skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No disagreement, and I was probably racist back then. I'm just agreeing with an earlier comment that some of the 1950s authors were not "well adjusted", because I now think of racism as a sin.
As per the article: "The biggest difference between the two boars is that the Orange Pi RV has a 1.5 GHz StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor, while the new Orange Pi RV2 has a an octa-core Ky X1 chip with a 2 TOPS AI accelerator."
That’s kind of the weird trap, isn’t it? That it feels like there’s normative social pressure to do your phone too, right at the moment that everyone who would notice you doing or not doing so has turned their attention elsewhere?
> Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axle of layoffs when most people are in a chronic state of tech job hopping?

Most of us job-hop because we have to, not because we want to.

There's a class of people in the tech industry who like to write blogs about how fun and fulfilling it is to constantly change jobs and roles. Those people are highly visible but not representative. Most humans find constant change and uncertainty stressful, not exhilarating.
Using layers and SRP will solve literally 99% of organizational issues.

No framework needed.
The Star Wars Space Armies of John Mollo (2015)
Yet, those who makes those wrong bets are generally paid very generously and they are generally not those who suffers from the consequences
Buying high-tech American weapons comes with an implicit condition: they can only be used with U.S. approval.

The U.S. has long leveraged this strategy to control governments. Do you think Saudi Arabia could use its American-made jets to attack Israel?

Now, Trump is pressuring Ukraine to start negotiation under these terms:

1. Allowing parts of Ukraine to be annexed,

2. Permanently blocking NATO membership, and

3. Signing a “mineral deal” to sell resources to the U.S. at cut-rate prices.
I believe this is the full text of the decision: https://sei.cade.gov.br/sei/modulos/pesquisa/md_pesq_documen...

It uses the word "sideloading" and doesn't appear to have carveouts allowing Apple to block apps for "security" like the EU legislation does. But at the end of the day it really just depends on what their legislators are going to allow Apple to get away with, and Apple will probably attempt bare-minimum compliance at least initially, like they did in the EU.
I didn't ask for your sympathy. I'm merely responding to someone who doesn't understand that others have factors that affect how hard it is to change jobs.
As per the article: "The biggest difference between the two boars is that the Orange Pi RV has a 1.5 GHz StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor, while the new Orange Pi RV2 has a an octa-core Ky X1 chip with a 2 TOPS AI accelerator."

The link you posted goes to the exact same board as in the article.
I believe all politicians are corrupt, but there is a spectrum of corruption and what they will do before a since of morality stops them. Just like a nonviolent petty their vs a mob hitman. It's one thing to steer a contract somewhere over top of a different company, it's another to try and shut down social security, end democracy, or end 70 years of allyship and become friends with the most corrupt dictators for a cool $200 million.
>There’s a lot of risk now in doing business with America in every field, because it’s so unpredictable.

That's how the rest of the world has been doing business with America, Europe will get used to this too.
If your "energy security" is dependent on a belligerent state, you don't have energy security. This was something Trump himself has repeatedly criticized the Europeans for, so if you lead with "Trump was right" follow that thread.
The shift to bailout Russia is no surprise to anyone taking notes, there is a long LONG history

https://reddit.com/comments/j6z8eh
Most of them have had double digits growth in their stock price over the last few days[0]:

"Britain’s BAE Systems rose by 15% on Monday, Germany’s Rheinmetall gained 14%, France’s Thales increased 16% and Italy’s Leonardo was also up 16%. In London the surge in defence related shares helped to push the FTSE 100 to a new record high"

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/03/european-de...
Trump and Musk claiming they fight against "the elite" is one of the major jokes the rest of the world is laughing at.
If the voting public of a democracy fairly elected so many people to office like that, I don't really know what we can complain about.

Democracy would have worked in that scenario, and society would just have bifurcated enough that the slight minority lost most power and very much disagrees with the direction.

Congress does have to act pike adults though and do their job of keeping the executive branch in check. If they don't the system is just fundamentally broken and the only reasonable choice is to throw it out and start fresh.
I’m not sure how much understanding the issues is a factor in democracy functioning well. I think it has more to do with widespread belief in democratic and rule-of-law identity, such that voters will reliably punish those who violate those tenets, and structures set up to resist the kind of rot that targets inherent weaknesses in democracy, especially to prevent capture of media and lobbying by rich minority interests. These reduce the effects of directed exploitation of voter ignorance, and block democratic attacks on democracy itself.

Both of those factors are, to use the scientific term, completely fucked in the US, which is why we’re where we are now. We’re not here because people think that we spend 20% of our budget on foreign aid, but rather, people think that because of concentration and capture of media ownership, and intense lobbying. The ignorance would be there either way, but the direction and form of it is carefully cultivated, and allowing that cultivation is the problem.

The generation of hard data demonstrating that voters (more or less) don’t know jack-shit about anything goes back to IIRC the 1950s, and the best answer Poli Sci has for why this results in a functioning system at all is that voter behavior is fairly erratic (much of it amounts to “do I perceive that things are bad, even that have nothing to do with the government or with me? Then throw the bums out!”) and (this was once accepted but is now controversial) that voter ignorance kinda balances out by virtue of being chaotic. If that ignorance becomes directed, however, both of these things are weaponizable or breakable.
Gleam is nothing like Erlang or Elixir (its copying of Rust is so slavish it even has a toml file driven build system) and Erlang and Elixir are not split (the only place where they even sorta are is rebar vs. mix).

I don't particularly want to gatekeep "Rust fans who just want to write lots of Rust" off OTP. Let them have Gleam. Maybe they'll figure out how to lifetime-annotate binaries?
As far as I know all cheap drone tech is provided by China (to both Russia and Ukraine).
> But the ones being discussed in the article are the consistent ones.

I worked at GE when Jack Welch was there. First of all we never had a systematic firing of the bottom 10%. That is a myth. We ranked everyone each year and clearly identified the bottom 10% but they were not always fired. The manager did have to have a development plan for these individuals.

More importantly, GE did have consistent layoffs. I assert this was a good thing. I vividly remember asking an EVP at GE Capital when I first joined GE why we did this. It seemed inhumane. Wasn’t it better to try and fix the so-called ‘C’ players? His response fundamentally changed my view on hiring, leadership, and firing. He told me two things. 1) Hiring people is always a gamble. The best interview/onboarding processes will not produce 100% success. There will people that do not have the skills that are needed. There will also be people for whom GE is simply not a good cultural fit. 2) In good times, when a GE business unit is doing well, they always over hire. People working 50 hours a week want to work 40, process problems that have built up need to be addressed (similar to tech debt), etc. Over time this leads to bloat and inefficiency.

For these reasons, consistent layoffs make sense for the company. They also make sense for the employee. By not waiting for an economic downturn and then making dramatic cuts, the exiting employees would have an easier time finding the next job as odds are the economy would doing well. Particularly in the case where the person was not a good fit for the GE culture, they learned this and could find a better fitting role elsewhere. And GE was great on the resume back in those days (sadly not so today). If we waited for the downturn, then the exiting employees would be looking for a new job in a bad economy with everyone else who had just been laid off. Not a good situation.

Finally, an additional point I learned later by observing when and where we made headcount reductions. GE made many bets on new markets, new products, etc. We had to if we were to grow by 10% each year (GE Capital’s rigorous requirement for business and strategic plans). The successful GE leaders understood is was easier to grow revenue to achieve 10% net income growth than to cut expenses. Unfortunately, not all new business ventures worked out. In those cases, we had to make a decision to shut them down (all new ventures had off-ramps). As a result, some people were repurposed, but others had to be let go. I posit that is consistent with the tech approach of “fail early, fail often.” In industries with significant people required to try a new approach, the consequence of failing will be layoffs.
Enron was famous for this. Supposedly it's a practice that Jeff Skilling learned at Harvard business school, where the bottom 10% were flunked no matter what their absolute GPA was
That’s fine if Trump wants to spend less or even withdraw from NATO.

Doing it like it just did with basically no notice is a stabbing in the back to former allies of the US. And Republicans are also not saying much.

That behavior should and very likely will not be forgotten by Europe.

The next phase that makes sense is an iron curtain between 4 blocks (US, Europe, Russia, China). Like during the Cold War, it is the approach that will minimize the risk of war.
> What alliance did the US sign with Ukraine?

Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

> The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.

Which was negotiated as part of a package to prevent nuclear proliferation being required to provide security assurances. America's treatment of Ukraine will be remembered when diplomatic disarmament is proposed to North Korea and Iran.
According to many economists we were already on a very good way to beating them (ruining them) with existing sanctions alone.
Yup. We need hobbyists to bootstrap the process. Preferably in schools too.

I know there is Orange Pi Riscv but maybe there are other cheap hardwares.
That point assumes technology is evenly distributed. I think it’s clear it is not.
I find all these "based on Rust" and "written in Rust" announcements ridiculous. Which programming language is entirely irrelevant to an end-user.
Maybe not so much that as he sees everything as a bargaining chip and any unused chips as a waste. After all, bribery and favors are more or less what soft power is.
There's TinyTeX: https://yihui.org/tinytex/
Some people are good coders but can’t do it with an adversarial person watching. I’m often one of them.

Might as well put a suitcase with $200k and a copper clock ticking away on the table next to them.
Are you talking about the thing that appears in the corner on some sites, which isn't part of the page but rather the browser? I thought that was only in Chrome, but the setting for that I believe is buried under Privacy and Security > Site Settings > Additional Content Settings > Third-Party Sign-In.
I guess that makes sense if you are building something that needs a high degree of efficiency or sits closer to the metal, but most of the day-to-day tasks in corporate work aren't really in need of this level of mechanical sympathy, you can implement a slightly unoptimized logic and still have the system perform at an acceptable level, the bigger causes of latency will likely be IO like DB access anyway. And the bigger challenge when working on these tasks are the people problems, where you have to work with others who give vague requirements that they then keep changing after the work has already started while still holding you to the fixed deadlines, I wouldn't waste time writing the most elegant and per formant code in this scenario because it won't be appreciated by anyone and will lead to penalty for delays for me.
I’ve dug into this a few times.

Every single time they were doing something simple.

Just because someone has decades of experience or is a SME in some niche doesn’t mean they’re actually good… engineers.
I think he is referring to the F-35 only here. On military discussion forums it is the consensus that the F-35 is superior to everything else out there with the only exception being that the F-22 has superior air to air combat capabilities.
How do you bring up that you want to be laid off?
> In the coming years we will remember fondly when our personal data lived in secure and well-managed centers run by Meta and Google and Amazon and not on some DOGE staffers' Macbook.

Seems odd to assume that the US government didn't have access to that data prior to the current administration.
Not being troll-y or intentionally obtuse but I have to ask: when has The Military Industrial Complex acted in my / our best interest?

Sure there’s plenty about US policy and actions that have been normalized, but that doesn’t mean they should have been adopted. It doesn’t mean those things should persist without thought or challenge. Even going about that the wrong way is more productive

Yes, The System is fragile (as opposed to antifragile). But then let’s discuss that, not insist on the persistence of fragile-ness.
I think the other side of it is:

- Detail-oriented nerds with a rich mental framework around things like optimization, making decisions based on data, perhaps statistical approaches to uncertainty get frustrated when they see their organization making big, irreversible choices without the benefit of all available information. From the IC or line-manager level there may be a bunch of information which you can tell was not taken into consideration.

- Process-oriented people who have put a bunch of effort into planning, goal-setting and measurement based on seemingly reasonable assumptions like "this team that provides service X will continue to exist for the duration of project Y which depends on X" get frustrated when execs throw everything into disarray ... and then 3 weeks later want to know why Y is off track.

As the article describes, often lay-offs end up being bad for the company, not just the employees who get terminated. Even if you're not let go, or even if you just care about the value of your vested equity, it can be quite frustrating to see this happen. And often, because layoffs are generally planned in secret, leadership explicitly precludes the possibility of getting input from the experts in their organization.

While perhaps some layoffs ultimately turn out ok, I think generally the people who go through them can tick off a list of parts of it that were ill-considered and needlessly disruptive, in part b/c of this lack of trust and communication.
Is consensus in the room with us right now?
Are you actually using claude? There's an enormous difference between claude code and copilot, with the latter being a bigger burden these days than a help.
It’s not really though. I haven’t heard it mentioned once in my academic contacts and involvement and we write a lot of LaTeX.
I have a few google accounts and I don't want to have to log in to each one to disable it. Nothing I've done has fixed it. That popup is so annoying. I'm hoping someone has a way to disable it on Chrome on Mac. I'm so tired of seeing that thing pop up constantly.
https://milkv.io/duo

Gives you something to play around with, very inexpensively.

But really, virtual machines may be preferable; at least to get started.
If you think Taiwan shouldn't cease to exist, how else can you guarantee that? It's either nukes or US protection and nobody trusts the Americans anymore.
Typst may have its pros and momentum (I haven't tried it myself yet), but I find this attitude and language used by its proponents very offputting.

I've only heard Knuth and Lamport speak respectfully about the technologies that came before tex and latex.
"he decided against breaking up Algorithm X between different pages"

He should have used TeX ;) I've heard handles such layout problems automatically.
GeckoView cannot replace built-in WebView [0].

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView
Now take your $12 and multiply it by 100k people or more trying it.

Even if you won’t use it again, that’s booked revenue for the next fundraise!
The executive branch has blatantly violated numerous laws but so far they have still obeyed court orders which explicitly required them to follow those laws. The real Constitutional crisis will come if they decide to openly defy a federal court order.

I would also note that while the current Trump administration has broken federal laws at an accelerated rate, the previous Biden administration did much the same thing on a smaller scale. People here on HN frequently make excuses for Biden's illegal student loan forgiveness program because they liked the results but if we want to preserve the rule of law then it needs to apply to every program. In the long run allowing unchecked growth of executive branch power and the administrative state will be bad for everyone.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow...
Writing in the browser, seriously?
And a honest n=1 is better than a double blind n=1000 but outcome-interested study. It’s so easy to make data tell the story you want.
This is a 'means of production' argument.
Claude code can autonomously accomplish tricky tasks
I'm not arguing the relevance of latex, but merely underscore the joy of wielding that particular tool
Incorrect. The explanation is above.
The difference is that now European countries, and other (former?) US allies are starting to see the US as a threat. With people like Trump in power, the chance of a military conflict between the EU and the US is now non-zero, so what's on everyone's mind going forward will be independence from US tech. Maybe you haven't seen European news and commentary.

US's republicans still don't grasp what a diplomatic mess Trump is causing, which will surely affect all trade. Actually, I'm expecting consequences for the entire US tech sector, not just the defence sector.
'Data stays in EU' is not true: the US CLOUD act means that American law enforcement and intelligence agencies can and do access data stored in data centers operated by American companies, whether or not they are on American soil.
Haha I didnt see that.
Over 6,000 Ukrainians performed military service in Iraq and Kuwait, as allies of the US. They signed the Budapest Memorandum.

Russia/the USSR has been a main or the main enemy of the US for decades and Ukraine is doing the US a service standing up to them. Why do you think the US even had an $800bn military budget for decades?
Compared to historic USA, perhaps, but compared to OTHER COUNTRIES, the US system has insane gridlock and, right now, a very unhappy public. What I’m pointing to is not that more power should shift to the executive but that it should be given to the legislature, and could happen in a way that reduces this gridlock.

Compare to the UK’s Parliament Act, which allows the Commons to override the Lords if it passes the same legislation in two sessions. It means that overriding isn’t free (it takes 1-2 years of focused effort) but critical legislation can’t be blocked. Combined with strict timetables that force rejection of legislation that isn’t passed in its allotted time, you bypass the pocket veto, too. Compromise is preferred but, if the upper house refuses to play ball, the threat of ramming it through anyway always exists to keep it in check.
Seagate MACH.2 – Not a thing anymore?
Are you trying to make me feel old?
True words. It's not 'imposter syndrome' if one comes across as an imposter (though it might have been just be a bad day).

I can appreciate the gating process because it's a real drag to get hired and then spend more time than necessary not doing my work but trying to help coworkers catch up on very basic and fundamental skills in order to be able to collaborate with them.
no, I pointed towards the joy of writing in a proper IDE.
but to your point: overleaf is a key enabler of latex and its cool to see typst offers a similar route
>when the Trump campaign didn't even float a coherent economic agenda

With what their opponents had? They didn't even need one.
working as intended?
Yeah, the problem with in house frameworks and other such custom code that I face is that the people who wrote it are long gone, the documentation is scattered and many times out of date of the actual code and the code itself is kinda convoluted with little to no comments explaining it. I feel like if LLM's are properly trained on company code and the in house documentation data then this could be a big boon, so that instead of having to search for documents on company cloud drives and chat threads etc, you can just ask the chat AI and it will surface the relevant data to you faster than you could find it yourself.
Typst is available as a standalone compiler
Whether a birth certificate for a same-sex couple in the IVF case mentions "mother" or the less ambiguous "inseminated person" is indeed fully inconsequential for the vast majority of the American public.

Doesn't stop populists from wipping up outrage.
As far as I know the US military still has more 4gen jets than 5gen.

Obviously Russia has no 5gen at all (or just a few 5gen Su-57, if we going to name them 5gen).

Anyway, my point is that as of now Russia has no need for gen5 and can't afford it anyway, just like about anyone else except for the US and a few countries that have them but at the same time have to rely on the US anyway.
Argtable: C command-line parsing library to parse GNU-style command-line options
Does it support pgf & tikz ?
"Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axel of foreclosure when most people are in a chronic state of moving house?"
Slightly unrelated question: anyone knows of a proper (with an example document) comparison between LaTeX, Typst and SILE? Maybe ConTeXt too?
I used Perplexity’s API to win Robinhood's $1M Trivia Contest
Surely arm is a better choice?
Ultimately, you’re going to end up with a framework anyway as your internal hand-rolled solutions congeal into some sort of standard. Only it’ll be all novel and unique, maybe lacking effective documentation, and it’ll take even the most seasoned engineers time to settle in to it.

Many good frameworks actually started that way, with the open source community stepping in to support. Suddenly loads more people know it and you can depend on that spread of knowledge.

To that extent it’s not that frameworks are unhelpful, they are in fact force multipliers for solutions in the same problem space (e.g saas web dev).

In a similar vein, I think I’d much rather build a game in Godot or Unreal than start framework-free with SDL.
What does the hardware give you? These datacenters are dependent on US teams, US processes using US maintained software. It's just a bunch of fast deprecating assets, which would need a full reinstall by a team of an AWS-like entity built from ground up.