skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL; DR: Printing the book is a waste of energy but we're going to do it anyway.

Do they factor in the amount of energy they spent picking this tiny nit, which could have been spent on more productive things like reducing car and aircraft use, or campaigning to make sure the democrats put up a good, centrist candidate next time and America returns to fighting global warming ?
I Beat Jealousy with an EMDR Therapist
If the US wants more income to deal with the debt/deficit (to fund more tax cuts), then discouraging filing is not a good idea. Also, these folks would pay into Social Security but cannot collect, so they are actually subsidizing Americans.

See also:

> Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z, or on Schedule C (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity.

* https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2024_publink1000...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_of_illegal_income_in_...
people back then with the same exact mindset: "what could they possibly do with just my fingerprints?"

im just afraid of the unknown. now its useless but how about after another 5/10 years?
Same here - it's really quite something. The future is looking good!

That being said, there are currently still some hurdles. Necessity for explicit file-extensions in the imports is definitely the big offender (it's invalid typescript syntax without the allowImportingTsExtensions-flag).

The trend is definitely clear though, most devs want ESM, most devs want types; it's just a matter of time until the ecosystem adapts. I suppose for types to finally land in the browser, TC39 will have to undergo the "progress is one funeral at a time"-principle, which will probably take another while.
Caddy/Envoy all the way
For ball-to-ball collisions, 6 is already a highly conservative estimate-- this is basically a chaotic system (outcome after a few iterations, while deterministic, is extremely sensitive to exact starting conditions).

The error scales up exponentially with the number of (ball-to-ball) collisions.

So if the initial ball position is off by "half a pixel" (=> always non-zero) this gets amplified extremely quickly.

Your intuition about the problem is probably distorted by considering/having experienced (less sensitive) ball/wall collisions.

See:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JehyrC6W3YTtdxw6S/a-primer-o...
And none of them have anything to do with the language. You don't need windows, don't need visual studio, and you can choose whatever font you want.
For privacy reasons, I've already started slowly switching away from US providers before all this insanity happened. I've switched my Email to Proton (Swiss), cloud files to Filen (German), most LLM usage to Mistral (French), and search to Ecosia (German). [Edit: I've now switched to Mojeek; see comments below.]

But in the past two weeks, I've done the things I've previously put off because they require real work. I've set up a NAS and switched all of the remaining things. I'm now using Immich for photo hosting, Vaultwarden for passwords, Hoarder for bookmarking, and a self-hosted Standard Notes instance for note-taking, to-do lists, and saving articles for later reading.

I'm super happy with this setup. Immich, in particular, is absolutely fantastic; its default face recognition model works better than Google Photos, at least for me. Once you've set it up, you can log your family into the same NAS and have them use it, too.
I was definitely too hopeful with my "will". My personal prediction aligns with your own, but again I'm not that sure of my predictions
Why, exactly? Cloud providers don't pay per GB themselves, since they make their own peering agreements, and the only reason we users end up paying $/GB in transfer is because people end up paying for that premium when companies offer it.

It doesn't have to be like that, and it seems like this provider agrees with the idea of not upselling $/GB transfer costs, since they themselves don't pay it like that either.

I'm curious to see how it goes, as others mentioned, they're not the first (nor will be the last) to offer this no-nonsense pricing scheme.
I'm disappointed there's no legislation yet that bans these practices wholesale (vendor lock-in, wasteful and overpriced ink cartridges, etc). There's a range of consumer products with scummy practices like this, like razors, printers, vapes/e-cigarrettes, etc. They generate huge amounts of e-waste.
> Farmers as a class are not stupid

Yet in my lifetime I have seen them consistently go or vote against their own interests (see Brexit which absolutely gutted British farmers which overwhelmingly voted against
"evil EU rules").
The problem is you are not a malicious actor so you aren't coming up with good scams or truly malicious ideas.

How about scam emails that open by asking people about their family history of some disease with a genetic marker and promising some miracle treatment?

I can think of even worse outcomes depending on how policy on immigration and naturalization shifts
It's often also not about the ethical, "vibe-based" decision.

There are serious consequences that can happen in a trade war.
Digital Services are how the U.S. makes billions of profits from the EU.
In a trade war it is possible that digital services are hit with tariffs as it would hurt the most.

This will not happen with EU products.
It makes entertaining fiction, but in the real world, the ways that can be used to lock you up and discredit you in the public's eye are much more banal. And I doubt they'll get more sophisticated the way things look in the US right now.
No, by arbitrarily shutting down US military hardware on bipolar whims of a single person. You know, ie F'35s costing tens of billions becoming useless in real war very quickly. If a country can't protect its airspace its game over. Or by throwing whole Ukraine under the bus. Or by stating US won't protect NATO allies if they don't contribute 2,3,5% or whatever is the current number du jour. Or invading its closest allies... how fucked up is that, tell it to anybody a decade ago and you would get laughed at for being a conspiracy crank.

NSA findings are an afterthought in all this, we talk about existential threats with literal sworn enemy at our doors right now willing to capture, murder and steal all it can and stating it semi-constantly.
At first I thought it was about the biologist Arp Schnittger: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=tvLQFnwAAAAJ&hl=en
Yes, pretty much. To be fair, C at this point was basically BCPL with slightly different syntax (and better char/string support). The introduction of structs (and then longs) changed it forever.
> how we can ever become independent of Microsoft

Guess it depends on the context? If you need to run Windows Servers and run Microsoft services then well, you're better off with Microsoft, most likely.

But for other workloads, it won't matter what the client software is, but again, really depends on the context.
That's what 23andMe thought too.
> Pretty sure that I’m really the only person that cares about it.

Even if you don't get any useful organic traffic, I find having a technical blog is useful so that when you do go to interviews or submit resumes, hirers can read your blog and quickly establish that you know what you are talking about.
Did Europe not have tariffs before Trump?
Well, there’s still a lot of 2D games. And, for many games, it’s probably the right choice.
Yes, 2-3 years is an eternity but the chip industry can recover.

Chinese buy all their chips from Qualcomm (Android phones), Nvidia (gimped GPUs), Intel, AMD. But Chinese companies can't take their own designs to TSMC and make chips smaller than 7nm. That's the problem for them. They've begun to invest heavily into their own chip fabs and EUV machines.

On point 3, China wants Taiwan regardless of whether TSMC gets blown up in the process or not. Ideally, China doesn't have to fire a single missile at Taiwan. But if they have to blow up Taiwan/TSMC, they'd do it. Chip manufacturing is not as important as integrating Taiwan into China, to China.
>In a nutshell, you know as well as I do that if someone sends you a PR with thousands of changed lines and dozens of changed files, you’re more likely to “LGTM” than spend hours trying to get through it.

I think he's right that this is a common attitude, but that attitude drives me nuts.

If someone sends me a huge PR with thousands of lines, I definitely do not just blindly approve it and would be furious if that was happening on my team.

If the PR is too big to review, then push back and insist on splitting it up into more manageable pieces.[0] Sometimes PRs have to be enormous, but that should happen rarely on a normal codebase.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/human-code-reviews-2/#look-for-opportunit...
0.001 is infinitely more than 0, and yet it's a far way off from 1. Call me when we've reached 0.2 at least.

Back with N64 or C compilers, we didn't talk about energy requirements on the level of small countries and billions of dollars to even compete with the status quo. You're like one of those guys in the fifties, thinking it'll only be a few more years until we're all commuting in flying cars powered by nuclear reactors.
That's because most US-made cars barely fit in many streets and parking spaces around here.
FBI scales back staffing, tracking of domestic terrorism probes, sources say
Europe has cutting edge domestic military tech in almost all relevant categories but don't build enough of it to matter because until recently their people and governments haven't taken defense seriously.

Europe doing so now is good for America because it reduces the risk of Americans once again dying in yet another European war.
Ecosia is just Bing and Google though [1], so basically American and not German.

It looks like they're planning to build a European index with Qwant [2], but their help pages still say they're on Bing and Google so I guess nothing materialized yet.

[1]: https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/579-search-results-...

[2]: https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/
Sometimes documentation is preferred source of truth, especially when multiple implementations exist. For example when you're writing code for POSIX API, you don't want to tie your code to glibc specific implementation, portable code is the whole point of POSIX.
First, the difference is much smaller: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/economic-bulletin/focus/2024...

And most "productivity" stats use GDP as a proxy for the productiveness of output, which is of course biased with the aforementioned overvaluation - the fact that in the US a burger costs $25 with tax and tips included, but 15 euros in France doesn't mean that a US server and cook are more productive.

And in any case, that is relevant in an EU to Soviet Union comparison how exactly?
A bunch of markets trying to recreate products is going to eventually work out for some of them on the same basis that disruptive startups that just brought things into freemium succeeded.. Many things would benefit from a rewrite and succeed to capture a larger market at a lower cost than where they ended up over the years.
Oh also, it says "multiple studies have indicated that a high plasma choline level is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease", but I wonder why it does not apply to CDP-Choline (Citicoline) since it does increase plasma choline level, too, but perhaps not as highly? I am not sure of the exact mechanisms.
Haskell: everything is a function
Yeah, this is definitely possible (and I'd bet the CIA et al already have this capability)
I think STACKIT is worth watching. They are owned by Schwarz Group, the largest european retailer, and seem to be on a significant growth path with major investment and commitment from the parent company.
It's not a conspiracy. That's what we call a startup. You've never heard of airborne dna data collection? Go cry into your pillow :)

Reality is always so much more extreme than the conspiracies. Conspiracy theorists lack the minds to imagine half this stuff.
Why AI won't take over the world [pdf]
This doesn't quite match the rhetoric of the current US government though, does it?

Listening to them one could think the US is on the brink of collapse unless some 'strong leader' steps in and 'makes America great again'.
Very cool, almost all of the API platforms offering API abstractions can now offer one MCP server to connect to all of the existing API integrations. It's very interesting to see how things will progress from here. One example is Zapier released their own MCP server (https://zapier.com/mcp). How the adoption will grow over time is very interesting to see, vendors such as GitHub will provide their own official MCP or the community will kick in and will support the integration + documentation generators might as well generate the MCP server. Great work!
Trying to parse a comment where someone implies that nationalism and racism are bad but also that ""woke"" (diluted into meaninglessness by over use) is .. also bad?
Yes. They run their own OS and app store, Nebula had an app there, and this ban relates to that.

More on the story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/180yuw0/the_lg_tv_c...
Wow. It looks like they forgot to add one. I'm a bit surprised that GitHub permits creating new public repos without explicitly tagging a license file.
If you're French, it's Clément Ader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9ment_Ader
I'm honestly disappointed how OpenAPI keeps being used over and over as documentation, and extremely rarely as what it excels at, which is specification.

We build all kinds of frameworks with routing and request/response validation, and then extract that into OpenAPI format, ofteng having to jump through hoops to adapt our internal data types and structures into those supported by JSON Schema. Instead, we could be doing the opposite: writing the OpenAPI spec first, and use tooling to make routing and validation based on it in an automated way. That has been done before [0] [1], but we're still just scratching the surface of what is possible.

Yes, I am aware that it's not easy to manually write the specs using JSON or even YAML, but we need a better focus on tooling around it; currently only Stoplight [2] gives a solid level of support in that area.

[0] https://connexion.readthedocs.io

[1] https://pyapi-server.readthedocs.io/

[2] https://stoplight.io/
I am not aware of such. My intuition is that it was relatively balanced (taking services into account, where the US is big due to Google, MS, and friends).

But I stand corrected if there are some good sources.
Professor at MIT claims that incoming students are worse at math
> not by HN crowd

Maybe not the HN crowd (though that is debatable, there is no homogenous group here) but a seizable amount of the SV rulers have endorsed him.
I am surprised they still use outdated syntax when there is a standard for modules. Also, it is much better when you specify full path to the file and do not have to remember the resolving rules.

Also, last time I tried to use ESM in a browser with Vue and unpkg without builders and web server, it didn't work (probably because one cannot import modules from a local folder). I wish support for ESM and localhost was improved also. I don't want to use a webserver or a bundler because it is easier without them so I switched to legacy scripts without modules.
NYPD sergeant is suspended over 'spying for the Chinese'
> Simple, right? This copies a file to run a Nginx container as a quadlet and a config into the /etc folder. This brings GitOps to my OS. With this whenever my machine starts, whether for the first time or millionth time, its going to be configured to work exactly as expected with no extra work or additional configuration.

That isn't GitOps. That's immutable file systems. Make it as immutable as you want, that has nothing to do with GitOps. You need the other half of the story, the infrastructure-as-code and the deployment.
It seems like the propellers worked fine.

> On 23 October, Santos-Dumont presented himself at Bagatelle with the Oiseau de Proie II, a modification of the original model. The plane had been varnished to reduce the porosity of the fabric and increase lift. The rear wheel had been removed. In the morning he limited himself to manoeuvring the aircraft across the field, until the propeller shaft broke. It was repaired in the afternoon, and the plane was moved into position for an official attempt. An expectant crowd was present. At 4:45 pm, Santos-Dumont started the engine.[107] The plane lifted off and flew for 60 metres,[26]: 18 without taking advantage of headwinds, ramps, catapults, slopes, or other devices. The flight had taken place solely by the aircraft's own means, and Europeans at the time believed it was the first such achievement.
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act gets repealed. Insurers immediately buy their database and drop you because you’re statistically more likely to get an illness.
No it's still absolutely dominant in the western market - partly because they own a whole load of other brands, and they have absolutely unbeatable distribution. There's a few countries where Pepsi is more dominant. But the only place where a non-Coke/Pepsi soft drink is dominant is Scotland (AG Barr's Irn-Bru and other drinks). I think they even bought out the last other holdout (Peru's Inca-Cola)
Not only that but the "system" has failed to stop his actions, even those it has branded illegal. If the system is deciding that presidents are kings, then America is only as reliable to the rest of us as those it elects as president.
Definitely not for normal users, with an override that requires a terminal command.
I think it's a mistake to think that the tyrannical governments of the future will be sophisticated. The way the trend is going, they will be ever more banal. They're not going to target a virus for you, they're going to knock down your door, shout at you, lock you up or shoot you. They likely won't even bother with having chatgpt write up a pretext for it.

That doesn't mean we can do nothing, but it means withholding information won't matter as much as some people think.
Why we chose LangGraph to build our coding agent
The question "Who invented this?" is most often pointless, because the largest part of the invention is collective. Once the environment is ready, many people can invent on the shoulders of their predecessors.

Without the Wright brothers and Santos Dumont, aviation might have been created a few years later, but, overall, the consequence would have been small.
> While I don't approve, didn't the EU charge the US tariffs that were twice as high as what the US charged the EU?

I'm afraid i'll need the exact sections of the trade agreement document that stipulates these tariffs so that I can compare myself. Otherwise this is hearsay for me.
> GDP then it will grow if you strip out all public services, privatise those and make people pay for it

No it won't, because people won't pay for it. They can't, so to get ahead of your next argument: it doesn't matter how necessary those services are, they can't pay. If doing without means a city dies economically or even if it means people start actually dying then that's what it will mean, not more GDP.

Read about the century before and after Irish potato famine to see an example of just how bad it can get, while still not resulting in GDP growth.

> What even means to improve economically?

Having the ability to do more, on a bigger scale. Think of it this way: there isn't a city on the planet that wouldn't benefit from rebuilding itself (in practice increasing the rate at which it rebuilds itself). Lots of houses, businesses, ... are old and have huge problems that need fixing. Most places could use a lot more houses. And then, there's no shortage of ideas for improvements. Wouldn't you agree it would be great if the London metro had the same density all the way to Birmingham as it has in the center of London? If the New York metro extended into the state? If medical care really was universal, cheap, fast and thorough? If there was a vaguely usable train network in Europe (by which I mean that it would be realistic, and cheap, to use European trains to go from, say, London to Rome)? To say nothing of the fact that in 90% of the world, if you brought people's living standards to Eastern European levels, that would be increasing them. That certainly seems worth doing and requires more economy.

These are extreme and perhaps unrealistic examples, but, yes, that would be economic improvement. And yes, these things would improve nearly everyone's lives.
Yes, truth is, networks have no replacement. At the end of the day, social sites live and die by the circles of people that are there.

One way out of this would be if content creators would en masse upload to multiple sites. Even with preferential treatment for YouTube, this would enable consumers to follow their favorite creators outside of YouTube, and get the same content. Of course, this onus is now on the creators, and I imagine they have enough to manage as it is. So what they would need is a good incentive. But that is people, and as long as they have enough people on YouTube, there is no incentive to diversify. So we're back at the network effect.
>"let's migrate our infra from AWS to X"

We migrated to Scaleway pretty easily and the main argument was that it's easier to conform to EU regulations if all your servers and data are on an European cloud.
That can easily change, though.
There are probably reruns, we'd need to check the grids of the channels running the shows.

Also, this is like any other TV Show: there are X episodes done per year, there are production times, etc. This show has a pipeline like any other show.

And of course, there are important subjects that are a product of their time, for example: wouldn't it make sense to approach the topic of migrant families being torn apart in the USA due to extraditions, because children are going through it now? Or approach parents' unemployment due to government layoffs?
> Go Beyond Compliance

So, even more KYC? Blood sample is required, as well as at least three independent proofs of residence and subscription available only for select cities in the EU?

If we want to compete with the US, we have to fix the main problem with european services: relax regulations, not tighten.
Code typically describes only the what and how. The why is usually left in people’s heads and, if you are lucky, in documentation.
This only works if your API is built on their "Apidog" commercial API building platform. I wonder how this compares to just scraping documentation from a regular documentation website.
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And now look at the tech sector, things might balance out, EU buys software and services USA buys cars and wine.
The impact of lifestyle is undeniable and large. Good genes will not protect your body from alcoholism. And if I were a betting man, I would bet against determinism emerging from a better understanding of combinatorial genetics.

I do think over time we will get a clearer picture of risk predisposition based on your entire genetic profile. However, I believe that genetic predisposion will remain a relatively small contributor for most disease states.
Is selling less product good for US defense companies?