skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which I'm going to do as soon as I get my new personal website/blog set up

I understand why you want a replacement for updating friends and family, but that's a really effortful barrier you're placing in front of deleting Facebook. For this reason you will find it way harder. And it's already harder than you think.

Take any and all barriers away from ditching FB. They are your mind tricking you into staying.
My thoughts are similar, but I think the cost of commercial space is also driving costs up for everyone, so I classify it as "rent." I'd love to see data, but small businesses (at least in certain sectors) seem bare able to survive--opening and closing constantly.

But, to get to a root cause, I think we have to keep asking why. Why are rents high? One reason is that cities seem unwilling to rezone. Okay, why is city council/the mayor unwilling to rezone (sometimes vast swaths of single family homes?) Voters? Corruption? Something else?

There are several root causes we can potentially drill further down to, but making headway will likely require hard work and involvement in our communities. You could always try running for something and becoming a politician.
No, the original definition of the word always referred to the mental state of the user. Then the definition got hijacked somehow to mean "negative content"
This is an interesting piece of history, but doesn't seem to be a company folding after 3 weeks due to lack of org structure.
What do you assign the injustice you faced to? And who're you to deny GPs claims?

There's nothing more rancid than someone leaping to downplay someone's complaint as "ah, they're just being sensitive. They're imagining it". If they were lodging a formal complaint at their firm, sure, due process is a must but people being shit to the Other is a well established and common human behavior. It sucks what happened to you but it has little to bear on GPs words. It's just confusing why you felt the need to defend these other strangers you've never met.
The idea of a pardon is exactly that: it erases the record of the crime/conviction.

I think you are thinking of a commutation. That ends the punishment while not absolving the person of the crime.

So the January 6th criminals who got pardons no longer have a criminal record (on this count at least). The 14 people who were only granted commutations are still counted as felons.
So they're either wrong or building Skynet.
TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
>especially in a start up

It's an example that Zizek has often given. The startup boss is more insidious than the old school boss because he's "just your pal". The traditional boss you can rebel against, in the startup you can't because duh, you have no boss, so what are you complaining about? It's a way to disguise power.

Another thing is that it's also a way to dodge responsibility, as you see in tech. When a Japanese company fucks something up, you'll often see CEOs take salary cuts and sincerely apologize in front of the public. No need in startup land, nobody was responsible.
>I value my time and personal development abov

That's a young man thing. Still trying to grow, to attract mates, etc. It switches (at least for those who develop correctly), to be able to provide for offspring and descendants material wealth is key.

>I don't need a giant house.

Perhaps, but we were talking about fuckyou money. Living in a crackerbox isn't an indication or test of fuckyou money... if Warren Buffet drives a beat up pickup truck, he's not interested in signalling fuckyou money. But he could also drive 31 different Ferraris, one for every day of the month right? My point was that fuckyou money has changed, and that by any measure even lottery jackpots aren't really fuckyou money anymore. Those are "yay, we get to send the kids to college without them being debt slaves" money. It's a strange world now days, that didn't used to be the case.
Considering your upbringing, you're making some confusing statements. Somebody who was brought up low income but is now wealthy ("one of the top percentiles of household income") should know better. It's called living frugally.

It sounds like you're fearful of losing your luxurious lifestyle if your income changes. Most Americans are fearful of affording clothing, food and shelter if their income changes.
> You get ten years to build a career. Max. After that, it’s just a job.

Why is that a problem? As jobs go, software engineering is pretty great; one could do a lot worse.

Never understood the obsession some people have with "upward mobility". Where do they think they are going? Do they think life is some kind of competition? How stressful that must be.

It sounds like this author never really wanted to be an engineer for the sake of doing engineering, and actually wants to be an entrepreneur instead. That's fine, of course, if that's what one is into - but it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with engineering as a profession.

> If you’re not the boss by the time you turn 50, you’re *#@%ed.

I'm just about there, and if this is what being "*#@%ed" feels like, I'll take it! My job offers good pay, reasonable hours, not too much stress, interesting work, coworkers who are both smart and kind, and a beautiful view of the mountains. What's to complain about?

I tried being the boss, years ago, and I never want to do that again. It's much better to let other people worry about all the tedious money problems I don't actually care about, while I get to spend my time solving interesting puzzles and making things go.
Fishing is dangerous work and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.

What matters are the data which nobody has dug up. Was there a significant reduction in fatalities following this committee's creation? Did it have a significant and likely causal relationship on those declines? And finally - assuming there was a decline d the committee was responsible for it, are they still meaningfully necessary or are the prior established rules sufficient to maintain the improvements moving forward?
yea, this is gonna be pretty interesting to watch play out. DX tools moving to a hybrid approach...
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"Frequently have non-profitable years"

A graph of the stocks for UnitedHealth, Elevance (formerly Anthem) and Cigna shows that they're all on the growth track for the last five years.

If a subscriber pays them what they do, and they don't have money to pay a claim declared medically necessary by a medical doctor, but do have the money to forward to a retirement fund, they are charging too much.

Most of the rest of the industrialized world seems to grasp this concept, and their people live longer.
https://github.com/phhusson/ims
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Hi Hacker News!

I made this project to read a WordPress export and create the markdown files for Hugo. It'll speed up the process of moving your blog over to Hugo and let you avoid a bunch of manual work.

It came about when I was talking to somebody who was trying to move their site over and didn't want to manually copy and reformat all their posts. They had trouble finding a tool to do it, so I wrote one.

I want to make sure it's useful to people before charging them, so it'll give you a download with 3 pages and 5 blog posts converted for free and without asking for any information. If you like what you see, there is a one-time charge through Stripe to convert everything.

I hope you find it useful, and I welcome any and all feedback on it!

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My Years at General Motors by Alfred Sloan is one of the best, because he actually goes through several iterations of making the company more or less centralized, based on specific problems they had at the time and the best ways to solve them. So the reasoning ends up being much more nuanced than most pro-centralization or pro-decentralization books.
They are spooked because the US social media companies want users to use their apps, so they can make money and provide data to the US govt.

Maybe EU countries should ban Fb, Gmail, YouTube, and Shitter.
It's particularly bad in the anglosphere because we have common law legal systems that are built around resolving personal disputes in court.

This has upsides -- it was a good solution to the problem in the 1200s of people solving disputes by fighting it out -- but in a modern context the downsides are pretty high thanks to rent-seeking lawyers.
Yeah, isn't it pretty standard to first report privately, then report publicly if they don't take any action (and you believe it to still be an issue)? That seems consistent with mosr organization's responsible disclosure practices.
Ringing the Bell for Our Own Acquisition
For context, Joost de Valk is the original creator of Yoast SEO — an extremely popular SEO plugin for WordPress. He's also one of the people Matt Mullenweg banned from WordPress.org on January 11th for "starting a fork" (which wasn't something that was currently happening) [0]. Post Status is a WordPress business community which de Valk just acquired, and is going to be turning into a non-profit with an advisory board. These actions match some of the thinking de Valk wrote about in December. [1]

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/matt-mullenweg-deactivates...

[1]: https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/
We wouldn't lie to you 297 times in a row, would we?
People who cite Chesterton's Fence love to pick an arbitrary point in time when their pet fence existed as the starting point.

If we take the birth of the federal government or the USCG as our start point, it is these type of committees that actually moved Chesterton's Fence
I’ve seen the goalposts on “the American Dream” move a lot. It used to be, everyone can work hard and have a good life. Buy a house, car, raise kids on a single income with free high school education. It might be a historical fluke but that’s what it was.

Then it somehow became “anyone can become rich” and we celebrated the middle class origins of our billionaires.

Now it seems to be “we have the richest billionaires”.

People are being gaslit with metrics like GDP and stock index prices that measure the performance of corporations and the wealthiest Americans. But the reality is that American life expectancy has plateaued or going down, while the EU has blasted past us.
Interestingly perhaps, as a foreigner (not from the USA or China) I can tell you not everyone around the world shares this perspective. There's people who trust China's single-party system over the USA's oligarchy.
I am just upset with a general shift away

A Show HN, and really, most HN threads aren't the place to vent about this. It's even mentioned in the site docs:

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
Things you read as notifications don't show up as read, even if you dismiss the notification.

As for the watch, I look at the thing and immediately can classify as truly urgent, needs immediate action or non-urgent and leave it piling as a todo list.

As a consequence I've begun to regularly forget where I put my phone, which is honestly quite liberating.

I've also started to aggressively cull away badges and notifications privileges from many apps.
I believe the responsibility for the harm caused by addictive drugs lies on the user to such great extent, that whatever remains for the people who facilitate the sale is not enough for it to be a criminal offence. It's still immoral the same way it's immoral to operate a gambling shop.

But in Ulbricht's case I'd say even this part is mitigated by the fact that facilitating the trade of dangerous drugs was a side effect of running a useful service for responsible drug users.
> the problem is the same: a need for rapid industrial development to grow the economy

This is first-mover industrial development being funded by private actors looking out for a return on their investments. South America saw nothing similar--it was duplicating others' industrialisation with state capital (often borrowed from overseas) while spending massively on handouts.
Big Stroustrup?
I don't have particular books to share, but to me this is very close to group dynamics topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_dynamics

You can find Key Theorists section there with book recommendations.
By cutting, they're centralizing authority at the top. More and different rules will come - some written, many not - but not by the people that were in place before the change.
Weather tracker: polar vortex to bring cold spell to much of US
In terms of money they really aren't that big, but they don't need much money to wield influence because their cause is very popular with a lot of voters and politicians know that.
If you keep posting in the flamewar style we're going to have to ban you again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We get it, he’s a habitual liar, but there are more important issues related to Musk than his likely video game cheating that should be discussed in the news.
Thanks. In case that's of interest, I have another one, using doubango rather than asterisk: https://github.com/phhusson/doubango/ (and its readme at https://github.com/phhusson/doubango/blob/master/README-phh )
"Yes. Millenials own property at the highest rate, age adjusted, in generations."

Age-adjusted?

So if you take out the fact that it took up more of the one resource that matters more than anything else to become property owners, then, yes, Millennials have more of it.

Which is kind of proving my point.
That it sounds nicer is equivalent to saying that a native speaker uses it this way. There's no why to it; language evolves based on how it is used. The aesthetics are downstream of the fact that this is the way that native speakers use it.

The question is whether there is a rule that we can use to determine the correct way to modify the noun which it modifies. And the answer is ... sort of?

As an argument against the pure aesthetic argument (in the sense that maybe the usage of it is driven by superior aesthetics) we can find some counterexamples. We can say "there are zero marks on this ruler" and we can also say "here is the zero mark on this ruler". Both of these sentences make perfect sense and are immediately parsable by a native speaker. "There is zero mark on this ruler" and "here is the zero marks on this ruler" are clearly both wrong. The difference here is that in one case we are using "zero" to refer to a quantity and in the other to a non-quantity.
It really is despairingly sad how many of these comments (assumedly by U.S. citizens) seem to not realize or believe these actions will have an effect on them.

Are some of these things normal SOP for a regime change? Sure. But to normalize everything under that blanket assumption is just foolish.

Unless you are an exceedingly (liquid) wealthy white male, you are entirely disposable to the incoming administration. You are less than nothing. If anything, you are an inconvenience buried deep in the calculations that needs to be factored out of the equation because your existence hinders the "progress" being sought.

All these pragmatic or, worse, so-called "libertarian" views demonstrate a supremely naïve, if not outright harmful (to yourself and countless others), understanding of what is going to be aggressively pursued these next few years.
Let's not make "MBA" a generic slur/boogeyman. No MBA ever asked me for a full app redesign. UX designers do all the time, though. No MBA ever requested that we force users to update their software, but the security engineers at my previous companies would have loved that. Yes, business-oriented teams often make our software shitty, but so do technical teams, product leads, and designers.
How is this any different from having a phone number that's just one digit away from another sensitive one?
Meta admits some people can't unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram
Web apps are not a viable replacement for native apps, so I think it's a fair criticism.
I mean, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 TLDs are clearly useful, but given the address space, there's lots of one away typos there. It's not a big difference when the non contry code domains are also one dropped letter away from an ccTLD.

On the other hand, this sort of misconfiguration would show up in any sort of good DNS checking tool. One of your registered nameservers doesn't resolve and/or one of your name servers doesn't return the same zone serial (likely) or actual response if you check a name.

In .is, they wouldn't let me register a domain unless I provided two known good nameservers, but .com isn't picky anymore.
> we could’ve eliminated student loan debt for ~20 million Americans. It would in turn open a myriad number of opportunities, like owning a home

I'd give the money to folks starting in the trades before bailling out the college-educated class.

Also, wiping out numbers on a spreadsheet doesn't erect new homes. If we wiped out student debt, the portion of that value that went into new homeownership would principally flow to existing homeowners.

Finally, you're comparing a government hand-out to private investment into a capital asset. That's like comparing eating out at a nice restaurant to buying a bond. Different prerogatives.
I love obsidian but it's not the best tool for most people I know. I'm fine with tinkering adding plugins / scripts but for most people, the functionality they want isn't a default feature and guiding them to all the extras becomes an issue.

I'll keep using it, love it, but there definitely should be a fork with everything already configured for more casual users.
Can you please not perpetuate flamewars or use HN for political battle? Your account has unfortunately been doing this repeatedly lately. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> A few hours later, MasterCard acknowledged the mistake, but said there was never any real threat to the security of its operations.

> “We have looked into the matter and there was not a risk to our systems,” a MasterCard spokesperson wrote.

This is a classic, “we have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”, response

This is a multibillion dollar public company that has at least 3.4B branded cards in the wild, and processed 44.3B credit/debit/cash transactions across the globe in Q3 2024.

Admitting wrongdoing is a _short term_ mistake in the market, but sets a shitty company culture. Just like ClownStrike.

A disruption to predatory/parasitic credit/debit networks is well overdue.
I don't have this particular issue, but instead the text size is hilariously huge. The CSS contains this fragment:

@media (min-resolution: 1.5dppx) {
:root {
font-size: 2.4rem;
}
}

My 27 inch 4k monitor comes in at a device pixel ratio of ~1.58, triggering this (presumably) phone-targeted style.
Probably the first social media genocide was organized on Facebook, the Rohingya genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
$500b is not business as usual for any corporation. Centralized planning doesn't fail because of government bureaucrats, it fails because there is too much spending to be decided on by too few people.

Zuckerberg lost $30bn or more trying to create a VR amusement park. Scale that up to $500bn and see how much waste and dead-weight losses are created.
Also blog post: https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.2
I think it heavily depends on what az.mastercard.com actually is or does.

Receiving email directed to x@mastercard.com doesn't sound right, since this is only a subdomain of unknown(to me) use. TLS? Probably, but again, the risk depends on what it is, and wouldn't affect users visiting 'mastercard.com.'
> in order to receive support

It would be nice if users could simply opt out of "support," whateverTF that means. It sounds like something I don't want, if it means forcibly installing software.
Nothing to see here. Per TFA, the league has content deals with twitter, meta, & reddit, but not with Bluesky.
While you're correct, my experience has been that the unwritten power structure is much stronger in places where there is no written power structure.

Where there is a written power structure you can usually appeal to it and eventually get something done. Where there exists no written power structure at all, you're out of luck unless you can quickly figure out what the power structure is.

A written power structure is a low resolution map. It's not perfect, but it gives you some idea of where to start making sense of things. A flat organization is never actually flat, but it also has no guideposts at all to show you even the rough outlines of the real hierarchies.
He was punished for his visible actions, not his private beliefs.

Also, I was focusing less on Ulbricht, and more on what 'ty6853 wrote in the comment I replied to. Quoting another part of it:

> The state hates more than anything someone who operates on first principles that the empire is wrong.

My point is: the state is absolutely right to hate such people. This is true regardless of whether the "empire" is North Korea or the United Federation of Planets - it's not an ethics issue, it's a structural property of stable social organizations.

As for people living today, unless you really suffer under the yoke of an evil empire, it's worth remembering that, were the state to suddenly break down, things will get much, much worse for everyone in it, yourself included.

It's too easy for all of us to take our daily lives for granted.
>However, very few developers follow this approach religiously

I do it pretty religiously. There are 3 exceptions:

1) I'm doing a spike (i.e. what author calls exploratory code) in which case, probably this code is getting disposed of. This is the one main exception.

2) I'm just tweaking a config value/printed message/something else surface level.

3) The cost of building test infrastructure is prohibitive (if it's a long running project I will aim to keep building that infra until it is possible though...).

That's it. As far as I can tell there arent other scenarios where it isnt a good idea.
This debate about IQ could have been had yesterday, and I‘m pretty sure I saw a pretty similar debate a few months ago on this site. Not much has changed there at least.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629493
My layman's understanding is that making the meat and improving its texture, taste etc are things that are improving over time yes, but are still secondary issues to the actual supply chain of lab-grown meat still being a huge challenge.

The need for constant clean room environments and various other tightly-controlled factors make the total cost and effort of the meat still well above the cost of normal meat, no?
I would think you'd get client query errors from time to time as well if one of the auth NS names doesn't even route/not registered. Even a big cacher like Google or CF might have noticed query errors and I'd actually be surprised if there wasn't communication from one of those entities to MC about the issue.
Can security researchers send an invoice for a reasonable amount conmesurate with the value of the service provided and then sue for quantum meruit if it is not paid?
DeepSeek LLM supports Chinese propaganda
That's why this is interesting, it doesn't even require someone to open a link
The Bugcrowd portion of this story is not something I expected to see. The screenshot of the mail is apparently sent from the "Platform Behavior Standards Team," which means that either Bugcrowd are taking a rather expansive view of their platform standards [1] by attempting to police behaviour outside the platform, or Mastercard are impersonating official Bugcrowd staff.

Neither option is particularly palatable.

[1] https://www.bugcrowd.com/resources/hacker-resources/platform...
I think this misses the deeper relationship between the Falun Gong and western intelligence agencies, that goes beyond just "pandering to right-wing nuts" after a period of "spontaneous" support from mainstream western organizations.
"Updated April 3, 2021". Seems odd that 400 would go to 23 in less than 4 yrs, though.