skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The British also realized that as long as the Americans would borrow from the Bank of England, and were willing to trade their raw goods to England where they could be processed into industrial goods and then sold back to them, there wasn't much of a need to win the war in the first place -- though they didn't realize this all at once (as evidenced by the War of 1812). It was when the Americans (in the North) got to disrupting this economic situation that things really kicked off that they needed to back the Confederacy in what was effectively America's third revolution. Despite losing that one too, America's economy and politics were impacted enough that it was just a few decades later the British agent and American turncoat Woodrow Wilson was able to bring the former colonies back to heel with the Federal Reserve Act, the 16th Amendment, and entry into WWI as Britain's ally.

It was a nice sovereign republic while it lasted, or so I've read.
"We Are Fighting Against a Dictator Backed by a Traitor" - https://youtu.be/j51HZncBvEI
Trump wants a world of private government deals and he's showing other governments they can count on him if they want to join the game.

Your country has bad air quality? Of course we know it. Perhaps we will release that data, perhaps not. What can you give us back in return for keeping it private? Also, you have embarrassing data about my government? Let's talk and fix a deal so we (not the population) benefit the most.
Glad to be in Australia. M1 Air motherboard failed after close to 3 years. Went to the store, muttered the words "Australian Consumer Law" and "not of acceptable quality", repaired for free with no question.

The M4 Air is A$1699 here, when you subtract the 10% GST (our prices include GST), that converts to US$967. So we're not even paying a premium (although Apple hedging against US tariffs may play a part).
When you are released from prison, they can simple ask you to decrypt the data again, and if you refuse or can't, you have broken a law with another 2 years in prison (5 if they think you could have anything to do with 'terrorism').. Its theoretically an infinite prison sentence for forgetting your passwords.
Teams has never been as good as Skype at calls, even in the very early days.

I was shocked at how good Skype was when my son called a friend in a French village where he was an exchange student. The quality rivaled the best local calls on a landline.

Teams still feels disjointed and awkward, is slow as hell, and manages to make the simplest tasks (adjusting volume) incredibly difficult.
We live in an age where it's okay to pirate terabyte of data if you're Meta.

‘In the courts, you will be deemed either innocent or guilty, according to your wealth or poverty.’
For me Terraform's biggest strength is also its biggest source of pain: it can integrate all sorts of technologies under one relatively vendor-agnostic umbrella and enforce a standard workflow across a huge amount of change. However, that means any bug in any provider is sort of Terraform's fault, if only in the developer's mind.
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> We also have no interest in sacrificing good relations with Russia for the sake of Ukraine.

No problem sacrificing good relations with Canada, Europe, China, the entire Arab world, though... The mental gymnastic people go through lol
Stroustrup is getting more and more... dunno. Defensive? Delusional?

C++ was never a great language. It has a lot of good features, and an awfully lot of warts. Still, it was the best we had. It had it well deserved run, and it is still very relevant (my primary language also), but instead of bolting more crap on it, it is time to plan its retirement. Or come up with something that's actually better, and call it c+++ or whatever. But c++ should be let rest in peace.
It's LPDDR5X-7500 memory.
These all still exists no? Why do everything have to be popular. In fact popularity kills the fun.

Also I don't understand how people liked IRC. Is there any reason I am missing? Surely discord has everything that IRC had.
> Again, I don't think people are stupid. I do think they'll say one some things in mixed company to hide their racism.

This continued labeling of all fiscal conservatives as racists is a key reason Democrats keep losing to an obviously crazy person. Nobody’s going to vote for the party which calls them a racist.

A lot of fiscal conservatives are “middle class” undecided voters who have mortgages and kids to worry about. Unsurprisingly they voted for the party who promised lower taxes over the one which did nothing but accuse them of racism.
> LG Gram laptops running Linux

You've got my curiosity..

> Oh, and battery life is 14-16 hours of use.

Oh. Now you've got my attention!
Yeah... "used to"... 20 years ago.

Now it's one standard dvd-case sized box with one sheet of paper and a cd... or not even a cd, but just a download code.

The good thing about CDs is, that you can archive them and use them even after 10, 20, 30 years, you cannot do so with steam, if they decide to remove that game or when eventually steam disappears. On the other hand, many games don't even work anymore without an internet connection and some backend service (that'll disappear soon), even single player ones.
Communicate and Collaborate in Complete Security
Another thing I wanted to do is bring a bit of a lower level programming. Closer to a Zachtronics game, where you have a simplified microcontroler-like architecture and a nicely written datasheet-like manual you can print and browse at your convencience.
> The problem is most of the web is trash. And a link might be stupidly slow to open, and then require the user to click away cookie banners, sign up forms and ads before getting to the content.

Same goes for Twitter link. If you are not logged-in (like most people are not). You meet nag-ware just after it loads - if it loads at all.
Looks really interesting! I've been looking for resources on how to ask better questions, it'll surely come in handy.
I wonder if there's a PDF / single-file version somewhere, for easier consumption on e-readers?
> Ukraine isn’t in and probably never will be in a position to credibly threaten a MAD second strike to Russia.

If you mean a scenario where Russia uses its entire arsenal at once, I think I would agree — but that would leave them extremely vulnerable to everyone else. Even without that, between the shared border and the nuclear reactors, lots of fallout would end up in Russian soil, in their farms and food.

For the size of nuclear strike that would allow Russia to not hurt itself directly by the attack:

If Ukraine found a some still-functioning nukes lying around in a formerly-locked Soviet-era cupboard, what would stop them from being so already with current weapons?

Russia doesn't seem to be able to prevent conventional strikes by Ukrainian forces. Is that only due to US assistance with materiel and intel?
...let me expand a bit.

It would be interesting if research teams would try to collapse trained MoE into JoaT (Jack of all Trades - why not?).

With MoE architecture it should be efficient to back propagate other expert layers to align with result of selected one – at end changing multiple experts into multiple Jacks.

Having N multiple Jacks at the end is interesting in itself as you may try to do something with commonalities that are present, available on completely different networks that are producing same results.
Seems like something LLMs should be good at. Take the new user info and ask it to vet the account or raise it to a human.
they might have to update their translation to (limited) soon based on how the current admin is blitzkriegeering
"War against Ukraine"? That's the first time I've heard that phrased that way from a non-Russian source. What have you been reading? Aren't you whitewashing Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

And, to call Azov an extremist group, or to liken them to people who literally tried to overthrow the US government, or to ISIS, that is plain disturbed.
I read this article overwhelmingly thinking: do a test Ars. The subtext read like “Oh woe is us well just have to wait and see what happens there’s nothing we could do to move this along. We have an editor that has one but theirs isn’t internet connected. Oh if only there was something we could do to give more substantive reporting.”

Buy a printer, buy third party toner, and try and confirm or refute the claims.
I thought the main value of discord was quick and solid voice / game stream integration.

I rarely feel any connection between servers, but that might just be me.
Dynamically estimating and scaling Postgres' working set size (2024)
He’s literally said he wants to get the US out of NATO multiple times, because it’s a ‘bad deal’.
well those are really apps, the fact that they are running in a browser does not make that browsing.
What software are you using for virtualization? I wasn't impressed with the Apple Silicon options last time I looked.
That's fair and technically correct.

But had Ukraine not agreed, they very likely wouldn't have been invaded. Meanwhile Putin was threatening to use nuclear weapons if western countries would have directly intervened. This threat is looming over _all_ negotiations and actions.

So really Russia is getting away with invading Ukraine and expanding their territory and use their nuclear arsenal indirectly to achieve that.
They are selling the shovels for this gold rush. Also, ASML, who sells machines to make shovels.
My team of pilots out of China is most of that playtime.
You can use money to buy things people are willing to sell.

You can use power to get people to do they would not otherwise do.

Generally, if money is able to get people to do things they wouldn't otherwise do, there needs to be some sort of duress, or corruption. People who are content with what they have don't resort to prostitution or otherwise compromising their principles for money. Those who are held under crippling debt, or who come to have no principles, are much more inclined to do so.

Power is more subtle, and it is related to money, but no, they're not the same thing.
When I first saw Discord (est. 2015), my first thought was that it looked exactly like Slack (est. 2013) except was in dark mode.
It's not new for PC to block user ram upgrade
A British company making a chat app. What’s the privacy policy? 5 eyes first then you?
This goes beyond the device, it was about who was sharing the data: the US, which used to be a former global reference that was credible, reliable, and trustworthy with some good intentions towards Western ideals and progress.

That's now gone, but hopefully others will fill that void.
America doesn’t have good will around the world based on its foreign policy. In my corner of the world, Russia has been helping bangladesh building a nuclear reactor. China has helped us build a subway. America has hassled us about “human rights” and tried to interfere in our elections.
Lunar Lake is pretty good, yeah. But generally, even premium Windows laptops feel less complete. Speakers sound worse, trackpad isn't as nice, usually worse thermal design / fan noise, it's the little things.
I think I commented something similar when this was last posted.

Blogging is better in so many ways, and if you have built up a community of people who visit your blog and engage with it, it can be very fulfilling and fun. Even without an audience it can still be fun.

But what the author seems to miss is that people like doing things where their community is. When I used to use Twitter regularly, I loved posting stuff there as I had friends (both real world and online) who I knew would engage and talk to me there. It felt like being in a busy pub where I could chat to loads of different people, and while sometimes something I shared would get no traction, other times we could chat for days.

That is why I posted things there, not because blogging is beyond me, but the effort to build an manage a community of your own is so much harder, than piggybacking on a social network.

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Actually it seems my point was a little different last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945797 - I still agree with it though (though I have totally bailed on Twitter now as it is terrible.
I agree. the good vs. bad guys narrative that dominates many western countries is toxic.
People _trusted_ the US published official numbers.

Trust takes a lifetime to earn and a moment to lose. It's a shame.
With only 4x the population too! And even that's looking dubious, despite the American economy being all but in a state of cardiac arrest.
Open the study. It provides a Sankey diagram showing the entire energy flow of the Danish energy system. You know, all those TWh you want.

Why do you keep dodging? Because you truly can't bring yourself to read anything that would disprove your nuclear fanboyism? You truly keep tumbling strawmen instead of disproving the studies.

Pathetic.

I'll add the studies without any picked out quotes:

See the recent study on Denmark which found that nuclear power needs to come down 85% in cost to be competitive with renewables when looking into total system costs for a fully decarbonized grid, due to both options requiring flexibility to meet the grid load.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...

Or the same for Australia if you went a more sunny locale finding that renewables ends up with a grid costing less than half of "best case nth of a kind nuclear power":

https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/GenCost/GenCost2024-25Co...

Come one now. Stop dodging! Is accepting that nuclear power is horrifically expensive that scary? Is your income dependent on the nuclear industry?
You can put whatever nvme drive is available today on any thinkpad or professionnal laptop from Dell or HP.

I believe all brands offer some laptops with hidpi screens.

The only part where Apple is unmatched is in battery life but you mention it is not a strong requirement.
On the flip side, when you did this to a Windows 95 system a few times in a row, you eventually came to learn what was really critical and what wasn't. I remember young me thinking "Spooler? Why would anyone need that?". Truth be told, looking at corporate life today, I think young me was on to something.

Naturally all of this does not carry over to the government where you can't just reinstall the whole thing if you mess it up.
Move fast break things, lesson learnt
That is true, but unrelated to the point. Why has Russia invaded Ukraine?
> There is nothing stopping open-source software from pushing malicious updates.

Two things stop it: (much simplified) oversight by the community and a possibility to fix the code.

> You are criticising Apple for something they haven’t done and had no plans to do.

The do participate in the enshittification (https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075), so my only expectation is that they won't do what's best for the users. In addition, they removed many features requested by the users like the headphone jack.

In general, the less you trust in a company, the better. Free software allows to decrease the trust in the vendor by watching the code and forking whenever you have to.
What do you mean by "no return"?
I think GPS is a very good point. I wonder if the capability to disable it exists, and I don't know what effects that will have - i assume many new devices can now use European's Galileo system.
(while writing this I can see GPS had 'selective availability' mode, but US claimed it is not possible with new satellites)
This is what notion should have been.
> Yeah, I would find it hard going back to not having a offline history

It's funny but I personally prefer that the IRC server isn't required to store every chat log indefinitely. You're right though, these are solvable problems, BNC for example but we're getting a little off topic.
Get a high-quality (well-reviewed; not cheap) matte glass. Mine has no noticeable degradation of the image quality, and it's the best portable screen in my house (my OLED TV is a little better, but of course).

I know, I know, it doesn't feel nice to stick glass in front of it -- but seriously, try it. I didn't believe it at first, but it's great.
Nah, republicans love infringing upon free market capitalism quite regularly. But they insist on being the ones directing how it is done.

All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
3-7 and 9-12 is everyday life in Ukraine.
> Go ahead an look up

I'm well aware of what happened in quite some detail. As I said I'm not saying I agree with what happened, but it's still not an invasion. You'd at most be stopping an internal riot / protest if that's what it is.

That's like saying if the military moved between Texas and California is that an invasion? Even if you count the whole thing as a civil war that's still not an invasion. Hong Kong returned to China in 1997. Too late to be complaining in 2025.
Well, I was looking at cars passing by while waiting for a bus and new ICE cars don't look normal either today. The bodywork is too busy for my taste, they resemble toys rather than utilitarian vehicles.
It's not naive. I can definitely see value in a two-tier warrant system. The first (and normal one), just like a physical warrant: you know you're being searched. The second, and it is much harder to get: a covert warrant, more like a wiretap.
Firecracker vs. QEMU
You're very welcome to not use it. I am glad Apple stopped being so gung-ho, and started offering some options.
Well everyone keeps talking about the CPUs because they're great CPUs.
Do you have other opinions about the UI/UX of apps you haven't used?
Given that Flamanville 3 being 7x over budget and 13 years late on a 5 year construction schedule even the French are wholly unable to build new nuclear power.

We should of course keep our existing fleet around as long as it is safe, needed and economical.

Then you round of with an endless stream of excuses as to why nuclear power does not deliver.

The only thing hindering nuclear power is its economics. Otherwise less regulated countries would pounce on the opportunity to have cheaper energy. That hasn’t happened.

Where nuclear power has a good niche it gets utilized, and no amount of campaigning limits it. One such example are submarines.

So stop attempting to shift the blame and go invest your own money in advancing nuclear power rather than crying for another absolutely enormous government handout when the competition in renewables already deliver on that said promise: extremely cheap green scalable energy.

Unsubsidized renewables are today cheaper than fossil fuels. Lets embrace that rather than wasting another trillion dollars on nuclear subsidies.
The main advantage of Tailscale for most is it allows to avoid having a fixed IP address/DNS, and keep all ports closed.

As long as you trust them this really give you a lot of security at a very low cost.
Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU design
I won't claim to be able to read Putin's mind, but:

Considering that the Russian government continues to sell this invasion to its people as a "special military operation" and bans calling it a "war", what impact would using nuclear weapons have on the internal politics of Russia?

I also invite you to consider the converse: Ukraine is already asking if it made a mistake by giving up its nuclear weapons, and I have heard plausible claims they could construct a nuclear device within a few months… a few months ago.

The US withdrawing all support, may well result in Ukraine making their own nuclear weapons — and attacking Russia with them to make the point, given that Putin seems to have great difficulty understanding that the Ukrainian people don't want him.
Remember when he wanted to "fix twitter search?"

Then a few weeks in he went "Anyone want a job? Fix this, make your code MIT and we'll see!"

...despite the fact that he just wanted to steal code and had 0 authority to give anyone a job.
I've been very reluctant for several years to reinstall my stock Android on Pixel with GrapheneOS, as I don't want to backup lots of things, have partially broken banking apps and having another linux moment when I have to figure out bunch of workarounds from scratch, but it seems that Google doesn't give me any choice.

One espionage scandal after another: first Pixels send their location even without location sharing to Google, then several attempts to add some AI crap with completely closed-source implementation and who-knows-what-it-does.

Does anybody use it? Will I have a hard time migrating from Pixel's stock Android?
What's AI capex? We're lumping everything together and calling it AI.

A least a large part of it is building data centers, which they'd do anyway and can be of use even if AI doesn't pick up.
Agree, voting for the dummy was the soft revolution, the hard revolution will happen...once the damage has been severe or irreparable.
Say you're at an airport, waiting for your flight, and wanted to charge your iPhone and Airpods at the same time.
Discord has always seemed like a Slack clone with better voice chat to me.
CoreWeave's 250k-Strong GPU Fleet Undercuts the Big Clouds
How do you process the news?
> they took

They are more than likely still taking, based on the 17% layoff a few months ago

As is Snapchat, miraculously (Snapchat is the most wildly mismanaged social media company from a fiscal perspective it’s wild)
Love the excuses when apparently China was not building as much nuclear power as your fantasy land imagined.

You do know that nuclear power as a share of the Chinese electricity mix is dropping?
> Admittedly it still wasn’t easy for everyone to have their own website

At least by the Geocities stage it was incredibly easy. Probably about as difficult as making a PowerPoint slideshow. Lots of non-techy kids were doing this in the 90's and early 2000's.

Blogging was the first big degradation of the web that I noticed. There was a big shift from evergreen content to churning out quick dopamine hits matching the time sensitive nature of blogging.
It's the previous party, it's a multi-decade grievance. It was the "woke mind virus that ruined us", before that, the economy was going great.
From #1 to flagged in minutes. The times are not very peaceful.
Recently, I asked ChatGPT if the US has imprisoned US citizens in Guantanamo-Bay and whether or not this is legal. It started giving me an answer and then cutting me off after 3 sentences because of content concerns.
Are they more useful? Unquestionably they look more polished but every time I've tried using it for questions on topics I have even passing familiarity with I'm seeing glaring omissions and shallow summaries couched in business English word salad.
If you go to the "lists" page there is literally a "noobstories" page, because someone deemed that that would be an interesting filter for some people to explore. What's the point of posting if you're a noob if you know your legit post is going to be auto-killed and no-one is going to see it?

Good-faith posters should know that this is what is happening (assuming the auto-killing is intentional and not a bug) so they can go and try to build enough karma from their comments before posting a story.
The majority of Gaza's residents are 'temporary' refugees from the Nakba[1] in 1948. Trump and Netanyahu have also cleared any lingering doubt in their mind about being able to come back if they ever leave. Trump literally said that they won't come back. And Israel and its allies are working hard to dismantle UNRWA which tracks the refugees status of 6 million displaced palestinians. All this is part of Israel's three-pronged strategy of ethnic-cleansing, genocide, and apartheid.

The leaders of Egypt, Jordan and people of Gaza know better than to fall for such an obvious ruse. Anyone arguing otherwise is clearly ignorant or speaking in bad faith.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
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People still line up for their purported incentives, despite these stories.

The reason why nerds nevertheless apply at MAANG companies is thus the same reason why "ordinary" people buy lottery tickets - nerds are not that different. :-)