skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they didn't want people trading registrations why not just... not allow them to trade reservations? I can't trade plane tickets, and that isn't because of some implied threat.
Depending on your situation there is a chance you absolutely should inherit no revolutionary spirit - ie. if you are a part of 1) a wealthy family or 2) the PE game - given this is HN, there is a good chance of that being the case.
salesforce is a sales and marketing company first, tech company second. it's in their interest to create a ton of buzz and hype on whatever the current thing is and how they are that thing. Then they go on to sell a basic CRUD app that has to be customized by consultants.
Right, I should have said "generate extra pixels in every frame, not interpolate whole frames". Doing the former also increases frame rate by reducing computation per pixel.
Who? Insurance employees?
There is a now infamous tweet:

"People on twitter will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebomb a Walmart" [0]

Well, Luigi firebombed a Walmart.

Is that a valid strategy for enacting societal change? Perhaps not. But this republic accepts and engages in war. And as Clusewitz says, ""War is the continuation of policy with other means." [1]

Perhaps Luigi is also pursuing policy change through other means. I have to say that watching American politicians and law enforcement agencies treat the man who at worst committed one murder (alleged; innocent until proven guilty) with the wrath and civil rights abuses previously only reserved for terrorists associated with 9/11 makes me believe that his actions genuinely shocked the system.

I'll be shocked if he makes it to trial alive.

[0] https://x.com/LinkofSunshine/status/1720538218628558969?lang...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz
In your contrarian urge to defend some of the worst of the status quo, you forget the insurance company's whole role is to pay for medical care.

I suggest you read up on this. IIRC, it was UHG's practice to deny claims indiscriminately to increase the personal burden of accessing medical care. Because, you know, if people pay their premiums to the company but it doesn't pay out, it makes lots more money for the shareholders.

It's weird how you seem to consistently elide motivations even when extremely relevant.
Definition 3: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/violence
I might have checked acceptable, even if I'm not sure if it is. Just to steer the result to the direction that conveys the message.
I understand the C standard hides such actions behind a wall of "this is the allocator", and expected the compiler authors to also be the allocator authors, allowing them to know when/how they can break such rules (in the context of their own compiler)
Be careful with this horseshoe theory, as it's been around for more than a century without any real traction in academic research and in fact been very much contradicted by recent studies. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
And miss out on these cool articles about people learning a bunch of stuff?
The assumption here I'm seeing by some of the naysayers that US Law in 2025 is a good arbiter of ethics, morality or justness is something I'd like to touch on.

I wonder if those people also believe this to have been the case before Civil Rights.

Or even in the slavery era. Slaveholders were just law-abiding citizens! Slaves trying to escape were the scoundrels!

If not, then surely you can see how there's no way that "back then, the execution of US law was awful, but now in 2025, it's wonderful and should always be treated as delivering justice". Come on now. It's just as flawed now, just in different ways.

Which means just like in the Jim Crow era, you can't use the US execution of law as an arbiter of justness, ethics, morals, and what will improve society. Absolutely not.

Everyone who has such tendencies certainly has people they look up to who are murderers. They've definitely voted for them.

Lifted from another comment [1]:

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for the law."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42642740
My experience is very similar.

When I was young, I could stay up for 26 - 30 hours regularly without any issues, even on multiple consecutive days. I would be fine no matter how I slept.

No more. If my sleep schedule gets disrupted in any way, too short or too long, my body will immediately go into "things are not right" mode.
It was 41% approve, 40% disapprove. All the polls are filled with massive numbers of "don't know" people that I think is likely going to be filled with people struggling with cognitive dissonance. How can one oppose murder, but not feel particularly upset, to say the least, about this murder?
> So, yes, what the people want does actually matter.

No, it doesn't. Unless what they want aligns with what the ruling class and interest groups want. [0] The propaganda arm of the ruling class, of course, endeavors to get the public on their side precisely because violence ensues when they push too far without public buy-in.

[0]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
If anyone here is a fan of strategy games and found this as totally awesome as I did, check out the game Terra Invicta on Steam.

I’m embarrassed to admit how many hours I dumped into it.
You were talking abut microcontrollers from the 1970s, then you bring up Parralax
as an example.
Shouldn’t have built expensive houses for a start
Exactly this. I’m of the option that you have to spend at least a couple of hours in deep conversation with most people in order to even think about calling them an asshole, despite them writing what to you feels like obnoxious texts. It’s not intellectually honest to throw around the asshole judgement whenever you read a sentence that upsets you.
Can you coherently refer to the "first" real outside some set, just in general?

Like, what is the first positive real?

If you have to involve infinitesimals or something, I think it's perfectly fine for you to be able to take the definable reals and then extend them in that way. it doesn't invalidate the idea of a "definable" real.
Except almost every blockbuster movie, rap song and mainstream video game romanticizes and heroizes violence.
Thank you for your comment, I thought that there's nobody left here who understands this.
> Oh yeah, speaking of rights...

> "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family ...

This is only valid for Rusia, China and North Korea. Not for US. /s
I represented my country in cycle ball as well. The thing is that nobody is really interested in that, similar to how nobody is interested in people throwing discs as far as possible. Just because you represent a country, it’s not necessarily interesting and people don’t have to get paid for it.
There are systems that cannot deny life saving care, and where everyone is necessarily insured.

It’s facetious to compare those to a system where 30 million have zero coverage and the rest are systematically denied life saving care as a profit making mechanism.

And yeah letting someone die when you could help them live is violence. When it’s baked into the rules it’s called systemic violence.
Also the age group that tends to make up the vast majority of rebels, revolutionaries, criminals, soldiers, etc….
You can pour concrete over all the shrubbery. Won’t be as nice, though.
With dysfunctional government and people in power abusing the population, the first step response is unhinged folks doing unhinged things.

> but this is not how you handle it

The problem being that the mechanisms for handling it aren't working (judicial, executive, legislative, regulatory, stockholders, public pressure). The next steps of handling it are unhinged folks doing unhinged things. Several more steps down the road handling it means ordinary folks doing revolutionary things.

This is what long term dysfunctional government not representing the people looks like. This is a result of the politics of fear.

The end of this path looks like a bloodthirsty mob with a guillotine. After the French got disgusted with themselves having executed 30,000 to 50,000 people they overthrew the revolutionaries and were promptly taken over by Napoleon.

The structural problems that lead to this kind of popular support for an unhinged dude assassinating a CEO need to be addressed, and the fix doesn't focus on unhinged dudes or public opinion of them.
I read Luigi's answers on his SO account. They are awful. Granted though, he likely wrote these answers when he was about 16 years old.

With that said: his content is on there under the presumption of CC, it should remain.
Couldn't the same be said of a fire department with a $800,000,000 budget? Clearly they're not doing so hot, we should cut it further.
> if your electeds wont change the law, vote them out and pick people who will.

This only works in a proper democracy. The US is currently an oligarchy.
Thank you, going on my reading list! Definitely not the best example then.

Nevertheless, the person I was replying to has 100% voted for murderers assuming they live in the US, unless they never voted for anyone who won. They consume products by businesses who murder. I strongly doubt they're a pacificism absolutist, given how extremely rare those are nowadays, as most people understand how quickly that falls apart when someone shows up with a big stick who can't be reasoned with.
Reminds me of my trip to south america, in which I had no meal plans, just munchies plans
> Just need more people to see things people see on a farm

There's many "educational farms" to show kids live farms animals and sometimes pick the eggs and milk a cow. I'm very confused about them: it's good to let urban kids see-smell-touch real farms animals. However they have nothing in common with modern farming, even the not-inhumane ones.

BUT telling a 6yo toddler "look that cute cow, this is where your morning milk is from" will engrave it deep in the way they see farming. One day or another they will learn about factory farming but what you learn at 16yo doesn't "engrave" as easy and deep as at 6. I mean yes you quickly understand that education farms are not the reality but it require a big mental shift to overcome the feeling that the milk you drink in the morning is from an inhumane famr, especially when everyone around keeps doing it (I don't blame them, it's cheap, easy, convenient, traditional, delicious, practical...).

Some schools or parents brings their child in real farms which is a bit better, but it still doesn't depict the reality for 99% of consumption (think gelatin candies, croissants, cakes, ice creams...).

For the courageous -- DONT SHOW THAT TO YOUR TODDLER (yet) -- 8 hours of pigs in a typical/normal gas chamber that probably will end up in soap/jelly/bacon. : https://www.farmtransparency.org/videos?id=hg8cyu393v
>the wrath and civil rights abuses previously only reserved for terrorists associated with 9/11 makes me believe that his actions genuinely shocked the system.

When people responded positively or indifferently to the killing of Thompson, the ruling class took notice. That's REAL power, a new sensation to most Americans. I can hope only good things can come of this realization.
Health care policy isn't a civil rights issues?

Don't you think thats jsut so ironic? It's not a civil rights issue in the USA and that is the exact problem.

The healthcare system in America is completely dysfunctional. Countless people's lives are being ruined and lost. Corporations like UnitedHealthcare are intentionally perpetuating this. The leaders of these companies are conciously complicit in all of this.

There are reforms being proposed constantly because of these incredibly predatory and exploitative Corporations, again conciously lead by these leaders.

These Corporations and the people leading them are evil, they're exploiting innocent sick people for profit and they've managed to convince people like you that it's not a civil rights issue. That is the exact problem here.
>"It wouldn't change the basic picture of Mangione's support in the YouGov poll."

My single sentence underneath the horizontal divider in a sub-thread that primarily diverted to discussing the 2024 Election polls, and their accuracy, addresses that. Why didn't you quote that anywhere in your reply?
This is an insane comment what you wrote.

I live in a European country with public free healthcare. Sure, you pay a portion of your income towards healthcare, so it's not really free etc. etc. If you don't have income, the state pays it for you.

There isn't any denial of healthcare. I never heard about anything like that. Sure, there are limits on availability of healthcare, particularly if it's some advanced or expensive procedure. For example, there is a place where they do radio surgery on the brain. There may only be one such place in the country (it's a small country). If you need that kind of procedure done, obviously there is a waiting list. And certainly some of those on a waiting list must have died.

But there is no denial of healthcare per se with someone making a decision to deny healthcare.
Yet, my ex co-worker who has been convicted of murder and is serving life without possibility of parole has his account untouched [0]. It's surprising because his case was all over the news and tabloids.

Not so Fun fact: a second coworker, from the same company, different crime, has also been convicted and is serving 14 years. (Victim died when police shot the wrong person). His stack overflow account is still up.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/968075/gareth-pursehouse
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> Ah, so by saying that denying insurance claims is not violence, because all insurance systems must deny some claims

> Consider, for example, a public health insurance system like Germany. Do you think that Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung never denies claims? That it never denies care? Is it also violence when it does so?

Denying claims can be violence, it can also not be violence. There are other factors which you keep ignoring. Stop doing that.

> I'm basically Hitler.

If you say so. No one else is.
It's not the first time they've done this. They've consistently done it with Gaza. When they do cover it at all, it's only to paint protestors as terrorists. (Yet the France vs Israel sportsball match was played to a three quarters empty stadium because that many people hate Israe now)
Are you arguing that Mangione's actions were wrong, or are you arguing that corporations are right to use censorship to keep the population docile?
This doesn't take away from your point, but what defines violence? I recently asked this to someone here but unfortunately did not get an answer [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566862
The Manhattan Tourist Problem
I doubt anything would give you a "revolutionary spirit." As such a spirit is almost necessarily violent if it's serious at all.
You talk about them as a "threat to democracy" in hopes some homicidal lunatic will take it to heart.
The difference is in the past most discourse was by mouth - impossible to censor and eavesdropping was costly because you needed a person to do it.

These days more and more discourse is online

- heavily censored by platform rules which are much more strict than laws, partially because it makes the moderator's job easier to err on the side of caution, partially because it teaches people to self censor which then extends into real life

- censorship can be automated and even invisible (shadowbanning, fake degradation of QoL, ...)

- eavesdropping is also automated and omnipresent

The real danger of AI or LLMs these days is not they machines will want to kill us but that powerful people will use them to mass-profile everyone and stop any dissent from spreading.

Do you think China will have a revolution and restore democracy? How? How will people organize?

And every currently democratic state will be the same - democracy only needs to fail once and it will be almost impossible to restore.

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EDIT: Even word of mouth is in danger, sufficiently powerful organizations are or will be able to access microphones near you. Or cameras for lip reading. Again, en-masse, automated by AI.
Throwback to that time
That is certainly true of Flutter, which has its own rendering pipeline. React native, if you create a Button then on iOS you'll get an actual UIButton instance constructed, etc.
Can the prisoners volunteer to be teachers or work at Meta too, or is only one market affected?
If someone had murdered Hitler I'd support that person. Wouldn't you? Could have saved 11 million lives. But Germany would still have sent him to prison for life because he broke the rules.
Don’t encourage it.
Creating software is an economically profitable activity that many people are willing to pay top dollar for. Throwing a disc really far by hand, not so much.

That said, the "hobby" angle is irrelevant here. As the article points out, the IOC makes an absolute fuckton of money from Olympic broadcast rights and sponsors, essentially none of which flows back to the actual athletes.
You should post this higher up . It's the most succinct way I've seen anyone put it across the many threads on here with hundreds of comments, most of which I read.
>Those who do not get access to healthcare services and die will not be able to vote with their wallets. They are gone.

While I agree with most of what you said, if the insurance company lets a person die, then that person no longer pays them for insurance and never will again - essentially "voting with their wallet", even if not directly. While that may be an insignificant amount of money to the insurance company, if their policies led to many people not getting the treatment they needed, the people would either die or seek other insurance, and either way stop paying the company for insurance. Though this can be problematic if the insurance is supplied by an employer, as they don't always offer a choice of insurance companies.

But the real problem with the US medical system is the medical treatments costing far, far far more than is reasonable. In other countries medical care costs are way more reasonable. People don't get bankrupted by medical expenses. And there's too many stories out there about hospitals and doctors billing insurance ridiculously high costs, and if the bill isn't being paid by insurance companies then the price is lowered substantially.

It's a fucked up system, through and through. Many/most hospitals are for-profit ventures, and they really do try to extract the most money that they can, however they can get it - and that usually means sending a ridiculously high bill to the insurance company and then insurance tries to negotiate it down. A routine operation should not cost over $100,000, but that is often what the insurance company gets billed.
Or perhaps build in a way that can survive a fire if you want to live in a bush fire prone area…? Maybe don’t plant eucalyptus on the yard, etc.
Perhaps, but can you find something more relevant than The Perfect Weapon?
Building will never not be fascinating
One reason I find startups fascinating is that the opportunity never truly ends; there is always another wave to ride.

Missed e-commerce? Cloud computing followed.
Missed cloud? Social media reshaped industries.
Missed social? Blockchain redefined ownership.
Missed blockchain? AI is transforming everything.

Each wave builds on the last:

2000: E-commerce grew on early internet.
2010: Cloud scaled startups.
2014: Social media expanded reach.
2018: Blockchain reimagined trust.
2023: AI amplifies it all.

The compounding effect is staggering!

What once required entire teams and enormous budgets can now be accomplished by a single entrepreneur with a laptop and Wi-Fi.

The magic of tech is not about being first; it is about spotting what is next.

2025 is brimming with possibilities for all of us who are ready to create!

Couldn't be more excited.
It’s impossible for all instances of these things to constitute violence. I do, however, find the idea that they are sometimes akin to violence very enticing. Can you argue that? Can the actions of a stereotypical slumlord, one behaving within local law and never physically touching one of his tenants, potentially constitute violence? If not, how are you defining it?
> Seriously, ask a few asylum seekers from Honduras or El Salvador what they think about political violence.

Why not ask some US citizens ? Or does assasination attempts at a running candidate does not count as political violence ? Or assasination of a president FWIW ?
Yes but try to apply the same rules to real life and people will laugh at you.

How many times do you see the hero having to choose between killing the villain and leaving him to the legal system (not justice system) to give him a lesser punishment?
I actually got it last night from someone else reaching out and that's why I was alerted to this, haha. Cheers!
I'm confused, you said that there isn't any denial of healthcare where you are, but then described very clearly and explicitly how some people are denied healthcare, and they sometimes die as a result. Maybe you understand the word "deny" differently?
There's research that supports this. The laws that get passed depend on corporate, not public support.

It's why academics have been referring to the US as an oligarchy for a while now.
I run a service that does that: https://hackernewsalerts.com
>The people in this country have absolutely no power and are tired of it. You can't vote out a parasitic system that exists only to extract as much from you as possible. The people who "represent" us only focus on culture war bullshit INTENTIONALLY, to distract from the fact that the one of two preselected candidates we have basically represent the same despicable capitalists and their same interests of stripping us of everything you have so they can have more shit they don't need, while the rest of us are fighting over their droppings.

I miss old-school conspiracy theorists like Ron Unz who actually have sophisticated arguments for what they believe.

The internet is now full of handwavey conspiratorial BS that's "not even wrong". Who is writing all of this stuff?

At least the 9/11 truthers made specific false claims.
If a resource is so scarce that its real value is higher than the official one, the producer will have to either increase production, or accept that black markets will appear.

Why can't UW increase the number of classes?
> the nice things we have in life are because we have a stable society, and rule of law

Could it be that you're part of the privileged and hence why you prefer the statu quo not to change?
> Shouldn’t have built expensive houses for a start

Why not?
Why don't you think it's apartheid?
Sure. But we aren’t sure of a lot of things.

People regularly say “let me know the full facts, even if they aren’t confirmed.”

This is a common claim from people when it comes to medicine or nutrition, for example.

I think you can acknowledge that people have contradictory impulses - because you’ve experienced it.

All reporting on developing situations will be inaccurate, and yet people want it.

So how would you reconcile this? This need for the best effort information and the need for perfect information?
The average American citizen has less influence on politics in their "republic" than a citizen of a dictatorship. Only the will of the financial elite actually has influence. See Gilens and Page 2014.

It really doesn't matter if people are convinced to want single payer or not, it isn't going to happen. There are many, many systems in place to prevent the will of the people from happening if the elite don't want it.