skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with your message, but-

> coupled with all other stuff like illegal border crossing

I've seen a few comments talk about this, but this doesn't affect my day-to-day literally at all. This never crosses my mind because there aren't illegals I come across or maybe just don't ever cross paths with. Is this primarily a border state thing? If so, wouldn't that limit it to just CA, TX, NM, AZ? And only one of those is a swing state.
It's probably even easier than that. Watch a Fox News, Newsmax, etc. for a full week. This will give you an 80% approximation.
I've seen it argued before that it couldn't have turned out differently (https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/04/politics/bernie-sanders-2016-...) and maybe that's true. The sad fact is that we'll never really know what could have happened if the DNC had played fair. I agree that young voters don't generally turn out to vote. They also don't generally turn up to campaign rallies but for him they actually did. They showed up in numbers so large that they filled entire arenas past capacity. He often drew crowds much larger than Clinton did and she had the name and the money for paid attendees to boost her numbers.

What I can say is that in that election the country was looking for something different from the government. They knew that the status quo wasn't working for them and that was the only thing Clinton was offering. I know that in the end that feeling was enough to drive at least some people who normally voted democrat to vote for trump (or third party). The fact that the DNC ignored the will of registered democrats and decided for themselves that Clinton was their Chosen One before the primary election was held also caused some democrats to vote for trump or to stay home entirely. I can't claim that the DNC was the cause of trump getting elected the first time, but they sure didn't help.
Looking good! Ambitious project. I like that it's built on web technologies (Vue, Electron) but that might be a negative for the HN crowd. I think the hackability and extensibility could be an advantage of this stack than a native app.

Interesting design choices, like keeping config and log file in .git/.quill folder; handling work in progress using branches; resetting unmerged files on conflict; and not automatically watching files for changes.

Me personally I already have a Git workflow with mostly CLI and occasional GUI. Used to love Fork (closed source, paid, Mac and Windows only). Now using GittyUp (open source, C++, Linux/Mac/Win).

https://fork.dev/

https://github.com/Murmele/Gittyup
This reminds me of the CNN Lite website -- https://lite.cnn.com/
Tried Agent-E, like the DOM distillation to reduce token method. I've started using AgentQL for a new project, which works well combining playwright.
I’m not saying there is evidence that it has the same root cause, or even that there are more trans people now than before (I haven’t seen the numbers), but kids are hitting puberty 2+ years earlier now, probably because of endocrine disruptors.

As a thought experiment, it seems hard to intentionally design a drug that changes what year puberty onset starts at without having some impact on LGBTQ+ prevalence.
Fair point. It is more nuanced this time. For income < $30K, more people voted D than R, though for $30K-50K more voted R. And $30-$50K could be "poor" depending on where you live and whether you have kids, so a little hard to tell.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls
I like multi-function displays (MFD) which were probably a necessity in aviation before touchscreen technology and also could be operated by a pilot with gloves on.

Multi-function display - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-function_display
«
a small-screen (CRT or LCD) surrounded by multiple soft keys (configurable buttons) that can be used to display information to the user in numerous configurable ways.
»

I’d like a Thrustmaster Cougar MFD with USB interface on a flat panel screen, perhaps with both illuminated soft buttons and knobs with labels on screen. I wonder why they don’t sell one with a built in screen? There’s lots of DIY builds that add them.
From the article:

> Let’s also remember that reviewers aren’t always right—even when the majority opinion disagrees with the code author. After weeks (sometimes longer) spent tackling a problem, the code author is usually the most qualified in that specific problem’s domain, unlike team members or leads who’ve only engaged with it for the hour or so it takes to review the code. More often than not, it’s better to trust the code author’s judgment.

What a shit take. Code reviewers ask questions and point out issues. If your PR includes errors and fails to address problems that reviewers were able to spot just by looking at them, it means nothing how much time you took working on it. Just fix it instead of sulking in blog posts.

And then this gem.

> In fact, I’d argue that the code author, by virtue of their time and effort, deserves the chance to see their proposals in action.

What is this? A participation medal? It means nothing how much time and effort you invested. If your PR has errors and introduces obvious bugs and fails to comply with anything, just fix it. Push a commit that addresses remarks and learn from it. Or are you expecting your team members to post follow-up commits to fix the mess you are making? Perhaps you're just hoping to block pipelines when automated tests fail?

Absurd.
>My own strategy is to completely ignore what the "sanctioned opinion" (whatever that means) on a given topic is, and to work the factual chronology and reasonably verifiable reporting or statements best as I can. That, and whenever possible, to talk with people who were on the ground or reasonably close to it at the time.

Great. I take a similar approach.

It's unfortunate you felt the need to begin the conversation with snark and irrelevant verbiage. But I can understand being jaded from wasting time engaging with people who aren't interested in substantively examining an issue.

Despite the missed opportunity, I am interested in engaging with what you consider a solid rebuttal to Sachs' points mentioned in the linked video. Feel free to offer a resource if you have one handy. I won't respond to it with a rebuttal or anything along those lines. It's purely for my own edification.
Edit: if he put right in his dating app bios "I'm looking for a woman who wants 4 kids!" I can see why he didn't get many responses from Japanese women.
I think it's more apt to compare between Korea / China / Japan where the written language is not Latin-based.

From my experience, most Vietnamese students catch up quickly with extra-curricular English class during their 4 years university.
Also note that the government is attacking social media on a second front.

Last night they took advantage of the population being distracted by the US election by having an extended parliamentary session to push forward with a second reading of the controversial misinformation bill.

The government and state media apparatus are of course both immune from any penalty under the bill.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/acma-crackdown-social...
I had a dream that Gensler wouldn't go quietly, and filed wire fraud/terrorism/laundering charges against Tether as his last stand.

Then I realized that crypto has bought a majority of the house, senate and the presidency so these scammers are here to stay and our only hope is that they run out of suckers and start scamming each other
Honestly, there are significant differences. First of all, the product you mentioned is just a Chrome extension used for job applications. It helps fill out form inputs while you manually submit applications, taking you from L to N. With Wobo, you simply sign up once and provide some information about yourself. That's it. We then create your digital persona and search the entire job market to find jobs that match your preferences. We generate a similarity score to measure how well a job matches your persona. If it’s above a certain threshold, Wobo applies on your behalf using your persona and answers any questions in the application. In other words, it handles everything from A to Y for you. The only step left for you is to attend the interview.
And society wants them dev'ing amazingly in assembly, not doomscrolling!
Sorry, yours is the poor take. If the government has the right to seize the bank accounts of Canadians, without due process, then the government also has the power to release any information they want.

Just because they invent reasons to keep it secret, doesn't mean that's what's right, or most healthy for an honest and functioning democracy.
In the actual conference presentation they mention ~2% efficiency gains in a few internal storage systems.
Which has nothing to do with censorship on social media. Censorship is okay if it matches what people want to see? Sounds like China justifications...
Thank you, that was helpful.
Right, the trichotomy in Venkatesh Rao’s The Office… was clearly influenced by Fussell (who was in turn inspired by Veblen)

GP indicates another trichotomy- past, future and present orientation..

>Now they hide, not merely from envy and revenge but from expose journalism much advanced in cunning and ferocity since Veblen's time, and from an even worse threat, virtually unknown to Veblen,foundational mendicancy, with its hordes of beggars in three-piece suits constantly badgering the well-to-do.

Update for XXI to take into account (YC vs) “fakers” & the finally selfaware 4th estate
As a childless person over 40, wtf are you talking about?

People don't all vote purely on self-interest, some of us vote on how we think human society should be run, and what we think is genuinely best for everyone. Not just for our own immediate bottom line.

This whole ageist line of reasoning is pretty offensive.
You need Wobo + Elevenlabs + Sora package :)
But foreign news media are legal for people to consume in the US, at least. If every American wanted to read and watch Al Jazeera and put it on in every store and bar and restaurant, that wouldn't justify banning it
I don't usually snoop around other people's bedrooms when visiting.
What incentives? That really depends on where you are. In the US, having kids is horrifically expensive. You can look forward to tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills, even with good insurance, just for one hospital birth. Then having to pay tons of money for medical insurance for your kid, plus all the other regular expenses that come from child-rearing. Don't even get me started on the costs for daycare. In the US, there's enormous disincentives to having children.

Here in Japan, it's much better: all medical expenses for children are free. There's also a cash bonus for having kids. Daycare is still a problem though, but the cost isn't nearly as awful as in America, however availability is a real problem.
The meta-syndrome here is: one person fixing a problem they have, and thereby making problems other people have worse. Often first person doesn't have a good awareness of the full melange of problems and participants.
I don’t think any native English speaker would use this word choice. Probably not a native English speaker… user name implies Indian.
Seems like ractors would be perfect for a HTTP server.
> National ban is on the cards now

nope. still the left haven’t learned what decentralized power and states rights are. there will be no federal ban. keep spreading misinformation if you like but as the country has already shown you, we don’t believe it anymore.
Yep, the "everyone else has BLAH" argument is a strong one. If we collectively take action through government to set a standard it is MUCH easier to shut down those self-fulfilling claims.
Same thing happens to me with Firefox on iOS.
It is a good problem to have for a startup, most startups are struggling finding customers to use their thing. Better to go with "good enough" shortcut and prioritize on growth. Recall is a YC company, I am sure they took advantage of huge amount AWS of credits in the first few years.
>And battery-cars powered by coal-oil generated electricity is stupid.

I disagree: the hybrid I drive uses petroleum to recharge a battery [much smaller than 100%EV] and get me over 50mpg (city).

Further, I'd argue that the inefficiencies of pure petroleum drivetrains is stupid.
> Free Market Capitalism

there is no non-free market capitalism; capitalism that is laissez-faire is not true capitalism, it's a mixture of capitalism and socialism (which is what we actually have in the US, mostly starting with FDR, but which can't bring ourselves to actually admit because "socialism is bad".

> Business owners want customers, they pay for them by paying fair wages.

Huh? WalMart has plenty of customers and they don't pay fair wages. They don't have to because they use economy of scale to put all the smaller businesses, who might have paid fair wages, out of business.

Paying fair wages is not a feature of capitalism -- only if you are in a market sector that demands it. Corporations hate it, thus offshore production, but they survive by convincing enough people that having lots of cheap shit is better than paying fair wages (even if it destroys a significant portion of the American workforce).
>rapid evolution of a new species. Not only does it inhabit environments where few insects survive, its environments didn't even exist before a few thousand years ago.

the selection pressure which produced the starting population - these were the ones who survived long travels along the trade routes while hiding in the human cargo and after that survived in the new environment (new climate, vegetation, etc) of the destination.
Within the past 24 hours, you said that "poisoning the blood of this country" is "Nazi rhetoric." Can you explain how both of Trump's recent usages of that "Nazi rhetoric" were misquoted?
Very cool. If you like this check out the Grasshopper visual programming environment inside Rhino3d. It's also a node-based graph editor and has an extremely robust library developer community [0]. One of which I actually am.

[0] https://www.food4rhino.com/en/
But it's not foreign interference, it's foreign media. Foreign media is permissible for Americans to choose to consume and guess what, young people lap it up. That's their right
Part of the concerted effort against social media is the (sudden?) loss of ability to control the narrative by the established power base. Politics and Print / Television Media used to have the last word on "facts", but now every man and his dog can create their own narrative.

Methinks they're, again, using "think of the children" as a bulwark against the inevitability of their own waning power. The more things change...

Can we also prevent under 16s from being exposed to religious teachings?
The right to your preferred mode of travel is not.
Why do they claim their profile data showed that WebSocket fragmentation and masking were the hot spots?
But it's manipulation by showing Americans stuff other Americans are saying. If Americans want to see that, they can. If they didn't want to, it wouldn't be popular. And why is the government allowed to restrict popular narrative sharing between Americans?
Not the US, I mean in Europe, specially Scandinavia. They've tried so many things to incentivize people but still people don't have kids. It seems to be that as countries develop and get richer, the number of kids born tends towards zero.
I could say that for all ages. Having known the world pre-social media I really do wish we could go back.
There is only one concept of a monorepo. And that is the google approach. This is a project repo and in a project repo things should stay together.

Your tooling must be different for it to work.

So using git for it will not have a positive result.
I said "heh" out loud over this.

"let's bootstrap a whole OS to run a light weight html renderer" is just something we should all take a moment to marvel at.
That is exactly what I meant by Galapagos syndrome. I should have written external(= business conducted in English) economic incentive.

The elephant in the room is that 6/12 years school here are focused on rote remembering for the next entrance exam rather than learning.
A lot of companies seem to have "policies" that are grounded in nothing. Airlines are especially bad about this, thinking they know better than you whether you'll be able to get through immigration at the destination. For whatever reason, airline policies about whether you can get on the plane are completely unrelated to the destination countries' policies about whether you can be allowed in.

The most egregious such policy that comes to mind was when Philippine Airlines refused to give me a boarding pass for a flight to China unless I filled out a health declaration form that was guaranteed to expire before my flight arrived.

There was of course no obstacle to me filling out (a new copy of) the form on arrival in China. As was necessarily the case, given that the pre-flight declaration expired during the flight.
these can be more memory-efficient than classes or dictionaries.

there was a point a while back where python added __slots__ to classes to help with this; and in practice these days the largest systems are using numpy if they're in python at all

not sure what modern versions do. but in the olden days, if you were creating lots of small objects, tuples were a low-overhead way to do it
The fancy security properties they’re talking about rely on a whole lot of closed source code not included there. Though an Apple intern did “donate” some of it to the public years ago.
Interesting, thanks! Good that at least this is apparently pretty well known, so everyone has a chance to prepare
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid#:~:t....
Time will tell, maybe for the people that can create feedback loops for themselves where AI fills the gaps, but at the aggregate level I don’t think AI will move the needle. More likely people will use AI translation as a crutch, rather than learning to communicate without assistance.
> his criminal behaviour

openly going after him that way and trying to "destroy" him (letisha), using the legal system as a bludgeon for political reasons was a huge mistake. so this continuously worked for him, not against.

you could take anybody of any party and find a venue somewhere in the country with a cooperative DA and get a jury to convict on some felony. [1] people realize this and aren't fooled. so it just isn't done. it probably isn't done more because it's a self-own than because it's morally wrong, but that's politics.

the ends certainly do not justify the means, but regardless it's also an incredibly stupid strategy.

> racist and transphobic views

unfortunately, these words, as well as "nazi" and "fascist" have been misused, abused, and overused to the point of utter uselessness. so now it's far to easy for people to just say "maybe i don't like DEI or i do like having police dept. so apparently makes me a 'literally violent racist' now. this is just more of that same vitriol, ignoring it"

trump did not win the election. he just stood around while the radicals and extremists on the left lost it for themselves. bigly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...
The Childlike and the Childish
If you read through the examples on that site, it's actually pretty difficult to find any that have anything to do with ID. There's things like:

- felon (this appears to be far & away the most common)

- moved

- shouldn't have even been allowed to register

- voted twice

- illegally delivered absentee ballot for another person (while not claiming to be that person)

- etc.

The common theme, aside from the absolute rarity of these events (e.g. 36 total in GA over perhaps 40 million votes over ~25 years), is that none of them would be addressed by more stringent identity verification checks at either registration or at the polls.

Clicking through the site, I actually am unable to find a single instance where enhanced ID would have helped. Not saying they aren't in there, just that apparently they are very rare events, even in a dataset of extremely rare events.
On some deep level I do feel all of these things are a waste of time, so I end up scrolling Reddit and HN instead. Is there a firmware patch for this? ;)
We are lucky who live in America with free speech. I read an article the other day where a woman in Israel was kicked out of school, arrested and imprisoned for months without charge, and basically had her entire career and life ruined for social media posts because that country doesn't have the freedom of speech we often take for granted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/magazine/israel-free-spee...

- How 4 Instagram posts ruined her life
I hereby take back any and all snark and irrelevant verbiage.

I'll see if I can get back to you at another date. Until then, you may find this article interesting:

https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/44/1/7/12232/How-to-Enla...

You may also want to take a closer look at this guy, on whose program Sachs chose to appear multiple times in 2022 -- noted for among other things calling for Kyiv to be "destroyed", and Kharkiv to be "wiped off the face of the earth":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Solovyov_(TV_presente...

This little snippet will give you a further sense of his vibe:

https://x.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1594915216026112000

And if you like, you can just let that vibe ... sink in for a bit.
Meh. Poor priority in schooling and teaching to the test are hardly unique to Japan.
> You can't run on that against a 4 star rear admiral who also went into space.

He was a Captain [1]. And what on 'Earth'(!) is a "4 star rear admiral"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kelly
Is there a difference between global setattr(object, v) and object.__setattr__(v)? I've seen setattr() in the wild all over but I've never encountered the dunder one.
Did you hear a cat just now?
mmm, I wonder how hard that would be to fix in a PR.
For an asset with no intrinsic value, it is. Just like the nominal price of USD and its value are the same thing.
This will be wholly supported by both parties of our primarily two-party system. There's no alternative but a protest vote to one of those fringe parties that will never get any real power anyway.
Seconding the Stoic recommendation. Meditations got me through a lot of rough patches.

And I know exactly what you mean about First, Second, Third Career. I'd had my First before my parents got sick. Then 2008, divorce, house sale, parents (living 500 miles away) can no longer mask their rapidly-progressing Alzheimer's, all in the course of a few months. Second Career was definitely a shock to the system, balancing their care against my need to work and earn money to pay for it all. Hardest thing I've ever done. It has now been a few years since Third Career has started, and again, seismic shift in how I approach things. I am at peace with my choices, though. No regrets. I loved being able to take care of the people that loved me.
Certainly once the elderly (those who follow the news) start to latch onto a fashion trend, it is definitely over.
Yep, this is the real issue. It is very unclear what gets sent to this thing. And Apple has repeatedly made that distinction very hard to discern.
You are skeptical of this idea because you expect to see more people like Buffet "making money by simply buying stocks" (I'm being reductive for the sake of writing, not arguing). The unspoken foundation for this assumption is that everyone is equally at the casino roulette game. That is not the case. The american wealth inequality is vast. You are seeing exactly the expected number of winners (few) given that the people at the table who can afford a majority of the loss are very few.

Stock markets are a casino gamble and the few people like Buffet are actually proof of it being a gamble.

Don't take my word for it: https://money.com/warren-buffett-stock-market-casino/#:~:tex...