skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But why does the EU even want a manufacturing sector, don’t you all realize that no sane person wants those jobs?

Why do you equate responding to Trump's tariffs with "want a manufacturing sector"? Trump is pushing the US to isolate itself from the world, not the EU. A few years ago the likes of Volkswagen were investing in auto factories in Morocco.
I've heard harley davidson motorcycles are more coveted, and the smaller ones might fit in a lane :)
Indeed, GP's hypothesis can be trivially challenged by asking "If it's so easy, why isn't everyone doing it?"
I get that this is harmless fun - and I am legitimately happy that people got out and had some fun making up flyers and hanging out with other people. When I saw all those people hanging out in the park on a glorious Spring day, I admit I felt a twinge of jealousy as I sit here alone at my desk.

But I've got to say... I find it a bit distasteful how Americans increasingly seem to be more united by their dislikes than their interests.

Recently there was a frontpage HN news post about "stoop coffee" [1] - and that felt like a much more chill and constructive approach to doing nothing with other people.

[1] https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simpl...
It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of the immigration judge’s determination that Garcia was a member of MS13, because that determination was affirmed by the BIA and Garcia did not appeal. Garcia’s lawyers concede that Garcia is an illegal immigrant and the government could have deported him anywhere except El Salvador: “The government could have chosen to remove Mr. Abrego Garcia to any other country on earth…”
lol, I imagined EVs that could get up and walk to a parking space...

(article talks about transformers in the electrical grid)
Imagine that your reputation didn't matter, getting sued was out of the question, and there was no criminal liability: your job, backed by the government, is to be employed by as many tech firms for as long as you can, you'd probably work pretty hard on coming up with a reasonable but very good resume and work hard on how to interview well. Now, you're a professional interviewer and might conduct 10x-100x more interviews than your average dev, and have a network of people helping you optimize your cheating.

Given that background, I personally find it unsurprising that they're having success and AI tools are just making it that much easier
Who writes this garbage? It reads like a Gordon Chang article.
I’ve been playing a lot with Claude Code recently and also making my first significant foray into front end development, and I think that LLMs are the tech that have finally made front end development broadly accessible.
Was that because they were in a rush to ignore a judge's order temporarily halting the deportations?
Protecting Earth from asteroids is part of the job we hired the Moon to do. I mean, have you seen the back side of that thing?

Kidding aside, an argument can be made that life on Earth would never have had time to evolve if not for the Moon's protective effect against cataclysmic impacts.
What is going on at the end of this comment? Are LLMs posting on HN now?
The sandbox is a lightweight Alpine-based container, it runs as a non-root user for security, it has minimal dependencies installed (curl, bash, coreutils)

The container has restricted outbound access—only HTTP/S requests are allowed. It runs inside an isolated network namespace with no access to the host network or other infrastructure components. There's no inbound access, and the container can't receive unsolicited requests from the outside world.

The sandbox container can only communicate with other containers in the same network, the main application container and sandbox container are on the same network, allowing them to communicate.
How about this: tell a truck driver, construction worker, farmer, fast food employee: software engineering is so easy, you should go do it.

Clearly, being a truck driver, construction worker, farmer, fast food employee is easier for them, and software engineering is harder, otherwise they would have switched to the easier and better paying job.
Webots: Open-Source Robot Simulator
Distance-Based ISA for Efficient Register Management
Don't worry. There are people with privilege who would never understand the mean. They fly high due to their circumstances and are just lucky.

Us, we have go strive for living. That's the unfairness in life. It would have been so much easier if lucky ones would acknowledge their luck than attribute for hard work and what not.

Everyone discounts luck while it is the biggest factor. Only action you can do is increase the surface area of your luck.

Try to find meaning beyond career. There are multiple ways to get lucky. Find your own luck. After all we are in an era where people get wealth screaming on top of their lungs to the internet.
I wonder how effective the propaganda apparatus in inside North Korea really. And also… I wonder if there’s a bit of a gap of stuff that is, like, not something that a westerner would be aware of.

Like if the person says “the carrot harvest was terrible last year and the uniforms are very itchy, it’s like he’s correctly but annoyingly prioritizing other things” they might be a spy.

I mean that is a silly example but you get the idea hopefully.
>Apparently, it is unfair that the United States has to buy rare earth metals from other countries because they are not naturally found domestically.

This off-topic aside at the end being false doesn't really matter to the rest of the claims of the article. But...

For the most part rare earths are found in the USA and there are inactive mines which could be resumed. But once you remove the host material from the ground, and the rare earths from it, it becomes "concentrated" low level radioactive waste that is so expensive to dispose of that it is no longer economically viable to mine the rare earths from it.

ref: https://www.epa.gov/radiation/tenorm-rare-earths-mining-wast... (2024)

ref: Critical Minerals and TENORM: How Do
Permitting Reform and Executive Branch
Actions Address Radioactivity? (2023) https://www.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/Remplex%20S... (pdf, EPA)
One item was missing from the list:

If you have some annoying bugs in your product, your customers will rush to purchase the next release, because they'll believe that the bugs will be fixed.

Microsoft has used this strategy with enormous success.
I didn't parse the title as "Why (Companies Don't Fix Bugs)", rather I parsed it more like "Why Companies (Don't Fix Bugs)"

The article isn't arguing that "companies don't fix bugs" universally, rather it is explaining, in cases when they don't fix bugs, why they did not do so.

Sort of like if you saw an article about job searching titled "Why Employers Don't Respond"
I NEED TO GO TO JAPAN NOW.
I read "Fuck" as an adjective modifying "Run". You know... they go on Fuck Runs.
Something I learned over the last year as I got into running is that many avid runners don't even like running.

I wouldn't say that I "like" running, either. I got into running because I was experiencing a mental health crisis, and I needed something besides drugs and alcohol to deal with feelings that were otherwise impossible for me to cope with.

Suddenly, as a guy who has shouted "what are you running from?" at Bay to Breakers celebrants, what had been a joke became a dark and profound awareness. It turns out, I was asking myself that question. Running, paradoxically, helped give me the emotional resilience to face what I was running from head on.

There are very few things in this world that cost you nothing, are equally available to everyone, and can automatically, reliably and immediately improve your subjective experience.

This is a brilliant joke, and I love it. But the flip side is that almost everyone I know that ever got into running has Been Through Some Shit, is aware that running is annoying, not very fun, and kind of cringe, and Does Not Care, because whatever it is, running helps.

All of which is to say — you can think of run clubs as support groups, for everyone who has found themselves with a good reason to run, to be seen by other people who Know. For many runners I know, it's impossible to hate them anymore than they used to hate themselves. So, bring on the jokes.
If you are hiring me for my ability to do code don't offend my intelligence by proposing something like 'fizz-buzz'
So whenever I have gotten a job in tech, I've had to complete a background check if I get the job offer. How exactly are these fake profiles passing basic background checks?

They would have to be impersonating real people if pretending to be Americans. Unless these companies aren't doing the most basic background checks beyond just looking at resumes and LinkedIn profiles. Pretty weird and seems not too difficult to prevent...
I share your sentiment, I don’t believe that important women don’t exist there. Surely there has been some kind of bias here. Does anyone else agree?
Check out their robots.

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

Female companion robot as early as 2005.
It isn't just big companies. Bugs get buried at all stages of a companies growth, for similar reasons.
> When using a European server from Europe I expect < 10ms ping.

I'm living in reality, where a globally available application needs to serve people all over the globe from Cloudflare's >300 data centers. This means a worker running in the same data center hosting your D1 databases might get ~10ms requests, but workers running on all other >300 data centers have to pay for the round trip to the primary data center whenever there is a cache miss.

The question you need to ask yourself is how come you failed to notice that. Do you have a good grasp on what you are doing?
React Server Confusion
Was that a comment meant for a different post? The article ends with:
>> “With a resounding mandate from the American people, President Trump is moving quickly to fulfill his promise of making the federal government more efficient. He has promised to protect Social Security, and every recipient will continue to receive their benefits.”
I only skimmed this but it has several things that make me suspicious. Mainly that they did not require a diagnosis for ADHD but instead separated participants based on a questionnaire regarding symptoms. Additionally their participant pool somehow contained more than 20% of neurodevelopmental disorders and other mental health disorders which seems very high.
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It is the second paragraph from the end.

>But people like Musk and Trump are rich beyond belief and do not have to worry about such working-class issues. Perhaps the greatest irony is that the ongoing trade war started by President Trump is expected to hurt his base, working-class Americans, the most. Apparently, it is unfair that the United States has to buy rare earth metals from other countries because they are not naturally found domestically.

Again, sorry for going off-topic here. Rushed infrastructure changes in complex software systems are almost univerally a terrible idea. Especially with such a dodgey and non-status quo way of forcing the implementation.
Given that every product roadmap now looks to jam AI into every cranny, probably best to live with the bugs you know.
Applying the principle of least resistance to working out is the right way. The best workout will always be the one you can do consistently.

https://matt.might.net/articles/hacking-strength/
> Would clearly be a better name

It appears that it wanted to be services.WeatherService, which if reduced to service.Weather isn't looking so bad, but core ended up being introduced because the unnecessary interface already overloaded the namespace. The code doesn't accidentally highlight - it is crying out.

> always makes me feel like my types are dangling out in space

That's the idea, though, isn't it? Each package is its own distinct thing, intended to be useful and usable across many projects. There shouldn't be any kind of deep interconnectedness in most cases – and where there needs to be, you will typically place the related packages in a subfolder to communicate that relationship. I can't think offhand of any package manager that maintains anything other than a flat list of dependencies, and that's essentially what you are building here too.

I do think you have a point that many other ecosystems have a mindset where you are only building a single application with no attempt to find reusability beyond the immediate codebase. In large part because those languages/ecosystems require a bunch of extra, often complex, steps to make packages exportable. It can be a bit of mental shift to consider an application as a set of discrete, reusable parts if you come from those places.
What's this a free virus?
(didn't check just cautious)
The amount of slop on Google has ruined everything, it is hard even for me to find papers and I know about it. But I do have a starting point for you:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2246629/

It is genuinely surprising but there is evidence for it.
What is the result of this “study”? Teens often listen to music!! ADHD is just a buzzword to fish attention.

How comes that academics nowadays produce more and more such crappy papers?
You're doing the racist rhetoric.

There's no one in north korea that isn't "an agent of the state"? Give me a break. You sound ridiculous.
I've been taught to respect the elders. But now I've seen that there are enough of them which aren't honest, good people, but only know how to present themselves in a positive light, while looking down on the ones they live with.

I now stand neutral against them: they may be good, they may not be. There's nothing in their age which makes them deserve more respect than the one younger people deserve.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43618143
> He hasn't been charged with any crime though.

The law doesn’t require being charged with or convicted of a crime for deportation. Garcia is deportable simply for being an illegal alien. The connection to MS13 is simply about prioritizing who gets deported first. Thus it makes sense that it doesn’t require a criminal conviction.

> That he has a family of citizens should keep him in the country. It's cruelty to split up families with deportation.

That’s not the law, and would create a tremendous moral hazard if it were the law. It’s cruel to Americans to import Latin America’s gang problems. We got the Italian mafia along with mass Italian immigration, and it took decades to clean it up. The Italian mob was doing hits in nice midtown manhattan restaurants until the 1980s until we developed RICO theories to put everyone in prison.
Which one specifically?
Huh?? I know people doing gig work struggling to live paycheck to paycheck. People making less than $50k a year who do not think they are "subhuman".

Why are you equating money with self-worth and dignity? That's a losing battle since there's always a bigger fish.
I guess it depends on your use case.

I start up a clean emacs for many tasks, many times a day.

I usually run one or more instances of emacs, each with a group of buffers, sometimes 20 or 30.

I don't daemonize emacs because that would mix all kinds of per-task buffers together. It would be like people who run everything on one desktop. Maybe some people have very simple computer use. I run multiple virtual desktops, each for a different type of task.

startup time is still a little slow, but I just deal with it. I also byte-compile as much as possible. I even have an after-save-hook to byte-compile any changed .el startup file.

I don't know, maybe daemonizing might work for the folks who routinely have 99+ tabs open in their browser.
Every complaint is a projection with that crowd.
The article gets into this where real Americans do job interviews and if they get a job they can keep 30% of the salary and have to pass off the remaining 70%:

> In the IT worker scheme, once someone involved gets an interview, North Koreans use remote-desktop tools to help coach people through the Q&A with a recruiter.

> Aidan Raney, founder of Farnsworth Intelligence, posed as an American willing to help North Koreans to investigate the issue for a client who almost hired a fake engineer. During the course of two video calls with three or four people who all said their names were “Ben,” Raney learned the details. “The Bens” would handle all the upfront work for him—creating a fake LinkedIn profile to verify his new identity for U.S. recruiters, formulating a bio, and sending it out to dozens of job postings with a new Gmail address they set up.

> The Bens even modified Raney’s headshot to a black-and-white photo so it wouldn’t resemble his usual picture, Raney told Fortune. If Raney got a job, he would show up for meetings, like a morning stand-up or scrum, and go about his day while a North Korean engineer handled the workload. Raney would be allowed to keep 30% of the salary but had to transfer 70% to the Bens using crypto, Paypal, or Payoneer.

> “What they were trying to do was use my identity to bypass background checks, and so they wanted this fake persona they created to be extremely close to the real-life version,” said Raney.

> The Bens got Raney an interview, and while it was ongoing, they used a remote-desktop application to set up a notepad on Raney’s screen so they could write out responses to the questions from the interviewer, Raney explained. And it worked: Raney got a verbal offer for a job with a private government contractor that paid $80,000 a year.

> He then had to immediately turn around and tell the company he couldn’t accept the offer and apologize for claiming their time.
Chinese submersible reaches deepest point of Diamantina Trench (2023)
You'd be happy to know we measure the size of horses in hands
Sometimes I ask myself if Torvald's greater contribution to society wouldn't be Git, instead of Linux.
With a lot of the products I support, I suspect the real reason is that they had originally hired outsourced programmers, or got rid of most of their in house programmers over the years, and literally have no ability to fix simple issues in a cost effective way. It's why they always try to push you to the next version of the program that is a ground up rewrite instead of continuing to support the existing version.
Timely reminder to head to World Market to stock up on pre-tarriff teacakes and caramel wafers..
You are arguing from this bucket

> conversely if we delete funds nominally allocated to X or Y it means we don't care about X or Y

I am saying you can't assume that because money was allocated for something it went to the critical thing you wanted. Like 45 billion for rural broadband.

> The example here was doctor reimbursement.

Yes. If the doctor reimbursement is improper you don't pay it out. It is the hospital's job to get things right when asking for money. If the hospital sent an invoice for a procedure the patient did not actually get (this was a large amount of the waste), you REALLY DO NOT PAY, if you pay then you are signaling to the hospital that it's OK to keep overcharging the VA.
> Git was always worse than Mercurial. It won because of GitHub. If MercurialHub had been invented instead we’d all be using that and would be much happier.

MercurialHub was invented. It’s called Bitbucket, it was founded around the same time as GitHub, and it started out with Mercurial. People wanted Git, so Bitbucket was forced to switch to Git.
check out their submissions. nearly all the recent ones have the same structure
And even if it was bigger, and it dislodged bigger rocks, these rocks would basically stay in the same orbit around the Earth as the moon is. The extreme amount of dV it would take to escape the moon’s existing orbit in the right direction so as to fall anywhere near the Earth makes this scenario improbable. I believe (don’t quote me) that we are talking on the order of 10km/s.
Makes you think, if your life was reduced to a trading card, would anyone want it? For most, probably not.
What a wonderful way to make sure no foreign companies build factories inside EU.
huh, didnt know, thats pretty crazy
> The Paycheck Protection Program, for small businesses affected by the pandemic, helped keep us afloat.

In the grand scheme of PPP shenanigans it’s nothing, but how was an online-only _news_ website negatively impacted by perhaps the most globally relevant, urgent, and ongoing news story of the internet age?
You should ask a LLM to create a VCS that will let you not do all these things you don't want to do.
> Don’t let the machine do the thinking for you.

It seems ironic that the author's use of AI in writing this article turned what began as a really thoughtful analysis of a study into an AI listicle devoid of any human experience.
Those policies ostensibly make life better for people, but the main reason they exist is because they stimulate technological development by driving up the cost of labor. Societies where labor was cheap, like dixie and ancient rome, weren't going to get us to the singularity. Their smart people were too comfortable. As for YIMBY now that's something we can agree on.
Literally the first paragraph:

"The results also reveal a difference in the proportion of individuals preferring stimulating music between the groups: ADHD-screened individuals report significantly more frequent listening to stimulating music, regardless of the activity type (more or less cognitive). Other aspects of music listening are common to both groups."
Every one claims experience in the topic too

People can be so lame
> Your Startup Doesn’t Need to Be a Unicorn

yes it does. https://paulgraham.com/growth.html

> —say, less than $1M—

why not go for an SBA loan then instead of VC?
Likewise. I thought the last third was kind of fun science fiction. The first two thirds were a huge downer.
There's no one _outside_ north korea
Im not sure, but if they are including subclinical cases, that doesn't seem crazy on the face of it, to me.
Wherever you want. It's a very open-minded club.
Japan always does the hard thing. If someone misbehaves and two people are close by you can be sure that they loudly will talk with each other about how the person misbehaves (they are not afraid). The prisons are very strict, with beatings if you don’t follow authority. The police acts swiftly and have small offices everywhere . Green tea and healthy food makes people be able to control their mood (hard to not stuff your face).

The rules are very open and clear. The deincentives for misconduct are strong.

The newspapers focus are different. More fun or actionable news.

People just think they are built different, that is not the case. They just succeed with many small things that makes a greater whole. But people just dismiss it as a culture thing, which is reductive.
Is it really racist? North Korea is the most tightly controlled country in the world. Seems too easy to just throw out the racist card when you did not refute or provide any counter point.

I am certain there are good people in North Korea but it would be hard to figure folks allegiances. A lifetime of propaganda can really do something to the mind.
That is mentioned in the Strength and Limitations section.
When I was growing up, bullying seemed to start older, maybe 14 years old, and sort of tapered off in high school.
In the US, getting a lawyer just to incorporate is flushing money down the drain. At best you can do it yourself (and in most states it's not particularly complex), at worst there are cheap online services to help you.
And the bit before it:

> The results indicate that certain listening habits differ significantly between the neurotypical and ADHD-screened groups. The ADHD-screened group reports significantly more background music listening during less cognitive activities and while studying, compared to the neurotypical group.

I don't think it's an interesting conclusion, so maybe the GP is looking for something more substantial.