skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The special case was that big chunks of Germany ended up under the control of capitalists. The pattern in Germany, Japan and even Korea is that in the post-war era the US understood how to build up a country's economy and their policy formula was effective.

The observation is depressingly simple - competent economic management leads to great results. Typically that involves investing a bunch into developing industrial capability. Listen to people like Ed Deming. Let people build things. The US isn't doing that, we haven't seen any new industrial capability out of them in decades. Silicon Valley is the closest thing they have in the modern era and it is mostly services.

If you ask where the wealth is supposed to come from in the Chinese economy there are a lot of obvious answers - it could be energy innovations from the nuclear or renewable sectors. It could be manufacturing innovation as they work on improving their factories. Maybe they're going to come up with hot new products out of Shenzhen. They're big players in the AI revolution and working to build up domestic semiconductor capabilities. Maybe they're just going to wait for other people to come up with good ideas and copy them with speed and scale on their side.

The US has a much less obvious story. Biotech could be an amazing path, but they've left the ring for a lot of the more promising industrial options. And holding the health industry up as being the way to a bright future seems a bit weird. Maybe they succeed in building a services economy that impresses people; that'd be a cool first.
Do you not believe that there can be mutually beneficial trade situations where both/all parties involved might be happy?

Pissing off your allies is good because if they're happy, that means you didn't squeeze them enough.

Is incredibly simple minded, self centered, and also just not true.
Show HN: Anonymous, ephemeral, distributed forum/message board
This project started out as an easy to run temporary forum/message board for use during emergencies or in areas with no internet. I've run it on an old router with ddwrt that's not connected to the internet.

It's still that, but I added an optional feature to pull posts from other instances of itself which I think creates some interesting distributed use cases. Distributing the posts to other instances can overcome some of the limitations of it being in-memory only.
Cultures evolve, borrow, remix - that's always been true, even long before globalization. People still find ways to hold onto local traditions, stories, food, language - sometimes because the outside world feels so loud.
> TGV stands for train à grande vitesse, or “train of great speed.”

This is one of my pet peeves. Train à grande vitesse means high-speed train in English. There's no need to provide a mechanical word by word translation. It's like people saying al dente means "to the tooth" which is meaningless in English. Being al dente means something has bite. This kind of thing should only be a problem if the target language has no translation.
More than 90% of schools in England ban mobile phone use, survey shows
I understand your belief that One Zone implies less expensive, but I’m staunchly in favor of them having it in the name so people know that their data is in a single AZ. The storage class succinctly summarizes faster with lower availability.
ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system
The problem is there isn’t a viable revenue model. The moment you ask money for it the customers disappear. That means there isn’t a revenue stream to support the extreme cost of model training.

And this is all paid for by people who expect a return. In the middle of a very volatile market.

It’s dead even from a non technical perspective.

From a technical perspective every reducing gain requires more money than the last step. That isn’t something that ever works.
Thanks. Would love to see what you build. Am here to support if you run into any issues.
If you're claiming the UK uses 110V, then you must also include that it uses 415V.

Both of these are only used outside domestic settings. (Until recently, 415V for a car charger is becoming more common)
90 days? We don't know what is going to happen tomorrow or more to the point if you put goods on a boat to the USA you have no way to predict what the tariff will be when they arrive. If you are selling a product that relies on imported parts you can not know your cost of goods until they clear customs.

We are literally in the process of moving some of our operations to LATM to avoid this uncertainty.
Telli (YC F24) is hiring founding engineers in Berlin, Germany (on-site)
Nikko really does feel like stepping back in time if you catch it early enough
> why NOAA in the US is under attack

As far as I know, AccuWeather is the main beneficiary. You can easily find reliable sources about it.

The cause is that NOAA publishes all weather data, calculated models (global coverage), meteostations data (global coverage), and weather radars to the public for free (US only, maybe also Canada, I don't remember). Therefore, many weather companies use such data to do their business and compete directly with AccuWeather. They don't like this.

On the other hand, state weather agencies that calculate global models in many countries don't provide such data for free. Therefore, startups and small companies who work in weather and climate fields use NOAA data and directly compete with AccuWeather or don't pay them for data access.
Never feel bad for what you didn’t make.
It would only cost a few dollars for LLM based translations. I do not see why those cannot be spent.
I tried One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has a family tree before main text. Wish the app mentioned the 17 illegitimate sons, all with same name Aureliano.
It’s a joke…
Can you explain how an added safety feature of a fuse increases the risk of a house burning down?
High probability the target interprets prompt as routine automatic update notification and does nothing.

It's not clear what would actually happen, but it also seems plausible that the hotplug event gets triggered by merely (un)plugging a USB-C charger while folio is closed.
It is on most mainstream computers, even though it is the way in most high integrity computing deployments.
Trains are nice on vacations since I don't care about the price and it's a novel experience. It doesn't make sense to do in America since it's more expensive than having people drive and it limits people's freedom to stations instead of where they need to get to.
It doesn't bother me that much really but if we want to be pedantic the literal rendering would be be "train at great speed" - this would make your point more pronounced.
This is what Llama4 replies (locally running, no system prompt):

"I'm Llama, a Meta-designed model here to adapt to your conversational style. Whether you need quick answers, deep dives into ideas, or just want to vent, joke or brainstorm—I'm here for it. What's on your mind?"

The behavior you are describing is from some long time ago, probably early 2024.
DeepSeek V3 and R1 are about as good (or even slightly better than) 4o already though, so OpenAI wouldn't really lose much by such a release.
At least for news sources, it seems Anthropic seems to provide the best balanced and high-quality news sources.

Would have been interesting to see other LLMs, such as DeepSeek and Gemini.
Describing al dente that way has helped me understand it quite a bit.
Some video games try and do the former; I play too much FFXIV and a recurring theme there is that you go to a new area and you get the tourist's experience, tour the area, view the sights, meet the locals, figure out the local history and culture, etc.

Sure, it's kind of superficial, usually based on human civilizations / design trends / etc; that is:

* Heavensward: Europe / traditional knights and castles and church stuffs

* Stormblood: East-Asia / Japan, clearly a favorite thing to work on from the developers

* Shadowbringers: is actually pretty independent

* Endwalker: Rome / Greece on the one side, India on the other, philosophical existential crises in the late game (that part is actually really good, they invented multiple (7-8 or so?) different civilizations who all achieved some kind of immortality and pursued the meaning of life, ending up disillusioned)

* Dawntrail (latest): south & mesoamerica on the one side, cyberpunk sci-fi on the other
New high-speed train? There is nothing like even France's old high-speed trains in the US
I wish we had /rail/, period, to many destinations. Utah's frontrunner doesn't go far enough north or south, which means I have to own a car :/
Someone pulled that on me years ago. Him and his wife wanted me to hold the fort while they went on holiday. This was after delaying pay cheque twice.

I was gone when they got back and so was their business.

Pre-email ubiquity. So I resigned by email. Which he didn’t see until 2 weeks later.
A truly free market? But free from monopolies and adhering to <insert constraints>?

Kind of sounds like a regulation and not a truly free market.
You put a lot of work into your response, so I’ll try to put a similar amount of work into mine. That’ll probably take a sec, but I want to share a few reactions right now before I’ve had time to develop a complete response.

On your discussion of cults, I think we completely agree. Recently I came across elan.school, and I found it absolutely fascinating in how it depicted the process of brainwashing into a cult and how, whether deliberately or otherwise by the author, it established meaningful parallels between those processes and processes in society at large. Absolutely fascinating stuff and I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, reading, and writing about it lately, so it’ll be fun to check out your resources.

Your mention of hollywood does make me want to ask something though. The most fascinating thing about the cult process to me is that it can eventually become borderline self-sustaining. Nobody has to want any of it, eventually the cult itself as an entity appears to become the cause of its own perpetuation. A bit like the party in 1984. Are you of the opinion that the behavior of hollywood, taking your portrayal for granted, is conscious action by specific actors? It seems to me that these processes are often, or even usually, headless.

On the issue of schools and phones, which I think is where we may find disagreement, could you point to specific functional elements that align with those found under maoism? I don’t even doubt that such elements exist, but it would be nice to examine them in specificity with an example or two.

As I said, I’ll be back to give a more holistic response once I have a little time to formulate one.
Delivering "HDD prices" is a bold claim there.

They charge $20/TB/month for basic cloud storage. You can build storage servers for $20/TB flat. If you add 10% for local parity, 15% free space, 5% in spare drives, and $2000/rack/month overhead, then triple everything for redundancy purposes, then over a 3 year period the price of using your own hard drives is $115/TB and google's price is $720. Over 5 years it's $145 versus $1200. And that's before they charge you massive bandwidth fees.
I guess this students don't pass, do they? I don't think that's a particularly hard concern. It will take a bit more, but will learn the lesson (or drop out).

I'm more worried about those who will learn to solve the problems with the help of an LLM, but can't do anything without one. Those will go under the radar, unnoticed, and the problem is, how bad is it, actually? I would say that a lot, but then I realize I'm pretty useless driver without a GPS (once I get out of my hometown). That's the hard question, IMO.
Thank you for your insight
What’s the average IPC of these chips for a reasonable workload?

Early processors were typically 1 or lower. Modern stuff is all superscalar piplined and out of order and can do way more than you’d expect. Not to mention SIMD operations and other technologies. Branch prediction is probably better on the new chips too.

And with more RAM and cache algorithms can be chosen with different tradeoffs for less instructions.

16 cores at 4ghz was a thing like a decade ago - chips today might have the same specs but are definitely far faster.
The weather app doesn't give much money. The main business sells weather and climate data B2B: agro, insurance, logistics, retail, supply chains, advertisement, medical, etc.

Companies whose primary business is weather apps are small, and such areas are highly competitive.
In the UK (and some former colonies) houses were wired differently to save on copper making fuses in plus necessary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_circuit
Functional programming languages are uniquely suitable for writing parsers for grammars, their whole feature set (discriminated unions, pattern matching etc.) is very suited to turning text into ASTs. It's not often that one needs to parse a custom DSL grammar.

That said, I'd say it's a pretty rare occasion to have that need, and other languages have great libraries for accomplishing the same, I'm partial to Chevrotain for Javascript (https://chevrotain.io/docs/), which has a small DSL for describing grammars.

Parser combinators are both less efficient and less featureful than bespoke solutions, which is a problem when you're writing a parser for your custom language, and you want to add extra features, like resilience, or rich error reporting.

To add a bit of snark, functional languages seem to best suited for writing parsers/compilers for other functional programming languages, which is pretty telling of the inward-facing functional culture.
> I fail to see how they're different, they're both "these are the remote procedures you can call on me, and the required parameters, maybe some metadata of the function/parameters".

For one, REST is not RPC, despite being commonly confused for it and abused as such. The conceptual models are different. It makes more sense for an action-oriented RPC protocol to be defined as such, instead of a proper REST approach (which is going to be way too verbose), or some bastardized "RESTful" protocol that's just weirdly-structured RPC designed so people can say, "look ma', I'm using HTTP verbs, I'm doing REST".
You meet a lot of weirdos while contracting. I once had a client send me chocolate instead of a bank transfer. I ate the chocolate but still fired him. Surprisingly, he couldn't understand why I was being so immature.
God forbid people learn a language's idioms by the actual way they are constructed and used.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/TJ1DEjUEk9
More expensive that driving? My public transport ticket for my whole state costs less than 400EUR, (whole country ~1000) while a car would run me around 6000/year, depending on how much I'm driving
Isn't it the case that countries that don't fluoridate only do so because their water sources already contain beneficial amounts?
I live in Europe and I also ask "why can't we have that".

High speed rail >240km/h is still very uncommon[0], especially cross border (tho notable exceptions exist, e.g. Paris-Milan with both TGV and Frecciarossa just reopened).

There are EU plans for a wider network but it's progressing very slowly.

The presence of fast trains between two cities, on the scale of <600km, is transformative, as it becomes more convenient to take a train than to fly, while also having less negative externalities.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Europe
The irony of saying this about a place where walking most places is literally dangerous.
I've mostly had non-graded homework in my studies because cheating was always easy. In highschool they might have told your parents if you don't do homework. In university you do what you want. It's never been an issue overall.
If you have a look on the GitHub, the oldest files are 5 years old, way before LLMs...
I believe the GP doesn't believe trains have a future in a country that has a long tradition of automobile industry and its lobby is particularly strong.

I'd like to offer an alternate perspective: good public transportation network may decrease the number of vehicles sold in the (very) long run but creates another market that is quite stable - all this infrastructure of busses, trams, trains needs not only new units but also reliable maintenance. This is always a business opportunity and direct us towards a more sustainable future instead of just "produce more new cars no matter what".
That's a strange article. The TGV Inoui is not a "new high-speed train", it is an SNCF brand (think "premium TGV") that has been operating for nearly a decade now, using standard TGV rolling stock. SNCF are simply buying new trains for that brand, and the interior design doesn't even look that different from other new high-speed trains in other parts of the world.
10 years of shipped code for multiple platforms (x86, ARMv7, ARMv8) is not varporware. Based on software experience with existing platforms, they have created an open hardware RISC-V core which requires custom software to achieve energy effiency with improved performance, https://spectrum.ieee.org/snitch-riscv-processor-6x-faster

> Snitch proved to be 3.5 times more energy efficient and up to six times faster than the others.. "While we could already demonstrate a very energy-efficient and versatile 8-core Snitch cluster configuration in silicon, there are exciting opportunities ahead in building computing platforms scalable to thousands of Snitch cores, even spreading over multiple chiplets," says Zaruba, noting that his team is currently working towards this goal.

https://github.com/pulp-platform/snitch
Actually the Amtrak Acela train service is based on a French TGV (Train à grande vitesse).
Just that the Americans never bothered to build an accompanying LGV (Ligne à Grande Vitesse ).

TGV without LGV = not high speed.
A decade before yacc was even an idea, or the events that eventually made UNIX.

A fine example of systems programming, e.g. compiler writing, in high level languages, before the myth of C making it all possible.
I'm not sure you aren't being a little bit sarcastic but essentially that's true.
Putting aside the public safety problems an AI mistranslation could cause: for the current administration, making foreigners more welcome in America would be counterproductive.
Flang (LLVM Fortran Compiler) uses parser combinators.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/flang/lib/Par...
That "added safety feature" is only because of ring circuits, which are a cute hack sure, but not only have real fun failure modes, they make it impossible to use correctly rated MCBs. Your breaker won't trip unless you exceed total ring capacity.
Nice. Of course you could have ended with zero too!
In ~150 years someone will pick some photos taken today and post them and someone will probably wonder the same thing. Go out and do some sightseeing - a lot of the sights in these photos still exist, but also, you look at these photos with different eyes than the people that grew up there do; changing how you look at your own environment or places of interest will probably also help.
Except here it's not even a correct literal translation of "TGV", so you wouldn't be learning anything useful.
Just wanted to say that I was only someone who read OsNews daily back somewhere from 2002 to 2007 or 2008. So many interesting things going on.

With the proliferation of web apps and containers, alternative operating systems are actually more feasible today. At the same time, I'm dependent on all the niceties that the macOS/iOS ecosystem offers (the integration, the sync). Something I wanted to look into is just running macOS in a very default way and then using a fast OS (such as Haiku, though their Arm64 support is not very good yet) in a fullscreen VM. With modern Apple Silicon, there's almost no performance penalty.
Yeah, I saw that concept but I always feel like I'm supposed to be 6 years old to enjoy the interactions and the dialogue (both in FFXIV and FFXV). Also the "tourist moment" felt too much the canned tourist experience where everything is perfect, clean and everyone nice.

Instead travelogues are not that, they are not about being perfect or beautiful, it's about the places and people being as they are, however they are.

Didn't try all ths games you mentioned, I will take a look. Thanks!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/desi... is most likely the main reason. Currying favor with Trump.
If you want to be pedantic, the preposition à serves about twenty different roles (per the dictionary), so even a literal translation will have to pick the right word, not just one of its homonyms.

At is not the right word, even if you're translating word by word.
The first argument is BS as you have no idea what a non-existing service would be priced at.

Your second argument on the other hand rings true and is the main reason high speed train service in the US makes less sense. Many cities have near-zero infrastructure locally to transport passengers to their final destination.

Same goes for airports too though.

It's very different for Paris - London where both cities have excellent subway networks or Tokyo - Osaka (ditto) or anywhere within China. The Taiwan HSR is also very successful since it got better connected to local trains including Taoyuan airport.
Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)
Japan still is pretty isolationist or culturally conservative; I have no firsthand experience so this is all hearsay, but I gather the people living there are under a lot of societal / cultural pressure in how to behave, speak, live, etc. Foreigners get some leeway because they're foreign, but that's probably not so different wherever you go.
My memory got worse, and google search got bad and now I cant find anything
I noticed you were doing so, yes.

The "tube" (compactified dimension) isn't a higher dimensional object going through our space, in string theory it is an actual part of our space.

To put it another way: for compactified dimensions, we're not in flatland.

(For brane theory, we are in flatland, but they're two different ideas about how stuff might work).
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For a 1kw appliance, with 220v it should be 48 ohms, but for 110v it needs to be only 12 ohms. So if you have a bad wire or connector, which has say 5ohms resistance, more of the voltage will drop across it. At 220v it will have 21v across it and be heated by 88W but at 110 it will actually have 32v across it and be heated at 204W. That could easily be the difference between a fire starting and not.
Thomas Stevens, really an interesting character. He sometimes makes sweeping generalisations, which makes his writing even more real and not filtered.
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Massachusetts is similar.

Also, I might've misunderstood a lawyer, but it sounded like a business failing to make payroll would threaten its legal right to operate.
It came a few years to early. I remember my shock when I get [1] my OS/2 copy and it was on 10 (yes, ten!) 3.5 inch Floppy Disk, while Windows needed two (one for main OS, one for some utilities).

[1] This was 1987 still communistic Poland, so I bought a pirated copy on a famous Warsaw computer bazaar on Grzybowska street.