skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Chinese are strategic and patient. They just need to wait a few more years until they are able to blockade the entire island for long period of time. Then they can potentially take the island without firing a single shot. they don’t need to take on this kind of risk right now.

...On the other hand, if they want to take Taiwan with a low probability of the U.S. intervening, it's hard to imagine a better time than right now.

One of the lessons Xi might have taken from Russia's war on Ukraine is that Putin made a tactical blunder by not invading during Trump's first term. Without the Biden administration's active support of Ukraine, Putin would likely have been more successful.

It's hard to guess probabilities on these sorts of things, but the current situation makes me uncomfortable.

(For what it's worth, the likelihood of a major Cascadia fault earthquake happening during the Trump administration is something that we can estimate the probability of, and even though it's not particularly high, it also makes me uncomfortable as an Oregonian.)
When I look back at it, Dugin was right back in November:

"So we have won. That is decisive. The world will be never ever like before. Globalists have lost their final combat. The future is finally open. I am really happy."

https://x.com/AGDugin/status/1854136340184490282

Dugin wasn’t exaggerating when he said, “We have won.”

Today’s White House display is exactly what he meant. A decade ago, the GOP would’ve never echoed Russian talking points. Now, they’re openly aligning with them.

This isn’t just isolationism—it’s the dismantling of U.S. hegemony from within.
I understand how USA gains from that. Please explain to me how Europe does.
Fixing things is hard. Papering thing over with free Azure credits and marketing? This is the way.
No, GPT 4 cannot consistently hold a position for longer than a few minutes in my experience.
We need a constitutional convention to fix the legislative branch. People in Wyoming should not have 10x the representation as people in California. Without the complicity of the legislative branch Trump's power would be limited much more.

We need mixed-member districts and eliminate the senate<->state connection and/or repeal the 17th amendment. Bicameral is no longer suited for the world we live in.
Right but this is two people in different sections of the house. Evidence shows zero correlation.

The dog dying could be explained but from what I know dogs end up eating the owners.

Either way there isn’t any evidence for correlation only made up stories.
It also depends on who your parents are. My parents at my age were poor working class. We had a much smaller house (800 sq ft), used cheap cars, cheaper clothing, etc... My dad spent a lot of time fixing our cars (I don't even try), fixing plumbing issues, and we rarely ate out (and never DoorDash'ed!). I was lucky to get some quarters to go to the local arcade to play Pac Man.

My point -- even being slightly lower middle class now would feel like a good jump over my parents. That's just pointing out that comparisons to parental income is very relative.
Google doesn't really say it can't find an answer; instead it finds less relevant (irrelevant) search results. LLMs hallucinate, while search engines display irrelevance.
Sounds a bit judgy to me
I’ve published in genetics and been at conferences with epigenetics guys and honestly I came out with a low opinion of them. I saw a lot of poor work, p hacking with multiple indices, trawling etc.

I just think common sense should make us suspicious of anything having deep heritable effects like this. There are obvious potential confounds here, it’s not at all plausible that exposure to violence is random.

See also the excellent https://www.razibkhan.com/p/you-cant-take-it-with-you-straig...
They don’t elaborate on the logging details, but certainly must good systems don’t allow log tampering even for admins.
What tripped my spider sense is these two comments from Trump:

TRUMP: "But you see, I think it’s good for the American people to see what’s going on. I think it’s very important. That’s why I kept this going so long."

TRUMP: "All right, I think we’ve seen enough. What do you think? This is going to be great television."
Because what we need is less transparency! /s
Nor will calling it true make it true.
Epistemology is great that way.
Unless you're prepared to go supersonic. Not easy to do with electric propulsion though.
You don’t appear to have any trouble engaging and your only downvoted posts appear to low-quality, is this like the imaginary “cancel culture” claims where people with national reach pretended that they had been silenced?

It’s not an echo chamber to notice that Tesla’s owner linking his identity to an extremely partisan role turns off the approximately half of people who don’t share his politics:

https://navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nav...

That’s not a bubble, it’s just basic business sense: if you’re in a competitive market, there a cost to giving people a reason to look elsewhere and especially so when most of your historical buyers have been in the opposing camp. It’s why you don’t know how the CEOs of Ford or Toyota vote, because they are smart enough not to jeopardize their long-term future just for a little publicity now.
I added a note about this a bit later in the post, but the issue was that all of the optimization services I use strip out the color profile, and I don’t know enough about webp or avif to re-add it. Other than re-saving it, which increases the size since it decompresses everything.
Graham just went on air and said Zelensky should resign after he was so disrespectful today. Ball-less man really
Simple question:

Does Russia owning more of Ukraine further the interests of the United States, European states, and/or NATO?
Doubtful. Digital nomads, short-term rental tourism, real estate investors (prompted by the former two) are increasing housing costs and CoL in all the popular destinations. Costs in some regions like Barcelona almost got equalized with costs in major US tech hubs. The same is happening in places like Buenos Aires. So its unlikely that the trend in LATAM will continue as it is.

Also, this is very bad for not only the locals as they get gentrified from living in their own city/urban centers (and in some cases even rural zones), but also the local companies: The US and other rich Western companies dump their healthcare and housing costs onto the locals through arbitration while making it harder for local companies to keep up with the CoL increase through wages, therefore increasing their expenses and reducing their competitiveness. And the reduced taxes that the nomads etc pay doesn't help it. (that is, the ones who actually pay).
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There are many large organizations that pay for RHEL support. Supercomputers, for example. These organizations also benefited from being able to spin up analog installs of CentOS on local machines for testing. Not anymore. I expect RHEL's market dominance in these areas to diminish over time.
But laws shouldn't be set based on how easy they are to avoid. Lots of people drive too fast all the time, yet few argue that we should do away with speed limits. Besides, there is zero empirical evidence that suggests that raising rich people's taxes is ineffective. Yes, they are good at avoiding taxes, but professional tax collectors are probably even better at enforcing taxes. It's a question of political will, or lack thereof, due to not wanting to lose your biggest donors.
Henry George wrote about this a hundred years ago in Progress and Poverty! His solution: a tax on land (not buildings) to encourage building up. Economists say it's one of the most efficient taxes possible.
Well, if you want to understand Russia, China, and Trump, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_of_Nations

That's how politics was done before WW2.
I will note that at least for our GitHub enterprise setup permissions are all granular, tokens are managed by the org and require an approval process.

I’m not sure how much of this is “standard” for an org though.
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Hey everyone,

This is a project that I wanted to create years ago, but didn't have the skills for it. It's lingered in my mind since then, and I finally went ahead and built it. I'm still in the process of developing it, but figured I'd share it now as it's coming along.

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Social Security Administration plans to cut some 7k jobs
> It's too simplistic (and IMHO not accurate) to say the American government has been commpromised by Russia

Not the American government. Trump. They compromised the guy on top who established complete control over a party.

Depressingly simple.
If they really believe they're going to develop "AGI," and they really believe that more engineering time would get them there faster, it seems like there's one obvious question: Why aren't they spending their enormous cash reserves on a hiring spree?
And then there's Australia.
Trades licensing, tightening codes, inspections,zoning, inspection, planning, environmental regulation, and water/well shenanigans are the reason for unaffordable housing. Plenty of cheap land near jobs, land not a meaningful constraint.

By bypassing most all these and DIYing a house I was able to build a house for well under 100/sqft.
if you stay subsonic. I hear the U-2 has like 1-2kt of leeway when it is at its max altitude because if it went faster it would be supersonic but any slower and it would fall out of the sky.
> That was what triggered hugely Trump (go check the video).

That wasn't what triggered Trump in that moment.

What triggered Trump in that moment was being told a prediction about the future with an imperative sentence.

Trump viewed that as a personal command and his narcissistic personality cannot handle that.
It's not hard to tell when you reach the upper asymptote though.
That would explain some of his decisions, but why is he 100% pro Russia across the board?
You need the electric equivalent of a glider tug plane to get you up to altitude. It can then return to base taking its drained batteries with it while you continue to your destination with fully charged batteries.
The article says the horses were in the Americas millions of years ago.
He’s entitled to be livid. But beggars can’t be choosers. And he’s in the position of the beggar.

I, for one, don’t want to keep dumping money on him throwing his citizens into the meat grinder.
It's like this in a lot of subreddits dedicated to a particular product. The regulars are die-hard $product fans, and respond to perceived negativity just as you'd expect.
The feature is still there but it doesn't return all results like it did in older version of Office. 2016 had a nasty bug that made the Advanced Find window "disappear" (resized itself to a tiny sliver and unless you know the ALT-SPACE shortcut to get to Resize the window is just lost). I don't know if that but persisted into newer versions. Microsoft acknowledged the bug but said they were de-emphasizing Advanced Find in favor of the awful search in the main Outlook window.

In Outlook 2010 I could do a search for all messages from a given sender with specific words in the subject and an attachment of at least 100KB and get results.
If you are optimizing for less tool calls, I think you are rapidly and increasingly optimizing for the wrong thing here.
> Don't share mutable access, e.g. single-owner model with channels.

That can still break if a reader makes multiple calls and implicitly assumes that the data structure at large hasn't been mutated between them.
Are you an Azure UI dev?
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Yes, but as I said they can merge in changes. Apparently more than I thought, but still, they can.

Opera has pinch-zoom text-reflow in a chromium backend, and that seems to be substantial, and yet it is (on purpose) kept out of mainline chrome. So they do loads of tracking/merging too.

The scope of work to do a few small features on top of chrome wouldn't be a biggie, compared to the entire project.
> Trump is an open book, he says he wants the killing to stop.

Then he should put pressure on Russia to leave Ukraine. Anything short of that guarantees the killing will continue.
> even reasoning models [...] often fail to fix logic bugs.

I think "often" is the key word here. To be clear, they often fail for me to! But they also often work.
Some things don’t require scratch build, some do, some are in between. But there’s no prompt for taste.
I wasn't really talking about the billing, but more about doctors, nurses, medical manufacturing, etc.
I didn't believe it for a while and frankly the situation our leaders put us in is gut wrenching. Here's a leaked call of Victoria Nuland, secretary of state, picking the next leader of Ukraine. I also added a link to Kissinger discussing this issue 30 years ago.

These demonstrate that this expansionism is real, Ukraine is not truly sovereign, and Russia was forced into a horrendous position where they have to decide between a humanitarian crisis now, or potentially a much bigger humanitarian crisis down the line if all NATO member states engage in war with Russia, a large Nuclear power.

Many blame NATO/USAID/CIA for creating this situation over many decades, even though they knew it would come to this.

Nuland call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE
Kissinger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHm_7T7QNl8

P.S. I should say that I also hate Putin for being a murderous oligarch, so take that however you will. But let's be real, he's been warning against this for decades.
I believe any Azure user might be able to compile their 100 reasons to not use Azure, and the same will be true for most big pieces of software.

Even as someone that had minimal exposure to other clouds, I could easily see how Azure user experience lags due to the lack of proper care.

The amount of pages with a filter bar that will not work properly until you remember to click the load more should clearly be zero at this point, this is an objectively bad pattern that existed for years and should be "easy" to fix. But the issue will probably never be prioritized.

The fact is that unless tackling those issues are part of the organization core values or that they are clearly hitting their revenue stream, they won't be fixed. Publicity and visibility of those issues will always be crucial for the community of users.
Yes, and if it was only “correct but obvious” that would be a fair point. The issue is in mixing in the “wrong and irrelevant” bits. As I said, the piece is immediately stronger by removing the irrelevant stock market commentary. (And if his view is truly a minority view, it’s hard to believe Gary Marcus style skepticism was responsible for the correction.)
That's a really interesting breakdown of the DSL vs. S-expression approach. I can see your point about the potential fragility of relying directly on tree-sitter outputs, especially with grammar drift. It took me a while to wrap my head around the S-expression syntax when I first started using tree-sitter, so I appreciate the comparison to a more human-readable DSL like Semgrep's.

The other benefit of a DSL like Semgrep's is that LLMs have become very good at generating it. See https://github.com/lambdasec/autogrep on how to automatically generate Semgrep rules from existing CVEs.
watched it once, this is what I saw (Vance suddenly antagonizing Zelensky as if to entrap a known hothead), and then followed by the two sly comments from Trump "that’s why I kept this going so long" and "this is going to be great television"
Why is that laughable exactly? It was the same point in time which he endorsed Trump
Dang,
thanks for stepping in here, and as always, for the unseen work you do behind the scenes keeping the trolls at bay.

Regarding political posts since inauguration, can you explain this, because I am flumoxed:

- on the one hand, there's been a huge surge in clamoring about posts critical of the new administration being flagged

- on the other hand, when such posts have not been flagged, they have consistently and overwhelmingly been dominated by one-sided comments critical of the new administration, while the vast majority of counterargument comments become greyed out, and quite quickly.

- a large portion of that one-sided piling on shows utter disregard for the HN guidelines, esp.:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

I grew up in East Germany, fwiw. The things I have pointed out here remind me more of the bad old days there than the spirit of independent inquiry, individualism and fairness that I associate with the best of America.
not everything is a conspiracy theory.

Sometimes, reported news are actually true, this is from Ukraine's Education Minister:

https://www-unian-net.translate.goog/society/osoblivo-hlopci...

Just think about it logically, if you are a mother of 16 y.o kid, and USA says you must conscript 18+ y.o to receive any further aid - would you just sit and wait for your child to get drafted on his next birthday?
> the growth rate of wealth itself

The fundamental theorem of capitalism: rich people get paid for being rich in proportion to how rich they are.

This is why your savings account looks like an exponential. The thing to understand is the difference in lived experience depending on where it starts. If you are poor, the returns are a joke, you tend to ignore them. If you are middle class, the returns fund your retirement, and it seems roughly fair: you work hard and at some point you earn the right to not work any more. Only if you are rich do you see the fountain of free money (homework: calculate yearly returns for the typical 10%er, 1%er, .1%er, and centabillionaire), and of course being the beneficiary you rationalize away the possibility that this could be a problem at all. It's a tidy system.

"That's an unfair characterization of capitalism!"

So is the one you get in economics which bends over backwards to hide the "fundamental theorem" as I have stated it inside a choice of units: "under conditions of market equilibrium every financial asset has an equivalent risk-adjusted rate of return from the perspective of its marginal buyer." Did you miss the class warfare? It was all hidden inside the word "rate." Very clever.
You all studied so hard but never heard about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias?
If they intended to clarify wording, they would have added something in place of their original wording instead of deleting it entirely. Legal team isn't slipping like that.
Bingo. The only way to stop Russia killing people is for them to lose the war.
Maybe, but such a false equivalence. When Vance, Trump and Musk preside over a collapse of all that they hold dear, let’s see how cool they are…
How do you find the price difference? Whenever I've done comparisons, they have always worked out significantly more expensive than AWS, and AWS is already pretty damn expensive for anything that requires a decent amount of compute.
I had to go back and enable JavaScript. Wow, is the goal to direct my attention away from reading the text?
Interesting challenge! I've been playing with similar LLM setups for investment analysis, and I've noticed that the default "niceness" can be a hurdle.

Have you tried explicitly framing the prompt to reward identifying risks and downsides? For example, instead of asking "Is this a good investment?", try "What are the top 3 reasons this company is likely to fail?". You might get more critical output by shifting the focus.

Another thought - maybe try adjusting the temperature or top_p sampling parameters. Lowering these values might make the model more decisive and less likely to generate optimistic scenarios.
In a world with an internal proxy/mirror for dependencies and no internet access allowed by build systems.
By your own admission a defensive security guarantee will "kick off a great power war..." which is a way of saying Russia can't be trusted to keep the peace, no? Not that I disagree but I'm not sure it's as strong an argument against Ukraine's request as you think it is. It may have even been part of Neville Chamberlain's notes on the subject.
It doesn't sound possible but where's the link? I'm willing to look.
But then you’d only get 1% of the comments.
Trump is demanding a conditional surrender of Ukraine according to every Russian demand and calling it a peace deal.

You should know that.
IMHO, you're gonna struggle if you move anywhere else from AWS. We're migrating to GCP and there are gaps all over the place.
Did you ever wear HUGO BOSS clothes, or use an IBM computer?

Do you know what they did in WWII?
Any time you drag a language out of its sweet spot is gonna be a bad time.

Javascript is out of its sweet spot quite a bit, which is how we end up with typescript.

However statically strongly typed code is out of its sweet spot where prototyping and to an extent refactoring are concerned. And mercifully we now have progressively typed languages trying to fill that space.
> I am anti-war. I truly want peace.

Then you should know a temporary pause in the fighting while Russian remains in Ukraine is not peace.
Horses in North America are a weird one. I believe the current thinking is that horses started in North America, migrated to Asia, then the population died off after the continents split. So there were horses in the Americas prior to the Europeans, but also potentially before humans.
Cost/benefit. If 95% of your users are on Chrome, that's where the business wants you to spend most of your development effort. It's the same issue with game dev. Most games don't support Linux natively because the small user base doesn't justify the time sink for developers.

Not saying I like it, but I'm not surprised at the current state of the ecosystem.

All developers should understand basic web standards, particularly accessibility.
> the disrespectful, high-pressure bargaining tactics Zelensky tried to use today

Such as? All I heard was him asking how an agreement or deal would help when the history of Ukraine-Russia deals has always ended up with Ukraine being invaded more
Indeed. For me 2010-11 was when I got a full-time job as compared to contracting (small time) which was big jump for me in terms of job quality and money. Interesting enough I met many people who joined Amazon in same time frame and earning about 50% more than me in straight first job that I earned after with 8-10 years of experience. So yeah company part is important.
Jini may be an example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jini

I remember Bill Venners used to write about it on his site artima.com .