skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Doing things like randomly firing the staff who were hired recently to address gaps in care is NOT the way to improve things. And it takes staff, time and money to make new processes.

2. The article points out ways, besides VA cuts, that veterans are being harmed. For instance, many of those government workers fired without cause are veterans, and the veterans' suicide hotline (already understaffed) is going to hemorrhage more staff when the edict against remote work goes into effect.
Yeah I don't see the big mystery here. People leave to keep up with cost of living or get away from toxic elements in their current workplace that are otherwise difficult - if not impossible - to change by staying. It's not something we want to do, it's something we have to do for one good reason or another. If we had better rights and meaningful raises to improve or even sustain our quality of life, the job hopping would surely decrease. The layoffs and the reason for job hopping are both attributed to actions on the employer's side.
Yeah?

How about you check out the rest of the western world, where each single democracy had their own pickings with communist tendecies. And most of them handled that in the common sense way of giving workers basic protections and ensuring their share of wealth so they don't feel the need to go to the communists.

Worked pretty well for most European countries.

Although, once communism was gone, the ideology of neolibral economic thinking took over and thus all benefits to workers were seen as unnecessary expenses. Leading to the current rise in nationalism and fascism nearly everywhere.

It is pretty simple: If you want all people to carry a system, all people need to feel like they profit from its existence. Once the mask slips and people realize they aren't profiting, they will be unwilling to hold up their side of the social contract. This is what is happening right now.
I don't think any of us do. And they'll take your donations either way, so I don't think that's in question.

What's your plan that results in Russia giving up the territory they've claimed and heading home?
The cause of a war is the first illegal action in it.

Allying with other countries is not illegal, therefore it cannot be a cause of a war.

russia invading a sovereign country is illegal, therefore it was the cause of the war.
People have been saying it writes amazing code that works for far longer than that setup has been available though. Your comment makes me think the product is still trying to catch up to these expectations people are setting.

That being said I appreciate your suggestion and will consider giving that a shot.
>no country will want to buy F16s

US needs to diversify and have an industrial policy. It also needs to rethink capitalism. Maybe new capitalism with US characteristics and more humanism thrown in. As to the defense industry it needs to shrink and be part of the industrial policy, not depend on warmongering to exist. You can have peace and a defiance industry without wars.
Endowment are almost always earmarked and released over time for specific things. Uou acting like they have an endless $15 billion fund to do whatever they want with shows you're either entirely ignorant of how this world works or that you're intentionally being misleading.

Grants are required for research.
We will buy tge Dassault Rafale, thank you.
> they have proven already that other's interests do not matter for them

I disagree. Their interests matter greatly to them, they are just totally unequipped to understand who, and what, they are voting for.
Trump surely has policy views. Maybe they aren't consistent, and he often speaks contradictory to whatever his views are, but you're underestimating him if you believe his has no views. If you consider him a threat, underestimating him sounds dangerous

> Trump _is_ the policy and the view.

That may be true for voters, I know quite a few Trump voters that only care to vote for him and couldn't explain any coherent policy reason for preferring him. That has no bearing on Trump's own policies or views though.
He does not rule out recession. Why do you think the US economy will be doing very well because of his policies?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Call site can be inlined in compile time, without special syntax. Full stack trace would require runtime support anyway.
I find complaining about basked of deplorables coming from the conservative side to be the height of hypocrisy. The same people compete with each other who will be more insulting.

They voted for Trump, twice. They love it when politicians are insulting.
Heh, I loved it within seconds. So relaxing while also so darkly funny. Everyone is a bit different I guess. I sent it to some of my art-biz friends.
Let's assume a Russian asset somehow becomes President of the USA.

What would he have done? How would he weaken the USA and strengthen Russia?

At this point, I don't see a difference between Trump + GOP (leaders) and actual traitors.
Diversifying the business so they're not dependent on Google is a good thing. I disagree with most of their business choices, but if the American DoJ gets its way, Mozilla will lose 86% of its funding next year.

As for Electron, I don't really care. I open most Electron apps in pinned Firefox tabs already.

As for the ones that integrate natively and can't run in the browser, Firefox is slower than Chrome so I'd rather have these 3MiB of JS apps ship with another slightly outdated copy of Chrome than with a slightly outdated copy of Firefox.
Europe is developing 6th Gen fighter(s) already though. And yes, Europe produces a 5th Gen fighter. The f35 is made only in USA and Italy, although I share the worries on having a potentially brickable device
Same, I thought it'd generate audio much like classic stego used images.

2/5, guys, sorry. I came here for an epic adventure and was disappointed.
I understand the trade offs you mention. I do disagree with your assertion that “Life is much harder for some of us.” You have chosen a different payoff - your family, certainty of health insurance, etc. You get the benefits that children bring and the joy of being a parent. The “young, childless people” have made a different choice - more freedom in employment decisions but no joy from children. Everyone has their own cost/benefit analyses on these issues. That is life.
It's an interesting question. I'll try to answer.

I generally do not use clever algorithms in my code. I just use straightforward ones. Rarely, I might need a better one and go looking for it (like a better hash algorithm). I rarely use a data structure more complicated than an array, list, binary tree, hash, or single inheritance.

What I have, though, is decades of experience with what works and what doesn't work. (My favorite whipping boy is macros. Macros look like they are great productivity boosters. It takes about 10 years to realize that macros are a never-ending source of confusion, they just confuse and obfuscate every code base that uses them. I could go on about this! ...)

I have become pretty good at writing modules that minimize dependencies, and pretty good at the user interface design of a language.

But still, if the job wanted a leetcode test, I'd take it, no problem. I'd study up first, though.

If a young tech bro was interviewing me, I'd suggest he show me his best code, and I'd do a review of it :-) The point of that would not be to humilate him, but to demonstrate the value I can bring to improving code quality.

If I was being interviewed for a job writing a faster divide routine (the ones I wrote were shift-subtract, slower but bulletproof), a better random number generator, a cryptographically secure hash function, a tighter compression algorithm, a faster sort, I'm not the right guy for that.
It means that the person that you've replied to has blocked you. Click on logout to read the comment. reddit is a leftist shithole now
We need this on a device which is not a phone. It could be a simple mechanical device which presents the instructions on a slowly scrolling paper tape.
He has already ceded the two greatest Russian demands re: Ukraine, without a negotiating table even being set up yet. Why did he do that?
Yep, personal recommendations are huge, but not just because random applicants aren't given a chance...

Our last hiring round we got probably 200 applicants. At least 95% seemed to just be automated submissions, no cover letter just a resume, despite our application asking specifically for a cover saying why you were a great fit. We had 3 of our most senior people reviewing these applications (our of a company of 8).

Most of the time we were digging through dense resumes trying to pick out the 1 or 2 things that matched our technology stack. We figure the cover is the place you tell us why we should talk to you if you only have 1-2 technology overlap, so most resumes we spent 30-60 seconds on and then ditched.

We interviewed 3 people out of that, and they were both really super junior. We were considering hiring one of them as a "maybe she could learn the position". Then I sent out one more round of "if you know anyone" to my personal network (which I had previously done a few months earlier), and got one personal reference to a guy we ended up hiring.
This is speculation, but I think there's a way to do it without much pain at all. I've built a few VSCode extensions and the extension framework is extensive and robust and it has well defined boundaries. The only problem you'd run into is the extension sandbox. If all your fork does is make a sandbox exception for your specific code at the extension boundary, you will only have to keep those bits correct and then you can write the whole rest of your custom editor like you would an extension. That would mean that you get to benefit from all the existing know how around building extensions and also make keeping up with upstream a breeze.

As I said though, this is speculative and how I would approach this problem based on the work I've done, I don't know if that's realistically feasible and what they've actually done.
Of course its written in rust
Mostly I read Slashdot, HN, and the Wall Street Journal. I read the Economist when I feel like paying for it (sometimes I get a deal like $50 for the digital version for a year). I did Ground News for a year.
At least Python can be as complex as C++, it is a matter of actually bothering to go through all major manuals in https://docs.python.org/3.

Those languages are hardly more abstract than learning Lisp or Prolog back in the day, other than (with exception of JavaScript) finally embracing dynamic compilers.

It boils down to how much one actually cares to learn and is curious to improve themselves.
Nuh uh! Hacker News told me that American businesses have the ultimate moral imperative to cease operations in any country that demands invasive control of my devices.

Surely my smartphone OEM would fight the entire American government before handing over my data.
Historically, an independent Europe has meant continental war after continental war, and Europe is again pushing for a continental war.
> I'm not an economist.

That much is clear.

This can kind of be the case with narrow, directed tariffs (protectionism of a vulnerable uncompetitive industry, for instance see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax), or in a developing country that has mostly primary industry (that is extractive industry, mining and that sort of thing). In a developed country, it’s a lot more complicated; a lot of that manufacturing probably depends on imported materials or parts (so tariffs hurt it from that direction) and a lot of the market is probably export (which tariffs also hit, for tariffs more or less inevitably lead to retaliatory tariffs).

And where you have heavy protectionism, the _consumer_ tends to suffer, as the protected industries have little incentive to make their products good or cheap. See British Leyland; for quite a while the British government attempted to keep it alive by heavily restricting the import of actually good cars. Spoiler: it did not work.
I get two physical news papers. One English daily, covers mostly Indian news. One a regional daily in vernacular that covers my residential state.

International news for me is whatever shows up on my Twitter feed but I don’t pay much attention.
Already happening in multiple places.
I stayed in the same job for nearly a decade, it got really interesting in the second half; in a way that it never would have gotten if I had job hopped every 3 to 5 years.

That being said, once I got bored in the job, I sniffed out that the parent company wanted to lay a few people off, and hinted that I was open to it. It worked out well for me.

I was just too busy in my personal life to look for a job on the side, and honestly I didn't want to walk away halfway through a project.
Elon Musk threatens to spend millions against any republican who deviates from Trump’s policies. Without that threat, the republicans would speak up against this assault on American interest and values. I wonder more if Elon has been compromised than Trump. Or if Russia threaten to trigger the Kessler syndrome, destroying all of Elon’s aspirations of getting off this rock (I’m still skeptical if he’s telling the truth about that), and instructed him to stop the war.
We should never expect people treated as children to act as anything more.

Acting like an adult requires practice and learning lessons when you mess up. Treating those you may disagree with, or don't trust, as children is a self fulfilling prophecy and strips them of the dignity of having the chance to make their own decisions and deal with the consequences.
After working with this tooling for about a month, I've found the biggest struggle is adapting my mental model as the paradigms change. Because make no mistake, this is a research-stage tool that has been thrust into the spotlight while in its infancy.

There's definitely shift between versions of cursor. One time I had an unpleasant crash that also upgraded the version, and suddenly .cursor/ files I thought were working (but hadnt been) showed up mid prompt, and derailed the entire composer run.

I've tried ideas ranging from TODO documents, append-only work logs, blueprint documents, faux-team interactions through role definitions, and much much more.

The most success I've had is by adding manual lines at the end of every prompt, akin to phrases like "be respectful of the existing code and functionality, make deliberate changes with caution and consideration". Beyond the normal "plan and take it step by step" type phrasing.

It would also be nice if .cursor/ rule files actually were actively used, instead of sometimes being hooked in if you wrote the description right.

Sometimes I have great success at utilizing specialized roles, with named team members and explicit direction, to elect the "appropriate" role for the items being worked on, and discuss pros/cons and facilitate brainstorming.

At the end of the day, I think I end up doing an annealing pattern for changes:

- Build the features and breaking is okay so long as we get the features.

- Distill the built features into a doc with examples and roll back the code by git.

- Build a v2 based on the distillation.

- Rinse repeat, usually until v4 or v5, when i tear it all down and write it 99% by hand from the distilled documents.

Definitely a rocky road so far.
Does anyone still have any doubts that Trump is helping Putin? He consistently helps Russian fascists using "boiling the frog" method to avoid doing it too rapidly. But it's still glaringly obvious.

Everyone who for voted for this scum should be blamed.
> Eh, the right still has a lot of work to do if they want to catch up with the economic damage (and the sheer body count) perpetrated by leftists over the last century.

I'm curious to see this quantified. Mao was certainly terrible, but so was Hitler of course and so were the various famines imposed by British rule.
I think having Greenland annexed might also be a problem for the Danish. Europe might subsidize Novo Nordisk's losses, switch to distributing the meds all throughout Europe. And it seems the loss of such a society-transformative drug (and having millions of people gaining back all their lost weight would be a difficult/untenable political position for this administration. Just surprised not to see this much in the current news.

Sibling in thread says there's already an US alternative, anyway.
I'm not sure we should be funding that, either.
MAGA is essentially a personality cult. There will be a massive power vacuum once Trump leaves the stage, and I doubt any fraction will be big enough to whip the kind of unwavering loyalty we're seeing today.
Disenfranchised, easily manipulated voters that want to tear down the system on one side, and people whose convictions are still somewhat based in reality on the other.
Your assertion is factually untrue, unless you include deaths from comorbidities arising from the use of government-approved carcinogens like alcohol and tobacco.

Remember, the war on drugs isn't about protecting you from harmful substances. POSIWID. The purpose of the war on drugs was to silence and oppress Nixon's political enemy, the anti-war movement.

You cite no data, just unsubstantiated ad-hominem attacks against my character. This makes you appear to be engaging in bad faith.

I hope you're at least being paid well for advancing the interests of the US federal government against the interests of innocent people. Regardless of your intentions, that's the effective result of your words.
I believe you may be making your conclusion too early.
The Russian air force is shit. They have zero capability to conduct close air support and have been reduced to launching stand-off weapons from within their own air defense coverage. This has some value but it's basically just another form of artillery. US tactical air capabilities are on an entirely different level.

The US has a variety of overlapping reconnaissance capabilities including not just large UAVs but also manned aircraft (including the F-35) and multiple satellite constellations. Over the next few years the priorities in that area should be to accelerate the B-21 Raider program (it will make an excellent recon platform) and develop some sort of prompt satellite launch capability to replace combat losses within hours. There is also a general recognition that we'll have to increase spending or shift budget priorities to build up the industrial capacity necessary to sustain longer conflicts.
This is exactly my impression of the summary of these kinds of posts and, I'm speculating here, maybe where there is such a stark difference.

I'm guessing that the folks who read the output and want to understand it deeply and want to "approve" it like a standard pull request are having a very different perspective and workflow than those who are just embracing the vibe.

I do not know if one leads to better outcomes than the other.
From whom do the joining countries feel they need security, in this "fractious security environment"? :)
You would be surprised what 96% of the mankind can do to a perceived bully. Just keep doing what you're doing
Show HN: Empyrebase – A Better Pyrebase with Firestore and Stability Fixes
I built Empyrebase as a modern alternative to Pyrebase, focusing on stability, modularity, and Firestore support. It keeps the simplicity of Pyrebase while improving maintainability and flexibility.

- Firestore support (missing in Pyrebase)
- More modular design (use only the parts you need)
- Improved stability (better error handling and reliability)
- Actively maintained
I’d love feedback from Firebase developers on how this fits into their workflow.

GitHub: https://github.com/emrothenberg/empyrebase
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/empyrebase/
Director's cuts to explain the history of the phenomenon
This will soon be not only limited to military technologies
Ukraine remembers this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

For Ukraine to continue existing, the russians have to be driven out. Otherwise the genocide will continue. The genocide caused by russians, caused by russians invading Ukraine, caused by russians stealing Ukraine's children.

In america's right wing trump followers, there is utter, sociopathic, monstrous indifference to Ukraine's suffering.

So I'll ask you, personally: If the neighbouring state or country decided to invade and take over an area of your state, and you were told "you've been resisting too long, give in already and give up your fight", would you lay down and welcome the invaders you've been fighting? If you knew that the invaders were stealing children, and murdering whole towns?
US prevented Taiwan from developing nukes in the first place.
There's a meme going around which takes a metaphorically-similar quote: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” The meme answers the rhetorical question with an outlier example: "children with leukemia." The joke here is that although the quote could often have merit it certainly does not apply to all cases.

There are plenty of ideas which people want to censor for reasons other than that the ideas are strictly correct. Particularly when it comes to politics, a lot of ideas just speak to opinion or disposition, and there is no strictly right or wrong answer. But of course, people want to censor opinions with disconcerting frequency.

My comments here shouldn't be taken as pro-censorship. I consider myself nearly a free-speech absolutist, but the desire to censor is much more about politics and tribalism than it is about anything else.
I forgot. I also watch NBC Nightly News and "What about it?" on YouTube.
>> Except, that's the exact same outcome you get even if you vote for Trump, unless there's something I'm not seeing?

I think you are correct.

Trump promised change and had "concepts of a plan".

Democrats promised more of the same, and then realized that that was unpopular and then threw together a plan that they said would work.

The reality now is that Trump's promised change may or may not help those voters economically, but the accompanying geopolitical disruptions may be worse.
I want the war to end because I have no preferable alternative.

And you, too, have failed to present one. Is funding a never-ending stalemate indefinitely the only option?
All humans do that. The question is, do you want elect someone who seems to be better at perceiving reality according to evidence than yourself, or worse?
Fleur MCP: App Store for Claude
Whenever someone says PHP doesn’t scale - just point to Wikipedia or any NSFW site ever as proof that’s baloney. Facebook and Slack still use tons of it internally.

If someone says server-rendered HTML doesn’t scale or hurts conversion, or that we truly need a SPA to maximize sales - just point to Amazon and eBay, as proof that’s baloney.

Most colloquial programmer wisdom, I have learned, is baloney.
> I wonder what is the process for that finding. Is a court involved?

My understanding is that the State Department can revoke a visa without any court involvement. There's a waiver process, but that process also entirely sidesteps the courts.

> It should not be unilateral decision by state department.

I agree completely.
They’re not—they’re talking about this guy who replied to yegge: https://x.com/Beirutspring/status/1898689770563260535
Update: We just got his account back because a friend helped file an account hijack request internally. Thanks to everyone who offered help and support!
A large airline like southwest is one thing but I’m always so surprised at how much over hiring we do in software companies.

Every problem/opportunity seems to just need a few more headcount.

Lots of managers are actively trying to increase their headcount for self promotional reasons.

The whole thing seems really counterproductive.