skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software engineer wages? Oppressed? This is work that averages well over 6 figures—for a single worker, for desk work—in the US?

https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries

https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/united-...
Do you not realize that one country learns how to make useful things like blouses, computers, phones, shoes, and the other country only knows how to make fake money?

What happens when the country that makes everything else realizes they can also make up fake money just as easily as anyone else?
Rhetoric is part of the part of the Trivium[0] and was taught to elite American kids getting a Classical education starting around the age of 15. By this time they would have already studied Latin grammar and a bit of logic and dialectic.

I imagine some advanced students also read some selections on the topic by Cicero.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium
Via Facebook groups like the original DC9 and ANCAPISTAN, I wound up following accounts by Zylphia Sepiida and Alison Aries, both of whom claimed to have tulpas. Truly wild characters.
Nvidia cloud instances have competition. What happens when you get vendor lock in with TPU and have no exit plan? Arguably it's competition that drives value creation, not capitalism.
Further, any hit it might want to take at the other powers would be either not cost effective (against Russia) or would harm them very badly in short and medium term (China or moves regarding Taiwan.)

Moving against EU would not get them anything and the same bit as regarding China applies.

Truth is, war is an expense. You need to count on a serious long term benefit to wage it.
Depends on your use cases. I use Nix all the time at work but I don't use NixOS there at all. (I'd like to, but there are barriers and it's not a priority.) Distros like that don't address my use cases at all.
I think Japan would have pushed through their real estate bubble if they just able to focus on automation like they were in the 80s and 90s. But the rise of cheap labor and great logistics in China ironically did those efforts in (or maybe it came too early?) and the Japanese economy fell behind for two decades.
We stan a mito story! My old lab discovered some of what we called "kiss and run" dynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss-and-run_fusion

Which had to do with watching live mitos exchange their insides. Specifically, to watch this process, you load your mitos with photoactivatable fluorophores, then use a laser to tag some which changes say your green emitting protein to red. Then you follow the color changed particles being exchanged between mitos. Same mechanism probably used here to watch cells swap mitos. Oh, and this has to be done with live cells.

Very cool stuff, mitos are so important to metabolism and more I hope we see mitohacking, as mentioned by perrygeo. A much safer performance enhancer when it's your own mitos.
I think you're operating in Marx's C-M-C circuit. Nothing wrong with that, of course (I'm that way too).

A lot of the finance folks work in an M-C-M' world, where Money (M) is the alpha and the omega, so you see this kind of (IMO) perverse behavior.

I've found this mental model helpful in explaining these kinds of behavior.
First Week with Journelly
Reminds me of Minix OS by Andrew Tannenbaum.

Anyone remember the debate between microkernel vs monolithic kernel?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_d...
> No it isn't, productivity has to increase, that's why we constantly get rid of jobs that do not provide much value.

Our measures of “value” are wrong.

> I don't know what you are ranting about

My point is that a lot of what we think of as “higher value” activities are actually derivative of and downstream of our industrial supremacy. As China takes up that mantle, the higher value activities will go along with it. E.g., how long do we expect the US to do the cutting edge nuclear power and weapons research when China is the one building all the nuclear power plants?

I mean look at the path dependency that led to Silicon Valley. Why did the software revolution happen in the same place we were building the microchips?
Ok, I'll elaborate.

US freight railroads used to carry a larger variety of goods and serve a larger variety of customers than they do today. They were never in the business of delivering finished goods directly to retail stores, but they did transport a large amount of single-carload and less-than-carload deliveries between factories and warehouses. This is why if you visit older industrial areas you will see train tracks everywhere, including in the middle of the street and sometimes directly into buildings.

When the trucking industry was deregulated in 1980, trucking companies undercut railroads on low-volume high-profit routes, leaving the railroads to focus on low-value bulk goods like coal. The total volume of freight actually went up, but both revenue per unit and gross revenue fell. The railroads struggled to justify the cost of maintenance on now less busy lines, so they abandoned many of them and neglected the maintenance on others. That made it impossible to win back the lost business from the trucking industry even as the cost of trucking skyrocketed. Everyone is now worse off except for the owners of the trucking companies.

As for Switzerland, they invented a special kind of shipping container and that can be loaded/unloaded from a train or truck with no need for a crane. This allows them to make carload and intermodal deliveries without building any new infrastructure.

https://actsag.ch/index.php/de/system
Evidence suggesting Quasar Alpha is OpenAI's new model
Life is a canvas for experience, love, struggle, beauty, boredom, surprise.
Inanimate matter or energy cannot birth these.

Life can track changes in the environment over time and respond.
Inanimate matter is inert.

Feeling pretty lost IS part of life, thus. Your curiosity is an expression of life. Seeking peace, solace is not something non-life can do.
Fair enough

I'm envious that you work solo. I think that would change my perspective on a lot of things

Thanks for the good faith discussion, anyways
I remapped K to :grep for the word under the cursor instead. The way I did it, though, is such that if I give it the numeric prefix, it will do the man lookup in that section.

:nmap K "_y:execute count ? ( ":!man " . count . " " . expand("<cword>") ) : ( ":grep \\<" . expand("<cword>") . "\\>")<CR>

I have it mapped to do :grep in visual mode also, without the fallback on man.

:vmap K "zy:execute ":grep " . getreg("z")<CR>

Maybe newer Vim has a solution for "grep word under cursor"; it's such an obvious use case. I'm trained on K though.
Austerity measures predate Brexit by quite a bit as a result of deliberate choices by a conservative government. Brexit accelerated pre-existing downtrends.

Many parallels may be drawn: austerity vs DOGE in gutting government services, the deluded nativist/isolationist core of Brexit vs the tariffing the entire world, xenophobia, and most obviously a nostalgia of past-greatness that doesn't quite fit the present circumstances.
I'm possibly a similar vintage and enjoy telling my kids about changes that have happened within my lifetime, and not just things I've read of. TVs without remotes, to corded remotes, to normal remotes, all-in-one things, remotes with touch pads, everyone watching shows on personal devices with touchscreens, etc. Or from rotary phones to corded to cordless to early mobile phones, to what they're familiar with now. Record players, rewinding cassette tapes with a pencil, recording songs from radio, carrying around CDs with your Discman, minidiscs, MP3s, streaming. Such an interesting and wide series of changes.

Meanwhile, earlier this week my otherwise-clever 12 yo tried to pinch zoom a paper map...
Pharmaceutical companies are huge advertisers for news publications and shows. It's not because the readers and viewers can buy the product because they can't. They advertise because it buys influence over the news.
Study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.13097 | https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13097
thanks!

I share the same sentiment. I remember thinking in college how annoying it was that I was reading low-resolution, marked-up, skewed, b&w scans of a book using Adobe Acrobat while CS concentrators were doing everything in VS Code (then brand new).

but we do think voice is actually great with Cursor. It’s also really useful in the terminal for certain things. Checking out or creating branches, for example.
The Art of Elliptical Python Programming
Tesla Canada says its shady $43M incentive grab was a misunderstanding
Genuine non-Duplo, non-Megablocks real honest LEGO? Wow.

I've not seen it except by accident (wedged in something) in over a decade, the Goodwills I know all send it to the central area to be auctioned: https://shopgoodwill.com/
It’s not only PCRE. Any dialect with back references will require a backtracking engine that can go exponential with the wrong expression and input.

This includes most flavors of regexp you find in the wild: Python’s re module, JavaScript regular expressions, Ruby’s regular expressions, Perl, PCRE, and even basic and extended REs used in grep.

Russ Cox has written some very accessible posts on the linear (in input) properties of NFAs and the equivalence of Thompson regular expressions [0]. There’s also quite a bit of literature on the Glushkov construction of regular expressions (and its NFA equivalence) [1] that’s worth reading if you find the topic interesting.

Both Go and Rust have non-backtracking regular expression libraries, and you can find solid non-backtracking C and C++ libraries for regular expressions (eg: libfsm and Hyperscan).

0: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
1: My favorite is _Flexible Pattern Matching Strings: Practical On-Line Search Algorithms for Texts and Biological Sequences_ by Gonzalo Navarro
Eino provides a Golang AI application development framework with various component integrations and the ability to orchestrate Chains and Graphs similar to LangChain and LangGraph.
I've been working a lot with parser combinators lately, they are a really nice compromise between using grammar languages (I'd put regexes in this category, as well as parser generators) and hand-rolled imperative parsers. The parser combinator library ends up being a DSL for describing grammars in your preferred language, but the boundary is fluid, and you can move back and forth between writing grammars and writing code in your preferred language.

The bold implementer could integrate regexes into their parser combinator library, and you could move between all three.
Modern ANZ ones also have the plastic coating as well. It seems to be a more recent introduction though so there are still plenty of non-plastic-coated ones. Is this also the case for the UK/EU ones?

I, at least, try and dispose of any non-plastic-coated plugs though.
The main issue is that pretty much everyone who wants to read it has already.
Very cool, keep it up. Always good to see innovations, creativity and curiosity in the database space.
RFC 3446 – Introduce the Store API for great good
Things like this give us enshitification. When the consumer has no understanding of what they're buying, they have to take corporations at their word that new "features" are actually beneficial, when they're mostly beneficial to the seller.

Kind of like how an ignorant electorate makes for a poor democracy, an ignorant consumer base makes for a poor free market.
The big one that springs to mind, though it's not a Haskell idea, are algebraic effects and effects handler
> reciprocal tariffs.

I find it curiously useful that Trump’s blatant lying can be used as a shibboleth. E.g.: they’re not reciprocal tariffs, so almost everyone calling them that is a “true believer” that accepts Trump at his word.
Interesting comparison towards the end.

> SpaceX has launched at a rate nearly 34 times higher than United Launch Alliance since the start of 2023, but ULA has more experience with high-energy missions, featuring more complex maneuvers to place military payloads directly into geosynchronous orbit, and sometimes releasing multiple payloads at different locations in the geosynchronous belt.

> This is one of the most challenging mission profiles for any rocket, requiring a high-endurance upper stage, like Vulcan's Centaur V, capable of cruising through space for eight or more hours.

> SpaceX has flown a long-duration version of its upper stage on several missions by adding an extended mission kit. This gives the rocket longer battery life and a custom band of thermal paint to help ensure its kerosene fuel does not freeze in the cold environment of space.
There's a neighborhood in Tokyo called Jinbōchō, which built an entire town out of different specialist second-hand book shops.
If you ever need a specific book on a specific thing, you bet you can find it there.
It's pretty sweet.
What are some safety guarantees for CSS?
Why do you keep saying "fake money"? China can use that fake money to buy real things from anyone in the world.

It's improbable that Trump has Klinefelters because people with Klinefelters tend to be infertile. It's more likely that he got forged results from a shady clinic.

Countries with excess USD buy T-bills because it beats holding it in a bank account, and converting it to CNY would be bad for exports. But some other countries also put it to more creative uses like sovereign PE funds.
That’s…not what I asked. Y’all need to recognize that Darwinism was intended as an explanatory theory, not as an ethos. And it’s not how we judge building practices.
You’re really underplaying how awful the life was for an average person in before-times. Sure, pretty buildings, different cultures, and etc. were more prominent. But also an average person would never be able to enjoy those in their lifetimes.
To be fair, pages like the one you link only talk about the official standards, which mean very, very little in most of the world.

I wouldn't assume anything about voltage in much of South America / Africa / Asia. You're going to get a frankenstein NEMA-Schuko-Chinese power outlet that will give you some amount of power for some amount of hours in the day, for a definition of 'some' that no one will be able to specify for you with any great precision and that will vary from town to town.
We can do that, with some help from the community.
Genspark Super Agent [video]
Hats off to whoever convinced management that selling Colossus via cloud was Artificial Intelligence. Bravo.
One question I have is what is the plan on implementing full SQL? I see currently you're only implementing maybe 15% of SQL92. Are you implementing your own SQL-like language?
Retro Computing Artifacts Stream
In full context, it was implicitly "as opposed to anywhere else".

I look at many documents every day. 90% of them are PDFs and most were Word docs before that. Pages on the web are incredibly unreliable. In the programming world random websites are more commonly used but I don't think they are actually much more reliable. A lot of online resources are just some guy's blog post. Sometimes they're great. Sometimes not.
Anecdotal evidence of curative effects even for long term symptomatic infection exists.
Fun fact - you already have them. The gnu project made ‘info’ pages decades ago to solve exactly this problem. It never caught on outside of the gnu project though, sadly.
Indeed, although even if it is unplugged only a careless moron would step on a plug. Rather like stepping on Lego - yes it would hurt but it's easily avoided!
One more for fun :)

https://retro-computing-stream.onrender.com/
NB: A subtitle is one option HN prefers, but there are other options, including lifting a line from the article itself. "Always" is too strong a qualifier.

(I've frequently suggested title changes to HN's mod team, I'm pretty familiar with this.)
It is genuinely the worst IMHO:

1. Too large and heavy to carry around.

2. Requires grounding (third pin), even when devices don't need it. Other standards let devices decide.

3. Doesn't allow the cord to go straight out of the plug, it always go sideways which makes it even clunkier, harder to plug (e.g. behind a nightstand at a hotel), and more prone to cord damage from bending.

CEE 7/3 and CEE 7/5 (known as "French" and "German") are way better IMHO. I doubt they have problems with "wiggling and sparking" -- that wouldn't pass certification. And it's easy to make a plug to fit both of them, with or without grounding. CEE 7/5 can even be plugged upside down.
> Some do extremely well, many don't do well at all.

Some people don't like ice cream, too.

When one makes general statements, replying that it isn't 100% is pointless.
If it happens, the US will have nobody to blame other than itself. Industry is what generates wealth. The USA deindustrialized itself when it moved all of its manufacturing overseas for the sake of greater profits. It gave away its intellectual property on a silver platter so that things could be made cheaply. Other countries are only too happy to take advantage of american greed.
Flipped classroom sounds horrible to me. I never liked being given time to work on essays or big projects in class. I prefer working at home, where the environment is much more comfortable and I can use equipment the school doesn't have, where I can wait until I'm in the right mood to focus, where nobody is pestering me about the intermediary stages of my work, etc.

It also seems like a waste of having an expert around to be doing something you could do at home without them.

Exams should increasingly be written with the idea in mind that students can and will use AI. Open book exams are great. They're just harder to write.
by all statistics, it is Americans that make the life in the USA insufferable: corrupt politicians, oligarchs, lobbyists, party leaders, and criminals (the ones that sell drugs and shoot people).

go to any county/state jail and try to find a single H-1B visa holder there... its all home grown foundational Americans, raised on McDonalds and Coke
Struggling to find a definition, but seemingly zonal just means there's a massive instance per cluster.

Did find some interesting recent (March 28th, 2025) reads though!

Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer...

I kind of thought you meant ZNS / https://zonedstorage.io/ at first, or it's more recent better awesomer counterpart Host Directed Placement (HDP). I wish someone would please please advertize support for HDP, sounds like such a free win, tackling so many write amplification issues for so little extra complexity: just say which stream you want to write to, and writes to that stream will go onto the same superblock. Duh, simple, great.
> In the meantime, tariffs are raised on every country to gauge which side they are on

Why on earth would you be on the side of a country like this? Why we should be an ally of the US right now, if Trump can't even uphold agreements he signed himself 5 years ago? What guarantees do we have that, as soon as we decouple from China, the US won't treat us as a vassal because we gave up our only alternative? The only rational choice is to either be neutral or ally with China.
Forsaking Industrialism: The Most Expensive Thing You Didn't Buy
> I've done it once, and the process is lightweight. And I probably could ignore it in practice with no one actually caring. But the fact that the process even exists is enough of a blocker that I don't readily publish my hobby projects anymore, and that's kinda shitty.

and they know this, and that's the point... there's a reason people talk about the chilling effects of shitty, but not technically illegal behavior

> For the record, my employer is Google.

Yeah, I knew that from your hn profile. Which caused me to ask a friend, also SRE at google, how onerous it was, he said basically the exact same thing you did, just intrusive enough his github is also completely empty.

I wonder what cool stuff doesn't exist today because of it
Another few pieces here listening to your video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzDnA_EVhTU

You mention it runs in process? How does this occur? You mention running cached in memory tables. So you're caching on at the application level, not the storage level?

There's a few things with the video I find misleading. You mention 400ms at best to parse, plan and execute a query; That's not true, what about the type of query, etc.

Overall I can see it's still early, which is ok. I will review the code and see what else I can find.
Because it's across a few projects and none of them are popular enough to be worth listing.
Media Archaeology Lab Collections
I was under the impression that idx was formerly just the editor, but I guess that's changed.
> “This provision simply prevents the Democrats from limiting the president’s authority,” said a senior House GOP leadership aide.

This is quite telling. I'd be curious what this aide thought the role of Congress is.
Can't we implement this with Actors framework
But in this case it is me who controls when anything gets updated. And I have all of my dependencies in the container. So I get reproducible builds. Also, dependencies of one package do not interfere with dependencies of another package.
What are the exact steps to repeat this on my own laptop?

Surely, I don't use the wav files for their laptop for mine.
I do remember reading somewhere that for all the vaunted safety features of the plugs, etc, more people do in fact die in Europe and the UK than in the US from contact with the mains, precisely because of the 240V potential. (Definitely anecdata, would be curious about the hard numbers too!)

Of course, the trade off is much faster kettles. How many lives is faster tea worth? For the British, clearly the answer is 'yes'. :P
more expensive shoes will lead to longer lead times to sell inventory, due to downward slope of the Demand curve (less demand for more expensive shoes).

If you sell $75 shoes, you can sell 1000 units/mo, but if your shoes are $100 you can only sell 700/mo and it will take 1.5 months to sell 1000 units.

This effectively increases fixed overheads per pair of shoes and decreases net margin per pair, given constant demand
you've got nothing to worry about here.

if firebase studio can make a todo app, i'd be surprised. this is the worst "vibe coding" tool i've ever used.
I agree. It's a pity because it's a very interesting result and the video is very nice, but the title is just horrible. No law of thermodynamics has been broken.
I know the character is Lazarus Long. Which book was this quote in?
If you have a distribution of work where most is easy and cheap, some is moderate and moderate, and a little is difficult and expensive, and you take out all the cheap and easy work, the moderate and difficult work could drop in price but the average of the remaining work will still be higher than before.

e.g.

You have tasks advertised in the distribution $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $2, $2, $3, $3, $5, $5, $10. Median price is $2, and average is $2.76.

All the $1 and $2 tasks are replaced with AI. Old tasks get $1 cheaper each as there are more people that can do them. Now the distribution is $2, $2, $4, $4, $9. Median is $4, average is $4.2.

So you have made labour less valuable but the prices advertised go up because only the more expensive work now gets advertised.
New debt would be cheaper. Most US treasuries are fixed rate debt. There may be some FRNs (floating rate notes) floating around (pardon the pun) but not many. Tbills are discount instruments but also wouldn’t be affected until they mature and new ones are issued.
They should have realized

1) how much damage he would do to their interests because he is so deeply stupid

2) He is so stupid and stubborn he is hard to control.

The rich letting Trump become President to get lower taxes is as irresponsible as hiring a mentally disable child molester to babysit your kids because he is cheap.