skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is one of the reason why I think that "dead jobs" is not necessarily a bad thing. It points to a much larger question of "why are we even doing this in the first place?"

That's a wonderfully succinct way of putting it. We've lost sight of what the economy is for, or maybe we've never had it nailed.

Dead jobs can be fine. I've done brain dead system administration for 3 days a week with a 4 day weekend. My bills were paid. I have a more stressful higher paying job now but it wasn't worth it; the new car is nice but on the whole I would've been better off driving a beater and having the time and energy to live life on my own terms. I think that's why I'm doing it in the first place.
They've gained thousands of square kilometers in 2024, and Russia is using $200 commodity drones to fight $1,000,000 US-provided Javelin missiles.

They can replenish easily, while US supply chains will take 5-7 years to even replenish the equipment already deployed in several categories.

Russian gains are accelerating too. It doesn't take a Putin shill to see blatant reality, so why bother denying basic reality?

Analysts believe Ukraine will collapse completely in 4 months without further US assistance. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/world/americas/ukraine-us...
I love the irony that it's the complete opposite of "America First" in practice.
Opportunistic encryption and authentication methods (2014)
A few weeks ago, I saw a blog post here about their new billing policy[1]: if you don't use Kagi during a month, they'll pause your subscription.
Personally, because of this one feature of their subscription, I don't feel too bad about such "trial schemes".

I'm not affiliated with Kagi, nor am I a paid customer.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944371
> There is the question of if layoffs saved the company enough to save itself or improve?

They at least secured management a final big bonus for dealing with that, so management and shareholders cash in a bit on the way down.
And you know who we call that lone vessel on the ocean of prosperity?

Bob.
I'll never understand how employers can expect to rent my passion. If you want dedicated people, you have to start with dedication yourself.
i hope your 1 person isn't a masochist
In contrary to modern popular belief, this is not the case (at least on reddit).

Have a look at Banned Subreddits at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communi...

Unless you are advocating genocide, murder, outright advocating for ethnic cleansing, or are violently sexist/racist, you're fine.
I owned the eee 701 and it was fun using it in cafés. I graduated to the Acer 1410. Now I have a used Lenovo OG bought for $80 but its use case is similar to the netbook.
F-35 going off the menu means the two Brit aircraft carriers have no aircraft.
Overall your points are valid, but:

> There's pics of UKR javalin calvary too. It's precisely because they're situationally better than tanks in certain combat conditions.

It's a war of attrition, both sides are using whatever they can lay their hands on at this point.
This was a democrat/liberal position until 2016, and now it is exceedingly right-coded.
Absolutely. While I haven't heard of it happening yet, I have seen talks about doing so.
The Danish air force is likely experiencing a buyers remorse about their batch of F35s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Danish_Air_Force
It sounds like you're not keeping up on things. We know where the money is coming from. It's headline news daily in the financial press. What are you talking about? And yes, of course we need to defend ourselves.
The US was never in the European Union, but has always been the leader of NATO and, since WWII, the "Western world". Trump bringing the US out of those positions is a bigger deal than Brexit, because the UK was never a leader in the EU (because of all the internal opposition to it).
I’m curious, are you running GoodJob in the same database as the application? For smaller scale stuff this is super convenient, but I wonder if it will become a problem at higher loads.
Two distinctly different visions of the future
Were the "various overblown controversies" when he said "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason"?

Or when he said the United States is "utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions over there"?

Or when he said "I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic"?

Or are there others?

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/07/opinion/l-roald-dahl-also...
Just to clarify, when I say "hostile to users", I just mean generally "less accessible than alternatives". I'm not making any value judgments about how we treat one another using said access, which I don't imagine is any great panacea.
While all this is certainly true, it misses the simple political reality: The deal exists purely as a distraction to justify cutting aid. This whole discussion only benefits Putin and his assets in the white house. It doesn't even matter anymore if you believe Trump knowingly or unknowingly works for Russia, because it's clear he got played hard. There is no mystery. It's either corruption or incompetence. Maybe both.
> Russia also was shown to be nearly unable to intercept Storm Shadow/SCALP EG at the beginning. So the somewhat aging European cruise missiles were able to easily penetrate current Russian air defenses.

Most likely because they did not have the specs or complete specs for them and how they looked like on radar. There was an article somewhere that I can't find right now where something like this was said: Once a new weapon system is employed against RU or by RU against UA, it takes about two weeks to create countermeasures for it.
It's useful because you can write back-end and front-end code with the same language. Code sharing should work, as long as you don't use runtime-specific features blindly. All basic language features seem to work the same regardless of runtime.
They are not "transgender mice studies". They are human health studies using mice as a model animal, as is routine in biological research.
Oh ok this makes sense. Because of the ordering of the sentences I read it as “it pushes the code to production and then monitors it in production”.

I have found that prompting something like “do X and write tests to confirm it works” works well for what you’re describing. Or even you write the tests then it’ll iterate to make sure they pass.
Seconding sqlx, it's wonderful, is not an ORM and doesn't need code gen.
That's true, but melatonin is probably not a very representative example, (unless you're only talking about sleep) as its mechanism is really idiosyncratic.

It seems (from [1]) that the body has a day-clock which is synchronised to the actual day by the release of melatonin. Taking melatonin (at the right time) reinforces the signal; taking too much swamps it completely. It seems unlikely that many other body chemicals are part of the signal chain of a biological PLL (phase-locked loop).

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
Understanding Transformers (beyond the Math) – kalomaze's kalomazing blog
At least one aspect of the Post Office should have been privatised decades ago: the local USPS counter is the worst place to get any service they provide.

Want to buy a roll of stamps? Wait times at the USPS counter are rivalled only by the DMV. And like the DMV, they’re only open 9-5, meaning they don’t serve the 9 out of 10 employed Americans who would have to take time off work to get there before they close. Except Saturday—they’re open two hours on Saturday morning, but unless you’re first in line you’ll spend almost the entire time waiting while the pokey employee plays 20 questions with the customer in front of you who’s trying to mail an RC car to their nephew in Jakarta. Just when you think it’s your turn, the curmudgeon behind the counter will disappear in the back for minutes at a time, confident that no amount of customer dissatisfaction will affect his pay or retirement.

Meanwhile, the grocer and even the gas station in town will promptly sell stamps, bubble mailers, and print custom labels with quick service and generous operating hours - impossible for a government run office, but table stakes for a private retailer.

Privatize it!
It annihilated the VDV.
>But the ones being discussed in the article are the consistent ones. The ones you do while you’re ahead to make your balance sheet look better. Those come with a temporary balance sheet boost and all of the negative effects of any layoffs.

This feels like a "no true scotsman" argument. The headline of the article is literally "Why layoffs don’t work", not "why consistent layoffs don't work". The only mention of "consistent" layoffs were when referencing Jack Welch's management style, but that was more of an attempt to argue that layoffs are bad by citing the worst possible example, than trying to introduce nuance between the types of layoffs. The studies cited also did not distinguish between the type of layoffs.
Ask HN: Why do you use LinkedIn?
I was scrolling LinkedIn the other day and it dawned on me: why on Earth are we still using this platform? There's very few valuable content there. You will be better off finding jobs elsewhere. LinkedIn learning os okayish. Recruiting tools? Is this it?
Putin originally believed that they could take Kyiv in two days
Any warplane that _works_ has comparable, nay even better capabilities than a brick.
What side effects? It promotes energy in just a few hours, so take it early in the day. Your link is not loading. Ensure you have sufficient calcium and magnesium as cofactors.
https://wp.software.imdea.org/cbc/wp-content/uploads/sites/5... - 2021, most recent version of his notes I could find. I have this vague memory of something more recent but I can't find it now so this may be it.
There are three superpowers, only one of which has shown no hostility towards Europe. Draw your conclusions.
Unreliable indeed. It stops working half the time for no apparent reason and you have to go in and toggle settings to make it work again.
A good airplane from an unreliable supplier is not a good airplane.
When totalitarian governments all start applauding what you're doing, using what you're doing as a distraction from a bad domestic situation as well as a justification for their dictatorships, you should know that something is totally screwed up.

Yes, I'm talking about the totalitarian governments of China and Russia.
Ukraine wasn’t a buyer. They were given those F16s. Be careful when something is given for “free”.
> One of the things I love about Laravel is that I can just drop it into share-hosting and forget about it

Why can't you do that with anything?
At risk of sounding negative, I'm glad you didn't get to pester old man with a selfie.
Can we have a different kind of stock market which forces participants to consider long term outcomes more? E.g. no HFT firm should be able to make a profit from such a stock market. Selling stocks earlier and often should result in a penalty or percentage being taken away as a fee. As a retail investor I would love to use invest and forget strategy based on trends observed in such a stock market.
I've noticed that the morons came first. Facebook will surface them given a sufficiently large comment thread. There's no escaping them.
Sounds like Kindle books.
Europe has benefited a lot from not having to pour tons of money into defense spending. Europeans will be hurting if their countries suddenly have to shift finances for this.

I think it’s much easier to just hunker down and appease the United States for four years and hope the next administrations are more merciful.
"Hard to argue EU part of NATO has better military capability than 20 years ago."

We are seeing Ukrainians regularly hitting russian redars and air defence. Whatever nato wasn't able to do in hte 90s the Ukrainians are fully capable of doing today, because they are doing it. And with lots of european help. So this is just outdated speculation you're doing.
We have opened for €800 billions in investments through the EU.

So, no.

Calling anything "alarmist positions" now is just uninformed; Putin has said Russia wants the USSR territory back, their entire industry is now turned to produce weapons, their schools are "Putin-Jugend", they are currently invested in the first "great war" since WW2.

And the US isn't just getting out of Europe - they have gone full turncoat.

This is an unmitigated disaster for both US (citizens) and EU, and the EU is trying to manage what they can.
It may kill human piloted powered combat aircraft in favor of missiles and drones
They will most likely go after the ipfs clearnet proxies like dweb.link
wxWidgets might be of help. As long as they polish the wxQt back-end.
> IMO there's a strong chance US would heavily restrict/limit F35 operations against RU. Because one shot down F35 by S400 let alone anything shittier completely evaporates narrative around 5th gen (and what that entails for IndoPac)

Israel's F-35 have being going in and out of Iran's airspace with impunity, so no, I don't think that is going to be an issue.
Build trust for a hundred years. Then flush it down the drain in two months.
Hardware is not the issue. The US strictly controls the software whence many differentiated capabilities of the aircraft come. This includes a lot of secret computer science R&D that no one has access to. Countries were buying it for the advanced software.
There’s a good reason for people to flag these posts.

It seems like most folks in the comment section didn’t even read TFA.

Per TFA, this impacts F-16s NOT F-35s

Per TFA, the US is not actively “turning off” any piece of equipment, they are no longer providing updates (something with which we are all familiar.

Per TFA, this means that the US is no longer providing active support in a country-vs-country battle of electronic warfare. Which is what the title and article says, and very different from what most of you actually READ.
I considered downvoting you... because you use Windows.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38803047
The Netherlands for instance, who gave Ukraine a batch of F16s _was_ a buyer. Logic still stands, US made anything is worthless if it includes a kill switch that can be toggled any time post-purchase.
Haha, well its funny sometimes when you realize too late there were two different conversations happening.

I definitely agree on the term machine learning - it seems a much better fit but still doesn't feel quite right. Naming things is hard, but AI seems particularly egregious here.

> The fact that the underlying processes are well understood means that, if we so wished, we could work backwards and understand what the model is doing.

I'm not sure we can take that leap. We understand pretty well how a neuron functions but we understand very little about how the brain works or how it relates to what we experience. We understand how light is initially recognized in the eye with cones and rods, but we don't really know exactly how it goes from there to what we experience as vision.

In complex systems its often easy to understand the function of a small, more fundamental but of the system. Its much harder to understand the full system, and if you do you should be able to predict it. For LLMs, that would mean they could predict a model's output for a given input (even if that prediction has to account to randomness added into the inference algorithm).
These are great because often the founder managed to take money out at one round of funding or another and is insulated from downside.
If Europe is taken over by Russia, you don't think the U.S. will be next?
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html
Probably simplistic but probably also not inaccurate.

You have the people who will be directly hired through networking.

Then you have everyone else who will shotgun their resumes and other credentials. Some will have better schools and portfolios than others but it's still basically a numbers game. (And, given it's a numbers game, they may not invest much in a given opportunity unless it looks particularly interesting or a company puts skin in the game--e.g. flies them out for on-site interviews.)
Not to pile on but you say we should buy the F-35 to go toe to toe against Russia…

America is currently doing everything for Russia! If we actually used the F35 against Russia right now Trump would probably immediately do everything in his power to
stop that, just like he’s exerting pressure everywhere else he can in Russias favour

Honestly I’ll personally be buying as little American as possible going forwards
"hope"
Americans all have this attitude that theyre "on the hook" for everyone elses defence as if theyre the white knight defending the world against evil. Its more like the local mob tough guys who have been taking protection money for the last 40 years backed down when a rival gang finally decided to make a move
TheDraw
You seem to be very lucky to have found your niche.

In most companies people neither notice, nor comment and certainly don't promote you for doing a good job.

Most corporate software engineering job are about how good you are playing the corporate social games. Being exceptionally good at programming does not matter. It can even be a hindrance as it means you get more work and are less likely to be promoted as you are "irreplaceable" and your coworkers and hire-ups might start to hate you because they feel threatened by you.

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
> point was to spend their 2% GDP on American armaments

Do the NATO agreements specify American armaments? Europe could have spent on European armaments and armies too, just chose not too because they didn't see a reason to.

Europe not buying F35 or whatever hurts US arms industry, but probably not the general strategic position of the US. There's even a credible argument (dont know how credible?) that these arms programs actually undermine security by investing crazy money in outdated / ineffective technology. The dumb part would be not learning from the Ukrainians how to fight a modern war.

US participation in NATO may be made redundant, but Europe's need for a credible collective defense agreement is not going away.
What stops the Russians from reprogramming their radars to switch to a different frequency every 5 minutes as specified by a CSPRNG? It seems like it would make the manual reprogramming of jammers pointless.
So in the article, they talk about the AN/ALQ-131 jammer. It needs to be updated by the US, to keep up with the Russia counter measures, that's what's stopping. At least the F-16 donated by Denmark will most likely have pylons from Terma (ECIPS), which should work with the CJS from Leonardo (ECIPS/CJS).

Shouldn't be to hard for Europe to make the required pylons for the planes who don't have the ECIPS and for those that do, some of them might already have CJS installed.

It's a problem for sure, but it's a manageable one.
> You will be better off finding jobs elsewhere.

Where? It seems to be the most comprehensive source to me.
Strong disagree. I want absolutely control over what tools my agent can access on my computer.
The solution was obvious circa 1940 - 1970s. It wasn't science fiction, it was what was in place then.
But what about four years after that? It's just not a good idea to depend on someone who is aligned with your enemies, even intermittently.
if only just desktop... :_(
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I've lived through 3-4 major downturns too and, yeah, it's hard. Like discontinuing leaded gasoline, we either pay the price now or pay much worse later.
The conversion period strongly depends on the input dose and on available cofactors. Numerous people have reported that 5000 IU of vitamin D3 can produce energy benefits in just a few hours if one has been skipping taking it. If one is low on cofactors, or takes a low dose of D3, then I imagine it taking days or even longer as you noted.
I beleive the argument being made here is a map-territory distinction — certainly I myself see it this way.

I mean, their other comment was:

> If we'd lose so much GDP, without losing anything of value, perhaps GDP is not a useful measure of the economy.

Meta etc., can pay taxes on the profits made from connecting advertisers to eyeballs, but what actual value do they really provide? What real value gets created due to this, that would otherwise not be created? If Meta is just moving money around, without helping more stuff get made, then whatever measure says "Meta is good" is a poor measure. Even Meta's taxable income would just become someone else's higher profit or cheaper goods.

(But: I presume my belief that ads are zero-sum, or close to thst, is correct; perhaps this is untrue).
Explain USA vote in UN, they voted with Ruzzia and other despicable dictators. Not even China voted with Ruzzia and obtained.

But you can explain how the genius Trump placing USA in this group of countries is actually good for USA.
"27 in total ordered; 17 delivered as of January 2025; 11 in Denmark and 6 in Luke Air Force Base for training purposes as of January 2025"

Project is so far along that Denmark is probably stuck with them.
I suspect it is going to be done to them.

It seems to me Donald is beheld in some way to Vladimir; what's being done now to my eye is too specifically about setting up UA for second RU invasion.

Donald then I think, step by step, is going to ally with Vladimir.

1. US aid to UA stops (done).

2. USA leaves NATO (on the way).

3. US troops in Europe leave or move to Hungary (floated).

4. Hungary is ejected from EU due to Orban obstructing everything he can.

5. Hungary becomes RU satellite state (maybe with many tens of thousand of US troops).

6. USA lifts its sanctions, placing it directly in conflict with Europe.

7. Donald invokes Insurrection Act, military units can now be used for civil policing (this is why top military brass and specifically top military lawyers removed).

8. Europe puts boots on ground and air cover over UA.

9. To "encourage peace", Donald now disables support for US weapon systems being used by Europe in UA. At this point, F-35 is history whether or not EU has dropped them or not.

10. Protests in USA, military used, people die, Donald suspends Constitution "to restore order and combat subversive elements".

11. No more elections. All court cases underway made irrelevant.
> Prolonged use can lead to increased tolerance, reduced effectiveness, and potential side effects.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/should-i-worry-...

> Theoretically, these drugs might increase the risk of dementia by blocking a particular brain neurotransmitter or increasing brain inflammation. In the past decade, several studies have suggested that these pills might increase the risk of dementia, while other studies have found no risk. And all the studies are inherently flawed.
Why wouldn’t it be a good thing? I am not being argumentative, but I am sincerely curious.

To me “good” is letting human cognition seek out its limits, and to understand reality and fundamental truths. We cannot do that by confining ourselves to a singular region of the whole universe.

We are the only intelligent and capable beings (that we know of) who are self-aware and can question the nature of reality. I would say that it’s a moral duty to be both stewards of truth and knowledge, and seek to understand what we know, and what we don’t know.