skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If UA goes down, then EU goes down, because RU will attack before EU is ready.

Do you have any numbers or analysis to back this up, please?

A few counterpoints:

- Russia failed to 'take' a relatively unprepared Ukraine, and arguably has only managed the gains it has made because the support (from Biden US and EU) was drip-fed according to the Biden team's strategy.

- Russia is haemorraging fighters and modern fighting machinery in the current war in Ukraine. It's unknown how much longer the loss of life can be sustained without internal unrest. The absence of modern machinery would obviously make an invasion of Europe less likely to succeed.

- While Russia might now be a "war economy" I've seen reports that they can't economically sustain the war for too much longer.

- While the EU certainty needs to invest in defence, some countries are already strong, and would likely fight to protect the collective.

Overall, this suggests that Russia would fail against a united Europe, were they to extend beyond a defeated Ukraine.
No, not Dahl, the Royal Court - they had a character/villain in a play, Rare Earth Mettle, with a Jewish name, which I think is hardly the theatre's fault, and previously a play by Caryl Churchill in 2009.
You realize a lot of hormones could be classified as gender-affirming, right?

Testosterone therapy would be gender-affirming for most men. Huge numbers of women take progesterone. Many, many others hormones reinforce gender-associated behaviours and physiology. No one thinks anything of it until someone is taking it for reasons they don’t approve of.

But we could manipulate all kinds of studies we don’t agree with because they happen to utilize “gender-affirming” hormones. We could do this to tens of thousands of studies. We would be technically correct, yet extremely wrong.

In this case the main point of the study is laid out here: "information on the effects of sex hormone therapy on immune responsiveness is scarce"

If you ignore the reason this gap in knowledge became relevant, this has nothing to do with transgender people or affirming gender. It has everything to do with understanding the health of the broader population; particularly as sex hormones are used with increasing frequency (sex hormones are androgens, estrogens, and progestogens; very common, normal hormones used by all kinds of people).
A optimized version would use 64-bit accumulators (`psadbw` on SSE2, or some sort of horizontal adds on NEON). The `255` max constraint is pointless.

Many programming languages/frameworks expose this operation as `reduce()`.
You should probably just cast to an intermediary `struct foo *`. It'd be a lot more readable.
I really hope this realization makes you reconsider your distrust of "leftists steeped in anti-imperialist ideology", and whatever ideology you carry.
Take that thought further.

Say we put a tariff on socks. And Hanes opens a sock factory in the US. Is a few hundred sock jobs going to help the millions who aren’t making socks? Does working in the sock factory pay enough to buy computers and cars and other higher margin goods?

Generally speaking, for broad tariffs, the answer is “No”.
The country has been growing and people getting rich taxes are not the issue that’s just Republican propaganda
..and loads and loads of politicians that pretend they can solve problems above while shamelessly grifting.
He forces Ukraine to take a bad deal by removing their ability to walk away. That deal involves more revenue for him and ensures that he gets to tell his voters that he kept his promise to end the war. His first impeachment was over trying to extort Ukraine’s assistance in election rigging so the humiliation is an extra bonus.
Most of politic seems to be about negotiating to keep a third of the population away from power. Because once they get in power they will trash almost anything in their path
That's steve yegge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge) you are talking about. Kids these days, sheesh, they think lisp is a speech impediment.... /s
I understand that semantic search gives you more than keyword search. I don't understand the cases when you need that. Like I said, I use GitHub issues all the time, and it's exceedingly rare that I need to search for something extensively like this.
> - The US will still be in NATO, and will still be actively committed to the alliance

This is already gone: "US ‘to cease all future military exercises in Europe’" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/08/us-to-cea...
> If you don't get support they are useless.

Yes, but any country selling military hardware would do the same if it turned coats in a conflict.
I think this is overly optimistic. Countries around the world can't build strategies around the US that will only hold when the Democrats are in power. Trump and the Republican party as a whole have thrown reliability out the window. Even if the GOP come to their senses and reject the America First ideology and pop their disinformation bubble the damage has still be done to the character of state. The only option for the US is to hold on to its power by sheer muscle power, but that will only last so long.
Depends on the used cryptography, could be months or decades.
Your phone probably generates a random MAC every time you connect to WiFi.

Guess I'll see you in hacker jail
>and think that LLMs are amazing and really helpful

Respectively, are you understanding what it produces or do you think that's its amazing because it produces something, that 'maybe' works.

Here's an e.g. I was just futzing with. I did a refactor of my code (typescript) and my test code broke (vitest) and for some reason it said 'mockResolvedValue()' is not a function. I've done this a gazillion times.

I allowed it via 3-4 iterations to try and fix it (I was being lazy and wanted my error to go away) and the amount of crap (rewriting tests, referenced code) it was producing was beyond ridiculous. (I was using github co-pilot).

Eventually I said "f.that for a game of soldiers" and used by brain. I forgot to uncomment a vi.mock() during the refactor.

I DO use it to fix stupid typescript errors (the error blob it dumps on you can be a real pita to process) and appreciate it when gives me a simple solution.

So I agree with quite a few comments here. I'm not ready to bend the knee to our AI Overloads.
I made a terminal based presentation tool some years back and like sibling comments said, it was neat for switching back and forth to code samples and output.

Mine wasn't markdown tho: I used ttyrec to record a terminal session to a file per slide and the tool just played it back. I set it up so pressing most keys would advance the playback hackertyper style, advancing 200ms per keypress IIRC. When you reach the end of a slide, press return for the next one. The back and forward arrows were used to jump between slides quickly, and title text was done with figlet.

I only used it for a couple of in house presentations and meetups where the hacker styling was appropriate; there wasn't much to it so the code wasn't released, it'd be easy to recreate.

edited to add: I forgot, I did put it in a gist. https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/a267b97a52f7a1f70c46 ymmv. I recall the playback struggled with things like vim, I always meant to try integrating as cinema since it seems to work better
I resent the fake legal douche move of falsely asserting "low performance" as the rationale for their cuts.

Some people work hard and take pride in their work. And on top of their gaming down our wages with h1b workers and low benefit contracting they have the gall to assert we're low performers when what they want is a $20 million bonus for their execs.

But yeah, I see your point.
Real question was what about the Type 2 diabetes in these users (with and without adhd)
Show HN: I built Listenify to listen to blogs while doing the dishes
I built Listenify to solve a problem we faced daily: wanting to consume interesting content while commuting, exercising, or doing chores.
Wouldn’t it be funny if the aggressive “are you sure you want to leave Edge?!” kind of messages actually made people ton the whole think it was a lower quality product…
here is one solution i am helping out with which was very very easy to create using claude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R72TvoXCimg&t=2s
I moved from Australia to the USA (be careful who you swipe on dating apps) and went from paying 50% tax to 15% tax for basically the same job with basically the same quality of life. Tax in America is outrageously low which is no doubt why it cant balance its budget (though I approve of cutting government spending aswell).
He wrote two books about his life, 'Boy' and 'Going Solo'
Some sources on this:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/is-the-swiss-we...

https://breakingdefense.com/2023/03/the-cost-of-neutrality-s...
Honestly, I think in your scenario Bing would end up as the top search engine. I've noticed lately that when I'm using a browser with Bing in the search bar, I just use Bing and don't bother using Google. Honestly, the two feel pretty similar to me at the moment.
Maybe the Nazi side of the country is to blame
Taxes aren't the problem.

How do I know? Because my parents earning ~1000 USD per month each living in Poland have higher standard of living than most Americans. Despite paying ~30% taxes.

You have to add up what the taxes pay for in the calculation. Free healthcare, free university education, good public transport, low inequality (= low crime). All of that adds up to higher standard of living achievable with pretty shitty earnings.

Oh and before you blame it on military spending - we spend higher% of GDP on military than USA. Russia is a shitty neighbor, we have to.

American problems are exactly the opposite of what Americans think they are. You are in dire need of some social democracy.
Companies often rely on referrals/personal recommendations. But that sort of puts the finger on the scale against applicants who don't have an in. Random applications whether online or otherwise have always been pretty much of a crap shoot. To the degree you put substantial barriers in place I'm probably not going to bother if I know it's a numbers game with odds stacked against me.
Benefits how? Even if we are all 'market participants', the time investment between a hobbyist and career investor is rarely equal. An LFT/low frequency trading market would egalise this discrepancy.
Europe has spent trillions on defence since the fall of the Berlin Wall, most of which went to US weapons manufacturers.

What the last decade has shows is relying on external oligarchs for energy and defence is not sensible. The us has encouraged this for a long time. I just hope that Europe actually steps up quickly enough.

It will hurt the us a lot more than Europe, and China will be massively emboldened in the Pacific. It’s a new world order.
How China's Surveillance State Works [video]
I don't understand how either of those, said in the mid 1900s, get the man cancelled in 2025. We have heard these thoughts countless times in modern day to less reaction.
We need to remember the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurance and not forget that Ukraine was coaxed to give up its nuclear weapons in 1993 by a guarantee of territorial integrity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
Isn’t that wanting your cake and eating it too? Conservativism rejects progress and changes by definition, so these people purposefully didn’t adapt to changes since the rust belt occurred, and NOW they are so worse off and want blood in the water.
Practically speaking I think it requires a lot of will, momentum, and process to change this. The decision even if made soon would probably take a few years to complete.

Supplementing it may be faster (eg. adding Euro and/or Yuan) than outright replacing it, but it’s not my area of expertise. The timeframe was based on some light research.
>What America calls leftists is considered pretty centrist everywhere else. They’re so afraid of empathic policies it’s no wonder the country is falling apart.

Maybe on economic issues. On certain social issues it's definitely not "centrist" and arguably further left than other developed countries.
The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).

Genuinely, how can someone take this language seriously? I don’t understand how this doesn’t leave a sour taste in anyone’s mouth, as though they’re being treated like gullible fools by their own administration.

Language like this is why I won’t vote for Pierre Poilievre here in Canada, or even take him seriously at all.

I almost can’t believe this stuff is on the White House website.
Sure, I'm interested in whether any of those bugs affect say, Cranelift because the Cranelift did, as I understand it, a much better job of coming up with a coherent IR semantic so unlike LLVM fixing bugs in this layer isn't as scary if it's necessary for them.

It is definitely possible to write Rust or (with more difficulty, legal C) which should show off something about provenance semantics and instead the LLVM backend just emits contradictory "One and two are the same number" type nonsense code. In C of course they can say well, since the ISO document pointedly does not specify how this works, maybe one and two really are the same number, although nobody actually wants that - in Rust that's definitely a bug but you will just get pointed at the corresponding LLVM bug for this issue, they know it's busted but it's hard to fix.

I don't know whether fixing the LLVM bug magically makes it TS6010 compliant. If so that would be nice.
I applaud you for trying, but HN doesn't want reason or understanding w.r.t trump or his voters. Way easier to label everyone/everything as fascist nazis and stick your head in the sand.
We're not increasing defense spending to appease Trump though. We're increasing defense spending because we realize a need for strategic independence from the US. Because for the comming 4 years, it's obvious that the US won't be a reliable partner, and might even be an adversary.
It makes no sense for us to buy American if we need strategic independence from the US.
> Some AI company could buy it and add some subscriptions based AI services. Or package it with optional but very popular and lucrative VPN, etc.

There are many who already do just this. What extra value would they get if they already repackage Chrome for free?
> Can you do something like this in Pug?

https://pugjs.org/language/mixins.html
It goes beyond that:

- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7435pnle0go US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine (the US rejected a resolution that named Russia as the aggressor).

- https://news.online.ua/en/the-us-is-ending-support-for-ukrai... The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16

- https://www.reuters.com/world/us-cuts-off-intelligence-shari... US cuts intelligence sharing for Ukraine, adding pressure for Russia peace deal

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-08/us-vetoes... US Vetoes G-7 Shadow Fleet Task Force Plan

There's a pattern: Trump wants to force a capitulation of Ukraine.
Other countries who fly then will fill in the gaps. They may start making replacement parts themselves, that's what I would do if I were them.
I think it is because most companies stopped firing.
> 1) Trump might be alienating his traditional allies and cosying up to Russia, but he still apparently sees China as a problem or adversary.

That's not a guarantee at all. The only thing he's every been honest, consistent and truthful about is that nothing is sacred, everything's on sale, no values (economic, patriotic, environmental, political) will stand in the way of his own profit, there's always the willingness to make a deal and sell something (someone) off, and fuck the consequences, no matter how gigantic, embarrassing, and suicidally bad they are. Negative-sum deals are absolutely on the table as long as he comes out richer or more powerful.

China just needs to make a good offer and Taiwan's fucked when it comes to Trump's support.
I wasn’t aware that Trumps term had ended after only three months.
Do you use symlinks to achieve 0 downtime ? Assuming it is a systemd service ?.

If possible could you share gist of that script ?
"If you don't get support they are useless"

Is this really the case or only a long term problem?
The F-35 is a totally different story.
It’s a good place to find recruiters (and for recruiters to find me).

I don’t waste my time on any of the content.
Modern world supermarket tomatoes are inedible, but looks nice and have a long shelf life.
The same goal I suppose is for bananas now.
My suspicion is Trump is putting pressure on Zelensky (a) because he hates him personally and (b) because he wants an even bigger mineral rights deal. The thinking being, let Zelensky stew in it without U.S. help and suffer some humiliating defeats and let him come crawling back to the table so that he can sell of the majority of his country to the Americans, far more than the Russians will ever get.
A real goof is the one selling an evening dress to a struggling man.
there is more in coffee than caffeine? maybe another substance?
Fuck your feelings. Take their feelings very seriously.
I cannot speak for layoffs in all industries ever, but I agree with your assessment of layoffs in big tech from personal experiences.

I have way too many “lifer” friends in big tech who are deadly scared of layoffs and job hopping. They are also the ones who rarely got promoted and havent had a significant pay bump pretty much ever.

On another hand, half my team at a big tech company got laid off back at the start of 2023. 4 months later, I caught up with them over drinks, and the results were rather interesting. They all got around 4-6mo worth of severance pay, spent 2-3 months just skiing/traveling/hiking/vacationing, then 1 month or so interviewing, and then starting their new jobs shortly after. All seemed rather happy, both with their new positions/pay (which had a significant paybump) and, essentially, paid vacation break they took right before.

It seems like the heavity majority of those stressed about layoffs in big tech are lifers and those who are chronically averse to and dread the interview process.
Don't listen to what politician say, watch what they do, to be fair his decisions were very anti-china, I mean, maybe it going to backfire, but it was anti-chine in it's principle
> This is a completely bonkers take. You actually expected him to sign over an absurd mineral commitment with no agreed benefit for Ukraine?

Yes because that’s what they agreed to in advance of the meeting. The in person meeting, requested by Zelensky, was supposed to be a photo op. But he unwisely tried to steer it into a different direction and ended up losing the whole thing.

> Just toss Ukraine up on the table to be sliced up by the US and Russia?

Yes that’s traditionally what happens to the losers in a conflict. Ukraine does not have the money, guns, or soldiers to win this thing, doublely so without the USA.

Their end state in this is not going to be some pre war border as a NATO state. It’ll be losing land, losing mineral rights, and at best third party non-NATO peacekeepers manning a DMZ.
The entire idea behind “privacy sandbox” is to create a profile of you for advertising based on your browsing history and the profile is created by Chrome - without being logged in and without cookies.

https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/

More specifically the Topics API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Topics_API

It’s opposed by both Mozilla and Apple and is only supported by Google/Chrome.
I love the subtle mistakes that get introduced in strings for example that then take me all the time I saved to fix.
What alternative plan is there for them?

If the PRC should actually decide to invade, it is going to be extremely difficult to hold that off on their own for an extended period of time. Which means they need allies who can rapidly deploy a sufficiently large force to stabilise the situation.

But the only way to get there is with a naval force, and air supremacy would likely be critical to the outcome of that fight, which means you need someone with a large carrier fleet, and that is pretty much a pool of one.

Without US help, there is very little hope that Taiwan would not be overrun sooner or later. Their only real hope would be a nuclear weapons programme that would allow them to credibly threaten to nuke Beijing if invaded. But the PRC would never let it get that far and would make sure to strike before that could be completed.
I don't remember Google doing that. What I remember from that time is a browser war happening between the power players in mobile with iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

I would attribute the improvement in browser standards support to the finalization of the HTML5 spec by the W3C in 2009, which led to browser vendors harmonizing their feature set. We still needed jQuery to ensure cross-browser support, and floats and polyfills to get sites to work on mobile. That ended when browsers harmonized ES2015 support and built in support for flexbox and grid.
Any chance you live in SF? If so, we should meet up - I'm working on something similar. You can reach out at my username @gmail.com
But CRUD is a solved problem, and don't forget about essential complexity, which can never be avoided.

Reinventing that basic logic takes a lot of code and time for a bug-ridden, worse, half-implementation. And on top it will be completely home-grown, any new hire will have to learn it from the barely existing internal "documentation" that wasn't touched in years - making not only initial development multiple times more costly, but every subsequent maintainance as well.

Meanwhile I can just add 3 annotations in Spring/RoR/Django and have solved the problem in a way that a competent new hire will instantly be familiar with.

Also, even the supposed benefits are questionable at best - mechanical sympathy? Like, most of these frameworks sit on top of a highly efficient C web server that just calls some business code for nanoseconds and that's all the "overhead". Python and ruby backends are all over the web and they perform completely fine, even though these are interpreted languages. Java/c# won't even have that problem. I have seen plenty terribly performaning home-grown solution which were designed by a "smart" software astronaut - it's almost like writing a proper web server is a different skill set than typical CRUD business apps.

And lastly, Go feels more productive because it is chock-full of boilerplate. So you can type and type and feel you are so productive, meanwhile in another language you would have just added an annotation and 2 lines and called it a day - it's just a psychological "trick". And "libraries that are easy to compose"? Like, which language has an ecosystem with libraries that are hard to compose? What tools do Go have that would aid in that? I would argue that a more expressive language have way better tools to help with code composition, wouldn't it?
> under the boot

To me it looked like Bezos put the boot there himself, he seemed pretty enthusiastic about it.
It’s hard for me to distinguish between meant as metaphor and meant literally.
Show HN: Wikimedia and LLM
Hi! I built this tool that uses the Wikimedia image corpus to enhance LLM-generated text. I originally made it to help explain mathematical concepts during my exam period, but of course, I only finished it once my exams were already over. Anyway, I think there's value in having images alongside text explanations, and since relying solely on AI-generated images isn't so ideal, Wikimedia is a great resource. You can check out an example answer here [1]. If my API key reaches its limit, you'll need your own key to continue using the tool. However, it's completely free, has no ads, requires no sign-up, and if you'd rather not insert your own key, feel free to copy the code from my GitHub or ask Cursor to code it for you.
And? It also took out a useful aircraft which could have been more significant over the war.