skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. Been shaking my fist about it since I cast my first vote. But I genuinely feel like an ant attacking a lawnmower. The machine just keeps going and barely notices our efforts. I was a Bernie supporter, too. Same deal although at least he's got street cred the media meat-grinder can't spin into something else. Still, I cast my vote and it mattered as much as a fart in the wind.

When you feel like that for a couple decades and you start to look for the best possible outcomes that everyone will actually agree to, things start to look really, really bleak. Again, it's a War of Attrition and historically speaking, the people with the most resources win those.

Rally. Protest. Please. I have no idea what else to do. I'd lead the damned charge in the revolution if I thought anyone would follow, but my experience has been the opposite. The liberals of the world all seem to hate each other just as much as the conservatives do, so I'll be dipped if they ever really come together on anything, these days.

I don't like my conduct in the earlier comments, but after being that guy who tried to tell everyone the two-party system has no power without us for so damned long, I am not going to sit idly and listen to someone accuse me of supporting genocide when I made the most rational choice I could have with what was presented while they did nothing, as though Gaza's horrifying reality is the only thing the American people have to worry about right now. We live in a zero-sum game, and I hate it, but that's it.

Anyway, sorry to anyone I offended.
Exactly. Even though I'm fairly confident that I wouldn't be detained at the border under dubious pretexts, and reasonably sure I wouldn't get black-bagged by ICE agents, the thought of being around a population who largely support going to war with my country isn't a comfortable experience. I've been to the northern US before and largely had no issues, but driving around with Ontario plates now that 30-50% of the population has been told to hate me isn't inviting.
The joke: https://youtu.be/gi_6SaqVQSw?si=PmVHtMZJyhMQFUar
I see two types of comments from Americans in online forums like this when the topic of the new US government's comments about annexing Canada come up:

"Come on, you can't be taking that seriously" "That's not serious" "It's a joke" -- US liberals and some "moderate" Republicans

or "You deserve it" "<something something dairy tariffs>" "It will happen" -- GOP voters, MAGA types

And then there's question about why Canadians might not be coming to the US and are boycotting US products?

The level of discourse is beyond disheartening, and I expected better from this forum of all places. Comments made by official head of state, and agreed to by his entire cabinet. Including by Marco Rubio while on Canadian soil for a G7 conference.

Consider an incident like this:

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/article...

By the head of U.S. Homeland Security. Not Trump.

Yeah, we just can't take the joke.

Trust, and travel and full trade, will be restored when we see Americans deal with the mess they've made at home, and stop acting in this fashion. In the meantime in the words of a rather awful but funny Canadian We've "got more than enough to eat at home"
Airlines have a certain number of landing slots and check in counters. If they give up their slots, they may have a very difficult time getting them back.

The A380 was built to get around landing slot rules.
For all the wonder of Apple Silicon, if won't run any of the models I want it to. AI on Mac is a horrible experience as a developer and a consumer.

So much for edge computing on Apple devices. Their marketing around how good their hardware is for AI is total BS.
Yeah, given that they have been detaining green cards holders all bets are off.
While you can do that they can make your life hell. I encourage you to do it and report back for everyone here.
Some things are not a 'not serious' matter, no matter how much one tries to claim it to be a joke or just a random musing.

It's like trying to joke about touching little kids -- why are you even thinking about that?
However "uncivilized" things often got, WWI and WWII were not collapses of civilization - even in 1945 Germany or Japan. Supply chains were dominated by American industry and the Allied Occupation Forces, but worked perfectly well.

Instead, look at modern-day failed states - lawless, unable to produce much beyond some subsistence farming outputs and lots of refugees (and angry, violent young men) - to get a sense of actual civilization collapse. If "government" in the US meant whichever well-armed local militia had won the last bloody fight, all 3 of the internet, electrical grid, and the petrochemical distribution systems were down - and there were no PLA occupation forces putting things back together - what would the recovery path look like?

And recall that the #1 test of "did that civilization collapse?" is whether the civilization's social/economic/governmental norms and structures lost legitimacy/authority in the minds of the (former) citizens. Outside of fantasy, you can't restore the 500AD ruins of the Roman Empire to its 140BC glory by hand-waving "now everyone just has to behave like we Romans did in the Good Old Days...".
Caligula et Messaline 1981 exist in two close but significantly different versions played by the same actors at the same time.
Indeed. Marco Rubio repeated Trump's annexation threat while on Canadian soil during the G7.

I am not sure why we're supposed to treat this as a "bad joke"
And you're my favorite of the one of you.
This. Skill sharing among a small tribe is the most effective way to survive a catastrophe, and I am concerned modern societies are poorly conditioned to do it well.

Speaking from a North American perspective, kids are educated in how to succeed in a national/global economy, not how to build small communities and develop/share useful skills. TBH, the latter feels "obsolete" nowadays. Maybe that's a problem.
We negotiated a trade agreement with not just the US but the prior Trump administration specifically. The US is now in violation of that agreement based on justifications that are - charitably - idiotic misunderstandings (conflating a trade deficit with subsidization), blatant nonsense (the idea that "Canadian fentanyl" constitutes a national emergency), or constitute simple outright attacks on our sovereignty.

Canada, through the (actually fairly limited!) existing free trade exceptions in NAFTA/USMCA - which, again, Trump agreed to in the past and, in his usually banal hyperlative word salad, described as "beautiful" and "wonderful" and "perfect" and "the best ever" - did not violate an established agreement. And, more importantly, Canada certainly hasn't gone on for months about how the US isn't a real country, shouldn't be entitled to self-governance, and how we're going to leverage our power to annex it. It's hardly "returning the favour".
This presumes the government will be acting in good faith, which is increasingly unlikely day to day.
When the US president repeatedly threatens to annex your country, you don’t have the luxury of being able to laugh it off.

Why would anyone even think it’s funny?
I tried various things, but keep coming back to zsh/fzf. Now I want fuzzy searching everywhere.
Help me understand what this means to e.g. GrapheneOS, please. Will it be able to exist and just have to wait longer for updates or will it be in real jeopardy?
Really? Nice! Hey I want to say thank you very much for confirming this worked for me. That was really considerate of you. I am just happy this little test worked. Have a great day sir:)
Anecdata: I had booked an international conference in New York state that I've cancelled because of the trade war and threats to our sovereignty. If it were held in a country with a friendlier government, I would have gone.
And they've decided that "Collateral Arrests" are acceptable.
Please add ability to use a pre-built libduckdb easier. Currently in Rust, it takes forever to compile it via cargo dependency, and there's no docs on how to build your own and put on PATH.
Sometimes virality is a total fluke of the moment. For instance Zoom happened to be what teachers told each other about when lockdowns started.

That could have been webx or meet or whatever.
> npm is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language maintained by npm, Inc., a subsidiary of GitHub. -- [1]

and Microsoft own Github so Microsoft is the provider? Pretty sure they're running malware scanners over NPM constantly at the least. NPM also has (optional) provenance [2] to a Github build workflow which is as strong as being "assured" by Google IMO. Only problem is it's optional.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm
[2]: https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/introduci...
> The US was never our friend.

Wouldn't U.S. assistance during WWI, WWII, NORAD, Afghanistan, the 1917 Halifax Explosion, the 2008 financial crisis, the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfires, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other instances of disaster relief count as gestures of friendship?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_r...

"The United States has no closer and no more important friend than Canada ... And when we work together, as the closest of friends should, we only make each other stronger."

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-...
You got dogpiled because the OPs response is into perceived suffering being caused to the blue states already, and proposing that they respond in turn.

When you jumped in with your comments about wheat, it was not interpreted by the repliers as pointing out that they could also hurt them, it was perceived as you saying something along the lines of "well were gonna turn up the screws on ya then"

That elicits a fairly predictable reaction from most people.

Additionally they do have ports but most of their capacity is in the trivially blockaded Gulf of America
All congress persons are most afraid of voters. If voters do not care than those other people withholding money can cost them an election, but they will betray anyone else if their voters care about the issue. They can find money from other sources - or even beg for forgiveness and get the money anyway.
Computing power is cheap, and getting cheaper for the big guys. Real humans are not.
You're assuming that a subjugated territory would have voting rights (and that voting rights will matter going forward.)

That is an interesting assumption.
You’re saying this like it’d be a choice and not an invasion.
What I'm Hearing in China This Week About Our Shared Future-Tom Friedman
Forgive me for promoting this that I wrote:

csvquote: https://github.com/dbro/csvquote

Especially for use with existing shell text processing tools, eg. cut, sort, wc, etc.
it is the annexation threats
I 100% agree that computers are not necessary. But regardless of that, the ability to program microcontrollers is still a superpower and if you can have it, you have a hell of an edge.
Tariffs are one thing but threatening to annex Canada, calling them the worst and making up fake reasons for the tariffs.

A sensible discussion can be made on tariffs and why smaller countries may need them to protect against economies of scale but the rest is nonsense that creates anger.
> The thing I don't get is that if Canada became part of the US, Republicans would never hold power again. Don't they know that?

Trump was asked[0] about that and gave a rambling answer about artificial borders, beautiful landmasses, and conservative candidates, without answering the question.

I think the truth is that he doesn't know how the world works, and he has gotten away with being a bs artist failing upwards his whole life.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJw9hhnjKI0
I've had a similar experience where Dutch surnames were translated from English to Dutch by Excel for some reason. Since many Dutchman have a surname prefixed with the Dutch word "van" (which means "of") Excel dutifully translated it to "Busje", which meant that many of our clients suddenly were called "Lieke Busje Lexmond" or "Vincent Busje Gogh".

It got a chuckle from our marketing department which caught the error before badges were printed for the very high-profile event we had planned for the next day.
I was mainly referring to phrases such as "billions of scientists" - the point of science is to solve problems and discover knowledge. If you have an AI good enough to achieve that (billions of scientists), that means it can probably progress without being actively driven by people at all - and probably do a better job at it too.

We can still do things "for fun", but our efforts will be more toys than serious projects (except when it comes to relationships with other people).
What do you think about RFA?
It’s more a bellwether or symptom of a flaw where the context becomes poisoned and continually regurgitates the same thought over and over.
> Sure he would. Today we'd call James a strawman. A narrative fiction intended to argue against the author so that the author can pre-emptively debunk any argument from the actual audience.

It's apparent from Paul's letters that his audience knew who the leaders in Jerusalem were (James, Peter, John), and had contact with them or their followers. He is writing letters responding to some issue(s) a particular group is having. Such as whether Paul was a proper apostle like those who new Jesus when he was alive.

As such, there's no reason to think Paul could get away with creating a fictional leader and family member after Jesus's death. The people he's writing to would know better.
I live in Canada and I have no idea what you are talking about with regards to the Canadian economy being in tatters. Perhaps you should be paying closer attention to the actual media.

Your reality check comment is giving me hardcore "Fake News" vibes but I'll lave it at that.
The former de facto status of the US unilingual nature, even with its soft acceptance of Spanish here and there, is so far from Canada's official bilingualism it's not even in the realm of comparison.

And not anywhere close to what would be tolerable for Canada's francophone population, and especially Quebec which would simply immediately begin separation.
That they use emojis…
SwiftMCP: Expose Swift functions as powerful MCP tools for AI assistants
Imagine how chaotic the world would be if all world leaders behaved like this.

President Xi: "we're going to take Hawaii and nuke Texas. JK jk. Or maybe not lol".

That's the timeline where everything turns to glass.
I think there’s any number of ways to reword that without using passive aggressive remarks and accusing other people of venting when you’ve been driven to venting in response. Something as simple as “keep your venting off the mailing lists in future” is short to the point and gets the same message across without resorting to personal insults.
Security in the US is an euphemism for all that. Linguistically it works like, "defense."
Context: https://comb.io/osyksW
Brown green card holders have it worst, but white, native-born US citizens are fucked too. The agent can decide you look Mexican to him; the agent can decide you're not sufficiently enthusiastic about Trump.

And if there's no due process for non-citizens, there's no due process for citizens either. That congress is allowing this to happen is deeply, deeply fucked.
I could not find the actual criticism in that article. What's the problem with MCP again? It's the first standard for agents.
ObservableTypes: Rendering-aware data structures for JavaScript/TS/HTML/RML
Adding the Git hash is reproducible, assuming you build from a clean tree (which the build script can check). Embedding the current date and time is the canonical cause of non-reproducibility, but that can be worked around in most cases by embedding the commit and/or author date of the commit instead.
Ah ok, that explains it.
I've thought about this a lot, and I think that part of what hurts Erlang/Elixir adoption is the scale of the OTP. It brings a ton of fantastic tools, like supervision trees, process linking, ETS, application environments & config management, releases, and more. In some ways it's closer to adopting a new OS than a new programming language.

That's what I love about Elixir, but it means that selling it is more like convincing a developer who knows and uses CSV to switch to Postgres. There's a ton of advantages to storing data in a relational DB instead of flat files, but now you have to define a schema up front, deal with table and row locking, figure out that VACUUM thing, etc.

When you're just setting out to learn a new language, trying to understand a new OS on top hurts adoption.
The Pacific's graveyard: The $20T fight over who controls the seabed
I'd love to hear why WASM now has more promise than Java 1.x.

Java's subsequent development was driven by enterprise/containers (mainly Oracle), and the VM has stayed relevant for 30 years by incorporating dozens of advances in machine and programming models. Both successful and lamentable.

If WASM (i.e., the loose collection of organizations driving it) could do it better than Java, wouldn't Java (with all its resources and organization) have already done it?

The answer has to lie in unsustainable or limiting technical decisions. What exactly are the design decisions WASM made to make it seem like it would escape becoming Java-like?
Thanks, I'll give it a try! I also see in "Help" there is a "Troubleshoot".
I too live in Florida and follow the news. Our government, yes, but I don't get the same vibe blaming Floridians for this shame. If anything there's embarrassment. FWIW it'll be Floridians who'll pay the price in myriad ways (higher taxes, fewer jobs, even fewer services).
That article seems to miss the point by being incurious about _why_ there is hype around MCP instead of LangChain, LangGrah, SmolAgents, LlamaIndex, etc.

We've had tool call frameworks before, but we haven't had a way of making tools that our clients actually talked to. There was no way to build tools that other people could download and run locally without getting them to switch to a client that baked those tools in. It's like the difference between static linking and dynamic linking, but for tool calls.
The Turkish government doesn't care about this kind of stuff. If Turkish agents black-bagged anyone in the US, it'd be either Gulen or a Kurdish separatist.

(Michael Flynn discussed black-bagging Gulen as a favor to Erdogan during the first Trump administration, but that proposal went nowhere [0,1]).

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41947451 ("Ex-Trump aide Mike Flynn 'offered $15m by Turkey for Gulen'" (2017))

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/jury-convicts-flynn-... ("Jury Convicts Flynn Intel Group Founder of Conspiring to Act as an Undisclosed Agent of Turkey" (2019))
I like ndjson and jsonl just fine, but unless I need a more complicated structure, it's not worth the extra hassle of parsing JSON.
That's a point in Google's favor but it's not really what "network effect" (traditionally) means.

Network effect is a specific term about the increasing utility of a service as more people use compatible services, it's explicitly about users other than yourself.

You're describing something more like having an integrated ecosystem a la Apple's walled garden where things work great with other Apple products (notification hand off etc).
I really like this one, it basically learned that "first country" is "this country", and "second country" is the "other country".
I'm not saying there is a centralised force - I didn't say the government per se. Its enough to say many of the models coming out of China - the AI portion isn't their main income source especially for the major models that people are hyping up (Qwen, DeepSeek, etc). This model (Qwen) from Alibaba is a side model more likely complimenting their main business and cloud offerings. DeepSeek started as a way to use AI for trading models firstly; then spun up on the side. I'm more speaking about China's general position - for them AI seems to be more of a compliment than the main business as compared say to the major AI labs in America (ex Google). My opinion is that robotics in particular just extends that going forward.

Given as you say the long term cost of AI models is marginally zero, I don't think this is a bad position to be in.
I promise you, despite whatever you've read or polls you've seen, Americans do not "largely support" going to war with Canada.
Associate of cultlike 'Zizians' hums song as he enters plea in Vallejo slaying
Any chance you can provide an invite?
I feel like that article doesn't really live up to its title. At the end, its basic point is that MCP isn't a magic bullet (I don't think anyone claimed it was?) and that it has a lot of hype. It also makes it clear why MCP is good (ie don't need to rely on LangChain). Feels like its title should be "Why MCP is a Good Step but Doesn't Solve Agents" or something. But then, it wouldn't enable the millenial urge to use "shit".
Ah, yes. A famously fast process!
I have a colleague who is still pissed off about Google Reader. Nobody cares. The happy days of fun times with Google Labs in 2005 are the equivalent of my dad missing his 1965 Firebird when I was high school. 60% of the audience here doesn’t even know what you’re talking about.

If you’re doing serious work in a fast mover space and are refusing to understand a major player, you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage.
Why don't we remember being a baby?
Put `ignore-scripts=true` in your .npmrc
That makes Google and Microsoft the winners then. It's not out yet but once Microsoft manages to fully catch to the state of the art in LLM, OpenAI wo't be needed and that will definitely be the final nail in the coffin for them
The counterpoint is that the vast majority of people will do their best to avoid food poisoning (among other things). The logic behind the emergency policies that apply to outbreaks have little to nothing in common with mundane day to day operations.

What's the actual incidence rate when informed people ingest raw milk on a regular basis over a long period?
"...a group of computer programmers and devout vegans who split away from the Bay Area’s rationalist community, which focuses on improving human cognition and studying the dangers of artificial intelligence..."
Can't be. "It was launched by Anthropic back in November 2024," about MCP
Rocket development seems more of a matter of capital than anything so it's hard to take this critique seriously. Good for them.
It goes further, too. The Canada-annex stuff has been repeated by non-Trump figures, in official diplomatic capacity. Sometimes they try to walk it back in tone, but never in substance.

Were it not for the brutal disparity of power, the American ambassador would already be expelled. That's what would happen if this kind of thing were happening between any other two nations.
Collapse OS is fully self-hosting. Once you have such a system, you can improve it and deploy it elsewhere from within. But yes, your initial deployment will come from a POSIX machine. This is why I talk about two stages of collapse.
Even if Trump started out saying he wants to annex Canada for those reasons, his mental state is such that by repeating it he will convince himself to support it for its own sake.
You are categorically mistaken and lack a true understanding of these things.

You are warned before you are outright banned. It shows up in the logs if you actually set that up properly.

It only appears like they cut you off because you ignore the things professionals pay attention to. Allowing an amateur to create and impose a problem and loss for other business is beyond stupid.

If you lack the expertise and context, you have no business dictating how things ought to be, and rabble rousing is vile.
“The first time as a tragedy, and the second time as a farce”