursor.

It's a minimal full-stack boilerplate split into two repos: a Next.js frontend and a FastAPI backend using Postgres, all Dockerized for easy local development and deployment. Both repos link to each other so I've only included the backend repo link.

Would love your thoughts and for you to try it out! Thanks
Once Biden waited so long to fact reality and drop out, there was no time for a proper primary. The mistake was not really the handing of it to Harris, it was dropping out so late that there wasn’t really any better option.
The article says 'board exam' which is quite different from USMLE. So, it's established: I can't read, and I'm not especially clever. It all checks out ! :-)
> Whatever is taxed, there are going to be drawbacks and market distortions as a result.

That still leaves the question of what you want to do. Moreover, that doesn't mean that all of the distortions are equal. Land value tax has fewer distortions than property tax[1], and property tax is differently distorting than various other taxes.

Meanwhile a lot of the taxes are going to social assistance programs, but if you're using taxes that tax the people who are the recipients of those benefits, that's entirely counterproductive. You'd be better off removing those taxes and not having those programs than setting up a huge bureaucracy that just takes money from the same people it gives it back to with strings and paperwork attached.

Property tax is one of the more regressive taxes because everyone needs a place to live.

[1] The proponents like to claim that it doesn't distort at all, but you still need the government to accurately value the land, which it can't do perfectly, and if it doesn't then you'll have e.g. land being abandoned because the tax is set too high and exceeds its value. This also creates a perverse government incentive if "abandoned" land goes to the government. Of course, property tax has a different perverse incentive: The local government wants to make housing more expensive so they get more property tax revenue.
Your output is the map, the map of your experiences. If you make a map of the map (by training a model on your output / the map), this is two abstractions away from the human being experiencing the world with all the errors and uncertainties encoded in both maps.
The attempt at competition was about options for launch capability. The US government was happy to sustain the prior situation of a few overpriced stagnant prime contractors for a long time - same with defense. It was hard to impossible for anyone else to enter that space and get attention (let alone money) from those making decisions.

Regarding bidding. It is incredibly common for these decisions to be made in a way that rewards friends, family members, donors. The law requires a competitive process but it is often corrupted and only gives the appearance of a working process. The appeals are very expensive and time consuming so a lot of the time, it’s just not worth it. There’s not much you can do unless you’re a large company with lots of money.
The same mechanism: Jerry is not hungry, yet Jerry will eat another slice of pizza.
It's not just that there are low performers, but that systems aren't always built to send them to do something else quickly.

When my mom need her second urgent brain surgery, one of the nurses, a friend of a friend, warned us that one of the surgeons on staff that night had dreadful results with basically any procedure. and that if we were stuck with him, that refusing the surgery until another one was able to come in. If the floor nurses know, the head on neurology knows, and yet, they were still OK letting them operate.

Any functioning system just has to eject surgeons that get bad outcomes. It's not as if they have to stop practicing medicine, but move to something a little less dangerous.
Breaking news, being obese is good for your health. And wait to learn about smoking!
>- Movie theaters becoming "social experience centers"

>- Retail spaces becoming venues to "try before you subscribe"

>- Restaurants becoming "social nutrition centers"

>- Shopping malls converting to "wellness districts"

Except for resturants, all of these have had problems for a long time. People have been talking about the death of shopping malls since the 90s.

Feels like other factors are in play here.
Microsoft never forgot about locking developers in. As someone with trying to fulfill an organizational imperative to deliver cross-platform compatibility, they made my life as miserable as they possibly could.
Have you seen their parents?
There's also a theory that the reason why SSRIs end up not helping or making things worse in the end is that for males they crush testosterone levels, and if they didn't, they might have been an effective treatment otherwise.
I don't think Jevon's Paradox applies here. People won't buy healthier food, they'll buy less food.
10 year old New Yorker article on the couple who runs Erowid

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/the-trip-plann...
It gives me serious TED talk vibes. I guess it could be called that. Or maybe it's the twitter thread style?

A lot of catchy one liner hook sentences ("they're literally removing concession stands from NFL stadiums!") that sort of add up to make the author's point.

I'm pretty sure fact checking line by line will make the whole thing less impressive.
It's not an "anti-obesity drug" it's a "set your hunger level to whatever you want drug"

If Jerry is a body builder he can get to whatever body fat % he wants.

If Jerry wants to save money or doesn't want to wake up early hungry he can do that too.

If Jerry has religious beliefs about impulses coming from shaitan, he can get rid of them.

Besides, 75% of Americans are overweight/obese that's pretty much everyone.
The noncogent and unrespectable argument is that labor is less liquid and more difficult to move around for tax-dodging purposes than capital. States have been reduced to opportunists in the realm of taxation and tax enforcement.
GPT 4.5 Released, here are the Benchmarks: A Simple Breakdown
How would you feel if you were born with an unusual and detrimental somatic condition that could be fixed with medicine?
Oh sorry I'm not talking about SpaceX launches. I'm asking about the FAA/Verizon situation.

I don't think general vibes and challenges with winning billion dollar government contracts suffices as evidence for: "I guarantee the existing Verizon contract was not the result of a fair competition."
Flaggers' accounts should automatically be added to a top comment once a post hit's the flagged threshold and they have flagged more than X articles in the last Y days to publicize if the flagger is prolific and which types of threads they are prolific at flagging.

Just tidying up? OK that's anonymous. Regularly shaping discourse? At least make it visible.
Billions of dollars from Google, basically.

https://www.businessinsider.com/robotaxis-may-mobility-tesla...

High operational costs, low revenue potential, technical difficulties, competitors exiting the space.
Correctly assumes*
Not presently, but not long ago, Fortran and Ada. I still like Ada better than the alternatives, especially as it's changed this past couple decades. I find it hard to miss Fortran, though. I'd consider it for scientific computing and that's about it, which isn't my present domain.
Labor is a near-universal ingredient for economic activity. If you refuse to tax anything with a labor component, you run out of things to tax at all.
This isn't a new idea. Jim Cramer has been warning about reduced earnings by alcohol beverage companies and snack food vendors due to GLP-1s for at least a year.
Same brigade who flags all those topics above hostile government takeover?
what about urban agriculture and public parks etc? buildings are not thing only valuable land use in an urban center.
This seems to be an expansion on a previously edited volume from the same author, Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games (2023).
The article posits that 80% of the top income quintile will be on this medication.

I have to ask, why? (I'm not in the US, I should add). Like, sure, is the average American overweight? Yes. Are 80% of the top 20% of earners? Seems pretty doubtful, plenty of the rich look to be in reasonable shape.

That statistic suggests that 80% of successful people have such poor impulse control that they end up seriously overweight or obese. And I say that as someone who likes a treat every couple of days, but exercises enough to maintain a fairly healthy weight.

Admittedly if there were a GLP1 for procrastination, I'd be on that stuff like a shot...
Why on earth would I say that?
I think aggregate information across billions of humans can compensate. It would be like a human personality model, that can impersonate anyone. How do you train such a model? Simple -

Collect texts with known author and date. They can be books, articles, papers, forum and social network comments, emails, open source PRs, etc. Then assign each author a random ID, and train the model with "[Author-ID, Date] Text", and also "Text [Author-ID, Date]". This means you have a model that can predict authors and impersonate them. You can simulate someone by filling in the missing pieces of knowledge from the personality model.

Currently LLMs don't learn to assign attribution or condition on author. A whole layer of insight is lost, how people compare against each other, how they evolve over time. It would allow more precise conditioning by personality profile.
I applaud Firefox for lower memory usage but it constantly shits the bed when resuming a new instance with previous tabs. If a tab crashes the whole thing crashes for me and the dev tools are really behind chrome for front end dev. I would also like if they would support input=type number ffs
How your angle of criticism doesn’t apply to Trump?

Felon. Crypto grifter (selling corruption out in the open?). Known adulterer. TV personality - so he “makes good TV” when in front of cameras.

Whole world thought Ukraine will fall in 3 days (just like Putin). Zelenski asked for “bullets and not evacuation”. He stood his ground, united the nation, with kremlin’s assassins trying to constantly get him and he still visits soldiers on the front line regularly. Trump and JD are scared for their lives to even visit Kyiv.
Both parts are true. The goal as a whole:

* Eliminate all taxes
* Eliminate all regulations
* Use the government for financial gain (by the "right people")
* Use the government to oppress all "others" (those who are not white christian men)
* Crown a king and ensure that crown stays within their select group
6th option: They are overweight, but do not know, so they don't recognize what overweight looks like. But also, it's pretty easy to not look overweight if you're not obese. 30 pounds can be as little as a few waist sizes. I can gain and lose 15 pounds without looking like I changed at all.
Everything messes with your head, this adjusts the mess levels.
It's very easy. I've done this by accident. One of my side projects helps users price the affordability of a particular kind of product. When I ask various LLMs "can I afford X" or "how much do I need to earn to buy X", my project comes up as a source/reference. I currently manually crawl retailers for the MSRP so these numbers are usually months out of date!
There is a lot of land for $100/acre. The main problem with that land is there is no water.
What? Nobody has been nuked since the first atomic bombs in Japan, and those were devastating, convincing them to fully surrender. A lot more powerful and effective ones have been developed during the cold war. A couple megatons dropped on a major city could cause a massive firestorm. EMPs could be generated high up in the atmosphere knocking out the grid and unshielded electronics.
Also he was basically AWOL for months beforehand while Trump was campaigning. Trump’s economic plan was absurd but he was out there talking about it without any real pushback, while Biden seemed to be hoping that people would recognize how the IRA had helped them on their own. Harris might not have been the best candidate but I’m not sure anyone other than Obama could’ve gotten a national coalition together in that short a time – it’s like putting off studying for months and trying to pull an all-nighter before the exam.
This is subthread is certainly too reddit-like to be on HN, but I can't believe a government agency would name their department dealing with digital stuff 18F. This is exactly the connotation that comes to mind of anyone old enough.
There is no magic formula. Every relationship and every death is a bit different. How they died. How old both you and they are. How close your relationship was and how often you interacted with them. All these things play a role. And everyone deals with grief differently. Some people are very emotional (about many things). Some deal with things in a much more subtle way.

How much you cry (or grieve in other ways) does not necessarily have much to do with how much you cared about them.
> The big problem with a land tax is that you'd have billionaires paying little tax.

I don't think so. Billionaires consume quite a lot of real-estate, even if indirectly through their business enterprises. Consider the Google campus in Mountain View or the Microsoft one in Redmond.
Is Pubmed Offline Now?
I think an angle not covered is that the "impulse economy" actually degrades impulse control. Advertising, social media feeds, etc are all hammering away at people's willpower, and getting is addicted to giving in to impulses. If these things disappear, maybe even people who aren't on these drugs would have more impulse control.
As my 2nd brain I use the paid version of Sourcegraph Cody ;)
Related: https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administ...

TLDR; they are removing woke content and functionality, e.g. related to DEI
That would be too much transparency for people who also not supper happy with democracy.
> Browser Engine is not an opinionated thing

Management of browser engines are absolutely opinionated. It's chock full of opinions. Decisions to not deprecate, decisions on which features to add, decisions on which features to refuse to add, all align around the incentives of the people who control the browser engine. For the last fifteen+ years the internet has primarily been driven forward by the needs of Apple and Google. There's no reason we have to continue like this, though.

Third party cookies are a great example of how chrome is actively hamstringing the entire internet with its dominance and control by a for-profit multinational.