skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could detect the active biosphere of Earth from much further away with faster surveys. If we ever discovered an exoplanet like that you can be certain the phone would be ringing off the hook.

Sure, that says nothing of technological advancement, but biosphere signatures are roughly a prerequisite for technological advancement.
“And that’s why I’m the proud founder of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National...!
Literally every one of those questions can be trivially googled. (In previous generations and fora, this is where you'd be mocked with LMGTFY links). You just, to continue to embrace the frame, don't want to do the work.

If you insist on memorizing commands for all these tasks (of which there are many), indeed, you're going to struggle and decide you need a 30 section guide. But you don't, and want to whine about it.

> I don’t even disagree, just wanted to say fuck git, I guess.

Pretty much.
Agreed. It's groups in multiple camps that want to force everyone to change how they do things. Superficial, performative "action" and causes don't change anything. Let's just be sensible and try not to harm or discriminate against anyone for any of their attributes. How is this so difficult? I think it's that there are too many people who have firmly married their identities to hate of their socially-acceptable (in their hermetically-sealed echo chamber of team red or team blue) scapegoats.
I agree but have been on teams where this slows down PR review or arguments break out. Delegating to the linter and format on save can get the team past this.
The fediverse can be quite an echo chamber.
Just tried the app, I like that you can create a shared photo album. Pretty useful feature.
From “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”:

> # 3 “Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.” (Fred Brooks, “The
Mythical Man-Month”, Chapter 11)

> Or, to put it another way, you often don’t really understand the problem until after the first time you implement a solution. The
second time, maybe you know enough to do it right. So if you want to get it right, be ready to start over at least once.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
> there's a deep strain of anti-expert feeling throughout, at least, the West at the moment.

Anti-intellectualism in the US goes back decades (if not centuries):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_Americ...

The first two US colonies were Jamestown (looking for El Dorado North; gold; riches) and Plymouth (religious society):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasyland:_How_America_Went_...

* https://www.kurtandersen.com/fantasyland

The magical thinking of those two are the seeds of US society today and all the fruits (good and bad) can probably be linked to the ideas of one of the two.
Yeah I don't get it. I know that Cherry Ventures just raised another 500 million euros but that is really nothing compared to what is in America. I think there is really a missed opportunity both from the government side of things and VC side of things. The government could relax restrictions on small businesses, hand out more tax credits, make it more beneficial to move here (e.g., my understanding is netherlands has a small business visa but it only lasts a year and you have to prove you are making money which is hard for a startup to do after a single year), more government money for research and more money to bring research results to market. Like the european research council (ERC) has a program called something like proof of concept where you get add on funds to an existing ERC grant to produce a proof of concept that could be taken to market but you are required to be the PI on the original grant to apply for the proof of concept. If instead you let anyone apply like the way NSF grants for startup work that would be better. for example postdocs that worked on the original ERC cannot apply for the follow on proof of concept money to try and make a startup that commercializes the research. only the PI of the original ERC grant can apply. That seems silly to me since probably the postdocs are better positioned to be startup leaders than the PI since the PI is more likely to have a permanent academic job and be uninterested in leaving that job to start a company out of one of the research agendas they are pursuing. you probably would get way more results out of the program than it generates now. I think from the VC side of things they could simply try and recruit more of these people who are working on such grants to become founders. In america there is a more clear MIT/Stanford/Caltech pipeline into silly valley and VC offices than there is in europe. VCs are responsible, imo, to create such a pipeline not academics. Anyways, if you are VC reading this feel free to reach out if you think that I am making sense. If I am not making sense feel free to tell me why. I am, of course, just some guy on the internet.
After almost 40 years, between hobby coding, education, and professional experience, kind of share a similar view in a couple of topics.

Additionally such an extend experience gives us another point of view on trendy subjects that are experiences from the past newly repacked.

And desilusion, seeing so many great ideas taking decades to become relevant, or never at all.
Actual Beej? Wow I remember absolutely loving reading your networking guide. It taught me so much and really showed me the depths and breadths of what can be done in code, how the net works (pun unintended), it was a great experience for me as a kid. Thanks! <3
This is not a coup, because Trump is still in his lawful 2nd and final term. Until then let's call it Gleichschaltung [1], because that's what it is: bringing all aspects of society under totalitarian control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
sounds just like the advice in the book "The Coaching Habit" which i thought was great
It's so crazy to me to hear these super positive opinions. I gave kagi a shot for several months but the results were quite a bit worse than Google or DuckDuckGo. Maybe it's because I live in Germany and kagi doesn't do well with German content but I never understood the hype of kagi.
Probably something like dom-swapping the google login page or whatever. If you can keep arbitrary CSS transitions running, I could imagine doing a bunch of weird stuff where you don't know exactly what box you're typing in to.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Attack...
Man, my friend would have love to get a remote job in a company like this. However, he got his just a week ago.
There is more than one type of people who stress over code style. There's the group who wants to discuss about how to style your code and then there's the group who wants to just use a common code formatter and be done with that.

For example, I have objections to rustfmt's default style. I would never start discussions on rust projects about changing that to another formatter or changing its configuration. I definitely would carefully ask that people should really use rustfmt, though, if they don't do so yet.
I strongly agree with almost all of this except the last part about project managers - a good one is invaluable, an ok one can still be helpful. The majority probably are neither (and their ability to be good at managing projects depends a lot on other org functions - not necessarily within their control) but way better than 90%+ that the author suggests.
It would be for me as well, but why would you/your company do that? Or is it needed for your position? I do at most 1 zoom / week, the rest is slack, if not ok, then I leave.
It's not even more or less, it's just about different aspects. Consider a woodworker obsessing over sharp chisels - they don't all care beyond 'sharpish', or about the tools used to do so - but to some that's hugely important and how they are then able to do their best work.
Regarding code style etc. I get where he's coming from as plenty of people made entire careers on pursuing the perfect linter configuration. They're a net negative in every project.
The solution is to have computers enforce the code style. Pick a linter, pick a set of rules, and then forget about them.

Things I beleive:

- If you're picking up on code-style in PRs then your toolchain is backward.

- If you're changing linting rules every month then you're focussed on the wrong things

- It's better to have a consistent style than a perfect style
This idolisation can also happen for the left (not democrats, I mean real left), but I think it's the minority. Unfortunately, people choose something new and potentially bad vs the same as usual. Not because of education, but because of limited choices.
When people are confronted with the actual cost, they tend to say no.
With a subscription, their head tells them that for 10 €/$ they get an infinite number of articles.
Show HN: OCR and LLM Combine to Extract Key Data from Documents [MVP]
We have created an MVP that combines OCR and LLM technologies to enable users to quickly extract information from documents and output it as JSON/Markdown/CSV. It supports batch extraction, which can extract data from multiple files with the same output schema.

We chose to make it a small tool rather than a complex SaaS. It is still in the MVP stage, and we hope to get more suggestions and usage experience. For the LLM, we chose Deepseek, which may fail to call. Please choose to retry. If you need more credit, please leave your email.
Maybe market sentiment is an expression of faith in the US legal system? He said hopefully?

Or maybe the market expects certain people to get richer shortly? He said cynically.
If I had 5 cents for every commit in a feature branch with the commit message "wip"...
What in the world are you going on about? Continuing to pay for something that you agreed to pay for and didn't cancel is not a "punishment". If it is, that is the silliest definition of punishment I've ever heard. It is certainly not anywhere close to "hitting my dog". So I fixed it for you:

> People who don't cancel subscriptions will continue to pay for them.

> People who can't wake up without an alarm will be late for things.

Neither of those things is an injustice.

Paying for things you agreed to pay for is not a punishment. Punishment is fining companies that do not proactively cancel subscriptions on your behalf. You can set a reminder to cancel something (on a computer). Any argument you can make for a computer being used can apply just as well to the consumer as to the business.

It is very well known in basically every sphere of human endeavor that the less you do something, the less competent you will be at that thing. This doesn't need a citation – this is how humans work.
No, the executive branch absolutely does not have the power to just refuse to spend money that Congress has approved or spend money that it has NOT approved. This is the basis for The Iran Contra Affair.
That might work. I really hope Hacker News doesn't become like Reddit.
I very much doubt they'll wake up anti-woke people.
> They looked so normal, having fun, teasing each other, drinking and playing instruments.

You may wish to watch this movie on the banality of the life of those who ran the concentration camps and who lived next to them:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zone_of_Interest_(film)
Money and resources are the same thing.
Yes, my teens were the glory days of 16 bit demoscene, learned a lot.
Dependent typing is mainly just that feature of Typescript that `x: number | null` becomes just `x: number` inside an `if (x != null) { ... }` statement.

If you dig deeper into the type theory, it gets really interesting and complicated because types themselves can start to include any arbitrary code. And that's where Idris comes in! But after doing a whole project on Idris in college, I agree it is way outside the overturn window. Python and typescript rightfully keep it simple.
But what system would you to build that ?
> It was damned if you do, damned if you don’t. What about all the voters you lose by dropping support for Israel?

Nonsense. As can be plainly seen in the posted links, far fewer Democrat votes would have been lost by support for an arms embargo.

What would have been lost was the support of many Democrat funders - fossil fuel companies, weapons manufacturers, Zionist billionaires, and a vast swathe of complicit corporate media. As in, the people perverting the party against the interests of their base.

> Democrats were powerless to stop the genocide.

Again, utter nonsense. Democrats voted against ceasefire four times at the UN; and made a mockery of domestic and international law by providing billions in arms to a regime that was likely to commit genocide.

And so it needs to be said: lack of money for Harris' campaign was not the issue. She outspent Trump, ffs.

> Gaza voters weakened them further.

That was a choice! Gaza voters would have strengthened them, if they had simply decided to stop arming a genocidal apartheid regime. That's what the polls I posted showed beyond doubt; and Dem elites knew all this months before the election.
I like how your literal argument is that Trump failed at becoming a dictator so he's obviously not one. Despite you know, demanding people find votes and organizing a riot.

A failed dictator is still a dictator. What's next, the events in South Korea weren't the result of a failed attempt at a coup?
Shouldn't they then use Congress as intended rather than what they're doing now which bypasses it?

They can’t because of the filibuster [1]. They cannot bypass the filibuster without a 3/5 majority which they do not have. Thus any bill which the Democrats oppose will be blocked by filibuster in the Senate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...
I don't think people who voted for Harris thought "yeah, let's keep healthcare pro corporate and screw the poor", they voted for other stuff. And I think people who voted for Trump didn't vote specifically against LGBTQ+ policies necessarily.

Of course, media and social media had a heavy influence, but on everybody.
1. the market expected more

2. investors bet on AI with a belief that 'more capex' = 'more advantages', which was crushed by deepseek, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42558187

3. most important, risk appetite is changing, the space for imagination is diminishing
Protest, support others who protest, annoy the shit out of my representatives, and loudly declare "THIS SHIT IS ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL!" whenever the opportunity presents itself.

It may become necessary for Trump and Musk to show their potential for brutality before people's minds change, unfortunately. But it has worked, in the past. The Kent State shooting is a good example; the obviously excessive brutality of the state caused a massive increase in willingness to speak out, protest, strike, etc. That massive public response became too large to ignore.

I also recognize that by speaking up I may make myself a target for that brutality. At this point, I've decided "so be it, if that happens, it happens."

Evil wins when good people stand by and do nothing.
The comment I was replying to suggested an FTC "mandate".

I think its great if Kagi proactively chooses to do this themselves.

I think it bad if you force companies to do this.
No, objects aren't generally 'good', unless you think keeping multiple state machines in sync is 'good'.

OO is not evil, but it also shouldn't be your default solution to everything.

Also, who is this person? I immediately distrust someone who calls themselves 'a pretty cool guy'. That's for the rest of us to decide.
Lawyers, CEOs, hedge fund managers, investment bankers, congresspeople are all widely despised. To a lesser extent dentists, influencers and advertising executives are not well-loved.
Ah I was just looking into trying a subscription. Can't see how supporting genocide financially is impartiality.
FYI, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni... lists the following since Obama's inauguration:

Operation Ocean Shield (2009–2016), International intervention in Libya (2011), Operation Observant Compass (2011–2017), US military intervention in Niger (2013–2024), US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021), US intervention in the Syrian civil war (2014–present), US intervention in Libya (2015–2019), Operation Prosperity Guardian
(2023–present), Israel–Hamas war (2024–present).
It's amazing how different accounting systems can affect decision-making.
I guess... Still a positive thing that they are trying to make their product/service more "fair", and are progressing in a good direction?
I appreciate you sharing this story. I'm from the suburbs of Detroit and while I voted for Kamala, I have a lot of friends and family who either openly voted for Trump or who I imagine secretly did. And while it can be so hard for me to not call them stupid (I tend to default to insulting people's intelligence sometimes because I feel so confident in mine), I try really hard to see how they're really just struggling/suffering.

And it can hurt me so much when I see people in my life attack people very hard for voting for Trump. The ones in my life who voted for him sometimes seem to be the ones who are craving the most social connection, the most interaction, and don't get it. They seem to want to engage with people and sometimes the best way to engage is to say something controversial. Like the kid who can't get the mom's attention and so starts hitting her in the leg.

People on the right are not a basket of deplorables, they're human beings who want love and attention, often from those who they fear think they're better than them. Often from those they admire the most, who keep ignoring them and running away from them.

So thank you for sharing this and helping me see this even more deeply and lovingly.
someone once told me

> there are the facts we know and the stories we tell ourselves

and that really changed my outlook on life, the way i think about things, and basically everything else.
It's not fine to the millions of monthly active users who would have to cancel because prices rose from 14€ to 16€. It's inherently a consumer-hostile action to pass such a law, despite how it first appears.
I’ve written a fair amount of Makefiles and bounced off of cmake. Recently I’ve started using zig to build some C++ projects and will not be switching back.

Having your build tool just be a library in a good general purpose language is the right move. Why use unergonomic hacks like the OP when you can use a sane language? My build.zig files have LSP completions and similar syntax (or the same) as what I’m building.

I put make solidly in the pile of tools that are only still around because of network effects. We’d have switched to something better if it weren’t defacto installed by every distro and had to make justifications to sys admins to install alternatives.
> being willing to do anything for money has historically been categorized as evil behavior

Even megacorps will do categorically good things if it helps their bottom line.
According to the Wikipedia article, 1550-1850.
So first he lied about Project 2025 and then, "whatever the president does is democratic" is just an obvious sophism, no democracy works like that.

Democraties work with checks and balances, which are being broken right now.

On a final note, historically a lot of coup came from elected presidents
Hey look its the goal posts whizzing by...
> Advocating for the right of minorities and other disadvantaged groups to exist is not “world politics”

The top-level topic was the stated reason for Debian to stop posting on X, which was “[…] we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe.”. This does not even name who is feeling unsafe, and certainly does not say that X is against the existence of “minorities and other disadvantaged groups”.

And this is not even relevant to our subtopic in this tree, where I have never argued against the existence of anyone. It is utterly disingenous of you to cast aspersions that everyone not agreeing with you – in this case me – are standing with what X is being indirectly accused of.
In the first two weeks of taking office?

I think it's just my belief that government should be slow and methodical, that the government should be thorough, and coming in and slashing and burning, without seemingly even checking whether they're legally allowed to do it, just seems to be a vengeful fit. I want government to be stable, relatively predictable, and wanting to follow the laws more than any other entity in the country. If the government doesn't respect the law deeply, why would any other organization?
Took this opportunity to become a paying customer. Thank you Kagi. I pray that your sadly inevitable enshittification can be warded off.
Well, if that's the limitation, then it exactly fits the vision I mentioned earlier, of a company that could be run entirely by a solo entrepreneur or a small executive team.
I guess we could have LLM to translate natural language to some precise subset, get it processed, then translate the output back to natural language
> The thing about democracy is, every person is going to sometimes wildly disagree with what the elected officials do. Declaring it a 'coup' is as silly as [...]

The reason people are calling this a coup is not (only) because they disagree with what Trump/Musk are doing, but because their actions are illegal. A president is still expected to follow the rule of law and respect separation of powers. If there are no more checks and balances, then it's a coup. If Congress decided to allocate budget to something, the president should not ignore this. The legislature is losing its power.
I've been trying to find the person(s) responsible for macOS terminal for years
Not really. Obsessing over breaking lines after famous 80 chars in Eclipse was, is and will be idiotic to be polite. Surprisingly large amount of people were obsessed by this long after we got much bigger screens, if that was ever an argument (it wasn't for me). 2 spaces vs 4 spaces or tab. Cases like these were not that rare, even though now it seems better. That's not productive focus of one's (or team's) energy and a proper waste of money for employer/customer, it brings 0 added value to products apart form polishing ego of specific individual.

Folks who care about the craft obsess (well within realm of being realistic) more about architecture, good use of design patterns, using good modern toolset (but not bleeding edge), not building monolithic spaghetti monster that can't evolve much further, avoiding quick hacks that end up being hard to remove and work with over time and so on.

If you don't see a difference between those groups, I don't think you understood author's points.