skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are talking about (edit almost) a third of the entire human population, as if you know better. Reality says - random armchair Western Educated Individual Rich and Democratic does not rule the day for a third of humanity by claiming some political imperative.

More reality - the Muslim world is organized and very wealthy in spots. By confrontational and arrogant (see above) posturing and actions by Westerns, it drives power alliances to the Muslim world. So then there is one third of the actual population of the entire world, embracing the Muslim world economically and politically.

Secondly and perhaps more importantly, the backdrop economically for all parties is substantially about Oil and Gas. In the USA, the Oil and Gas interests have gained the upper hand, and they know very well how to apply it. Oil and Gas industry has all the capital and all the ambition to expand, fortify and entrench for the next multiple decades. It is rarely mentioned in the provocative and divisive social "news" that fills the media in the West each day.
1. Kremlin says a lot of things so probably they also said Ukraine could join EU. The night before the full scale invasion they claimed they had no intention of attacking Ukraine.

2. Ukraine has the right to join whatever alliance it wants regardless of what russia means.
And the story continues. This means that no country will want to buy F16s. If you don't get support they are useless.
They are eroding really fast the US shine and trust in the world.
This is going to have a massive effect on the US economy, internal consumption will not save it. This is the end of an empire while its rich kings are golfing every weekend on the taxpayer dime using federal and local resources.

I am really amazed there are still almost half of the people able to twist reality to defend what is a direct attack against their own personal interests (they have proven already that other's interests do not matter for them). This sounds like self-flagellation seen from the outside.
A lot of that is inherited from Germany not going fully armed again after II WW, and some capable countries not making nukes (Spain and Italy halted their advanced nuclear programs when the US pressured for it, offering them NATO coverage). How could the USA ask now European countries to not develop nukes?

It's in the interest of the USA to cooperate and be part of defensive alliances. When USA goes to their wars and they ask for help, Europeans, Canadians and Australians oblige. If USA goes full isolationist, the rest of the world must develop their own nukes and their own forces. Goodbye to the dollar hegemony and the industrial military complex. USA fought hard with the USSR to achieve hegemony, and now that they got it they throw it away?

If that's what US wants, it's OK, but I believe some people don't fully understand the reality or the consequences. The US citizen don't pay taxes for Europe protection; Europe citizens pay taxes to buy american weapons.
To be fair to China, even they are "appalled" by what Trump is doing to cause chaos with Europe and to abandon Ukraine by holding talks about Ukraine without Ukraine:

https://news.liga.net/en/politics/news/china-appalled-by-tru...
Because Putin will take whatever he can of Europe, starting with Ukraine and the baltic states.

Putin’s Russia is already at war with Europe - assassinations, destabilisation operations, sabotage.
It’s a good example to illustrate how to get more simd from the compiler

But the overly specific constraint means this is not a general count_if algorithm.

For this to be useful I have to:
- know there are only 255 true values
- but have a large dataset so it’s worth optimizing
- not want to stop early when some threshold is met

This is so specialized it’s not even worth having a generic predicate argument for.
The clown in the oval office claimed we wouldn't help them. More Danish men died per capita in middle east because of article 5 than men from the US...
This whole comment has strong C language “we don’t need a package manager, we write everything ourselves” vibes.

The benefit of something like Django is it provides strong convention, loosely enforced. Everyone on your team needs to know one thing. Everyone can understand the convention, understand each other’s code, new features get added the same way. But it’s also loosely enforced, it’s just Python. So when you need to split from the framework’s convention, you have unlimited escape hatches.

If you want a case study, see Instagram.
It’s “great” in the sense that this will decimate the US military industry (great or “great” depending on your view of American hegemony). China and Europe will be stronger, and America is absolutely finished as a world power.

So much winning, eh?
Daniel Meissler has a couple of articles about this, one technical, one motivational:

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/so-you-want-to-start-a-blog

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/why-everyone-needs-a-blog

This kind of addresses the "how do I get over $X": https://igorstechnoclub.com/why-you-need-to-blog-more-even-i...

I took Meissler's advice after reading the "Why Everyone Needs a Blog" article. I had already come to "Igor's Techno Club" ideas by the time I read it, but Igor is very convincing.

I think your motivation and content ideas are perfect. You will get better at writing by writing - that appears to be the only way to become an accomplished writer. As far as not being experienced, Mark Twain once wrote that "Experience is what you get right after you need it". Just do it. Be a human.

My blog: https://bruceediger.com/
A wealth tax, an estate tax, a tax on stock trades are all better options that hit the wealthy and not the poor.
The experiment answers a useful question: does theanine have a strong, acute anti-stress effect on the experimenter?

Effect size is the key element of this question. If the substance was alprazolam (Xanax) instead of theanine, we would almost certainly see a strong effect here. The same would be true for heroin, ethanol, or cocaine.

It's not trying to test whether there might be a strong effect for most people or whether there are any side effects. Other experiments have been done with theanine seeking to answer those questions; the answers appear to be no and no.
because there's a second manual lever that does work without power
I'd think that autocracies are stable until they aren't, upon which they shatter completely, such as the Assad regime.

That's not to say that the successor regime is necessarily better.
Or, airborne in name only nowadays.
The maverick cuts into their f150 sales and they under priced it initially. They have been raising prices steadily and they the trucks still sell out
The Mossad is great at industrial espionage, and as the US gov alienates and lets “big balls” exfiltrate critical information, they’ll probably see advancements.
>Russia is still flying more 4th then 5th gen fighters

Just like any other military including the US, no?
Where do you propose meaning be derived?
> Putin has nukes, apart from that Russia is a pretty irrelevant country.

Clearly, it's not irrelevant if it's been able to drive a wedge between the US and Europe like this.
You seem to be disagreeing that what Google does is problematic, let alone illegal in the first place ?

I can see it as an opinion, but that changes the whole discussion IMHO.
There is no such thing as implicit guarantees. The US has shown it is not a trusted country, and as such, we expect that it will also renege any written guarantees.
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Absolutely every European country can make something better than a brick.

And there are high quality planes like the Rafale that aren't PaaS (Planes as a Service) where the owner can unilaterally stop you from using it.
Microsoft was forced to change their behavior. If it wasn't for that DOJ case IE would still be the dominant web browser.
The best explanation I've heard is that this (almost) half of the US population doesn't care if it hurts a bit, as long as it hurts the other half of the US population more.
> 1. you have no control over the generated SQL

Depending on the tech in use, there's usually some sort of an escape hatch, such as writing your own native SQL queries that take advantage of the exact functionality you need, while letting you keep the 90% of the rest CRUD based on the automatically generated stuff.

Plus, nothing is preventing you from putting complex querying in a DB view and then have a read only mapping for the ORM against that, giving you the best of both worlds - using the DB for what it's good at, keeping things relatively simple and yet powerful on the app side.
There is only one superpower - the US.

Russia and China are regional powers and can't project military power very far, excluding nukes. To do that you need a credible blue water navy. China is close though, and definitely projecting its economic strength.

Europe (lets just say EU + UK) could be a superpower. However they lack political unity. And still want big daddy US to do the heavy lifting.
Please don't use sweeping generalizations like this.

The hyperbole interferes with construction discussion.
Do you have any data to back this claim up? The Grippen looks awful.
> Which libraries in widespread use know how to detect all of their possible bugs due to invariant violations and report them as explicit error values?

Its only "hard" because languages make it hard and implicit what the std library itself is doing.

At worst, every single "assert" should be an exception.

Not ALL possible invariant but wrong array index is a lot of them? If Rust's Vec::operator[] or allocation (new, default) all returns an Result<T, E>. Then its a matter of adding another invariant to the libraries' error enum.

I don't have anything public really to show this but at my work, our library written in C++ have like gazillions of checks using macros, every single invariant is checked and they all crash at debug and throw exceptions at release.

The idea is to eventually trim them down after its been stabilized? Just kidding! The reality is that it actually caught bugs introduced by changes multiple times so it will probably be there forever.
I was being hyperbolic about the ten year olds, but that's funny.

Correcting for it: I don't know. It would be very hard. You could try to control for variables like profitability, etc., but there are so many and you don't know what you don't know. But the correct response to absence of valid data isn't drawing conclusions from obviously bad data.

It just cracks me up that one paragraph later the author points out:

"Mass layoffs are often symptoms of unsound business strategies and don’t do anything to cure the larger problem."

and yet somehow didn't see that that sentence alone proves his previous one was pointless.
Definite clause grammars and symbolic differentiation
I definitely share your view that the content there is lack lustre (was it ever great?) and it's certainly a high noise-to-signal platform for job searching.

My experience is that it is still an excellent place to reach prospective buyers and to do a semi-authentic style of marketing. The number of impressions a good post gets far exceeds other platforms (X, Medium etc) and, if you're pretty diligent about your connections, those impressions are generally high-quality in the sense they are in your target market.

I've seen a few post from others more successful that me, on this topic. Including Gagan Byiani (Udemy cofounder)[1]

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gaganbiyani_ive-had-over-1m-i...
Peak oil. Everybody stopped talking about it in the late 00s when it was discovered that shale wasn't inaccessible after all, but now every shale patch except the Permian has already peaked and the first derivative of the Permian output is plummeting.
I think some people really love the hate it brings. It’s like driving around in a giant dumpster with a hate symbol on it except it won’t get you cancelled and fired from your job.
>> Why do we need to close the borders at all?

Because those people need a place to live and they don't bring a home with them. It's added stress on the market. I will also be costly for any program that subsidizes housing in any way.
> > "156 lines of go"

> "Ansible ... would be a handful of lines"

How many lines are a handful? Ansible is a few hundred thousand.

If you're enjoying `uv`, consider `mise` for small helpers like the above.

Plays well with `uv`, handles this sort of thing with tasks:

https://mise.jdx.dev/tasks/
China is a economic superpower but not a military one, at least not yet. Their blue water navy is not credible.
N=1 is addressed, see outcome predictions. N=1 comes with caveats, of course, but a study like this, with a proven harmless supplement, should be welcomed and praised.

It is clearly a step forward from what you can watch about theanine on YouTube or TikTok. I consider this a work of citizen science. While it should not be taken for more than it is, it’s a great example of how someone can experiment without a high burden.
Obligatory:
https://open.substack.com/pub/theahura/p/the-five-year-old-t...

Trump is constantly failing the five year old test. A child could tell you that this is the wrong thing to do.
European defence companies are about to see the biggest demand boom of our lifetime.
Perhaps not in (for example) the Nordic model. But in some primitive countries, methods to mentally and emotionally torture prisoners seem to have become some sort of art form.
It sounds like pushing the logic of API calling into one of the many "mcp servers", with the user still needing to go through the manual step of creating accounts on third party services, generating a bunch of different tokens, and dealing with them all.

In essence it seems like an additional shim that removes all the security of API tokens while still leaving the user to deal with them.

Side note, has Tron taught us nothing about avoiding AI MCPs?
My issue is I'm not sure where the higher ground will exist or how realistic it is for me to believe that there will be enough room for me. Things in tech are changing alarmingly fast and the hype around it makes it very difficult to sort out the truth from the rest.
So 1 million K-Albanian refugees were gonna go where the Adriatic?
You did read the article saying the US is not supplying "software updates" to the F16s and the planes themselves fly just fine, right?
If, and that is a big if, the US would allow Denmark or any other of their "allies" to suspend their commitments to the US arms industry.

"The weak are meat the strong do eat."
Sure now they are slowly but surely taking/retaking territory. But until late 2023, they were on the defensive. It took almost 2 years for Putin to turn things around after a botched initial invasion. And at the rate of the worst month since (November 2024) it will take them like, 100+ years to capture the entirety of Ukraine.

And Russia has been stable because vast majority of people indeed support what Putin does. Putin in fact, isn't a problem at all, problem is Russians themselves.
How old are your kids? I found it was really tough for me until they hit around age 3 or 4. Getting them into school helped enormously. As they grew older it became easier for me to reason with them and they also became more capable of taking care of themselves and even helping me with some things.
What would trump do differently if he had been told explicitly by putin to destroy the usa?
Drones can't replace a human in the cockpit. Remote piloted are subject to EW. Autonomous are not quite there yet. May be in ten years, maybe not.
Hell, I'd say it's an 0<=N<1 because it involves subjective mood reporting, and there was no participant who was not contaminated by flaws in the methodology.
"Trump Tells Europe to Buy American Arms to Keep NATO Strong". [1]

"U.S. President Donald Trump complained Thursday that his country's decades-old security treaty with Japan is nonreciprocal, as he steps up pressure on allies to increase defense spending and buy more American products." [2]

It's about buying more American weapons.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-13/trump-tel...

[2] https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/03/fd3521d51353-upda...
Probably not. I have almost no faith that Musk won't cause more harm than good.
Are you a LLM? This is what the rest of the world feels mate!! Its a part of the discussion.
I‘m astounded especially because of the long term risk of shingles
The issue isn’t the services that stay up forever, it’s the ones subject to a huge amount of churn where maintainers lose context on what is or isn’t possibly nil, and get loose with their checks.

Edit, responded to pointer vs reference down thread.
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If you,Europeans believe that Russia is such an existential threat,why not attack preemptively ?
Not even two weeks
By turning defenestration and heart attacks of political enemies into an natural cause of death.
Not half - but probably around 30%
It's written into the story line of some stories like the mystery solving ones.

But in the story lines, the affections seem very mutual. So I'm not sure it's fair to call him a "harasser". Dirty? Perhaps. Old man? Yes, that's chronological and it can't be denied.
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The surviving Russian pilots are pretty competent at this point.
Don't forget the F-35 is the best plane for the PREVIOUS war. The current and the NEXT war will be fought with drones. And Ukraine is one of the countries that has the best drone industry.

Maybe we (as a Pole living in Norway) can't have state of the art jets, but in practice don't need them?

We (as the whole eastern block - Scands, Balts, Poland, Romania and Ukraine) should cancel our orders of F-35 and focus on developing our drone and strategic missile industry. And focus on investing, developing and buying from our closest allies - the eastern block.

Not on the countries that don't care because they are either too far from Russia (Spain, Italy) or have vested geopolitical interest in alllying with them (Germany). France and UK might want to join to balance out Germany.

At least that's what I understand from hearing smarter than me discuss the current situation.
Because disloyalty breeds disloyalty and distrust breeds distrust.

The top people have the best opportunities elsewhere, so they leave first.

Even if they don't quit outright, they are likely to quiet quit, because why put in the effort when it is rewarded with disloyalty?
Case 1

Why not store this value on client side and sync it from server from time to time?

Or it wasnt used by client?
China isn't actually appalled but they are trying to slip into America's spot in the world and they will likely do so successfully.
The US has burned trust well past 4 years. This has shown how the US political system enables this. Every 4 years they elect someone who has the power to just toss out everything the previous administration did or committed to. Every 4 years... and the US is so politically divided that it only takes a few percent of opinion change at each election to swing to the other party with polar opposite views. As a result, why would any other country now trust the US in any agreement? (not to mention the large number of agreements they have signed then just abandoned later) Four years is nothing time wise.. barely enough time to get an agreement fully implimented before the US can just say "Nah..." There will be significantly less trust for the US even beyond the Trump era.
I thought I was crazy/imagining things, but I had a similar experience. Maybe I should try Suntheanine again
I've read all the comments here and still don't understand the rationale for hexagons as opposed to squares.

In every sense, squares seem to be much easier to reason about and easier to hierarchically partition than hexagons are.

There are certain advantages to hexagons in certain contexts, like six degrees of movement instead of four in board games, but I don't see how any of those advantages translate here for geographical indexing.

I'd love to understand why hexagons as opposed to squares in this context are a superior solution rather than unnecessary complexity?
I've been through several layoffs, on both sides of the coin. The one consistent factor I've seen is managerial incompetence. Management will fail to provide any leadership or guidance to employees, then blame them for not being productive enough. They can't see their own incompetence, so they blame hiring practices and keep ratcheting up interview difficulty. It's like corporate America has evolved to protect the ego of the managerial class.
Tree loss from hurricane leaves Asheville vulnerable to new climate shocks
What even is masculine/feminine energy? I was making reference to Zuckerberg saying Facebook needed more masculine energy as it seemed to chime with the idea of "manning up." But honestly it feels as disconcerting to see people respond as if this is an actual thing, in as much as it would if HN were to take a sudden interest in astrology.
That's basically what the article says. And that even if there isn't a kill switch, these weapons rely on constant updates and cutting those off is effectively a kill switch, even if it wasn't designed as one.
I'm not sure if Elisabeth Bik is exactly a whistleblower but she's doing ok https://www.technologynetworks.com/biopharma/news/theres-fra...

>Bik’s venture into scientific sleuthing began as a hobby when she detected duplicated western blot images in a PhD thesis.

Now full time.
There is a simple answer: HN is getting targeted by state-level actors and moderation team is asleep at the wheel, utterly unprepared to act against such a sophisticated threat. Perhaps someone should email dang, that ought to solve it!
As a U.S. citizen, I don’t want to “bend the knee”. I want to maintain the Pax Americana that keeps us rich and safe. Ceding global leadership to Russia and China and Europe is a myopic move.
“Before trying a basic mineral with no side effects, try a corticosteroid for a whole month”

??? You have that backwards.