skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it had been occupied by the US for 300 years, I (a US citizen) would be angry with my government if it didn't use military force to stop Canada (or Mexico) from forming a military alliance with Russia (or China) (provided diplomatic avenues had been exhausted). Letting such an alliance persist and flourish would permanently drastically degrade the security of the US.
Kind of an aside, but it takes a lot of energy to respond to rants like this. Maybe that's on me, but if you're a vet then I'd assume you'd know how difficult it is to get anything changed at the VA much less lobbying to change an incorrectly scheduled drug.

What my point was is that it's incredibly hypocritical for the VA to have a history of denying veterans medical care over marijuana and then they were caught with their hands in the cookie jar with McKinsey about opioids - an epidemic that they had plenty of data on from the DOD. When I got out in 2012 the DOD base hospitals were chalk full of addicts that their hospital system had created due to over prescription and then subsequently processing people out. I postured whether they had an even bigger picture because it's also the VAs job to track people when they get out; the exception I made was that healthcare and the VA are somewhat separate but related entities.

I do realize the marijuana policy has changed drastically, but it's not reason to forget the last decade.
That’s what the debt ceiling arguments are about: members of Congress don’t want to take the heat for actually canceling something so they don’t remove it from the budget but then refuse to pay without some kind of token win for their campaign ads. The real debt problem is that you either need to restore taxes to pre-Bush levels or cut popular programs, but there’s no way to do either of those without being willing to negotiate and that’s currently politically untenable for one of the major parties.
Show HN: YYNN – Rate Anything
I had this idea about 8 months ago and made a really crappy prototype (which I posted to HN). Sort of like Rotten Tomatoes for everything, based on structured Wikidata data.

I had a bunch of new ideas so I've been working on it a bunch over the last few days, and I think this version demonstrates the potential a lot better.

I also had some fun doing a passwordless sign up flow in a way I think makes sense for most websites these days. All you need is your email to sign up, with optional passkeys support.

Please let me know what you think!
Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out
There were lawsuits over the repeal under Trump raising uncertainty. That lawsuit wasn't resolved until 2019.

California adopted it's net neutrality law in 2018. 12 other states adopted net neutrality laws or executive actions, and over 100 local governments also did so, some before and some after the lawsuit over the federal repeal was resolved. Democrats in Congress in 2019 moved to legislatively reverse the repeal, and that passed through one house. Biden was elected in 2020, and either a legislative or executive reinstatement of net neutrality was expected.

All of this made meant that big ISPs would have to have patchwork rules in different jurisdictions if they wanted to skirt net neutrality and face a significant risk of having to unwind them. So, generally, no one did much that would go against net neutrality.
Missing from the Internet is "The Onion Guide to Actual Reality", a Flash based interactive feature from the 90s. It was brilliant and prescient like all good Onion features but it may never be ported to Ruffle or whatever else can render that content. Maybe Global Tetrahedron will invest in preserving some of that history.

Also, le boy picked up my copy of Our Dumb Century and read it cover to cover a few years ago. I was pleased.
Might be their peak sales ever if they don't get into the EV market in China. EVs are on track to be ~30% of sales there by the end of this year, and Toyota is on track to be 0% of that chunk.
An actual controversial opinion: a big project will successfully use a Rust web framework like Dioxus rather than JS. People will take note that they can build their entire stack in a single language, and deploy it to any device that supports webview as a tiny binary. No electron. Slowly, the economics of this simplicity chips away at JS until one day rust can interact with the DOM directly and JS is relegated to legacy.
Hopefully they can speed their transition to nuclear power.

Currently, powering EV's in China from coal is having the opposite effect they wanted on air quality.

https://cse.umn.edu/college/news/researchers-find-chinas-pol....
Just to get back on topic: You claim that the only people in the world who can define genocide are the very people who have perpetrated genocide after genocide against basically every other minority, now those very same people, who actively participated in the murder of millions, get to decide if some minority that they don't like is evil; that's essentially the claim you are making.

Consider that maybe such people don't have any idea what they're talking about and are simply totally wrong. Consider that you wanting the Jews to be doing something evil so you can be justified in your hatred doesn't mean the Jews are doing anything wrong, it just means that you have hatred in your heart. Is it possible?

You keep asking me to be curious, why don't you try being curious about why you, after only ever consuming content that paints Jews in the worst possible light, might not be capable of giving them the benefit of the doubt? Why it might be literally impossible for you to view any topic about Jews through a fair lens?
Mark is the one that committed today's source release, going off of the "MZ is back" commit message from GitHub user "mzbik".
If you as a shareholder receive a dividend of X% of the share price, you owe tax on it. But if the company buys back stock and as a result the share price increases by X%, you do not owe tax on that unrealized gain until you choose to sell your stock. That’s good for investors.
The American libertarian dream confuses me because unlike libertarians abroad (where it's a synonym with "anarchist") they stop with political authority, and seem to have no issue with corporate authority. The ISP business in the USA is very clearly an oligopoly with the top players colluding. Not sure how a rugged individual is supposed to fight back against that.
The volume of search ads I see increased dramatically since one year ago. Just adding a data point to the discussion.
As a gun owner with a bunch of ARs in the safe, I used to run in hardcore pro-Trump far right circles for many years. What I've seen there is, quite literally, people preparing for war.

I'm not saying that all or even most Trump voters are like that. But there are definitely quite a few people like that basically just sitting and waiting for a clear go-ahead signal from someone whom they trust, and they are already well-armed and somewhat organized. And they all seem to trust Trump.
Any links? John bang a Backpage ho, or why the hate?
Yes, you and another user have claimed that but provided no sources or proof. For my part, I'm a dem and it always seemed that Dems weren't very vocal about it but were highly concerned about Tik Toks data sovereignty. They've kinda had bigger issues in their face since 2016.
Wait, I missed the bus on this one. What's wrong with "sanity check"?
I've seen some people defend shoplifting (including of baby-formula) with something along the lines of: "People who do it are desperate and oppressed, so unless you're a class-traitor you should pretend you didn't see anything."

However cases like the one in that link--and knowing at least some of the products get fenced and resold rather than consumed by the shoplifter--make it really hard for me to fully buy into that worldview.
I made $7.25 an hour
Two of the kids later died in parental custody after being returned. I'm not sure what prejudices I should evaluate. My experience is that Indiana CPS has a hard job and can't get it right in a lot of cases. We don't have a vast array of foster parents ready to handle kids with a lot of issues nor do we really have orphanages anymore. You number 1 most import part of life is having good parents who care for you regardless of their means there isn't a system that can fix that.
Ruby is subjectively a worse language than C#, it has worse tooling (as testified by Ruby developers), worse expressiveness and, most of all, much worse performance.

If there isn't an SDK for something in .NET but is in Ruby, it speaks for the poor quality of an engineering culture in that company (as it is likely they offer Java SDK at the same time). And even in that case, you can just generate a client from OpenAPI manifest. Or a gRPC client from .proto (even better). Or if it's an algorithm, you're much better positioned with all the low-level tools C# offers to write something performant with reasonable amount of effort.

And even if that doesn't work, you can just call C bindings by using one of many existing binding generators or just `[LibraryImport]` the calls directly with little effort, after all, C# is a proper C language with C structs and pointers.

But most importantly, you get robust results and consistently good performing application with no scalability issues, good build system and very little risk of accidentally breaking the codebase.

And you don't need to make a developer productivity tradeoff in order to achieve that. I don't know when the bad reputation has to go away, but surely we're long past that point.
I meant the actual search results will be mangled to show ads. And that's where llms come into play: they can merge a quote from wikipedia with a pharma-sponsored ad.
“make it” is a loaded term. You’re unlikely to achieve a very strong retirement on that income in a lot of US states.
Microsoft's heavy bet on AI pays off as it beats expectations in second quarter
Doing a design for this (specifically, design a microcoded, pipelined RISC processor, from the bottom up, with nothing but NAND gates) was the main problem on the Computer Hardware quals exam at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s. We didn't have to physically build it, though, just produce the detailed design on paper.
TBD if this works, but this is 100% the kind of thing I want billionaires doing.

More expensive, weird projects that are essentially public art.
Assuming federal minimum wage 10 years ago ($7.25) at 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year we get $14,500.

8 x $14,500 is $116,000.

I won't say that's a lot of money in California (though it is above average), so it's just possible this is true (for those criticizing).
That could be framed as an interviewer skill issue. We're supposed to give the candidate space to demonstrate both their productivity and their talent. So if expecting a programmer to reveal their abstract thinking capacity through some complex domain-specific task, building a REST API for CRUD may not be the ideal vehicle, being so mundane as to lend itself unquestionably to off-the-shelf framework solutions almost any mature language.
This is the best birthday present I could have asked for. The Onion News Network has the funniest, most prescient videos online and I love going back to watch them. Even if the Onion comes back half as funny as they were it's going to be fabulous. Here are a few of my lesser-known favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJdP1zK15bE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgRz3nSG7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUT8ec24anM
Or we could just allocate voting districts proportional to the number of actual voters. I always found it rather weird as a legal immigrant that my presence in my district somehow increased the voting power of all the citizens there. Or we could just switch to an electoral system where that point is altogether moot...

However, none of this is going to happen because federal politics is pretty much completely deadlocked at this point. We can't even pass regular legislation on critical matters reliably, never mind constitutional amendments.
>You could make all of that without JS. I'm not sure why people keep conflating the language with the design decisions the website author took. Just HTML+CSS is enough to make all the badly designed sites you want.

Yup, now days you can make pretty good animation site with out JS! Why are people insisting on using JS to be a criteria to see a web page? Could be that the some big players are using it to fingerprint users?
You people can not be guaranteed that they will reach the 'get older' stage so technically they are risking a larger percentage of their total life to watch a 2 hour movie.

The real answer is obvious though. As an old man cool music doesn't make me cooler. In fact, for an old man listening to 'cool' music might actually make me less cool, and being old I have less time left to recover my coolness quotient. I can't afford to risk listening to new music.
The Onion had two events that resulted in a huge drop in writing quality and edginess:

OG writers refusing to relocate from NYC to Chicago in 2012 when the HQ was moved, choosing to part ways instead.

Then, the remaining writers being called out for the following tweet, somewhat rightly, but being neutered forever after:

https://crasstalk.com/2013/02/sorry-former-onion-staffers-ca...
> The thing is Wii and Kinect already tried that stuff 15 years ago and although they were fun novelties at first, neither really changed the industry in the long term.

I'm not looking to see something change the industry, I'm looking for interesting and novel.

> It seems that the group of people who...

I don't disagree, but people are writing games for the platform. I just want to see people lean into the strengths of what they're targeting. Some of the most fun and interesting games for the wii did exactly that. Boom Blox for the Wii was extremely simple in concept and execution, and was also more fun than most Wii games I played.

> A much larger group of gamers already has an exhausting physical job, or a preexisting workout schedule, or prefers to go hiking in the woods, and so when they get back to their home to game they just want to plop down and zone out.

All the more reason to lean into new and novel ideas, because as I know, when your time for playing games is limited you're often going to stick with the known quantity that can provide enjoyment (which is likely some AAA title that is good enough) unless there's a very good hook.
#notallpeoplebuyingstuff
I think this is completely fair. For example, we have a saying "Old Dead White Men" and yet this country, it's laws, it's structure, is based on the ideas of old dead white men. It's a contradictory set of positions to hold to assure that people can immigrate and retain their identity - they are expected to even -, that this country's past is evil and should be undone, and yet also they should assimilate. We are told to ignore anything old dead white men created and yet we expect immigrants to come here and vaguely "assimilate". It's unclear what that even means. We find things like the melting pot analogy offensive and diversity is seen as a good thing. Doesn't that contradict assimilation? If diversity and assimilation are compatible, what does assimilation even mean? What commonality is required and why does it seem like this definition can easily be changed when suitable?

The only argument against this is to say that well "that's xenophobic". But I think this is just a way of ending the points made without discussing them because they cause discomfort. There are benefits to immigration but those benefits are not distributed evenly. It's also hard to benefit from immigration materially and politically but simultaneously say it's being done for humanitarian reasons and anyone opposed is just a bigot. It's easier to shut down debate than have to confront this.
I'd genuinely like to understand why you think corporations, whose success is measured by profit and basically nothing else, are more likely to do things that are good for people than governments, whose success is measured at least a little bit by the wellbeing of their constituents.

I really want to better understand the thinking of people who hold opinions like yours.
$200k in some cities is a lot of money

$200k in some cities is not a lot of money

$200k in some cities with 2 kids is really not a lot of money

$200k is not equal to $200k
Not to mention in my local Safeway, I often have to press the help button multiple times, and wait sometimes 5 minutes or more to get assistance with the liquor cabinet...

... which is still one step ahead of the battery area. Where there's no button, and when you do flag down an employee, they tell you that you have to go to customer service, because they have a key, wait in line there behind returns, lottery tickets, cigarette sales, to have them walk with you to the battery area, you point out what you want, and then they take it to a register that you then have to go through that register, regardless of the line, if you were still shopping.

It's ... fucking dystopian. And I don't live in an economically challenged area.
pepperidge farm remembers when the onion produced hilarious articles.

lets collate the best of the best. i'll start:

https://www.theonion.com/protagonist-scrolls-intensely-throu...

https://www.theonion.com/jumbled-nest-of-cords-makes-move-to...
And who can forget their famous headline "Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On Technicality"
Yes, and this strategy is only good for one or two pumps, because the advertisers will eventually notice the lower engagement rate per dollar of spend and reduce their commitment accordingly.

I'm curious what 2025 will look like for Elgoog. There are only so many desperate death throw spin tweaks available before the opportunities for indirection are exhausted.
Around the year 2000, I was studying computer science at a university. Most of their PC's ran on Windows 3.1. I was using it at home. But one day, Microsoft sent me an offer: I could purchase the student release of Windows 2000 workstation for a mere $25.00. I went for it, and found it better than the Windows NT nap-sayers at school said. I don't know why I was contacted. Probbably because of other Microsoft programs I'd bought at the student bookstore.
I guess it's cheaper than a real news site, and is there any difference anymore? Babylon Bee has become defacto news now. I don't mean this in terms of blaming the left or the right, but just that it's hard for any entity to have any monopoly on the truth anymore. Mainstream, established news sites have to compete against AI-generated content and influencers in the 'news space', which has blurred the lines between truth or fiction or made it hard to know what is real or not.

Sometimes stories can be true and and yet undisguisable from 'fake' news, hence why r/nottheoinion is a thing.

I have seen people on twitter post literal fake news, and it goes viral until later debunked or deleted, which can still take hours even with community notes. Even reputable news sites are still occasionally forced to amend or even outright retract stories. When something chaotic and unexpected happens for which narration is unreliable, like a school shooting, who is right? It's just speculation for the first hour or so until something approaching 'truth' or an 'official narrative' coalesces or congeals.

it's be awesome if the three ppl who downvoted my post could elaborate how i was wrong . It is possible I am way off and someone can guide me to the truth that I am missing here. I think communication is helpful for resolving differences and maybe someone can communicate how I erred that would be more helpful. Thanks.
Your assumption is wrong. The net neutrality fight is older than TikTok. The process for this vote started in September. It would have started in 2021 if Biden's FCC nominee was approved. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act does not involve the FCC. Regulating ISPs as utilities does not empower the FCC to force ISPs to block services. Never mind regulate app stores and hosting services.
Alphabet hails 'once-in-a-generation' AI opportunity as revenue rises
> a 2 trillion dollar valuation warrants extraordinary justification

$320B annual revenue, 15% growth, $0.20 per share dividend and $70B share buyback.

Enough said.
Please enumerate the Supreme Court justices that Democrats refused to seat during Trump's term.
Show me someone great who when you go to their inspiration you can't find they themselves very much creating watered down versions of their inspirations.
They are doing a dividend too.
Ask HN: Ethicality of lowering price on lifetime plan with past customers?
I built an online tool recently and offered a lifetime deal for $199. Dozens of people purchased the tool.

After a couple weeks, I raised the price to $267. I had a few sales at that price point, but they've since plummeted. My last sale was about a week ago.

There are competing products that cost less, but they are of lower quality. I thought quality justified my higher prices, but the market doesn't seem to think so.

I want to bring the price back down to $199, but worry it will upset the customers who purchased at $267. Is there a way to decrease prices without having to refund the difference to a bunch of past customers?

Thanks!
>someplace less equipped to deal with it

I think China's approach would become the blueprint for third world countries eventually dealing with this.

Unfortunately China doesn't seem to have an approach yet, other than doubling down on more and more authoritarian measures to lock down the economy.
Oh, you didn't make it to the second sentence that starts with, "Woke companies..."?

It really is ridiculous. But, the good news is that they seem to be making headway in riding their "censorship victimhood" to cow tech companies into platforming hard right-wing beliefs; to include kinder, gentler Hitler documentaries on YouTube. Comments sections there are filled with bots, cheering the "truth about Hitler finally coming out".

So, "yay, Conservative free speech!" Keep fighting the good fight, Ted.

/s
It’s a Porsche Taycan copycat

https://www.reddit.com/r/Taycan/comments/1brvnp1/xiaomi_su7_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Taycan/comments/1btwarx/xiamoi_su7_...

Even the video is a copycat:

https://youtu.be/blW-Fa4a10g
I built a fairly large SaaS app using HTMX and Alpine. It has worked wonderfully.

HTMX really shines in a few areas for me.

1. Async loading of things (ex: render a dashboard and THEN load the chart data) to prevent blocking page loads.

2. Lazy loading of things (ex: Instead of rendering a modal for every row in a table, fetch and display the modal when the row edit button is clicked).

3. HX-Boost is nice. I have always been a fan of Turbolinks (classic) and preventing full page loads and allow permanent page elements. Boost makes it possible out of the box.

4. It leaves wiggle room for progressive enhancement. For example, if you are lazily loading a modal but JS is disabled, you could open a separate page for the modal/form instead of lazily fetching and displaying in-page. It's more work, but at least it's _possible_.

Alpine on the other hand is nice for different things. I mainly use Alpine for things like handling a dropdown, slideout, animating things, etc.

All of this is done without writing any JavaScript. I am able to stay in my HTML templates or backend (in Golang) without ever touching JavaScript. I also adopted Tailwind for the same reason. I essentially write the CSS in the HTML (with classes) and let tailwind compile and generate the CSS for me... no more unused CSS. No more CSS clashes, naming conventions, etc.

It's a great workflow.

edit:

I just wanted to say I use HTMX with the head-support plugin bundled together. @recursivedoubts, hoping for 2.0 soon to come with support built in :)
Athletic director arrested for using AI audio toframe principal with racist rant
Here is a small video of it running on original IBM XT: This was right after we got the floppies read successfully. Serious Kudos to Scott for getting these floppies and the permission to release them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPPNbaQaumk