skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take: over success breeds complacency. Apple knows where its money is coming from. It has carved out an extremely hard to establish hardware production chain via iphone and macbooks, and is able to provide a certain consistent level of quality for it. Software is an afterthought, especially for software that is not in service of this primary hardware revenue source. From a business point of view it literally does not make sense for them to do anything differently.
Of course, disruption is always a possibility. Google was the undisputed AI leader for years, but their reputation as a House of Knowledge was overshadowed by their comfort as a search, cloud, and advertisement business. These are steady services that just need to be reliable to remain profitable, no invention required.

For a while I was surprised by Mircrosoft's signs of life around generative AI by the time OpenAI came about, but it seemed to relapse into complacency too.

I honestly believe there is some unstated law of success, I think there is a "ceiling" to success, at which point it becomes impossible to expand. It has something to do with the correlation between success in complexity. As a business grows more successful, it becomes more tied down to various commitments, constraining its ability to innovate without assumptions. There's a limit to what any given entity can handle.
Modelling in Australia with simulations that multiply up current wind and solar (using real-time data of actual renewable generation) [1] showed that well over 99% of demand can be delivered with only about five hours of storage, so we're not really talking about days.

There will likely always be some gas peaking but we're talking less than a percent per year (maybe a few single digit percent in some places where solar isn't as good but still not much).

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These were early rumors, but I recall there being some hope that the first chips this factory would produce would be used for something made by Apple also in the United States, like the Mac Pro or something like the HomePod Mini.
This.

I’d like to hear from the HN comments. Does anyone here work for a modern and popular software company (something I might have used recently) and think that the software they make is really and truly bulletproof? Like no backlog of hundreds of unfixed bugs and polish items that won’t stop growing?

I don’t think I have met anyone who works at one of those places yet. I’d like to.
They might be thinking about POSIX Lite losing favor
So is the insistence on “retake”.

With the exception that “take” is technically correct, as the area in question is a remnant of the already existing government which has maintained independence in a cease fire. Both claim the other, but facts still matter. You don’t “retake” an area that was never under your control.

The RoC lost mainland China to the CCP, but the CCP was never the owner of Taiwan.
Finder always felt like it was built with usecases and workflows in mind that had no intersection with my own.

Luckily there are Norton commander clones available for osx.
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Nope. Is as horrible as it gets. They silently swing by the pedestrians with over 20mph, many drive drunk or don't know/avoid traffic rules and there is 0 enforcement. And if you get hit by them good luck getting compensated for your hospital bills.
I imagine one could create a capability such that the app gets a way to shove bits in and a way to get bits out, but no knowledge of the IP address or anything like that. A phone (or set of phones) that are already connected and have no keypad.
There are parts manufactured around the world (including the US), and the lithography machines are NOT the only step with only one vendor.

US/EU economies are too intertwined to be decoupled. Just distancing the US economy from China is hard.
They've said so as much that they plan to give it a similar to hong kong style government if they wilingly join, and from the latest trump Q&A it almost confirms that once America has TSMC fabs running in their country they won't care to protect Taiwan.

Being a realist Taiwan joining China willingly under those conditions before they basically technology transfer to America and make themselves worth much less (In China's eye), is their best bet, or I would say if ASML wasn't a thing.

Sadly for Taiwan they are between a sword and a wall, ASML is required for them to continue innovating, if they were to annex themselves to China they would lose access to EUV and High NA EUV and basically lose their ability to produce sub 5nm semiconductors no matter how talented they are, and I don't think that SMEE in China is close to EUV let alone High NA EUV.

I understand this comment will upset some people but I tried to be a realist about what would happen if things were to hit the fan
> Sorry, got in to rant mode. I really want “less but better” from things in my life. We as consumers aren’t rewarding companies that take this approach apparently.

If *becoming the most valuable company in the world* isn't being "rewarded", then what possibly is?

No, it's the hypercapitalist endless drive for ultra short-term, next quarter profits at the cost of anything else that causes this. Obvious irony being that Apple would've never become this big if Jobs had followed this approach.

This of course is the #1 reason of the downfall of the West, above all else - pure short-termism.
How did you learn how to program? Ever read any open source code?
Hey, thanks! No I haven't. Yeah, the addiction is not really a concern for me, it doesn't happen. But the adverse effects of this sound scary.
This saddens me, as I learned the lessons of less but better through Apple over 20 years ago through Steve and Jony, which ultimately led to Rams. It was a pretty transformative lesson in my life, and extended far beyond tech or products.

I hope they are able to course correct with the right leadership. A culture that cares deeply about the little things is hard to build and has to be supported at the highest levels.
My spotlight cannot even find some of the applications I have installed
Humans in the UK killed and ate over 111,000,000 birds just in January 2025.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/poultry-and-poultry...
Thanks! That's the 2nd or 3rd time I think someone has recommended that movie to me here - hahah. I will probably check it out :)
I'm just hearing about capability systems today, so your experience is undoubtedly richer than mine, but I'd estimate that we're just scratching the surface re: ways to harm somebody by making their tech behave in surprising ways.

Maybe once those harms are all grown up, we'll find that fancier handcuffs for our software is worth a bit more than "just extra friction."
Oh, I expect your air jars can easily get quite a bit higher than $80K, while the FoMo is still on the rise. During Tulip Bulb Mania a bud was going for the same amount as the price of a HOUSE. It's about psychology isn't it. Everyone knew that amount for a flower was insane, but did it anyway. Because, after all, something is worth whatever people are paying for it don't ya know.

Tell me this...how is your NFT collection doing these days? Am I missing out on that excellent asset class too? I want that million dollar picture of the first Tweet bro. Since Hashcodes are unique in the universe that makes my copy THE one.
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It's not clear from the press release, but the timeline shifted first from 2025, then to 2027 and now to 2030/2031:

> The semiconductor manufacturer originally estimated its first factory would come online in 2025. Then, it bumped the grand opening to 2027. Now, Intel estimates operations will begin at the Ohio One campus somewhere between 2030 and 2031.

Source:
https://www.syracuse.com/business/2025/03/intel-delays-openi...

The biggest issue is that there isn't sufficient demand for an Intel fab, which is causing them to slow play opening it. Ben Thompson has written at length on Intel's struggles over the years and advocates that the U.S. step in and help guarantee sufficient volume of orders from US customers to make the fab financially work:

> That leaves Intel and the need for native leading edge capacity, and this is in some respects the hardest problem to solve.

> First, the U.S. should engineer a spin-off of Intel’s x86 chip business to Broadcom or Qualcomm at a nominal price; the real cost for the recipient company will be guaranteed orders for not just Intel chips but also a large portion of their existing chips for Intel Foundry. This will provide the foundational customer to get Intel Foundry off the ground.

> Second, the U.S. should offer to subsidize Nvidia chips made at Intel Foundry. Yes, this is an offer worth billions of dollars, but it is the shortest, fastest route to ground the U.S. AI industry in U.S. fabs.

> Third, if Nvidia declines — and they probably will, given the risks entailed in a foundry change — then the U.S. should make a massive order for Intel Gaudi AI accelerators, build data centers to house them, and make them freely available to companies and startups who want to build their own AI models, with the caveat that everything is open source.

> Fourth, the U.S. should heavily subsidize chip startups to build at Intel Foundry, with the caveat that all of the resultant IP that is developed to actually build chips — the basic building blocks, that are separate from the “secret sauce” of the chip itself — is open-sourced.

> Fifth, the U.S. should indemnify every model created on U.S.-manufactured chips against any copyright violations, with the caveat that the data used to train the model must be made freely available.

Source: https://stratechery.com/2025/ai-promise-and-chip-precariousn...
I've never heard of Godel's beliefs before. Where did you learn of this?
Micropython of course
This is just clobbering one of the divergent copies with per-field granularity.
I want a MacBook Air with Linux running on it perfectly, audio, microphones everything. Would be so nice.
I have the same model, it’s so much fun to ride. Love the abound.
> The US has a protectionist president

We do?
I found their usage of referential transparency odd at first, too. But as I thought about their reasoning more, it clicked for me. If two numeric bindings are semantically distinguished not by their numeric value in absolute terms, but by their assigned type, you can think of it as if assigning the type is conceptually equivalent to a function call, which returns a value composing the numeric value and the type’s semantics. Eg

let a: Int = 1 // let a = Int(1)
let b: Float = 1.0 // let b = Float(1.0)

Even so, I think this is solvable by:

- De-composing the numeric value for comparison only

- De-composing and re-composing the numeric value for assignment

If you can’t do either, i.e. because one underlying value is inherently incompatible with the other in some way, then you have a static type error regardless of how your semantically distinct types interact.
TSMC factories on Taiwan are small fry in the scheme of things and won't really move the needle much, in terms of strategy. Samsung and Intel are pretty comparable in manufacturing capability, within a couple of years really. And most chips you find in cars and ships and missiles and satellites and jets aren't leading-edge either.

China is terrified of their access to the sea being blockaded. They'd gladly give up TSMC technology without a second thought and continue to bribe, beg, steal their way around sancations and barriers to semiconductor technology as they have been doing just fine up to now if they could occupy Taiwan for its strategic position to deny American access and defend the sea around their coast.
The people who have the most to lose from addressing inequality are the people hoping to buy time blaming migrants.
Globalization for the US was trading industrialization for financialization. Yay for the paper GDP gains, but most citizens got left behind - though they can by cheap imported cloths with their shrinking paychecks.

Can't build chips, can't make ships, can't make furniture, can't make clothes, can't make enough weapons to supply Ukraine, let alone for any real war. Globalization hollowed the capacity of the country.
I've wanted to use SQLite a few times for the simplicity. I always end up using Postgres though because I don't understand how multiple services / replicas can make use of it. If another piece of infrastructure is needed to support it (even nfs), that seemingly counters any simplicity gains.
>but the CCP was never the owner of Taiwan.

I think his perspective is: "If the Qing were the Chinese Goverment and they had Taiwan, and the CCP is the Chinese Government does not have Taiwan, so they will be retaking the island".

His conviction speaks to the strength of the CCP narrative that they ARE China though.
> but then email changes require extra complexity

Check the other partition for the user name. Create the new user with the same pointer (uuid, etc) to the user’s sqlite file, delete the old user in the other partition. Simple user name changed. Not really that complex to be honest. (After thinking this through I’m probably going to suggest us changing to sqlite at work…)

> if you don't need global state, why do you have the server at all?

2 reasons I can think of right off of the top of my head are:

- validation (preventing bad actors, or just bad input)

- calls to external services
This article is severely tilted nonsense with a weird ideological bent.

The author sneers against regulatory rules to limit suburban sprawl but really none of that has anything to do with a housing shortage.

It is entirely possible to denser and taller buildings, having both compact communities, green space, farms and forest and also addressing housing needs. UK hinders its economy by declining to do so (as do so many other places with housing shortages).
I’ve always just watched Game Jams and never joined, but this time I really want to give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation :)
> This is not code. This is configuration.

It is all configuration (data) my friend. At the end of the day the internet and the services which connect it are all based off hard codes somewhere.

How do you think Google enumerates all their datacenters? You bet ya there is a magic config file you have to update to add new datacenters and from there the automation kicks off the infrastructure based upon the contents of the config file, the configuration is still there.
> You think we’ll still have elections

If you throw away democracy do you still have a USA to speak of?

I think the answer to that is no, though perhaps I am mistaken that every US patriot has fealty to the constitution.
Going up is also a shortcut: CMD+arrow up.

I assume they didn't expect users to use directory hierarchies much and thought everybody would dump their files into flat dirs and search them with spotlight.
Working with experienced people taught me in my first startup how fast you can learn that way. If I get the chance, I’d love to work with great people and learn from them. Thanks so much for recommending the book and Liz England’s blog. I’ll definitely check them out
Hello from Ukraine and I need help.

The war in Ukraine has made it impossible to run my startup. Due to unlimited attacks it has become impossible to focus on anything other than the war. Of course, the war certainly needs to be stopped, but no one really knows how to do it correctly and I'm not sure anything good will come of it.

After 3 years of the war, my memory has started to deteriorate and I’ve encountered issues with work and finances. It’s hard to understand how anyone can work during a war and who thought of it, when the planning horizon is just until the next night and then hell begins.

I fear that if U.S. military support stops and the war continues, I will have to urgently move to a safer place.

I am urgently looking for financial help. I have extensive experience in web3 and can work in this field, but only with upfront payment and an immediate start, as my current situation doesn’t allow me to go through tiring technical interviews.

Here, I have created an open letter for companies and individuals who may be interested in my project. Thanks for any feedback.

https://www.acpul.org/blog/Open-Letter

mail: web3future + protonmail % com
A nice summary of Malibal, I suppose!

Either way, what a fun business; buy whitelabel goods and market it as 'premium'.
I need to dig deeper into the games I love and study them. That’ll really sharpen my intuition, and I’ll keep working hard. Thanks for the comment :)
You don't risk nuclear war by shooting a few conventional missiles and establishing a blockade.

(A) China would suffer intensely under a blockade.

(B) A few missiles could ensure chip facilities are surrendered intact.

(C) Even a short conflict where a few missiles hits boats invading Taiwan would ensure the rest of the world never trades with China.

Point being: The US doesn't have to win, don't have to fight with everything, just make the invasion hard and isolate China in a new cold war.
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You do, assuming you're a US citizen.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_St...

or: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/growthpol...

etc.
Wow, so much info here! I’ll go through it all today and dive deeper into the fun and useful stuff. Thanks a lot!
Perl is kinda less popular now. I use that at work. Used to write perl6/raku in my previous job, I loved the grammars made a nice way to try and Wirte an nginx configuration manager.
A well-tuned fountain pen should write with only the weight of the pen, and then it can take time to learn to relax the hand and shoulder.

I can type for longer without pain than I can write with a ballpoint or a pencil, but a fountain pen exceeds them both.
I use syncthing to sync my ~/Org directory to my phone and other devices.

Also it is a git repo and I occasionally check everything in and push it to my git server so that it acts as a sort of backup.

There are a few decent Org apps for Android that work with it. I've used Orgzly which is useful for simple notes and todos/agenda stuff. I use it for shopping lists.

However now with Emacs 30.x releases it has a official Android port. I have no idea how good it is. Haven't tried it yet.

My needs are filled with a ultra portable laptop, though.
Breaking down my favorite games and talking about them really helps grow my thinking. I should chat more with friends I’m building with or other gamers around me.
Thanks for the great book recommendation! Since so many people suggest Tynan Sylvester’s book, I’ll make sure to read it first.
Even just general knowledge tends not to be on the internet if it was produced before that would have been expected.
A Hong-Kong style government doesn't mean as much as it used to.
WordPress market share alone (within the open web) speaks to GPL as having been a good or great choice (but not a negative one).
I’d never heard of Gamedev.city, thanks for letting me know! I’ve already made a Discord server and a few people have joined, so I’ll try asking for feedback often while building
Thanks for the YouTube link! I’ll definitely take a look
The U.S. frames its deteriorating relationship with China as a fight for “human rights” and “democracy,” but from China’s perspective, that’s just a cover for a larger campaign to contain its rise. The real issue? The U.S. fears losing global dominance and is using trade wars, tech bans, military encirclement, and financial pressure to slow China down.

China doesn’t want direct military conflict—it prefers economic and technological competition. But it sees the U.S. as a declining power that refuses to accept a multipolar world. The U.S. labels China’s economic expansion “debt-trap diplomacy” while ignoring the IMF’s history of predatory loans. It bans Huawei and TikTok under “security concerns” while engaging in mass surveillance itself. It calls China’s South China Sea claims “aggressive” while surrounding China with military bases.

From Beijing’s view, the U.S. preaches rules it doesn’t follow. Human rights? Washington ignores Saudi Arabia but obsesses over Xinjiang. Democracy? The U.S. supports coups when convenient. Free markets? Only when American firms win.

China isn’t looking for war—it’s playing the long game. The U.S. can try to contain it, but economic gravity favors China’s rise. The more Washington pushes, the clearer its real motives become.

But all this stuff is a bluff. China will spill blood for Taiwan, the US will not. When there is a standoff the US will back down and it's Taiwan getting fucked by everybody.
I need to think harder about my vision, my intrinsic motivation, and my passion. Thanks for the important reminder

I’ll check out the essay and book you mentioned too
Thanks. I do believe that is a good summary of what I was saying.
But not that's not the case for many of us. We do know who we are, and an increasingly violent sect want us to bury it and pretend otherwise.
I accept them as I do in windows and Linux because I have built workflows around the things I do want on each of them respectively. I’ve long since given up the dream of any one platform or technology choice meeting all my needs, for me at least, it’s a fools errand.

This bug I can’t even replicate so :shrug:
For those who read on mobile and are too lazy to convert all they have, a quick access shortcut to the 'inverted colors' display mode helps.
> The thing about US "vassel" states is they don't have to do what the US says. And sometimes won't!

Yes, and then the US will force its way. It's quite funny that you even mentioned nukes. Taiwan did attempt to build nukes and the US destroyed the project.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/01/asia/taiwan-cia-informant...
Yep. The side that sits at the keyboard of a basement computer shooting at zombies.

Here is my suggestion to people who want the US to play part in Taiwan/China affair: they should take their broomsticks and volunteer. And that includes the war in Ukraine, too.