skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that chart on the first page is incredible.

8-Feb
Adv. Man. (M3-1) (2/27), Q4 GDP (2/27), Adv. Econ. Ind., Pers. Inc. & outlays -1.5
and
3-Mar ISM Manuf. Index, Constr. spending -2.8

So it went from 2% growth expected to -1.5% that's pretty incredible. This seems like it's due to Personal Consumption and Income as well as the surge in imports from Q4? Since the surge in imports is likely temporary, does that mean this will bounce back up? or is the PCE drops more important?
I don’t know, just seems sad that allies are so fairweather.
I am honestly surprised - you should see dead birds at-least a couple of times a week. Not annually or monthly, but weekly esp for a full wind-farm like what you are stating.

Which part of the world do you live in ? It is possible that the location of the farm was chosen wisely. Are you also sure someone is not clearing the corpses ? There are laws mandating the collection of corpses in many western nations. My personal anecdotal opinion is that data is more honest in the non-Western nations since nobody cares about bird-deaths all that much and so the deaths are not sanitized.
The US will NOT engage in a hot war against China for Taiwan, that's for certain, regardless of who is president at that time. Why would they risk nuclear war for a bunch of people who are really far away from the US continent?
I've been using Purelymail¹ for a few years now. It's simple and it just works. The one time I needed support I emailed Scott and he got right back to me.

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Training LLMs with MXFP4
I think the parent commenter was actually saying that it is unlikely the US was ever going to help Taiwan in the case of a Chinese invasion, regardless of admin.
Always has been unless you're an "email and eBay" sort of user.
Right, and we have to be careful not to misinterpret such declarations by LLMs as if they're the real thing. I will never forget the first wave of Chat GPT reporting from the likes of Kevin Roose, who took its conversations completely at face value, not realizing it was reacting to his cues, and frankly playing down to the quality of his input.

But bring to machine interfaces are an entirely different thing altogether and they test it with controls and training unknown examples and then proceeding to prediction based off of training.
I don't know how much the US sent to Israel to fight in Gaza lately but palestinians in Gaza aren't exactly on the same level as the russian military, so the needs of Israel aren't even close to the military aid that went to Ukraine.

But what I know and for a reality check: the amount of military aid the US sent to Israel since Israel exists is less than the amount of money sent by the US to Zelensky.

In addition to that, although I don't doubt warcrimes were committed by russia, I haven't seen videos of russian soldiers parading with the naked bodies of women they just raped nor vids of russian soldiers calling their parents saying: "I just strangled an entire ukrainian family with my hand mom!".

I also haven't heard of many russian civilians keeping ukrainian hostages, including babies, in their homes [1].

Had russians behaved like that relations between the US and Russia may have been worse than they are now.

This is about Ukraine and Russia. Leave your disgusting comparisons outside this thread.

[1] which some here consider is justified resistance btw
Another important factor is that emissions are highly dependent on what you're burning to power the grid. As electrification intensifies those effects become even more pronounced. In 15 years or so I imagine most countries with sane leadership will be mostly running on renewables & nuclear.
Initially Foxconn was touted as thousands of high tech high paying jobs until it was revealed that it was just assembly jobs. We'll see what happens.
I don’t think HN being discontented about the gig economy is anything new, at least not if you are counting new in weeks and not years.
How big is your family? A normal Breville toaster oven can hold 4 slices. And there are bigger ones.
I went from daily driving mac and being very used to the desktop environment, and i am really hating everything i've tried in Linux.

Why is there no macOS clone for Linux? Since there is not, maybe now would be a good time for a project to start.
> they get destroyed by weather

We get anything from storms to hail few times a year here. My patio roof got holes in it from the ice balls, but the panels are fine. Are you missing some qualifiers on that one?

> get dirty

You clean them every few months or monitor for issues per group of panels.

> require significant maintenance

Just like every other device out in the real world. Coal, gas, wind, solar, nuclear, thermal generators require maintenance.
you may find this interesting: https://yeet.cx but it only works for linux
I lived in a place where the nearby park swings were made of iron rebar. As a 5 year old, I remember pushing my sister's swing a bit so she could pick up some height. Only to have the swing come right back and smack me on the face. It threw me and I ended up with a bloody lip. I'm lucky it didn't hit me so hard that I ended up dead. I wonder how many kids ended up hurt before they decided to change it. This was around 1972. "The good all days", huh.
In the past 20 years, I’ve seen some people make random changes until the code “worked”.

Fortunately, I’ve had the privilege to be on teams where such were relatively few.

Your father was certainly right.
The language (f90+) is a pleasure more often than a pain IMO. That it evolves, but quite slowly, feels appropriate and reassuring.
Q/a Processes for Complex Anlysis?
For the data scientists and quants out there... How do you sanity check your assumptions and sampling methods during a large analysis? At some point in our careers, we've all run into the occupational hazard of going down the proverbial "rabbit hole" during a complex synthesis of multiple data sets, and ended up with conclusions that weren't necessarily supported.

Curious what Q/A checks you use, particularly with projects tackled by a team, to avoid overstating the applicability of findings - maybe the equivalent of a "stage/gate" process (or some other approach) to ensure the team is staying on mission?

On a related topic - how do you keep track of compounding error in a layered analysis with many assumptions and several iterations of sample subsetting?

Would love your thoughts on this, in an article I am writing. The topic is how organizations and individuals can apply objectivity and critical thinking THROUGHOUT a project to ensure they're making reliable conclusions and recommendations.

Looking forward to your suggestions!
Great point. I use both Mac and windows. Love my windows pc, but I have certainly used corporate windows laptops that make me want to throw them out the window - minutes to boot, minutes to open anything, etc. between Mac and windows, they've each got their pros and cons but nothing that would make me choose one over the other.
Something similar happened to me recently with another company but at least I got paid. My condolences for your time being wasted.

It's tough out here with unscrupulous businesses.
For what it’s worth, I think the contact bug you mention is fixed, at least in latest iOS (18.3.1).

Screen recording of me trying to reproduce that: https://streamable.com/n97j9m
I'd have to disagree -- the lack of OS-level sandboxing primitives such as seccomp-bpf and SELinux[1] means that exploits happen rather regularly in iOS rather often ([2], among others).

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/security/app-sandbox#protect...

[2] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3811322/iphone-users-targe...
Yes. The gently rolling fields of grass, sheep, rape and wheat are considered a national symbol of our natural environment in need of protection from dastardly human creations such as wind turbines. This is the 'green and pleasant land' that William Blake wrote about.
I'm sorry but I've not been following this.

So Neo4j added additional restrictions to their "GPL" licence, those were removed by a project that redistributed it.

FSF called out Neo4j and Neo4j just relicensed their entire project rather than make it properly GPL, but won't stop hassling the redistribution of the old version. Presumably to stop a GPL version of their older code being out there?
I've been down this road - with OpenPlugin. It's all technically feasible - we did it successfully. The question is, so what? If the new models can zero-shot the API call and fix issues with long responses, boot parameters, lookup fields, etc, what's your business model?
With respect to how Ukraine yielded up nukes while Russia gave "assurances" that they would respect Ukrainian borders [0], Putin has claimed it doesn't count now because it's a different Ukraine.

If that's really how he feels, then it's time to expel the imposter "Russia" that's been falsely posing as a member of the United Nations Security Council, because it's not reeealy the USSR...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
I have a 14 year old daughter, it is was actually possible, I'd want it.

But, I know better than thousands of policy writers in the Australian government and know it's not actually possible without destroying the internet as we know it, so, I don't want it.

You can't use credit/debit cards, think of the children and the 0.001% of people in Australia without a card.
Such a project is something I’ve daydreamed about on many occasions, but the scope is quite daunting, especially if one wants to do it right and e.g. make sure that all core utilities adhere to the HIG and actually populate the global menubar for example.
The EU or Soros would never have the audacity, or power, to do what the US did. McCain was openly acting as an enemy of the state, as a high profile guest of the state, in plain sight, directly adjacent to the center of the state! That was a massive power play you can only do in a country you have under the heel of your boot.
To be fair, searching with Spotlight has been equally slow and useless for me… Whenever I need to find a file and mistakenly use Command F in my Finder, the complete cessation of activity that inevitably results reminds me yet once again to just go to my terminal to use trusty GNU’s find instead.
Exactly. The stock market only got back to the highs of 1929, in inflation adjusted terms by 1960. So worst case, it can take 30 years or more to recover. Japan took even longer.
LLMs should not be used as a reliable source of numbers for research like that. You keep saying how obvious this is and trivial to research. Maybe just post a quality research link instead in that case?
That plus selling off the pieces to AccuWeather
I don’t think the issue is even even a lack of knowledge.

I don’t fault a C developer for not knowing and appreciating the intricacies of a superscalar pipelined processor using out of order execution.

But when a C developer writes a multithreaded program they need to really understand why multiple threads are necessary, proper use of locking, and how it will impact the overall application. They need to look beyond their tiny bit of code and the assigned task.

Unfortunately a number of developers fully expect to drive on a busy street blindfolded and successfully reach their destination.
When I got tired of having to manage my NIN news website (circa June 1999) by myself, I grabbed the Guestbook script from here, tweaked it a little bit, and it became a very rudimentary CMS for a volunteer staff of about a dozen contributors. Eventually I moved to a more robust Perl-based tool (News Publisher by Grant Williams), a version of which continues to power that same site today.

But I always think of https://www.theninhotline.com/news/ as a hacked guestbook script.

It's somewhat interesting to me that, according to Wikipedia, the word "blog" as an abbreviation of weblog came into use the month before I started that site.
> IIRC it didn't take that long to develop first production versions of macOS?

If you mean the early 1980s OS, that is not comparable. It probably ran in something like 512K of memory off of a 5.25" floppy disk (or a tape?).

> It's not like Fuschia was supposed to be a "fully capable OS developed from scratch", either? I mean it's "just" the kernel and other low level components

I don't know the answer, but doesn't the second sentence describe Linux?
Don't really agree.
The "natural landscape" is a pretty meaningless concept in Britain. Are moors not natural landscapes because they were formed hundreds or thousands of years ago? Is it natural when animals do something but not when humans do it? Or is it natural when hunter gatherers do something but not when agriculturalists do it? Or is it natural when non-industrial people do it, but not when industrialists do it? And why does your chosen definition matter? Is the natural landscape better than human-modified landscapes? Is a change always fine if the starting point was created by humans?

If you replaced the ancient figures carved into the chalk in England with wind farms would that be fine because they arent natural features?
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Yes absolutely definitely
It maybe robust, but it's very very limited in capability. There's no depth to GUI interactions.
Why elm over LiveView?

I know “why” elm, I liked everything I saw about it, but how do you combine the two, if you do?
How was this written in 2025 with such outdated information / false assumptions about the game
Yeah one wart about Windows is that you always have to lookup these weird registry hacks after getting a fresh install. Disabling this automatic reboot was one of them. Otherwise that would make your computer completely useless for things like

- gaming
- watching movies
- presentations
- anything where you want to let some calculation run unattended for a few hours
- anything where you really don't want your PC to shut down unexpectedly while you’re working…

Well that covers pretty much everything I guess.

And to add insult to injury, Windows 10 for a while took away the ability to Update & shut down. It’d go into some sort of hybrid sleep so you’d keep getting a reboot prompt right after starting up again.
You wrote this:

That’s not really how war works.

Then you proceed to write that China can't sink US carriers that are there to destroy Chinese ships and kill Chinese people. Next, you say that the US bombing China would not cause ICBM nuclear warheads on US cities.

So how does war work? Only one side gets to fight?
Can you share your setup? General arch and spam handling
It really is sad how Apple can't keep such a simple app, that has been working more or less flawlessly for the modern history of the company, working correctly. Bugs I've seen include:

- After waking from sleep, the current song plays silent audio (skipping forward and back again kickstarts it to start playing again)
- When streaming with lossless audio, somewhere in the first ten seconds of the song, it'll skip
- Mouseover events don't trigger when scrolling moves an item behind the mouse — you have to get the cursor to leave and reenter the object in question
- Radio stations randomly stop playing sometimes
- And I haven't seen this one in a while, but for a long time, albums in my library would randomly have a song or two split out into its own separate album. So I'd have two of the same album, one with (say) track 5 and the other with tracks 1-4 and 6-10. Deleting and re-adding the albums would at least temporarily fix this.
Ummmm, what? Spotlight I'll grant you, but Finder is hands down the worst file browser on any operating system.

There's no up button, no split screen, you can't copy a path easily, you can't show hidden files easily, you can't customize the columns in list mode, the column mode won't let you go up, there's no cut and paste.

Windows Explorer sucks, but not nearly as bad as finder. Dolphin, thunar, and Nautilus on Linux have all those features and more. I have to drop to terminal or install mucommander just to do basic things in the macOS filesystem.
> China wants to retake Taiwan

Take. They can’t “retake” something they never had.
It’s not so much the people or the land, but rather what they can build. It’s the whole essence of the article. Not sure how far behind the West would fall if TSMC was controlled by the CCP. 5 years? 10?
... does not even ask for your email?
As far I remember, Microsoft design team used Sketch, which is... mac only.

Now they are using Figma, but as far I know, yeah, they all use macs lol
I thought I must have misentered it once and it’s always stuck on that but now you’ve got me thinking
Unreliable workers cause timeline problems. They can't build the roof first or do the wiring before the walls are put up. If some guy quits, gets fired, injured, it can throw off other dependant timelines. Maybe now that Bob got fired for showing up drunk and hurting someone, framing is going to take 2 more weeks, and now the drywaller contractors window got fucked up, they drop the job, and now you have to find another drywaller contractor on short notice. Maybe you can't until 6 months, so now your plasters are gone too, etc.
ok my bad, I thought it was mostly harmless. editing.
How do you determine what amount of bureaucracy is acceptable to do?
Ask HN: Job security of app vs. embedded software devs in the next 5-10 years?
Who will be most affected by the current developments in "AI" over the next 5-10 years? Application developers, embedded developers, firmware engineers?
some windows laptops have a haptic touchpad from sensel, which is reportedly good
ps: apparently licorice can cause harm
Ask ChatGPT to explain any concepts you don't understand. Or have Cursor write some for you and then explain it. The MDN documentation is much better than the spec, but it's hard to know where to look unless you have code in front of you.

Another option is to ask Cursor to create a simple layout like a grid with a header and two columns, then ask it to explain the CSS it generated.

Using an AI like a professor sitting next to you is your best bet these days. Be sure to make lots of your own statements and ask questions like, "Is is true that..." so the LLM can level-up your knowledge.
All software development is ultimately dominated by complexity management asymptotics.

Every tuple of

(engineers, organizational structure, choice of language, ...)

Generates a function mapping from <complexity of problem> to <complexity of solution>

The asymptotic behavior of this function determines the most complex problems you can solve before the complexity of your solution (the software) blows up and becomes unmanageable.

Apple's function currently has subpar asymptotics on the software side, so they've hit the bounds of complexity that they can properly handle.

There are a lot of things you can do to improve your asymptotics: engineering org structure improvements, switch to programming languages with better complexity function asymptotics, etc. etc., but any of these changes require an organization with the executive function and insight to actually make the jump, which is by no means a given.
Well, it's hard to solve a problem you don't understand right? When a problem fundamentally lies in a domain no one understands, how will it ever be fixed or solved? Best you can do is paper over the problem in some way, or somehow get randomly lucky.
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I think this looks way simpler

<div className=“flex gap-2”>
<Button/>
<Avatar/>
<\div>

Then just apply the box styles using *: selector or directly in the component
Multipolar world order:

Now that it’s become untenable for great powers to fight and they’re all facing regional instability and domestic unrest (EU, US, RUS, CN), we’ll see a century of consolidation and realignment at the regional/continental scale.

ASEAN, China, E Asia, India, Russia; Middle East and South Asia; EU, UK, Russia; US, Canada, Latin America; South America (eg, Argentina, Brazil, and Ecuador); Africa (though, I’m less familiar with specifics there).

We’re seeing political upheaval in each region as states jockey for position in this new world order — now that international global order is dead (or at least, mortally wounded).

Exciting times!
Taiwan government is the biggest shareholder of TSMC…
Following this, after having SMTP in house for years and years just fine (IIS6) I’m told the server is decommissioned. Sometimes we send 20,000k in a day, but that’s when an announcement goes out. Otherwise it’s a few dozen registration emails per day. I was thinking of installing postfix on a Linux VM on the same IP and letting it ride. So used to paying zilch and having it running on a web server that’s for other things.
What did they think a Foxconn factory is for? High tech what?
The difference is that those solutions are mandatory access control. Fuchsia doesn't have a global namespace that everyone shares. Each component gets it's own view of the world based on what is passed to it. This is often easier to work with then MAC. It's similar to writing a program without relying on globals for state, but instead passing everything into every function that it needs.
Even if I don't necessarily agree with it, I can understand an argument for not allowing credit cards to suffice for this (not everyone has good enough credit to get a credit card - we shouldn't discriminate against the poor and all), but shouldn't every adult legally residing in Australia be able to open a bank account and get a debit card, even with bad credit?
Having recently done a timer replacement on a Dualit, I think that might literally be a Dualit timer module. Looks identical in the packing box photo. It wouldn’t surprise me if the heating elements were the same as well (haven’t checked) though those are probably more commonly available as generic items.
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Most people have no idea what a Foxconn is other than the 2 minute mention on local news.
The tail of the problem is quite long. Even if the average model is perfect at these things, do we want them to re-reason each time there's an impasse of outcomes? Often, the outcomes we want to achieve have well traversed flows anyways and we can just encode that.

In fact, I'm looking forward to the day that models are better at this so we can generate agents.json automatically and self-heal with RL.

On the business model, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. We don't charge developers, anyways