skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for the whole military superpower thing. The US is actually in a somewhat unique situation compared to other countries.
This feature actually existed (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2_Server_Push ) but was deemed a failure unfortunately (see https://developer.chrome.com/blog/removing-push )
I could live with not being able to access reddit from my private phone, I am not logged into my personal reddit account on my work PC.
'Black Mirror could just run and run', says Charlie Brooker
Absolutely agree with hiring competent enough people. Most companies that want 10x engineers don’t even have the infrastructure and processes in place to make use of one.
Almost none of the types of companies you are referring to use US staff for the grunt work. They may have sales, management and leads in the US. But even the major firms like Deloitte and Accenture use off shore labor for the most part.

You’re not going to want to pay the rates that they will charge for their best of the best hands on developers based in the US and if they did start staffing lots of devs in the US, they wouldn’t be price competitive.

I have worked at AWS Professional Service (full time direct hire) and now work at a third party consulting company as a “staff consultant”. Only a few large and/or well funded companies (and government agencies pre-DOGE) were/are willing to pay the rates that the companies charge to have me on a project.

Even then, they lean on me far more for leadership and strategy than hands on keyboard
Namely, customers too stupid to know how to use something else, and/or customers you’ve managed to lock-in sufficiently to make them too scared to do so. I guess that’s a good strategy if you hate what you do and the people you do it for.
https://x.com/damengchen/status/1909288019750011006?t=kO7hvU...
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract
Thanks! I really missed yahoo's :rofl: emoji
Ironwood is Google's newest AI accelerator chip
So we should simply have ceded the Baltic states to Russia? Is that what you are suggesting?
Half the World May Need Glasses by 2050
I don't see the problem. How many CEO are also on the board of multiple companies? If people at the top can be employed by multiple companies, anyone with a job involving less responsibility doing the same should be ok.
I have a man page reader which remembers the position you were in the last time you read the same man page. There is nice syntax highlighting.

Also, you can jump to other man pages, because it's just using Vim.

In Vim, you can use K to open a man page for the word under the cursor. You can prefix that command with a section number. Something could be hacked to scrape that from the parentheses after the word.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/mnpgr/about/
If US doesn’t need X, X will try hard to avoid US (who’s bullying everyone right now).

Eventually US will be in isolation.
This is very cool! I have some feedback:

1. Allow for adjusting grid spacing and grid point size.

2. I can't seem to find a snap-to-grid option (e.g., a magnet icon).

3. Allow docking of the sidebar to the left or right of the screen.

4. When the sidebar is hidden, the popover does not include tabs for Relationships, Subject Areas, and Notes. It would be nice to have those available.

5. Allow sidebar width customization in pixel size or percentage
Surely all that is going to happen is that the Chinese exporters set up intermediary companies in countries within the US's 10% import tariff band and then just re-export their goods from there? And then just rotate countries if Trump slaps a bigger tariff on those countries? Feels like they could keep this going pretty easily until Trump leaves office. Or is there something in place to prevent this?
How's the pay like? To me this sounds like a perfect recipe for getting cheap clients (either by choice or because their business legitimately cannot afford to pay market price for the work they want done).
What kind of background check would reveal all previous employers? Where I’m from a background check usually consists of checking one or two (candidate provided) references and possibly googling their name for red flags.
I think it’s not misleading, but rather very clear that there are problems. v7 is compared to v5e. Also, notice that it’s not compared to competitors, and the price isn’t mentioned.
Finally, I think the much bigger issue with TPU is the software and developer experience. Without improvements there, there’s close to zero chance that anyone besides a few companies will use TPU. It’s barely viable if the trend continues.
Unique for now. It’s changing.

The moment is threatened Canada , Denmark sovereignty and EU/NATO, countries are planning for life without US
Why not? If only to see what happens?
One thing that has been working really well for me this year is the "internet Shabbat" rule: 24 hours of no TCP/IP every week. Friday night I pull the plug on the modem + turn off data on my phone, then enjoy all of Saturday in a disconnected mode. I can still be on the computer, just no internet.

It's amazing how much things I get done... it literally feels like I have two days instead of one. If I put a item like "outdoor exercise for 30 mins" in my TODO list, then I actually do it! Close friends and family can still reach me by phone/text, but all the chat groups and other messaging app distractions are silent.

I can still end up zoning out watching a movie in the evening, but it's more intentional: I had to pick the movie in advance and download it so I can view it offline.

The contrast with Sunday when I turn the internet back on is very notable. Suddenly the next day is disorganized and end up wasting hours on youtube recommendations, and following rabit holes, and hacker news of course.

My conclusion is that it's not the apps or the internet, it's the feeds (when information is being pushed down to you) that are the problem. It's just too convenient and we end up staying in it.

Highly recommended.
Have you heard of grammarly? Or gitlab?
There are lots of these MCP servers out there. The index analysis and health checks make it stick out.
depends on the things being imported/exported, prices might be more than double, because the final products might need components that cross borders multiple times.
Man reader here. I largely agree, I’m not very good at reading documentation.
> Should the world cancel the USA because it is saying something about annexing Canada\Greenland?

Of course, how is that even a question?
A new study finds a growing risk of "thirstwaves" as the planet warms.
Incorrect. The price of manufacturing, because of the cost of living differences, would result in a far more expensive product.

Free-trade brings into being products that previously would not have existed (Nike trainers for the masses).
I usually share the sentiment, but, come on, it's packaged as a single binary file...
Try HTML version:

man --html=firefox man
>The Atari handheld computer in front of this Osborne Model 1 came out only six years later, in 1989. The world was passing Osborne by, and that led to its liquidation in 1986.

Six years is a long time. Try one year for a competitor making your product look like an antiquated ripoff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleram

1974 $14k P-1800 luggable (15kg) electronic typewriter with a CRT and modem for reporters to send stories from the field.

1981 $5.4K Portabubble/81 7kg model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elwZq9mwlBc

1983 $2.5K T-3000 4kg model https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1984-01/page/n...

Teleram files for IPO in early 1983.

Same year Kyocera drops Kyotronic 85 and licenses to Olivetti M-10 / NEC PC-8201 / Tandy TRS-80 Model 100, all models $1K 1kg.

Teleram reports loss.

1984 sharp drop in sales and even bigger loss.

1985 bankruptcy.
Andreas the Alchemist on Youtube has a scaled up machine that supposed can do about a gallon of nitric acid every 24 hours, somewhere near the fuming nitric concentration (at the cost of something insane like 5kW power consumption).
> In the first society, the probability of the artist completing and selling that masterpiece is correspondingly lower, since money is a strong motivator and even artists have bills to pay.

I live near the (supposedly) largest art market in the USA, and I know a large number of artists here for whom two things are true:

1. they cannot make a living from just their art.
2. they will create art whether they make a living from or not.

Thus, the claim that taxes on their art income act as a disincentive to create just holds zero water for me. In fact, less than zero. It betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of why all the artists I admire actually do what they do.

This also applies to most of the people I admire in almost every field. I don't know of any example where the motivation was such that increased taxation would have acted as a disincentive. That's true even for Bezos @ amzn.
Migrating Umami from PostgreSQL to MySQL
I don't know if it would be right to call MCP pure request/response, since unlike HTTP, it's a stateful protocol.
I don't want to vouch for the flagged and dead comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43630653 because I suspect it was killed for its tone but wow it is really illustrative of the QA that didn't go into this product
Moonlighting is working a second job at night (“by the light of the moon”). Overemployment is fraudulently charging two companies for the same hour of time.
- Yes it is possible to live without using social media (except hacker news of course) on a daily basis. TikTok is the easiest to do without. Instagram and Snapchat can be deleted. Use the web app for those rare moments you need to check hours for a business that doesn’t have a website (sadly this happens)

- iOS Focus Modes is underrated in this article. When I arrive at work all my apps except teams and outlook disappear, my phone turns into a work dashboard. After work my phone shows my journal and the clock app. I never get notifications at work, they queue up until I leave. My watch is synchronized and does similar, showing exactly what I need and nothing else for different stages of my day. Focus Modes has sadly not been copied by Android so I can’t consider stitching until there’s a good answer (a well supported HealthKit alternative being the other deal breaker).

- iOS screen time is busted af, it is known. Might as well be a random number generator. I recommend avoiding. Apple workers reading this: pls fix
Cool game. I saw your original post but never played it.

I was kind of spoiled on today's (9th April) one because I saw a bluesky post about the same topic by depthsofwikipedia earlier today.
With all this agents talks, maybe I should dust off my old Tcl books on Agent Tcl.

https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/dissertations/62/
When I’m doom scrolling it’s almost exclusively news. I’m not all that interested in short videos, social media, or other scrollable things. News is my weakness. Last month I was pretty bad about reading news about the USA. I’ve mostly recovered. It’s easy to convince yourself it matters (especially compared to watching shorts) but the reality is that for me, it’s bordering irrelevant. I live in Canada. There’s nothing I can do about the USA. Just focus on what’s here and now.
>since access to it is quite restricted otherwise.

There's a reason for that, of course.
> Also, the US engages in these practices as much as everyone else.

I don't know that this is factually true. I suspect it is. I also want to make it very clear that I'm not defending Donald Trump nor am I suggesting that the way he's going about things is the only or even an optimal way.

With those disclaimers aside:

> Nobody else is engaging in the punitive tariff rates the US is imposing, so the rest of the world is economically more attractive than the US on the score. I don't see how China will be more hurt by this than the US.

When you say nobody else is engaging in punitive tariff rates, well we just got started I think last week right? We're only seeing effects in the stock market today (and of course suppliers and importers are in nightmare mode as well). I've already linked an article discussing the EU telling China to turn shipments around or face tariffs. There's 0 chance that this doesn't continue to cause reactions.

I'm also not sure what the rest of the world being "more attractive on that score" means. Sure, prices may rise for American citizens on imported products, but if you postulate that Americans are the ones who "pay the tariff" as so many say then what's exactly the problem for exporters? Of course when we look at reality they will have to reduce their own costs to make their products more competitive to the US market to account for tariffs, or sell fewer products. But in this scenario the United States is still are far more attractive market to sell to than many other countries.
This is already happening:

https://apnews.com/article/fluoride-ban-drinking-water-utah-...

https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2025/february/utah-set-to-b...
https://kapeli.com/dash for MacOS supports man pages just like any of its many other documentation sources. Simply type `man:foo`. Absolute hall of fame app IMO.
Until i use it "wrong" and Drew does the Drew thing with me, like he did with the hyprland guy. No thanks.
Can these be repurposed for other things? Encoding/decoding video? Graphics processing etc?

edit:
>It’s a move from responsive AI models that provide real-time information for people to interpret, to models that provide the proactive generation of insights and interpretation. This is what we call the “age of inference” where AI agents will proactively retrieve and generate data to collaboratively deliver insights and answers, not just data.

maybe i will sound like a luddite but im not sure i want this.

I'd rather AI/ML only do what i ask it to.
Small Town America vs. Big Box Stores
Ironically, trust is an issue in the crypto space (the general layman perspective seems to be one of rug pulls and greater fool fallacies). The existence of some transparent information that is easy for a layman to use and understand makes sense.
Expand on the a little please. I’d like to know the background.
It’s a legitimate argument to fly the person in for interviews.

I got my only remote BigTech job post Covid where the entire loop was remote. But it was customary before then to fly people into the office for the final interview.

Yes I realize “remote first” companies may not have an office. But even then, you could fly the interviewees to the location of the interviewer and use a hotel conference room.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory has a better run

I don't think so: for example the Weimar Republic is a counterexample. Or a modern example is the current war between Ukraine and Russia (both are democracies even though in Russia some particular president and party has a lot of influence). Both of these examples show that even in a democratic country under specific circumstances it can happen that a particular group or party can gain lots of power.

--

If you want to see another interesting "peace theory", consider the madman theory:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

It basically says that if a country has access to atomic weapons, and the president or person in power radiates the image that he is sufficiently "mad" that in case of an aggression against the country they are willing to use them and escalate the conflict into a global nuclear holocaust, other stakeholders will strongly attempt not to upset this country, i.e. seek more peaceful and diplomatic solutions with this country.

This theory explains well why the USA have not yet invaded North Korea and are hesitant to invade Iran.
Funny how you can be a CEO of 4 companies and nobody bats an eye. You can be a retail worker holding down 3 minimum wage jobs to make ends meet and they say you are a hard worker, busting your ass for your family. But if you’re a white collar knowledge worker juggling two jobs, and still meeting both jobs’ expected performance goals, they call you a fraud and a thief and if you are open about it, they will fire you.
Actually it's transpiling to C (but the other way around would make more sense so existing code can be ported to project oberon os). For example there's an X11 wrapper [1], or http library [2], a package manager [3], etc, and calling external C code is easy, e.g.

PROCEDURE -fstat(fd: LONGINT): INTEGER "fstat(fd, &s)";

Other libraries are mostly scattered all over the internet, and there are often compatibility issues between compilers, even though they target the same standards.

[1]:https://github.com/vishapoberon/compiler/tree/master/src/lib...

[2]:https://github.com/norayr/http/

[3]:https://github.com/vishapoberon/vipack

> very similar[1] for Dusk OS[2]

wow this is cool
Recently I learned that black and green tea contains not-insignificant levels of fluoride, because the tea plant concentrates the substance in its leaves as it grows.

This suddenly made amazing sense: Englishmen comprise an empire pacified by means of voluntarily drinking tea (as well as China/Japan, et. al.) and in fact making it a veritably religious ritual that is so ubiquitous that you name mealtimes after it.

So when other nations pondered how to introduce fluoride to non-tea-drinkers, they needed to be crafty about it.

Thanks mom, for dozens of gallons of wholly ineffective fluoridated water when we were growing up. Surely my perpetual stupidity and mental illness and Prozac prescriptions are unrelated.
> I wish people would stop this "we" business where they purport to speak for everyone.

That has become a strong signal regarding the (lack of) quality in any argument. Anyone using this cheap rhetoric trick gets an immediate penalty in my "how seriously should I take this person?" book.
Yes. Markdown is semantics-free. The man macro set in roff is semantic in nature. There is no bijection.

If you're writing semantic-free man pages you're already doing it wrong.
Good points. I think clue 3 is weird because what is a "pay one"? You can't take a "pay one", but I get how to read it now---it's like an anaphor for the word. But yes, for consistency a blank space would have worked: [taking a pay ____ is a bummer]

I think my confusion with clue 2 was that I had never heard of the idiom "[to] fish or cut bait" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_or_cut_bait
Post-Collapse Paradigms Are Quite the Career Opportunity
> Watch Antimatter Fall: Scientists Capture Gravity's Pull with a 3840MP Camera

They forgot to say how they generate Antihydrogen.
How does this compare to a project like Mojo, which also seems to aim at filling that "treacherous gap" you note? They seem to believe that they can't just write a Python compiler, why are you more confident?
That looks interesting from abstract. Can you please explain how these two can be interconnected ?
Who in their right mind would deliver that?
> If you have less than 100KB of JS and CSS (which almost every content site should be able to, most trivially, and almost all should aim to), there’s simply no question about it

Do you have data to back this up? What are you basing this statement on?

My intuition agrees with you for the reasons you state but when I tested this in production, my workplace found the breakeven point to be at around 1KB surprisingly. Unfortunately we never shared the experiment and data publicly.
Have you looked at TGM4, which released on Steam last week? [0] I'd be interested to see your thoughts on it.

Also would like to note that, at least for TGM1, 2 and 3, the PRNG used is a 32-bit LCG (the common C one, in fact).

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3328480/TETRIS_THE_GRAND_...
"Americans" is a big group. A very large fraction of us are certainly aware that the country is burning every bridge at a record pace. The size of that fraction depends on which region of the country you live in.
> You act like you should be able to 3D print a car and be allowed to drive it.

> I should be allowed to build a helicopter and fly to new york!

To me, both of these suggestions don't sound like bad ideas that you make out of them. :-)

EDIT: Yes, I am a hacker.
I'm not a fan of Drew's political grandstanding (or views, in some cases) but scdoc is good and packaged in many distros. There's no foundation for him to abuse with it, so it's safe.
Agreed but I suppose the problem then is you could have an interviewer hand off his or her duties to a third party. In theory, regular presence in an office is a mitigation against this.
New Mexico governor mobilizes National Guard to tackle crime in Albuquerque
It has the same safety guarantees than Modula-2 and Object Pascal have been offering for decades, but apparently curly brackets and @ everywhere is better than begin/end.