skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the data available supports the conclusion that the majority of Americans prefer progressive policies. The problem for Democrats in 2024 was the candidate, and thus, turnout.

- Biden won more popular votes in 2020 than any candidate ever (81.2M, versus Trump's 62.9M in 2016 and 77.3M in 2024).

- Trump's second term was the first Republican presidential candidate since Bush's second term, 20 years prior, to win the popular vote; and Bush had 9/11 to campaign on.

- If you discount that you have to go back to his father in 1988 to find a Republican Presidential candidate that won the popular vote. Seriously, again, I cannot stress this enough: Americans prefer progressive policies. We just tend to prefer cults of personality more.

- Many congressional districts swung Republican in 2024 by only four or five figures of votes, and Republicans only gained Congressional majority by a couple seats.

- Its very likely the United States is currently experiencing or will soon experience a recession. Its likely this would have happened with or without Trump, but the person in charge gets the blame, and it'll be very difficult to fight that claim when tariffs have been such a hot topic.

- Its also the case that DOGE's cutting of the Federal workforce has alienated a ton of Trump supporters who worked for the Federal government or related NGOs.

I think this is pretty clear when looking at the administration's actions: They know that they have to move quick on a ton of stuff in these first two years, because they only have two years with Congressional majority. The last two years of Trump's presidency will be a Republican executive branch and Democrat congress, and nothing will get done. Then whatever happens in 2028 will happen; hard to predict that far out.

You can go read my other comments if you think this position is coming from some crazed TDS democratic lunatic; I'm not. I'm generally pretty moderate and understanding of the more complex macroeconomic and sociopolitical context which has influenced Trump's policies. This is just the facts; anyone with money to bet would absolutely be betting that the American left is more pissed than they've ever been, and the blue wave in 2026 is going to be pretty decisive.
Seems like capturing too much irrelevant detail would be preferable to potentially missing important details, though?
Since they claim that they are not changing the promise, only being more clear about it, the implication is that they did sell data under the old description.
It's a bit like if someone sells you one jet fighter (Starlink is a paid service).

Then, the manufacturer threatens you to disconnect the plane remotely if you don't agree to their absolutely unrelated wishes.

Would you still trust the plane manufacturer ?
Linux's ever evolving ABI is a feature, not a bug. It's how Linux maintains technical excellence. I'll take that over a crusty backwards compatibility layer written 30 years ago that is full of warts.
Well, if they are affecting your teams performance then deal with it. If they don’t cause ripples then whatever. People were slacking off at work long before zoom was invented. Ever see Office Space?
I prefer steak, but will eat chicken if that is what is available.

I prefer gin, but will drink vodka when that is what is available.

I prefer to fly first class, but economics often force me into economy.

A preference does not equal entitlement and frankly the only preference that matters in this case is what the employer’s preference is, especially when the workers are willing to compromise their preference where it differs from the employer’s preference.

The employer’s are the ones that hold the little green pieces of paper that you want and need and are willing to trade your labor to get. They will occasionally attach strings to those little green pieces of paper. As long as you or someone is willing to deal with those strings, your preference really only matters to you…at least to them.
No, suppose you make a contribution to a project and its creator belittles you instead of providing constructive criticism, for example. This contribution is not a new feature to the language, however, perhaps a 3rd-party library.

It has nothing to do with adding new features. I agree with you, I do not want the language to be bloated, nor do I want new features blindly added. I prefer simplicity, too.

FWIW you can see him losing his "cool" on Discord, too, at times.
Did Trump Admin Order U.S. Cyber Command and CISA to Stand Down on Russia?
> nothing prevents the mad man from using Tesla cars and Starlink for surveillance

Forget surveillance: refusal to support. (Bricking has no plausible deniability.) If you don’t do X, Y and Z I will be forced to geoblock your country; if that causes cars to stop driving so be it.
And wealth, as Mr. Smith says, is "the produce and labour of the nation", which is to say, economic activity, as noted in my GP comment.
Show HN: Endless Horizontal Horse
This is gorgeous! well done.
I see you don't want to answer the question posed either.

Noone else has helped Ukraine in this regard.

Starlink donates connectivity all the time to many disasters, has anyone else?

I remember when many people on this site was saying starlink was going to be useless...

You have no right to be critical of how others help, if you aren't helping yourself.
And somehow this group, in the name of 'affordable housing', keeps coming up with ways to enable people to pay more and more for houses, rather than coming up with ways to make home ownership less expensive. I guess it's just one of those mysteries we may never solve.
There are two things you are paying for when you buy electricity - the electricity itself and the guarantee that when you flip a switch you get power.

Different energy sources contribute unequally to that second important factor - the stability of the grid - and that has to be factored in somehow. Nuclear, gas, hydro-electric storage and buying from abroad provide that stability in the UK.

How it's done - I've no idea - but it's not just a question of units of electricity.

One way is to bring in more surge pricing however people like the predictability of stable prices.
While better predictors allow the speculation window to be larger on average, the the real culprit is that large speculation window. Even if the branch predictor weren't very smart, it will still do well on a program with stable, predictable branches, thus allowing a large speculation window to open up. The vulnerability is that some of those branches guard really important things, like not going out-of-bounds of an array. So a Spectre attack, which works by exploiting a mispredicted branch, is a constructive attack where the gadget is tuned for the branch predictor anyway. The other part of an attack, the windowing gadget, just relies on making a really slow input into a branch. Neither of them would be particularly harder with a dumb predictor.
The Grenfell Tower disaster happened because they chose to clad the building in plastic. If the building had in-wall insulation and no cladding or non-flammable cladding like say steel the whole thing would be a minor fire in one apartment.
I thought his net worth was 5x that these days? Either way he has pumped tesla easily before. “Funding secured.”
It's gorgeous. Impressive execution - looks like a polished product from Apple.
basic iPad = iPhone SE/e

iPad Air = regular iPhone

iPad Pro = iPhone Pro (Max)

iPad mini = iPhone mini (if it still existed)
Was it?

That comment is constituted from two quotes, one of them entirely fabricated, and then a hypothetical provided with no basis. If Mozilla don't own the data and their license only allows Firefox to do what you're requesting it do, then I don't see what points are being made except fearmongering.
In Canada we call this MAID - medical assistance in dying.

If you're undecided about this - ask a doctor or nurse about how they want to go. After watching my mom die of cancer, I'm glad that we have the option to go out on our own terms now.
It's not about the money, it's about the principle. The entire reason why the iPad exists[0] is because they think fingers touching mouse software is a bad idea. Some people couch this request in terms like "well what if they made macOS touch friendly", but the answer to that is "that already exists, it's called iPadOS."

What you actually want is for iPadOS to shed the limitations of the mobile OS it evolved from. That's a whole different set of asks; many of which cross different but equally strongly-held red lines. A lot of the features of macOS that make it useful for developers - the native UNIX shell, Virtualization.framework, third-party distribution, the ability to relax signature verification on software[1], files that live outside of app containers[2], and most importantly, root access - are all things that Apple considers outmoded and insecure. Insamuch as macOS still supports them, it's because software developers require them to work, so Apple has a policy of keeping software development corralled to macOS instead of letting developers and their attendant security issues spill over into their "device platforms".

[0] Going all the way back to Steve Jobs having his engineers make a tablet computer demo out of sheer spite for Windows XP tablet edition

[1] Or, on Apple Silicon, outright just sign your own OS kernel

[2] On other Apple platforms, your "On My iPad/iPhone" files live inside of a special container for the Files app; and there's another container for iCloud files. There is technically still a home directory, where all your app containers live, but you can't see or interact with it unless you jailbreak.
> at what point do Tesla shareholders sue the company?

I’m struggling to picture a court of law that could hold Musk accountable right now.
I love that this is landing in Austin before the cybercab. I think it will really drive the competition for Tesla to put out an (actual) self driving car. Or maybe they pivot to the next hype train.
It’s appalling to see so many comments here defending what’s going on.

I’m trying to take it in good faith and accept these people actually think this instead of being paid to spread Russian disinformation. So, for those that are in good faith, as an European, I’ll explain mine (and my close circle) position:

It’s true that the USA doesn’t have any obligation of helping Ukraine and should be up to us, Europeans, to step up. But, Trump didn’t need to be a Russian disinformation asset about it and go through that, despicable , petty, childish display in the White House, where, preying together with his VP, they tried to frame Zelenskyy and Ukraine for starting a war.

They could just politely, and diplomatic reduce US aid, while still abiding by the most basic, absolute truth: Putin started this war and all fault for it lies in Russian hands and Ukraine is just a victim in all this.

This would be the upright, sensible and intelligent position to hold if they really just didn’t want to continue contributing to Ukraine’s defense with US’ money.
I think if we could improve our ability to easily & precisely communicate arguments, that would be huge for humanity's ability to deal with problems. I'm building a tool[1] that I'm hoping can help with this, maybe be a successor (in some ways) to something like Kialo.

It's critically missing suggestions/approvals[2], and perhaps a simpler interface[3], but I think that, for arguments about problems/solutions, the idea of grounding arguments within a cause/effect diagram is really powerful both for getting on the same page and for making concrete progress towards improving a situation (rather than arguing for argument's sake).

I'd be happy to get your thoughts on it if you have any (I'll be making a HN post about it sometime soon^TM).

[1] https://ameliorate.app/

[2] https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate/issues/11

[3] https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate/discussions/541
At least in Rust (which has an effectively identical API here) the only reasonable use case I've seen is as a "last resort" in long-running programs to transform panicking requests into a HTTP 500 or equivalent.
It's definitely been more than three weeks.

As someone who lives in the EU and has the same kind of relatives, what I find frustrating is how little actual engagement with the Russian narratives there is from official sides. There is presented "evidence" for US influence in Ukraine long before the war, like the Victoria Nuland video, yet there seems to be no attempts at debunking those arguments, short of a catch-all labeling of all of it as disinformation (which, I can testify from personal experience, does absolutely nothing to dissuade people who already believe it).

The Selinskyji/Trump spat felt like an extreme version of this, where Selinskyji essentially argued with the Western/Ukrainian narrative of the war and Trump argued with the Russian narrative.

The strategy of "ignore the Russian narrative and hope not many people will latch on to it" evidently failed, so I think if we want to have a hope of solving this conflict and countering Trump (and maybe get back the parts of the population that follow the narrative), we at least have to engage with it and provide counterarguments.
But then, the next question down:

> Are you planning to sell this keyboard at scale?

> Dependent on the reception, likely yes. But it wont be exactly this design. A second iteration is in the works with improved sound profile and ergonomics. Stay tuned.
> You mean my post

No, I meant that about «weighted votes» with heavily imperfect criteria for the weighing.

> no where near as bad

Never an excuse for skipping due diligence.

> suggest

I suggest the problem is taken into serious consideration, because already looking at phenomena like gerrymandering is astonishing, and anti-intellectualism is abasing on both sides (of the failed and the failing), etc. There are leaking faucets: stop ignoring them, plan and fix them. That means, find solutions, propose them, convince the public, have them implemented.
>. Postwar Britain had been swept up by the theory that nationalization created economies of scale that gave citizens better outcomes than pure capitalism.

Did the tankies were in charge back then?
Is this already known to the State of California because if those signs are missing, it’s feeling like a stimulus package has come my way
I don't think the Republicans, who champion freedom above all else usually, are making a whole lot better showing of themselves championing occupation, while simultainously making asinine arguments about how not doing so is a mere performative battle against Trump (supposedly), or runs contrary to peace itself. Mind you, these are the same people who want guns everywhere for people to "protect themselves" with, and will share around security footage from shops cackling, where the shop owner turns the third robber in a year into swiss cheese.

It really makes me wonder what kind of moral background is required to find supporting subservience through disgusting remarks less despicable than a hypocritical-or-not supporting of a hopeless fight. Like genuinely, how does one get to that point?

Although to be honest with you, the pushback using this argument doesn't seem nearly thought through enough for this. Instead, it's a mere spasmic reaction where people found a catchy clapback to the peace quote, and then end-of-proof right there. Great job indeed...
> You know, the one that the Trump team cut to shreds?

I looked this up and sounds like they let probationary employees go (40/140 employees at dept of commerce CHIPS office) + 20 voluntarily resigned. I wonder if that was intentional or just the usual DOGE indiscriminate chaos.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-chips-act-office-losing-191830...

The article does claim:

> The staff cuts, while significant, aren’t as deep as some within the government and chip industry anticipated. In particular, they won’t have a major impact on the teams responsible for negotiating with companies and evaluating their progress toward contractual benchmarks, a person familiar with the matter said. The chips office leadership urged against cuts to those departments in recent meetings with Lutnick.

Addtionally, NIST's CHIPS office also had probationary cuts...CHIPS has two parts, one subsidizing companies via Dept of Commerce and a 2nd big investment in public sector research which NIST was doing.

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/02/21/news-trumps-moves...

It's also congress assigned money so they probably can't claw it back (legally), the legislative branch controls the purse. But they could slow walk it or try to change the rules.
Jed
Uni makes some very good pens as well. 0.5mm ones
Ask HN: Path forward for IRL "magic ball" reading comapnion
As a new father, I've found it extremely blissful to spend the evenings reading to my child. As he grows older, the one thing I wish existed was a way to much more readily indicate the actual words I was reading to him while still not requiring me to point to every word. Almost as if magically as I read, the word I was reading would have a soft glow around the book to just slightly draw his attention to this.

Thought maybe this would be a fun project to hack together. I've seen a few of the Arduino-controlled laser/water gun projects to not be so worried about that. What I am less certain about is what the best path forward would be for OCR of the footage of the device, coupled with plane detection of the page to estimate the pose of the book on my lap and properly do the trigonometry for the light/laser that gets shined onto the book. If anyone has seem any projects that leverage OCR/voice recognition and microcontroller robotics that I could learn something from as I try this out, I'd greatly appreciate it!
Building AI-powered agentic workflows using Hugging Face Smolagents
Hi all! See how easy it is to build and run multi-step AI workflows in Snowflake using the open-source Smolagents library from Hugging Face.

Step-by-step tutorial: https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/build-agentic-workflows-with-huggingface-smolagents-in-snowflake/index.html

Interested in learning how other developers are leveraging these libraries.

Cheers,
This was my take, as well.
> keyword: could

That’s the difference between a threat and an attack.
Sovereign Tech Fund Is Investing in Open Street Map
Nice UI, indeed!

I posted the first thing on my clipboard (a YouTube URL) and, interestingly, it showed me

Words: 1
Sentences: 3

PS: thank you for not shoveling LLMs into this
I think they own the buildings
I started using it recently for a prototype of something I'll eventually rewrite in C++ at work. I really like it.

Discarding the preprocessor and replacing it with a proper module system is huge. I got burnt by templates and horrifying compile times in C++, but haven't had any problems with D templates. The module system makes templates feel much more natural to use. The syntax for templates is a huge improvement, and throwing `static if` into the mix results in concise and easy-to-read code.

I also quickly realized (with the help of some people on the D discord) that the garbage collector is fine for my needs. So I don't have to spend any time thinking about memory management... put stuff on the stack when I can for speed, othrewise just GC and don't think about it. I think there may be some issue with multithreading and the GC, but this is supposed to get fixed with the new GC that's on the way.

There are a few other nice QOL improvements. Getting rid of `->` is honestly worth its weight in gold. There's nothing difficult about forgetting to change a `.` to a `->` or vice versa in C++, but not having to trip over it periodically when you're compiling makes the language that much smoother. I was also initially confused by the `inout` keyword but have come to really like that, as well. Little niceties like `const(T[])` are small but, again, reducing just a little bit of friction like this across the language makes D much, much more pleasant to deal with than C++.

I think the main challenge the language is facing right now is that it's huge and a lot of it is still getting worked out. I never thought I'd pine for C++'s "rule of 3/5/0", but it's a lot tighter and more logically consistent than the equivalent in D. But part of that is there being a huge community of C++ developers who have taken the time to promulgate rules of thumb in the community. I'd kill for an "Effective D" book to short circuit some of this process... after all, I'm trying to write code, not play at the margins, tinkering with D's idiosyncracies.
Don't want to be the cynical guy, but having talked to just such a ceo who gets-off by being hired to fire people. RTO is literally a badge, or at least an excuse to exercise authority. Often yes, to get rid of free loaders, but more specifically to shove it in the face of a lot of engineers that they are subservient. This guy actually would put it that they saw a gig as, and I'm recalling, a place to 'eat shit', until he moved on.
Quite a different perspective than what I'd think most devs here would see their field as, something they love.
There's also alot of pent-up indignation about how executives see engineering in general. They. Don't. Understand. It.
and so they marginalize it.
Its not at all surprising behavior , that of executives, from what you'd expect to come from a group more likely that most to be represented by those doing nothing more than winning a personality contest.
I think you and I have the same values but I wasn’t offended by the parent comment at all.

It’s clear they meant success as in success in profit and growth, and in that lens, coops do tend towards mediocre success because incentives are different. But I don’t see that as a bad thing, and I don’t think OP does either?
This is great news, I was going to have to file for my HOA. Seems like a complete waste of time.
That is another pressure tactic so the EU can sell increased arms spending to its citizens.

The EU leaders, who are naive to the extreme, comply. They make peace plans that Russia is known not to accept. Once that is done, they'll keep the conflict on a low flame until the US feels getting involved again.

Which can happen at any moment, including under Trump within the next two months.

Trump has been deliberately provoking the EU's nationalistic feelings, starting with Greenland and ending with the Zelensky fallout theater.

If the EU had any pride, it would negotiate with Russia directly, skipping the US. Reopen Nordstream and see if the purportedly Russia-friendly Trump agrees.

Regarding Trump being a Russian asset: It has happened before, with Hillary Clinton and Sergey Lavrov initiating a "reset" in US/Russia relations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset

Why is Hilary Clinton not called a Russian asset?
They're a great service. I've done some laser cut aluminum bits for projects, and the quality is fantastic.
I look forward to using it when it drops in LibreWolf
Maybe it's inflammation from the ink. Maybe the kind of personality that gets tattoos is also prone to other carcinogenic behavior.
Yes, I consider "::" as two symbols, also yeah I am against ")?)?" but I have seen "worse" in the wild. I think I will have to look for what I saw before we continue. I might not be able to reply to this comment, however.
The US and Europe doesn't send them arms because they're a "proud independent people." The arms deals are to maintain international order, that no country should invade and annex another. If you just allow that to happen, everybody will be worse off. That's why there is so much resistance to paying for Israel to annex Gaza and so much support for Ukraine to fight off Russia.