skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This part is interesting:

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security."

That has already happened here in the Netherlands. Except it was organised crime. It's so difficult to fight we can't just convict them in court anymore, we need to fight them extrajudicially". So the RIEC was formed "Regional information expertise centrum". And extra judicial actions called "interventions" do happen and they do commit crimes to innocent civilians not related to organised crime in anyway. And they get away with it. And the Dutch population is by and large blissfully unware of what has happened. Most have no idea what that organisation is, but that organisation controls the police, the council, the tax department and about 13 sub-parts of government and gives them orders to carry out as part of their "interventions".

The general population would not even know the name RIEC. All they know are recent advertisements on TV encouraging people to report any suspicious behaviour happening in their neighbourhoods. These people are stupid. They could report something they misinterpreted and unwittingly destroy some innocent persons lives with the extra-judicial interventions that followed.

But yeah, as someone below has said, what's now happening is on a whole other level.
Being able to have multiple scenarios in cells is an interesting idea.

Although the thing is, that it would be nice to have weights too.

Usual answer is to keep various options in separate columns (e.g. worst case, normal case, best case), problem is that often you want more scenarios and some have 3 options while other have 10
…and the YC CEO defending the hostile takeover of government agencies by (smart, I give you that, but still) teenagers.
The real issue is that corporate incentives don't prioritize morality
I remember this uncanny feeling when I started reading about a new thing in JS frameworks called "file based routing", coming from PHP it was, wait, didn't we just come from this to proper routing, and now this is a feature again.
This is great news. More competition will be good.
So... Where do you stand on the 2nd Amendment on gun control, and why? (Yes, trust me, it is relevant.)
Most wifi driver firmware is full of remote exploits, and still should never be connected to secure LANs. =3
ManuallyDrop seems overkill when you have Box::leak().
> Don't like the way a part of government works? Reform it.

at what point does that become disingenuous? how many years have people bern trying to do it incrementally? just tell the reformer: oh try harder, knowing every feature of the bureaucracy is stacked against them and they wont succeed. in the meantime people are hurt, dollars are wasted.

> Unfortunately, congress has the responsibility to fix that,

that's not correct. congress has ceded execution of these things to the executive in many cases with broad leeway to do or not do (thats why it's called discretionary spending, any spending that is by law congress' responsibility is statutory spending)
This is an uninformed take. A relatively small fraction of our healthcare dollars (~7%) are going to ‘providers’ i.e. doctors and nurse practitioners. I don’t have a source handy but this is easily searchable.

Most of the spiraling healthcare costs are attributable to administrative bloat, hospital profits, insurance companies and pharmaceutical profits. What you’re suggesting would just result in lower quality care in general and has effectively already been implemented with the rise of ‘supervised’ and unsupervised mid-level providers. I.e. NPs, PAs, CRNAs etc. It hasn’t resulted in any decrease in healthcare costs for the patient.

Let me give you some context for insight. If I see a patient in clinic for an intravitreal injection my fee will be $150-250 before overhead, the pharmaceutical company will be paid by medicare or private insurance around ~ $2000 for the drug that I inject. Double that for a bilateral injection.

If I operate at a hospital, my fee is $5-600. The hospital bills medicare a $4000 facilities fee plus additional fees for anesthesia, consumables etc. to the tune of over $10000 per eye.

If you want to lower healthcare costs a good start would be negotiating drug prices, repealing the clause in the ACA that bans physicians from owning hospitals, banning non-competes for healthcare professionals and getting rid of certificates of need that make it unnecessarily difficult to build outpatient surgery centers. In short, ideas that require a more nuanced understanding of our healthcare system.
A very well-written and persuasive critique, thank you for it.

(And god I hope you’re not a state-of-the-art summarization LLM.)
What's missing in the first part is that these people believe bad things have already happened to them that's why they do bad things to others
Zero nays..........
It may be a bad assumption to think HN comments reflect the broader tech community's opinion on what is happening in the US government right now. That being said, there are far too many commenters that seem to be okay with what's happening, especially when it comes to DoE and Musk taking over the treasury.

There just seems to be an overall lack of respect for how government works, the broader machine and bureaucracy that is supposed to protect from unilateral decisions made by a single entity. Government is not, and should not, be run like a tech startup. Going fast and breaking things isn't a recipe for stability or reliability in both government and software. History has tried kings and dictators and, well, they never turn out great for the general population. Democracy is slow and sucks sometimes, but it also has a ton of perks that we seem all too quick to dismiss and throw away.
It's much simpler than that - Northern Ireland doesn't have an official flag.

In principle, Unicode 5.0+ emoji scheme allows encoding any subregion that has an ISO 3166-2 code, so just as Scotland is GBSCT(󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿), Northern Ireland would be GBNIR(󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿). But England, Scotland, and Wales are the only ones included in the "recommended for general interchange" list. I don't know why they haven't added any more subregions to that list, though.
Chinese government only thinks in terms of months, not forever. Why do you think they overbuilt housing and crashed the economy? It's because the government officials want to quickly cash out and escape to other countries.
Ah great improvements! I don't know why the sibling comments are so negative; this is clearly better.
I don't think it changes anything on a base level for how humans behave en mass. Unfortunately it looks like we will always be susceptible to populism and propaganda. At best what you're seeing is a temporary inoculation against illibralism.
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This argument is too dismissive for me to bother spending time on it except to say this: try to think about other factors than just availability, because it's not the only thing that matters.

Here's an exercise for you to do just that. Alcohol is legal and extremely available in the west. It has an even stronger addiction potential than opioids do. And the majority of people in the west drink at varying rates. But the rate of addiction is generally under 5%(in the west). Why do you think that is?
> Why would the stewards of a walled garden want other gardens (walled or otherwise) be as good as theirs? What moral (...) imperative exists for such a belief?

Not being an asshole? It's normal instinct unless one's brain has been thoroughly eaten by competitiveness.

> Why is that bad?

Because in this, Apple is attacking the commons. They're trying to provide an alternative to normal invite system - one that's been established and battle-tested over decades, one that works okay-ish across any device, real or virtual, on any platform, and one that people know how to use. An alternative that gives some bells and whistles exclusively to the Apple users, and perhaps even is more ergonomic in practice. An alternative that overlaps with the commons just enough to perhaps get the significant chunk of Apple-first userbase to switch over, but purposefully doesn't overlap enough to work well for non-Apple users (as well as professional users).

Take commons, drive a wedge down the side, use it as lever for your massive userbase to push everyone else off it. Screw everyone else. Hell, even screw your own users too for having Android users (or Windows or Linux desktop users!) among family and friends. The next generation of users should remember that thou shalt only befriend and marry people from within your corporate community.
It works better when there is some viable alternative. Research job market is terrible in Europe right now because our governments are trying to make a US like system (project driven and without stability) but without putting the money. There isn't a lot of space in the world to accomodate US brain drain. A bit in Japan, a bit in Europe, most of it in China maybe.
Thank you! I have 4 Pebblea that I refuse to part with because they do EXACTLY what I need. In the meantime I found Bangle.js Gadgetbridge and it paired with all of them and at least I have basic function again. My phone is the Samsung S22 Ultra.
Drastically less.
As I’ve said twice now: it was the actual thing that was done (in this case, lowering standards and throwing qualified people to the wolves) that was lazy and stupid, not the umbrella “DEI” itself. That’s because the actual work to get more candidates from diverse backgrounds is difficult and takes time. It’s things like outreach, financial support, changing societal attitudes. Instead of that, they took the lazy option and just threw out white candidates from the pipeline. I also include “setting hiring targets” as a lazy and stupid way of “achieving DEI,” just for clarity.
If you read the article, it is very clear that the author understands that this correlation is not causation. He points out numerous times that the thing which causes girls to send likes is that their feed contains attractive men.
So this assumes knowledge of an obscure theoretical programming language, and a dubious symbol replacement. Yeah...
The undisputed facts at hand are:

* The FAA introduced a bigraphical questionnaire which screened out 90% of applicants.

* The answers to this questionnaire were distributed to members of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees.

* Members were explicitly told not to distribute the answers to other people, to reduce competition for admission.

This is as bad a scandal as though the answers to the SAT were leaked.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942405
If there is nothing unethical about weapons or surveillance, then there should be nothing unethical about using AI for that purpose.
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Yes, we must ask the beavers spoke person for more info
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timing is important

China is always a 'security threat' to the US since 1946, but it never get a high priority untill now

- 1946-1991 Cold War with Soviet
- 2001-2017 Global War on Terror in MiddleEast
- 2018-now Trade War and Chip War with China

I highly doubt the memory capacity of americans, it seems like americans can only remember things that are "present"

it's just like the meme

1. Remove the chip
2. Overwrite Iraq -> China
3. Insert the chip click
4. "China is our destined enemy"
Agree on price but what you are suggesting on energy is likely not true.

More energy is likely more power (if you decide that the performance matters). More power means you cant network enough of these chips together at the scales needed for training. And that means they havent really solved the problem (although likely they are progressing nicely towards the solution).
They expected China to grow in a way that would lead to the "west" exerting much more control over China than they ended up with today. Basically they wanted more western-style capitalism, reduction of state control, etc...

Now China is very strong, and the west exerts very little influence
My (perhaps naive) take is that we all got “Trump immunity” from the first time around the rollercoaster and understand that a lot of it is ineffective bluster that never goes anywhere. Look at the tariffs that’s already been “delayed”.
Lean does symbols very well. You can just type \r and it will replace it with a right arrow as you type.
> Having to hire a photographer seems like a bigger disadvantage than just lowering your standards: it costs money.

The opportunity cost of entering a relationship with someone lower in your ranking system is to forego a relationship with someone higher in that system down the line. It makes sense to err on the side of picky if there's a tangible 'gain' to it, purely strategically speaking.
US shipbuilding was last competitive in the 19th century when building wooden ships. US yards were not capable of matching UK yards (the market leader at the time) on price, due to higher steel and labor costs. What the US WAS capable of and the UK wasn't, was to quickly scale up production and produce huge numbers of standard ships during the world wars (well, the vast majority of the WWI ships missed the war). Yes, this was an astounding achievement, and the Liberty ships were crucial to Allied victory in WWII. But competitive on price with UK yards they were not.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-cant-the-us-build-ships

Good point about the Jones Act acting to make domestic road (and rail) more attractive. Then again, aren't domestic road and rail freight also protected by similar cabotage laws?
I’m pro-common sense. The anti-Chinese crowd on HN is just as annoying and uninformed as the pro-Chinese crowd. China has access to the rest of the world, and Trump is helping out with pushing the rest of the world toward China. So what if the USA is the largest consumer market in the world? China can replace them with internal consumption and developing world markets that are rapidly growing. Have you visited Australia recently? They don’t give a rats ass about protecting their auto market (they don’t produce any anymore), so Chinese cars are taking over. And in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, not to mention Africa. and definitely China is more interested in selling an EV to an African country than selling rubber dog poop to America. Moving up the value chain is a long sought goal for them anyways.

That vehicles make up 4% of their exports in 2024 is already telling because it was 0% only a few years ago. None of the clean tech was there a few years ago, they had no leadership in AI a few years ago, they weren’t producing fully mobile robots a few years ago. If you think they are stuck just because I’d a moribund real estate market and a demographic decline, well, I don’t see how that is even possible at this point.

Trump sh*tting on allies and enemies alike is more in china’s favor than the consumption they lose from the states. Even Mexico and Canada could get tired of the USA and just go full in with China if Trump pushes them too hard.
It could have more featured articles first / mixed
For example, Kotlin has syntactic sugar specifically to implement interfaces by delegating to an inner object (with overrides etc): https://kotlinlang.org/docs/delegation.html
They’re not ‘getting a cut’ unless they directly own the clinic. What you’re seeing is a cost-cutting measure increasing the bottom line for whoever owns the clinic. Physicians are forced to agree to ‘supervise’ midlevels as a condition of their employment these days.
In the meantime someone suggested Bangle.js Gadgetbridge for basic Pebble functionality and tonight I brought 4 back to life on my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra!!!

I'm a very happy Pebblelite!
"The Germans" is an absolutely jaw dropping read, a series of interviews with average German citizens and low-level nazi party members, conducted a decade or so after the war, by an American Jewish journalist. It shows, in first hand accounts, the banality of evil and how easily it can prevail if people do nothing. It is an account of modern tyranny and everyday collaboration. The parallels in the feeling of what's happened in American society, particularly the silence, confusion and cowering now of anyone who should oppose a hostile takeover and dismantling of our democracy and our laws, are striking. It should have been required reading in American schools, when there was still time to educate people against these dangers.
> The aim should be to engineer the system so that you don't (and can't) have access to the information

So when law enforcement and/or a three-letter agency rocks up with the legal paperwork (whether it be a National Security Letter or a local equivalent) and demands that "the system" be changed to start collecting the information they require, how should managers and engineers respond?
Your argument is the same as “Walmart has a $25,000 entry ticket because you can’t access Walmart without a car.”
Not their GitLab setup. GitLab is a resource hog, and from what I understand their setup is fairly well used.
The time it took you to submit this comment was surely worth an awful lot of those $0.0166...
> All I hear about are the dozens of coal plants China builds each year.

I suspect this is partly true and gets repeated a lot, but then nobody follows up with the actual numbers of plants that get built and are producing. I have found these where a lot of the coal plants gets approved but then not actually built, cancelled etc:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sHBsK_Ez7C9XA4HKRQSv...

https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-puts-coal-on...

Also China's coal use seems to not grow too much anymore.
That’s silly. When I was growing up, we always had a garage and my family was ~25% under the median income. Hundreds of millions of Americans have a garage at home and it’s not the richest 2/3 of the country. It’s basically the people outside the largest cities.

There are probably about an equal number of people living in a home with a garage in China too, though it’s wealthier suburban areas as opposed to lower and middle class people.

They’re common in Japan, too, outside of the densest few cities. And of course there are plenty of other countries where garages are common, like Canada and Australia.
Not all is bad, it's preferable to have autonomous systems killing each other than killing humans. If it gets very prevalent you could even get to a point where war is just simulated war games. Why have an AI piloted F-35 fight a AI piloted J-36? Just do it on the computer. It's at least 1 or 2 less pilots that die in that case.
that's called car rentals :)
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> The USA passport is far from a strong passport. Plenty of better alternatives elsewhere. Also, that implies getting citizenship, a 5 year ordeal.

This depends on the metrics chosen to evaluate. My german passport offers significantly more visa free travel options, but the German government is notorious for not really giving a shit about citizens getting stuck in crisis abroad. For example when the Sudan civil war broke out, Americans were evacuated in a pretty crazy and expensive military operation, while Germans were told to buckle up and keep their heads close to the ground...
We’re in agreement there. I think my wording was a bit confusing in my sentence (“not wasting time” as in apps will be hella effective)
You never have one except because everyone decides they do. The moment anyone with a modicum of power decides to say it doesn't exist, it doesn't exist.
Interesting take. I kinda take this a bit personal because I forgot multiple times about some subscriptions I had and I think I have my finances well under order.

I think there is a major difference between spending more then you have for example or getting into the subscription trap of: paid annually but advertised with monthly rates, paid monthly but is part of a separate subscription: Amazon channels, Apple TV channels etc.
I subscribed to a TV service for the Eurocup which was something like 5€ per month. I only realized this after half a year because they send me an email suddenly with the newest shows I can watch. All the time this payment flew under the radar.

If your understanding of managing finances is monthly book keeping down to the penny then yes I might have issues with my finances.
> If you don'y like it, you're going to have to convince people that it's a bad idea.

You can't convince people whose attention bandwidth is entirely consumed by the social media engagement algorithms controlled by the very people doing this.

I'm afraid this might be a fait accompli for democratic institutions. The chance to stop this was 10 years ago, by breaking up concentrated media ownership and regulating social media. We didn't, and it's too late.
That boat already sailed. AI and digital surveillance have been key components of US funded genocide campaigns since at least 2023:

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an...
You just walked in to a room, called everyone stupid, and then surprised Pikachu faced about the fact that everyone is looking at you funny now.

Maybeee reconsider your motivations and/or your social tact my dude. Cause right now you just look like someone trying to feel smarter than others.
Whoa, I was unaware, thank you for sharing this
> The big thing is this isn't really about any real monetary savings.

Of course not. The big gain is for Trump and Musk to say they did something. Regardless of how someone voted, I can’t believe they are still falling for this shtick.
Generally, in my experience, people want to help "catch the criminal" -- note these are usually the worst of the worst at first. Then you start getting less and less information and starts becoming a process rather than an event/discussion.

At least, that was my experience.
Funny how he concludes that men should pay.

Sounds like this article is just astroturfing with some tech data.
Loch Ness Monster is a good one; see: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/24/pictures-pothole...
That doesn't exist though; politician use globalism to paint all negative stuff (immigration, inflation, wars, climate change, whatever), people (including them) start to believe in it and there we are. Every rich country/country group will need to implement everything (energy, military, tech, food, health, etc) themselves to sustain themselves and 'normally' drive trade to cut prices but at any moment be able to fold into itself again.
The VIC-II reads the data for each sprite at hardwired horizontal positions outside the visible area, so this sort of 'horizontal multiplexing' shouldn't work.
Great for who's economic growth? As in, when staring at the graph of GDP vs wages plotted over the last 50 years, that big-ass pie slice that everyone's excited about? That appears to have ended up in roughly 800 people's pockets. Meanwhile even mention domestic manufacturing in the country that basically invented consumer electronics and kazoo music starts playing in the background. grits teeth We knew NAFTA was bullshit, we knew it was going to break basically everything, and yet folks just couldn't quite get mad enough to scare the political elite badly enough to back off. I love my country, we have always been at war with Eurasia, I am going the fuck to bed.