skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While less access to health care and weaker social structures can explain the gap between the wealthy and poor in the US, it doesn't explain the differences between the wealthy in the US and the wealthy in Europe, the researchers note. There may be other systemic factors at play that make Americans uniquely short-lived, such as diet, environment, behaviors, and cultural and social differences."

Off the top of my head, obesity seems like the obvious culprit to investigate. If so, I wonder if semaglutide will close this gap again?
Yes, it's about block scoping — but that doesn't make it less weird. In most languages this doesn't really make sense — a variable is a piece of memory, and a reference refers to it. JavaScript doesn't work like that, and that's weird to many.

What's the mistake that I made there? I just didn't explain why it happens. I briefly mentioned this in the later paragraphs — it makes sense to some people, but not to most.
Pharmaceuticals are exempted at the moment.
Yes, you're talking about getting access via public education. Bill Gates, as a child, had nearly 24/7 personal access to these machines.

Something most professionals didn't even have.
What? The US President has said repeatedly that tariffs are an easy money maker with no adverse side-effects. China is about to experience the boom times just like everyone in the US is now. You heard the US President’s comments about the recent jobs report, right?
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They did, but the rights expired. GKIDS now has the theatrical and home video rights to Studio Ghibli films in the US (except for Grave of the Fireflies).
Fun fact: such "purples" exist for other species. There was a study that found that hummingbirds are more attracted to a color that is a mix of green and ultraviolet (imperceptible to humans, but similar to our concept of "purple"), than just green, violet, or ultraviolet.
Slightly related, I had a go at doing llama 3 inference in luajit using cuda as one compute backend for just doing matrix multiplication

https://github.com/CapsAdmin/luajit-llama3/blob/main/compute...

While obviously not complete, it was less than I thought was needed.

It was a bit annoying trying to figure out which version of the function (_v2 suffix) I have to use for which driver I was running.

Also sometimes a bit annoying is the stateful nature of the api. Very similar to opengl. Hard to debug at times as to why something refuse to compile.
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> It is an indication of US mismanagement that concentrated people can't be served with recharging infrastructure while distributed suburbanites in mcmansions can easily be served.

Um, not really. Almost all houses have 240V lines. It's non-trivial to add a ton of 240V connections into some basement that's barely wired for power.

If it was as non-trivial to do in apartment complexes as it is in houses, this wouldn't be an issue.

This isn't some grand scheme of mismanagement to screw over New Yorkers.
1M revenue isn't that high a bar to clear in retail, just takes one popular/meme product. After all the COGS/fixed costs are tallied up, that could leave you with significantly less with which to contemplate custom development or platform changes.
The Fed charmain just said inflation will pick up. When the economy starts to tank Trump will need somebody to blame, and will blame the high interest rates. The Fed might even have the need to raise rates.

[1] "...The relevant legislation holds that a member of the Federal Reserve board may be “removed for cause by the president”. But in this context, courts have interpreted “for cause” to refer to misconduct or impropriety. The president cannot remove the members of the board purely for policy or political reasons.

However, Trump could attempt to demote Powell from chair to an ordinary member of the Federal Reserve, and put another candidate in charge. Here, there is less of a legal precedent. Previous presidents have always assumed they did not have the power to do this..."

[1] https://theconversation.com/trump-has-threatened-to-fire-the...
Conceptually it was a really simple bug (I was returning a bounding box and it returned (min, min) instead of (min, max)). So, I mean, the amount that AI broke it was pretty minor and it was mostly my fault for not seeing it when I generated it. But you know, if it's messing stuff up when it's generating 4 lines of code I'm not really going to trust it with an entire file, or even an entire function.
Tags are great only when hierarchical structures becomes cumbersome. And even then, there's some limit to how much tags you can have before they become useless.
Can the rest of the world just absorb the ridiculously high levels of consumption of the US market?
Yeah, I suspect this is one where the general hierarchy does lift quite heavily. Such that it isn't that I would want to lose it, entirely. More that I think it is best seen as a view of the system. Not a defining fact of it.

Is a lot like genres for music and such. In broad strokes, they work really well. If taken as a requirement, though, they start to be too restrictive.
I'm reading a lot of complaints here but let's recognize some interesting aspects that Sahil is talking about: 1. It's the 5th largest rails codebase open to AI ingestion. 2. They are offering bounties for issues. Not large bounties but whatever, it's something.

I personally like rails and would love to see AI tools improve with it. No idea if this code base will really help that, and when but it can't hurt. In my experience I can get next apps up in a jiffy but rails is much more of a struggle. If anyone has any tips here, please post.

I'm always curious about how well bounties work especially now in an AI age. I wonder what the arbitrage on AI spend vs. bounty will be for people that take a run at them.
The Rust-CUDA project just recently started up again [0], I've started digging into it a little bit and am hoping to contribute to it since the summers are a little slower for me.

[0] https://github.com/rust-gpu/rust-cuda
Yeah, she definitely added some political fluff to the point. I think the broader point that she wasn't saying "individualism is great, sod everyone", which is often how its portrayed, still stands.
If you take the perspective of all the possible responses to the request, then it is overfit because it only returns a non-generalized response.

But if you look at it from the perspective that there is only one example to learn, from it is maybe not over it.
Trump will just say the economy is better than ever and MAGA will say ok. They don't care about truth.
Just curious why can't AMD do the same thing?
Refactoring You've Never Heard Of
Don't forget what Linux was like pre-Google and pre-Chrome. Google has contributed a ton to Linux, not even counting Android...
You can make investments if you have a long term outlook. Odds are the president will be different in 4 years. Odds are the democrats take the house in 2 years (there is a small chance they take the senate too, though that seems unlikely). There is a 25% change Trump isn't even alive in 4 years just because of age, and the farther beyond that you look the less likely it is he lives.

Which is to say you have to invest for something knowing things will change and not knowing how. As always. This might even be a good time to invest if you have cash - prices are down and interest rates are up.
There are a lot of things that I find wrong with Spotify, but one of the features it does have that I have found helpful is a feature where you can listen along using what Spotify calls a Jam:

> Friends who join a Jam can listen and add songs to the queue together, whether in-person or virtually.

> Note: Premium is needed to start and host a Jam. Free users can join and add songs to a Jam hosted by a Premium user, allowing for in-person Jams. This feature works also with smart speakers and most Bluetooth speakers.

I've used this with online friends, and it's really good. If you use a voice chat app (we usually use Mumble) you can even talk while the music plays.
Agreed. Our second car is > 12 years old now, and it will be replaced by a small electric city car. Won't be any time soon, because the selection is so poor.
Same with pink.
especially because the winner got proper majority of the casted votes

This is actually untrue. 2024 was one of those elections where both candidates were so bad, that the winner didn't even need 50% of the cast votes. More and more of those lately, but there it is.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024

You'll not that Trump and Vance got 49.1% of the popular vote, and Kamala and Walz got 48.3% of the popular vote. They, none of them, could even muster 50%.

Yeah..

it was that bad.
> OpenBrain reassures the government that the model has been “aligned” so that it will refuse to comply with malicious requests

Of course the real issue being that Governments have routinely demanded that 1) Those capabilities be developed for government monopolistic use, and 2) The ones who do not lose the capability (geo political power) to defend themselves from those who do.

Using a US-Centric mindset... I'm not sure what to think about the US not developing AI hackers, AI bioweapons development, or AI powered weapons (like maybe drone swarms or something), if one presumes that China is, or Iran is, etc then whats the US to do in response?

I'm just musing here and very much open to political science informed folks who might know (or know of leads) as to what kinds of actual solutions exist to arms races. My (admittedly poor), understanding of the cold war wasn't so much that the US won, but that the Soviets ran out of steam.
https://github.com/rust-gpu/rust-cuda
I think it does?: (the comment is in the original source)

print("Adding matrices using GPU...")
start_time = time.time()
gpu_result = add_matrices(gpu_matrices)
cp.cuda.get_current_stream().synchronize() # Not 100% sure what this does
elapsed_time = time.time() - start_time

I was going to ask, any CUDA professionals who want to give a crash course on what us python guys will need to know?
Oh I am absolutely sorry.
I am really sorry , going to delete it right away.
All evidence has always pointed to the purpose of Microsoft SecureBoot being introduced primarily as an obstacle to continued use of Windows 7 as well as Linux on PC's going forward when Windows 8 PC's were released.

Not like there's any question.

Overwhelmingly more so than for "security" purposes.

Any lesser understanding of Microsoft SecureBoot, well, I understand.

I've seen that kind of that kind of refusal before.
This is larger than tariffs:

> But even before President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports, many of those projects were being canceled — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.

Sure, his energy policy was predictable too, but you'd have needed to predict the election results too to act on them. Who knows that'll happen in 4 years, will it be more of this or will we see EV subsidies returned? That's the part that's hardest to predict.
It's not hyperbolic. We're in a profession that elevates each other via open source. Saying something that is open source when it's not is no different than snake oil salesmen selling whiskey elixirs in the 1800s as cure alls.

They are lying and need to be called out.
It's not just the sense of "could do no wrong" but "DID no wrong". Is he a Criminal who committed Crimes if he never went to jail or was he a "criminal" the same way "we all are" (this is to say, we all speed or disobey minor laws on a daily basis but that could have major repercussions if they were prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law, and doesn't it seem like The Deep State just weaponized edge cases and technicalities to entrap him?)

I don't personally buy into this framing, but it sure seems like millions of people do since points at results
I’m an American that moved to Europe over ten years ago. It’s interesting to see what I’ve anecdotally observed backed up by real stats - old people just seem healthier and more active here. I’ll be hiking in the alps and being passed by old people on the trail. I’ve gone ski touring and saw people in their 70s climbing mountains with me. I had a 90-year-old neighbor that was more active than me in the neighborhood until she finally died outside walking.

Another observation - wealthy Americans live like poor Europeans. Living somewhere where you have to drive everywhere is something that poor people have to do here. Eating manufactured unhealthy food - poor.
uhh how to delete it ?

can you please delete it for me please?
That doesn't solve the environmental impacts of: tire usage, EV production, battery degradation, road maintenance, charging infrastructure, and all the costs downstream of suburban development built around cars like:

- millions of miles of electrical lines
- millions of sq ft of parking lots
- wastewater management infrastructure
- sewage infrastructure
- high municipal debt to service all of the above
It's true, it's not a very well kept secret. And still, even if most Americans distrust it, the vast majority of us remain wildly ignorant of just how bad our media really is.

"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know" - maybe even more true now than it was in 1993.
the data downloads i have done (that could be done by anyone with my unlocked phone and logins, such as US border forces) clearly do not even try to adhere to most of the clauses there (e.g. recipients of the data). tech companies dont try to apply GDPR outside of EU, but they are generally happy to give information to the police in all countries except china. i wonder if the chinese can download their data?
So, trades, where people are also taught how to repair stuff relevant to their career?
This post is pretty much my exact experience with the coding tools.

Basically the state of the art right now can turn me into an an architect/CTO that spends a lot of time complaining about poor architectural choices. Crucially Claude does not quite understand how to greenfield implement good architectures. 3.7 is also JUST . SO. CHATTY. It’s better than 3.5, but more annoying.

Gemini 2.5 needs one more round of coding tuning; it’s excellent, has longer context and is much better at arch, but still occasionally misformats or forgets things.

Upshot — my hobby coding can now be ‘hobby startup making’ if I’m willing to complain a lot, or write out the scaffolding and requirements docs. It provides nearly no serotonin boost from getting into flow and delivering something awesome, but it does let me watch YouTube on the side while it codes.

Decisions..
An example of this is the charity roast in NYC in 2024. Trump and Schumer sharing a table laughing cordially....

https://youtu.be/XI0MUoW28VE?feature=shared

As for apple, their serfdom labor practice during Covid was shockingly public

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/04/04/trump-a...?

(I call it serfdom labor because people were not allowed freedom of movement without threat of imprisonment.)
Ghibli isn’t a character, but a style. You can’t copyright it.
On a per capita adjusted basis UAE/Dubai blows about every other place out the water for number of incoming rich migration (even on absolute basis they are near top). Much easier to get an investor visa, far lower taxes on business income, you can easily import servants and trade duties are miniscule. Everything is available if you are rich because all you must do is fill out some relatively simple paperwork and whoever you want appears.

It looks like in this age for the rich the optimum is something closer to dictator capitalism, as democracies start to embrace more regulation and social redistribution schemes. Singapore and Dubai have been winning choices so long as the people in power don't change their mind and start splitting skulls.
> wants it nnormalized

A psychological device of "blutkit" (blood cement). For example; young
Nazi SS officers were recruited via a ritual attrocity like
participation in a massacre. After that "we're all in this together"
sealed loyalty through a mix of guilt and fear.

The race is on for the Trump administration to elicit the most
unforgivable and insane actions in order to sinter those participants
into a "death pact".

EDIT: spotted recently posted [0] (Also of course C.R Browning's
Ordinary Men [1]) both underline the point that you don't need to
recruit intrinsically corrupted people - you can make them,

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583425

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning
Mickey Mouse (the original one) is out of copyright, as of last year, AFAIR.
I wonder how would it compare to an old 8 bit CPU like 6502 or Z80.
Ah interesting—I understand the aversion to seeing his name (especially right now). But I prefer to always show the name of the current president. Can you think of any _other_ way I could mitigate this?
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> extraction by whom?

The user.

> i have "downloaded my data" before and it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences

Because they are not obligated to give them to you. They are probably not even in the same systems.

> and they know i dont live in the EU.

So what? They have the ability, should they revoke it based in the IP? Why? It's a selling point, without any additional price or harm for the company.
...or the mob, or street gangs whose initiation rituals usually involves committing a crime to bind you to the group, so you all have something to lose.
The inflation is a desired and intended side effect of the tariffs, the statement by Powell is part of a chess match and his removal will be part of an intended outcome.

Trump will try to replace Powell extra-constitutionally and at this point, I suspect he may succeed. It will be close to the lights going out at that point.
Shady as hell, sure. Misleading? At least misdirecting. But corruption? No.

If you have an olive green shirt and a grass green shirt, you can call both of them green, but calling the olive one grass green is a mistake.
What isn't predictable is how long things will last. Many in congress are for free trade and have the ability to stop tariffs in various ways. (tariffs fall under some emergency ruling not a low passed by congress as the constitution requires). There is likely to be more elections in the future with different people in charge with different intents. The question is will the next people in charge also keep tariffs high.