skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to find out why I would try gleam, what I would use it for.

What I found convinced me it wasn’t for me.

1. Language behavior depends on the back end. Int doesn’t necessarily mean Int.

> When running on the Erlang virtual machine ints have no maximum and minimum size. When running on JavaScript runtimes ints are represented using JavaScript's 64 bit floating point numbers.

2. If it’s not an Int it’s a Float. Short numeric tower. I guess that’s ok. No BigInt with a guarantee it will not overflow? No exact Rational?

3. Type annotations [are optional and] “don’t change how the program runs”.

Ok this sounds like Python. Supposedly there are guarantees indicating “if it compiles it runs” but I’m worried. How do you even know the inferred type of your function is what you really think it should be? (I’m familiar with inference gone crazy from Haskell.)
I read the news through my RSS reader YOShInOn which (1) shows me articles one a a time and gets a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" for each article, (2) trains a classifier to predict if I like something, (3) shows about 10% of random articles to keep the classifier learning and calibrated and (4) runs a k-means clustering on incoming articles to group them into 20 clusters and shows me the top N articles from each cluster to generate a batch of 300 articles.

When I am done reading the batch it creates another batch.

It learned that I'm not interested in breathless articles about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the like so it shows me very few of them. I have about 120 RSS feed including news from some free sources like The Guardian and also some paywalled sources such as the LA Times and the Japan Times but also papers from arXiv, top articles from Lobsters, a few open source "planets", etc. I'd like to add more independent blogs but those are expensive to ingest with the superfeedr head end I use now which costs about 10 cents/month/feed. YOShInOn helps me find articles to submit to Hacker News so if you look at the articles I submit that gives you some idea of what I subscribe to.

YOShInOn generates links to archive.today for paywalled articles, which I don't feel bad about. The news media tolerates that site for the same reason you used to be able to log into every news site with media/media -- every journalist has to have access to every paper there is for fact checking, but no way is the New York Times going to stoop to buying their journalists accounts for every small town newspaper and no way a small town newspaper can afford to buy their journalists accounts for The New York Time. So they need some kind of paywall bypass, they just want it to keep quiet.
This is what "AGI" is about isn't it? Replacing humans with chatbots and AI agents; at least that is what the mission is with these new influx of so-called 'AI' startups, OpenAI, xAI and all the other AI companies.

The problem you have here this time is that Elon is doing this with DOGE for against government workers. At least, they are admitting it instead of the thousands of startups that will not admit it and are building "AGI" to replace humans.

But of course. When AI gets into the government, it surely benefits humanity. /s

If Elon is doing this with DOGE, then this gives the green light for others to follow him and try to reduce their headcount with AI. It's already been admitted by many companies. (Salesforce, Klarna and Meta)

The Future of Jobs 2025 report clearly tells you this in advance of the 2030 timeline on what employers want to do with AI:

"Finally, half of employers plan to re- orient their business in response to AI, two-thirds plan to hire talent with specific AI skills, while 40% anticipate reducing their workforce where AI can automate tasks." [0].

[0] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...
The article talks about January and February and he made the salute with 10 days still to go in Jan. seems like enough time to have an impact on Feb. But yeah there’s probably a lot more too it.
It's not only about the money either. The even bigger blow is the whole 180 the US government has made, now actively aiding Russia instead of Europe. If it was just about the money, it would be a bit easier to understand (though still a big blow to the mutual understanding of what is worth defending in the world). If it was about the money, the US would happily _sell_ equipment to Ukraine and let the EU foot the bill. That doesn't seem to be the case though.
Building Firefox on FreeBSD:

# make -C /usr/ports/www/firefox build

Done :)
Musk might not value Poland’s patronage but the rest of the American defense industry certainly does. Poland is a huge buyer of arms.

I can’t imagine what the internal struggles look like right now, but it definitely hasn’t dawned on most of the Trump people that whatever budgetary gains they make by randomly firing people will be offset - to put it mildly - by the effect fucking up the arms export market will have on the federal budget.
Bingo. This is why in the latest writers guild / SAG strike, the studios would not budge on transparency for streaming residuals. They've lied too much to let the true numbers of streams for their content be seen.
DOGE's government cuts may hurt business, companies warn investors
At this point it's inevitable, no matter the cost.
The American executive branch just keeps hammering home how they are just that clueless middle manager who listens to nobody, thinks they know things and will screw everything up, declare victory, and make their escape before all the problems happen ...
Which jet will they prefer if they need to defend Greenland? A dated and affordable gripen, or an F35 that the Americans will just beam a kill -9 command to via a backdoor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...

You don't need an agreement.

Tthe EU commission has tried to create schemes bypassing the issue, and twice they were dismantled by the EU supreme court.
That hasn't been my experience. Depends on the caching mechanism used I guess, but if you bake cache busting directly into the URI like I do (i.e. there's a hash digest in the path), the browser doesn't need to make any additional network round trips for any nested imports that have already been fetched - they are all 0ms cache hits. And even if you use a cache mechanism that requires reaching out to the server every time, it's still very lightweight (you'll just get a 304 not modified for any nested imports)

Even if vanilla modules is slightly less optimal than a bundler performance wise, I would still argue the additional complexity (for learning, maintaining, deploying, debugging) introduced by said bundler is not worth the extra cost for most websites.
I think Ukraine is a bit unique in how they got the jets. Since they were given the jets during a war, there wasn't much negotiation involved, relative to a country trying to buy plane in peace-time.

In normal peace-time procurement, there is usually significant locally made content required, plus much deeper training. I'd suspect that countries who acquire arms in that way are much more able to continue without US support.

When Iran was still in the US good graces, they bought a bunch of F14s. After their 1979 revolution, they kept operating their F14s. The US actually retired and destroyed all their F14s during the retirement to prevent spares from finding their way to Iran.
This is not JH7110 based.
https://archive.ph/okSlz
He seems happy with his current work, so I'd say it ends well for him.

Academia did lose one (more) brilliant researcher, though, so it doesn't end well for academia.
>Europe stops buying F35s? Trump tells Europe that if they don't buy them he's going to sell them to Russia.

Actually Europe would stop supplying components for the F-35's so the US would not be able to build any more or keep the ones they have working, let alone sell them to Russia. Russia would never buy them anyway, how could they trust that the next US president wouldn't pull the plug on spare parts? Would they trust that Trump is going to become dictator for life? (And what happens after he dies?) Russia has their own fighters that may not be quite as capable in some ways, but are good enough. Russia sells jet fighters themselves, they do not buy them.

>Europe is completely reliant on the US and US technology for defense right now, these systems took decades and trillions of dollars to build and refine, and an 800 billion EUR investment does not magically create a military industrial complex overnight.

Europe already has a large local military industrial complex. Half of what Ukraine has received has come from Europe. They would only have to expand what they have, not develop new technologies, except perhaps for a replacement for the Patriot missile system. They'd get a boost from converting their existing factories from building US weapons components to building EU weapons components as well.

I'm actually surprised that the US military industrial complex (MIC) is not screaming bloody murder about some of this. They stand to lose sales of replacement weapons for those sent to Ukraine, to lose support contracts for F-16's, and to lose a whole lot more if the US pulls out of NATO. Even if the US does not pull out of NATO, the NATO countries have already started investing in their own defense industries, which is going to severely cut into US MIC profits. They should be terrified.
Without a strong theory for why anti-Elon sentiment can't get worse, it's quite plausible we haven't actually hit the "peak" of it.

Personally I think it quite likely that Musk will catch significant blame for whatever bad things related to American government happen in the coming year, deserved or otherwise.
That's certainly one take, but I suspect historians will actually link the beginning of this trend to the European/Western reactions to Russia in February of 2022.

It could be framed as "cancel culture overruled the courts". The second Putin became the "literally Hitler" of the moment well anything could be done - even things they didn't do when actual Hitler was around.

This meant extra-judicial seizures including "preventive" seizures. No law was broken or sanction placed yet, but they're going to seize your assets now and figure out how to make it "legal" later on.

Even the Swiss - neutral during WW2 - abandoned over two centuries of neutrality and went along with the EU in this.

The message these countries sent was clear: if you ever oppose us, rule of law will not protect you.
For life and is 71 in arguably the most stressful job in the world. The risk of mental decline cannot be ignored, particularly as he has now served longer than any US president in all of history.

Although I say that and then I went down the rabbit hole of trying to find which individual had the longest tenure of presidency and vice presidency combined. It seems like it’s either Nixon, HW Bush, or Biden.
>Red counties have 30% of the GDP in the US. Blue counties have 70%

Now let's look at the number of voters
And we will borrow more than is saved to give tax cuts to the rich. Let’s just stop this fallacy of this is about debt. It’s not
Technically yes but absolutely not.
22:04 Paris time: still "Service are back to normal to the majority of customers we continue to work so there is no impact for any customers". I guess I am in the "unlucky bunch" then. No POP/IMAP, slow SMTP, no access to DNS panel.
I would be concerned about more than dirty looks at the rate things are going.
> I know a lot of people who can tweak code that already exists. However, if they are sitting in front of an empty text editor and given a goal, they don’t know how to break the problem down and build a solution with the tools the language gives them.

But being able to break things down and come up with a solution is not necessarily something that needs to be done quickly, in the time you have for an interview. Quite often I've been faced with a new problem and done absolutely nothing visible for ages. Literally just reading around the problem, asking questions, and sketching in my mind without writing a single line of code.

This is often faster and better than starting immediately.
Absolutely. This isn’t just about the F16 and F35 either. It effectively ends or drastically changes the upcoming NGAD before they even get started. Any previous sales projections are irrelevant in a world where the USA has essentially remotely disabled an ally’s fighter jets without cause. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have to redesign major components of the NGAD in light of a budget that looks drastically different than it did a month ago.
The cuts to the IRS will lose the US more money than DOGE is saving elsewhere.
> in a place where farmers aren't bankrupted by not supplying what the market demands.

Farmers ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
I am using this in a simple containerized environment https://github.com/patrickziegler/letter (for reducing the amount of packages to update in my rolling release base system), it comes with the the added benefit of allowing me to put my documents under proper version control :)
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. You’re completely correct.
I’ve been typing these comments on my phone. But, in any case, I don’t parse “democrat” as an epithet. You are looking for things to be offended about.
But your answer was handwaving. What’s the evidentiary basis for concluding that maintaining bases all over the world benefits americans? The British Empire was motivated by mercantilism: by requiring colonies to sell raw materials to Britain and buy finished goods from Britain, it ensured Britain remained highest on the supply chain, and redirected capital from the colonies to Britain.

We don’t do anything like that. We don’t extract resources from Europe at below market value. We run a trade deficit, so free trade doesn’t even help us. So what’s the concrete explanation that isn’t just recycling liberal internationalist tropes?
Previous discussions:

Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853810

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41138691

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42747192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675530
At this point, for most of the world buying a Chinese product carries less geopolitical risk than buying similar American product. China is predictable in advancing its own interests abroad, while Trump's administration has shown itself to be exactly the opposite.

It's too bad for Elon that their new buddies in Russia aren't much into electric cars. Even Chinese companies mainly export petrol powered ones there due to lack of demand for EV's.
Of course it's flagged again. I know it's politics. It's also technology.

We have a tech company CEO, telling a foreign minister of a country, one of the biggest US ally in EU: "Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink." Hell of a sales pitch for critical, national security grade, equipment.

Given the history of Musk lies, it's pretty certain that Poland / EU is actually paying the whole cost of said Starlinks.

It's also pretty sure that EU countries buying US military equipement is about to end. Even from Poland, which historically was buying a lot of US made equipment, against the wishes of EU.

If you wanted to piss off a favorable to you Eastern European country, you would be hard pressed to find a better way than saying 'Be quiet, small man'.
I migrated an app from NextJS to Django to make it fast. Django because there was a lot of python code anyway to interop with. But any of the common MVC frameworks in any language/runtime that let you cache etc. will do. They are pretty mature.

The NextJS big killer for me was optimising page speed was nuts. You always get a fatty JS bundle even if the page is pre rendered or not.
Well please read things more carefully in the future.

No one sells pills of pure magnesium - that would be eating metal shavings or metal beads.

It is ALWAYS a magnesium ion paired with an anion of some sort. Is that what you mean? Ones with only magnesium salt or oxide - I.e citrate, carbonate etc
Pro-EV Tesla-owning conservative here. There aren't many of us, and for those of us in a blue city (e.g. Seattle) we now also have to contend with Kristallnacht-like environments for Tesla owners. Politically apathetic Asians are probably buying most of the Teslas here, but as the hostility and vandalism ramps up, they'll do the pragmatic thing and trade in for a brand that doesn't attract such unhinged behavior.
Yeah, you know all that oversight and red tape they hate so much and just threw out? All those inspector generals? Their whole purpose was to make sure the government follows the law. It was quite effective.

The mistake some fools have made is to take what Trump, Musk, and Republicans say in good faith. When they say they are going to get rid of fraud, what they really mean is they are going to commit it.
I tried swiping right 10 times like an idiot, thinking I didn’t swipe fast enough or something
> And those MAGA now have Tesla's and Starlink because.

no they don't. and the sales numbers prove it.
It is Republican dogma that tax cuts stimulate the economy and ultimately have a larger return for the government than raising taxes will.
You ever get software updates for legacy software? Not really right? The term is abandonware. In the video game market what they do is hand off the dead games to some Chinese company that milks a few more DLCs/cashshops out of it (this re-release is effectively a pump and dump IPO). Then they pack it up and shut the game down.

The timeline would like this for a Tesla owner:

- Tesla goes bankrupt

- Some Chinese company takes up the upkeep of the software

- They introduce ads similar to Jeep

- No core functionality or QoL improvements are made

- Abandonware, no real software updates

- Your car runs fine, but you paid for a car with a computer in it, and the business basically repossessed the computer part of it. So, if that's possible, it's better to avoid.
You may have missed the point where Trump is threatening to annex land ruled by Denmark.
never fail to impress the huzz
sweeter ? yes. Better ? no.
It has no taste.
> Tesla has had the slowest and minimal refresh cycles of any car marker in my lifetime and it has had a minimal impact on sales.

The thing is Tesla operates on a "continuous refresh" model, they constantly iterate on all aspects of their design.

The downside of this is it makes supply chains for spare parts an utter damn nightmare, which is why spare parts are so hard to come by.
If it doesn't, the trillionaire class can eliminate the fed and require all taxes to be paid in bitcoin.
> before the pandemic

I'm sorry for misunderstanding, but I sure, asked about current Trump policy, not about nearly 10 years ago.

- 2000s was one case; 2010s was another case; 2020s are totally new case.

And what I really seen on previous Trump, and see now, he is like a burning flame, really looking like he want to do something great.

BTW, if you want to remember pandemic, I remember nearly best was Germany chancellor Merkel, but what make me curios, she retired just few months before Russia began war against Ukraine.

So I want to see considerations relevant for current case. Thank you.
It appears to be a "please improve yourself" style prompt that is ran through the LLM.

https://github.com/matiasmolinas/evolving-agents?tab=readme-...
Apparently every employee the IRS was hiring was brining in far more than their wage.
Wrong analogy if you ask me. Building a browser without the render engine and scripting engine is a walk in the park compared to building the entire thing, which would correspond to climbing the mt Everest.
If that's no 4D chess, and if the license is not that important, why not relicense uutils to GPLv3 then?
For reference, 90% is if you make under $250k a year
It’s the title the researchers chose.
There is no really transistion. Much developers just are ignoring Rust as they ignored D, E, Go, Ruby on Rails(the PHP developers) and some other fashion programming languages. It's a overhyped trend and in some years Rust will find his place beside all the other Languages, but will never be a widespread replacement of C/C++.

We tried it in a commercially project because some hyperiders in the team wanted to do so. The truth is, a thing that would be developed in C++ in 1.5 month wasn't done in 6 months caused by things like 'All our developers are newbies in the language, no one really can do meaningful reviews, tons of dependencies(often one dependency in different versions), no good way to integrate cargo in our existing build flow and the lack of fun during programming.'

When you don't start a complete new project with bloody newbies, Rust is not a good choice.
Yes, this point should be emphasized more. The aid the US gave Ukraine was the US government buying expensive things from US companies. The money stayed in the US, created US jobs and US economic growth.
This is it.

1) They can’t save the money. Congress has to do that. I mean they can illegally not-spend what Congress allocated, but not legally. Congress decides how much is spent, and on what.

And besides,

2) Their actions so far have guaranteed so much wasted prior spending (actions partway done that got cut off, wasting the prior spending) and certain losses in court that’ll cost money (blatantly illegal firings, rather than following the correct methods) that they’ve dug themselves a hole anyway. Even for generous and wrong (see point 1) versions of “how much they’ve saved” (but not counting lies like claiming already-spent money as savings) they’re way in the red.
The creation and transacting of corporate shares is also highly regulated. But it doesn’t address the question of why a third party should get a vote that helps decide a particular corporate action. Votes that limit the possible actions of all corporations equally are a different thing.
That’s not anti-imperialism, it’s an argument for maintaining and using the american empire to enforce borders on the other side of the world.

And your same logic would have gotten the US involved in the korean and vietnam wars as well. How do you distinguish those?
What other kind of tax breaks are there? Any tax cut for the middle class will be exploited by the super rich who have tax lawyers and accountants. So just keep raising taxes so the middle class pays even more?
Because USA gave more money, dear. Tons of it. The investment in Bandera's far right nationalist terror groups dates back to project Paperclip. Check your six.
Yeah, it's the same problem I have when the 20 somethings use the term "funemployment".

If you're single and have no responsibilities, sure. The second you have a mortgage, medical conditions that need health insurance, or need money because you had a family emergency and had to dip into savings, it's not "funemployment" at all.
They can celebrate a couple of decades of success. Tesla won, it truly changed the world - EV's are everywhere now. The shareholders helped build that, and even if Tesla is now dying - it meant they made a difference.
A very far stretch: You have a ESP32 based Bluetooth dongle, that exposes its HCI interface to the host. You have already gained access to the host and can now load code to the dongle.

Not really a vulnerability, and many types of bluetooth dongle firmwares can be updated by the host...
Didn't ARM start in Europe?
he doesnt care about the military bases. he just want the resources. National security is just an excuse.
Nuance lost in the title: government employees in an agency that has received job cuts are now being given access to a proprietary US government AI chatbot to use as they see fit. (the chatbot started development under the the previous administration for this purpose, for what it's worth)

The title gives the impression that AI is being expressly given the roles of fired workers but that doesn't seem to be the case.
What "potential peace deal" are you talking about? Russia has no interest in peace while they have so many allies in the Whitehouse. Meanwhile they continue to bomb and kill Ukrainians.