skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a commonplace of international relations, and intuitively obvious, that the more integrated are the economies of two countries, the less likely they are to start wars with each other

This is indeed a common way of thinking and intuitively obvious but I think it has also been proven wrong by the war in Ukraine. We sanctioned Russia as hard as we could and it 3 years later they're still there.

Withholding some nebulous service industry from a country that's mostly reliant on primary and/or manufacturing is probably not a strong enough deterrent to a sufficiently motivated political force. It might be that it just puts service industry reliant countries at a disadvantage.

Drone warfare is another piece of the puzzle, both how they are employed in the Ukrainian war as well as in the red sea blockade. The west is also at a disadvantage here compared to, say, China. When was the last time you saw a drone-dragon lightshow outside of Shenzhen?

We thought we had world peace through commerce but it was probably an illusion. I think everyone is rethinking the last 150 years of history right now.
Can't we just convert all man pages to a modern format like HTML, and never look back?
The issue then wasn't phone specifically, but social media apps installed there. I have phone at home around on the desk (but then again not always sitting by it), but since having 0 social apps its just a tool for emails, calls, whatsapp, navigation etc. and I quickly check it maybe every 1-2h for new emails/calls and thats it.

I still check FB on desktop from time to time if somebody close doesn't have anything interesting, but that is 1-3 mins max. FB has a very hostile UI on desktop these days (Firefox and ublock origin) and a lot of bugs on their sites, so I quickly get disgusted and close it.

The best part is, it completely refreshes whole timeline with new stuff every few mins, so anything I was just reading just blips out of existence, never to be seen again. So even if I manage to stay 3 mins it literally kicks me out. Thanx FB.

Another issue with that social media (don't use any other, why ffs its all mind cancer) is being overflooded with fake AI generated bullshit posts full of half truths and outright lies. Normally via suggested groups, cesspool of scum. So I have no idea what friends actually do, and not missing it.
Brazilians are the proverbial boiling frogs....
Not political => without even looking at the solar panels, I'd be wary based off all the numerous issues with their cars. The CyberTruck in particular is like a modern day DeLorean, but much worse. That kind of cost cutting is going to be company wide and makes me wonder if their solar stuff is also problematic (not that I've heard anything).

Political=> he did a full blown Nazi salute twice and has been working to have millions fired from their government jobs. The conservatives who don't seem as bothered by that have never been interested in EVs to begin with and his liberal fanboy customers will never buy from him again now. He is extremely unpopular in Germany and China's Tesla market is being out competed. I don't think that makes Tesla look good long term, so I'd be cautious about a long term investment with them like rooftop solar. That's just my opinion anyway.
The responses to GP's comment are surprisingly entertaining to read. I'm entirely engaged in this nerdy semantics war on a topic I know nothing about and loving it.

Time to pop some popcorn and hit refresh.
Emacs does a nice job of this, I think
That’s not really true. Most financial crimes are big operations facilitated by banks. Criminals love KYC because that’s a chance to make their operations seem legit.
Tesla is no longer a leader in any part of decarbonizing anything, and for good reason: 1. Teslas image rests entirely on Elon Musk; 2. Aging products and no successful innovation.
> The low quality of modern libraries is something that REALLY shocks me.

How could you be shocked? Everything that's happened in the software industry outside of medical/DoD has been about delivering features as fast as you can, quality be damned.
> When China was content to make stuff and not invade places

Can you tell me more about Chinese invasions?

> saying it will take back Taiwan

Should the world cancel the USA because it is saying something about annexing Canada\Greenland?
To what extent is clean water just as bad, though?

Won't the timber become moldy just the same?

And this is a restaurant. They already removed the furniture, there's presumably no floor covering, etc.
Very selective data in that presentation. The worst figures are always selected for comparisons: in one it's since 2019, then since 2020, then since 2022, then since 2020, then 2019, and on and on.

There is nothing wrong with making entertainment products to make money. That's the reason all products are made: to make money. Games have gone bad because the audience has bad taste. People like Fortnite. They like microtransactions. They like themepark rubbish that you can sell branded skins for. It is the same reason Magic: the Gathering has been ruined with constant IP tie-ins: the audience likes it. People pay for it. People like tat.
Are you ready to get naked?

['style','link[rel=stylesheet]','link[type="text/css"]'].forEach(selector => document.querySelectorAll(selector).forEach(e => e.parentNode.removeChild(e)));
document.querySelectorAll('[style]').forEach(el => el.removeAttribute('style'));

My little page seems to pass (submitted things here previously, but it's not naked currently)
I agree the whole thing was shady, but did they really never care about solar? I thought the solar roof was announced well after the SolarCity deal, and it seemed like they were serious about ramping that up for a while (though obviously that never really went anywhere or fulfilled any of the original promises either).
I think that's a limitation of our implementations. In principle, it's just bytes that we shoving down the pipe to the browser, so it shouldn't matter for performance whether those bytes are 'inline' or in 'external resources'.

In principle, you could imagine the server packing all the external resources that the browser will definitely ask for together, and just sending them together with the original website. But I'm not sure how much re-engineering that would be.
Show HN: Dynomate– Fast, Git-Friendly DynamoDB GUI Client (Dynobase Alternative)
After a bit of frustration with the existing DynamoDB GUI clients, I decided to build one.

Features:

1. Request collections: Chain together multiple operations - put, query, update, and delete across tables, accounts and sessions.
Use the output of one operation as input for the next.

2. Environment Variables: Configure variables once and run the same requests across different environments (dev/staging/prod). No more manual parameter swapping.

3. Multi-tab, multi-account support: Work with multiple tables across different AWS accounts, and sso sessions simultaneously.

4. Easy SSO Login: Start sso login without leaving the GUI.

5. Git sync: All requests configurations are saved locally as TOML files. Your data stays private, and you can version control with Git.

I appreciate any feedback.
Easiest solution: convert to HTML, view in browser.

If that's not an option for you: the good old `info` document reader supports links and jumping. Somehow I never quite got the grasp of it though (probably because I didn't spent enough time with it to make it worth finding out how it works).
The above story is a primary source. Later writers should quote any desired linguistic flair within their later stories, thereby properly attributing the flair to the primary source.

What happens now is journalists throw around secondary and tertiary sources without attribution.

It's okay to report "Bob Jones commented 'Someone is a miserable SOB'." It's not okay to report "Someone is a miserable SOB" as if it's fact not judgement.

None of this is a new variant of journalism. It's just journalism and/or history practices that somehow got forgotten despite the fact that we teach these primary vs secondary source concepts and proper quoting in middle/high school in the US.
MSN did this, I dont remember the games, I believe Yahoo had games too though separate of YIM.
This reminds me of the Basicode system, which transmitted cross platform programs over the radio... and in the Netherlands, some of the programs could then be checked against the checksummed program listings on Teletext...
I went through this process this year. Found solar installation companies on Yelp, got some quotes, chose an installer. A month later, I have Panasonic panels and a Powerwall powering my home. There’s plenty of info online. I live in the US and found this resource very educational: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/homeowners-guide-going-sol...
> I'm always wary of sites like this

I can't really think of much that is more legit than a special purpose blog distilling current research papers into long form blog posts, except perhaps the research papers themselves?
The article is focused on global commodity price trends rather than being exclusively about U.S. prices.

Coffee will get more expensive in the United States which is great for Puerto Rico -- although the kids in San Juan would prefer a protectionist strategy of growing crops that they consume themselves than exporting to the mainland.

Because the price of imported goods will increase in the United States driving down demand within the United States, exporters will have more supply which will drive down price to the other 100+ countries they trade with.

Once countries like Thailand and Peru start to trade more amongst themselves there probably isn't a return to same trading with the United States who will be like the kid on the playground nobody wants to play with.
Ah, sorry then. I thought that idiom has different meaning, thank you for correcting me.
Nowdays basically any professionally produced book is made in Indesign. And text wrapping is semi-automated. It's automated but checked for issues and fixed manually. Indesign has two text wrapping algorithms paragraph composer that tries to balance whole paragraphs and line composer that only checks line by line.

Surprisingly in the high-end the less automated line composer is used a lot more. It requires more work but human decisions lead to best results if done properly.
The expectation is that US consumers will reduce consumption rather than absorb higher prices.

Interesting effects for the rest of us with the cheap oil, though. I doubt it will offset the effects of reduced exports to the US but it usually has a positive effect on the economy.
How can you run old 32-bit, directx 9 games on apple silicon? Is there any solution that is flawless? One of the things that stops me from buying a modern Mac.
It's hard to take a company seriously whose founder goes all in for Trump. It's humiliating.
Load the table. Modify. Serialize to file.

Not too hard. Emacs does it with the .emacs file, mixing generated and manual content.
We have a Tesla car, but I never considered their solar because it's a commodity, and their options are overpriced. They also pushed leases pretty heavily, which I was not interested in. We bought our panels in 2018, the same year we bought the EV.

Just talk to your neighbors about reputable local installers. They'll have panel and storage options.

That said, because these things are largely commoditized, there's some turmoil in the market. Our (excellent!) local installer was saved by the PPP during the pandemic, which was a bit of a sobering thought -- they're the ones backingthe 25 year installation guarantee!

Then Sunpower (our panel vendor, and one of the higher end ones, at that) went out of business. Our monitoring system continues to work thanks to the work of the bankruptcy courts, though it's been transferred to a company who is trying to support those assets be having a freemium model.
I see there are unaddressed requests for improving accessibility:

[Bug] ECharts claims to be accessible, but is not keyboard accessible https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/18585

[Feature] Support for accessibility of elements inside the chart (series, legend...) https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/18256
… what’s the point?
Tesla is a meme stock. Caveat emptor. For a considerable period, the price has never made sense considering the fundamentals. It's currently valued at ~$450k per car delivered in 2024 with a P/E ratio of 108 and that's after a 50% decline from its peak.

Just compare it to any other car company, be it the Big Three, European car makers or BYD.f

The whole purchase of SolarCity was one of Elon's companies (Tesla) buying another company of Elon's that was failing (SolarCity) because it owed a lot of money to a third company of Elon's (SpaceX).

Tesla's most recent quarterly shipments are down 13# Y/Y with likely worse to come. The brand is being publicly torched by the actions of its CEO. A protracted trade war with China could end very badly for Tesla. A trade war with Europe may see the EU replace its demand for EVs with the likes of BYD.

Solar is (now) a commodity business. The panels get ever-cheaper. The only real cost is installation. And a labor-intensive cost like that doesn't scale.

I predict that Tesla will be forced to try and save itself by ousting its CEO in the coming years.
I didn't, honestly. In the end, it was just a gradual step for me. I got more things to do, I became slightly more social, talked to more and more people, and it just happened. I still deal with it, just on a lesser scale where it's managable unless I have a bad day - in which case again I'll turn to screens for comfort. But it's rare.
>Shaming them and calling them idiots only pushes them away.

I'm not a representative of any political party, nor am I running for office. I'm just another woke libtard cuck who has to live with the consequences of Trumpist malice. So I'll shame them and call them idiots all I like.
If you don't trust your government then you don't own anything, since it's the government that enforces and arbiters property rights. The fact that you own a home is only written on some piece of paper and you trust the government to enforce it.

Crypto is only worth something because you can convert it to fiat and with that fiat can sign fiat denominated contracts that are enforced by the government.
I seem to be unable to tap or drag letters on my iPad - can’t figure out any way to place them on the grid.
This is why I tend to Google instead of chatgpt everything. I always end up finding these little interesting nuggets in comments/threads in SO
As Percy Shelley said about Ozymandias, "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" We're all sand on a long enough time scale, and getting a TC 800k+ will not save you from that fate, in the same way that conquering an empire will not save you either. Other people have pointed out that you likely make a decent wage, but understandably that does not address your concern. If you feel that your only value is your accomplishments, then no matter how much you achieve it will never be enough. You get to decide your own goals, and whether you're reaching them. Don't let these proxies for ability and class decide what you want or how fast you should get it.
Cool! Are you planning to add support for a mobile layout?
You should look closely at solar rate plans and interconnection fees in your area. If you're hoping to save money with solar, it's possible that you never recoup the initial investment because of the way the newer rate plans are structured (esp. for PG&E).

In the bay area, it might be cheaper to opt into 100% renewable rate plans from CleanPowerSF or Peninsula Clean Energy. (Silicon Valley Power is 100% renewable by default, IIRC.)
Tastes differ, but personally (and as a fan of fine typography) I find these fonts hideous and more difficult to read than normal text.

And $39K for a server license? The effect could be done in JS for free.
Emacs also highlights how underrated info pages are. Truly a hidden gem.
A relational DB + serverless compute + suspiciously fast updates
shhhh - that's the big announcement for next year - the "Agnostic" General Interface (AGI) ... works with any endpoint no more lengthy MCP or A2A setup!
Language in humans is a VERY strange behavior. I think the stoned ape theory may have some credence, as mushrooms do seem to excite linguistic capabilities.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/china/china-landing-barge...
I imagine a virtual machine would be able to handle it just fine. Try VirtualBox
possibly referring to https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/13863 which broke subnet routing for us
The ideal smart phone for me would be an old BlackBerry.. physical keyboard and everything
I don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. In fact in Brazil people got their financial operations restricted for expressing their opinions on the internet. Pix is an authoritarian government wet dream.
Assuming they wouldn't want to take on server maintenance workload, wouldn't something like NetBird be a better fit? The free version has ACL already, the $5/user/month has OIDC integration, and the business version (MDM integration and auditing) is $12. Then the server is still open source so if they wanted to transition to doing it themselves they still would have that option down the road.
We've had more than a few in my company. We work in Cybersecurity for the company, so we've definitely seen them and seen the details. I don't actually think they're that hard to avoid .. but to say they're not a problem at all is not fair. I agree with you that if taken the wrong way that this is just ammunition for "return to office" efforts.

A LOT of people are far worse at interviewing than they think they are. And so, a bullshit artist can get hired. Technology now allows these bullshit artists to propagate more, and do more damage than would have previously be possible. AI in the workplace is a similar problem. Can you tell the different between someone who really just leans on ChatGPT all day but is actually incompetent? Probably so, but someone who was that incompetent just wouldn't have previously been able to hang on for quite as long, or deceive so many people.

[edit]

It's clear that my comment was not clearly written -- when I said "A LOT of people are far worse at interviewing than they think they are," I was referring to the people holding the interviews, and not referring to candidates. I'm shocked at just how bad a lot of folks are at holding interviews, and just how misplaced their confidence in their ability seems to be.
True much more money to be made hyping crypto, AI and robotics.
Maybe he's like Peter Schiff, his schtick will eventually be right sometime this century maybe
I like the design of the blog a lot
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
CPU benchmarks such as PassMark does not indicate that Apple Silicon has a performance edge over Intel or AMD CPUs in any price range: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
NHI => Non-human identity, something I had never heard before reading this (even though i was familiar with the concept of identities for services, like service accounts or iam roles or whatever). I wonder if that's a common acronym.
>I have a feeling they are not really that competitive in this market segment, but were helped by a strong brand.

All commoditized market segments are like that to varying extents.
My favorite writing school haha
Well said, well written.
Hard disagree. Markdown is the way to go.

I've been using Linux for a couple of decades at this point, and I've use man pages quite a bit over the years. Though even though man pages are not foreign to me, I think they are no longer the right solution to the problem.

First of all, we are all used to reading documents on the web (or in a code editor) nowadays, so having a completely different interface is not great. At some point 10 years ago or so I mostly stopped using the `man` command and just googled for man pages so that I can have the interface I'm used to.

Additionally, developers are very much used to markdown, and most other docs are written in markdown (maybe some RST, but probably mostly markdown) so this is not great for the person writing the docs either.

So man pages are inferior for both the producers and the consumers of documentation.
The situation with food is that everyone today has access to good quality food if they choose to actually put their money towards it, but large numbers of people enjoy McDonalds and KFC and such slop, so they choose to spend far more on it than they'd spend cooking for themselves.

It is still much better than when large numbers of people starved if it rained a bit in the wrong week.

He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees
Of the singing birds and the humming bees;
Then talked of the haying, and wondered whether
The cloud in the west would bring foul weather.

The weather and its effect on the food supply was the preoccupation of 90% of the population 90% of the time for all of agricultural man's history (and pre-history) and hunting and gathering was even worse for quality of life.
As if Biden and Trump would not have been replaced at multiple points in their regimes, if the US had a mechanism for it? The trains kept running in France. Sounds like a system that is both more responsive and more stable.
The point of democracy isn’t to court voters. You can make voting mandatory eg Australia
You're not accounting for countries in which China has set up manufacturing facilities to avoid US tariffs (Vietnam, Mexico, etc.), so the overall figure is higher, albeit indirectly.

The other problem is that you're not considering the full scope of impact at the nation state level.

It might be "3% of China's GDP", but when you look at dollar figures the US is buying almost $500 billion of Chinese goods, while China is buying around $150 billion. If the US stops importing Chinese goods (as an example), that's $500 billion worth of trade that's good for China that is destroyed, whereas if China cuts off the United States, the US is only losing $150 billion.

If you want to minimize the situation by suggesting it's no big deal for China to stop exporting to the United States because it's only 3% of China's GDP, you'd have to make the same argument that it's even less of a big deal for the United States to lose its $150 billion in exports to China.

Of course the situation isn't that simple, and you know that.
There are a lot of bacteria that live in a dirt and our natural biome that also reduce to antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria thus making antibiotics a more effective.

This general weakness of the bacterial wall is something to be wary of given they didn’t study its effect on a wider range of important bacteria.

Throwing a lot of anything in your gut that can cause an imbalance, ir serious dybosis is a good reason to treat your stomach like a little fermenting aquarium whose bacteria and skin cells cycle every 3-5 days.
Make money ?
For simple searches e.g. webpage of company x in y I use DuckDuckGo, because the results are good and the CO2 footprint low. More questioning or interactive queries I use copilot.
Pre-fertilization-origin preservation of human brown fat-mediated energy expend
You are correct, I missed that. In MySQL, functional indices are implemented as invisible generated virtual columns (and there is no vector index type supported yet that I'm aware of), but Postgres has a more capable approach.
EU member states agree first wave of retaliatory tariffs
What a great shutdown notice. Clear, frank, thoughtful. And it's nice to see software maintainers respecting their own time.
I will never buy another Tesla again for political reasons, but regarding reliability: their new models have always had reliability problems, but then reliability has always gotten much better within a year or so.

I don't know if the Cybertruck will follow the same pattern, or if the whole company has jumped the shark, but if we're looking for non-political opinions I would not necessarily write them off on quality issues alone.