skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm tempted to write an small blogpost about this one with some explanations, as that blogpost is a bit old :D but there's a couple things I found in this rabbit hole I fell:

First, as some of you have noted, the 三 kanji means 'three' [0] and Mitsubishi means 'three diamonds' [1]. Hence, the traditional family crest from the Mitsubishi family. The concrete origin can be found around here [2]

Mitsubishi Pencil is the first one registering the three diamond logo, in 1903 [3]. Mitsubishi zaibatsu logo was thinner and a bit different then [4]. During the occupation of Japan after WWII, the Allied Powers (GHQ) ordered dismantling the zaibatsu and stopping using the Mitsui and Mitsubishi brands (among others) [5]. Mitsubishi Pencil was not part of the zaibatsu, but using the same name, it was in risk of disappearing. After negotiations by their president with the GHQ they were allowed to keep it if they indicated that they're not part of the zaibatsu [6]. Back in the fifties you could see "non-zaibatsu" under their logo in their products. [7]

The 'Mitsubishi Cider' made by Konyusha doesn't exist anymore but its trademark was registered by Mazda Kogyo (now Mazda Total Solutions) in 1919. No, not THAT Mazda, a different Mazda (Matsuda/Mazda is a Japanese surname, so, more confusion :D) Mazda Kogyo would have contracted Konyusha to manufacture and sell the product in 1919 [8]. In 2014 Mazda Kogyo transfered the brand to Mitsubishi Corporation while Konyusha was still manufacturing it, and in 2015 they changed their name to Mazda Total Solutions [9]. Haven't totally understood their message, but I think Mazda Total Solutions has ceased operations as of today [10]. Konyusha stopped manufacturing and selling the cider in 2017 [11]. I've seen somewhere that could be related to the Kumamoto earthquake of 2016, as that Konyusha's location.

Fun fact, there's is a cider named "Mitsuya Cider" [12] that has a similar logo, but with "arrows" instead of diamonds. When it started, as a carbonated water brand in the 1880s, it was part of the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, but it was split from the company a couple years later [13].

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0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89#Japanese
1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E8%8F%B1#Etymology_2
2: https://www.mitsubishielectric.co.jp/corporate/gaiyo/history/logo/
3: https://mpuni.net/en/company/history.html
4: https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Mitsubishi
5: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B2%A1%E9%96%A5%E8%A7%A3%E4%BD%93
6: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jp/kenjiando/mitsubishi-pencil
7: https://jaa2100.org/entry/detail/035688.html
8: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%98%E4%B9%B3%E8%88%8E#%E4%B8%89%E8%8F%B1%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6
9: https://matsudats.com/#history
10: https://matsudats.com/#message
11: https://web.archive.org/web/20171031110949/http://konyusha.co.jp/%e4%b8%89%e8%8f%b1%e3%82%b5%e3%82%a4%e3%83%80%e3%83%bc%e8%b2%a9%e5%a3%b2%e7%b5%82%e4%ba%86%e3%81%ae%e3%81%8a%e7%9f%a5%e3%82%89%e3%81%9b/
12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuya_Cider
13: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E3%83%84%E7%9F%A2%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC
"Administrative burden" is a perfect use case of LLM. They are both bs.
Yes, when Trump complains about NATO most people hear dollars, tanks, and planes, but European leaders hear the nuclear deterrent.

This is one reason Britain and France are out front right now on matters of European security.
Here's a list of countries with a nuclear industry but no nuclear weapons program.

Taiwan
South Korea
Japan
Germany
Sweden
Italy
UK (not counting trident)
Ukraine
> Oh, I hoped it's about nuclear weapons. Pitty, it's not.

If you were going to resume work on nuclear weapons, would you announce it immediately? ... Or would you say that you're developing your nuclear power capabilities.

There are well established historical lines here to be read between.
> With the US now showing they are not afraid of doing a "rug pull" on agreements, one starts to wonder if the Netherlands shouldn't start development of nuclear weapons again.

This discussion is already looming in Germany, especially now that Elon Musk openly wants the US to leave NATO. There is a standing offer by Macron for Germany to go under French nuclear protection. The UK also appears to be more than willing to fill in the nuclear vacuum left by the US. If things continue the path of the last 2-3 weeks, I am sure that at some point there will be a discussion about whether Germany should prepare to be able to at least build nuclear weapons quickly.

I have a feeling that Canada has similar thoughts. I wonder what would happen if they started developing nuclear weapons. The US president already announced he would make Canada the 51st state, and around 25% of Canadians saw the US as an enemy country 2 weeks ago [0]

Strategically, it does not make any sense to me. I am pretty sure that the Russians are just as confused. I wonder if there is a historic precedent of a country giving up a functioning empire voluntarily, without any internal or external pressure to do so.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/canada-us-relations-enemy-poll-tari...
>ALL of us can find it in the "mundane" and if you find it there you'll find that it won't be garbage

Because you will have calibrated you mind to perceive those particular things as meaningful! And then (to paraphrase another poster) you've failed the test, hehe.

Of course, there is no actual "test". Regardless, next one is scheduled in a generation's time. Ganbatte kudasai to the next class of test-takers!

Hallucinogens demonstrate that even the experience of "meaning" can be intentionally induced or suppressed by direct chemical action on the brain. Which realization was expected to "enlighten" people en masse at some point, and I guess in some ways it did. I'd expect taking a pure "meaning potion" would either make people addicted, or make them infuse the outside world with novel meanings, but I ain't seeing that much of either going on.

"Meaning" is just referentiality. Thing A means thing B; these squiggles mean "no swimming"; this stack pointer means that struct over there on the heap, etc. "Meaningfulness" (banned word, hehe) is an abstract quality which you attribute to things whose meaning you've successfully parsed - usually when you parse them for the first time, and you go like, "oh, so now I see what this means (to me)!"

One of my favorite musicians has a pretty dark song about some teenage hoodlums committing a grisly murder over drugs... its exposition just so happens to contain the line, "and LSD to make it mean more than it meant", which I think is the most succinct description of it.

That is to say, "meaningful" itself is a quale, an atom of pure experience that has no identified physical counterpart (though it surely must have one, if it can be induced chemically?) So, just like the means to induce visual experiences is called a display, and the means of inducing sonic ones is called a loudspeaker, the means of inducing abstract mental experiences is... illegal. Huh! :o
There is a difference between peace and surrender, because that's basically that what Trumps proposes to appease Putin.

To oppose that isn't warmongering.
> It used to be that the US government had pride in its own professionalism

It used to be that voters actually cared about professionalism, principles, and critical thinking.

Campaigning on really any of those doesn't work these days, its not surprising that our government has those same shortcomings.
He already passed tax cuts, but only for the wealthy. Literally reversed Robinhood.
FSF has never been opposed to using privative software when there's no alternative.

Presumably, compatibility concerns forced them to.
Codes are not given and are only in America.
You can substitute whatever output endpoint you'd prefer, e.g., ePub, HTML, etc., if PDFs don't satisfy your personal itch.

I happen to generally be aiming for PDF output, it's among the more complex to produce, and still runs pretty much without concern even on very large documents. Anything else would be even more trivial.
These people should not expect to be alive in 10 years so if a trick for getting a few more months at the top means their country is nuked in 10-30 years, whatever.
The current US Administration does not understand the basic mechanics of American hegemony. I think Trump truly believes that we are getting ripped off and stand to gain nothing from our current position with the EU and other allies. But if you take away the incentives and guarantees they'll just turn their back on you and seek their own protection—it has to be symbiotic.
It doesn't look like they're targeting the right things, given how much they've put into going after the FAA, NHTSA and NOAA. Not exactly dark-state power centers. Rather, they're people who've pissed of Elon specifically.

It seems like they're spending 30% of effort on the areas that are likely to foment a counter-coup and 70% of their time attacking groups they have personal beefs with.

But of course they're not just focusing on the powerless, they're also annoying the powerful enough that I don't see how it ends well for them.
They can be really stupid on their own and it can also be Russia who's got their buttons labeled and is pushing them as needed for the dance recital. Except the recital was 4 years ago.
Thanks for the feeback, very welcom of course. I have to ctrl+f for "hours ago" to find recent messages in the conv, HN is taking some time to tame. For the coins merge, it's already the case, coins sometimes contain more "points" than they seem, once you have at around 300 coins on screen. I suspect the pause/lag could be js garbage collection, there's still a lot to do concerning reuse of particles and coins to avoid sipping on the ram every frame.
You're describing the IAEA, founded in 1957 and in activity since: https://www.iaea.org/topics/verification-and-other-safeguard...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance
These searches contradict your statement:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=phosh&ia=web

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=phosh

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=phosh%20linux

they all return expected results.

also Phosh is a portmanteu of "Phone" and "Shell".
IGs and others stopped him from doing some of the worst and dumbest stuff.

This time he (illegally) fired a bunch of them right out of the gate. The Heritage Foundation wasn't caught off guard (and a bit out in the cold) by his success this time, and backed him with a plan. They did it out in the open, the recruiting and a whole lot of specifics about what they wanted to do and how they were going to do it. It wasn't even close to a secret, you could literally go download and read documents, watch interviews of key figures in front of friendly audiences, that kind of thing.

With the Vance pick, you could also easily spot the Yarvin influence & connections and make some guesses about some things. When Elon started worming his way in, it was clear that side of it wasn't just going to be in the head of a VP who can't personally do much, but was going to have traction.

His voters who are now like "WTF?" need to sit down and have a serious think about how they got conned by someone who was standing under a neon sign with a flashing arrow pointing down at him that read "I am conning you! Signed: Donald Trump". Like I'm not sure it even counts as a con, it was so transparent.
iTunes used to be extremely buggy for me, and things got a bit better with the Apple Music app.
But, within the last week a bug which messes up all the album artwork on a synced iPhone struck my partner's device - I've not seen that one since iTunes.
I’ve been beta testing this for several months. It’s OK. The notes it generates are too verbose for most medical notes even with all the customization enabled. Most medical interviews jump around chronologically and Dragon Copilot does a poor job of organizing that, which means I had to go back and edit my note which kind of defeated the purpose of the app in the first place.

It does a really good job with recognizing medications though, which most-patients butcher the name on.

Hallucinations are present, but usually they’re pretty minor (screwing up gender, years).

It doesn’t really seem to understand what the most important part of the conversation is, it treats all the information equally as important when that’s not really the case. So you end up with long text of useless information that the patient thought was useful but not at all relevant to their current presentation. That’s where having an actual physician is useful to parse through what is important or not.

At baseline it doesn’t take me long to write a note so it really wasn’t saving me that much more time.

What I do use it for is recording the conversation and then referencing back to it when I’m writing the note. Useful to “jog my memory” in a structured format.

I have to put a disclaimer in my note saying that I was using it. I also have to let the patient know upfront that the conversation is getting recorded and I’m testing something for Microsoft, etc. etc. You can tell who the programmer patients are because they immediately ask if it’s “copilot“ lol
It's going to be difficult to get more of a smoking gun than a plan to drop sanctions and ceasing offensive cyber operations against Russia, as well as the US's lopsided Ukrainian peace deal and pulling financial support for Ukraine.

Russia has no military advantage against ours, so there is no reason to placate them due to a threat of war (nukes excluded here, unless Russia has rapidly outpaced us). The only thing that's left is the relationship between the leaders themselves.

If Trump were truly interested in isolationism, he'd instead have simply pulled support for Ukraine and not offered to be a part of negotiations, but many more things were offered for no obvious gain to us.
In a real shooting war, it would be suicidal for the US navy to go anywhere near Taiwan (at least early on in the war).

China's arsenal of standoff weapons is orders of magnitude more potent than it was during the last Taiwan Straits Crisis.
MuMuTAs: Terminator-like hand built using lab-grown muscle tissue in Japan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-03/china-ind... | https://archive.today/UeI7X

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> Rates of overweight and obesity increased at the global and regional levels, and in all nations, between 1990 and 2021. In 2021, an estimated 1·00 billion (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 0·989–1·01) adult males and 1·11 billion (1·10–1·12) adult females had overweight and obesity. China had the largest population of adults with overweight and obesity (402 million [397–407] individuals), followed by India (180 million [167–194]) and the USA (172 million [169–174]). The highest age-standardised prevalence of overweight and obesity was observed in countries in Oceania and north Africa and the Middle East, with many of these countries reporting prevalence of more than 80% in adults. Compared with 1990, the global prevalence of obesity had increased by 155·1% (149·8–160·3) in males and 104·9% (95% UI 100·9–108·8) in females. The most rapid rise in obesity prevalence was observed in the north Africa and the Middle East super-region, where age-standardised prevalence rates in males more than tripled and in females more than doubled. Assuming the continuation of historical trends, by 2050, we forecast that the total number of adults living with overweight and obesity will reach 3·80 billion (95% UI 3·39–4·04), over half of the likely global adult population at that time. While China, India, and the USA will continue to constitute a large proportion of the global population with overweight and obesity, the number in the sub-Saharan Africa super-region is forecasted to increase by 254·8% (234·4–269·5). In Nigeria specifically, the number of adults with overweight and obesity is forecasted to rise to 141 million (121–162) by 2050, making it the country with the fourth-largest population with overweight and obesity.
I think the MAD would be enough. Russia has such a vast space (not possible to effectively cover with air defense), even if just European part, with so many legitimate targets without any need for bunker busters/etc., that just a test underground explosion showing that Ukraine got it would be enough for Russia to hit the brakes screeching.

Btw, according to the Russian nuclear doctrine nukes can be used when the country is invaded even with just conventional weapons if the invasion presents severe threat to the country. Thus according to the Russian nuclear doctrine Ukraine is allowed to use nukes.
Between talking with your kid, teaching them to be responsible, and implementing technical & physical solutions (at the home level, not country level), there should be very little issue. No need for looking over their shoulder 24/7.

Foisting the parenting onto the government sucks for everyone.
From the unrestrained flat address space perspective, yeah. But TempleOS doesn't rely on the BIOS like DOS, and it's shell and GUI and dev environment are fully integrated, more like a Smalltalk VM. DOS is just a bad shell.
Unfortunately war does tend to have a way of rallying both sides together. Tribalism tends to just need an "other" group to demonize.

A 9/11 scale attack would make it pretty easy for supporters of both parties to turn their sights on whoever they think attacked us.
> EVs put more strain on roads due to their increased weight

Only if you trade in a gasoline SUV for an electric SUV. A hatchback EV weighs about as much as a compact SUV, and is cheaper to buy and operate.
People would say Budapest Memorandum give Ukraine the rights to its 2,000 Soviet nuclear weapons. That's not what it said.

People would say that the same memorandum says Ukraine security is absolute. Not that either.

People would say in 2014, US installed new Ukraine government via propaganda. Looks dubious too.

People would say Ukraine shut down 11+ political parties who opposed current Ukraine government; some parties were funded by Russia. That part remains true.

Newspaper and TV in Ukraine were nationalized partially with money by USAID, that was uncovered by US DOGE.

Elections were "suspended" in Ukraine. Last May 2024 was supposed to have a nationwide election. Definitely true.

Seems like Ukraine is following US foreign policy that led to demise of dictators like Mossadegh, Árbenz, Diệm, Noriega, Qadaffi, Saddam.

Is Zelensky a dictator now?
JFYI federal government headcount of 2M people has stayed constant over last 100 years with ever increasing population and things to take care of. I wouldn't call that bloat, honestly.

What has been growing a lot are mostly municipalities, which I guess boils down to more people helping disadvantaged kids in schools, which I guess is nice and more policing, which many are calling to shrink and replace with something less violent.

US government is not bloated. It's corrupt by the revolving door policy, which definitely won't be fixed by letting people go. But even with revolving doors some things have worked for you. Such as predicting weather, fighting diseases, disrupting or bribing competing nations, opening new markets and protecting your fucking imaginary property everybody in the world fucking hates.
> Apple "PC" hardware is solid. I use third party apps though, little Apple software,

Same. I have two "deal-brakers" when it comes to notebooks: 1) it's got to sleep consistently and without problems when I close the lid. 2) it should be silent when I'm doing simple things or nothing at all.

I have never seen a Linux or Windows laptop that does these things well. Even Intel MacBooks would spin up the fans seemingly at random. I don't think I've ever heard the fan in my M1 MBP. I'm looking forward to the new M4 MBA to replace an older Windows 10 laptop, which spins up its fans all the time, and sometimes doesn't sleep, sucking the battery dry in the process.
Generally I agree but surely there is value in having detailed notes on patient visits, even if isn't worth the amount of effort currently expended on it.
They should focus on their modern renewables buildout, they've got half compared with Spain and Portugal (20% Vs 40%). With some existing geothermal and hydro in their mix they should be further along.

If you want to be cynical than this latest move could just be the same as Australia's right wing party's pretence about nuclear.

At least in Australia it's local fossil fuels they'd be burning not imported gas.
I'm portuguese and I completely disagree with this. Stereotypes are just stereotypes, generalizing 10M people into a dumbed down pseudo reality doesn't make sense.
Does anyone know if postmarketOS has a stable (or stable-ish?) port for a modern-ish tablet that supports monitor output and has a good keyboard via pogo-pins? It would be a great device on-the-go to replace my Chromebook Duet 3 (that I really like, but wanted something more powerful).
Real Programmers can write FORTRAN in any language.

Making a large code base easy to read is very hard. People often work on tiny code bases and talk about how easy it is to read, not understanding that they are comparing something with a couple thousand lines of code to something with tens of millions.
Hi, great landing page! The example makes it very clear what you're solving for.

How are you thinking about staying differentiated if LinkedIn were to add this feature?

Also, given that most LLM chat tools are free now (e.g. http://chatgpt.com), how are you thinking about long term differentiation and pricing?
On mechanical pencils, Adam Savage recently did a test of a bunch of mechanical pencils, particularly for shop use. I ended up getting a Pentel GraphGear 1000 in 0.3mm ($10), with retractable tip, which I keep in my notebook which I use for drawings/notes of projects I do around the house. Previously I was using a Pentel TwistErase III ($15 for 3), but I'm always paranoid about bending the point, the eraser is very nice though.

https://youtu.be/hiNScN5ZR3c?si=7C_CZBk2OE9cA4Bg
I'm unsure of how many internet services Taiwan relies on outside of Taiwan? If the servers are on the island, my understanding is that they'll be fine. Unfortunately they won't be able to access Hacker News, but they should be able to bank, buy groceries, etc.
17 to a pack seems like an odd number. Was it originally 18 and then they removed one to keep the price down.
I'm so confused by their lineup. I'm in the market for a new iPad, but I can never remember the difference between an iPad, iPad Pro, and Air. What's the difference between this an a 13" Pro or Non-Air? I wish they'd just have a single line of iPads with different screen sizes but the same CPU and stylus support in every generation. I'm so tired of having to play the "compare every permutation" game when shopping.

Edit: I just want a big screen for drawing and watching movies on the plane with.
Yeah, kind of agree.

I don’t think this thought would have crossed my mind a few years ago, but I think more European countries need Nukes. Sad, but seems like the US can’t be trusted anymore.
Unfortunately those are all so far from replicating a macOS experience that the work needed to fill the gaps is about as much as would be needed starting from scratch. Resemblances in all three are surface level at best, and are far from complete even in that aspect.
> checks and balances part no longer exists

It honestly hasn't existed for decades.
U.S. support of Ukraine fulfills a commitment we signed, and which Russia broke.

The U.S. president doesn’t seem to care about international commitments, though. How does that work out in the long run? Would you do business with someone who tells you up front that they might break any promise they make?