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Sweden will reportedly be supplying Ukraine with Saab-built Gripen fighters.[1][2] Maybe. Apparently Sweden has been holding off on transfer of 14 Gripens while Ukraine was learning to use and service F-16s.

The Gripen has advantages for Ukraine. It's a more rugged aircraft, with lower maintenance demands and lower operating cost. It can operate from very basic airstrips and roads. Saab boasts about this.[3] Their pitch mentions that servicing an aircraft between missions requires just one trained tech assisted by five other workers. The USAF likes to operate from big, well-equipped, secure air bases, and US aircraft tend to be designed for that environment.

The US has, in the past, tried to discourage other countries from buying the Gripen, to protect US manufacturers. That sales advantage just disappeared.

[1] https://min.news/en/military/a409faa4bc530b328f75ed6ccff23b7...

[2] https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/04/saab-ceo-pushes-for-s...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyD0liioY8E
There's also the "we can only pay a third of what Google paid you..." and given two candidates that interview equally well, one is former Google and appeared to be making $300k and another is from somewhere where they were making $70k before...

I'd argue for the $70k person. They are less likely to have experienced lifestyle inflation and looking at this position as a "slumming it until they can get a job making $300k+ again."

It further complicates the issue that most companies don't have Google scale problems and don't have the engineering culture for a Google scale solution.

There are several factors working against even not incompetent former Google employees - especially if their experience is entirely within Big Tech.

A bit ago a former Tesla person was in the set of interviews and it became clear that they wanted to make the organization that was considering hiring them into a copy of how Tesla works... and that wasn't something that was going to be doable. The post interview discussion was "this person is going to try to make us into a copy of Tesla for six months, and then leave shortly after they realize that we weren't a place that could become another Tesla."

Big Tech experience may be a positive signal for getting hired at other Big Tech companies... but it can be a negative signal at a company that isn't trying hiring for an organization that can't become a Big Tech company - especially if that is the only thing that is known.

Hiring isn't necessarily picking the "best" person for the role, but rather the least risky. Former Big Tech employees are often riskier than other candidates given their lifestyle expectations and the mismatch of the engineering cultures.
After 8-9 years of Go and having about 20 smaller and bigger backends under my belt: no, nothing that looks like a framework has emerged. Not in my code or in that of any of my colleagues. What has emerged is consistency in how we structure certain things. But there is no frameworks needed for that.

And it is not for lack of asking myself if I wouldn't be more effective if I distilled the practices into some framework. I've had plenty of ideas for frameworks and I always end up throwing them away. The way I structure things is so minimal anyway that there really isn't that much you can gain by creating a framework.

The closest I come is tooling to kickstart projects by using a template driven code generation approach. But that's mostly possible because the way I do things is consistent enough that I can generate the initial code for things like the model types and whatever crud and API I need.

In my 35+ years as a professional developer I have yet to see frameworks actually being force multipliers over time. They tend to have a small window where they look attractive. Then they tend to become a liability at some point.
Why does a browser need to be 10,000,0000 lines though? It's that the minimum number of lines to capture the complexity of a modern browser? I don't it.

And even if there are 10mil lines they shouldn't be a monolith
> All the expensive pills are just to avoid the laxative effect. No further benefit.

Different substances may have seriously different subjective (e.g. on mood, sleep) effect in at least some people (e.g. me). I may be a good idea to try bisglycinate, orotate, threanate to check whether some of them act the way you like.
Hugging Face datasets and models for cybersecurity/sofwtare vulnerabilities
There's nothing to celebrate here. This is another sad moment for Europeans everywhere.

> The first phase of this six-year endeavor is backed by €240 million (£200 million, $260 million) in funding.

For this to be a serious effort it would take another two zeros at the end of that number. This is 100x too small.

In 6 years, we'll have spent a pittance, to realize that we got basically nothing for it, and we're even further behind the US whose companies are spending tens of billions to develop new accelerators.

Let's take one US company at random, Groq, they've raised 10x this amount of money. That's one startup. Never mind Cerebras, SambaNova, Tenstorrent, etc. How is this effort going to compete? And they're giving the money to "38 leading partners" instead of one focused entity. It won't compete. It's just a waste.

The EU is still thinking too small. In an era where the US is no longer a reliable partner (maybe even a rival), and where Taiwan could disappear overnight, this is extremely stupid and dangerous.

I don't understand why the EU can't get serious about tech. Why does every investment need to be peanuts? Why can't we pay people well so they don't all leave to the US/Canada? Why can't we seriously invest in startups?
Have you seen that Chinese dragon made with drones they showed off during the NYE show? Now imagine them autonomous and every carrying a bomb. Even Phalanx will not help you. Bye bye aircraft carriers.
With average daily consumption of 2.2 liters of CocaCola Chiapas leads the world
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this is the best news ever... all these other countries keep up conflict to keep the bankers happy while they exploit our resiurces for corrupt politicians and business men... Everyone crying about the economy, but our economy is already shit and extending out these corrupt ppl corrupt directives will only keep us (on the private side) in economic turmoil... We've been in perpetual conflict over 2 decades... It's time to focus on us...
Surely you meant: https://imgur.com/a/yEz4dSc
Of course, there is a global Tesla boycott. Other electric cars are also made by other companies which sell cheaper than a Tesla.
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My Lebanese friends are Armenian Gregorians, so I tend to consider their perspective relatively impartial — though, as you rightly noted, it remains anecdotal.

As for 'Jewish policies', there are, of course, issues around settlers, the West Bank, and Gaza. My own view on Gaza doesn't favour any particular side - it's a deeply complex and painful topic, and I recognise the trauma is still fresh. But I was referring to a different angle. Many of my Israeli friends are deeply frustrated by the influence of the ultra-Orthodox community and the state policies shaped by that influence - whether it's on women's rights, voting rights for Israeli Arabs, or broader social norms.

It's increasingly concerning given the explosive proportional growth of this community, which is on track to represent a third of Israel's population within a few decades.

And yet, the topic of the ultra-Orthodox and their influence is exceedingly rare in the West. I wouldn’t have been aware of it myself if I hadn’t had a personal experience. Years ago, a girl who had run away - literally - from a Hasidic community arrived in the UK, desperately looking for a way to stay. She was applying for jobs, including a position I had open. Meanwhile, she was staying with some soft-hearted Jewish family, working as a nanny for their kids. I still remember her eyes and the dedication — and desperation — in her voice.

My CTO at the time, an Israeli ex-IDF intelligence guy, soft-pushed me to hire her, even though she was absolutely unqualified. He told me, 'These people have enough resolve to become anything.' I didn’t budge. But I’ve never forgotten that experience.
That's kind of a chicken and egg issue, isn't it? Why is it that employees can get more money/promotions from a company they have no relationship with, than from a company where they've already been working for multiple years and have more company-specific knowledge than their replacement will? Unlike with government work, years at the company isn't really considered when deciding who layoffs are going to hit. You're proposing that tech workers should loyally stay at the same company for 10 years, make less money, and then get laid off just as easily anyway?
But isn't that the point?
I'm not sure either. http://s2geometry.io/ works well and you only have to really worry about 4 points to draw the circle.
It was surreal watching Trump, the man who has made his very name into a corporate product, campaign against Hillary Clinton with claims that she's too influenced by corporations. And, somehow, our politics managed to get even stupider since then.
Libraries are normally released under LGPL, which allows the use inside your differently licensed code.

A ton of commercial services and products somehow use Linux, the poster child of GPL2, while also running tons of their proprietary code. Python is GPL, and it's all over the place in the computing world.

If you just want to take some code someone else wrote, for free, and alter and meld it into your commercial product, well, yes, GPL does not allow that. I don't think it's a huge impediment for legitimate use.

I'd say that all open-source approaches have their own use cases. Certain things are easier to release under BSD / MIT license, some makes sense to release under GPL, some have to resort to AGPL, to the detriment of commercial adoption. A dual restrictive open-source + paid commercial license can be the best in many cases.
Another victory for the ultra rich, and a loss for the broader public. You know, "we the people".
because it is. Anyone who spends 5 minutes on Reddit knows this has become code for violence over the last few months.
> This is a critical moment in history so people need to discuss it more than anything else

You may be correct on this, but I'm trying to keep in mind that we still have 4 more years of this and I think this may sorta be the new normal for the time being. I'd hate to see HN get distracted by every new drama Donald gets himself involved in till 2029.
Millions in investment won't cut it either. You need a lot of time in addition to write code that efficiently captures the problem
Chinese firms have been moving in that direction for some time now. One early adopter was GigaDevice, which started offering RISC-V versions of their microcontrollers (e.g. GD32VF103 - a RISC-V adapted STM32 clone) around 2019.
Pre-screening, depending on how it’s done, could eliminate good candidates.

There have been times I’ve received answers in interview that weren’t the written answers, but I looked it up afterward and tested it out… and they were right. I learned something news and tweaked the answer reference as a result. If those questions were in the pre-screening instead of asked directly by me, it would have filtered out good people.

I remember fighting to get access to the pre-screen data to see what the answers were and find if there were any other cases like this, where the non-technical pre-screener was filtering out potentially good candidates, because we couldn’t give them exhaustive answers to questions being asked.
Competent, yes. Intelligent, yes.

Productive, not necessarily.

Google is not a "produce a lot of code" place. It's a careful and deliberate and systematic type of place.

One thing I think ex-Google does bring especially to the table is a disdane for over-complicated and overly trend-driven solutions.

For one Google's internal review culture is (or at least was when I was there) very stringent. Pointless complexity and showboating is usually spanked.

For two, because Google basically rolls its own everything in regards to frameworks and the like, developers who come out of there have been mainly cured of "flavour of the month" and "my ego wants us to use this new shiny new-coloured tech".
Imagine if Russia decided it wanted Alaska, and there'd be a stalemate meat grinder conflict in that area, and your European allies, who've been your closest supporters, were like "just give Putin what he wants bro. Who even cares about a little bit of Alaska? We're tired of supporting you and just want you to make peace, and will coordinate with Russia to knock some sense in you. All this talk of you wanting to 'defeat Russia' is just silly, gl with that"
Did Ukraine buy any F-16’s? No. They’ve benefitted from the generosity of the United States since 2017, and thanks in large part to that generosity they succeeded in the defense of Kyiv in 2022. Now it’s 2025 and the war has been stalemated for a couple of years. Does the United States have an open-ended obligation to continue supporting, at its own expense, yet another forever war on the other side of the world?

The United States is still being taken for granted. And I have to laugh at the implication that the American economy will be ruined by the effect on the American arms industry when almost every American ally was neglecting their own military, instead taking American security guarantees for granted.
What do you mean, nonfree? The compiler is Apache 2.0 licensed.
> 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

I don't know which is more wrong, the broad claim here or the claim that you are a liberal.

I mean, what you describe was generally the case...but between the fall of the USSR and the start of the new US-Russia Cold War around 1998-1999, with the belief that Russia was on a path that, while rocky, led to Western-friendly democracy with the right support.

From 1999-2014 (but generally declining through that period) engagement was viewed as useful, in part because Russia’s hostile turn was seen by some as curable with reassurance, but more because Russia was seen as a generally hostile generally but having useful alignments of interest in some parts of the world.

But by a decade ago, 2015? “Normalizing relations with Russia and disengaging with the rest of the world militarily” was certainly not a common, much less the dominant, American liberal position on foreign policy.
A general pitfall in numerical methods is settling on a bad old method without understanding what all your options are. It's easy to get stuck on suboptimal methods, especially if you don't look at more recent references and the literature. Not all new methods are good; lots of old methods are great. There are a dozen different ways to solve any given problem. Usually, each method will be ~equally as hard for you the implementer to understand, but they can have wildly different performance characteristics. This is the main reason to avoid looking at something like Numerical Recipes---it will get you stuck in a local minimum.

I'll try to give books that are good starting points and provide a useful and correct orientation for each topic. For each of these topics, there are many, many other books. I don't know all the books---I'm sure I'm missing other great references.

General numerical analysis reference: Suli & Mayers, Stoer & Bulirsch, Ridgway Scott's book. There are many others---these are the ones I like. Suli & Mayers is truly excellent. Stoer & Bulirsch is comprehensive.

Linear algebra, etc: Trefethen & Bau, "Matrix Computations". Yousef Saad's books. Greenbaum's book. There are other key topics not covered much by these, namely sparse direct solvers. Tim Davis has a good intro book. Martinsson has a new book on fast direct solvers---unclear how useful such solvers are in general.

Approximation theory: "Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice" by Trefethen. Extremely important book. Many numerical methods for solving 1D problems (rootfinding, approximation, optimization, solving differential equations, nonlinear boundary value problems, representing special functions, etc) are made completely obsolete by using Chebyshev approximation, at least when the function you're working with is analytic (and even when not, you can get very far by using a "Chebyshev spline"). If all you're doing is calculus on a computer, this is probably the only book you need to read.

Optimization: Nocedal & Wright. Boyd & Vandenberghe. Bertsekas has great books.

Interval arithmetic: Moore, Kearfott & Cloud. This topic doesn't get as much play in the academic applied math/scientific computing/numerical analysis community, which is a real shame, IMO. Gives you the basic tools to get into verified numerics, where you can write algorithms which work provably correctly, allowing you to avoid epsilon hacking to some extent. E.g., "do X if |small number| < eps, otherwise do Y". Without verified numerics it's impossible to build correct algorithms on these kinds of predicates with floating point arithmetic).

This covers what I would consider the "basic" topics. At least, if you're doing something else that's higher level (like solving PDEs), you need stuff from this toolbox.
It is indeed overrun with something evil, I had to switch to /active because anything critical of Musk is flagged away from the frontpage in seconds. At this rate the whole Hacker News will be completely irrelevant in a few weeks.
While there are a lot of these "messaging bills" that do serve purely political purposes - see https://rollcall.com/2024/07/25/messaging-bills-are-loud-but... for a somewhat informal discussion of their modern use - there are many historical examples of Congress using its Article I "power of the purse" to limit the executive branch's ability to fund military operations in foreign countries: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:U.S._congressional_op... for a number of examples.

To my knowledge, at no time since the founding of NATO has any member of Congress considered such a bill necessary to protect other NATO members from the U.S. executive branch's own aggressions. But these are the times we live in.
The goal when hiring isn't to find someone who is barely skilled enough to just slightly come out as better to have on staff than not. In fact these are often the worst hires as they slow everything down and create work for you to find tasks they are capable of, but it seems unfair to fire them because they aren't totally useless all the time. You hire the best candidate overall, and you are very far from describing that.
Futures aren’t meant to do anything, are they? Like so much of the market, they are just another partial-information lottery which isn’t explicitly forbidden by weak regulators.

(But I’m not someone who knows better)
I’d say you lack perspective, this war started in 2014 not when Russia crossed the border. Russia’s agency isn’t going to extend to ignoring existential threats.
I posted that link here earlier last month[0] and even I think the comment was off putting because it's off topic and just a way to put something down. "The link you posted is becoming increasingly irrelevant" doesn't seem to add much to the conversation. To the extent that it does add something (ie. comparison of typst and Tex/LaTex) it could be phrased very differently. The way it is written now also invites similarly phrased criticism the other way as seen in other replies. I agree typst is much more pleasant to write. Also yes I doubt the typst developers would call LaTex irrelevant. In fact the author specifically points out ways the Tex currently outperforms typst. (Not to imply you stated otherwise.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032697
I love that the "not now" button does nothing
I think the point is that what looks good in art (even in "realistic" art) is not necessarily what is "more like the real thing". The Simpsons made a joke about this ("cows don't look like cows on screen, that's why we use horses") but it's true.

More importantly, what the author intends to convey sometimes requires emphasis that isn't present in real life.

There was an extremely cool blog post about photography on HN a year or so ago, where the point was made that there are no "real" photos (in the sense of "accurately representing reality"), there's always a choice by the photographer (colors, framing, distance to subject, distortion, etc).
is this supposed to work on desktop?
That's about two orders of magnitude more thinking than they're actually doing.
Egg prices are high compared to what they used to cost but still under $1.00 for a two-egg meal. There's not a protein source that's much cheaper, I think the egg producers are exploiting a certain inelasticity of demand. People don't like the price increases but eggs are still very cheap food.
It has to be believable. Even if it were true in your hypothetical, Xi would not believe that Trump or any other leader would sacrifice their life and the existence of the entire country over an issue that isn’t of existential importance, either to the leader or the country.

That’s, again, the whole problem. You don’t have to view Putin as “mad” to see him taking a nuclear last stand over Ukraine. He is already invested and taking risk at an extreme level to the point that no one can doubt the importance to him and his willingness to make heavy sacrifices to win. There is no believable narrative where a US leader would be willing to gamble at an existential level over Ukraine.
> “we don’t need a package manager, we write everything ourselves” vibes

Then I'm afraid you misunderstood.

Frameworks is not the only way to build things efficiently. It is actually possible to build things using libraries and consistent ways of structuring things.

Also, we're talking about Go, so please use Go examples. Django isn't interesting in this context. Have a look at how you'd leverage the standard library, and perhaps a couple of libraries in Go to do the same.
>and "Israeli" nationality does not exist, only "Jewish" exists.

This lie lies at the heart of all of the state's attempts to color fundamentally anti genocide, anti genocide and antiracist criticism of the state as anti semitic.

The country does not represent Jews, just a rather abhorrent form of racism.
Does your interview process require knowing cloud costs off the top of your head? Because that's hard to track tbh
It was founded in Britain, but it is a Japanese company ATM as per it's SoftBank ownership.
I like how Trump is not what they want only when there is a need to deflect the blame. But when someone needs to deflect blame from Trump, then he is doing exactly what his voters want.

And somehow, when left and democrats are doing something bad, left and democrats are to be blamed. And when conservatives or right do something bad ... left and democrats are to be blamed.

> The economic woes come first

No they do not. Trump does not make economy better, you know it, they know it, I know it. It is not about removing fraud or corruption, Trump is fraudster and they know it, you know it and Trump himself knows it.

It was a stream of lies and hate that won and people voted for. It has nothing to do with economic policies that could help these people or not. Pretending to yourself that some rational policy can counteract it is how you loose.