skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm confused by your take then, and the evidence you use to support it. You stated "But you move up in your career just like everyone else does" from a 65-75K starting salary as a college grad, when your own figures show that the average household income is oftentimes comprised of two people making even less than that, but have reached the stage of upwards mobility to buy a house, albeit oftentimes "house-broke" and in strife to pay mortgages.

These people didn't move up, as per your assessment. Most people need to combine salaries with someone else to even have a fair chance in this system, to get any upwards mobility.
What I learned: do not use ephemeral tools like this as scratchpad. You never know when you will need this data and as soon as you start saving these snippets it becomes tedious. Also unsaved tabs block software updates etc. Use something like Obsidian or default Notes on macos.
Legal extortion you way?
> Not sure how you can ban people from taking out loans writ large though

Let them be discharged in bankruptcy. The system will fix itself around that.
My problem with Socrates isn't that it's mental gymnastics. My problem with Socrates is that he was an anti-democratic totalitarian and that he was disingenuous and manipulative (that's literally, explicitly what sophistry is).

Defenders of Socrates are generally enamored with his reputation, retreating into appeals to authority rather than any logical or empirical defense of his ideas.

In a larger sense, my problem with philosophers is generally that they are still talking about outdated figures like Socrates. What little he got right has been refined over the last few millenia, and by continuing to obsess over him we're continuing to propagate his (numerous!) mistakes along with what little good he had to say. Philosophy is a really interesting and even important area of study, but the ideas are what matter, not the people, and the obsession with the people really holds the field back by keeping stupid ideas alive long past their expiration date.
> I know this is probably as minority view, but I think if adults consent to buying and using any drug, that should be both fully legal, and their right and responsibility- any negative consequences are 100% their own fault, not the person who sold them. It's probably true that making drugs easier to buy made more people buy them, but I was only considering the ill effects of fraudulently adulterated products. Do the math differently if you don't see it this way.

I'd agree with you if the people that used these drugs did so rationally. That's not the case mostly though from what I've heard. Trauma is often the root cause and that's out of many people's control. From then on it's ub to society to help them.

If a high performing exec wants to buy drugs to function better, sure maybe that's ok but I doubt that's the majority of people.
Upwards mobility? But that's exactly what younger generations can't do since housing is completely out of reach for them.

My example from Munich, a condo going for a 1m €. Median software engineer salary is around 66k € per year. Income tax ~40% so your take home is around 40k year.

That means that if you put all your net income towards your home you'd need 25 years just for the principle not counting interest or spending money on essentials such as food or energy.

So how do you do it? You don't. It's simply not possible unless you have exceptional circumstances (top %1 job, rich mom & dad etc).

This also means you now have no chance but to rent and and all your rent money just goes forward to the generations of individuals who invested in this ponzi scheme earlier or to the investment firms and businesses who operate in this domain. Regardless again all the wealth moves up the pyramid to the top.

Also even those older generations, all this "wealth" is imaginary. You can only realize your gains when you actually sell (so you realize the market price you sell on) and in addition you still gotta live somewhere, so to win in this game is to buy early and cash out by selling and then moving to somewhere low cost. (Perhaps retirement).

In summary, expensive housing is only benefiting those who already have amassed wealth and it's obstructing those who haven't from amassing any wealth.
Does he need help? They've already released two nonsense meme coins to bilk their followers and crypto people hoping to time the dump correctly.
Deno Deploy halved their regions again
Great call! That’s a really solid idea—using the LLMs to rate posts based on comment activity could totally work and would be fun.

Were you thinking something like a “DramaLlama,” deciding if it’s a slow day or a meltdown-worthy soap opera in the comments? Or maybe something more valuable, like an “Insight Index” that uses the LLM to analyze comments for links, explanations, or phrases that add context or insight—basically gauging how constructive or meaningful the discussion is?

I also saw an idea in another post on this thread about an LLM that constantly listens to conversations and declares a winner. That could be fun to adapt for spicier posts—like the LLM picking a “winner” in the comments. Make the argument GopherSignal official lol. If it helps bring in another user, I’m all in!

Appreciate the feedback.
Deno Deploy halved their regions again!

35 (~2023-12)
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12 (2024-01)
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06 (2025-01)

"us-west2" (California)
"asia-northeast1" (Tokyo), "australia-southeast1" (Sydney), "europe-west4" (Amsterdam), "me-west1" (Tel Aviv), "us-south1" (Austin), and "us-west1" (Hillsboro)

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Deno Deploy does not deserve the EDGE label at this point!
i have some experience with another such protocol, for customs , to/from EU. About 15 years ago, it was made mandatory (in Bulgaria). A friend of mine suggested we make a software for filling those forms, and handle the XML-message-passing-and-signing and FSMs and all-that, and sell it. Took me few months, did it, then got few clients.. which used it for about 2 years, with updates of rules once in a while, and then one day the government published a free pdf-like generator for those XMLs, and we had to close - regardless of other niceties, people needed mostly the forms, and the new free ones were good-enough - and kept updated.
Even this year is the best time ever to be alive
If I remember correctly, a lack of recognize able terrain features is what caused the drone's crash on mars
Long, long time user of Wireshark and I instantly recognize your name. Thank you for all the great work over the years :-)

Looks really awesome! I didn't see Linux installation instructions so clicked on the link to the source code, but it links to the Wireshark source[1]. Is Stratoshark part of the same repo as Wireshark? Is Linux supported by Stratoshark?

[1]: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark
“We”? Examine your own principles, review the facts, come to your own conclusion.
> In December 2019, Ebbers was released from Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth, due to declining health, having served 13 years of his 25-year sentence, and he died just over a month later.[1]

...living until the age of 61 as one of the richest men in the world, then spending 13 years in minimum-security prison.

> In 2013, following a further appeal, and earlier accusations that prosecutors had concealed evidence from Skilling's lawyers prior to his trial, the United States Department of Justice reached a deal with Skilling, which resulted in ten years being cut from his sentence, reducing it to 14 years. He was moved to a halfway house in 2018 and released from custody in 2019, after serving 12 years. [2]

...living until the age of 53 as one of the richest men in the world, then spending 12 years in minimum-security prison.

Re: NCFE: Lance K. Poulsen went to jail at 65, and while I wasn't able to find out his current situation, he's about due to get out of jail if the other cases are any indication[3]. Rebecca S. Parrett, 60, fled after her conviction and was arrested at age 62 in Mexico, largely due to fleeing to a country with robust US extradition (why?)[4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Ebbers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling

[3] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-national-century-finan...

[4] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fugitive-ohio-executive-previ...
> First UK patient has tumour removed through eye socket

Was it performed by a gynecologist ? /s
> tightly controls its content distribution channels

Buy why? What control do they need beyond normal copyright? And what does the NFL gain from not being able to reach tens of millions of Bluesky users?
The difference is the terrorizing and beheading part.
The overall take of HN is that a sober discussion of this situation isn't possible on this site.
That's what I'm talking about btw if I ask Google anything, their AI churns through all results and content it's indexed and gives me a summary.
It's disputed by the guy who has a business interest in making sure his competition can't do as well, and this notice of dispute is printed in a paper that is literally named after a place where the vast majority of people have never had to do any real labor in their lives.

Also the guy disputing it is trying to regain control of an entity that he was too distracted to hold to its original mission, is on record as agreeing with the statement that Jewish people are the enemies of white people, takes copious amounts of mind-altering substances daily, has lost billions of dollars on purchasing a company that had a path to (modest) profitability, and did what could easily be seen as a Roman salute at an inauguration speech. Maybe he's not a great source of statements on objective reality, even within the AI industry.

With regard to the monetary amount, understand, once you reach a certain point, the amount of capital held by the quantity of individuals we're talking about is immaterial. Any capital they raise is usually derived from the labor of others and they operate a racket to prevent any real competition for how that capital is distributed by the labor or the customers who are the source of their actual wealth. The average Oracle employee (I know a few), for example, probably has a few more immediate things they want the surplus value of their labor to be spent on than Larry's moonshot. However, he ultimately controls the direction of that value through a shareholder system that he can manipulate more-or-less at-will through splits, buybacks, and other practices.

His customers would probably also like to pay less for what are usually barely Web 2.0 database applications. Of course, he has the capital to corner markets and shove competition out of the space.

All of this is to say when you reach this amount of money in the hands of one individual, they're more likely to regularly harm people than beat the odds on their next bet in a way that actually uplifts society, at least in a way that could beat the way just disbursing that capital among those who created it could.
I was referring to insurance writ large, but yes it's true recently health insurers have been profitable - but not massively, more like 3-4% average margins. [0]

> 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.

If it is only legal to lose money on providing insurance, nobody would do it.

> Most of the rest of the industrialized world seems to grasp this concept, and their people live longer.

I agree that there are problems with cost/performance in our healthcare market. I think it is largely due to overutilization & misallocation, combined with some poor genetic/cultural luck around opioids and obesity.

0: https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/industry-analys...
> The site's terms of service prohibited the sale of certain items. When the Silk Road marketplace first began, the creator and administrators instituted terms of service that prohibited the sale of anything whose purpose was to "harm or defraud." This included child pornography, stolen credit cards, assassinations, and weapons of any type

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)#Produc...
>Yes. Needing medication because your friend has visa problems is crazy.

There was an "or" in that list of possible reactions. I was not giving an example of a situation in which someone would or should have every one of those reactions. I was directly replying to you by giving you an example of a situation in which it was clear that "political actions in Washington are the primary component" of inflicting harm on people.

>Do you really think political obsession is just a sign of superior morals and humanity?

I never said anything about superiority. That is something you brought to the conversation. Is there a reason you view someone exhibiting more empathy than you as an insult?

>Empathy should make you less pessimistic about politics because you understand other groups values and incentives.

Understanding a person's perspective isn't necessarily paired with the ability to change that perspective. Does knowing a racist might be motivated by fear make their racism less dangerous?
Go to salary.com and select any major city in the US and see what a senior software engineer makes.

Anecdotally, I spent my entire career between 1996- 2020 working local jobs in Atlanta. Which is not exactly a tech hub. Look at the compensation of your standard non tech well known companies that are either based in Atlanta or have a large presence like Delta, Home Depot, Coke, GE (GE Transportation), State Farm.

I’ve never studied a line of leetcode nor have I had a GitHub portfolio my entire career until 2021.
I'm genuinely convinced that prehistoric humans, being literally the same species as us, were just as capable as us in the ability to thoughtfully construct their societies. Like, why, when they bumped into each other, couldn't they have formed a confederation?
I think instead of labeling them as children of nature or starving savages warring with everything in their vicinity, it makes most sense to see them as more or less similar to ourselves.
What you’re describing sounds a lot like syndicalism, which is an idea that many people interested in structure without hierarchy end up at! Including Noam Chomsky[0], who is perhaps better known here for his hierarchy (lol) of grammars.

[0] https://chomsky.info/19760725/
Is there a sample sound? Cool design
Yes. Yes it was. Poorly decided to the detriment of the United States. It allows unlimited money laundering into US elections from any source foreign or domestic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
First you can only read if you create an account, second its owned by this person: https://preview.redd.it/vpt4ycl43eee1.gif?width=480&format=m...
> Every single person in America could be lifted above the poverty line with a one-time cash subsidy of around $10,000 per impoverished family (and about $7,000 for impoverished individuals). The total cost would be $170 billion, a little over 5% of the wealth currently controlled by 400 individuals.

The visualization is good, but the content is ... fraught.

I'm all for wealth redistribution and ending inequality, but analyzing wealth 1:1 with cash isn't a serious way to think about the issue. We should all realize that liquidizing Amazon shares and turning them into cash that floods the market wouldn't do anything other than gut pensions and create inflation.

It's better to think of ways of getting wealth (not cash) out from under billionaires. And it's something we should do because we believe this kind of wealth is bad for society, not because we think it will magically give us free stuff.
When they still did, they had an idea submission forum. I did post it there and the moderator responded with something close to "it's been submitted, not interesting, just try it yourself". I'm still annoyed at them for that stupid response.
Remember when reading Hacker News was considered a time-waster?
At that point you're technically violating the license, so what does having a 'supported' version even mean?
I mean, I have Bible dictionaries, Concordances, digital and physical, I do more legwork than most, but it is definitely nice to get a quick summary of verses, that some manual built lists miss entirely.
Ask HN: Learning iOS Development in 2025
Hello folks,
I'm gathering recommendations for beginning my studies on iOS development.

What resources do you recommend? Besides courses I'd love to get to know the history of the development practices since those help me understand the current state of things.

From now I know that Stanford has a iOS development course that seems to be complete, and I've seen someone mentioning PluralSight as a good source.

https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu/ -> the Stanford course.
> I'd love to know why they needed a custom contract in the first place. My company doesn't have a "deal" with Twitter but we still post there.

I suspect it has to do with the permission to share highlights from the match in their official accounts. Probably those videos belong to the broadcasters and not to the teams themselves. One of the links from the article [1] says that the agreement provides X users with highlights such as touchdowns.

This does not mean that not being able to create an account on a different network is a dumb restriction, even if it's for sharing news or pictures of the team on special days and not videos from the games.

[1] https://deadline.com/2024/04/nfl-x-twitter-renew-content-par...
Companies could not lobby before Citizens United?
> A lot of Egypt's economy is overseas aid from the US and similar.

The rest is fees from the Panama (EDIT: Suez) Canal and tourism. Getting into a war, particularly with a country on the Red Sea, is suicide. (Also, the main flash point between Egypt and Ethipia has receded since the GERD finished filling.)
I'm excited to not get spurious expiration emails just because I changed the list of domains in a certificate.
The United States spends more per capita on socialized medicine than any other nation on earth[0]. US socialized medicine spending per capita is more than any other nation spends total between both public and private in fact, it just fails to provide it to anyone but the very poor, very sick and elderly.

You'd think the healthy working population wouldn't be that much of a burden to care for as well, but they have to go out of pocket and get insurance to provide for themselves after providing for everyone else.

There is a lot of graft going on for this to be the case. It may not be the fault of insurance companies but someone is stealing a great deal of money from the American people.

Now here's the million dollar question; are you aware of this obvious fact? Have you ever heard someone frame the socialized medicine debate in this way: "If we could be as efficient as the UK we could give you free healthcare AND cut your taxes!". If not, why not?

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health...
Companies have little direct motivation to have good security practices, they're only motivated to manage their reputation. Any attention they pay to security is only a side-effect of caring about reputation management.
Those type of people live and work in the browser. Everything's a PWA. Little to no native app use. Like to manage apps (windows) by browser tab management instead of OS management. At least it's consistent across devices!
Yes, if we subset to health insurance over recent years, they are profitable (not massive margins) - agreed. I was overstating the case.
did we mention crypto scams?
The distinction that ericjmorey is making (I believe) is that the reward is not guaranteed, only the opportunity.
Wasn’t it _two_ life sentences plus forty years?
Maybe Trump is counting on Ulbricht starting a blockchain based online grocery chain to bring down the price of eggs.
The idea that most people just have an extra $7k a year sitting around to put into a retirement account they won't be able to access for decades seems pretty out of touch. A lot of people are just getting by. Additionally, if you live in a high CoL area, you might be prevented from contributing to a Roth even though most of your income goes to living expenses.
Yes, anarchists think that the right set of social processes can allow for organizations that don't have abusive hierarchies. But these processes themselves are very structured and take a lot of careful work.

This is so far from popular understanding of anarchism.
Show HN: I made a WYSIWYG AI editor for scriptwriting
Hey HN!

For the past 6 months I've been working on this project. I make educational YT videos and I found myself constantly switching between Notion and ChatGPT, so I decided I'll combine both into a single app.

Now I have all the context stored by the AI, so I don't have to teach it my writing every new chat. And all of that in a beautiful WYSIWYG, Notion-like editor.

I hope you find it useful! Let me know your feedback.

Victor
A Heavenly Host
Remember the scene where Lucy shows Charlie Brown a signed contract saying that she won’t pull the football away at the last second? And then she does it anyway, saying “the contract wasn’t notarized”.
he is just anti-mexico.
Bolt.new raises $105.5M Series B from Emergence, GV
Show HN: I have an Antarctica user for my app TalkNotes.tech
A penguin is using my app ????

I launched this app called talknotes.tech which is a productivity web based for students and professionals.

Like every morning, I was checking the analytics and was shocked to view that i got a user from Antarctica...

What... How.... ????? Penguins can use internet ????? Wait... Do they still have TikTok ???
Amusement parks have killed people in the past, yet they're still queuing up to the machines able to do the most damage.
Show HN: iOS app to clean your photo gallery
since some stuff is locked, just sent me an email via the app settings -> "feedback" and subject/message content "hackernews" or something like that, will sent you a code for a 1-year subscription then.
Dang, where's MythBusters when you need them (RIP Grant Imahara)
the internet has a lot more people on it, it is much less self-selecting than in the past. even this website is a lot less self-selecting than in the past
I really want a modern BlackBerry where I can make phone calls, send messages, check emails, use maps, use NFC payments, and occasionally play brick breaker. I don’t need the entire internet in my pocket. I can sit down at a computer when I want that access. I just need a good communication tool that’s lightweight and has a battery that lasts for days.
Good thing all Western models are unbiased and factual.

>The statement follows criticism that it depicted specific white figures (like the US Founding Fathers) or groups like Nazi-era German soldiers as people of color, possibly as an overcorrection to long-standing racial bias problems in AI.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini...

DeepSeek is already a better programmer than Chat GPT. Use it for it's intended purpose. Instead of out completing China we're acting like their evil and shutting out competition.

They're able to do this better and cheaper than we can.

I'm so happy to live in the land of the free, where I'm free to not be able to afford basic medical treatment.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alex-smith-died-couldnt-af...

We need to fix our own problems first...
Interesting method of spamming. Literally copy part of another comment from the same discussion and put in random links. It's blatantly obvious and is just going to get you flagged. You could at least try to be more subtle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42795472
Ahhhh the regulatory capture part of modern giant startups.
And ultimately, the only reason they care about their reputation is because it affects their profits. For-profit companies optimize for profits, as always :)