skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They will only care about sea access.

This is not why the CCP cares about Taiwan.

And they’ve cared quite a lot since before there were semiconductors.
Not sure if they even think they need to prove their assertions, after all Musk (same as his "boss"/BFF) has made the most outlandish claims without a shred of evidence (the "radical-left Marxist vipers" at USAID). To me it looks more like they are already 100% convinced that any work done by federal employees is completely worthless, so they can indiscriminately fire anyone they wish without doing any harm. Same for the attrition tactics - they tell people to return to the office and at the same time end leases for offices etc.
Note, no actual numbers are provided from the company itself, only a mention of "This week saw some of the highest order days for Polestar 3, and the response to our Tesla Conquest Offer has been incredible." on linkedIn.
“Repercussions or implications for US interests” is layering attenuation upon attenuation. That can’t be the standard.
Sure, but they'd turn the world against them. Or at least all of Europe. It'd be trivial to disable ASML's production process, too - as others have commented, they rely on tons of suppliers as well as a lot of local employees and knowledge.

I do love armchair hypotheticals like that, but a few seconds of thinking will show that a hostile takeover of the country will not mean the US retains access to ASML's machines.
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And of course audio tapes were a common way of storing computer data in the 1970s and 1980s.
This is not specific to Apple. Its the modern "agile" culture of hacking shit script kiddies pushing early, regardless of known bugs and broken features, under direction of management. Then management forcing you to move onto the next hack without allowing you to go back and clean up your previous work. Its probkem is now endemic to the modern era of software development. Agile is the worst fucking thing ever created for our industry.
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Delivered groceries are more expensive, not everyone can afford the prices plus the expected tip. A beater auto is affordable for most families.

People with dough won’t mind the extra expense, that’s usually a given.
Excellent! The Russia sanctions are causing collateral damage to much of the third world.
At this point, anyone remaining at Xitter has to be aware that they are working for a neo-Nazi. And anyone using Xitter in a country that has a history of fighting Nazi's in WWII has to be aware of who they're supporting. It's maddening how many people just don't seem to give a shit.
Can you show some examples where Apple have got bad press in the mainstream media?
You may want to read on the new Firefox TOS to find out why Firefox is absolutely not an option since last week.
Italy has highly skilled nuclear engineers.

>And where does the nuclear fuel come from? Russia.

Nonsense.
Yes I used Caffeine as well...

So IT not only reduced the security (because I couldn't use a sane setting like 15 minutes of inactivity), but also had 3rd party software running in my user account...
Of course burning that gas to generate electricity for use in heat pumps would get you the same heat for half the gas even before you include any wind power (or hydro etc.)

That then doubles your storage for gas that you may or may not need to burn depending on the weather.

So really the path to fully renewable just goes through a series of win-wins on the journey to fully phase out fossil fuels.
I think the point is that if the meter didn't exist we would have to invent one.
Mainly by not building reactors designed in the 1960s.
Wild that oil & gas subsidies, Medicare negotiating more drugs and foreign military base reductions are off the table. But god forbid we see another hurricane coming.
> It is mind blowing to me that this is what people want.

It is not what people want. The Trump administration’s popularity is already below 50%, and much lower among independents (around 30% depending on the poll).

Many people aren’t yet aware of what’s happening. A lot of the electorate is getting their news from filtered sources like Fox News or various far right media outlets. Joe Rogan has gone all in on praising Musk and Trump. People who get their information from Trump are being fed lies that are obvious to anyone not inside the bubble. They don’t know what’s happening because their heroes are telling them it’s all necessary and good.

When you start polling people on the actual actions taken, things being cancelled, and consequences the approval is very low.

Anecdotally, I have some extended family who were very pro-Trump. One of them recently discovered that her job was funded through a federal grant, and now it’s likely going to be cut even though she doesn’t work for the government directly. They also discovered that one of their family members is covered by Medicaid through an avenue that’s looking like it will be cut. They went through a stage of disbelief, but now they’re in a phase where they’re sure everything will be fine and Trump will get it fixed. It’s only a matter of time until they realize that they were the intended targets of the cuts, not accidental damage.
they are already under way. So you don't want investments into the US?
Government can centralize the cost of nuclear. All goes to 1 contractor who builds it. With solar, every house is a different size so each house will have a different cost. Pretty hard political sell to tell your voters you are going to give more to the rich because they have bigger houses. Totally makes sense from a "well they use and pay for more power" perspective but a really hard sell politically. Plus renters get nothing.
Yes yes, everyone has their own twee bespoke definition of soul.
Same with C or C++. Only recently there came up some examples of well-written
C++ code. But most of old cooperate, Microsoft or Stroustrup code is just horrible, worse than hard-core perl nonsense.
Literally nobody cares

Lawyers will use whatever tool they know best for their job. And protip, LibreOffice is rarely that
One time they didn't get the needle in smoothly and it hurt a little bit, but it really wasn't too bad
Not equivalent, but the USA is in violation as of today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
An organization allegedly about reducing waste is creating it instead, by arbitrarily forcing a tight timeline and using heavy, specific, and inflexible top-down mandates that don’t let those closer to the work use the information they have (say, that their offices aren’t ready to work in).

Spending freezes, blanket firing of tons of provisional workers (fun fact: the recently-promoted are also provisional, this doesn’t just mean brand new workers), and other measures have probably also disrupted the ability of offices to sensibly execute the orders. That is, it’ll take them longer to get the offices ready.

One might begin to think it’s not about waste.
The death toll from that incident was one (1).

You can see online, nuclear power is actually one of the safest methods of energy generation, behind solar and ahead of wind, because sometimes dudes fall from the tops of the windmills.

Could you start looking at the second-order effects of the meltdown to get a higher death toll? Probably, but you could probably also look at all of the pollutants generated by solar panels, and the fact that they get shipped to Africa and crushed up and thrown in the ground to make solar's death toll look higher too.
Google did try letting you pay to not see ads, guess not enough people did it as they killed the programme
You can't. The problem with nuclear is that it needs to be properly maintained forever. If you get an irresponsible government or power company that cheaps out in 30 years, oopsies, you're going to irradiate the local area.

It's a lot like trusting your private data to a company. Sure, Google in 2007 is pretty great, but maybe you have some doubts about their integrity in 2025. Too late, they have what they have, forever.
The extra European threat is not protected by the us anymore. And what even is an intra European threat? US is gonna intervene in a German - French war?
The have been stopping them and crushing the bikes although it's patchy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89yw3wzl9no
Did congress allocate funds for this? Was there a bidding process? Why wasn't the now defunct 18F given this job? Where will the requested $4 million go?

This sure doesn't seem like an efficient use of tax dollars.
Symmetrical piece from Axios:

# Trump's push to work with Russia is upending U.S. cyber strategy

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/04/russia-cyber-command-trump-...
That’s how remote works. People don’t have a physical office because they work from home or another location.
By not ignoring studies that find risk of tsunami damage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident#Pri...
It's a reason but it's not a strong reason. Back then Ukraine was indistinguishable from Russia, basically a small breakaway country from the USSR. So the intent was more likely that the US wouldn't attack Ukraine. Besides which, the nukes in Ukraine were never under Ukraine's control or possession, so the agreement looks to be more for optics than anything.
And it is flooding the market with job seekers, increasing competition thus depressing wages.
The is exactly a move the people in power in those troubled countries will use to maintain control over government.

It used to be that the US government had pride in its own professionalism. The US is now acting like the countries it loves to destabilize.
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It can take weeks to source and build cubicles and networks back out.
I see the difference. Similarity of course does not mean being identical. I've read about the GPS/LLM similarities on HN, and when you think about it, it behaves a bit like a GPS that thinks up new locations and their paths 5 percent of the time. It is best to do some checks before hitting the gas.
An FTP link for documents? That’s a real throwback
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Sounds very similar to how the Ukraine “special military operation” was intended and you see the result. Its also probably a scenario Taiwan’s defense is preparing for.
You’re wrong, not sure where you got that conception but the int32/64 distinction is in the core language, with numerous libraries (eg stdint, integers) providing the full spectrum.
Show HN: VO Pads - YouTube & MP4 Player with editing and sequencing
This project started as a way of being able to trigger video playback repeatedly at specific points whilst I was learning a new skill.

Over Xmas I spent a lot of time playing with Koala Sampler (https://www.koalasampler.com), and I wondered what it would be like if this excellent app was based around video instead of audio.

Video from either YouTube or local mp4’s can be added to one of 16 pads, and triggered via touch, keyboard or MIDI. The start and end of the video can be changed. You can set the video to loop, play/restart/resume when triggered, and alter the volume and speed.

There are two types of sequencer that you can compose with; a step sequencer (think drum machine), and a time based sequencer.

The app is mostly server-less, meaning that the app data exists only locally. A project may be exported/imported via URL or JSON.

A server function was only added to generate meaningful open graph links.

Built with React, NextJS, TanStack Query, IndexedDb amongst others.

Landing page features examples and demo videos. With regret, it works best in Chrome. Other browsers suffer with playback latency and limits.

A little more detail on the dev process can be found here - https://dev.odgn.net/posts/introducing-vo-pads/

Still early days and a fair amount of refinement planned, but already fun, IMHO.

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I'm sorry, did you forget "mafia"?
> "A list of democracies that don't score non-democracies"

This definition is nowhere to be found. I assume it's your interpretation, which, as already said, is flawed.

For example Saudi Arabia is listed on all of those indices even though its an absolute monarchy and the poster child for an autocracy.
As always with nuclear there are a few taboo topics. One of them being fuel supply. For European reactors that seems to be either Mali/Niger, or Russia. Both not excellent if the goal is geopolitical independence.

Solar, wind and batteries have no fuel concerns, and they are inherently decentralized.
Supporters of the FSF maybe?
This strikes me as Doge getting rid of 18F and then inserting themselves into a similar role. Presumably Doge would want to be more involved than just providing technology and services though.
Not only a neo-Nazi, but also for Russians as well.
It's part of the promised pain. Trump promised us some pain. He said it was necessary before things can get better.
> The way I see it, the yearly release cycle is to blame.

I don't see a connection between yearly release cycles and a broken notes application. They shouldn't be doing anything that is particularly affected by such changes and the problem they are trying to solve has been mostly solved for 40+ years now.

While it certainly applies to some things, there's a different, bigger issue happening as well.

My understanding is that Apple outsources loads of software not seen as "critical". I think that's the first place for them to look.
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> It’s only a matter of time until they realize that they were the intended targets of the cuts, not accidental damage.

I suspect that other scapegoats can be found to blame for their problems; as you say, their news sources will offer them all sorts of filters to deflect blame from the obvious source.
Eutelsat in talks on boosting satellite services to Ukraine
Laundering manufactured consent for cheaper, inferior products as consumer choice is a pretty old trick.

A consumer's perceived preference can be modulated by any number of issues with which the consumer is not properly informed, such as preferring one sweetener over the other, even if there are valid health concerns, thanks to generational brainwashing and an intentional lack of consumer training. What we have today is the consumer market equivalent to the unsophisticated investor market. People getting economically exploited and feeling like it was their own idea.

In the case of video encoders... Actual domain experts should not be forced to cede to the whim of an untrained eye simply for the purpose of capitalists extracting more money from them.

It's one thing for Netflix to experiment with the latest advances in machine learning, as a lot of us do. But when the opening sentence is to their blog is "When you are binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things or Ozark, we strive to deliver the best possible video quality to your eyes", it's hard not to find issue with A) the commodification of entertainment and patronizing consumer speak and B) a misleading preposition about commitment to quality which the cited response article makes clear is untrue in the case of this product.

Deferring to domain experts in this case is better for every consumer, as they will not be duped into exchanging an increasingly degraded experience in exchange for increasing monthly rates. People feel very strongly about film quality, and for good reason. We're talking about the preservation of art and culture, but Netflix doesn't see it this way, as to them, it's all a commodity, and they manufacture consent for commodification. If the average user can't see this and push back against the degradation of quality that comes with commodification of art, I have a hard time deferring to them over an actual expert.
Space isn't really an issue. There's many places that are no good for building but are great for solar, like mountainsides.

Besides, if the Netherlands can have solar then Italy can too. It's much less densely populated.

And nuclear lasts 50+ years with constant maintenance, which is really expensive.
No, if the US considers it be a regional conflict, then that's all it will be in terms of repercussions or interests. Maybe in terms of vague geopolitical concerns that might be relevant decades from now, though even that is unclear, but the US is too powerful to have repercussions from not being involved in this conflict.
The reason people are living paycheck to paycheck is not because of military aids, the system is not going to spend saved money on people, and people will be the ones fighting the incoming wars.

You need unions and Universal Healthcare like the rest of the developed world to fix those problems.
Oh no can someone think of the FAANGs?
In the same way we have handled other dangerous activities (including aviation and driving around with sloshing flammable liquids)

Improving continuously, having strict but not restrictive regulation, addressing risks before they become a problem.
> And where does the nuclear fuel come from? Russia.

Not true at all. Russia is producing 5% of the world Uranium, and they probably use quite a lot of that domestically given they produce 8% of all nuclear power in the world with their own plant.

Kazakhstan + Uzbekistan is 50% of the word production. Canada is second and will be happy to start selling to the EU. Namibia and Australia both produce twice as much as Russia.

Not to say that supply of natural Uranium is not a concern because you do depends of a small list of countries but we don't need to buy any from Russia.

Source:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country
https://archive.is/1cC4N
I didn't. that's implied in "avoiding regulations".
archive.org is located in the US, therefore it's not safe from purges. Better also backup important data locally and abroad.
It definitely resonates a lot, especially since that area has been known for centuries for that type of geothermal activity. I don't know whether Dante visited larderello, but next time I meet a local guide I'll ask them
I've generally been impressed with engineering works in northern Italy, the tolled autostrada in the mountains etc.
Indeed rooftop solar is something that rich people benefit from the most: it's a fun gimmick that people who own houses can use to dodge taxes and network fees. The most cost effective solar deployments are larger industrial setups due to the economics of scale. From a national economy point of view, rooftop solar makes less sense. Someone still needs to pay for the network after all, it just gets onto someone else's shoulders.
Yes, this is how blind people who voted for Trump are. Surely they can't get rid of the ADA...
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Why are you saying it's random?

Trump isn't meeting the existing obligations and you are talking about how problematic Ukraine's condition for new agreements would be.