skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, as a European, what would you want to see happen? Do whatever we can to appease Trump, living as a subject, all because resistance is futile?

Don't overestimate the US military industrial complex. Their biggest skill is lobbying, and selling massively expensive 'super weapons' that are too expensive to use.
Great, short article -- thanks for posting.

I saw Richard Moore die Nov. 1, looking serenely at the ceiling as his lawyer, who became close to him while fighting for his life over a decade, wept...
Also etched in my mind: Sigmon talking or mouthing toward his lawyer, trying to let him know he was OK before the hood went on.

It literally sickens me that we've come so far yet have successfully seemed to extract the violence from capital punishment -- superficially, of course. There are certainly philosophical & political arguments for granting the state permission to murder captives, but I feel we should at the very least agree to not hide it; for our own sakes and those of our descendants, if nothing else. In this view, the firing squad is something of a macabre improvement.

Really, it's the same way I feel about carnism: I'm not prepared to personally chastise someone for drawing a different line on when human pleasure outweighs the moral rights of animals, but you must acknowledge what you're doing. Again: failing to speak clearly about our moral choices is a dangerous, dangerous road.
in the case of drink orders, there's a slight benefit to ordering something unique (at least unique within the queue you're standing in). you don't have to remember your place in line, or negotiate with someone else about who was there first

the space of possible drink orders isn't so large that you'll be collision-free by default (like UUIDs), so there's some incentive to guess what other people will order, and adjust your order to avoid collisions
It is single engine and it is an ugly looking plane. The F22 looks like a spaceship compared to it in terms of looks and capabilities.

For the same reason I consider the F35 a failure.
The sounds made me feel like I live 1998 again. Surreal.
We did have a discussion on Self vs Managed and TCOs associated with it.
1> We have multi regional setup so it came up with Data Sovereignty requirements.
2> Vendor Lock ins - Few of the services were not available in that geographic region
3> With managed services, you often pay for capacity you might not always use. our workloads were often consistent and predictable, so self managed solutions helped in fine tuning our resources.
4> One og the goal was to keep our storage and compute loosely coupled while staying Iceberg-compatible for flexibility. Whether it’s Trino today or Snowflake/Databricks tomorrow, we aren’t locked in.
> After ingestion, cholecalciferol is first converted to calcidiol in the liver, which can take several hours. Then, calcidiol is further converted to calcitriol, the active form, in the kidneys, which may take additional time.

read as if you're perfectly healthy, at minimum it's 24 hours. What you're talking about is probably placebo effect. For reserves to start building up to the point where your body has "enough" calcitriol, it takes weeks
Part of that is probably withdrawal, I would think.
That's why Tesla is releasing the cheaper Model Q later this year.
Right. So anyway, if various states (or the whole country) breaks apart based on urban/rural divides, the urban areas have very little incentive to try to reunite. It’s a losing proposition for the rural areas.

My personal opinion is that our state and nation legislatures have way too few members given our current populations. For example, the US House should have some sort of dynamic membership count: the smallest odd number such that when you run the apportionment algorithm the smallest state has 3 members. That’s probably somewhere around 1100 members (just spitballing).
Indeed, when Finland actually joined NATO, Russia did nothing at all, despite Finland having a longer border with Russia than Ukraine has.
Well, the person you originally replied to mentioned having a disability, and your response was "yeah but you have kids so really you chose this and also I disagree that life is harder for some people."

The generous interpretation would be that you have sufficiently good health that you do not have to structure your life around it, and therefore lack understanding of the challenges faced by those who do.

The alternate interpretation, that you do understand and choose to ignore and dismiss, would be rather less generous to you.
this is the other solution: it doesn't really matter if the queue is a bit out of order, if they all get the same thing with little delay
Yes, perhaps that's even better.
The Judicial branch has US Probation and Pretrial as an armed internal branch with legal powers.
Europe will prepare for a future independent of the US, as they have proven to be an unreliable and fickle ally. This breaks the western blocks global dominance, as it is now no longer aligned, breaking into two (or more) blocks. As a result, the US loses much of their global influence.
Cool project! Thanks for sharing.

Intrigued by the storage-why not use a VDB?
…a modifier to the generation, denoting core count and feature set?
Because the DOJ demands two things. First, Google must sell Chrome to a DOJ approved buyer. And second, Google must not pay anyone for the default search engine spot.
Hold up, that “wishing death upon others” revenue stream sounds like an interesting business model…
The only way this happens is if the EU goes full retard and sends troops to Ukraine.
Because....

>While I was blinded during each trial, I saw the theanine/D result when I wrote it down. Over time I couldn’t help but notice that my stress dropped even when I took vitamin D, and that I was terrible at predicting what I’d taken

That is not blinding
This isn't tariff related.

Per NASDAQ:

> Below-normal rain in Brazil has heightened coffee crop concerns and is supporting coffee prices after Somar Meteorologia reported Monday that Brazil's biggest arabica coffee growing area of Minas Gerais received 12.4 mm of rain last week, or 20% of the historical average. Brazil is the world's biggest arabica coffee growing country.
clickable: https://truthorfake.com/

Seeme to do a good writeup and links to useful articles. You might want to have a feedback option for submitters: seems reasonable, versus analysis seems wrong bc details.
“A drone” could mean literally anything from a twenty dollar quadcopter to the next generation $300M NGAD system.
Even I, the founder of a small startup outside the US, caught myself considering things I never would have before.

Just last month, I had to change my dedicated server provider and was genuinely concerned about hosting my websites on US-based entities. Would Trump impose a tariff to antagonize my country and president? I don't have the resources to keep changing providers and migrating my services.

I ended up hosting locally.
Certain political factions* in Taiwan should be worried.

The actual Taiwanese people are breathing a sigh of relief that they are increasingly avoiding the "primrose path" of Ukraine: Catastrophic death and destruction based on lies, marginally enriching foreign countries and a corrupt domestic elite.
That's not true. If only because the EU cannot cancel elections.

I suppose you're referring to Georgescu?
The etymology of "manuscript" is from Latin "manu" by hand "script" (scriptus) written.
If it’s open source it doesn’t matter who the state they’re collaborating with is.
Good instinct -- this is absolutely being explored in the academy[1], and IMO it's only a matter of time before Palantir, Anduril, or even Sauron (yes, all real companies interested in ideas like this...) start pitching such a product to the government.

Besides the arguments I gave above for a firing squad being philosophically superior, it's just clearly way cheaper and way less likely to go wrong, especially if you don't even need to find three prison guards who are ready and able to shoot accurately.

[1] Execution by Lethal Autonomous Mechanism: How Anti-Capital Punishment Arguments Might Lead to Automated Executions—and Why Such Automation Must Be Prevented: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5146574
Can Claude Code also be a devops agent or is it only for coding?

I currently use Cursor as a devops agent, I use the remote ssh extension to ssh into a VM, then Cursor will set up everything, I make snapshots on way in case it fucks up. It's been really great to quickly be able to setup and try out different infrastructures and backends in no time at all. It works well enough that I now do all my development using remote dev with ssh or remote containers on the a server. Having a virtualized dev environment is a great addition to just having git for the code.
At least for public companies, accounting is FAR from the end all be all.

Most of the time, company valuations are completely divorced from valuations. And much of what public companies do these days is try to game their stock price.

Government employment is 95% the time completely divorced from reality.

That being said, private companies employee a lot of people and this is very relevant.
Heh, North Korea is involved!

*eg. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/09/europe/russia-advances-ku...
Generally you see stuff like this turn into bikeshedding and/or sales features only. Way too often I see companies push for new features because they will generate sales that in the long run cause more customer loss because performance and stability was neglected to implement them.
You skipped the second part of my comment. Yes, senior execs at large publc companies--assuming they didn't do anything actually criminal or stupid related to their own finances--generally come out the other side OK. But sometimes a company can just reasonably get into a place it's hard to come out from. Kodak is a really good example IMO.
Lemmy was founded by tankie Reddit expats, and the project has had super weird issues in the past like a hardcoded blacklist and no RSS feed support for a while. So, I can't say it's for me either. Would be nice to have a viable Reddit alternative. Although Reddit does still have RSS feeds, and Hacker News does scratch the itch for certain topics.
Megalomania?
Gleam and Rust are really not alike at all aside from the most superficial ways. A couple bits of syntax, and the use of toml are about all I can come up with.
"Microsoft just doesn't make enough money from Bing/Edge to pay PC makers to leave Edge as the default."

Why would they pay the manufactures when they can just add annoying reminders and make it hard to switch in the OS they ship it with?
I think there are other advertising channels that could pick up the slack.
The milk preparation is where the barista's skill comes in.

It's much harder to make black coffee so well you'd want a professional for it. I think Glitch Coffee in Tokyo is the only place I've ever been that I've felt is worth it.

(Anti-bonus points to Philz in SV, which has the aesthetic of a specialty coffee place but actually sells Starbucks-style "totally burnt coffee with tons of cream added" products except worse.)
For almost every job I've had, I would have been more than happy to stay there if it provided the career growth that job hopping provides. Companies seem to deliberately make internal promotion far more difficult than just job hopping to L+1.
Really it’s an indictment of how poorly run Greenland is that such an agricultural paradise isn’t the leading producer of tropical produce. I mean the word “green” is right there in the name!
Wonder if this is just a broken "check for updated firmware" function?

Still not good.

I loved the chromecast when it came out, but I went through several and over time they all just became more laggy and needed to be reset often just to work. It felt like the classic Google experience for me, I had enough.

I just quit on all the options and got an AppleTV, it just works.
I find this to be true as well. I have nerve damage/pressure from bad back. If I miss a dose before bed, I almost invariably get a calf cramp in the early morning hours before waking. Very annoying, only way to get rid of it is get out of bed and stand up on it. I think flooding the body with the magnesium before bed, before it has a chance to maybe get rid of excess perhaps, because taking it too far from bedtime I'll still have twitches and cramps.
I would argue that the much higher incidence rate of suicide and mass murder in the US compared to the UK or Germany suggests otherwise. Citizens in other developed countries seem much less prone to irrational, life changing outbreaks, that to me seems consistent with the idea that there is a deep current of unhappiness running through the American population that is causing people to “break”
The chaos that surrounded the Flipper Zero clearly indicates that it is an issue.
My wish for a better news ecosystem would be this:

At the bottom of every story should be - at least one but preferably a few - exact quantitative predictions based on the story.

So, for example, after a dramatic story about a pending government shutdown it should say:

- over 100 children will die due to loss of funding to lunch programs (if shutdown occurs %78

- Government will be shut down for > 2 weeks %63

- > 10,000 gov employees lose a month of pay %54

And then if the predictions don't pan out it'll be obvious that most of it was hyperventilating, and if they do, I'll know to take seriously their warnings about the world coming to an end.

Another plus is; I think while the writer is choosing probabilities, he/she will realize he/she might have oversold the story, and will go back and rewrite it
Yeah, I was the same way with my iPod. I was contributing to iPod Wizard and one of the QA testers for iPod Linux, iPod Wiki, and Rockbox. I would install unstable firmwares on my iPod a few times a week and spend a few hours testing. I bricked my iPod more times than I could count. I had two iPod hard drives that I would swap between and I had a way of wiping the drive once it was out of the casing. To this day, I have no idea how my iPod 4G survived as long as it did.
fd is also great and I install it everywhere.

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
I think this blind evangelisation is absolutely an anti-badge and quite cringey.

The quality of a program depends entirely on the people writing it, no language will automagically make it “correct”, whatever that means.

“Fast” can be achieved in pretty much any language and “modern” also doesnt really mean anything in terms of code or application quality.
That's what I use to export photos. It's bad in almost every way, except for the fact that it works.
It isn't fantastic on net, although it could be a net benefit for those industries that compete directly with (former?) American strengths. The other industries will no longer benefit from the highly competitive offerings of US cloud providers, which are for now, better and cheaper than the alternatives.
As long as we don't ask it to make paperclips it should be fine.
Because in spite of the west's propaganda, Xi is a good dictator. Singapore was/is also a totalitarian state yet many do business with it.
100% agree.

Killing is a violent act. If you are unable to look at your actions as they are, if you must paralyze a man so he does not yell and moan as he dies, you have lost the moral authority to take his life.
It’s false to say that all F-35 engines are made in the same country.
What's warehouse 14?
Those "lifer" friends may just be later in their career, though. Your ability to significantly advance your compensation depends on how early in your career you are. You will plateau at some point, but early on it makes a lot of sense to job hop. My first job hop was for +66% comp increase. My next was for about +25%, next for +15% or so. Eventually you hit a ceiling. After 30 years in the industry, my last job change was probably about +0.05%. I expect if I have to interview again, it's a toss up whether I'd get a higher or lower offer.
I think that's kind of the point. The Trump admin takes a very isolationist view of things, so I don't think they even want all those international bases.
Originally it was Office Communicator, then Lync, then Skype for Business and now Teams.
Oceans' deepest trenches are home to 'incredible' diversity – Science – AAAS
We tell them: HELL NO. You’re about to become a magnesium-based lifeform. The age of the primitive carbon-man is done.
It would be hilarious if Google just formed a foundation to open source and manage Chrome going forward. I mean, it's already built on Chromium.
Actually, your view is true even if there exists even just one person with your view. In reality what matters is the distribution of views. Furthermore, what matters is the distribution of views by the decision makers because those will be divorced from public distribution and informed by other secret plans or information unknown to public. So in a sense, it doesn't matter whether he is right or you are.
my own anecdotal experience with magnesium : i was generally prone to leg cramps even when young that usually subsides when i take salty water. i had developed hyperthroidism in late 90s that was treated eventually with radio-iodide. subsequently i went into hypothyroid state. soon after was a violent cramps episode which became regular that even if i took few hundred steps my legs would start cramping up. A steep descent into quality of life had me try many many tests as the initial suspicion was some kind of clot. Quite painful nerve conduction velocity tests were done. I was the subject of academic curiosity at stanford hospital. I was on codeine and other pain medications. After a year of this, one day happened to talk to a regular doctor (no specialization), who treats patients from asian subcontinent. He said that i may have magnesium deficiency which was apparently common for my ethnic background. Since by that time i had tried everything, this was an easy choice. Just a couple of weeks in with cal-mag citrate (400mg/day), felt something different in my legs and the whole nigthmare just lifted. I was able to return to hikes etc and would only occasionally need magnesium. It has been 2 decades since, and i dont take magnesium anymore and do strenous workouts and never again triggered any cramps episode.
That's way too optimistic. If it's like "all open source," it will have some improvements, forks and then nothing. There are only so many people who can contribute to chip development, and they all have jobs.
A Category Theory-Inspired BBN
it seems so sad that americans dont find it worth while to stand up to their president
Probably accurate for the coming 4 years.

In the middle to long term though, Europe should and will decouple from the US in defense and tech. US influence will be reduced. European almost made a fatal mistake with Galileo that the US wanted to kill [0] and I don't think they will make that mistake again. F-35, Starlink, air defense will be built by European companies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)
I was planning to migrate to Fastmail but I'm curious, how is Fastmail's uptime/service health? It'd be great if their long time customers can share their experience.
That's a good point! I never got the chance to vote on whether or not shareholders should get all the votes.
From the article:

> The -233°C threshold (40 K), often associated with the McMillan limit, marks a boundary beyond which conventional superconductivity theories become less predictive.

So it’s like finding a gas giant exoplanet that’s in the “wrong” place. We understand Jupiter and Saturn. We don’t understand a gas giant orbiting its star in ten days. Thats weird. And science can’t progress when there is nothing “weird”. It means all the data matches our models. It’s boring. It has nothing to teach.

A ten day orbit or a normal metal group superconductor are outside our comfort zone and may mean new physics.
Humans Can Reinvent Themselves to Live on Other Worlds – Universe Today
And https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep maybe
As a reference point, the US has not nationalized Russian or Chinese national's assets. Nationalization is much worse than poor diplomatic relations, on a scale of retaliation it is close to war.
> If a company is bleeding revenue

Not what happened with some of the recent layoffs. Some big tech companies generate huge revenues, laid off 5-10% of people (sometimes with false pretext of performance), and do keep hiring at the same time or soon after. This happens not to reduce cost but to stress out remaining employees.
Does he not? I'm not any kind of expert on Russian politics but would you have said the same of Putin when he was PM?
This is awesome, but also makes me want to fight you
> Are you serious?

I am serious and didn't think anything I said here was contentious. Which part are you feeling incredulity over? I'll try to clarify if I've been unclear or learn from your perspective.
I work for one of the domestic alternatives.

Guess where our network gear vendors are? (Currently using mostly Arista, but also some Juniper core routers, used to have Cisco gear too).

Guess where our OS is being sold from? (Even when use Linux, much of it is RHEL).

We use VMWare products (yep, US), and Openshift (RHEL, also US).

We use F5 and A10 load balancers. Both US.

There's sooo much off-the-shelf hardware, software and firmware from the US; replacing one of them would be a big to huge integration project; replacing them all would be an endless nightmare, especially if the only alternative is from China. If there even is a practical alternative.
Which allies fought alongside in every conflict the US participated in? With the exception of the blunders in Iraq and Aghanistan where everybody jumped on the “lets conquer faraway countries” bandwagon.

In Syria the US bombs things at their will, same in Somalia. In all Latin America conflicts the US went at it alone.
Cosine Similarity: The Angle That Misses the Meaning
My short post about the limitations of cosine similarity used for semantic matching in organic search.
That's because it's done by folks not up to snuff.

Lots of that, going 'round, these days. Companies are firing (or driving off) all the people that can do it right.
Is this distributed and peer to peer? Because I don't want to pay the cost of 50 agents myself. And we truly need something that can't be centralized
The EU didn’t give power to the US. The US took it after the European states got decimated after WWII. Power is not given, it’s taken.
Show HN: Rust SQL to Nosql (Redis)
I bought 2 machines in the past year and neither of them had Chrome installed. Maybe it happens, but not on the two brands I got.
There's an interesting moral quandary there, as to whether cooperation with a totalitarian regime helps diminish or consolidate the regime's power, but this daylight savings thing here in the US is throwing me for a loop so I'm going to have to leave that unanswered for now.

To be honest (I say this as an European), we have tougher nuts to crack the worrying whether cooperation with China will diminish or consolidate it's power. Our focus is now on defending peace and democracy in Europe (and on a larger scale non-US NATO). To say that China has its issues is an understatement (everyone has), but they are too far away to be a threat short- to midterm. Plus China also values international trade stability. So it would be silly not to look where we can (cautiously) cooperate.

Ideally we would like to continue to work with the US. But the US is less interested in Europe now and that creates a vacuum that will lead to new trade alliances.
Is there “good” dictatorships?
My personal opinion is there is no good dictator (ok, in HN context, BDFL in a SW project)
I like no totalitarian regime. No one.
ARM is a British company. We are in Europe.