skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are struggling for relevance now that FedNow has gone live, enabling value transfer up to $1M with a 20 second SLA for a few cents per transaction between connected financial institutions.

Look at payment volume of credit cards in India and Brazil considering their instant payment systems (UPI and Pix, respectively). Walmart is preparing to roll out pay by bank in their app, to sidestep credit card rails fees, which cost them >$1B/year.
The strategic interests of the US stay the same. All of this is posturing which will only improve the alliance which the US leads. Carrot or stick, this president or that president, certain things don’t change. All that changes is the implementation.
Isn't scarring caused by scratching?

I remember parents wanted kids to get chickenpox as early as possible so they could put mittens on them so they wouldn't scratch themselves.
My Fears about AI
Which? Be clear, because the only ones I hear you dogwhistling here are Trans folks rights or Black folks rights if you are vaguely referencing "social issues" and generally America's historical context there is Pretty Dang Bad.
A Recursive QR Code
The Chinese and Russian would certainly have provided continued support if they were on the other end of a conflict, differently from the Evil Bad American Empire.
I don't really want to divert the thread to a lot of questionable Trump stuff but there is some evidence in that direction. See for example https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-fir... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia... https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47630
It does seem odd that languages or standard libraries haven’t embraced some of the most common SIMD instructions more than they have, after so many decades of the instructions being available in most processors. I’ve used dotnet’s Vector libraries a bit that tries to auto-adapt to register length and falls back to software on chips that don’t support hardware instructions; it can still be pretty unwieldy and sometimes you have to use the fixed-size ones anyway. Will take a look at ISPC.
Maybe that perception that people chronically job hop is not true? I would welcome a data source that shows chronic job hopping is the norm.

Anecdotally speaking, I spent 6+ish years at my first "old tech" company. My org in this (very large) company was constantly simmering with resource actions (mostly small scale layoffs). There was lots of negative energy there. I left to take a programming/data analytics gig in a large, privately held financial company that had never had a layoff. This was unfortunately timed, 2 years later the financial crisis of 2008 kicked off and I (and my entire team) were all laid off. I have been with my current employer for approaching two decades and several of my peers have been on our team for that much time.

I have had a SINGLE manager in that time window. I can't even name all the managers I had in my first job due to near-constant re-orgs and layoffs.
I don't want to see Ukrainian genocide by Russia, hope that help
Ask HN: Why Isn't PHP Dead Yet?
PHP Should Be Dead… So Why Are Developers Still Building Amazing Apps With It?

Everyone loves to dunk on PHP. New devs sneer at it. The community treats it like a relic. Even after its latest update, many still consider it a "bad" language.

And yet… people keep using it. Not just using it—building successful, scalable, money-making applications with it.

If PHP is so awful, why hasn’t it died? What’s keeping it alive while so many other languages have faded into obscurity?

Let's hear it—why is PHP still standing?
You are incredibly insulated. Read some books about the world and world history.

Here's one for you: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/the-...
Showing TypeScript's creator DOOM [video]
NASA officials undermine Musk's claims about 'stranded' astronauts
The fact that democracy has in it the ability to bring to power the systems and people that can destroy it is what's most frustrating about it.
The videos of the Russian troops at Hostomel are on Youtube. As a commenter above mentioned, they were there to allow troop transports to land and eventually be connected to the tank column coming south from Belarus.
Counterpoint: I’m in the US and my effective income tax rate is in the mid-40s, with my marginal rate over 50%. And I’m not in one of the few states with the highest state income taxes.
My real question as a European: why where we buying US fighter jets in the first place and not French/European ones (for example)?
Show HN: Synology Surveillance Station API Client in Golang
There must be some method to remove posts without informing a user and making it appear to them it is still visible, while making it invisible to everyone else (shadow removal), because that was the state all my posts related to nuclear power were in.

My posts that were humor or otherwise "low-impact" were unaffected. I had many submissions with well over 1,000 karma, but only the submissions that had no economic or political impact were ever seen.

This isn't conjecture or paranoia, it is verified, and I traced it back years once I realized it was happening. I wrote a lot about nuclear energy and I was writing to the void. That is a very cruel thing to do to someone.
"backfired" makes it sound like you believe the US started the war
This seems really nice to me. Of course people are going to click it away to get their dopamine but that's just reality.
The FAA's Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know
Indeed. Social democracy is a requisite for stability. It’s surprising it lasted this long. I guess the New Deal might have been instrumental in postponing collapse.
You want the war to end so that Russians can do what they did to Bucha a thousand more times!

You want the war to end so that Poland, Japan, Taiwan and Australia no longer trust that the US will help them and develop their own nuclear weapons!
> Why is it the US's responsibility to finance and organize the majority of EU's defense?

This is a common talking point, but I think it is totally wrong. The US didn't finance and organize Europe's defense.

They did spend money on their own defense forces which happen to be best positioned in Europe near the best interest as a superpower.

America spent money against their Russian adversary. This money was always well spent as far as I can see it.
What does it actually offer over OpenAPI though? If I feed an openapi spec to an LLM it can use it as a tool
I don’t like that they’re called “Retro GameBoy games” and they’re all Game Boy Advance games ;)
Nice! yes IEMidi is cross platform and works on macOS, but i haven't gotten the time to finalize the Packaging for that system yet, but extremely glad it works right out of the box on your macOS.
While this may not be a perfectly executed study, the "N=1 trial" part is not the problem.

There have been numerous medical and scientific studies with N=1, known as N-of-1 trials. These trials are very useful in chronic conditions where symptoms are stable and measurable, allowing for multiple crossover periods to assess treatment effects accurately.

Also…don't forget all the medical discoveries based on self-experimentation:

Werner Forssmann performed the first heart catheterization on himself. He got the Nobel prize.

Barry Marshal injected himself with heliobacter pylori to prove that it causes stomach ulcers. Also got the Nobel prize.

Jessie Lazear allowed himself to be bitten by mosquitoes infected with yellow fever to prove his hypothesis that mosquitoes were the vector for transmission. No Nobel prize, but he did contract the disease, thus proving his hypothesis…before dying from yellow fever two weeks later.
You had (have?) your own premise that blameful postmortems were good -- the justification-free "yuh-huh!" matched by the justification-free "nuh-uh!" rebuttal, as you elegantly put it. After all, why provide more justification in rebutting a claim than was provided by the initial claimant in making it, unless they show a genuine interest in learning, or at least ask?

You aren't alone in your claim -- perhaps it is instinctive homo sapien thinking to believe punishment for mistakes & incidents always leads to fewer mistakes & incidents. Did you question those assumptions, though? When those assumptions were challenged, did you pause to think "Hmm, why DO I think that? Is it even true?"

There's perhaps an even deeper assumption here: you kept referring to blameful postmortems and punitive action as "accountability", which leads me to think that you might believe you can't have accountability for mistakes & incidents without punishing individuals. If this is indeed an assumption you hold, you should question whether it, too, is false.

The convenient part is, my existence isn't necessary for you to do any of this, so your personal preferences regarding my tone and my style won't affect your introspection and the resulting answers! :)
Ah yes, we'll end our participation and pull out all troops and then send them all back, in opposite land.
>yearly mandatory layoffs

That sounds grotesque. Who would choose to work at a company with that sort of bullshit dangling over your head?
We need to pay the money to USA as tribute so its a write-off anyway, but I have low confidence we will ever see working hardware from it. However I bet China would actually prioritise delivery of some new subs if we pivoted to using them as our naval supplier, to win mindshare in the west as an alternative to America or Russia as an arms supplier. and we set up the next 100 years of paying off bigger countries to leave us alone, which honestly worked well enough the last 100 years
From what I have seen they are just not creating any new policies really for group policy and they are mostly developing intune.
Just because a company can be overall profitable doesn't mean costs aren't out of control. If you make enough profits, you can literally feed money into a shredder and still come out ahead if you earn profits faster than your shredder can eat them.
Chasing Squirrels: Avoiding Strategy Drift
> I don't get why it is a good or logical thing that the US should be responsible for the majority of "Western" defense on our territory.

Read some history (everything geopolitics after the second world war), you should ask yourself why for 76 years that's exactly what the US did (and perhaps why this is the first time that question occurred to you).

It's because the relationship between Europe and the US is not a mutually beneficial one, the US benefited the most from its power and influence over western Europe, and that doesn't just apply to Europe. NATO and the roughly 128 military bases in 58 different countries don't exist because the US somehow likes to subsidize the military spending of these countries for some altruistic purpose, it exists because it strengthens US influence across the world.

That's soft power, and if it fails, it means war (in total 123 military conflicts since WW2). It's a less bloody alternative to make sure the US gets what it wants because its the stronger party in any geopolitical relationship.

That's the logic behind it. The same logic applies to military aid it gives to Egypt and Israel (that Trump continues to give).
"I'll bring the jobs back home" seems vastly more patronizing to me. That's just telling people they're stuck with their lot and shouldn't try to improve their situation because daddy GOP will take care of them.
Thanks. I know. I'm here every few weeks with a fresh attempt. It went over better before the inauguration, but now that Trump is actually implementing the policies that he campaigned on it's a bit harder for people to stomach the idea that his voters are anything other than orcs.

I'll probably give it a rest here for a few more weeks.
Because it's not really that awful. You can knock out something useful very quickly, and if you're careful and have a little discipline, you can indeed maintain it. The almost infinite library probably has something to do with it, as does a teeming mass of developers that have a familiarity with PHP.
This is 100% correct based on all the trump voters I've spoken to.
Swiping right on that image should definitely start the game.
The devil you know…

No one would ever trust China, not Vietnam, not anyone unwilling to take orders from them. The terms would be heavy.
It doesn't seem unusual to folks, because marketing teams circulate that number for the dozens of banks and startups salivating for your blood, I mean business. I'd advise you to do the compounding math in a spreadsheet to see what exactly that fee becomes after 30 or 40 years. But if you want to skip the spreadsheet, it's in the magnitude of 0.005*years as one would intuitively expect.

Meaning, in 30 years, a whole 15% of your final net worth was stolen by that 0.5% fee alone. Half a percent a year at a time.

Compare that to Vanguards 0.03% - or in 30 years, less than 1% of your net worth stolen.

I'd rather give up 1% of my life savings than 15%. Especially when it's proven time and time again that you get nothing in return for that fee.
Everybody starts looking, but it’s the top performers who get disproportionately more offers and leave.
"Why are both establishment dems and reps both anti tariff? This is collusion! I'm going to vote for an outsider who really appreciates tariffs"

one economic crash later

"Oh, maybe that's why the establishment is anti tariff"
I was a system administrator for a small services firm. When I started in 1997 there was easily enough work to fill 40 hours per week, but as time went on, I smoothed all the issues out, and the actual workload slowly dropped. Additionally, there were some issues with the in-house database (Smiley) developed by the consultant I replaced.

Since I had quite a bit of free time, I attempted to address those issues with a system wide upgrade, which would have saved quite a bit of time for the accounting department and others... but due to risk-aversion, they didn't adopt the changes... so I tried again later... and by attempt #3, I had a new version running which kept sync with everything in the legacy version.... and they still wouldn't bite.

In the end I was showing up, making sure everyone's computers were working ok, and then waiting for things to break. The 3 attempts to upgrade Smiley took all initiative I had at self-starting, and broke me. It's more than a decade later, and I can't find the self-confidence to stick to any long term projects.

I learned a lot of things, having essentially a decade of free time to pursue any rabbit holes I cared to, back when Google actually worked. But thanks to the anti-incentive with Smiley, and a case of Long Covid and the accompanying brain fog... any progress on personal projects is scatter-shot at best. See my frequent mentions of BitGrid here, for an example.
On the heels of 40-year old American kit demonstrating its capability against their biggest arms export competitor. What a reversal.
Ask HN: If you use MongoDB, is there any reason to use Kafka?
I ask in all seriousness. I have the impression that when Kafka was first adapted by organizations, many organizations were looking for a place in their data flows where they could store documents instead of fully normalized data, and Kafka emerged as a respectable answer.

Emphasis: I am not asking if MongoDB is better than Kafka. I am asking, if your organization is already using MongoDB, is there any reason to also use Kafka? Is it easier to simply press MongoDB into service in a similar manner (similar to Kafka)? One can have log-like append-only collections in MongoDB.

Back in 2013, Jay Kreps explained his reasons for creating Kafka:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying

I first read that essay in 2013. I just read it again, and it occurs to me that I can use MongoDB for everything he describes.

So under what conditions would I still want to bring in Kafka?
Rodent for dinner, US residents encouraged to eat invasive nutria
> If every book, video, and painting is ripped off and shared for free why would any sane person pay?

What about games? Do you mean the people buying games on gog.com are insane? I already spent over a $1000 there although I technically could easily pirate almost any of their games. At the same time I don't buy anything from Steam because I hate DRM. And the only place where I often buy digital books is HumbleBudndle - also because DRM-free. If something is both cheap (or not so cheap but still possible to afford and visibly great value) and DRM-free I see no incentive to pirate it for anyone who is not extremely poor (so they wouldn't buy even if there was no option to pirate).
Holy strawman, batman.
I strive to only read news that I pay for and I think that info gaps are a risk worth taking to maintain my mental health.

I only subscribe to weeklies. I no longer see much value in daily news.
It’s the devs too. Do you really need an army of developers to build a web app or put text onto screen? No, a small team can easily handle that much faster and at higher quality without all the framework bullshit.

You also have to consider that developers are not sales people. They are a cost center.
Ask HN: Has anyone had even minor success with LLM powered code completion?
I keep hearing about how all these LLM code completion tools are increasing productivity on social media posts, yet every time I've tried one they've generated complete garbage for even the most simple tasks. Below are some examples:

- Here I'm implementing a series of procedures in exactly the same way from a list of signatures. The tool just makes up a parameter with a type that does not exist anywhere in the codebase: https://files.catbox.moe/4yqz09.png

- Here's a 128 line Python program where I'm just writing the same line multiple times with a very common sequence of words as the parameter and the suggested next parameter is just nonsensical: https://files.catbox.moe/p4c5io.png

- Here I'm writing the same line over and over for each member of a record. Once again it just makes up a name that doesn't appear anywhere in the codebase. There's also hundreds of lines of the exact same thing above this, not just the few shown here: https://files.catbox.moe/8o8lgg.png

This type of thing is the usual case every time I've tried these tools and a correct suggestion is the exception. Is this the experience that everyone else has had or do these tools actually work for some people?
Trump voters will never vote for somebody like Sanders, and I think that fundamentally misunderstands Trump voters and what they want.
I did read "Hillbilly Elegy" and come from a rust-belt city with rural family.

I understand your perspective, but I don't think that explains most of Trump's actions. The (very valid!) critique of globalist profiteering you shared has been boiled down into something beyond economics and into tribalism.

I blame decades of right-wing media dominance on cable TV and rural radio.
There are safety features built-in in more recent democracies. USA is just a very early implementation and hasn't been keeping up with the patches.

2-party system is bad. Regional representation instead of population representation is bad. Allowing gerrymandering is bad. Letting companies/oligarchs to contribute to election campaigns is VERY bad.

All of this ends with a system that cannot reform itself. It's a common failure mode in early democracies. There are known workarounds.
I think therein lies the complexity of the problem when the state itself maintains a population record where citizenship and nationality have been separated, and "Israeli" nationality does not exist, only "Jewish" exists. I believe this was also confirmed by the Supreme Court there in order to ensure a clear link or bond between all Jewish people all over the world. Anyway, what do I know.

I am not trying to explain away Dahl's comments, merely illustrating the complexity underlining all these arguments, and especially ones which allow Israel and its lobbyists to swarm over the arts in the UK and bully them if showing any sympathy for the Palestinians, which is no better than the torrent of antisemitic abuse meted out when there's sympathy for Jewish people.
forgot the url: https://llm.jonathanpagel.com/view?id=8now7ndd5s8ugouxpdjed
I admit that I'm reading Kapital right now, because one of my kids gave it to me for my birthday. It's a slog, but maybe I'm just not great at reading this kind of stuff.

What I wonder is if Marx missed the boat on "intellectual capital," or if I'm the one missing the boat. I wonder how much of my own productive capital is contained within my skull. Not just details of my present job, but the ability to do the same kind of job for anybody, including for myself. Or, am I just gratifying myself with such thoughts?
API is down as well, can make changes to DNS zones, this is insane to have such a long outage.
Honestly curious what you, and proponents for continuing to arm Ukraine, think should be done about Russia's encroachment into Western Europe?
Bernie Sanders would not fix the American Problem, because he too would be unable to do anything. It's a mistake to think that there was one recent event decided on the margins that somehow led to collapse.

The American Problem is not one of systems or policies. The American Problem is about people, what they do to each other, and that you allow that to happen. The constitutional arguments they have are Red Herrings. What matters is what people do, and what they want to be allowed to do by their arguments.
The best era ever to be selling French of German arms.
and that's why giant sites like wikipedia are still alive and kicking
> decades, possibly a generational timescale to repair.

It will easily take a generation just for people to find solidarity and courage again.

Progress takes real sacrifice. People died fighting for basic dignity and rights. The anti-slavery movement in the US fought monied interests for centuries.

It took real sacrifice for the labour movement to gain rights such as voting, education, housing, health care in the face of deadly opposition from the rich and their legislative puppets.

It just takes a moment of complaceny on the part of progressive-minded people for the rich and their legislative puppets to undo the foundations of democracy.
Does the US have total control?
They sure have wide influence, but influence is different from control. The power to take something diminishes when you use it.
Again, it doesn't really matter if you like them or think they're mature in their attitudes and approach, they've now proven that you can't win elections without them. Figure out how to appeal to them or watch us descend into decades of Trumpism.
What’s the dogwhistle?
What makes you think it will be repaired? I’ll go for America splinters into at least two countries.
I know what they want and I know what they need. The difference is precisely the problem.
Open man page for tmux. Search for split window.
Launch tmux and split window. Open man page for tmux in 2nd window.

Its not hard.
Spain's first astronaut!
As other poster said, Gripen is perfect for a defensive role as a missile launch platform. It's not supposed to go 1:1 with F-35:s, but to counter the Russian air capability - and mostly in a defensive role. F-35:s were really great when they came with larger techno-military-political ecosystem but now the trust in that ecosystem is shattered.
Your “actually likely” take lasted exactly two sentences before you admit it wasn’t actually likely. You might want to reconsider your assumption that this was decided by the person with the least agency, especially when undisciplined revenge and extortion are well-established patterns by the guy who made the attack. He’s had a personal grudge since the events of his impeachment so the most parsimonious explanation is that this is exactly what it looks like.