skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rules of this forum dictate that participants can't make claims of astroturfing, so I won't make that claim.

On a related note, I find it interesting that your comment is being downvoted while contributing to the dialogue productively.

Inference is left as an exercise to the reader.
MacOS is a lot less solid than it used to be. Not just in UI terms, but the current networking stack is garbage compared to the Snow Leopard era, we've had versions of the OS ship that couldn't read FAT32 properly, frameworks are breaking all over the place, and they have locked down any attempt to fix it.
But isn't that how Trump campaigned and ran his first presidency? He vomits a stream of random garbage and, if you like him, you pick through it to find the half digested bits you like while ignoring everything else. His opponents do the opposite but, to be fair, it seems like a perfectly reasonable stance to listen to what a person says and assumes they might actually do what they are promising to do.

His "charm" is that he won't do 3/4 of what he says, the difficulty is figuring out which quarter he is going to enact.
Ouch. Don't take it personally. :)
Anaerobic - i feel more or less normal while under aerobic load, and i can sustain significantly less anaerobic load - i used to be able to maintain 1600W for about 30 seconds (equivalent to a sprint to a finish line at pro-cyclist level). I can barely touch 1000W while on fast/low carb diet. I did a few experiments, and after carb loading I get an immediate increase in anaerobic perf.
For what it's worth, while I don't agree with the moron bit of what OP said, I have felt like I have seen HN leaning more pro-Trump. And it does also feel like saying anything critical of him can be heavily downvoted. There really does appear to be a large contingent of pro-Trump people on here, at least in my experience. I don't have citations, just my own experience, so, obviously take it for what it is.
Is it better to deliver low-quality housing or none at all?

The guy with no housing would be better served even with a large cardboard box, but the police would come and take it away from him if he tried.

Banning the symptoms of the problem doesn't solve the problem.
Cause the problem to prove the point that there is a problem. It is common in any office environment
OP didn't say a majority. It's hard to deny that a sizable portion of the tech community is made up of ancap techno-libertarian types; and that the dismantling of the US government is their dream.
No, psi predates modern sci fi and experiences of it are not generated by that. Belief is easy to find in preceding centuries too
> It is mind blowing to me that this is what people want.

I very much doubt this is what people want. But people aren't asked their opinion, and there's a difference between disagreeing and starting an insurrection to prevent a coup.
> That humiliation pales in comparison to the damage done domestically as taiwan's defenses would necessitate a gross loss of life.

There was life lost in Hong Kong. Potentially not the same amount, but yes lives were lost (not just what was mentioned in the media or from protests).
Yes, mil tech has diverged, and much of modern manufacturing requires highly specialized tooling that requires long lead times to get into production.

That is an excellent reason to subsidize maintaining convertible or dual-use tech in the civilian arena. e.g., make sure turbines are used in more civilian uses. Stockpile tech that is really civilian incompatible such as the depleted uranium armor.

Turbines are a good example of how a civilian tech could have gone differently. In the 1960s several turbine-powered cars were in development for street use and a turbine race car qualified and lead most of the 1967 Indianapolis 500 race. But then the USAC effectively disqualified it [0], and civilian development stopped for other reasons. But it arguably might have continued had turbine power been allowed to race and dominate.

Yet, turbines are used both for aircraft and for natural gas power, both stationary and portable, and there are many small turbines. So, of course, we would not go to an ICE engine builder but to the builders of aircraft and gas power plants. There are also manufacturers of small-scale turbines that might ramp up.

On the other hand, we can also look at how modern warfare has changed over the last three years. multi-million dollar tanks are being reliably destroyed by $800 drones. And drone tech is highly fungible. Many common computer chips and boards can be used to control it, many common lightweight motors will work, and composites or lightweight metals can make the bodies. All of these technologies are highly configurable, so it would be a short lead time to make new factories to turn out pretty much whatever shape drone we wanted, whether it is flying, rolling, or swimming.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STP-Paxton_Turbocar
This still sounds bad. 5 mins to rework your notes after each patient visit? I didn't assume doctors had that kind of time.

And let me make this clear. I, as your patient, I never NEVER want the AI's treatment plan. If you aren't capable of thinking with your own brain, I have no desire to trust you with my health, just like I would never "trust" an AI to do any technical job I was personally responsible for due to the fact that it doesn't care at all if it causes a disaster. It's just stochastic word picker. YOU are a doctor.
It seems more and more that if war between US and China starts it will be US-initiated. You just can’t stand not being the top dog anymore.

For context, EU+UK is over 500M people, Russia is 143M.

I think two weeks back many Europeans took for granted (at least I did) we would get involved in the Pacific theatre if needed on US side, but after what is happenning now… I am for not getting involved in any coflict in Pacific if US treats us this way.
or a fourth perspective, you're undermining the importance of TSMC production/output, and the US would indeed go to war over it.
They can, but they won't because nobody dares to stick their neck out for fear of losing their job. And that's been going on for decades, the slow dismantling (if there ever was any) of job and income security, to the point where the majority of Americans, including federal workers, are only one or two paychecks away from financial ruin. Nobody wants to lose their job.

Of course, if they get fired and there's nothing else for them to do, there will be uprisings.
For simple adding of a list of numbers I either use a text file and awk, or Spotlight on the Mac.
CorelDRAW Go
> If you get an irresponsible government or power company that cheaps out in 30 years, oopsies, you're going to irradiate the local area.

How many times did this happen in 80 years? according to [1] not many times.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and...

And this is including very early technology and government (e.g. the Russian one) that I wouldn't trust with anything.
@realDonaldTrump on Mar 04, 2025, 7:30 AM: "All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter." (https://archive.is/u7ISX)
Agree, there are bound to be some logistical issues during RTO and they will eventually sort themselves out. The article is grasping at straws. Do I really think asking government employees to work out of an office is unreasonable? No.
Korea is probably the list as well.
The Normans strike again!
What I mean is that often people think they have a formula that works, because it appears to pass all tests including back testing. But what I've gleaned generally happens, is that in due course of time ,is that the formula stops working. So it's only in hindsight that they realize that they were not correct.

On to your point - yes of course people will (and should) attempt things that they believe might work. There is no way to have a crystal ball. All I'm trying to say that consistent success appears very rare when it come to the stock market from what I've heard. The only consistent success in the stock market that I'm aware of, when it come to ordinary mortals is through insider trading etc. which is not an option for most of us.
I'm using django for my backend so far and am fine just using cli and code but I'm quite curious about this.
Anywhere where you're tracking progress?
> I suspect that other scapegoats can be found to blame for their problems

Woke, Biden, DEI, Obama, trans, Hillary, Soros, gays, illegals, fluoride. Take your pick.
My M1 has been like this since I got it so assumed it was by design, but perhaps not. My old macbook doesn't behave this way.
Trump isnt smarter than that. Also his goal in taking office was to smuggle taxpayer money into crooks pockets.
> Did people vote for Trump because they thought he was a liar?

Yes! I know apparently smart people who voted for Trump because they thought that his more extreme rhetoric was merely intended to wind up the left. Like the first time he got elected. Except that this time he had a plan.
Dart is better in some ways and worse in others.

1. It has an actually sound type system.

2. The language and standard library are waaaaaaaay ahead of Javascript.

3. The tooling is top notch. Better than JS/TS.

But on the other hand:

4. Way smaller ecosystem.

5. Debugging is worse if you're compiling to JS. The fact that the code you run is basically identical to the code you write in TS can be a big advantage. Only really applies for web pages though.

6. Type unions are way nicer in TS.

7. Non-nullable types interact badly with classes. It can make writing methods correctly really awkward - you have to explicitly copy member variables to locals, modify them and then write them back.

8. Way smaller community.
Definitely something with parts that fall. I wouldn't do a kettle because those are toaster simple.

An electric toothbrush would be good. There are a few parts that could fall, the battery in particular.
This has nothing to do whatsoever with RTO.
The problem is that techbro corporates trying to make megabucks of profit off of using other people's art.

Intellectual property laws for thee but not for me, I guess.
Don’t even need religion to see wild stuff, or to know that your intuition has something to it beyond calculation from experience.
Update: the bug happened one more time, even if I did not choose Respawn. Also, the app crashed on startup once (I couldn't reproduce that, though). Also, new high score (152k), but the run statistics comparison of best 10 run looks kinda glitched (it won't show all the scores).
Did they implement the whole USB stack? If I remember correctly NT4 had no usb stack - USB was one of the new things in Windows 2000.
The notes bug drives me nuts when I am working on a longer document.
Who's brilliantly dumb idea was it to have the only two referendums ever also immediately after a disaster? That is what you'd do if you want an overwhelmingly biased referendum playing off people's rash and short term panic based decision making.
As the 4th richest country in Europe, after Germany, UK, and France, it does make a lot of sense.
Trump and Musk plan to destroy our government institutions and sell off the parts and your advice is to just accept it and come up with a plan for what to do in the aftermath?

As someone who actually lives here, I think it is very appropriate to freak out a bit and want to put a stop to this. It’s very easy to destroy, but extremely difficult to build back. I like the post office, national parks, and the national weather service and would like to keep them as is, thank you very much.

Your attitude, shared by centrists in the US, is why we are in this current situation. Might I suggest you worry more about the AfD and less about US politics?
> Now, they have to get dressed and at least physically show up to collect a paycheck. If they possessed real, marketable skills, they would just leave the government and seek employment elsewhere. You will have to pry these jobs from their cold, dead hands as they're never quitting voluntarily.

Right sure, everyone is obsessed by money.
So now I wonder if they could be built if you promised (and delivered) those people cheap electricity.
> Browser is important

> I want to emphasise how important browsers are in this whole security scheme.

This is the important point which maybe many developers may not think about, that CORS is just a security "feature" within the browser. And, that if one made an HTTP(S) request directly to the server that they could simply spoof the origin. Obviously, there is reasoning to still have CORS for in order to protect users from malicious scripts on trusted websites or simply malicious websites.
Many years ago, I wrote a pcap/tcpdump parser in pure bash, because it's all I knew how to write "programs" with. It was, of course, the slowest and most brittle thing of all time, but it did actually work. And was kinda fun. Wish I still had that code somewhere.
> This still sounds bad. 5 mins to rework your notes after each patient visit? I didn't assume doctors had that kind of time.

Compared to what though? It reads as not additional work, but less work than manually having to do all that, seems likely to needing more than 5 minutes.

> And let me make this clear. I, as your patient, I never NEVER want the AI's treatment plan.

Where are you getting this from? Neither the parent's comment nor the article talks about the AI assistant coming up with a treatment plan, and it seems to be all about voice-dictating and "ambient listening" with the goal of "free clinicians from much of the administrative burden of healthcare", so seems a bit needlessly antagonistic.
So my last really long drive was Prague to Amsterdam, last year. We did three stops, first to fuel the car and grab some breakfast, then for a bathroom break and to grab some lunch, and the last one was to get a McFlurry and another bathroom break. The total time spent on the stops was easily over an hour.

If I punch the same trip into one of the EV trip planners online and set the car even to something meh like an MG4 with the 51kWh battery, which is cheap EV that doesn't charge very fast, it's telling me I'd have to stop 4 times (instead of 3 times) and for 1.5 h total (instead of a bit less than that).

I don't know what you do for a living or how much you hate traveling, but for me this is a non-issue. I make maybe 1-2 trips like this a year (and <10 trips around 500 km) and spending like 15 % more time on the road is something I wouldn't even notice, much less care about.
That's also typically referred to as a kakistocracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
> The US took Ukraine’s nukes in exchange for safety guarantees.

Please read the actual text of the memorandum, so you don't spread any more baseless accusations. It's only 1 page, it'll just take you a minute and the language it is written in is very accessible.

https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Ukraine_Memorand...

The only point that even touches on any kind of guarantees is essentially a promise to "seek immediate United Nations Security Council action" in the case of an attack or a threat of attack IN WHICH NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE USED. That last part is always conveniently left out whenever anyone tries to throw out the soundbite of "They gave up their nukes for security guarantees". And even if you assume that the nuclear weapon part only covers the "threat" part of the sentence and not the "attack", then you're still left with the only solid guarantee being the seeking of United Nations Security Council action.
I supposed "modern Xiaomi" would be something like Mi 10 or newer
Not surprisingly there is a lot of competition in AI medical scribe software.

Some other companies in this space are Epic, Freed, Nuance, DeepScribe, Nabla, Ambience, Tali, Augmedix
The import of electricity is around 10-15%, a significant amount, but Italy does not MOSTLY rely on imports.
The weird historic traditions around Pancake Tuesday in Ireland
SpaceX is taking over FAA contracts, I'm sure they won't have any trouble getting approved.

Permits will be for the little guys.
We know that Russia has run a very long, very extensive disinformation campaign against the west. It might be expected that that extends to HN. Not everything posted here is someone's actual opinion. Some of it is deliberate propaganda and attempts to manipulate.

That's hard to accept, given what HN was once. The difference between ten years ago and last year was noticeable; the difference between last year and this is much starker.

You're in a war, even here.
> If you do that, there's little benefit from car electrification

Untrue, if you generate power from oil at a big power plant, transmit it down to a house and charge a battery then use the battery to power an electric motor it will still be considerably more efficient than using a car-sized combustion engine (not even counting the energy required to transport the gasoline/diesel to the gas station).

> The sun is already set and the local grid's unprepared cable sections cause voltage drops

It seems inevitable that car-makers and utilities will need to agree on some kind of smart metering for charging cars at non-peak points. Energy costs at 12am->6am are actually cheaper than during the day even in areas with a lot of PVs (baseline power load can't be easily shut on/off). I heard there are some standards about this.
I don't know if this mentioned by anyone, or just me. but I have noticed that macos updates gets downloaded twice.

So, if the update is 20GB, 40GB of data get used.
The narrative is more complex than that if I am not mistaken.

It seems the general public outside the affected regions were not completely aware on what was going on with concentration camps. This does not mean they were not aware of at some level.

It is quite common for old people to say that they only became aware of many of the atrocities months or years later the war was over. The US was not keen on putting pressure to concentration camps as, well, they had their own full of "japs and n*"
And there will be lots of people pretending that this is a beliveable assertions.

Basically all will either pretend believing or refuse believing above the mental level of this old infant elected as president, so almost everyone.
Yes, hence the article.
>What is the definition they use?

The notion of 'privacy preserving' ads, or that the data they are selling is not in some sense 'about you.'

I talk about this in a couple of other comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43212048

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43212010
You do need to use it, not to handle errors but to avoid it taking down the whole process (and probably sending some logs / alert / monitoring). Which doesn't apply everywhere, but at least in web dev it does: if a request / task panics, you want to abort just that, not the whole server including any other requests / tasks running.

Sadly, you need every goroutine to have its own recovery handler. This works well for your general request / task entrypoints, as there should only be one for each kind, but you need to watch out for any third-party libs spawning goroutines without recovery. They will take down your whole server.
> Nobody wants to lose their job

There is almost zero causality in the U.S. government’s hiring and firing right now. Particularly relating to current conduct.

To the extent anyone has received job protection, it’s by getting politically fired and then seeking court protection.

So no, this is base cowardice and a lack of patriotism. Not rational action.
"Krasnov" is doing exactly what the Russians hired him to do.
I work as a software engineer in the non-profit sector, within education. It's going to be a wild ride as to whether I have a job or not in a year. We are (almost) entirely dependent on grants. The money we get that isn't from grants is tiny (like less than 1% of our total budget). We applied for a few government grants recently and it sounds to me like they are definitely not something we will be getting now so it's back to the private foundations we have to go to for funding. With all the mixups happening it's going to be interesting to see how private foundations pivot, will non-profits like ours see big grants or will we die because other areas are more important?

On top of that, I am no expert top of the job market software engineer. If I lose this job I am going to be competing against people significantly better than me because so many others have (or will) be losing their jobs. Basically, this is the potential beginning of the end of my career.

Thankfully, I think I'm okay through this year, and probably next... but after that, completely a mystery. And that's only because we have agreements for funding through 2026. There are no guarantees beyond that.
Tips for using Gemini 2.0 for PDF ingestion
> Who's brilliantly dumb idea was it to have the only two referendums ever also immediately after a disaster?

Well-timed populists.
Apologies to Mr Kurzweil, but I think the reality on the ground is that the cost of research into keeping an aging population alive is a raised risk of Armageddon. The political tendencies in older age demographics is bad, the politicians surviving so many decades after a first to leadership position is bad, the billionaires living long enough to find whacky ideas or even directly manipulate politics instead of gifting money to charities is catastrophic, etc.
When I go down this chain of thought, I eventually end up at --

Legs. I have legs. They are built in. I can just use them. I can always bring my legs onto the subway.

If they don't go fast enough, then I have two options:

1. Give myself more time.

2. Jog or run. This will make me sweaty. Maybe I will want to shower at the office. That's an option. It will make me healthier, if I do it.

There is also a third choice:

3. Obtain real estate in such a way that substantial travel is not required.

Clearly most people will look at these options and say, "FooBar, you are insane."

It's simultaneously the easiest solution to the problem, and the most difficult.
Responding to criticism of one's work with ad hominems is something I'd rather have expected on Twitter...

Why so angry?
If I have my dates right,

Macron (president of France) visited the White House on Feb 24 and pointed out that security guarantees would be important and that the US could play an important role providing those guarantees. This discussion ended amicably. [1]

Starmer (Prime Minister of the UK) visited Trump on Feb 27 , and besides handing over an invitation from King Charles, also discussed the fact that there would need to be security guarantees in any particular Ukraine deal. This discussion also ended amicably. [2]

Zelensky (President of Ukraine) then visited on Feb 28 and reiterated the points his colleagues had made. This time something went wrong. [3]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/trump-macron-ukraine-russia-starm...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-starme...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump%E2%80%93Zelenskyy_m...
The AI companies absolutely hope to be the ones to come up with the treatment plans eventually.
It’s a great ideal state, I just happen to think it’s several decades away. Most people reading this will never witness it. We’ve already heavily invested in what you say should not exist. Financial inertia is strong to keep things on that path. However if we, US, shrink our vehicles we can double or triple the throughput of current roads.
Tell me you are not a parent without telling me you are not a parent.
> now nearly all of them have given up and agreed it was a bad move for crypto

It's not cool anymore when someone else is running the scam
Yes, but let’s say HN actually is turning into, or already has turned into, Reddit. We’ll never know, because it’s forbidden to say so.