skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not only executive branch. People voted in Trump adorers to majority in both Senate and House of Representatives.
... but appealing to them would mean descending into decades of Trumpism, because that's what they want.

They don't want to be appealed to, nor do they intend to compromise. They want to tear down everything I value, burn it to the ground, piss on the ashes and put me up against the wall. I know this because they've told me precisely that, and have been telling me that for nearly a decade. They've been very vocal and clear about what they want, and it isn't to be understood, or to meet anyone halfway.

I'm tired of being told that I need to capitulate and surrender and understand why I deserve the bullet. Fuck that, and fuck them.

Trumpism Delenda Est.
Yes, seems like things are already starting to take off:

- Shares of Starlink’s European rival Eutelsat have tripled. CEO says it can do the job in Ukraine. [1]

- Boost for German economy: Armaments sector picks up former car industry employees [2]

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/shares-of-starlinks-europe...
[2] (German only) https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Ruestungsbranche-sammelt-ehem...
Talos Principle 2 opens in just a couple seconds.
Oft quoted on HN in these contexts: "The purpose of a system is what it does." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
I've been ramping up on the embedded Rust ecosystem over the last few weeks. I'm pretty excited about it partly because it makes this aspect of embedded development much more approachable. On https://crates.io I can usually find a driver for whatever peripheral I want to use in my project. And the driver usually implements the embedded-hal [1] interface, so the more I get familiar with that interface, the easier it becomes to implement any arbitrary peripheral into my project. In the event that there does not already exist a crate for my peripheral, I have an extensive ecosystem [2] of open source driver code that I can refer to in order to figure out how to implement the driver.

I think this could help with the "dark art of reading datasheets" problem. E.g. last night I was curious about how the driver for a 28BYJ-48 stepper motor would work, so I looked at the code [3] for its driver and got a pretty good sense of what's going on. If I were to now attempt to read the datasheet, a lot of it would now make sense. In other words I think it's too daunting to read a datasheet and then try to implement code. The way to get comfortable with datasheets is to first look at code and then find the relevant parts of the datasheet. Previously it was hard to find and make sense of relevant code for a particular driver, now it's much easier.

[1] https://github.com/rust-embedded/embedded-hal

[2] https://crates.io/keywords/embedded-hal-driver

[3] https://github.com/MnlPhlp/uln2003
I’m not sure, but seems like there should be a difference between someone conducting research while testing theanine versus someone just consuming theanine to battle anxiety. That’s probably been said in other comments in a more scientific way. But it also seems like consuming yummy hot tea that happen to have theanine would be another relevant method for comparison. Maybe placebo, theanine pill, and tea drink (or other naturally occurring food source)? It just seems like the tea or act of drinking tea and the time it takes might be relaxing??
Sometimes I wonder if he's a secret genius that leverages his own stupidity.

E.g. he might be solely responsible for getting the Liberals reelected in Canada, something that a year ago you would have thought was absolutely impossible. But Trump is so deeply hated in Canada now that every time he mocks Trudeau it makes the Liberals more popular. Liberal support, which before Trump was elected was so low as to make a Conservative election win seem inevitable, has skyrocketed since Trump took office. It's now pretty much a dead heat, and that's before the Liberals have elected their new leader.

So I don't know, maybe he just really, really wanted the Liberals to get reelected and he pulled off the only way to make it happen. Maybe he felt sorry that Canadians seemed so internally divided, so he threatened to annex Canada to unite us.

Or maybe he's a moron that can't even understand cause and effect.

https://338canada.com/polls.htm
"for people to find solidarity"

That's not going to happen with the way tech/algos are exacerbating the divide.
AGI will be achieved when Knuth + LLMs work to finish TAOCP with no errors.
That's an interesting perspective, that could be used as an argument by both camps. You say more social democracy, someone else might say, more social cohesion due to shared cultural background and low immigration.
Nah, there are plenty of us here, we've just mostly gone underground in the face of the mindless hate and anger that's been dominant the last month or two. Echo chambers are self-reinforcing that way.
What are some examples of the bugs it fixed?
I think the experiment is based on a fundamentally flawed assumption the time to metabolize medication is identical to time for the body to return to baseline.

Regular Vitamin-D supplements can taken once a week or daily and have the same long term effect.

And for a sample of N=1: The L-theanine side effects of one dose last several days. Taking it daily makes the side effects significantly worse.
Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded to Support More GPUs
I agree with this approach: write with a healthy dose of humility, but don’t hold back!
No, thank you we are not idiots. Out fighters are just fine, as long as we don't have to fight US.

BTW you don't seem to understand military well - F22 is much better plane than F35, but abysmally complex to do and expensive, thats why the low numbers. F35 has way too many compromises ie for us navy.

Also, as Ukraine war shows fighter jets are not that important for waging war if situation is more like peer vs peer, and not US blowing shepherds and weddings into pieces. Sure, they lob a bomb or two, sometimes launch a rocket but all from as much distance as possible. What wins such wars these days is artillery, massive amount of infantry and millions of various drones.
Is the job market for software devs starting to improve?
Are y'all receiving more messages from recruiters? I'm hearing anecdotes here and there so it'd be good to hear your experiences.
Yeah, they somehow released a SBC without telling us what processor it contains.

It seems to be the same one as the BananaPi BPI-F3, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1j6c6xz/orange_pi_rv...
Under the constitution, the US federal government has far less power than, say the UK government does in comparison. Yet, if the other branches of government show no interest in constraining it, then it’ll expand rapidly.

I actually wonder if the problem the USA has is that its system has no override function like the UK does under the Parliament Act 1918. I see a lot of frustration that Congress has been deadlocked for nearly 2 decades (mostly by Republicans) so it’s no surprise the average voter demands change and wants the executive branch to take all the power.
I 'process' the 'news' by following RSS feeds for a diverse (as in 'diversity of opinion', the only diversity which really counts) set of sources which gives a relatively clear view on what those sources consider worth reporting and how they report on those subjects. It also shows which subjects are not reported on by some sources which in itself is an interesting observation. I follow both legacy media sources as well as 'new media' - sometimes called 'alternative media' but that term no longer applies now that these new media are moving past legacy media in both reach as well as public trust - which gives as wide a view of current events as feasible. I initially just compare headlines, then read deeper into those subjects which are of interest to me. Many legacy media just regurgitate whatever the larger press agencies have published, some legacy media from e.g. the Netherlands (which has seen an alarming consolidation of legacy media which now mostly are owned by the same Belgian company) publish the same articles across several titles.

Generally speaking new media is better/more reliable when it comes to digging deep into specific subjects while legacy media is still better at reporting on current events due to their larger ability to field reporters. Their reporting tends to be heavily biased which often becomes clear once new media starts reporting on the same subjects.

So, the process consists mainly of scanning headlines, comparing reporting between different outlets on subjects and selectively diving deeper into subjects of interest. New media have made large strides and now surpass legacy media in some ways but they need to add the ability to field reporters to react to current events. Television is dead, radio is largely dead, printed news is largely dead. Sites like archive.org are getting more important by the day with the diminishing presence of printed news media because they are the only way to keep track of how online sources reported on past events.
I am a slow adopter of new tech but plan to spend a significant amount of time in 2025 using AI tools when coding. I am net negative on AI simply replacing programmers, but I think the practice of development is undergoing a seismic shift at this point.

My recent usage is oriented towards using pseudocode descriptions that closely map to Python to produce Python functions. I am very impressed with Claude 3.7's syntactic correctness when given a chunk of pseudocode that looks "python-y" to begin with.

My one concern is that much of my recent code requirements lack novelty. So there is a somewhat reasonable chance that the tool is just spitting out code it slurped somewhere in github or elsewhere in the larger Internet. Just this week, I gave Claude a relatively "anonymous" function in pseudocode, meaning variable names were not particularly descriptive with one tiny exception. However, Claude generated a situationally appropriate comment as part of the function definition. This was . . . surprising to me if somehow the model had NOT in its training set had some very close match to my pseudocode description that included enough context to add the comment.
I'm not sure how this plays out as Putin setting a trap? This is probably going to be a bit expensive for European taxpayers, myself included, but we'll get by.

Russia on the other hand may have issues similar to the 80s/90s if we get serious with sanctions on shipping oil.
Funny enough, exactly the same at Lyft. Redis everywhere. The original version of the dynamic pricing system was a series of cron jobs reading and writing to redis, before it was replaced with a Flink pipeline (which still wrote to redis for serving).
But that isn't what has happened or is happening.
France's Rafales just had an incredible sale boost.
I suspect it would be somewhat challenging to do, but I'd love to see something like this where the contributions are bucketed into different levels of difficulty. It is often the case for me that a small percentage of the lines of code I write take a large percentage of the time I spend coding (and I assume this is true for most people).
I also use Linux, but I don't often mention it in public because I am pretending to be a normal person.
If spun off, why wouldn’t Chrome then be free to sell its default search provisioning back to Google?
Chinese would be my pick
The US has been compromised by Putin. It’s very clear for all to see.
The solution should probably be to go in and fight Russia immediately.

I think it's foolish to restrict operations to Ukraine though, and feel that the size of Russia is one of its main weaknesses. If there's to be a war, it should involve incursions into the US proper.
> Similar to leet code style interviews a lot of the times we're not checking for what we need.

right, all interview formats are imperfect...but some are more or less imperfect than others.

a crucial difference in my mind, is that leetcode-on-the-whiteboard style interviews correspond quite poorly to the actual day-to-day job of coding.

a well-prepared system design question, on the other hand, does correspond fairly well to part of the actual job - we have an existing system, it has a performance problem, or needs a new feature we didn't anticipate originally that requires the design to be reworked in some way. and we're sitting in a meeting trying to come up with what we think will be the Least Bad option.

(importantly, the question I like to use is not a greenfield "design Tinder for dogs" / "design Youtube for cats" type of question, because as you say those can be reduced to a formula that candidates can regurgitate, instead I'm intentionally asking a question about a brownfield system that I summarize for them first)

ultimately, that's what I'm probing for with that interview style - I don't particularly care whether a candidate arrives at some "right answer" or not, I'm looking for "do I want to sit in a meeting with you and try to hammer out a design to some non-trivial problem that you and me and other people on the team will then go and implement?"
> when most people are in a chronic state of tech job hopping?

Citation needed. The vast majority of people in tech that I know do NOT job hop. So please, I need a citation, not your feelings.
What is more likely is that significant portions of rural America break off and the part that's left doesn't feel it's worth it to take it back by force.
There is a trivial alternative that military strategists have been suggesting for decades. For a nation of 20+ M, having a reservist army of 1M would be feasible and make the island impossible to invade even if the rest of Earth would join forces to do that.
Ichnology White Sands: Linear traces, human footprints, evidence of transport?
Accompanying press release:

Study uncovers earliest evidence of pre-historic transport

https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2025-02-24/study-uncovers...
Increasingly so most western countries are getting fractures by the Russian and Chinese propaganda apparatus. Ask any rural/working class western european these days and whatever rhetoric they are primed to regurgitate to you is not dissimilar to what you’d get from a similar american: people who aren’t white are destroying the country they claim, they claim they should be more insular and less tied to the global stage, and they are trusting charlatans who speak to these bigoted positions without ever actually reading their policy positions that solely benefit the oligarch class in that country.
This article underlines the point I made. Israel maintains separate data on citizenship and nationality on their population, and "Israeli" is not a "nationality" in that database. Of course Arab nationals of Israel have "Israeli" on their passports, but they are not "Israeli" in that database.
Thanks for clearing that up, it really changes the story for me. This actually came up as only 4% reported by the left in Ground News' weekly Blindspot Report [1][2]. It only lists one left-leaning source, also from USA Today [3], but not the one you linked, one critical of the measure. I guess Ground News really didn't help here in guarding against bias. That's pretty disappointing.

[1] https://ground.news/newsletters/blindspot-report/Feb-25-2025
[2] https://ground.news/article/ec380800-9bf0-4cb4-a894-3fe0c001...
[3] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/28/i...
What are you going to do to keep the American tech sector up? Point guns at people so they post on Instagram?
Thanks, that's a good point.

I wonder what is the process for that finding. Is a court involved?

It should not be unilateral decision by state department.
I use Ublock Origin (an ad-blocking extension) to hide images. So ads are always hidden to begin with.
China's Autonomous Agent, Manus, Changes Everything
Today, masculine energy means right wing and feminine or beta energy means left wing.

If you don’t believe me, go read up on the genderfication of politics in the last 10 years. Women are from Venus and men are from mars. There’s no reconciling them.
Fundamentally, it's not just about Russia. It's about not being carved up by the US and China.
8 hours per year is basically nothing.
> people who actually understand Trump voters and try to vocalize their needs and perspectives just silences the voices

We’ve been falling over ourselves trying to understand these poor misunderstood Trump voters for nearly 10 years now. We’ve all heard these rationalizations many times before.
See, this is exactly why I felt the need to speak up. Trumpism isn't what they want, it's just the closest thing to what they want that's been offered. And if you let Trump be the only person who speaks to them for the next 10 years, you might actually find they they begin to believe that it is in fact the real thing.

The economic woes come first, and it's still not too late for a left-leaning populist to take charge of the Democrats and give the people what they need while protecting minorities and LGBT folks. The only way we get to the social justice disaster that people are predicting is if we all collectively throw up our hands and write off 50% of the voters as a lost cause.
A couple of times I needed to lurch the car forward a bit without starting it, such as getting it up on a ramp so I can fix it.

I've push started a car many times. I've also had the engine quit while driving, and would pop the clutch to kick it over to get it started again.
It's both.

The stick being silent only works if people believe you won't randomly start swinging it if they cooperate, and people trusting you not to swing wouldn't matter if you didn't have a stick.
Media's aim is to keep people emotionally hooked on short term directional adjustments in political trajectory, including the presented minutia of the events that seem to determine it.

The only way to consume news, without subjecting oneself to the inner turmoil that the news is designed to produce, is to develop a long term theory and then just check in with the headlines to make sure that things are progressing toward it.

If they don't seem to be, adjust the theory and then keep-on with the aforementioned method.

Sure, some people emotionally need to be apprised of the tragedy of every story. They may even convince themselves that the World's trajectory hangs on the balance of every event. I'd suggest that this is both irrational and hints at addiction behavior. But if this isn't you, or you want to become less addicted, then give the above method a try.

After awhile, you'll begin to admire the efficiency of and relative inner-peace from your new hard-won detachment skill.
Trump is still transactional, but now the transaction is with Russia
What about all the "liberals", including many on this site, that not only bought into but actively promoted the cult of personality around Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX? Musk has always been a charlatan, and the majority of this very site bought into it.
"why did everyone stop buying our planes and weapons"
The idea I think was that China would also rather not engage in a hot war with the US over it, and therefore would be content with the status quo (or at least content to wait for a favorable political climate in the US...).
Armchair physicist with dissonance about superfluids (or Bose-Einstein condensates) which break all the existing models.

And my armchair physicist notes; /? superfluid https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/ #search=superfluid

I think I've probably already directly mentioned Fedi's?

Finally found this;
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957014 :

> Testing of alternatives to general relativity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relati...

- [ ] Models fluidic attractor systems

- [ ] Models superfluids

- [ ] Models n-body gravity in fluidic systems

- [ ] Models retrocausality

Re: gauge theory, superfluids:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43081303
I would go as far as to say that it has the same level of scalability as nodejs
Why do we need to remember this agreement that provided zero security guarantees? At most it ensures denuclearization is dead, but frankly speaking, it already was.

Maybe instead we should remember the 2014 Wales Summit that was intended to deter Russian invasion?

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Wales_summit

Or maybe instead we should consider that right before Russia's invasion in February 2022, Europe collectively dropped their military spending as % of GDP? Possibly since Trump had left office in 2021? Its unfortunate deterrents don't function when you do this...

-https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_222664.htm

Actually, maybe what we need to remember is that most of Europes money has been going to Russia even after the invasion? What a strange thing for allies to do right?

- https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/

It's weird how the United States justified its support in Ukraine as securing the region for its allies while its allies undermined this at every step of the way, do allies usually do that? When I listen to them on TV they seem to care a lot about Ukraine so it's strange...
I'm building it as a hobby project. It's mac only app written in swift with keyboard first navigation, ability to write extensions, fully offline storage, doesn't ping home, doesn't have build-in AI features, etc.

I'm not sure if I would publish it as it seems to be a very niche app that nobody really want. For some reason developers like to use gmail in a browser and happy with it.
Income is one of the weakest predictors of which way you voted. Race and religion are far stronger.
Given that all continuity of agenda posts are downvoted, they are probably true. Political truth is always downvoted.

What is expected is to react to the latest headlines, accept them as truth and fight an approved R vs D battle.
Why squabble at semantics here fixating on exactly half? 1/5th of modern Germany voting for the modern incarnation of the nazi party is a disgrace and speaks to the propaganda situation their population faces.
It's because Russia is on the verge of economic collapse and Putin forces Trump to cancel sanctions critical to them.

At this point, Russia got maximum from this war. These rare minerals deal is just to distract and it's nothing compared to oil, manganese and soil Russia will capture.

Also, I'm struggling to find any reason for Zelensky to sign the deal – no protection, zero chance to get land back. Just thrown under the bus. EU is better option.
The Democratic platform has been particularly tone deaf and ineffective for rural areas dependent on resource extraction industries. Federal grants won't fix the fundamental economic problems. When Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden told unemployed coal miners to learn how to code that didn't go over very well.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-tells-coal-miners-15210...

(I am not claiming that their opponents have any better solutions.)
It's complicated but I think what they're getting at is that the national demographics / census data for Israel does not have an "Israeli" nationality.
> that men should be strong enough to defend themselves

What's wrong with that, aside that it's missing "themselves and their women and children"?

The whole idea that it's somehow "toxic" made EU the weak sausage that it is now.
So far Trump 2.0 has done exactly what he promised he would, and his supporters are quite happy. If his actions don't lead to the outcomes he promised that may change, as long as someone else who understands the needs can offer an alternative.
You're right. What was I thinking? Instead, they should be unemployed and starving, and all the services they bought from other Americans with their $200k/year salaries, those Americans should also be unemployed and starving too. All because you don't want to see an ad on whatever ridiculous social media it is that people are visiting now days. That will make the world right.