skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a US citizen but I'd be a lot more concerned about the EU if the US falls but not because of the expansionist talk. I do not want to see expansionism rise at all, but the leader we have right now is also a coward and a bully. He might be willing to go for a small country like Panama (and that would still be an _insane_ move) but NATO is still really strong even without the US and I don't think he'd be willing to risk anything but a sure thing.

More likely in my book is the existing wars in the EU spreading, and civil war breaking out in the US. The EU wars are already expanding, loosing stability, and generally getting more politically divisive even if US policy had a strong impact on them. Those tensions aren't new, and at least from this side of the pond it seems like the US was keeping those expansionist actors in check more than encouraging them. Things are not going well in the US politically, and I'll leave it at that.

From the economic side, if there is a US economic collapse, and its definitely not going up, the economies that are going to hurt the most are going to be those built on top of the US dollar as they have outsourced control over the fundamental tools you can use to stabilize your economy in rough times.
That's funny.

As a disclaimer I work on AI research.

Oh yeah. Definitely when we have discussions with companies to get funding we totally talk about how we're going to save the poor worker from all of these horrible jobs.

There's one end goal. Get rid of people to increase profits for management and shareholders.

People generally do not want to be "alleviated" of work, a great euphemism for being unemployed.

There's far more funding in getting rid of people than increasing their productivity 2x.
Start with a project you think should exist, but doesn't, or doesn't exist well. Make it happen. I think the blinky, keyboard, and e-paper display tutorials and demos are perhaps not the best way to stay motivated. I think your smart watch project is perfect! With the following exception: Designing space and power-efficient PCBs and firmware are their own challenges, and may be a distraction if you're new to this in general. I.e, the PCB design goes from connecting-the-things to an intricate puzzle full of tradeoffs.

To add further confusion, consider rust. The flashing and debugging is easier, but the library ecosystem is a bit of a mess. On the plus side for learning, you will get comfortable with data sheets!

Btw, regarding HAL vs register-level programming... I think if you end up not using a HAL, you will end up writing a subset of one naturally as you create practical abstractions. Your call!

Note: There are general 3 types of manuals you will encounter for STM32:

- Reference Manual: Details on the MCU family broadly. Use this as your guide to programming and peripheral capabilities.
- User manual: Details on the specific MCU. Use this for pin mappings, and which peripherals are available on a given package
- Dev board datasheet: If using a dev board, this describes which pins are mapped to which external pins, onboard peripherals etc.

Don't get too overwhelmed with all the STM32 varieties. The family tree is sprawling, but peripherals are usually heavily conserved. With many exceptions to keep things interesting... A lot of the maker-oriented material points towards older ones; I would skip those, as working with the relatively newer ones tends to be a bit easier. (i.e. no reason to use an F3, F4, F0 etc on a new project)
Devlins book - "Mathematics: The Science of Patterns" was similar for me and you might enjoy it in addition to what you previously read.

Much better than how I was taught in my schooling.
Maybe he was about to train an LLM on them /s
I support software in many languages and ruby has to be the most syntactically stimulating.
france was defeated in war, spain was turned into a puppet state by napoleon and portugal was a dictatorship

the dutch story is more complicated and closer, with napoleon being involved (again)
There was (mockingbird?) near my home in the 90s who did a solid imitation of the multi- tone aftermarket car alarm that was common around that time. I recall being annoyed by it at the time since it often happened in the early morning hours. I kind of miss it now (or I’m just a little nostalgic for the sound of the time period).
What big things to work on in computing besides AI and quantum?
A question with a similar title was asked here a few days ago, but they were actually asking for advice on side project ideas. But it got me wondering about the general question.

On the hardware side, I've heard a lot of conflicting predictions about optical computing and optical interconnects, both with a CPU and between the CPU and memory. I'm skeptical about the former. The latter has been 'just around the corner' for years now with no sign of becoming mainstream.

But what else?
You’re thinking of PR Newswire.

The AP pays reporters to go out and report.
> It would be quite easy to detect (and exploit) behaviour that decided to use a vowel word just because it somewhat arbitrarily used an 'an'.

That is a very interesting observation!

Doesn’t that internal state get blown away and recreated for every “next token”? Isn’t the output always the previous context plus the new token, which gets fed back and out pops the new token? There is no transfer of internal state to the new iteration beyond what is “encoded” in its input tokens?
Yes, this is our first reentry permit, and it has a 2 year validity.
That’s news to me, I was taught that the mass collapses into it self it creates more gravity and more matter gets sucked in because the mass is so dense. So at which point does it become less dense?
> I had to read it, and your reaction to the implied obvious reasoning 3 times, to figure out the implied obvious reasoning, and understand your intent was the toddler was standing and the wig was laying in a heap.

It seems quite obvious even on a cursory glance though!

> toddler was standing and the wig was laying in a heap

I mean how would toddler be laying in a heap?

> Would a toddler even understand the question?

Maybe not, I am a teen/early adult myself, so not many children yet :) but if you instead lay those in front of a toddler and ask which is higher, I guess they would answer that, another argument for multi-modality.

PS: Sorry if what I am saying is not clear, english is my third language
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The thing is, for me, writing a bit of vanilla JavaScript is already a sketch - you can very quickly throw together a working prototype, using actual code that doesn’t need to be compiled or run through an LLM to be made functional - you can literally just drop it into an empty .html page and drag it to the browser, or pop open a codepen, or run it with node, and I’ll just work immediately.

This idea of using an intermediate step, where you write non-functional code, just seems like an extra hoop to jump through.

And when you’re ready to progress towards a production-ready solution, you’re looking at upgrading existing code, rather than transcribing or translating this other sketch code stuff.

Idk. If it works for you then it works, but for me, this seems like more work than it’s worth.
Washing trash is not a religion. God is so dead that nobody even knows what a religion is anymore.
>Yes, because the military can't follow an illegal order, which is what a declaration of war without the approval of Congress would be.

Congress hasn't actually declared a war since World War 2. The President sends troops wherever he likes, whenever he likes, for whatever purpose he likes and Congress rubber-stamps their approval after the fact, and they call it something other than a war.

You're correct that the military can't follow illegal orders, but what you're describing as an example of an illegal order is just the way the US military industrial complex works.
> they design and invent and create and have absolute control over what they do.

In this dream, what is the role of UX researcher? Of product manager? How many such "elite" engineers are working on the product at one time? What's her relationship with the customer or end user? Are all the engineers on her team "elite", or is there only one? How does she interface with stakeholders? At what stage of her design process does she submit wireframes, prototypes, or plans for review? How much of her time is spent accessibility testing? How does she receive feedback about the product?

Like you, I've been happiest in my role when invited to share in the full discovery, design, and implementation processes from end to end; as a software engineer, I always look forward to engaging with customers/users and participating in--even leading!--research and design activities. But I also recognize that should our team be so lucky as to acquire a person more expert in those methods than I, the artifacts of their intelligence are only more grist for the mill.

> their engineering skill is put to use not in inventing or solving a problem

As Feynman put it, "there is plenty of room at the bottom," and as Cook said, "all ambiguity is resolved by actions of practitioners at the sharp end of the system," but if the first seven layers bore you, by all means, hack the eighth!
You are correct about the original thread, I claimed Europe has a far-right problem. Keep in mind, Europe has far-right parties that are commonly actually descendants of the nazi/fascist parties of the thirties, not a descendant of the party that abolished slavery

However, I was giving it as an example of problems in Europe that might cause worries when choosing a country to live in, especially someone who is worried where Trump is taking the US. This worry translated to the US applies in my opinion to both extremities of the political system (Trump admin included)

However, I don't think what we see from Trump right now or in the future is in any shape or form close to the thirties, and I also want to believe that the far-right european parties will also be preoccupied with other (stupid) ideological goals
> You cannot legislate positive cultural attributes into being.

You can legislate environment, e.g., when all you have is car-centric sprawling suburbs, it's harder to walk / cycle to school.

I grew up in a 'streetcar suburb', and was walking to school on my own (or with friends) by grade four (my dad woke me up, made breakfast, and then left for work: I knew I had to leave for school after G.I. Joe finished (at 8:30, for 9:00)).
Hi Peter. As always, thanks for doing this.

I am a Canadian currently on an H1B visa, valid until November 2026. I can probably recapture time until early 2027. I just got an EB2-NIW approved, but my priority date is in August 2024, and currently we are serving people in Apr. 2023. It will take at least until next year until I can file my I-485 and get my GC.

I am wondering what my options are in case I need to find a new job. My understanding is that the EB2 doesn't help me much unless I can truly demonstrate that the new job continues to advance the national interest in the same way, and that any deviation from what I wrote in my application is grounds to deny the I-485.

In case I can't find a new job that fits the exact description I have on my EB2-NIW, and I have to move out of the US, can I still file my I-485 once my priority date becomes current (and therefore get a GC)?
> forget what the law says if push came to shove you would be killed no questions which is fair if you think about it

Under no circumstances would any thinking person consider that fair.
I mean, read the current top sibling comment to yours. Someone who worked at an oil & gas company confirmed that this was their strategy.

Now, I don't think these people are sitting in their carved-out mountain lair, scheming to destroy the world; I'm sure they don't see themselves as villains. But they are making deliberate decisions to protect their business models and bottom line by adopting -- and, importantly, lobbying for -- technology that is polluting and emits greenhouse gases.
Except the browser can't even see the device if it's even a vaguely secure operating system.
That bridge will be crossed when we get to it. Thunderbird improved substantially after Mozilla stopped maintaining it. Thunderbird was held back by Mozilla.
Exactly this.

Google removed don’t be evil.
They created a web browser which originally was good back in the day d.g. Internet explorer was crap, Firefox was okay but very different world 2007 vs today.
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More likely, by a huge margin, since it takes only checking a box in some software system, whereas the alternatives you mention need a lot of messy work to achieve.
How about a balloon then?
Ask HN: Is Wireframe-Driven Task Management Useful?
I've been building a task management tool (TaskFrame) that integrates wireframes into the workflow.

The idea is that instead of managing tasks separately on a Kanban board, teams can link them directly to wireframe elements, making it easier to see tasks in the context of the actual project.

Some key features:
- Drag-and-drop wireframe elements that can be converted into tasks
- Task statuses reflected in the wireframe (e.g., completed tasks change color)
- Designed to reduce the gap between UI/UX design and project management

The project is still in development, and I'm curious to know:
- Would a wireframe-based task management system be useful in your workflow?
- What pain points do you currently have with task tracking in your team?
- Are there any features you think would make this more valuable?

I'm open to feedback and new ideas—curious to hear your thoughts!
I think it's a bit weird to blame people who bought Teslas for the current situation with Musk. That's a huge, bad-faith stretch of an argument.
Ok so you have no idea who's vetting the algorithms at competitions. It's the other participants. That's going to be you among others. You get to break apart all the competing algorithms that claim to be better than yours. And they get to show you if yours is the weaker one, as they also want to win the competition.

Sure, you can't put fox to guard the henhouse that's how you get stuff like DUAL_EC. But that's not the case in modern competitions. They are open to the public, and academic in nature. Everyone gets to analyze them.

We don't know who you are, what are your credentials, and we don't have any proof of you showing you have what it takes to analyze current standards, let alone create new primitives resistant to cryptanalysis. Until you decide go the long way, you'll find yourself treated as yet another Crown Sterling.
The technology being discussed hasn't actually drilled much of anything yet. Their latest press release with actual numbers[0] gives depths drilled in inches. Nice progress, yeah, but they're not anywhere near competitive with even water wells, much less the current generation of conventional oilfield drilling technology.

Geothermal power is indeed cool, but to get it usable anywhere on Earth instead of a few places where magma currents happen to be near the surface, we'll probably need several orders of magnitude deeper and wider holes than we're currently capable of drilling just for starters. Can these guys do the job? Maybe, but let's just say I'm not planning to invest in them.

[0] https://www.quaise.energy/news/from-lab-to-field-testing
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Washing trash is more akin to a religious obligation than a religion itself.
On such a scale hydrogen would be store underground in solution-mined salt caverns, not above ground in tanks.

Europe has enough salt formations to potentially store millions of GWh of hydrogen, far more than would be needed.
the F-18 replacement program was already a textbook case study in dysfunctional military procurement.

if the F-35 program is cancelled again, textbook authors won't ever need to drum up another example.
This is better deployed against the viewpoint that makes the affirmative statement about democracy leading to stagnation. Cheers.
Why do you trust everything the allegedly bad guys say? By reading it and thinking critically as you said we all should, I can easily see that they are following the pattern that many bad guys follow: write some legalese allowing them to do bad stuff, then write some non-binding non-legalese saying they won't. Then only point at the latter to silence complaints. And then, the next step in the pattern is to actually do the bad stuff, while continuing to point at the non-binding non-legalese.

Whereas you seem to be taking what they said at face value, which is not critical thinking.
I am talking about the 20th century where all countries lost their colonial empires at around the same time late 40s-70s, you are referring to a much earlier period
There's a whole fork lore/meme around how hard it is, in America culture...

But given blidness and deafness is an impediment to acquiring language, more than anything else, I'd say that's the exact opposite of the conclusions from the comment you're replying to.

But yes, depending on where you set the bar for "true learning" being blind and deaf would prevent it.

I assume you're asking if vision and sound are required for learning, the answer I assume is no. Those were just chosen because we've already invented cameras and microphones. Haptics are less common, and thus less talked about.
Is it the radical right or the radical left that doesn’t respect law and uses violence for political reasons? BLM, antisemitic occupations of campuses, and now terrorism against Tesla owners, are all from the left. Even if there were comparable examples from the right, surely in the least you can admit that violence isn’t exclusive to the right.
I don't think giving birth works that way.
trust me, this is absolutely NOT about liking local manufacturers ...
I loved the typo "parking your cat" -- that would indeed be the height of decadence.
> Well, if that's the case, then out of that 500 million a year, we already have 50 to 60% of that going to software development, so something on the order of 250 million.

Lots of peoples "supposed" problem is giving money to Mozilla, not Firefox. If the goal is to give people a way to support FF development, then this does achieve that. But FF doesn't need _that_ (which I think you and I both agree on).

> but I just don't see how that moves the needle in ways that people seem to be expecting

Agreed. I think if it was 1M, it wouldn't have any impact, but and if it was 100M then people would complain that it's not being used on $INSERT_THING_THEY_WANT_HERE.

> It'll be interesting to see if Lady Bird does well with economics along the lines of what you're describing.

What Firefox is doing isn't growing their market share, so hitching another $1/10/100M isn't going to do anything to that without a strategy to actually make it happen. I think, honestly, there's a decent chance for a new project to survive in here. It could even be a Firefox fork, but it needs to be free of the baggage and strategy of Mozilla, and Firefox IMO - just as Edge has somehow made a resurgance as a chromium browser. I think Ladybird could work out too, if they can find a way to break through.

Spoken as a die hard FF user for almost 20 years!
You might check out https://e2b.dev, they already have a really robust sandbox system with nice SDKs.
Yes but this is not a completely alien idea. We know that things that are moving through space with 100% of their movement through space (i.e., moving at the speed of light), 0% of their movement is through time.

Take a proton for example. From the proton’s perspective, its creation and destruction happen in the same instant. From our perspective, it may travel through space for some period of time between the two events.

We’re not completely sure about the nature of gravity, but given how gravity seems to interact with spacetime, it seems at least plausible that time outside the singularity compresses to a single instant from the perspective of someone inside the event horizon.
But we are not since 1776. We are in 2025.
hrm. on nature portrait photography 600x600 upscale, it has a LOT of artifacts. Perhaps too far out of distribution?

That said, your examples are promising, and thank you for posting a HF space to try it out!
Here’s a version of the same idea but runs locally, so you can test without deploying. https://apps.gnome.org/SharePreview/

OP, maybe next step is to try a local version?
Show HN: Coredumpy – post-mortem debugging tool for Python
Dump your current state for future debugging!

https://github.com/gaogaotiantian/coredumpy
A daemon or “non deterministic data pipeline” doesn’t command grandiose valuations. It must sound like magic.
They are building far more renewables than nuclear.
Galois theory was my favourite course in the final year of my maths undergrad.

I have no idea how this post is at the top of HN. I barely remember what the symbols mean.
Highly stylized letters over a background traditionally utilize .png or .jpg technology. Not that this guy's attempt at writing a wingdings++ compiler isn't amusing.
Ask HN: Which Substacks consistently unlock insights for you?
I'm looking for Substacks that somewhat consistently provide genuine "aha" moments or deep perspectives. Particularly interested in:

- Programming and engineering (especially functional approaches but open to anything)
- Economic and financial analysis beyond surface-level takes, but still layperson-friendly
- Systems thinking/mental models, critical thinking

Honestly I'm open to anything interesting or thought-provoking, even if it's totally outside these domains. I’ve enjoyed writing on history, design, and art when written by someone who knows about the subject and about how to write about it. Completely new to Substack and finding my feed a bit lacking.

(Also do plug your own if you write! HN comments are a huge source of “aha” moments after all :)
I understand it's a Ruby thing, `chat = RubyLLM.chat` looks odd. How do I know whether it's a function call returning an object or just an assignment? Why not just use `RubyLLM.chat()` and eliminate the ambiguity?
There's not really an answer in the article besides not wanting to clearly identify a point in time, and wanting the cars to match in some sense the personalities of the characters that drive them.

The show's aesthetic takes a high dose of "cassette tape futurism", juxtaposing advanced tech with the primitive. Also featured are anachronistic computer terminals, VHS tapes, and music records. The car choices play well with that.

N.B.: Particularly primitive is Lumon's surveillance of severed employees. This hardly makes sense when the chips can be activated remotely, but heavy surveillance would kill the exploratory velocity of the story so that was a good choice, in my opinion.
I think a more generous reading of the article is that he's saying religion satisfies a human need, and in the absence of formal religion, something else has arisen to fill that need. He's not saying washing trash is a religion, he's saying that, in this case, the thing which satisfies what religion once satisfied for people is climate anxiety, and that the behavior around that takes on some of the broad behavioral characteristics of religion.
That's Mostly Harmless, and yes, Adams was quite depressed when he wrote it. I still don't hate that ending - I segued in my youth from these books straight into existential philosophy (I was a tiresome bore then and still am, apologies) and I could very much sympathise with Ford at the end finding it all hilarious. But you could easily stop reading at So Long and feel quite satisfied no matter your outlook, I think, even after shedding some tears for Marvin.
PARANOIA SANS a self-censoring, conspiratorial typeface
A doctor on what it's like to end a life rather than extend one
No intention to take over? So they’ll walk away from Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan?

Also, leading countries in Asia and Africa into debt traps and dependence on them through the BRI is not very different from taking over.
Mobile Safari exists though. Chrome is #2 on iOS and that’s where the most valuable consumers are