skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the person you’re replying to thinks Carney's Liberal Party is set to lose the upcoming election. Before Trump started going after Canada, the Conservatives seemed like a sure bet to take over Parliament. But since the tariffs came into play, the Liberals have really picked up steam.
No matter where you stand politically, I think Trump isn’t the best at thinking strategically. He could have waited for the next Canadian election and probably ended up with a party in power that would be easier to negotiate with. Now, things are a lot less certain, and it could even give the Liberals a chance to come back stronger.
It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Plus, it’s kind of idiotic that Trump pushed for the USMCA, which looked like a win for him, but these tariffs seem to go against the spirit of that agreement. It makes you wonder why anyone would want to deal with him in good faith moving forward.
Looks like the article is describing a poorly-considered letter, not protests. And in any case, it seems irrelevant to the protests Mahmoud Khalil was part of.

I take offense at the idea that an anti-war and/or anti-genocide protest would necessarily¹ be "100% pro Hamas," since you could make the same argument about any similar protest with a drastic imbalance of power: pro-Ukraine, anti-Vietnam-War, etc. What I'm hearing is "stop struggling, you'll only make it worse" as dozens of Palestinian civilians are blown up for each murdered Israeli. The only way not to care is if you've dehumanized these people completely.

Wherever you get your notions from, they are certainly not coming from "logical people."

¹ (Which is not to discount that there were some anti-semitic and pro-Hamas protesters as well. My sense is that they were far from the majority.)
I certainly feel uneasy. To whatever extent “AI” fulfills its promise of enabling regular people to get computers to do exactly what needs doing, that’s the extent that the “priest class” like me who knows how to decide what’s feasible and design a good system to do it, will be made redundant. I guess I hope it moves slowly enough that I can get enough years in on easy mode (this current stage where technical people can easily 5-10x their previous output by leveraging the AI tools ourselves).

But if the advancement moves too slowly, we will have some serious pipeline problems filling senior engineer positions, caused by the destruction that AI (combined with the end of ZIRP) has caused to job prospects for entry level software engineers.
> What does this mean? A better vaccine?

Probably eventually, yeah. Assuming all goes well with further research and development.
The article is talking not about the route planner, which I agree usually gives very accurate estimates for specific routes, but the advertised theoretical driving "EPA ranges", which are quite inflated.

However, from what I can tell, the EPA numbers from all manufacturers are quite unrealistic, because the methodology doesn't match real-world driving.
Huh? If you or anyone loses a job and can not find another for a few months to many there's no doubt they won't be contributing to the economy.
>I can't imagine whatever Cymer is doing is completely hidden from the parent company and that it's non-replicatable anywhere else in the world?

I mean this is technology that is not in textbooks and is so specialized that China of all groups have yet to replicate it and have been trying like its life or death(because it is).

>Maybe there is some way the IP is blocked from ASML on national security grounds or something, I don't know, but what I do know, is their mutual destruction for the sake of some crusade against something ridiculous like "the woke mind virus" is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

The technology was originally developed by the US Research labs. The acquisition was only approved by the US government given certain stipulations: namely the US can tell the Dutch to do whatever they want when it comes to chip tech using their research. Thats why when the US phones up the Dutch to block sales to China, they dutifully complied. I would argue that it is pretty reasonable. The US put in the effort to develop these innovations, then gave up the freedom to commercialize it (to the complaints of some US politicians) because the Dutch had other necessary components ready to go.

It remains to be seen how the Dutch will now react given current realities but im sure there is a lot the US government can do to damage ASML if it came to that so surely that much be in the calculations.
Ask HN: Why React Native Sucks?
Is it just me, or does React Native suck? I spend most of my time debugging builds. Is there any alternative to this?
> “Columbia and Barnard are cracking down on student protesters to appease the Department of Justice and billionaire donors because they are afraid of losing their funding,” said the CUAD spokesperson.

“Appeasement” was precisely how I interpreted the actions, as well.

However, I’m surprised that the university administration is naive enough to think that’s a viable strategy. Taking a hard-line stance isn’t going to convince the Trump administration to reinstate the grants they just cancelled, or remove them from the investigation list they just announced.

Better to grow a backbone, and defend the free speech rights of students (even if that speech seems objectionable) while there are still rights left to defend.

Rolling over will do nothing but hasten their demise.
> Every article I've seen so far on LLM datacenter investment is either very bullish or very bearish and I haven't seen sober exploration of whether it might be neither.

Because bullish articles are bought by AI companies and/or encouraged by editors because AI is the hot traffic keyword right now, hence tons and tons of articles about utterly banal ML integrations being rebranded as AI so Wall Street will think your fuckin Microwave company is ushering in Skynet.

And on the flip side the bearish articles are because we're now almost 2 years into this hype cycle that Silicon Valley is trying so incredibly hard to make us believe is real, and we've had, yes, a few minor interesting things, but the vast majority of every part of it is unwanted integration of chat-bots into products that do not need chat-bots, or the replacement of lower-paid staff with a ChatGPT integration that doesn't work.

There is, and I cannot stress this enough, so incredibly little consumer interest in this tech. Nobody. Fucking. Cares. In fact, I read something recently that including AI in product descriptions actually hurts the rate of purchase by people because they're so fucking sick of it.

Now mind you, that's not going to kill AI companies, because AI companies are not worth 50 bazillion dollars on the back of chatbots. They are worth all that because of the "usefulness" of varying legitimacy in the defense industry, the insurance industry, border security, all manner of things that will almost without fail make your or other people's lives meaningfully worse, but they'll do it in a cost-effective way that reinforces existing capital and power. That's why it's worth so much money.
That document is wrong and has been wrong for years (FB13803014)
Stephen Hawking had a condition that he never wanted to have. Nobody would want it for oneself or to be promoted as a "new norm" for society.

> someone who defends themselves by de-escalating a situation through dialogue

If his only _personal_ defense is "through dialogue" then yes, it's a wimp, unless he's a very rare person that can really convince anyone.

> Could you really point to Russia and say that they're in a stronger position

In "Russia vs EU" war EU doesn't have a single chance, despite all fancy tech and gear. The only hope for EU is USA (not anymore), Ukraine and Poland that still have testosterone in their blood.

Where are you from? What did your country do over three years of full scale land war next to you to prepare for the next one? Aside of importing men from other countries to compensate for the lack of domestically grown ones, of course.
> Mark Carney steps into an unprecedented moment

Allow me to be obtuse, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't every moment unprecedented? Like, isn't that how time works?
Is Daylight-Saving Time Worth It? Experts Still Debating the Pros and Cons
It's reasonably easy to see any herbivore receiving a fitness advantage for evolving this trait, since they are more likely to use it on close kin with whom they share a fraction of their genes than on any unrelated conspecific.

It's interesting, however, to see that the small brain size of mice is still enough to support it. I suspect it has something to do with the hypothalamus/whole brain size ratio.

Since rodents have been established to be capable of experiencing entrained trauma responses (stress hormones, hypervigilance, disturbed sleep habits, reduced sociality and panic behavior to audio triggers) and the OP establishes non-parental caregiving behavior, the combination of the two suggest it's likely that they can feel some version of guilt, shame or grief in the instances where their resuscitation reflex is unsuccessful.
I most saddened and worried about all the people that will really struggle to find a job. The numbers were already rather confusing before all of this, and despite how people try to make sense of it, finding a job seems rather difficult these days. There are a ton of applicants for any job posting. Now we’ll have a flood more.

I don’t want to debate “a recession”, but we might be entering into “a great depression” of some kind as the US figures out how to navigate all of this. In 4 years is the US going to be a thriving economy or will the US be an utter wreck?
I don't think it is accurate to say that the kernel has lower privileges. It's just something the kernel isn't allowed to do, while the exclave has a list of things it isn't allowed to do. Also exclaves are shipped with normal software updates (verified by the boot chain, not the kernel).
This doesn’t make sense as an analysis. Financial journalist didn’t know how factories, steam engines, websites, data centers, or cryptocurrency worked either.
I'd give it a C-

I think it's a good time to be exploring forms of destructive but nonviolent protest. And you don't exist to Musk & co unless you impact their bottom line in some way, so... check. But they really couldn't find anything more meaningful to say with it than "we dislike Musk"? I'd like to see a bit more creativity.
Certainly the press' use of unprecedented has precedent.
You'd have to ask them. My general guess is they design their own stuff first and then try to get it standardized.
Also learn the Heimlich maneuver if you can. It’s easy to learn and you don’t need to be certified. Never thought I’d need it but I saved my brother’s life many years ago. An outlier for sure given about 6,000 people in the US die from choking each year, but still.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/21675-heiml...
It makes your device more secure.
Then I suppose increasing wages is a good option as well as adding workers are both options and more paid leave).
>Do Microsoft, Meta, etc need a federal bailout if that happens?

There is no doubt that they will get one if they need it so why worry about it?
Cottage cheese has 2.5x the protein content of eggs, and is currently cheaper. Or you can mix the two for the same taste but cost savings.
Memory management programming errors is not a problem I am having with "essential Linux packages". I use a custom userland and rely on busybox and toybox for most basic utilities. However, the size and resource requirements of a Rust toolchain and endless dependencies might introduce new problems for me when compiling essential Linux packages.
The recent advances in image recognition have millions of minor applications to agriculture, manufacturing and logistics, but the net effect is workforce reduction.
I agree about CS reviewing for conferences (esp. in systems) - pretty reasonable for the most part. Also, if things just don't work, they don't work - which is a bit different than studies in social science.
Nobody on your team had kids or dependents?
My recollection is a very high percentage. Not clear what the alternative is. No action plans to help people improve their performance? Action plans also helped people understand their situation and allowed them to find other jobs while they were still employed at GE. For clarity, I never developed an action plan for someone who was then surprised to receive it.
It was a full sentence. Try backing it up with facts. This shouldn't take a 7 comment deep thread to handle, unless maybe you are full of shit and want to bury that fact with some of your bullshit.
PHP isn't dead because it's a language that can meet you where you are.

There's lots of onramps, like shared/control panel hosting where it will just be there and/or wordpress where you want a customizable blog and now you're writing php.

There's a middle ground of frameworks and stuff.

You can write pretty darn fast web pages with just the php language if you're careful.

PHP extensions aren't the easiest language extension I've used, but you can really speed some stuff up if you need to, or interface with libraries/functions that don't have a php interface already.

And then if you're facebook, you can do Hack.

Sure, people love to hate it, but it's going to stick around for a long time because it's good enough, it's very available, it works at all these levels, and it's not tied to any particular enterprise.
Sorry about the paywall, here is the friend link
https://effective-programmer.com/rust-vs-go-battle-for-the-b...
Lol you want to know what happens to real estate when the boomers start keeling over en masse? Blackrock et al increase their rental portfolio, rent and land prices continue to rise. What, you think the largest hedge funds on the planet made a mistake when they started investing in residential real estate? Check your assumptions.
I was wrong - they actually only have 215 of them: https://cointelegraph.com/news/poland-overtakes-el-salvador-...

It was just bad, showboaty policy from a showboaty strongman leader. Why would you give him the benefit of the doubt even now?
That doesn’t undermine their point.
For those of us not already determined to vote conservative, the carbon tax was one of the most compelling reasons to vote liberal. It was a well designed policy, even if many people don't understand it.

Since they're both axing the tax anyway, that's one less differentiator which leaves me thinking maybe I should just choose based on who is more likely to pop the real estate bubble.
for decades we have prioritized market gains over jobs

HN constantly derides the "number goes up" mentality

so, Trump is in agreement

he is saying he will prioritize jobs over "number goes up"
yes, it does https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch20-01-unsafe-rust.html
I only use web clients aside from my phones.

Are you really in a situation where you need to read emails offline ?
You are talking about peter singers drowning problem, which is a pretty separate set of concerns.

I was highlighting systemic disincentives that punish potential help.

For example, About 15 years ago restaurants stopped feeding the hungry and poor because they could be sued, and locking up their dumpsters due to liability.
It depends how you count the boundaries of those projects. Does the "effort to develop" Chrome include all the work that went into WebKit (which Chrome was originally based on)? Does iOS include the bundled apps that ship with it? Does macOS include the drivers written for hardware support?

I'm certain that if you go beyond the core kernel and add in device drivers, UI layers, and user space bundled apps, macOS+iOS are far more complicated than Chrome. After all, Safari is bundled with the OS and that itself is comparable in complexity.

But if you were to strip Apple's operating systems down to the core XNU kernel, then I think Chrome is likely more complex. There are plenty of usable kernels out there, but very few usable browser engines that can handle the modern web.
It's great that you're contributing back like that
But those are often trumped by county or municipal laws.
e.g. Most urban/suburban parts of California either restrict or require permits to raise backyard chickens (also, predators are a huge problem):

https://www.omlet.us/guide/chickens/laws_about_keeping_chick...

https://www.quora.com/Are-backyard-chickens-legal-in-Califor...

(Palo Alto: Up to six hens. Mountain View: Up to four hens. Los Altos: One hen per 1000 sq feet, no permit required. Sunnyvale: Zoning laws apply. Santa Clara: zoning restrictions apply. San Jose: Up to six without a permit, up to 20 with a permit. San Mateo: Up to 10 birds, depending on plot size, with a minimum plot requirement of 2500 sq feet (excludes most people). No permit required. San Francisco: Up to four, roosters allowed, no permit required. Oakland: No number restrictions, no permit required. Berkeley: No number restrictions, no permit required, roosters allowed. Anarchy!)

What we need roundabout now is a webcam campaign/tutorial on legal backyard chicken raising...
Get some dried lentils.

They last a long time, are cheap as shit, and extremely healthy with the lowest dollar per gram of protein and couple it with a bunch of fiber and whole host of beneficial micronutrients.
That just means they are not programmers, but coders as defined here.
Does anyone have an invite code?
Same here, I did a few small taks with Claude Code after seeing this discussion here and is too expensive for me.

A small change to create a script file (20 LoC) was 10cts, a quick edit to a README was 7ct

Yes yes engineers make more than that blah blah but the cost would quickly jump out of control for bigger tasks. I’d easy burn through $10-20 upwards a day with this, or upwards $100-$300 a month. Unless you have a Silicon Valley salary, that’s too expensive.

I use other tools like Cody (the tool the author created) or Copilot because I pay $10 a month and that’s it. Yes I get rate limited almost daily but I don’t need to worry that my tool cost is going out of control suddenly.

I hope Anthropic introduces a new plan that bundles Claude Code into it, I’d be much more comfortable using that knowing it won’t suddenly be more than my $50/mo (or whatever)
> Programmers laughed at the absurdity of left-pad[1] ("why use a dependency for 16 lines of code?")

I'm confused. Did they laugh, then still use it as a dependency? If not, did they reinvent the wheel or copy the 16 lines into their project? Right up until the day of the "NPM left-pad incident" tiny dependencies were working just fine.

Also, if you cannot tell the difference between code written by an LLM or a human, what is the difference? This whole post is starting to feel like people with very strong (gaterkeeper'ish) views on hi-fi stereo equipment, coffee, wine, ... and programming. Or should I say "code-as-craft" <cringe>?
The economics of money, banking and financial markets
They raised the price of Office to make you pay for copilot.
I kinda feel like we're arguing the same side here. There aren't good options available to you if you're on a scooter.
It does — /clear. It also has /compact to summarize previous tasks to preserve some situational awareness while reducing context bulk.
His actions have a tremendous amount to do with it though.
Cottage cheese is a terrible idea with bird flu floating around in dairy, complete chaos in the systems that are supposed to inspect these supply chains, and voluntary testing requirements that meant even when the inspection systems were not chaotic they were way behind the 8 ball.

And for obvious reasons, bird flu infecting mammals is likely to be a greater risk to humans than that present in birds.
Like with SELinux where it is such a pain to get anything working everyone just turns it off.
> I'm sorry, we're assholes when it comes to nationalism sometimes

Please speak for yourself, as a fellow Canadian. This is not about nationalism, but rather about not giving into a bully. If we start begging for mercy now, things will just get worst. And no, most Canadians do not fear the US invading, as many believe a civil war in the US will happen before that. We also have the luxury of having goodwill among many around the world, so selling our goods will not be an issue but we will obviously have to lower our margins to overcome geographical barriers.

I just want to make it clear for any readers here that GypskyKing716 is not the voice for all Canadians, and his voice is his own, like mine is.
I don't see either. It's not even similar to goto. It's nothing more than method invocation, which is nothing like goto.
I talk to corporate normies a lot, and what I see is this:

- copilot as a "internal super google" is incredibly valuable. However, no company is so completely on the Microsoft train that copilot alone cam do what they want. Eg if they have Salesforce, then tough luck as copilot cant "see into" that. Moreover copilot today has strange limitations even inside the 365 stack, eg with OneNote. If microsoft can build a corporate-focused RAG that genuinely mops up all these kinds of sources, they will have a winner on their hands.

- copilot as coder is a mixed bag. Good for jumpstarting tasks, but not reliable enough to be left unguarded, ie experienced devs still need to be paid to shepherd it.

- everything else: not much of anything achieving real, deep value. Lots of anecdotal use cases like drafting emails.

- scary as hell: the rise of shadow AI IT where corp users use chatGPT with company info, ignoring the risk that what they ask gets folded into training data. Proprietary info leakage is going to be a problem I think.

None of the above makes any of the tools worth $30/mo per user. A super google copilot that genuinely captured everything across all silos and presented a unified interface (none of this cruddy plugin agent nonsense) would be worth north of $50/mo at any large corporation.
So there are good reasons, aside from reliability, efficiency and ease of repair, for having a 1981 Diesel Chevette with a 100% mechanical engine :)
A ton of hedge words. Example: "You probably wanna consider looking at that book" instead of "Take a look at that book". There's also some pseudo-math language I love such as "It's orthogonal to the point I made earlier modulo the given event".

At least that's how HNers used to talk years ago. I dont look at comments anymore.
I like to plug Kagi whenever I get a chance

Your subscription includes not just the stellar search engine, but access to their assistant as well, along with all their privacy benefits

What I love about assistant specifically is that it lets you switch between one of 10+ models. If you are curious for example how a different model would answer a prompt, within the same thread you can change the model and re-ask your question

Gemini, deepseek, Claude, mixtral, ChatGPT, etc

Definitely worth checking out - has definitely help me take advantage of these bots more
Mark Carney wins race to replace Trudeau as Canada's prime minister
Yes, this is certainly true for ICE vehicles. The measurement methodology is spelled out in exacting detail, and yields highly repeatable results. Realistic? Nope, not at all. Nobody could claim that. But, it is repeatable and comparable, so that you can compare car A to car B. It gives you a strict rank order for vehicles that are driven exactly the same way, it just so happens that no person drives exactly that particular way. The utility is in providing a repeatable point of comparison. Is that useful?... forgive me for saying it, but YMMV.
I think that's probably reasonable.

I'm 34 right now. Nearly everyone dies of cancer or heart disease, and my family doesn't have any history with heart disease but it does have a history of cancer in their late 60's and early 70's, so it's probably cancer that will kill me.

If I can hold on until I'm 74, that's about 40 years from now, maybe I'll benefit from it. That would be pretty cool.