skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's my point. And there are many Labor MPs that are to the right of Starmer on this issue. The party that's closest to the Democrats (and arguably slightly more left on the issue though not by much) are the Lib Dems, and they got, what, 12% of the vote?

Also, do you not think American right wing media is not capable of whipping up panics? This feels like special pleading.
That's incorrect. Gender was a larger predictor in the last election (and then married status, interestingly enough). Trump gained in both black and latino voter share. https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latin...
Which is increasingly looking intentional
not everyone is offered "life changing" somes of money to stay?
How is this different than the manager who has spent years developing an employee - making sure they are getting the experiences they need to build a better career, hiring the right people to complement the team, fighting for bonuses and pay raises - only to have them quit to join the next company for a 10% raise. It is difficult to build a long-term culture when society seems to expect job hopping to rapidly advance a career.

On a related note, it is odd that HN comments rarely seem to include a manager’s perspective.
If the goal is brevity, the rules could first replace 'std::' with nothing.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
There is a guy who keeps posting SFW, but still dank memes
Is the question actually difficult, though? If you ask for some standard task, then of course those who are leaning heavily on LLMs will do well, as that's exactly where they work best. That doesn't tell you anything about the performance of those candidates in situations where the LLM won't help them.

I suppose, if you are specifically looking for coders to perform routine tasks, then you'll get what you need.

Of course, you could argue that ~90% of a programmer's work day is performing standard tasks, and even brilliant programmers who don't use LLMs will lose so much productivity that they are not worth hiring... Counterpoint: IMO, the amount of code you bash out in a given time bears no relation to your usefulness as a programmer. In fact, producing lots of code is often a problem.
iirc it’s exactly 12 pentagons required to tile the sphere with hexagons, independent of hex-tiling size. So it’s almost fully consistent, and uber tries to put most of those pentagons in the ocean
I will see if I can find that book, thanks for the recommendation.

I'm not sure how we could untangle the issue of today's uneducated populace with our education system itself. If people don't understand marginal tac rates, for example, and most people go to public school because the government makes it pretty difficult to choose anything else, is it not the fault of public education for either not teaching it or teaching it poorly?

More importantly in my opinion, if people don't care to understand it that's fine - they can make that choice. If the system still works and no one complains, great. If it becomes a problem we can either better educate people on how it works or move to a more simply form of taxation that is easier for people to understand.
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Since at least C++14, no one should be learning C as means to learn C++, unless they want to keep writing security exploits on regular basis.

CppCon 2015: “Stop Teaching C"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk
It's wild to me the blatant double standard that Reddit admins and mods have regarding violence in comments.

You can crack jokes left and right about Russian soldiers getting blown up by drones or Russian oligarchs and bureaucrats being pushed out of windows and 'falling onto bullets' but if someone says the same thing about American oligarchs the ban hammer comes out.
Documentation is an essential part of software development in the open-source world. We all know it's crucial, yet somehow, it always ends up as a collection of outdated markdown files and half-finished README.md lurking in our repositories. That's exactly why Query Docs exists—not to reinvent documentation but to make it actually work for both contributors and developers.
In practice, there is little to no advantage. Any spacing filling index is trying to fit into an ordered index like B-tree, so existing horizontal scaling solution can be directly applied. The problem is it's much harder and inefficient to implement computational geometry algorithms on spacing filling index than a real spatial index like R-tree. On the other hand, scaling can be easily solved by table partition on different area.
That is why Request per seconds has been a meaningless measurement for the past 20 years. A page view would be a better metric. Whether that is 1 request or 100 request.

That is especially true when comparing a site done with Rails + Hotwire vs Others + React / Client Side Rendering.
Definitely by randomly cutting large swaths of the support of a service you’ll end up with a better service. Like if Microsoft cut 30,000 people randomly, you’d definitely get a better company. And everyone who relies on Microsoft products would be great in the meantime.

Again… randomly. There is no method being applied here of need or capability/skill. Clearly the best way. So smart. Definitely not trying to make something so bad people don’t care when you get rid of it. Like someone being sarcastic about it being bad instead of realizing one side has been trying to starve it to make it bad. See the USPS for similar examples.
Artisanal firmware is the future (or the past? or both?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBXsRC64hw4
I need to give a name to my theory which posits that horseshoe theory is a bullshit right-wing talking point, no different from the classic villain trope "We are not so different, you and I", where one side admits to being awful but uses false analogies to try and paint the other with the same brush, and the other rejects both the comparison and the conclusion.

The underlying goal of horseshoe theory is not to create a meaningful comparison between two positions, but an underhanded attempt to demoralise those on the left, and to swing undecided centrists by convincing them that the left isn't really offering the progress that it claims. I think it's also used as a shield by people who are right-leaning but don't want to admit it out loud.

...unless you can find a single good example of a notable left-wing proponent suggesting that horseshoe theory is valid, actually.
Just recently Musk threatened cutting Ukraine's access to Starlink and then insulted the Polish foreign affairs minister once it was pointed out that its paid by Poland. Here: https://x.com/sikorskiradek/status/1898700362460070080

Even though later he claimed that he did not mean that, I guess more people will start thinking about these things.
Republicans block improvements and then blame democrats for not improving things. They get power and make things worst.

So, how is inflation and egg price doing now when bad democrats lost?
Would be good to share some examples. You can't expect everyone to go hunt down YC startups' product videos to see what you're talking about. Probably just premiere / after effects, anyway. Not everything's gotta be AI...
I'm in the same boat. I've found it useful in micro contexts but in larger programs, it's like a "yes man" that just agrees with what I suggest and creates an implementation without considering the larger ramifications. I don't know if it's just me.
Where in Unicode, do you know?
> This is the end of an empire

Empires are not good.

> I am really amazed there are still almost half of the people able to twist reality to defend what is a direct attack against their own personal interests

Self-interest is a middle-class religion. I think that a lot of Americans think that what we are doing is morally wrong. I also think that the idea that everybody else is going to shun our military exports over ditching Ukraine is absolutely hilarious. Ukraine isn't paying for any of this, they don't even count as a customer. Everybody has been free at all times to buy from the UK, France, and Germany, and if they don't see the difference between themselves and Ukraine, they should make decisions about their futures accordingly.

I might remind them in passing that borrowing money from Germany to buy weapons from Germany was what brought Greece's economy down. Also I'd remind them, for what it's worth, that again they're partnering with Germany or France or the UK to invade Russia for unintelligible reasons.
A small note: 1.96.2 is the VSCode version, the Cursor version latest i think is 0.46.x.

I'll also say that "Restore checkpoint" often causes crashes or inconsistency in the indexed files. I've found using git and explicit full reindexing has solved more problems than the AI itself.
Just to clarify, by wrong opinion, you are speaking to the "authority's" opinion of what right and wrong is, as opposed to the universe's objectively right and wrong?

As in, anything that can realistically challenge an entity with power (say, energy companies using non-renewable systems like oil vs infinite / abundant systems like nuclear) is deemed "wrong"?
The current new guard GOP are currently demonizing and firing federal workers who have protections under the law. Their actions are not pro worker.
A strong economy only exists with a strong democracy. Billionaires thought this administration would be good for them, but they are just as stupid as anyone.
Your good health is an invisible crown that can only be seen by those who do not wear it.
This is great.

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Tip

For the best experience, try saying "meow" or "woof" out loud while your encryption runs. It doesn't affect the algorithm at all, but it does make you feel more connected to the process!
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What would be the most efficient way of creating a long term theory for a newcomer and where should they start ? Global systemic issues ? Local/State level issues ?

How did you personally created your world model ?
The Jefferson area of CA seems about as serious as Oregon.

With out current structure of governments, as we get around/over 80% urbanization, the rural areas will just get steamrolled and want to break away due to a lack of agency. If you study people in the "western Idaho" area and on the Oregon coast, it would be easy to see that they are two different nations.

Also,do you have e a source for the 5x tax collected number? The 5x seems really high. I couldn't find one for Indiana, but Illinois shows it's <2x.
About one in five Windows updates shows a notification along the lines of "Update your browser preferences to secure defaults?", which is code for "Can we bing you mate?"

Every time I visit my parents, I need to de-bing them again
Or maybe because Chromium is pretty good, open-source and there's nearly no upside to reinventing the wheel?

If Mozilla would fork Chromium now and base Firefox on their fork I would switch from Brave. The engine simply technically superior.
How is it a big deal? If Austria wanted full access to NATO technology then they should have joined NATO. They chose not to, and now they have to accept the consequences of that choice. Can't have your cake and eat it, too.
If not for tariffs, we'll all be driving BYDs in a decade.
Trump wants to cut the military as well, so it will be double disastrous for the US military complex.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/defense-stocks-drop-after-tr...
Finally a use for ipv6!
Thanks for that very interesting and insightful feedback!
A 10x person who brings down 20 others to a small fraction of their potential and causes other rockstars to leave is still net-negative. Good management understands this.

(And I'm not sure why I'm downvoted for this. Nothing about that should be controversial?)
> Federal grants won't fix the fundamental economic problems.

The economic problems are that once a location reliant on extractive industries gets too expensive (and / or gets automated leading to orders of magnitude cuts to the necessary workforce) it's not coming back, the companies either fold or leave. Europe has coal countries which folded a century ago. Once your coal is too far to be cheaply extractible, even if new tech made extracting it viable once again it almost certainly would not need anywhere near the same level of crewing. And reactivating an old mine is probably not worth the cost over upgrading mines which are still active.

So your only "fixes" are to flee the area or move to a new industry. And to do the latter, you need a way to kickstart the change. That's the goal of federal grants.

The recovery of extractive areas is difficult, and may not even be possible if too dependent. And it certainly does not happen by clinging to the extractive industry which left you behind.
My Danish is not very good but I read Politiken sometimes and it seems quite good.
The ability to turn a study on "the effects of testosterone hormone therapy on breast cancer" into "transgender", into "why are they twisting his words! everyone knows he didn't mean transgender" requires some serious excuse making mental gymnastics. Why are you still trying to convince yourself rather than just recognize maga has gone completely off the rails?
People have been trying to shoehorn the Internet into the OSI model for decades. It's like the OSI supporters have waged a campaign to be relevant...and won.

It's a nice model, but once it gets above the phy layer it becomes sort of bad.
lol Russia are barely making progress in Ukraine, and have effectively been in a stalemate since the 2022 invasion - while currently shipping back their wounded vets to the frontline on donkeys. Hadn't it been for Trump, Russia would effectively go bankrupt before being able to cross the Dnipro river.

The only real capability Russia has, are their nuclear weapons and other long-range weapons - and even with the latter, they have been struggling.

FWIW, I worked in the defense industry, and even before the invasion Russia has been viewed as a paper tiger. They're good at coming up with novel ideas and weaponry, but for whatever reason, struggle to successfully get things from the drawing board to operational weapons.
Yes. I understand and agree. The NHTSA doesn't do this testing because it would hypercharge his arms race and expose how being poor on the road (smaller and older car) is much more dangerous.
It really makes you feel like you're in the middle part of the 1980s.
You must have been traveling in some neocon circles a decade ago. But normalizing relations with Russia and disengaging with the rest of the world military was the goal for us liberals back then: https://youtu.be/T1409sXBleg?si=svqMzx1aAIKgMd13; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/
>It's far more appealing to hear that your jobs were taken by cheap Chinese labor than to hear that your skills are out of date and you need training.

Training for what? What if our population of working age people is far larger than our economy's ability to absorb whatever sort of service worker you imagine they should be training to become? Given a fixed total population, there's only room for x masseuses or y graphic artists. If we have n unemployed people needing training, and that number is higher than x and y combined (for any sort of x and y), telling them to retrain doesn't solve their problem. Some are going to lose out. The truth of the matter is that by offshoring manufacturing, we created an economy where there is a surplus of ultimately unemployable people.

A message of training isn't just bullshit, it's transparent bullshit. Most people have an intuition that this is the case, after all. As for midterms, both the Republican and Democratic parties have a different strategy. They will simply import voters who will vote for them. H1Bs for the GOP, and the remainder of the naturalization pipeline for the Ds. It's slow, but they're willing to put in the longterm effort.
Hold the line, stop the oil tankers.
I'd love to have that choice. Neither the Republican nor Democrat party in 2025 offers me that.
Reddit moderators have the power to artificially boost comments with hundreds of upvotes, shaping and controlling public opinion deliberately.

I once made a thread titled "Is Spotify Just Porn for the Ears?" discussing the dangers of mindless dopamine consumption. It started going viral, with hundreds of comments pouring in within minutes. All of the top-voted comments agreed with my points, sparking a detailed and insightful discussion.

Then, the moderators stepped in. They locked the thread. Almost immediately, comments disagreeing with my post were suddenly showered with hundreds of upvotes.

From that moment on, anyone stumbling upon the thread would see a locked discussion with the most upvoted comments disagreeing with me - making the moderators' decision appear justified.

Draw your own conclusions.

I'm still wondering what it was about the thread they did not want the public to discuss. What exactly triggered them and is on their list of keywords or topics to censure. I remember I mentioned something about dopamine being in gland in the brain, and if you use it up, the gland gets emptied. Then you feel low. So you should let the gland fill up and feel high all the time. Avoid using it up.

That dopamine does not get "downregulated" and all this nonsense about "rewiring" neurons etc was junk science and i backed it up strong with references and ideas. Anyway, Reddit has a monopoly and the mods are a bunch of marxist incels trying to stop people talking about loads of stuff like carnivore diets, like how auto immune disease is caused by fungal infections mostly in the gut.... so what can we do. Marxists hate humanity and probably even themselves.
Oh yes, I also will listen to NPR and other radio news when I'm driving.
Am I reading this right? Nothing has been disabled, they're no longer sending frequency updates? Not even clear if this is related to the current spat.

> the Biden Air Force was able to keep up with the Russian adaptation by constantly tweaking the AN/ALQ-131 frequencies, under Trump, Ukrainian pilots are not receiving updates, and the programs could soon become obsolete.

If so, title seems inflammatory. Not that I support the action, just saying it should be characterized accurately
Fair point. If only we had stretched that over decades and spent billions of dollars. I guess it could have been a lot more expensive?

Still waiting on the alternative plan.
I brought both so you wouldn’t have to stress over which one to deflect with.
Incidentally, WeChat mini apps (and the equivalents in AliPay and other services) are essentially specialized websites.

WeChat itself on Android bundles a Chromium-based engine to run these mini apps.

Most people in China are using Chromium frequently, even if they don't think of it as a browser.
Correct. Interestingly enough, it will massively increase the supply of euro bonds, and probably pull in a bunch of cash that goes to US treasuries now.

If there's enough pan European bonds (which there won't be) then the reserve currency status of the dollar could be threatened.
just because it hasnt worked so far doesnt mean it won't work. the time horizon matters. is russia gonna give up in 10 years? this is a bad plan. in 1 year? maybe not so much.
This isn’t “Europe” pushing for a war, that’s solely Russia. That’s also why this policy reversal is so shocking: until recently, pretty much everyone accepted the post-WWII consensus that the United States helping to stabilize Europe was better for everyone. Trump throwing in with Russia is not only a betrayal of our allies but also dramatically increasing the risk of war since it tells Russia and anyone else so inclined that wars of aggression are viable as long as you make it financially rewarding for him.
That and the discussions are basically devoid of any new info or insight. If you were to take a random comment from each of these threads, youd probably have a hard time telling which came from where.
This is going to make Australia think twice about those Virginia subs
In systems languages that predated C like NEWP and PL/I variants, in Object Pascal, Modula-2, Mesa, BASIC, Ada.

The different is that some of them have the knowledge between type safe pointers, i.e. can only be created by taking adresses of existing variables, and unsafe pointers, i.e. can be created out thin air like in C.
Weapons procurement expenses has been shooting up in Europe, I do not get why you only talk about the spoken plans and not the actual things that eventually happens after these plan are designed.

Just a few days ago, Leonardo signed a treaty to develop uavs together with Baykar. A month or so ago, Italian government announced the creation of a joint venture between rheinmetall and Leonardo, sharing technologies to Leonardo and producing some of the >1000 ifvs to buy for the italian army in italy and some in Germany
Who stops them? Ideally we'd do this without starting WW3.
> doesn't want to surrender a chunk of its territory

It is not about a chunk of the territory.
One big win might be power savings.
What’s wrong with looking outside? I’m at the point where I treat my phone like it’s radioactive, actively trying to limit each encounter with it. I think we should all be staring out the window more often.
Half my family is from the south and I lived in Ohio for years. They could have stopped giving tithes to churches on every corner and giving away their land and resources at pennies to massive corporations that have no allegiance and invested in education and social programs for the long term instead or in addition. The Rust Belt and the South were WEALTHY economies don't ever forget it. You can see the remnants of that wealth in the slave quarters adjacent to every house in certain neighborhoods, the massive plantations, the rusting industrial areas. They HAD money to invest in the past for securing a better future.
CEXs aren't a factor unless you wish to trade your valuable, scarce Bitcoin for worthless pieces of paper and linen, backed by nothing for the last 50+ years, that have had a 40% expansion in supply in the last 5 years (AKA counterfeit currency), for whatever bizarre reason someone might want to make such a bad trade.
There is attrition and there are layoffs. With attrition someone leaves every year or so, you part on good terms, and the company hires a replacement on a similar level and location.

Layoffs means reducing headcount, your team ends up weaker than it was, and everyone is left wondering if they are next.
Seems like they were able to change their position when faced with enough evidence. Does not seem like the other side can.

Also, you know, literally "what about"-ism.
it does occur to me that maybe they think robot soldiers will soon be able to keep them safe from the revolution, but honestly, they're probably just greedy and reckless.
That's not a plan. That's a wish. Wars aren't won on wishes.
It depends if you mean keeping Twitter the service operational or Twitter the product relevant.
After being a customer for about 15 years, finally going to have to move away from Gandi now.

The increased costs of mailboxes was already putting pressure on me to move but an outage of this length is the nail in the coffin.
so your alternative of inaction involves a likely outcome of raping and murdering thousands of civilians in the name of peace for thousands of soldiers.

Fantastic.
You’re right, I didn’t understand that syntax. Sorry.
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Randomly choose ten and hire one of those. Hire them on a temporary basis at first. Coach them.

Stop trying to find the perfect person and find instead someone willing to work and improve themselves. Grow the staff you need.

BTW, I wrote a book on self-directed learning, and at one time was the youngest manager in Apple R&D, when I was 20.