skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No, that's not it. I'm writing this from rural America in deep Trump territory, and people here are already struggling and have been for years. From their perspective they've been left out of the benefits of the global economy—the big cities and the coasts might be better off, but the middle of the country wants to go back to when they had opportunities and jobs for working class Americans.

But they haven't, they're just completely uninformed about what they're getting. If you think ANY of the rural farming communities could continue to exist without significant federal subsidies, you're crazy.

Ask a farmer whether globalization has helped him or not the next time China retaliates to a tarriff by refusing to import any US soybeans and you'll quickly discover that it has absolutely helped them.

Globalization is less the cause of their issue, it's deregulation. Consolidation of manufacturing has killed plants in those small towns. Consolidation of groceries[1] has made it impossible for small-town grocery stores to survive on their own. Both can be traced back to Reaganomics.

Are the Democrats at fault for not attempting to reverse any of that? Absolutely, but the answer isn't: we need someone who wants even more consolidation and to kill all international relations.

[1]https://ilsr.org/articles/policy-shift-local-grocery/
I think he’s wrong about it looking antiquated. It is one of the most beautifully done bits of TUI design I’ve seen.
Alongside its allies, mostly. Thanks JD.

Not that they’re going to be allies much longer.
The result, and perhaps the definition, of the polarization problem is that every time something terrible happens, the responsible side would rather say "I love suffering, this feels great" than lose face in an imagined argument with the other side.
> The Biden administration successfully placed tons of factories all over the country with tax incentives for clean energy, but those factories could never trumpet what they were doing because hate for Democrats and for Biden and for clean energy is stronger than any desire for jobs

Nothing has changed here. It's doesn't matter what they've claimed they're doing, there are still no jobs here and working class Americans feel abandoned.

The vast majority of Trump voters around here voted for him because of the economy. The trans stuff was seen as evidence that the Democrats were so wrapped up in first world problems held by a tiny minority that they didn't even notice that the majority of the country was actively struggling to make ends meet. It's not about the trans people, it's about the narrative that Trump shaped about how that related to these people's economic lives.
He has been pretty vocal about exactly that. He said multiple times that European countries must increase defense budgets significantly.
couldn't edit but here it's how science measure stress: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8434839/
Thanks! I'm still a bit confused because you can't tile the globe with hexagons either, if I understand correctly -- everything I can find online says you need a mix of hexagons and pentagons, and you can think of a soccer ball as an example.

Has Uber figured out a way to do it with just hexagons?
It's not being dismantled at all. It's engaged in a sudden retrenchment which has been brought on by years of slow decline.

They even say this - Rubio said that we do not live in a unipolar world any more - a comment which attracted weirdly little notice.

Biden's approach assumed a unipolar world which did not exist. That's why the Ukraine war, from the American imperialist perspective, backfired.

The achilles heel of the American empire was, ironically, always profit and greed. If there is one thing that could be used to persuade America to let its industry rot it is profit and its industrial malaise is largely responsible for the ever-more-obvious decline in hard military power.
Congratulations to Russia for winning the Cold War I guess.
Yea, that’s what I thought. So let’s take this one step further. If google can’t pay Chrome, how does Chrome hire developers to continue the product?
They can probably sell them to Russia or China a few years down the road at the current trajectory.
Now you’re assuming quite a bit more than just a handful of troupes surviving. Such as them being able to get to an airport when there’s air defenses in the way. Being able to reinforce those troupes quickly again through air defenses etc.

Within a narrative such as loss of elite troops would definitely have some serious impact. In the context of a war the loss of the aircraft could easily be more significant.
> The US is an actual sovereign state, with democratic leaders, acting on behalf of their constituencies.

At no point in history has this ever been less true.
maybe watch some real news not only Fjox or X.
I think they filtered out reality for your account.
I think the comment is in reaction to the F35 ones above it. Without activated software, these are bricks.

And no country wants to wake up to a set of bricks when they really need warplanes all of a sudden.
Is it possible your entire account got shadow banned, due to unrelated reasons? Afaik it's not even possible to shadow ban a single post, but they do that to entire accounts.

EDIT: Also that's a really pessimistic leap, "my account got shadow banned (on one platform, and you don't know it was the nuclear)" to "truth is no longer allowed on (implied all!) mass platforms"

EDIT2: Also, how the saying goes, shit happens. I got banned on so many servers and forums, for random reasons. And I moved on?? Create another account if you have to, it's not like they can enforce the no multiple accounts rule well
Assuming you are a not a bot, you are the example of the kind of useful idiot that is a part of what you try to brush off.

You probably can’t name 5 things that the Green Party stands for and how they align with Jill Stein.
I think... The problem definitely isn't your applicants. It's your job posting being out of touch, full stop.
That's how I feel about it too, the times I've been around layoffs management and the executives all talk about a difficult economic environment and making the organization leaner by firing a bunch of IC's. Never once have I seen a C level say hey we steered the company in the wrong direction its time for new management or hey our CFO failed to communicate the economic environment and caused us to overspend so we're going to look for a new one.

I know it's ridiculous to expect them to blame themselves but the fact that we just accept this lack of accountability from executives/management in the corporate world is insane to me.
Lol prepare to be talked down to.
TBH I lived like a total animal in first year (freshman) Have you seen
"The Young Ones" [0] That show was not to far off reality. But there
was scaffolding and support to grow up, separate and begin taking
serious responsibility for every level of shit in life. I had
excellent personal tutors who got me through some rocky
patches. Exactly zero of my trouble came from the uiversity system
itself. Today I see that being 100% of what harms students. The
institution itself has become a toxic nightmare, the kids have to
wrestle with it in addition to their studies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series)
I think the meta is studying history, and wondering if any slide toward facism has ever been successfully stopped in its tracks without being beaten down in wars.

The two sort-of examples in Western history I can think of are Spain after Franco, and the UK in the 1930s. In Spain a monarch's left-shift was perhaps the deciding and surprising variable, and in the UK it was a powerful civil rights movement.

The US has neither, so I don't know what to expect. The two-party system also makes it very hard to bootstrap meaningful change, since both parties tend to try and chase the Overton window, but only one is really pushing to move it right now.
There are companies whose product is high-quality mock interviews. I wouldn't be surprised by that number of interviews in just a year and it can easily be more than one candidate per day.

Edit: there are also recruitment agencies with ex-engineers that do coding interviews, too.
How is global leadership being ceded to either Russia or China? That would only happen if European countries prefer building economic and strategic ties with China over the US. If that happened it would mostly be revealing the true colors of Europe, choosing to side with a dictatorship and system that has killed tens of millions. As for Europe itself, I doubt Europe will be able to lead anything given its economic condition. These changes essentially just force people to resolve this one conflict.
I don't think Hacker News is trying to be Reddit.
Edge moved from their own engine to Chromium’s Blink engine, so from an IT support perspective, it should work equally well.
With the FS-1010 it was a constant clicking while in standby, every few seconds, day-in and day-out.
Take a step back and consider how hardened the divide is between “the two sides”. It should have never come that far, how are you gonna keep national unity in a situation like that!? Are there other first world countries that are that divided?
I remember when Europe was launching stuff in space and USA americans were calling this stupid and wasteful, they demanded Europe give th money to Elon
Market makers make fractions of a percent per trade. How will your "penalty for higher frequency" deter traders that prey on "ignorance of other participants" or whatever, but don't put market makers out of business?
The worst part about this is that I immediately thought that it would be useful in awkward transitory moments. Everybody pulls out their phone on the bus, so you could fit in pretty well with this instead of staring outside.
> to American rightists, American leftists are a much bigger enemy than Russians.

This reminds me of France in the Second World War. My (questionable) understanding is that they were more worried about the enemies at home than the ones across the border.
Yes. Right now it's the EU which needs UA, and EU knows it; EU military is weak and has no idea how to fight with drones. UA military is strong and knows how to fight with drones.

If UA goes down, then EU goes down, because RU will attack before EU is ready.

This is why I think we see EU direct involvement in UA fighting; needed to keep UA up, and needed to get up to speed with drones.
Tech (as in software) is what's being cut off to Ukraine, and tech (as in software, MEMS gyros, and GNSS) is how Ukraine keeps blowing up US$3M T-90 tanks with three or four US$500 FPV drones. So I think it's highly relevant to the question of sovereignty.
Farm subsidies and other special programs have been flowing to "flyover country" at an enhanced rate for almost a century (for about as long as the government has done things like that) as a result of the constitutional rule that says each state gets two senators regardless of population. The trade war is presently creating an economic crisis for those farmers, who primarily sell their crops outside the US.
That is surprising to me. Here's what I could glean:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/two-for-one-chick...

For me it was a no-brainer. For a small amount of money, I avoid the kid being bedridden for potentially weeks, and the kid avoids scarring from the disease. Even though it isn't going to kill the kid, it's still awful to be ill.

Shingles won't be a problem for a long time afterwards, and medicine will advance. There's already shingles vaccines.

So it was an easy decision to spend about 100 pounds on vaccinating each kid.
If you wanne see trump as the messenger of bad news, this could still hold.
Exactly. Somebody who is universally hated by their co-workers should just be let go. Nothing to do with a layoff. So everybody who is around has some reason for actually being there. In a well-managed place, that is.
He also may have killed US agriculture, we'll find out in the next few months.
Yeah, but it's pretty different complaining from the position of a rank and file engineer at what was then like a 50k-person org as opposed to praising a competitor's product when you're at a small company, and you're the public face of your product.
You mean (almost) a quarter of the population--only 47% of Republicans actually support funding Ukraine less [1]. There are plenty on both sides that disapprove of the foreign policy decisions of the current administration.

I've seen these "people in party x categorically do y" comments a whole lot more recently, and it really feels like a net negative to political discourse. Based on the source I pointed to earlier, there seems to be a plurality of support for at least continuing aid to Ukraine, with only 30% believing we're sending too much. Us vs them mentality won't help people recognize and voice disapproval of decisions within their own party that they don't agree with; we need to concede that people may vote a candidate for a narrow set of reasons (thanks to the two-party system) and have political discourse that encourages disagreeing with certain of your own party's views.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/14/americans...
Show HN: Fleur, open-source app store for Claude
Hey folks, we built Fleur, an open-source app store for Claude. It's the easiest way for non-technical people to discover and install MCPs.

MCPs (based on the Model Context Protocol by Anthropic) enable Claude to use tools that can do a variety of functions like searching the web, executing code, manipulating files, accessing APIs; basically interacting with things outside the conversation context.

We've been using MCPs within Claude for a while and have found them super useful. For example, with the Slack and Linear MCPs, we can ask Claude to find the last bug a customer reported in a shared slack channel, and open an issue on Linear with all the details.

While playing around with MCPs, we found that installing MCPs was not the most straightforward experience, especially for someone who doesn't have Python and Node set up on their computer. That was the motivation behind building Fleur as a desktop app to handle the complexity of installing all the right tools in the environment that the MCPs depend on.

The app itself is open-source and it runs just on your machine. Your data only goes to Anthropic when you ask Claude to do something with it.

We also have an app registry where you can submit more MCPs: https://github.com/fleuristes/app-registry. We're making sure that every MCP we add works really well because we found a ton of them which have errors and don't work out of the box.

Would love to know what you think!
If your small team in a big company does not directly generate money, then you’d definitely be ripe for elimination. Time and time again we’ve seen examples of trams that are critical to supporting various revenue generating parts of the company while not directly making money themselves get cut as an “obvious” way to save money when only looking at the books. Been there.
I find some of the comments I’ve read today in this thread somewhat enlightening - there is intelligent conversation about the capabilities of the American hardware and its software.

The sophistication of the F-35 cannot be debated. But the rest of the world doesn’t trust the US anymore, so it doesn’t matter how good it is - people would gladly explore a worse product because they see it as lower risk.

That’s the reality of where America is at the moment. There are many Americans on Hacker News (if not the majority) and naturally the merits of the product that America produces are being discussed, and its superiority is front and center.

This viewpoint is not relevant to the rest of the world. We don’t want the US’ stuff anymore and the only thing that can save that relationship is full software control. If America wants to make sales it needs to adjust to that expectation, or buyers are going elsewhere.

The argument is missing the forest for the trees - the relationship is more important than the product itself. The sooner that is acknowledged the more likely a political course correction is possible. Otherwise, sure, you might see a few short term F-35 sales conclude. But the purchasing will stop as soon as it can.
How do you think it will play out?
See "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe"[1]

Interestingly, the PIE words for agricultural items are not PIE and seem to have been adopted from the languages of the pre-existing peoples that were overrun.

Also, the article states: "For the peoples living in Eurasia before the Yamnaya arrived, being conquered was tantamount to 'cultural erasure. The erasure was often physical, too. In many places, indigenous male DNA disappears upon the arrival of the Yamnaya, while indigenous female DNA is traceable in the following generations." Supporting this, sites of massacres of males are being found in various places in Continental Europe.

So in some sense the Steppe Hypothsis / Kurgan Hypothesis of Marija Gimbutas was spot on, that "patriarchy became established as the result of a 'collision of cultures'."

[1]https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/fi...
> It's not being dismantled at all. It's engaged in a sudden retrenchment

Sounds like a destruction. The administration is abandoning both the US soft power and its abilities to project through allied countries.
Besides the sibling comment, I believe many of the finer details of Chomsky's hierarchy wasn't understood at the time, language grammars were just sort of "home-grown".

But I might be wrong here.
But if you assume rook contiguity then it seems equivalent to hexagons. All neighbors share a full edge, all neighboring centers are equidistant.

I get that you're saying hexes are almost always a better representation. I still don't see a concrete example of why, for geographical indexing specifically.

[Edit: sibling reply explained that at the end of the day, it's not about indexing but rather route planning.]
George W. Bush showed the world what "preemptive defense" leads to.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick" seems to be a better plan for stability while keeping aggressors in check.
I wonder why Poland is still buying F35 and other European countries.
This is it exactly. Layoffs are a symptom of failure, not a cause of savings.
As a person who frequently offends people unintentionally I think any feedback for any communication form is a good learning material.
Large tech companies are inefficient and have very poor engineering productivity but this is largely for systemic reasons. They definitely do not have any mechanism for identifying high performers.

The basic problem they face is that they pay a fixed wage for complete IP ownership (horrible deal) and so they intentionally do not measure and reward actual performance because they do not want to compensate high performers based on the value they create.

There isn't really a solution because these companies are making rational profit maximizing decisions, it just happens that mediocrity and managed decline of locked in revenue streams is profit maximizing for them.
Accel-SIM-framework: a simulation framework for simulating and validating GPUs
The myth of how much harm "leftists" can do/are doing in the US is probably what got you all here. It's another McCarthyist boogeyman, and it's not even being sold well -- a lot of the marketing's just outright lies, and people are eating that up.
Soon I am wondering if rather than rely on finicky auto-vectorization we’ll just have LLMs help “hand-optimize” more routines. Just like how memcmp and memcpy are optimized by hand today maybe like 20% of the program could just be LLM-assisted assembly. @ffmpeg on X thinks maybe they are starting to get it [1] and I had some success having an LLM generate working WebAssembly [2]
https://x.com/ffmpeg/status/1898408922769223994?s=46

https://www.jasonthorsness.com/24
Why not use regular rejection sampling when `limit` is known at compile-time.
Does fastrange[1] have fewer rejections due to any excess random bits[2]?

[1] https://github.com/lemire/fastrange

[2] https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/pull/39143
Taiwan is now going to be seriously worried.
The anti-woke grassroots rhetoric around here is more about how much of a waste of time it is when they should be focused on issues that matter to people's livelihood. It's not hate on LGBTQ so much as irritation that something that doesn't seem to matter (to them) is given so much emphasis while the working class struggles.
Kind of true but also kind of victim-blaming.

Part of the reason many people consider those areas “flyovers” is that minorities, women, gays, nerds, really lots of people, can expect to get treated very badly in those areas.

Now, maybe there’s an obligation to turn the other cheek, reach out, and try to educate people in flyovers. But it is far too reductive to act like the blame points one way here and it’s just snobby elites who have abandoned these populations.
Hahahaha, do they even know what they are doing to their US hegemony?! This kind of short-term thinking leads to the US enemies laughing all their way into the bank. They don‘t even understand what they‘re losing here. If they don’t try to path-correct very soon this is the beginning of a gradual decline. Is the current U.S. leadership really that afraid? There is no reason to act like this otherwise. Or this is some very very incredibly smart way of ”peace through strength”. Go figure and good luck all.
Which next war? The type of small, short range drones currently being used in Ukraine and Russia won't be of much use in a major regional conflict with China. Ranges will be orders of magnitude longer and communication links for drone control won't be reliable.

The main reason that Ukraine and Russia have had to rely so heavily on drones is that they had no better alternative. The air forces on both sides are shit with zero (or effectively zero) 5th generation aircraft that can survive in a contested environment. The F-35 was designed for that mission and would at least have a chance.
> The EU is still playing the U.S. deep state script and it is very likely that all the Trump pressure and insults are carefully planned political theater.

I find that becoming exceedingly unlikely. Trust has been destroyed, there is no easy recovery from that.
Small DIY drones are only useful when no side has air superiority. Once you own the air, you can bomb and support ground troops a lot more efficiently.
Meh.

Let's all be honest here. At the end of the day, what China wants is for everyone to shut the F up and buy a big screen TV.

Preferably on credit.

Anything that moves the world towards that goal will receive China's tacit support. Trump's moves are seen to move the world away from that goal, so we're seeing some signs of discomfort coming from China.

But believe me, it ain't because they're concerned about Ukraine or freedom or "ideals". Or even because they do or do not want to be world police.

We can't think about their goals in Western terms because the fundamentals of the thinking are just completely different.
given the extreme 'benefits' of autonomous weapons (cheap, can be produced in arbitrary numbers, easier logistics, fewer parents mourning their children in your country, vastly easier production), we should expect them to be fielded before they are really ready.
(closer to) equal distance between all the neighbouring cells is really helpful when you're modelling a problem as a network - eg analysing and planning routes and capacity.

Hierarchical partitioning with exact containment is useful when aggregating but that's not always the most critical property.
Yet Russia has more brigades, more artillery and artillery shells, more nukes. The comment above is right. Europe needs to wake the hell up and increase military production 10X, even if temporarily.

If Russians take Ukraine, they will force their population to attack the next country. Just like it happened with men of Donbass.
There's no shortage of human scum to choose from. Vance is fairly popular, afaict