skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasoning you're expressing here is basically: "Heck it's plausible, right? Therefore it might as well have happened. There's no need to actually substantiate that it did. It suffices to just have a gut feeling that it happened."

Nevermind the Jeffrey Sachs interview that no one has time to watch. His take has been debunked elsewhere. What matters here is your own reasoning here, which is incredibly specious. If you can't see the obvious flaw in the argument that you laid down, then I don't know what to tell you.

BTW, here's another helpful suggestion: If you're on your favorite website some day, looking for answers to what's going in the world, and you see the top-posted comment for some article or interview that you thought really rocked is some obviously useless, snarky drivel like the following (taken from the Reddit link you posted):

Putin just woke up one day, stumbled his toe or something, and decided to invade Ukraine.

Then that should perhaps suggest to you that, far from being your friend, that website, and the articles and videos that get top-posted to it, are probably kinda dodgy. And that maybe you should taking the content you find there with a heaping portion of salt. And that you might want to try fact-checking the content and arguments you find there, instead simply believing it all outright. Or better yet, just stop wasting your time on that website altogether.

Like, are you completely ignorant of the history of US initiated regime change around the world?

I know all about it, and can probably cite dozens of instances off the top of my head. But none of that history translates to evidence that US-initiated regime change actually happened in a given country X, in year Y. It's just innuendo, nothing more.
Oh man, you totally beat me to it!

I was so excited to make up some fake story about how I went to Italy and had real truffles on pasta. My story was almost identical to yours: coming out in favor of truffle oil!
> that people on the right feel constantly lied to by institutions and media figures, and disingenuous rebuttals like this don't help, they hurt

Trumps literally running on Tariffs and fixing inflation. Claiming you can do both and it's disingenuous to combine them when discussing each candidates approach is honestly asinine. "Yes, he's pro-gun! but He's also in favor of confiscating all guns. But they're two different policies so it's a disingenuous rebuttal to link them."

> how far their credibility has fallen with the common person

This is True. Somehow there's an incredible double standard at play in the minds of waaaay too many.

In the middle of a national emergency, Trump toured the country spouting fabricated tales about Kamala wasting FEMAs budget on transgender surgery for migrants - which had a clear and direct adverse affect on the actual recovery efforts as multiple centers had to deal with bomb threats, armed insurgents, and a general hostile populace as they tried to help people. It was of course all fabricated idiocy that directly hurt the very people who needed help the most, but that's not "constantly lied to"?

"He just talks, you can't assume anything he states is true or that he'll follow through" is incredibly stupid because people really do believe him, and it's incredibly damaging to the core of our country. But somehow he gets a free pass, while calling out his exact words is "constantly lied to".
I appreciate the earnest replies; these do in fact address my concerns.
People can adapt their beliefs to be convenient to them. In fact, people's beliefs usually correspond to whatever is most convenient. If he should have known that the election was not stolen, then claiming otherwise would be undemocratic, regardless of his true beliefs (which are unknowable anyways).
How about we only allow those who have our same ideas? That's great for democracy, true democratic values
I think you’re right on a lot of details here, but here’s a chart of illegal encounters over the past few years. It has boomed under the current admin.

The bipartisan bill would have allowed in two million people a year. It threw a few scraps to border control. Great bill to look like they’re doing something while intentionally allowing the situation to continue.

https://images.app.goo.gl/SFw49kHkssw1jtV37
what a stupid response.
Hah. At a previous place I found that our cloud cost consisted of 90% storage costs. The data? Tens of thousands of incomplete backups of the in-office file server. 3 years of the NAS continuously trying to back itself up to S3 and failing every time.
> The notion of “fairness” dominates English education policy in Japan. Because of the importance of educational credentials in Japanese life, any policy that seems to favor one group or another—the rich, the urban, children with highly-educated parents, or children who happen to have acquired English fluency on their own—will attract popular opposition.

I teach ESL in Vietnam. The above quote boggles my mind. I've taught disadvantaged rural students and urban students with educated parents. Of course I tried my absolute best for the rural students, I worked a lot harder for them than for the privileged students. However, it would be madness to hamstring the students who happen to be privileged. Holding the whole country to the lowest common denominator doesn't benefit the country at all.

I thought Vietnam was very Confucian and uniform but Japan seems even more extreme. Maybe Vietnam also applies Marx's doctrine of "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" to offset it.

Thanks for your great write up on this topic. This was a very interesting read for me.
This argument doesn't work in 2024.

I'm making well over six figures a year (and not in the Bay Area, for reference) in my 30s and have top quality healthcare supplied by my job. The last time I talked to a doctor, I had to schedule an appointment six months out just for a routine examination and blood work. The labs I reached out to for getting sleep studies done (which, for reference, I would've needed to pay out of pocket entirely) said they'd need similarly as long.

Can you convince me that our healthcare system is not broken? Ostensibly the person in your argument that is supposed to benefit the most from it?
> Moving to a monorepo didn't change much, and what minor changes it made have been positive.

It's pretty refreshing to see an experience report whose conclusion is "not much has changed", even though in practice that's the most common result for any kind of process change.
Yet another thing that does not exist in a sane OS. Oh, if only Bill Gates hadn't done his dirty deeds.
If you played this game say 3 hours a day, it would take 8 years of playing every single day to reach his 9000 hours. The game came out 8 years ago.
> Do you have some sort of resource/evidence that there were higher level of corruption during the Trump presidency?

Okay. How about leveraging the presidency to make a boatload of money from his private business.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/cre...

Also, the Ukraine call, Georgia call, Egypt bribe, flagrant nepotism, that one time he denied funding to the post office because he thought mail in ballots would harm his re-election.

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53772526

Appointing people to agencies who wanted to dismantle them instead of carrying out their mission like Betsy DeVos for Dept of Edu and like Robert F Kennedy will apparently do for HHS because fluoride and vaccines are sus

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/cre...

Creating an atmosphere where loyalty is more important than founding principles which is an environment in which corruption can flourish.

That time he incited a mob to storm the capital because Mike Pence wouldn’t over turn the election results like he wanted.
Ah - well, at least you're consistent.
Discussions:

All-time high (152 points, 14 hours ago, 283 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42062211

Breaks above its all-time high of $73777 (13 points, 23 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057186
I've always been a supporter of those, my view on democracy is not to be mature enough, but to be a part of society with needs and ideas, school students neee to be represented because they're part of a society
I would be hard pressed to call the Linux Kernel a mono repo.

It’s all one kernel really.

The Kernel is a monolith, but that doesn’t make its repo a mono repo.

FreeBSD, on the other hand, is a mono-repo. It has the kernel, all the user mode tools, basically everything in a single repo.

That is very different from the
Linux ecosystem as whole.

Linux is not a mono repo.
Partly it was the location: An upper floor of a building in a neighborhood full of bars and pachinko parlors, which seemed much sleazier to me then than it would now.

But more it was, I think, that I didn’t understand yet why Japanese college students and office workers would pay money to practice English with me and a few other recent foreign arrivals. The fact that much of the conversation consisted of the customers asking me personal questions—“Where are you from?” “Why did you come to Japan?” “Do you like Japanese women?”—made me suspicious, too.

In retrospect, the place was almost certainly not a front for anything sinister but just a way for the owner to try to make some money from the shortage of opportunities to speak English in Japan. And the focus on personal questions was just a sign of the customers’ limited repertoire of conversational English. But it took me a while to grasp all that.
> every online account must be linked to a phone number

They seem to be learning a lot from the Chinese.
> Pay taxes as if you had sold, even if you keep ownership. Which if you think about it, makes some sense.

It does make some sense, yea. The draconic thing is taxing you on a fictitious sale. I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was delayed until you actually sell the shares. There are actually ways to delay it, but they require a collateral.

For example if you can reasonably prove that it is a temporary absence up to 7 years when moving outside the EU, you don't have to pay the exit tax, but need to have collateral.

If you move inside the EU, the exit tax actually clashes with the EU's free movement directive and I think there are pending court cases for this up to high levels.

So if you move within the EU, you can delay indefinitely without interest, but they will still require a collateral. And if you want to leave Germany, you'll usually also want to leave the EU for the same reasons...

Switzerland is an option because due to various bilateral agreements, it is treated similarly as other EU countries.

Its funny that you mention this Canadian departure tax on stock holdings. Because just a few weeks ago the German government actually enhanced the exit tax and it now also applies if you own more than 1% OR 500k€ in a _single_ investment fund.

Supposedly this is to close loopholes around creating family-owned investment funds to get around the exit tax.

But as we all know, once a new tax is there, it will never go away. Easy enough to lower the limit or apply it to all holdings in the future.
Russia broke their own agreements (eg: 1994 Budapest Memorandum), invaded and is waging war on Ukraine, and you are here blaming the US for the loss of Ukrainian lives.

You say that you hate Russian imperialism, but then start making excuses for their actions and deflecting blame on to others. If you really had an issue with imperialism, you'd be attacking Russia at least as hard as you attack the US.

I don't think you have a problem with imperialism, just with imperialism done by a side you hate. Russia can do whatever they want, even invade another country, and for you that is acceptable or not as bad. Everyone has their bias, but you're too far gone... It's a bit sad to be honest.

Ps: I recommend checking where Syria, Mali, Niger, etc, are on the map. Hint: Not near the Russian border.
One advantage of (Named)Tuples over dataclasses or SimpleNamespaces is that they can be used as indices into numpy arrays, very useful when you API is returning a point or screen coordinates or similar.
that's what i remember. i remember reading an academic paper about a cool hack where someone was getting the shaders in gpus to do massively parallel general purpose vector ops. it was this massive orders of magnitude scaling that enabled neural networks to jump out of obscurity and into the limelight.

i remember prior to that, support vectors and rkhs were the hotness for continuous signal style ml tasks. they weren't particularly scalable and transfer learning formulations seemed quite complicated. (they were, however, pretty good for demos and contests)
Largest repo I used with Cursor was about 600,000 lines long
Not hate, but they sure as hell don't want men in women-only spaces. It's predatory.
No, it may be the logical conclusion of Free Market Capitalism or laissez-faire capitalism. Which is the direction that the US was going down but that does not mean that we have to go that route.

>If moving your jobs overseas is a cheaper strategy than producing something domestically, you will have a hard time getting anyone to stick around.

Hence tariffs....
You can't have a consumer class if they cant afford to consume. You can't demand environmental protections and then turn around and claim it cost too much so we build it in a country that we can pollute in. TANSTAAFL

We want environmental protections, we pay for them. Business owners want customers, they pay for them by paying fair wages.
Mondrian! That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Google uses Critique for code review these days.

I tried to bring the best of Critique to GitHub with https://codeapprove.com but you’re right there’s a lot that just doesn’t work on top of git.
wait until people hear about research grants
Wouldn’t they ban other apps like Instagram or Facebook if that was true?
> Like imagine if China owned CNN and the New York Times and decided what stories they could publish

Okay. Now imagine CNN and NYTimes and Fox News being coerced into publishing or not publishing info because a US gov agency demands it. Or how about the US gov pressuring Meta and Twitter to change their algos around very specific topics? You don't need to imagine it actually.

So why is that less of a concern than China controlling a media delivery service?
This has nothing to do with SEGGER JLink. I wonder which is older.
I think this is one of the big reasons so many companies end up using Bazel as part of scaling their monorepos. It has many faults but one thing it does perfectly is “build and test everything affected by this commit”
Just to clarify your belief that democrats are kowtowing to leftist positions, I as a fringe lunatic that don't like how Israel bombs civilians, don't feel represented by the party, nor apparently do the people of Dearborn that Kamala catastrophically lost yet Biden won 80% of the vote in.
This post made me think about my OG WoW days. My main had over 1 year of play time, and my alts, maybe another 20-30 days, so that puts me at about 9600 hours. I played for 5-6 years intensely in a progressive raising guild, then faded away over about a year after some crazy guild drama, it was such a loss.

It burned me out and I basically quit gaming for the last 10 years, now that I think about it. Some sim or resource games here and there, nothing multiplayer and nothing "reactive". Maybe a few hours a month.

Anyway, I reflected on it as this big waste of time, so I felt I had to grind at life instead. Games are a waste of time, do something productive. I'm only now appreciating the anxiety that caused.

This intern I work with is a gamer and asks me if I play anything. I realize I'm older than his mom so he's really getting a kick of my stories cause "I'm like too old to play games haha, wow that's crazy"

He said something like "you can afford it, how do you not have a gaming computer bro?" I thought, he's got a point.

So I find a tricked out
craigslist gaming computer a few weeks ago and download some games on steam. I was floored at A. What games have become and how fuckin good they look B. How much fun I was having and C. How I was able to soothe anxiety

Just do what you like with your spare time, if it makes you happy and doesn't fuck your life up, do it.
And make the home page an ugly green with disgusting pictures of health problems?
From the US government's perspective? Because they are the ones in control of those US-based scenarios.
Sorry but no. Doctors need to do their job and read the laws. They’re smart enough. Keep going though, that’s clearly a winning topic with even women voting against it.
You can have methods with NamedTuple
Tokyo area population falls for first time (2022): https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14691787

> Ministry officials said deaths outnumbered births in the area by a wider margin than in previous years, fewer people entered the country from abroad amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and more people moved from the capital to other prefectures.
Australian Labor backs 16 as the minimum age to use social media
Honestly I think this is a disingenuous defense. It's not insane to look at a closed-source project that is being partially-audited by cherrypicked organizations and say "that's not a very secure or trustworthy process". There is no reasonable accountability being offered to the community. It's like Ford selecting private safety inspectors to tell customers how great their safety is while conveniently leaving out any of the results from their federally-mandated crash tests. Is this really helping customers, or is it just blatant and masturbatory marketing?

Apple has worked to deceive the public before, in both small and large ways. They lied about backdooring notifications for the US government when they were asked to[0], so it's not too hard to imagine it happening anywhere else in their systems. They're not taking a traditional approach to software transparency which is suspicious, and their "threat model" has professedly not protected against motivated requests for identifying information[1].

When the Mechanical Turk attempted to fool commoners watching it work, it was imperative to hide every trace of the human inside. The candle used to see inside the machine was masked by smoke from candles placed around the room, the cabinet was locked to avoid accidental opening, and people were told not to touch it because it was apparently 'expensive and fragile'. Looks like Apple is the ringleader this time around.

> but just saying “well maybe they’re still doing some unspecified nefarious thing” is not contributing to the discussion.

But Apple is saying the opposite, "well, maybe we're doing the detailed secure thing, ask these people we hired", and you're praising them for it. If calling out objective and obvious logical fallacies isn't contribution, then how are we supposed to argue inside the Reality Distortion Field? Do we make-believe and assume that Apple's provided preconditions are true, or can we express concerns for the outstanding issues? I don't understand how these real-world flaws are somehow unjustified in conversation. You're allowed to hold Apple to adversarial levels of scrutiny if you take security seriously.

> Especially when none of the alternatives are even trying.

Apple is the largest company in the world and by many metrics (and points of comparison) isn't even doing the bare minimum in managing public trust. Whenever you are shown a whitepaper without the means to validate the contents yourself, you are being fed what is called "marketing" in the tech circles. You don't have to feel bad about being tricked though, it's the same thing that fools investors and overly-faithful engineers. Whitepapers are whitepapers, handpicked security audits are handpicked security audits, and code is code. There is no blurring of the lines.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
This can't be a serious question.

US Government likes US Government control because it's themselves.

They don't want an adversary to have control. Is the distinction not obvious??
The carts are shockingly big compared to Vita carts. The plastic housing with a PCB sliding around underneath always felt cheap to me compared to any cart from the late 80s to current.
Every single one of us, but the left is by and far the worst offender.

Accept it or be left behind. Many of us believe this is the beginning of the end of the Democrat party because of the extremism.

Also I’m an independent that just wants Dems gone. Once their gone the right will be my target.
I only ever met a trump supporter who framed it so personally. Kamala harris lost. No part of it feels "mine" or "ours" to me.
> it's better to limit what enemies are able to broadcast directly to our phones

Unrelated question: How many enemy-manufactured products do you use daily? How many enemy products are in your home?
What about other cases in which domestic companies are fully bending to the will of China and other hostile governments?

Or simpler, domestic companies having foreign workers developing and implementing the algorithm itself???
yea? anything with substance to say?

do you not believe Im a veteran? or maybe the degree? or maybe that I came from a poor family? which is it and why would someone lie about that? or maybe your world view was shattered?

also do you know what Stolen Valor is?
Its easy to get the point across to politicians.

Ask them to check how much their own Ad spend is increasing every year.

And ask them to check how much New Content they need to produce everyday. And how much that has increased over the last year.

Basically Politicians, instead of being on the ground dealing with people issues, are turning into Content Factories and Fund raising machines to keep the content factories running.

Human Attention is finite. If its not treated as such, we trap everyone in an Attention Capture arms race to nowhere.

Platform profit, content factories profit, fund raising machines profit - https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/digital-ad-market-boom-big-...
Ongoing discussion (79 points, 4 hours ago, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42071310
Small credit cards transactions fly under the radar. But a big business with a big budget won't be able to advertise on Tiktok. That's why companies establish these offices. They are essentially import/export offices that allow the flow of money out of said country.
I agree with you conceptually, in a world where everyone is genuinely seeking the truth and sceptically fact checking. But the reality is the general public don't have the time or attention span to read beyond a headline let alone wait for a retorting explanation.

That combined with peoples propensity to be attracted to rage-bait and outrageous content in my opinion leaves a loop of scroll, get outraged, move onto next topic.

We saw that in the US election cycle that just passed. One side makes outrageous in-factual claim, voter base gets riled up, other side attempts to set the record straight, other side is already riled up on a completely different in-factual claim.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Banning TikTok probably isn't it.