skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It comes from the future production of the countries, the exact thing the spending is meant to boost.

If the 800bn creates more than 800bn in (time-adjusted) future productivity, it pays for itself. If not, it was a bad investment.
Feels like an issue that could be approached with a randomized trial, assigning some "high-tech" schools (every student gets a laptop) and some "low-tech" schools (mostly paper-based), to get a better idea of whether ed-tech is a cause of the decline.

I think the problem with inferring conclusions from the pandemic is that there are a huge number of other factors involved, like being largely stuck at home and with less-direct teacher supervision. It's unclear whether the suggested low-tech alternative ("sending kids [...] art kits, building blocks and engaging picture books, instead of $1,000 laptops") would've fared better under the circumstances; to me it doesn't seem adequate for teaching the bulk of material that students would need to know, and at the point where you're mailing out worksheets and textbook chapters I think you'd have the same if not worse problems with engagement (Only get to contact teacher by mail? Even more isolated from classmates?).
Erwtensoep is called pea soup in English.

Actually this canal used to be a stinking city sewer and was less murky green than fecal brown for most of its 2000 year existence.

The fish came back when the sewage was removed in the last 35 years. The green color is from the healthy algal soup.

The stench in the summer was so bad that for hundreds of years the rich build beautiful country houses and castles in the woods east of the town.

https://www-quest-nl.translate.goog/maatschappij/geschiedeni...
Why is gender involved in this again?

Ah, the Guardian.

Where normally it should be data and general journalism that brings these issues to light, but we live in a age now where "reporters" take their “emerging and growing problem” list from Netflix?

Who is representing who at this point? Are the public involved at all, or is just media companies and other corps versus each other?

edit: after a little research, the writer of this article is the same person shilling for Corps to force everyone back the office: Martha Gill https://www.reddit.com/r/WFH/comments/14op9cq/the_guardian_j...
If there were a large number of contiguous commands that you could run in isolation, I’d agree. But it looks like four commands is the most you could chain together, and they depend on other tasks’ output, so I don’t see a lot of benefit to pulling them out into a shell script.
You steer ChatGPT 3.5 model to find the handlers HashMap issue that it didn’t find initially, but you dismiss the other models for not immediately recognizing it?
Good think Trump is running a kleptocracy and the corporate overlords can just buy them like trump's 5 million dollar citizen card.
The first is a bug in the compiler, the second is a bug in your code.
ai took away the fun of coding but it's impossible not to use it now that i've opened pandora's box. fortunately i don't have the identity problem. you shouldn't base your identity on your job. my problem is more like, "this isn't as much fun to do anymore"
The two models combined account for half of all iPhone sales. And nobody refers to them as anything but iPhones.

It is not just technically wrong to say “the iPhone doesn’t support a thing” when it the statement only applies to a fraction of the product line and actual user experience.
Please tell me that next you've written an Excel file with macros etc. to explain why you should be allowed to play EvE Online at 3 in the morning?
They don't roll over to the next 16 on playback automatically, which makes this very awkward.
I unfortunately don't know much other than knowing that SOME community colleges [ like this: https://www.hccfl.edu/academics/subjects/engineering/electro... ] offer intro classes (you need to know some calculus and if you are into robotics, very likely need to use SOME of linear algebra) related to EE/ME.

You may find some YouTube channels that teaches you ways to play with breadboard, but again, like I said, it (playing around with "cool/fun" toys) is different than taking classes required to finish a four-year degree.

Best wishes for your learning journey!
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them
If you are doing something where going over ARG_MAX is a real possibility it would be better to write your scripts to avoid the problem altogether rather than awkwardly try to detect it wit ha bonus exploit. For example, many commands can accept a list of files on standard input or from a list file.
"Best tech" in a general sense doesn't really mean anything, since it depends on use-cases
Yes, it has tons of regulation which at least from my experience is very difficult to implement. I used to work for a company that basically barely knew what info they stored about anyone; and they also had long relationships with tons of clients. It was virtually impossible to follow GDPR in that company, but for some reason they wanted to show everyone that they were "best in class", since they handled a lot of financial info etc. It basically just ended up with some fancy web-pages proclaiming that we were serious about GDPR, but nothing else materialized.

The cookie-banner just seems like a very strange "security" measure; but GDPR seems very strange as far as I can tell. It was sparked by the "forget me" campaign a few years ago I guess, and most people probably agree with the intent, but it has led to very strange set of rules.
As an alternative to Reddit, there is also a Lemmy community called "Buy European": https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean
Some more details from the general press: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250321_21/
Just make sure you’re using a relatively new version of Podman, v3 had some issues with sockets on Debian and CentOS
should the matrix-multiplication at the core of this not be in a core library? Why are generic layers intermixed with LLM-specific kernels when the generic layers are duplicating functionality in torch?

Upstreaming that might actually help researchers doing new stuff vs. the narrow demographic of people speeding LLMs on MI300X's.
Apple Documentation Archive
On the topic of Ayn Rand, I read the Fountainhead, and as I remember it, it was rebelling against tyranny and groupthink, and the recurring themes were how powerful elites and mass media villified free thinkers, by promoting obviously bad architecture, while ridiculing the work of the protagonist. They pretended to defend the common man, while actively working against him.
Ultimately, the owner of a news paper tried to be sincere and support the protagnist, but was destroyed by the masses, thus suggesting that a frenzied crowd can be hard to turn around.

In other words, the book is relevant even today.
I.e. it might be very hard for Democrats to start a revolution, because their voter base is as complicit as they are, in the corrupt scheme to enrich themselves.

I tried reading Atlas Shrugged but failed to finish it and can't remember a word of it. Perhaps the two works are in different categories.

If you read both works, I'd be happy to hear your comments.
I guess it was inevitable. Any philosophy oriented toward a better tomorrow eventually accrues passionate evangelists, and with enough groundswell verges on becoming a movement, often manifesting at least one cult or political party in the process.
Federal employees cost less than 5% of the fed budget which is $6000B. So if you lay off 10% of employees you are effectively reducing the budget by like $30B which leaves $5970B left.

Laying off employees will not help federal government debt or budget.
I don’t feel LLMs are the good tool for that. It’s nice to have something that behaves as if it understood my requests and business model, but we need reproducibility, otherwise it’s too unpredictable.

I also don’t like English as a language to express requirements, it’s not strict enough and depends too much on an implicit context. Whatever high-level abstraction we end up with it cannot be something that results in the wrong implementation because the agent incorrectly read the tone of the exchange.
> the main idea right now seems to be massive amounts of debt, which can get very ugly in the long run

The economy, unlike one's personal finances, is a circle. Unless the Europeans buy abroad, all that money is going to stay in Europe, circulating and stimulating the economy.

Even if it's "only" arms, spending it to maintain industry is way better than many alternatives. Manufacturing infrastructure and lots of skilled jobs and workers, sounds good to me to have.

"Debt" is just a number, and if you are in a strong enough position you can always change policies around the purely virtual "money".

Finance/money is supposed to be the virtual control system, and the real world thing it is supposed to help to steer is everything real and what we actually care about. In all other areas we would never accept that the control system becomes the target!! The target is always the real thing, and we will adjust the control system to achieve the desired outcomes.

Not so with finance! It has taken on a life of its own, and the vast majority of people will gladly and unthinkingly subordinate the real world to its whims. Something that makes at least a little bit of sense for the individual makes no sense for the economy though.

We have people in charge who know all and care about the control system first of all, the real world outcomes be damned. If the control system says we need high unemployment and homelessness and less high paying jobs there is nothing we can do, because the purely virtual human-invented finance system is the god. But hey, religion has been on the decline for a long time at least in the modern world, right (/s)?

> which can get very ugly in the long run

Only when the people in charge think like described.
Suggestion for adding it is here, basically they were skeptical there are use-cases for it:

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2283
That's cool, but what I want is an ROV that will let me prowl around a lake or stream or the ocean and see what's in there.

Of course, not getting snagged on something is a problem, as is losing power, as is murkiness, but I'm not gonna build the thing -- I just want to use it.

I wanna see what's/who's down there!
Without actually knowing, i'd guess that would generate bytecode's that could be modified later by patching the resulting binary ?

I remember few buddies using similar pattern in ASM that just added n NOP's into code to allow patching and thus eliminating possible recompilation..
warm up the stack ? (no idea to be honest)
I'm pretty sure this article is bait

I fell for it too though so
This is a huge change. These kinds of boycotts and protests usually barely impact sales. The Bud Light boycott had a relatively strong impact on sales, resulting in a 26% decrease in in-store sales in the US. The effect on Tesla seems to be way bigger, and it's not limited to only US sales.

Another prominent example of a global boycott is Nike during the 1990s, but despite the widespread coverage, their revenue actually continued to grow.

A 35% sales drop is pretty crazy.
> The news cycle should be orthogonal to your opinions on such matters. It shouldn't form them. A good acid test is to ask yourself if you had an opinion on something before it appeared in the news. If not, be very wary of the opinion that you adopt.

The thing is - a lot of actually very important topics got swept under the rug for a loooong time. Let's just take gay people for example. Up until the late 90s, gays got routinely beaten up by police, called "pedophiles"... hell it took until 2011 until open gays could serve in the military. That all only changed due to widespread outrage (and a few constitutional courts reinterpreting constitutional wording).
Design by committee, the outcome is usually not what the people on the trenches would like to get.
While it's not exactly a military declaration, Trump said during the joint session to Congress, "One way or the other, we’re going to get it" in reference to Greenland.
GP is orking off the assumedly common premise of peopel raising complaints of metrics and getting shrugs from management or Product. Who have their own incentives to keep them up.

if you can't throw out the game you may as well adjust the rules.
My favorite is that luggage with wheels was invented in 1972. The tech was there already. We just waited for somebody to invent it.
Because the average consumer has zero way to judge the quality of a printer or the likelihood of them doing something like this, either now or in the future (considering how well this turned out for HP, there's no reason why their competitors wouldn't try doing the same thing).
No.

Your app might gamify speech practice, but it overlooks crucial elements: nuanced human judgment, emotional rapport, and adaptive interpersonal communication. Speech therapists don’t just correct sounds; they navigate psychological nuances, adjust dynamically based on subtle cues, and foster genuine motivation through trust. AI might imitate, but can’t authentically replicate this.

Parents wary of therapy’s cost and engagement issues might initially bite, but sustained improvement demands personalised professional insight. Edtech and AI thrive as complements, not replacements.

Reframe your positioning clearly as a supplemental practice tool, not a replacement for professional therapy, or risk selling parents a mirage.
Mapy.com
Czech google maps alternative mapy.cz is rebranding itself as mapy.com for the global market.
I used to watch a show called Connections. Things can exist in other fields that cross over and make other fields absolutely ignite with interesting possibilities.

SpaceX is taking existing tech and rebuilding it up from ground up principles. It is the method they are applying to all of his businesses. Get something working. Then go back and throw everything out until it stops working. Then put that thing back. Then throw out more. The idea is if you still work perfectly fine without something you did not need it. Following the optimization method of 'the most optimal thing is the thing that is not there.' It is what took Tesla from a bespoke 1-5 cars per year company to the capability to build thousands per week. It is a brutal painful process that works.
The C alternative for the hardware "halt and catch fire" instruction?
If they want to get American debt under control why did they fire a bunch of people at the IRS such that it's predicted we will see half a trillion in fresh losses to tax cheats this season? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-r...
What OS do you primary use? macOS/iOS have this built in globally which is super nice. I can select a word anywhere and pick “Look Up” from the context menu to get the dictionary definition to pop up.
iPhone + Firefox, can't hear anything, moving along, sorry ...
Also, genes pass down to your kids, compared to fingerprints which are just cca unique for each of us. What a terrible thing to (unknowingly) do to them. Gattaca and all.

When I first heard about them and similar services, the potential for abuse was the first thing that came to my mind. I am not paranoid in any way and those were easy times compared to now. Still, I prefer not knowing my ancestry than this.

And ancestry for Europeans is not such a hot topic, you just need to look at a bit of history of continent and its civilizations and get the idea.
Sorry, what exactly could (a is) someone doing with my fingerprints?
American gov was built with checks and balances. Eroding those is destroying American government. Yes, maybe it's just you.
1972 is the answer to the question on the lips of everybody too busy to look at the source files.
yes, just like almost every other group that voted for it. It's wrong to single out farmers for this.
You can use buildah(shell, python, etc) or nix to create OCI images.

This has nothing to do with docker.
Do paywalls work?
>Honestly, Trump has said so many things that you can probably find everything and the opposite of everything coming out of his mind.

I think he's been pretty consistent on the issue of European defense spending, actually. In any case, if Trump is inconsistent, that itself can be considered a warning -- that sometimes the US elects inconsistent presidents.

>I also think such an abrupt change of mind from the US hurts both sides and nobody earns anything from it.

Nothing short of this "abrupt change" has been successful in getting Europe to take responsibility for its own security. As I said, US presidents have been complaining about this for ages. I hope you finally listen, because my enthusiasm for defending Europe (as an American and a registered Democrat even) is currently quite low: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43459774

>nuclear umbrella from France towards other European countries

We'll see if France actually commits to that, or if it is all talk. If Nation A extends its nuclear umbrella over Nation B, that basically means that Nation A is putting its own cities at risk in case of nuclear retaliation, for the sake of Nation B. As an American, it sort of boggled my mind when I learned that we were putting our own cities at risk for the sake of our allies this way.

And it seems that Europe's way of thanking us is to make fun of our healthcare system, accuse us of the non-crime of "cultural imperialism", etc... See what I'm saying about enthusiasm to defend you guys? Something needs to change in the relationship.
I wish Musk had stayed out of politics. I still think his companies have done more good than harm.
The EV6 is the other car I've been thinking about, actually. I'm going to need to test-drive both some weekend we're not busy with the work on the new house.
> I sure hope those “smart” people are capable of understanding that.

Well, NOAA can be privatized, sold off to the highest bidder and be fed money from the annual government to provide said critical infrastructure.

In the end, it's always one giant ass grift.
Oh, my bad, and TIL. I thought vibe coding is the trendy way of saying you're using LLM based code in tools like aider/cline/cursor/windsurf...

edit:

So I did a quick google, apparently it's this:

> Vibe coding is an AI-dependent programming technique where a person describes a problem in a few sentences as a prompt to a large language model (LLM) tuned for coding. The LLM generates software, shifting the programmer’s role from manual coding to guiding, testing, and refining the AI-generated source code.[1][2][3] Vibe coding is claimed by its advocates to allow even amateur programmers to produce software without the extensive training and skills previously required for software engineering.[4] The term was introduced by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025[5][2][4][1] and listed in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the following month as a "slang & trending" noun.[6] (from wiki)

So ... now I'm confused again. I don't see the no testing / reviewing part in here. Is vibe coding the new AGI, where everyone has a different definition?
I think it's not so much that people like complexity itself, but it's a result of punting on decisions and failure to make tradeoffs and design decisions.

Instead of writing something that does one thing and does it well, people write something that can run in four different modes, and is configurable via a yaml file, and can load plugins to change the behavior, and isn't a finished/standalone product but a "framework" that can be configured into a product...

A lot of it just comes from punting on bulletproof designs too, like some code that works 99% of the time, but every now and then it fails due to some problem like a race condition or a deadlock. So... instead of fixing it, someone wraps that layer with something that will retry N times, and N is configurable, and then every now and then it fails N times in a row so even with the retries it fails, and then people are like "we should increase the N configuration parameter!", and then other times it just sits there retrying all day and people want to know why it's stuck, turns out its still retrying "oh no, we should decrease N, so it fails early and someone can fix it, and we should add monitoring and telemetry and alerting so we can see when its in a retry loop!"

In this scenario, there is no good value for N, so it just shouldn't exist, the right answer is to fix race condition/deadlock so it just works every time.
Yes it seems like this is something to do with hardware testing. Maybe memory or registers or something that needed just X bytes etc for overflows or something. It’s really random and the only person who would know it is the one who wrote it :)
I suspect that’s it.

There was a lot of self-modification, going on, in those days. Old machine language stuff had very limited resources, so we often modified code, or reused code space.
The CosmicOS message has multiple possible encodings, including base 4 representations shown below (e.g. the message starts with 121001031211132233...). The very first page contains glyphs corresponding their compact graphic representations. I think there was some description about these, but I couldn't find them so I will just recall my understanding here. The base 4 representation uses four symbols 0--3, which are derived from textual tokens:

---

12 (0|1)+ 3 -- Names. A particular name `xxx` is only available after the `intro xxx;` declaration. Note that the name `intro` itself is the first token ever and never explicitly defined.

02 (0|1)+ 3 -- Binary numbers. Note that unary numbers used initially are encoded using a special function "unary" with ordinary binary numbers 0 (0203) and 1 (0213) as bits.

2 without preceding 0 or 1 -- Opening parenthesis.

3 without preceding 0 or 1 -- Closing parenthesis.

023 -- Auto-closing opening parenthesis, denoted `|` in the textual form. `(a | b | c d)` is same as `(a (b (c d)))`.

123 -- Single-item parentheses, denoted `$` in the textual form. `$x` means `(x)` and typically used in variable getters.

2233 -- Marks the end of the current expression. Each expression in the CosmicOS message should evaluate to true.

---

Now, keep in mind that every name is effectively a specially marked number. I think each line segment in glyphs corresponds to a particular bit position, and numbers have short overline and underline to distinguish themselves from names.
> I don't want to shoulder risk for people who despise me

They don't despise you. They dislike your government.

> What I don't like is the notion that the US has a special obligation to protect Ukraine.

Sure, it doesn't. But you don't think that appeasing an expansionist Russia might run contrary to America's interests?

> You're saying that you don't like how antitrust is practiced in the US? Why is that any of your business?

Because how antitrust is practiced in the US has global effects. Why wouldn't it be our business?

> If you're going to complain about Elon Musk commenting on German elections, why is it your place to complain about how antitrust law works in the US?

Yeah, the influence of a random commenter on HN is comparable to the owner of one of the worlds largest social networks. Come on.

> Yet somehow when Americans do the same, and comment on European policies regarding e.g. immigration, Europeans flip out.

Generally, we tend to be better informed about American issues than vice versa, due to the global reach of US media. I'm not saying Europeans are perfectly informed, I've seen some dumb as fuck takes, but on average it certainly skews one way.