skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd better report your wrongthink. We, Oceania, have always been at war with Eastasia, Eurasia was always our ally.
> The constitution doesn’t give rights, it puts controls on the behavior of the government. The constitution calls out citizens where necessary.

I don't think this is relevant (or even correct, but that doesn't matter). 1A is simply not a right (or "control on the behavior of the government") that applies here: visas are issued at the discretion of the State Department.

Or more simply: I don't think a visa holder could successfully argue that the State Department is obligated to renew their visa solely on 1A grounds. If this isn't the case, then an argument against revoking would fail similarly.
I like the idea of this approach. But how do you form a theory for what is going on in the US, for example, right now where it seems to be unpredictably chaotic? Although I suppose that's a theory too.
I know I responded to you once already, but the other thing I wonder is if globalization is really the issue here. There's also an inherent productivity gap between densely and sparsely populated areas. Had industrial jobs not moved to China, they would have moved to the cities.

When people do build factories, which they still do, they build them in or around the cities, not in the country, despite having to pay more for land, labor, and regulatory compliance. If they do locate in the country, they choose a town that has a university and a hospital.
Some hints for people stuck like this:

Consider using Aider. It's a great tool and cheaper to use than Code.

Look at Aiders LLM leaderboard to figure out which LLMs to use.

Use its architect mode (although you can get quite fast without it - I personally haven't needed it).

Work incrementally.

I use at least 3 branches. My main one, a dev one and a debug one. I develop on dev. When I encounter a bug I switch to debug. The reason is it can produce a lot of code to fix a bug. It will write some code to fix it. That won't work. It will try again and write even more code. Repeat until fixed. But in the end I only needed a small subset of the new code. So you then revert all the changes and have it fix it again telling it the correct fix.

Don't debug on your dev branch.

Aider's auto committing is scary but really handy.

Limit your context to 25k.

Only add files that you think are necessary.

Combining the two: Don't have large files.

Add a Readme.md file. It will then update the file as it makes code changes. This can give you a glimpse of what it's trying to do and if it writes something problematic you know it's not properly understanding your goal.

Accept that it is not you and will write code differently from you. Think of it as a moderately experienced coder who is modifying the codebase. It's not going to follow all your conventions.

https://aider.chat/

https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
Trump does not want to reduce US debt level- Trump wants a tax cut. If government spending decreases as a result of DOGE that will not result in lower debt- it will result in a bigger tax cut.

The savings from DOGE ( if there will be any) will pass on to rich people, not to the average American voter.
its not. plenty of OSINT evidence that this is inevitable. YOUR not-plan has no evidence going for it.
Depends on the country, in many European countries job hopping is not well seen regardless of the industry.
Gleam looks like a really nice language that I haven't had a place to use yet. Does anyone have experience using it as a replacement/alternative for TypeScript for (e.g.) CLI tools?
Have you tried using Cursor rules? [1]

Creating a standard library stdlib with many (potentially thousands) of rules, and then iteratively adding to and amending the rules as you go, is one of the best practices for successful AI coding.

[1] https://docs.cursor.com/context/rules-for-ai
This whole article is selection bias:

> There are findings that suggest layoffs lead to both short-term and long term issues, including:
> - A 2x as likely chance of bankruptcy compared to companies that haven’t done layoffs.

Obviously! Because a huge number of the companies undergoing layoffs are about to go under and are using layoffs as a last ditch survival effort.

The author may be right, but every fact and figure presented in this article fails to distinguish between healthy companies in healthy industries using layoffs as a lever to increase stock prices, and layoffs happening in industries/companies that are collapsing.
Cursor to add usage-based pricing
There's an interesting "subcategory" of sleep apnea under the moniker of UARS. I'm pretty confident that a big chunk of folks in that community actually have allergenic rhinitis (or structural issues).

I actually had a home sleep study done before I figured out it was allergies. Came back negative for OSA but my RIP [1] band data showed a lot of paradoxical breathing and flow limitation indicating significant respiratory effort. So more or less struggling to breathe all night long.

The poor sleep quality really destroys your quality of life.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_inductance_plethys...
With nothing against this particular hoster, why not link the official site https://tug.org/texlive, or https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html?
It didn't used to be "complete immunity", that's part of the problem
I'm trying to understand this comment. Are you saying that Dahl's antisemitism is ameliorated by the fact that Israel attacked the PLO in Lebanon? And are you claiming that journalists have written more about Roald Dahl's antisemitism than about Israel's treatment of the Palestinians?

I'd like to read what you're saying in the most graceful way possible, but it really sounds like standard antisemitic beliefs about how it's really the Jews' fault that people are antisemitic, and that they control the media anyway.
Is JTAG undocumented?
Thank you for chiming in, it is really appreciated. This is what I see when trying to redeem this:

https://imgur.com/a/NJvCagh

I apologize for getting this wrong, but I hope you can see that it is very hard to parse this any other way than "This is a Kagi Professional subscription, which is free during the first 30 days and will cost you $11.90/month afterwards".

(Unfortunately, I cannot edit my parent post anymore to correct this)
LiDARKit – Open-Source Lidar SDK for iOS and AR Development
Hey HN, I recently open-sourced LiDARKit, a Swift SDK for working with LiDAR on Apple devices. It simplifies real-time scene reconstruction, point cloud processing, and object detection using ARKit and Metal.

The goal is to make LiDAR more accessible for devs working on AR, robotics, or spatial computing projects. Would love feedback from the HN community—especially on performance optimizations and use cases I may not have considered.

Repo: https://github.com/tyang-gauntlet/LiDARKit
I don't think that this narrative works in the current job environment. But nice try.
Europe is both financially bankrupt and incompetent, with poor governance continuously hindered by the ambition of each country within the “union”. It will take decades at best for the EU to be competitive, assuming it won’t disintegrate before which is also a very real outcome.

And I say this as an European.
It's become very commonplace for there to be a dozen replies on viral posts where users all @grok to ask if the post is real or for more context. It's almost more work to compose a reply asking Grok about it than it is to just click the Grok button and it give you more context that way. I don't get it.
Tangentially-related: the recurrent corneal erosion that I've been managing (painfully and unsuccessfully) for a decade has finally seen some measure of remission after I started self-treating with Fingerprick Autologous Blood. It's what it says on the tin: I use a blood testing fingerprick to draw a few drops of blood, which I insert under my eyelid. Blink. Done. Not even a month and half with a bandage contact lens helped as much. It's a little frustrating that years of dealing with far-flung ophthalmologists and expensive eye ointments that make things worse (Muro 128 costs more than printer ink) could have been preempted with a application of a substance that's already inside me.
I realize this is just my own idea, but I think the Constitution forbids gerrymandering, by demanding a "republican form of government" in the states. The question is how this opinion would stand up to being tested by the current Supreme Court.
> Killing $group is basically one of the best things

Wtf? You can't post like this here, regardless of who you want to kill. If you do it again we will ban you.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to this site, we'd appreciate it. We're trying for something very different here.
What's New in LLMs
The countries that have had the most successful but empathetic policies have reversed course on the key issue of immigration: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/magazine/denmark-immigrat.... MAGA would be thrilled to achieve the reversal of immigration that's happening in Denmark, for example.
I've noticed the same. Wish I knew if it was real people or an army of bots flipping switches to influence visibility for someone's gain.

You're right, probably both. Unfortunately the question alone makes HN have much less utility.
I think your idea is a good faith argument, but it's a fallacy: high turnover on a job because of stiff competition for labor is not a "tech culture" issue, and it's not at all the same impact on a person as changing due to a layoff.
> Why do some American leftists follow this 3rd worldist neo-Maoist thinking that Western civilization needs to burn down before you can get free healthcare and free college?

Let's be fair, you said "some". We also have some of those in Europe.

But to answer, with a guess: perhaps the difference is that in European countries there are way more political parties. But I'm not an expert on American politics so feel free to say this is BS.
That isn't his physics project.
Google uses their dominant market position in search, email, video hosting (youtube) etc. to promote their browser. Such sites have had a banner telling you they are best viewed with chrome if you use a different browser, and are optimized to work best on chrome.
I am confused why you ask this of the proponents. The proponents think that Russia is performing horrendous war crimes and must be stopped from encroaching further. We see massacres such as Bucha where Russia had a couple of days and indiscriminately butchered innocent civilians and realized that there is no other way but to keep fighting to stop Russia from taking more territory and lives.
It may surprise you but Russia is not winning. It has been exhausting itself for no measurable benefit, at the cost for US taxpayers of roughly a coffee per day.

Up to now, Ukraine has never received the support it would need to win, just enough not to lose. Weapons deliveries been too little, too late, making the war longer and bloodier than it needs to be. In the meantime domestic production has increased to the point Ukraine covers 30% of its needs.

Russia has lost other wars, it can and should lose this one.
ideally we can stop hitler without starting wwwii. just give him a bit more of Czechoslovakia bro, this time its enough, bro. i promise.
A Toyota Prius is like the archetypal liberal mobile.
I meant my complaint more to those that support this in the voter base.
Even if Trumpism is gone by 2028, nothing goes back to normal. We'll see the raise of ITAR-free weapons systems from Europe and Asian "former" US allies and cooperation around the US.

What Trump and MAGA people don't realize is that 11 carrier groups sailing around the seas alone are not that big a threat. Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) provide unsinkable airfields, supply depots for the US all over the world. They are massive power multiplier for the US military.
> How does a non Google owned Chrome support itself and continue development?

You're literally pointing out the unfair advantage. The better question is how can all of the competitors manage? The answer is they can't very well because of the unfair advantage which Chrome has. If Chrome was split from Google (and Edge from Microsoft) browsers would be on a more equal playing field.
I think so far F16s not F35s. Though you wonder if say the UK could use F35s in Ukraine without Trump trying to turn something off.
> it's impossible to use such reports to make general claims about what kind of government is better.

Across 1000 years of history, yes. But as already noted in those cases objective health/longevity differences can settle the issue. The report can then be used as a one source of evidence in comparison between the setup in countries today.

> Because "people" can't make it happen in societies where the government controls all those things.

People can vote for parties and candidates with an agenda to abolish public funding of education and infrastructure, but people choose not to. Very few vote for the libertarian party in the US for example.

> And even with all those advantages, people still do try to opt out.

In the countries that score best in terms of happiness and life satisfaction there is wide and strong popular support for an extensive welfare state with tax funding of schools, infrastructure and health care. Is your view that large majorities of people in those countries over decades are consistently mistaken about both their reported happiness and their support for their welfare state?

> If government-run schools in the US, for example, were really so great, there wouldn't be so many people trying to get their kids into private schools, or home schooling.

The US is not in the top of the report I cited and has many problems in the schooling system. One underpinning factor is segregation (ethnic and socioeconomic).

> school vouchers

... are tax funded, so is a variant of an extensive welfare state on the funding side. A drawback with such a mixed setup (public funding of private provision) for schooling is that it often requires even more regulation, oversight and middle men activities due to for profit and competition dynamics. The US health care system is a prime example of how cost-ineffective such systems can become compared to more straightforward public provision of health care in other countries.

> Only if they exist to be surveyed.

Are you saying you don't think there's any gradual differences in how extensive the welfare state is among the countries listed in the report?
Being non-present on a screen reminds of meditation but is more akin to dissociation and is really dreaming awake. It takes you away but you dream a weird dream which is not yours .
Goravel doesn't roll off the tongue either. They should have went with Gravel.
These smug pilots have lost touch with the down-to-earth lives and concerns of ordinary passengers like us. Let's see a show of hands: who thinks I should fly the plane?
>There is no real thinking involved. It’s just math

>Implying

I'll never understand this "They're just learning from past experience and making predictions!" argument, as if that doesn't constitute thinking in some meaningful, if minimal sense.
What I'm more annoyed about is that for laypeople AI is synonymous with transformers. The fields of AI and machine learning are much vaster, with a rich intellectual history spanning many decades. Blanket statements don't apply.
Something I have been thinking about lately:

Is there a "way out" of hyper-optimized, propagandistic, attention-grabbing media overtaking all sources of information in a society with rock-solid free speech laws? Is there even a remote possibility that a nuanced, truthful organization that covers global events could even get funded and exist? I'm a bit skeptical.

We might imagine that in a sort of fictional closed elitist society, so-called guardians could control what the information/media network looks like and ensure that the regulations aren't abused to hide crimes, disallow propaganda-type content, and so on. In reality, that usually ends poorly, but at least theoretically it's possible.

But I don't think that's even a possibility in the kind of media world we live in. Any restrictions on free speech tend to be strongly criticized and repealed, and judging on past events and human flaws, they should be criticized and repealed. The danger from restrictions on speech is almost certainly greater than those from unrestricted speech. And that's not even mentioning the vast, vast ecosystem of media organizations and the billions (trillions?) of dollars they control.

But that doesn't really solve our problem. The best answer I can come up with is that capital funds organizations which explicitly do the things I mentioned, as well as the funds required for them to compete with other sources of media. But for all the philanthropy billionaires have done, none seems to have any interest in establishing such an organization.
I've found AI to be useful on precisely-scoped tasks I might assign to a junior programmer to take a day to do, like "convert this exact bash script to a Powershell script".

But in my own work, those tasks are pretty rare, like 3 times a month? Often I start working on something, and the scope and definition of success changes while I'm in the midst of it. Or it turns out to be harder than expected and it makes sense to timebox it and do a quick search for workarounds.

As much as we joke about StackOverflow commenters sometimes telling a question-asker they shouldn't be doing what they're trying to do, you do actually want that (soft) pushback some of the time.
Most modern LLMs will gleefully come up with a complete plan for how we're gonna get the square peg in the round hole.
Europe's weaponry is already somewhat "open source". Many big things like aircraft and missile systems are designed and built with pan-European consortia. As a result, every country knows how to build these things.

Heck, even Italian Agusta sold some of their platforms to a NATO ally with build/iterate/export permissions...
That's still absolutely terrible
You’re expecting intelligent, rational behavior from people with a 7th-8th grade reading level, broadly speaking, as well as people who voted to hurt others and have found out they are the target.
Despite all the 2nd Amendement talk, it mainly comes down to the military.

The military have the tanks, the air support, the logistics, the surveilence net, the miscelaneous support equipment, and all the training to use everything.

A split within the military, that gets real ugly real fast.
The three-branch thing is so smart.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/research-publications/resbul...

Conclusions and policy implications

To return to our initial question: does stock market liquidity deteriorate when HFTs compete? The results suggest that competition among HFTs increases speculative high-frequency trades, which could lead to a deterioration in market liquidity.
It's pretty close. I always think of "send it" as a pretty close English equivalent phrase.
Or, more likely: "the wicked and deceptive establishment have yet again managed to sabotage the brilliant and noble efforts of America's best ever leader. The only way America can be saved now is to suppress these treacherous anti American rabble rousers so that they can't keep the real American heros down."
Yeah this is one of the typical mistakes of guest languages, they start by offering something that the platform language is missing out on, and eventual in the pursue for greater mindstart try to expand elsewhere, however by doing so, they lose the capabilities that made the original target platform special, and eventually become their own thing, if they survive beyond the typical adoption curve.
One big problem is layoffs cluster around events like the dot com bubble, the financial crisis, or covid, so there are weird things happening. You might be able to look at companies' quarterly profits to identify healthy companies that remained healthy, but still did layoffs.
Nope. Usually it happens in chains. Multiple comments in the same thread one after another get deleted. Sub comments etc.

Reddit mods can also give comments hundreds of upvotes with a button. So they lock threads and make it look justified by giving the top comments disagreeing with the thread hundreds of upvotes.
It's inevitable that if Ukraine has no funding or soldiers to continue this war, then it will end. I don't think that is being questioned.
Turns out he’s only in office to inflict pain. He has zero interest in making anything better.
> He replies, "I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox!"

This only happens because he was inside a computer simulation of the universe created just for him, so the Vortex shows him he actually is important. Had it happened for real it would have destroyed his mind just like everyone else.
It's incredible how pointless it seems when there's no wall of content in front of us. Great commentary.
Can you please edit out swipes and putdowns from your posts here? Your comment contains some interesting information and would be much better without that first sentence.

We've had to ask you this more than once recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42605019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554816

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Did you vote for alienating all your allies?

Increase tariffs even more on allies than your supposed enemies?

Massively increasing cost of living in US?

Sending European and South Korean defense stocks through the roof while tanking US defense stocks?

Eliminating free travel through Canada to Alaska?

Becoming the laughing stock of every stand up show around the globe?

Yes, I know you voted for Trump.

Do you think you got what voted for?
"...total advertising has averaged about 1.3% to 2% of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) over the past 20 years. ... In 2015, digital advertising corresponded to about 50% of total advertising spending and more recent estimates point to a share closer to 65% of total advertising spending. That represents about 0.6% to 1.1% of GDP. ..." from https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/oct/rise-digi...

So, nah. It's significant but not "nightmare fuel" even if online advertising entirely went away. (Which nobody is proposing, by the way.)
I used GitHub Copilot and Udemy to teach myself Rust. Copilot was especially helpful at resolving obtuse compiler error messages.

But as I’ve improved at Rust I have noticed I am using Copilot a lot less. For me now it has mainly become a tool for code completion. It’s not helping me solve problems now, it’s really just about saving time. I have estimated (unscientifically) that it probably improves my productivity 2-4x.
European Parliament removes curbs on lawmaker meetings with China
You mean: European militaries haven’t done their historical norm, which is starting wars that kill horrific numbers of civilians. The only serious militarized power in that side of Eurasia is Russia, and what are they doing? Killing horrific numbers of civilians.

Seems like the reasonable goal would be to embargo Russia until they disarm like the other adults in the region.
I wish Europe and the US would have just put their foot down and kicked out Russia swiftly and decisively in 2022.

Rather the have adopted the doctrine of "Ukraine can't lose, but Ukraine may not win". Always supplying just enough arms to keep the Ukrainian front from collapsing not to "stir up" Russia.
Don't forget "vale" which I always think of as being Spain Spanish but you hear it all over the Spanish speaking world too. Which is like almost the same, but not the same.