skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
imagine if your physical theory of Universe works perfectly for the Universe at all scales, all times, all places except for one small star whose behavior contradicts your theory - that means that your theory at least requires an adjustment and at worst it may be total thrash. Your smoking example doesn't have such contradiction - whether he was anti- or pro-smoker is orthogonal to the rest of the story. On the other hand Trump showing empathy and correcting gross injustice stemming from the gross government corruption doesn't fit well into my perception of Trump and thus seriously challenges it.
> but entire system is setup to make sure this doesn't happen at scale

This has been getting less and less true since the Industrial Revolution. We’re not quite at the point where we don’t need menial labour. But we can sure see the through line to it. The alternate future to the despairingly unemployed is every person being something of an owner.

> if Meta is paying you $750k/year that really means that you are worth twice that, if not more

Whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Also, if you’re being paid $750k/year, you’d better be worth more than $1.5mm to your employer, because taxes and regulatory costs are typically estimated around 100% of base up to the low millions.
While this is a particularly extreme example but I think most fad diets work because being so different from a normal diet people have to actually stop and think about what they're eating and make some level of plan around it which is easier to skip if you're just trying moderation where it's easier to grab something anywhere.
What is reader mode and how do I activate it? Is reader mode a low refresh rate?
The cybersecurity podcast Risky Business interviewed an FBI agent who was deeply involved, I'd highly recommend listening to it if you want that perspective. If I remember correctly, the agents who were investigating the murder for hire stuff were later found to have been stealing some of the bitcoin they were confiscating and the prosecutors fro the Ulbricht case decided they didn't need to bring up those charges to get a conviction (which they obviously didn't).
Ohio as well and another one
Throwing out everything written, no matter who the author is, on a publishing platform, just because I don't like the owner? That seems a bit extreme.

You're letting the owner (or your hatred of the owner) define who you're willing to listen to. That seems rather unwise.
Talk to me about color therapy
Jeff Atwood is a mensch. It shines through in his writing and his work. And well done to him for giving away a significant part of his wealth to help others, rather than spending it on trinkets and baubles.
I work in government and middle-management morons are continually pushing for the dopiest projects imaginable (e.g. we have no good data and everyone who can fix this is being told they should work on AI instead which will query the data - data we don't have - so analysts don't have to learn SQL).

One reason they persist in their insanity is everyone is an expert in giving excuses why their own team is too tied up with work to assist. Sure this reduces conflict over telling middle-management why their ideas are stupid, but in the long-run it's detrimental to the organisation to avoid explicitly hashing-out disagreements. Creating a culture where everyone lies to avoid hurting one another's feelings is not good.
> Sorry for the poor experience with the current design, still experimenting.

It also is simply a blank page when browsed with UBlockOrigin blocking all the java script from executing.
Wow. We have a "Queensland" Grouper here .. similar size to the goliath, but there is no way I would hug it. A mate was a skipper of a dive boat and went for a freedive on their break - got a little bit too close to one that was chilling under the vessel. It opened it's mouth and sucked their head in. Happened very quickly. This person has a pretty decent breath hold, and experienced all round. But they thought that was it - all over. Until they were promptly spat out - never to venture within 10m of a fish that size again.
I like to think I'm better than that. Who knows though.

I'm also against measuring coverage - I've never seen anything useful to do with the measure so why bother.
Goodhart’s Law in action. Targeting weight loss at the expense of overall health is a surefire way of guaranteeing early mortality.
Exactly. This convention is virtually non existent on the web in 2025.
You cannot fully leave presentation concerns out of browsers. Layout and decoration is an integral part of authoring, it’s supported at the markup level. HTML and friends are practically rendering instructions at this point, as if a PostScript for screens. Worse, this has a double edge, for instance, not always what should be a single paragraph of text comes as a single <p> tag, because the mere availability of styling leads people to author ad-hoc structures, since they know it could always be visually reconciled.

What I’m proposing with the research is a data structure transmitted as text. This text payload is the equivalent of a file system volume or tree. Each line in this payload is the equivalent of a file. It’s only a semiotic analogy to file systems.

Given this is such a trivial structure, it’s easy to develop multiple rendering approaches that maintain an isomorphism between the text representation and graphical representation. It does not transmit layout information, the syntax itself is the higher-order layout.

You might wanna checkout the source of this article by appending index.fifo.txt to its URL.
> If you really want to understand, it’s not hard. It just requires making an honest effort to try, without judging

I was brought up Christian, sealed my religiousness with a confirmation when I was 15 (which required studies and field trips), and been around religious people for a lot of my younger life. Oh, and my mom worked at a church where I grew up, spent a bunch of time in the church, for better or worse.

I'd like to think that the values of compassion and mercy are two of the most fundamental Christian values, at least from the protestants I spent a lot of time with. It seems to me, that the American bastardization of Catholicism, might not actually be very Christian if those two values aren't include in there.

I'm not religious anymore, but if I learned anything from (truly) religious folks, then it would be that you should treat your fellow humans as just that, fellow humans.
I don't see how those are remotely comparable, the OJ people believed he didn't do it and was set up by the racist LAPD while the Luigi people think that what he did was good actually. I guess the Ross Ulbricht people are more like the latter but they still seem pretty dissimilar.
Or, depending on how serious you are, you could modify the browser source to make it unremovable, at least for Chromium or Firefox
> WebDAV. Slower than dog shit, but it's available with every major web server.

You lost me there. WebDAV is nothing more than HTTP calls with some XML data with a slightly different syntax than the S3 API. There is no fundamental stuff in the spec that command the protocol to be "slower than dog shit" as a file transfer protocol. Please prove me wrong with another argument than: "the particular server implementation I tried was dog shit"
Have you actually ever used a Lisp REPL? Lisp REPLs are different. If you get down to some pedantic level, every stage there - Read, Eval, Print and Loop, are all slightly different. Compared to a simplest, most basic Lisp REPL, any sophisticated REPL in non-lispy languages simply feels like an interactive shell, nothing more. so called "REPL-driven development technique" allows you to build programs interactively - as I said: "it feels like playing a video game" - you can send any expression or sub-expression, almost without any preceding ceremony, directly from your editor, where you'd be typing code. You evaluate things, sending them to a REPL instance. That REPL instance might be in your browser, or some pod in a kubernetes cluster, or a spaceship, million miles away - that's not some science fiction: https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret
Homoiconicity allows code structures to be treated as what they are, and sending them to the REPL without any kind of transformation. So, yes, while technically, those langs also have REPLs, in reality, writing code doesn't really give you the same kind of feeling.
I seriously wonder how his hospital admission went. "Help me nurse... I think I'm turning into butter..."
I bet wherever you live, people making $65K a year aren’t homeless
Substack Advertising Turning Writers into Part-Time Sales Reps
AI promises a lot of creative destruction. There are a plethora of historical examples where elites have restricted technological development because they thought it was a threat to the status quo and therefore their ability to extract wealth from that status quo.

For example: Queen Elizabeth refusing to grant a patent for the first knitting machine, the Qing dynasty forbidding large-scale ship building, or the Ottoman Empire outlawing the printing press.

I'm not sure that this is what is happening here, but it's occurrence is not impossible.
I fail to see what role fighter aircraft play in 2025.

Same. Drones can outmaneuver piloted aircraft and should be a bigger focus in my opinion. Drones can take a close up look inside the adversaries engine intake for fun and profit. $250K drone taking out a $80M fighter whilst transmitting Ride of the Valkyries on all frequencies (modern day Stuka siren).

Do we just keep building them out of habit?

Just a guess, it could be that for some use cases drones can not yet be trusted to not be taken over such as delivering tactical nuclear weapons. Several platforms are capable of delivering tactical nukes. Probably also some corruption regarding guaranteed contracts and kick-backs. Also just guessing.
It's not a bank or payment provider per se but still processing a large amount of money. I sent them a new notification. I hope that they won't take too much time to respond.
>You have hit on something that really bothers me about recent AGI discourse. It’s common to claim that “all” researchers agree that AGI is imminent, and yet when you dive into these claims “all” is a subset of researchers that excludes everyone in academia, people like Yann, and others.

When the old gang at Open ai was together, Sutskever, not Sam was easily the most hypey of them all. And if you ask Norvig today, AGI is already here. 2 months ago, Lecun said he believes AGI could be here in 5 to 10 years and this is supposed to be the skeptic. This is the kind of thing i'm talking about. The idea that it's just the non academics caught in the hype is just blatantly false.

No, it doesn't have to be literally everybody to make the point.
Oops, didn't mean to come across as disagreeing at all, more of a "yes, and <once you include the footnote>".
Are you still on this diet?
Like when the supreme court ruled unanimously that banning TikTok only required intermediate scrutiny, I believe that regulating campaign finance is a content-neutral policy, and should not have invoked strict scrutiny.
I had someone at work say "this is illogical" and it was great. Because we could actually come together to figure out exactly what the disagreement was. We didn't need to beat around the bush 10 times before getting to the point.
I started leaving most warm nightshift on MacOS and iOS on 24/7. Made a huge difference. Now when I see a normal not warm screen it hurts.
https://archive.ph/dpjqa
We could definitely improve the arrangement of chairs on the deck of the Titanic, but we can't even get 50% of the country to recognize the most obvious grift in American history.
Welcome to the C standard library, the application of mutable global state to literally everything in it has to be the most consistent and predictable feature of the language standard.
Because when your gut/body/metabolsim breaks this "balanced diet" approach doesn't work.

People like that need to into all the way into eg no fiber, no carbs or they won't heal.
Does anyone remember "edited" video's on YouTube?
Everyone knows YTP's. They peaked in the early 2000s and are still going somehow. I never see anyone talk about the "edited" video's. Search "spongebob edited" or any other popular media at the time (usually cartoons from the early to mid 2000s).

I feel like I've never seen anyone talk about these even though ones like "grandma's kisses" got over a million views.

It seems the only real difference is that unlike YTP's changing around what characters say to sound funny. Edited videos just slap in pngs and soundbytes from popular 2000s movies & comedians over what the characters are saying.

These video's are totally cancer now and i could never watch them again but I feel like they are a big part of youtube & internet history that nobody mentions. I remember hearing spongebob drop f bombs and laughing my ass off at like 12 years old.
Great article about digging into a non-obvious bug. This one had it all! Intermittent bug, architecture-specific, hidden in a dependency, rust, the python GIL, gettext. Fantastic stuff.

These kinds of detailed troubleshooting reports are the closest thing you can get to having to do it yourself. Thanks to the authors. It's easy to say "don't use X duh" until a dependency relies on it, and how were you supposed to know?
That's not even a generational thing. People have been (e.g.) saving everything to the desktop for as long as there have been desktops. "Managing files" has always been a subsidiary task to the things people wanted to use computers for.
In most companies I've worked, in order to actually implement an idea, you need to prove a few things, whether the person proposing it is the PM, an engineer, or any other person involved in the product:

1. The idea is technically feasible

2. The idea aligns with company's business goals

3. The idea is our team's responsibility and cannot be done by another team

4. The idea is more important than the other things our team plans to work on in the future

5. The idea is more time critical than the other things our team is working on now

If any of these cannot be proven, then it goes on the backlog as a P4 and nobody realistically will ever look at it. It's just the reality of corporate software building. There are always 10-50x more ideas than there are staff/time to work on.

Of course, all five of those can be, and often are, overridden by the Prime Directive:

0. One of the executives (often one of your grand-bosses high up on the totem pole) wants it.
If you have sources for this theory, I'd love to see them.

From what I've seen, autocracies in developing countries are "more prone to political instability because oppressed citizenries and displaced groups have no other mechanism to voice dissent other than active mobilization in the streets or subversive activities against the state" [1].

Autocracies are only more stable if they can promote "Rentier-state economic systems," like in North Korea, though that comes at the cost of putting that society further and further behind its international peers.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/intesociscierevi.90.1.01
(contingent on the money actually being spent, which....) This is basically an AI-manhattan project. It would employ vast numbers of construction, tradesmen, manufacturing, etc.
Related, the color of your dash matters, the modern backlit screens (both dash and entertainment) emit much white and blue light.

Mazda and Bmw (traditionally, less the last 5 years) seem to consider human ux more than others - hence orange lighting. Modern ambient (orange or green) can be nice.
They ma provide good care, but how good can care be? A large animal would probably roam vast distances all the time and there's no way a zoo can allow that. Plus climate.

Polar bears at the zoo on plastic ice may be the saddest thing I've seen in my life, but how are you gonna provide tons and tons of ice for miles in a warm climate?
Related
https://www.ft.com/content/19ac2cb1-8cb4-464d-9683-18c632146...
One of the problems with abstraction is that while it hides complexity, it makes changes that must reach into that complexity difficult. Abstraction is great if the code is never going to change again. If the people using the code want new features, then abstraction is a barrier. Getting around the abstraction barrier makes the code more complex. You have to think about the entire life cycle of the code, not just what looks pretty when you first write it. Most developers have no idea what their code will be used for 5 or 10 years into the future. As an example people have been trying to abstract away the complexity of network connections for decades, without a lot of success in keeping the complexity hidden. Someone always needs direct intervention in a layer in the network stack to make their product work right.
Do a Google image search for Carnivore Diet. It's not at all "peculiar that so many think the carnivore diet is prime cuts of meat with butter and cheese" - this is exactly how it is marketed.
It's a literary analogy, not a physical analogy.

And I disagree about the work when it comes to information. Our natural inclination as humans is to share things we find interesting. Like "check out this song" or "check out this article". I don't think this takes much work. It just happens. In this sense the information is free like the stream is free to flow through the hills.

On the flip side there is substantial effort put into impeding this free flow of information with schemes like DRM. Similar to building a dam. But once cracks form the free flow resumes.

Continuing the water analogy you could say there is also substantial effort put into building the infrastructure to make information accessible to many more people. As a library is to a city's plumbing infrastructure.
I know two people that quit with that book, both more than 20 years ago. One restarted few years ago, the other one never smoked again.
Well, more correctly the difference needs to exceed the breakdown voltage of the insulation barrier. Or (depending on the insulator) some current might flow the entire time, but a limited amount.
I would love that personally - I quit all social media and my life has immeasurably improved! of course we know that ain’t happening
Can you explain why? That doesn’t seem like sound reasoning to me.

If you believe the reason is corruption, what personal incentive would the courts have to rule this way? Judges can easily be the victim of government overreach as well.
I can't even get myself to write anything about China, because I don't want to sound like a China-shill. But, my entire point is, they course correct. A lot actually. They publish literal documents that can be read as course corrections (Government Work Report). They've shown they're willing to take big risks to achieve their written and published goals. And given the recent developments and their achievements in tech/improving QoL of locals, they deserve respect for accomplishments.

They're obviously trying to go ahead with their dominance-through-tech plan, and not taking them seriously isn't going to help us in a long run.
Eating in moderation and making informed, healthy choices is common sense, I agree.

It's just against the operating principles of a society with a massive industrial food economy. People are conditioned to eat on every occasion to the point that consuming food becomes the occasion.
I worked for a company that sent invites to a hotel ballroom.

- 9am: People told they were RIF'd (laid off)

- 10am: People that were told they still had a job. Champaign was served.

Some people showed up late.
The people whose job it is to interpret the law have abandoned any pretense of doing that in favor of shoving words into the mouths of men who died before humans discovered dinosaurs. The court is openly, brazenly corrupt.
Because the linked page doesn't include a description of what a Therac-25 is:

> "The Therac-25 is a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in 1982. The Therac-25 was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which some patients were given massive overdoses of radiation. Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
I am just reporting on available literature, like this:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35184264/

"Observational studies suggested an association between Mg statuses and sleep quality, while the RCTs reported contradictory findings."
Certainly—but it is not hard to do that while also respecting the guidelines. Here is one thing that https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html says about comments on Show HNs:

When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is, but don't be gratuitously negative.

Making criticisms by starting out with "Great, another" is snarky and gratuitously negative. This is not a borderline call.

Also, "we have had better for decades" is arguably a shallow dismissal of someone's work, which https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html asks commenters to avoid:

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

If I make my own toaster as a side project, pointing out that there have been better toasters for decades is not meaningfully engaging with that work.

Better might be to inquire: what is it about the toasters that have existed for decades that wasn't satisfying you? And then I might say "well, I wanted it to have a progress bar". And you might say "Mousetoaster was released 18 years ago and more or less already had that," and then we could have an interesting conversation about it.

That's the sort of interaction we want. It still offers lots of ways to talk about what's missing from a project, or the fact that it won't work on Firefox.
This is such a great example of why pursing knowledge for knowledge sake in pure science leads to advancement in areas we might not expect…
WordPress is not just content - it's plugins such as WooCommerce, GiveWP, email marketing, BuddyPress, membership plugins, etc.
Usually they are suffering from something that did not go away with a doctor's visit so they take matters into their own hands. Diet is obviously one of the first things to try to change. You should see the food list I was permitted (FODMAP, though there's a lot of different versions of it) to try to see what was causing my gut issues. Almost all normal vegetables, carbs, and fats are on the Avoid list.

Usually it's not just the diet, but it is an easy and even fun place to start.
Normally the whole "Florida man" thing happens because unlike many other states, Florida has a history of relatively public documentation of legal cases and police arrests. Journalists can just pick any cases that stand out and make funny looking articles because of whatever stunt the local teenagers, drunks, or drug addicts have been caught doing now. It's unfortunate that something like public access to law enforcement documents is being used to ridicule the state so much.

This isn't one of those cases, though. This is someone speedrunning a heart attack.