skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s certainly a polarizing idea I think, but I could never be convinced to start investing thousands of dollars or a huge amount of time into keeping a very sick animal alive. I appreciate and respect the kind hearts of those who would, but I’d force myself to say goodbye.

My only pet, a cat whom I adopted as unexpectedly as Mii was adopted, very mysteriously ran away (super out of character, she was a happily indoor-only cat) when she was 13 but before her health had become a severe impediment or cost. I missed her terribly and still do, but I admit that it was a great blessing to not have been forced to make such a decision. My hope is that she sensed she was dying and some wild part of her deeply wished to be in nature again and in solitude for that experience.
One aspect that intrigues me is it's well positioned to take advantage of solar power. I think solar capacity is growing faster than any state and it's behind only California now?

I live in Chicago and just got finished with a 10F degree week, and I was sitting there feeling bad about how much natural gas my house was burning to stay warm. There are plenty of weeks here, where I have to raise the temperature in the house 60F degrees, whereas the worst in Texas is probably only a difference of a few dozen, tops. On top of which, cooling like that is vastly more efficient than warming. Heat pumps are getting to be useable at these low temperatures, and somewhat more efficient than just burning the fuel, but not nearly as efficient at cooling from, say, 100 to 80.

But the biggest difference is that when climate control needs are the highest here, we have the least sun: in the winter, at night. Whereas in Texas when the climate needs are the highest (in the summer, in the daytime), they have the most sun. There's something sort of pleasing about that to me.

> Texas heat

In other words, as someone who's a solar power optimist, dealing with Chicago cold, I feel like that's not such a drawback.

Of course, somewhere sunny and comfortable like California might be best, but who can afford that.
I'm not sure this is entirely true, see for example the Hunter Biden case. Maybe that's different because it's a criminal case?
There are no string keys in the Person example above. You could add some, though, or use numbers instead with the same host-language API:

Person = <person @name String @address Address>

as above, or

Person = <person {
@name "name": String
@address "address": Address
}>

or

Person = {
@name 1: String
@address 2: Address
}

etc. all produce the same host-language record, e.g. in TypeScript

export type Person = {
name: String,
address: Address,
};
Intentions and consequences do not always match. NEPA was intended to protect the nature, but it has become a tool of NIMBYs to stop any development they don't like by launching vexatious litigations that aren't sincerely meant to protect nature.

Other Western countries face similar problems: environmental laws are ruthlessly weaponized against anything, including affordable housing.

That cannot go on forever.
Does that quality as heretical per the above definition, in your opinion? And does communication in b64 unlock its inference?
The author explicitly mentions they collected all this data hoping it would be valuable to the specialists they have seen, but found they consistently were uninterested in it — an experience I can say is nearly universal for chronic illness sufferers I know in the US.
"Year of Efficiency" -> "Year of Intensity" -> "Year of slavery"?
https://archive.ph/8Nfsg
"Remains Of Black Children Killed In MOVE Bombing Cannot Be Located" (2021)

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/990187353/bones-of-children-k...

"Museum Kept Bones of Black Children Killed in 1985 Police Bombing in Storage for Decades" (2021)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/outrage-over-penn-...
Unless you consider Biden leftist, they always have been. Even when he was around, you'd get muted for talking about Palestine.

Also, if we're playing a game of 'who started it', look at the response to the artists and activists against the Global War on Terror. The OG cancel culture
>> Employees have until Feb. 20 to enroll in the exit program. Those who volunteer will find out whether they’ve been accepted on March 25, a memo states.

What a fucked up company to work for.
I would say pacified instead of hopeless.

All power in the real world comes from violence. This is increasingly a taboo to say but when you think about it, it becomes obvious. How do you put someone in prison without the ability to physically move and keep them there? You don't. That's why the state employs violence to do it.

(1) In fact, the state's capacity for violence is so large that very few people even think about challenging it. (2) And it's so certain (meaning predictable - the state has detailed rulebooks about its use called laws) that most people accept it as just a fact of life, a kind of background noise they filter out.

(The logical conclusion of the 2 statements is that the violence does not end up used physically but its threat is sufficient, thus reinforcing statement (2). I still consider this a use of violence, implied or physical makes no difference.)

Now, the problem is how to punish the state when it misbehaves.

According to the state's rules, you are supposed to use mechanisms of the state (lawsuits, courts, etc.) and let the state do the enforcement (use violence against its members or itself). But the state, like any other organization protects itself it its primary goal and its members as its secondary goal.

The alternative (DIY enforcement) is an obvious second choice. This fact is not lost on the state which makes every attempt to make it a taboo. Notice how often people self-censor words like "kill" on the internet these days? Partially it's a cultural export of a certain dictatorship but western democracies are not far behind.

Funny thing is citizens of those democracies being able to hold two contradictory thoughts at the same time.

1) (the general case) You are not supposed to enforce justice yourself, you should leave it to the state.

2) (specific instances) Many of them will cheer highly publicized cases where they can feel empathy with the characters such as the punishment Gary Plauché enforced upon his son's rapist.
I just finished a blog post with some thoughts on AI’s future [1] and the surprising conclusion was that most big tech companies probably have much bigger problems than whether researchers leave or not.

As Taleb and DeepSeek’s CEO point out, usually when you have a disruptive technology, then the incumbents will be left behind. Cursor AI and DeepSeek are a sign of new players coming out of nowhere and beating the incumbents.

[1]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/ai-learning-rate/
I think my awareness that this may influence future responses has actually been detrimental to my response rate. The responses are often so similar that I can imagine preferring either in specific circumstances. While I’m sure that can be guided by the prompt, I’m often hesitant to click on a specific response as I can see the value of the other response in a different situation and I don’t want to bias the future responses. Maybe with more specific prompting this wouldn’t be such an issue, or maybe more of an understanding of how inter-chat personalisation is applied (maybe I’m missing some information on this too).
People could be flipping a coin and the score would be the same.
The rumor had it they thought the movie tie-in would be such a hit that they produced more ET cartridges than there were 2600 consoles in existence.

Supply chain whiplash sounds credible too though.

My vague recollection is that coin-op was never quite the same after the crash, and you also stopped seeing as many coin-op machines in unlikely places. There was a fad element.
Well, yes and no. I think there would be no Electron Apps if the native desktop sdk/api/frameworks wouldn’t be garbage.
On Windows it’s a total mess, Win32/WPF/UWP and now what ever their fancy is (I think it’s Win32 again?).
Linux the same, so many differ ent things like kde/gnome or whatever. I think without electron there wouldn’t even be many nativ apps for Linux. And MacOS? Well can’t really say anything here because last time I tried doing some native development there, XCode was just too horrible and I stopped. Maybe Cocoa/SwiftUi is ok, I don’t know.

For me it’s like we replaced garbage with other garbage. The one garbage is for developers and the other for end users. I think most end users doesn’t even care, like what’s apple script? I just want to listen to music. I also think the majority of people doesn’t even have a printer anymore?

So the benefits of native apps are just for a small fraction of users. I would love to see more native apps but I understand why developers choose not to do it.
Yeah, there's an important difference between consistent and principled use of court cases to uphold actual laws-even bad laws--versus using them to extort for private gain or unofficial favors.

It's kind of like the D&D alignment chart: Sure, Lawful-Evil might still be feeding orphans to the doomlord, but at least they are constrained by their own dang rules instead of a playing Calvinball.
Oh, I'll probably wait for GPT 4 Pro Max v2 NG (improved)
Why not always pick the one on the left, for example? I understand wanting to speed through and not spend time doing labor for OpenAI, but it seems counter-productive to spend any time feeding it false information.
There were a lot of bad games for the 2600. ET because it was pushed hard became the poster, but there were a lot of other bad games at the time. Many were another variation of the theme with nothing else going for them once you have played one pac man clone you have played them all.

ET did get a bad rap because of the bugs and it really wasn't fun. However the idea itself was sound and if they had spent another year in development (which would have been too late for many reasons, see above and other discussion) it probably would have been a fun game everyone remembers as a classic for how good it was - instead of one everyone remembers it for the bugs.
Citizens don’t care because if you show them an armed standoff where the police brutalized some people then they will say:

1. I’m not in armed standoff often so this is not impacting me at all.
2. The brutality seems to have come from city police authorities and I don’t live in that city.

Similarly all of those things you mentioned are not impacting people’s lives at all. No one will start any revolution over these things.

However the possibility of being forced down some drains as goo because you don’t like the government moves people more because: some people actually don’t like the government and they don’t want to become human goo

The comparable equivalent would be Donald Trump deploying the army to kill people at peaceful Democrat gathering or something.
Related:

Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken over the Office of Personnel Management

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personn... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861763)
Honestly, the choice is clear: the CCP is clearly not doing as much damage to our youth as our own companies are. Which is more important for U.S. youth to know about, Tienanmen Square or abortion, Winnie the Pooh or jury nullification? And that's just the censorship aspect of this; surveillance remains a bigger factor IMO. Which organization is more likely to be used by an American cop to track the ex-girlfriend they domestically abused: TikTok or Facebook?

It seems like your entire argument here is just vague sinophobic hand-waving. Do you have even a single example of TickTock/CCP harming American youth that hasn't been done worse by US social media and government?

To be clear, I'm not arguing that China is better than the US in any general way, I'm specifically making the claim that American government and social media harms Americans more than any other government or social media harms Americans.
Thank you for posting this. The people who bring up Tiananmen Square do not have the best interest of the whole of the chinese people in mind so i tend to just avoid this sort of conversation. There are criticisms to be made of China, of course, but in a right wing capitalist context that has spent trillions of dollars dismantling other sovereign governments since WWII theres just no point.
Why expend all the effort to prevent people from expressing themselves? What a waste of time and resources.

I really want less divisiveness. The world has plenty enough already.

At present we're all stuck on this rock together.
>All 3 of them are unaccountable to anyone.

In what way are they unaccountable to anyone?

Their wealth is tied up in stock whose value is tied to the perception, aka the accountability, of the general public. Not being able to personally destroy someone's wealth because you don't like what they're doing is different from being unaccountable. If tomorrow Zuck released an AI model or FB feature that was deeply unpopular, his ventures and personal wealth would dwindle according to the market's reaction. That's accountability. I'm not even a fan of Zuck... he's a slimy weasel who changes his tune to whoever is in power. But public perception directly affects his decision making.
Went in expecting a basic how-to about the Singleton module, but this is so much more, you clearly know your shit, and I love deep dives like this!
> assuming that they've equated the brutality of these actions

No, they aren't. They're correctly pointing out that "yet nothing changes" is factually incorrect. There was a political response pursued, in part, through an independent judiciary. And then thing that happened hasn't happened again.

In China, there was no inquiry. There are no courts. And Xi has cracked down in Hong Kong almost as badly as Deng did in Tiananmen.
Mo money = mo power. When you have that much money, you’re just competing with others with similar amount of money as you. So the only way you can outdo others is by having more power (which can come to you if you have more money).

It’s the billionaire equivalent of Florida retirement communities where people try to become the HOA presidents to exert more power.
> I'm sure France would be willing to set him up

Are you familiar with realities of incorporating a startup in the EU?
I’d be pretty embarrassed to be working for someone who kissed the ring like Zuck did on Jan 20.
There is no statistical evidence of this when compared to presidents and not the general public. Seems like most presidents after World War 2 live a very long time if they are not assassinated.

https://potus.com/presidential-facts/presidents-age-at-death...
Had to scroll surprisingly far to find this comment thread. My ears sometimes react the same way on unexpected noises in a silent environment. However, I can not move my ears voluntarily, none at all.
Out of literally thousands of YC companies for instance , less than a dozen have IPOd.

There is very little chance that a startup will IPO especially now that the public markets have gotten wise to the VC funded Ponzi scheme where they treat the public market as the bigger fool
I've used only few times back then, but it was impressive (previous experience was with Borland's / Turbo debuggers which was nice also, but Numega was just another class)
How do you know this isn't what happened in China? Also, the underlying causes being addressed is like saying that redlining no longer exists because its not called that or that racism is gone because we no long live in Jim Crow times. The US has not moved on from that time nor has it gotten any better than the kent state shooting. If anything these conditions have worstened and when these shootings and lynchings happen now they dont even get mainstream news coverage.
The battery isn’t for incidental power outages. It’s for when a fire starts somewhere in the building while you are asleep and melts some wiring, knocking out the power to the smoke alarm. An hour later you wake up in a house full of smoke and die.

That’s why smoke alarms have batteries.
Not at coding.
Most of it is linear algebra and convex optimization. You can learn a lot of it with free resources from MIT, Stanford, Georgia Tech, or YouTube. If you want more of a school style learning environment you can enroll in the Georgia Tech OMSCS program and just take the classes related to the math etc that you are interested in. No reason you have to graduate and it is maybe $800 a course.
Apple drops iPhone Air and iPhone Fold hint as demand lags
Having seen this in person my favorite aspect is the sound it makes, absolutely mesmerizing.
> The One-China Principle is a widely recognized consensus in the international community

This is baloney. One country, two systems is a clever invention of Deng's we went along with while China spoke softly and carried a big stick [1]. Xi's wolf warriors ruined that.

Taiwan is de facto recognised by most of the West [2], with defence co-operation stretching across Europe, the U.S. [3] and--I suspect soon--India [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_industry_of_Taiwan#Mod...

[4] https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3199333/ind...
O3-mini solved this prompt. DeepSeek R1 had a mental breakdown. The prompt: “Bob is facing forward. To his left is Ann, to his right is Cathy. Ann and Cathy are facing backwards. Who is on Ann’s left?”
It sounds like the court, like King Solomon, decided to cut the baby in half.
Archive your data NOW 5pm federal website shutdown
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/esta...
Causes? Smoking, mental health, lack of support—but NO mention of ADHD meds. With known heart risks, was this a missed opportunity to investigate their role?
Some people have been trying to claim this book is based on faulty research but I definitely know people who don’t believe they work the way the book describes but the only sane explanation for their behavior is that either they do or I know an inordinate number of pathological liars.

And I know some neurodiverse people who absolutely believe this is why they are like this. And that’s always a problem with studies. Some things are 10% of the time, it works every time. If you test the general public for mental acuity and caffeine you’re going to see undiagnosed ADHD people benefitting, or find they’re already consuming alarming quantities of the stuff (self medication).
I have a similar problem and I honestly only notice it on Apple devices.

Android and other random touchscreens seem fine, but my iPad can be a nightmare. I have to touch things multiple times for it to register. The fingerprint reader on there also hates me.
without Musk there is no Tesla.
> Your account has never been deleted and never will be.

Be interesting to see how they justify that under the GDPR regulations ("right to be forgotten") for European/UK users.
Almost all innovation is derivative or incremental in some way.
No, I am not assuming they equated the brutality. Please feel free to make a specific point instead of just saying "You read it poorly".

OP finished their post with:

> Meanwhile, I can ask ChatGPT, "Tell me about the MOVE bombing of 1985," and get a detailed answer, yet nothing changes. Here in the US, we don’t even hold onto the hope that knowing the truth could make a difference. Unlike the Chinese, we're hopeless.

Everything I wrote in my post was in reference to this point.

"yet nothing changes" -> "How many other times after the move bombing did a city bomb out violent criminals in a densely packed neighborhood?"

"we don’t even hold onto the hope that knowing the truth could make a difference" -> I listed all of the actions that went from "knowing the truth" to "making a difference". Would any of those things have happened if knowledge of the events was suppressed among the population, in the manner that Tiananmen square was?
How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer (2024)
>So far government doesn't seem to be shrinking at all, just being made less effective.

We're just getting started, it's barely 11 days since Trump got in and started. It will be a while until things settle into a new arrangement.

>If you believe the work state employees do is worse than useless then go ahead and cheer.

I sincerely believe that the US government does its best work when it is doing nothing beyond what is strictly necessary, which frankly isn't a lot compared to its size right now.

>that we'd be better off if their funds were simply set on fire than put to use.

Considering we're trillions of dollars in debt, I applaud not spending money. It's ridiculous that the state of our finances is considered acceptable.

>I think what you actually want to happen is for Congress to reduce budgets.

That is indeed one of the ultimate goals. We'll see if House Republicans get in line this time.
> Who did Zuck capitulate to?

There's a pretty decent list of the actions and changes at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuck....
This is actually dumb. I go by he/him pronouns and I put them in my signature, because my first name is gender-neutral. I find it annoying when people assume I'm female over email correspondence. Not considering people with different genders or who have a desire to use different pronouns, I'm sure there are other people like me in the federal government. What's next? They'll tell people they need to change their name to match their assigned birth gender?
no the reasoning models should not directly be compared with the normal models: they often take 10 times as long to answer which only makes sense for difficult questions
I wish js (and, really, "html/css/js/browser as a desktop application engine) wasn't so bad. I was born into a clan writing desktop apps in Swing, and while I know why the browser won, Swing (and all the other non-browser desktop app frameworks/toolkits) are just such a fundamentally better paradigm for handling data. It lets you pick what happens client-side and server-side based more on what intrinsically makes sense (let clients handle "view"-layer processing, let servers own distributed application state coordination).

In JS-land, you're right. You should basically do as little as is humanly possible in the view layer, which imo leads to a proliferation of extra network calls and weirdly-shaped backend responses.
Is that true of something like NPD also?
USA doesn't have to suppress 1985 mistakes, because it acknowledges them and allows itself to be criticized. Claiming that censorship is somehow better because it's a proof that people care is absolutely ridiculous.
Well solid works does things the command line can’t. After all these amazing answers, my main takeaways for “what can an IDE do better than terminal+text editor” are:

1. Debugging right in the code, rather than in an ugly terminal copy of the code next to it (sounds nice!)

2. Better semantic features in language-specific IDEs (autocomplete, refactoring, etc).

Certainly those things sound nice, but I hope you see how they’re not essential!
> the state's capacity for violence is so large that very few people even think about challenging it

People are constantly challenging it. Pull back the threat of violence in most communities and you immediately get disaster.
Just use the typical way and put 'Mr.' in front of your name in your signature.
Looking at the hex reminded me of Cypher looking at the glyphs.
Website maintainer here, that's kinda what we are going for. I really don't want to have to moderate a big community, this is supposed to be something you check once or twice a week.
Eh, when somebody quits Meta in Texas and gets hit with a Non-Compete they're move real fast back to CA.
original paper - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...
How does this type of hackathon work?