skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have and deactivated my account a day or two in -- that un-removable message up top that it will use your posts, likes, etc to train their models unsettled me. At least they were upfront about it, unlike Twitter/X.

I also didn't like that I had 30 different followers the moment I signed up.
You pick a line where you have some degree of control, and you stay focussed on it.

Coordination should not be about "hey, let's all make a lot of noise about his last move", because you're overwhelmed. It's about making sure not too many people are working on the same line.

You pick a line. One where you can act.

You get one executive order rescinded. Someone else work on another one. You legislate one doggy doger at a time. You focus like crazy. (First action to focus is, of course, to delete your Twitter account.)

You make noise about all the times where you win, and they loose.

In two years, you get the voters out.

If you don't have any other control then "not playing their game, and wait", that's at least something. There's probably a food bank close to your place. Keep the lights on there.
Did an Instagram search for “humpback swallows kayak”. Seems this result has the footage.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGB_UVlz4la
I remembered reading an article in Wired about 20 years ago, about counterfeit cloth. A premier fabric maker in France said that Chinese cloth wasn't just a counterfeit of theirs, but was actually a superior product.

BYD would easily blow away Tesla as the leading EV maker if they were allowed in the US.

TikTok has proven that not only can China create a world-leading social platform, that users care so little about where it's from that when it was blocked, they flocked to another Chinese social-media option rather than retreat to the "safe" options.

China is even winning in American capitalism, there 70-80% of the goods sold by Walmart and Amazon are from China.

Companies like BambuLab, DJI, and Roborock are proven world-leaders in their categories.

Sticking our head in the sand and pretending that American and Western products are inherently superior is absolutely foolish.
I would love to hear your understanding of French military history. Genuinely curious to know what year you would choose to begin with.
No, but I know people wondering why this can't play this video in 4k or why their offline downloaded videos stopped working and they get a pop-up telling them that they need to go online to re-validate them.

Yes, not many people know what DRM is but many of the effects are noticed when it ruins their experience.
> So your assertion that "Twitter was _never_ a net positive for anyone" is not only false but an absurdly biased and frankly wrong view on how the world accesses information.

I presume the grandparent was being rhetorical and trying to say Twitter was always a net negative for society as a whole.

Even today, its a net positive for plenty of people (myself included).
> social security fraud is a major problem in many countries

It is not a major problem, it is a minor problem blown completely out of proportions by right-wing propaganda to cover much bigger problems caused by power-grabbing, tax-evading plutocracy.

> a standard process to locate and clean missing data through investigation

What would that process look like assuming you are e.g. trying to establish a DOB of a person born long time ago in a country that does not exist anymore under wartime conditions? Would that be cost effective?
But how does any of that relate to banning signal links regardless? This is an effort to reduce self-organization and solidarity between affected normal people. It isn’t just USAID, 100,000+ people are being illegally terminated across the government (probationary employees who are only allowed to be fired for “performance,” but many/most have fine reviews and/or just started).

If a bunch of new people are being fired after having just moved or started new positions, why wouldn’t people try self organizing to support their coworkers who just had their lives upended?
there is a good chance that the "measurement" is recording some other phenominon, as this can only be an interpretation of albedo changes, and could be the signal from say, low orbiting small moons
or a planetary ring,atmospheric electrical discharges
in any case, it is most definitly not an actual wind speed measurement, plus strictly speaking "wind" can only happen in air, and this, again, can only be something else, with the use of the term "supersonic" not even remotly applicable, unless of course its of the football field per second type of calculation standard
Sounded like "out of 25", but just for context:

With approximately 1,600 employees, the HHS-OIG performs audits, investigations, and evaluations to recommend policy for decision-makers and the public.
USAID money ran out?
> It doesn't block any reads or writes.

That's neat! I bet it keeps growing a WAL file while the backup is ongoing right?
You still can if you’re a subscriber, there’s a section in the settings that lets you download a .pls
It's rather pushing me away from kindle books because of they will be restricted. I am more likely to get ebooks from other sources and read them in my kindle.

They wish to increase sale of Kindles, but will end up decreasing sale of Kindle ebooks.
Art installations are frequently moved.
The scary part is that most US citizens seem to support Mump. I think Trump has never been that high in popularity, right?
It's pretty crazy. If you say something that offends him (like perhaps the financial abandonment of his kids) then you're banned.

Free speech eh.
No, it's a joke about how Americans are so ignorant about history and the rest of the world that they form their worldview entirely based on memes and pop-culture references, and the Simpsons is where the phrase "cheese eating surrender-monkeys" came from.
The difference between zoom and scale
>>Do they believe free in free speech

No they don't, blue-sky belongs to the former twitter owner, aka THE BUBBLE ;)

BTW: He was not welcomed at FOSDEM because he is billionaire, when a movement eats itself ;)

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares...
Open Source funding for its Sustainability
I think there should be a pinned post about Elon Musk at the top of HN and all posts and comments about Elon Musk should go there.
Oops, yes, more in depth.
Different countries switched to the Gregorian calendar at different times. Pope Gregory XIII papal bull went into effect October 1582, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

And so 15 October 1582 used to be the 0 for some COBOL date functions.

Later that was changed to Jan 1 1600. In IBM's systems you can control what you prefer by a switch: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=services-date-li...
Looking at the thread here.

Trust in society is being eradicated and that's how authoritarian regimes win.

Great video to understand what's going on: https://youtu.be/nknYtlOvaQ0?si=1LP6QsbFgIvpfIay

It's sad
Organize locally.

I cannot stress this enough: for those of us not in the US, do not get sucked into the circus, focus on addressing the same forces locally where you can more easily make a difference.
You don't understand democracy, do you?
Who signed off on this crap?
>Given that overthrowing The Taliban (lol) and Saddam is hailed as a positive of the trillions of dollars and millions of lives spent on the GWOT, at least give the people of the Middle East the courtesy of acknowledging the overthrow of Ben Ali, Assad, Mubarak and Gaddafi.

I don't believe either of those ended up positive either. The Taliban waited out the US; they may have been overthrown, but given that he Taliban are back in power it seems like the entire effort was waste. In Iraq, Saddam was the only force holding back the Shia majority. Iraq has largely devolved into another proxy for Iran, and I don't believe it can be argued that Iraq is any better off with Saddam gone. I'm not supportive of Saddam, either; he was truly evil in ways that people don't always understand. My point would just be that populism and revolution do not necessitate positive outcomes.
Cool! But what prevents Amazon from patching this in a few days?
back in the 1920s and 30s it wasn't uncommon for people to be born at home and social security numbers wouldn't have been obtained at birth because there were no social security numbers yet.
In some cases data of birth is uncertain e.g. summer of 1934 or 35. IN such cases any written record is likely to be at least unofficial and more than likely non-existent.
The concept that we would have "men philosophers" and "women philosophers", or "bachelor philosophers" and "married philosophers", and that their philosophical theories would be tainted by their sex or marital status is as bizarre sounding to me as if someone were to talk about "German science" and "English science" as being inherently different from each other because of their ethnicity.

It is very likely that the type of people who actively study and write academic philosophy (especially in pre-modern times), were very likely rather "neurodivergent" at best, but more probably on the spectrum.
It was a nothing burger because Twitter didn't blindly do everything they were asked to do, they rejected a bunch of the government requests. It's not weird for law enforcement to notify a platform of something suspicious they found on the platform.

The Twitter Files also conveniently omitted that Twitter also got requests from the Trump campaign and accepted some of them.
You seem to have completely misunderstood me. The amount of data that is or isn’t collected isn’t relevant.
Not speaking for GP, but even if this story is 100% true, why would you think anyone would go to prison? Obviously, nobody wants to clog up the court system with cases like this, and the people are probably not wealthy enough to fine or even claw the money back. I would just expect it to be terminated. Fraud like this is almost never prosecuted.

The only exception I'd see is if there are people who have somehow gamed the system to collect multiple payments at once.
same as php hate, mysql had some questionable design decisions and legacy hacks, which are mostly not that relevant today except for causing some warts on the interface (like e.g. utf8mb4, mysql_real_escape_string)
I know that Big AI wants you to believe, but it's not true.
How does one close a physical book into an ebook? Is it simple scanning? That won't allow selection, copying, or highlighting as easily.
They're sabotaging all their soft power and alliances by themselves so the rest of the world doesn't really have a choice this time:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-tells-eu-it-is-willing-e...
Yeah there's a way to do this with Calibre + some plugins on windows. I tried on my Mac but it was unsuccessful.
All previous R governments have talked the same and increased the debt.

I expect this one to do the same, and expand the deficit to make big tax cuts. The Liz Truss budget.
A few people might be cut out to be rural hermits, but most need other people to fuel their lifestyle with food, booze and drugs, etc. Hard to buy fent by stealing bicycles if you're in a remote park.
ublock origin works great on Firefox. On Android.

I cry every time my default mode network starts fantasizing about rendering webpages on a server and streaming the output to my iPhone just so I can browse the web the way I'd normally do it on literally any other platform.
Just to bring up a parallel, there was a influx of migration from the Caribbean to Britain between 1948 and 1970. These people were wanted and welcomed. A large proportion were children. The only records of their identity were held on paper by the UK government. They were called the Windrush generation, because the earliest of them crossed the ocean on HMT Empire Windrush.

The UK government then LOST their paper records.

In 2018, under the "hostile environment policy" set by Theresa May, the UK government started legally threatening these immigrants, and asked them to prove their settled status -- despite that same government having lost the only records that could prove that. The government then tried sending some "home" to countries they'd barely seen as a child and had zero family or friends in, and zero prospects.

This was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal

> The March 2020 independent Windrush Lessons Learned Review, conducted by the inspector of constabulary Wendy Williams, concluded that the Home Office had shown "ignorance and thoughtlessness" and that what had happened had been "foreseeable and avoidable".

Ignorance and thoughtlessness. Foreseeable and avoidable. Does that sound similar to what's happening today?
Don't doubt for a minute this happened. As a serial offender in the "does this meeting matter" whine, I have to acknowledge sometimes, talking is worthwhile. My problem is when people see their secret superpower as meetings.

I must admit a colleague of over 30 years and I agree there is a malicious compliance path in meetings: take them over and wrest the agenda to conform to your desire.
Because it's not exactly a legal contract, rather a concept in philosophy.

I'm genuinely shocked seeing how many people didn't know about it.
Worth it just for this app.
There are certain topics that you can't discuss on Hacker News reasonably and social media is one of them.
He tried to weasel out of the purchase, until it was obvious he would lose the court battle.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329 aug-2020 227 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27181622 may-2021 42 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284853 may-2022 42 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24184773 aug-2020 9 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24422333 sept-2020 3 comments
> The Arab spring was a populist uprising. It's not clear that there were actually positive outcomes

Tunisia is now arguably better off, but even beyond that: the longterm effects of such things aren't always immediately apparent. The French Revolution led to terror, then to an Empire and devastating wars and finally back to the old monarchy, but it cast a very long shadow on the 19th century and beyond.
cycling on mostly flat roads is not as intense as running to be fair, what I like in cycling is going uphill out of the saddle, I used to do hills repeatedly like that, totalling a few vertical kilometers without refueling nor drinking, that gave great sensations

It's always a great idea to do regular cycling no matter the elevation as it's a great "compacting machine" for digestion
> Putting CO2 out in the first place is how the global economy got to where it is today.

And now we have realized, that it is dangerous to continue doing more of that and need to live with reality.
I run but I always wanted to cycle, it is just sharing the road with cars feel super-scary to me. Do you have any advice?
The situation is insane
Any great money savings isn’t going to come from getting rid of personnel. Spending on government employees is only 6.8% of the budget. If they reach their goal of cutting 10%, that’s still less than 1% of the budget. They are going to have to cut Medicare, Social Security and military spending to make a dent.
I don't want to start an argument or anything, but I honestly do not understand your take.

If someone who loves and studies chocolate becomes, say, a bartender, and makes a cocktail specifically for the tastes of people who love chocolate in the same way they do, it is not unreasonable for them to advertise their cocktail as a "cocktail for chocolate lovers".

Will it be an appealing cocktail for all chocolate lovers? Conceivably not. Some may like more cocoa or some like a more buttery finish, some may be teetotalers and not want a cocktail at all -- but does that make it inaccurate advertising, or badly phrased? Not really, in my opinion.

This guy who loves the internet made a colour palette that he feels will be appreciated by those who love the same things about the internet as he does. Seems like reasonable and perfectly well formulated english to me.
They do. It's great.
There was a debate here in the comments a few months ago about whether it's actually forbidden by their ToS. Lots of people said they don't care if you use it for personal streaming and aren't pumping a hundred gigs per day.
In one sentence: "contract" does not not mean "legal contract" here.
That link proves you wrong
Legit question: How would you test something like this? It's not like you can have automated tests with million of random links. And these URLs are certainly not hardcoded.
> In reality, the goal has always been to silence minorities who already struggle to express themselves

This particular clause seens very unlikely. One could want an increase in racism and homophobia on a platform without specifically wanting there to be less black people (for example) speaking out. That the -isms cause said people to speak up less would likely be a (pleasant?) side effect rather than the primary goal.
Last few decades of what US is doing might be described as heroically snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, in slow motion.

Basically since US was orphaned on the world stage by USSR it gradually falls apart.
It's pretty bad, but smart people do stupid things all the time. Hopefully he learns from this mistake. And as pointed out, it does not automatically make all his prior decisions bad - we can actually analyse them each on their individual merit.
In fact, if you read that document, it mentions there are exceptions in which the automated process doesn't terminate someone for being >115, and the termination has to be done manually for:

> Beneficiaries with other claimants active on the record;

> Dually or technically entitled beneficiaries with a discrepancy among records (information pertaining to date of birth (DOB), suspension, and termination; or

> Beneficiaries in an active pay status on a dually entitled record.

What we don't know, is how many >115 records get pushed to manual processing, and how efficient that processing is. Is there a backlog? How big is it?

It mentions that one thing that can prevent the automated process, is when they have multiple records for a person, and they have conflicting dates of birth – and then they have to follow some process to resolve the discrepancy. What happens if they get stuck and can't work out which date of birth is the right one?

It also mentions how in some cases they need proof of death to carry out the manual termination. What if their attempts to procure such proof are unsuccessful?

Speculation: maybe there are a cohort of individuals who are long deceased, but they fall into one of the exceptions to the automated termination at 115 process, SSA is missing proof of death, and if nobody is actually "cashing the checks", it might be administratively easier to just keep on "paying" them by printing the checks and then burying them at the back of a filing cabinet than to cancel their social security. Maybe that's who these "150 year old social security recipients" are. So nobody would actually be committing fraud, and the government isn't really losing any money (since the checks are never cashed). Not exactly good, but maybe not quite as bad as Musk et al make it sound either. And quite likely it is just a small handful of people who are a rounding error in the federal budget.
How come every time there's a new fear unlocked, it's adjacent to the sea. Drowning, rogue waves, being eaten by a whale, none of it is a good time.
0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance
I own the Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance book. I only bought it because I have a passing interest in this stuff and really couldn't believe this sort of book is publically available.
There's opportunity cost in fixing it. The problem is we don't know if it's actual fraud. The SSA might, or they might not. It might not actually be a problem, or a problem that is an acceptable cost of running the agency. It might even be a cost that's acceptable to the country, given all the complexities involved (that we don't know about)

That's the problem with ALL the things Musk is coming out with. We just don't know! We don't know how much we are "losing" to them, we don't know know how serious these problems are. We don't know the context.

We're just getting thrown little bites of information. They sound ridiculous! They are! A lot of things can sound ridiculous if you say them out of context. He's saying a lot of stuff where the listener can go "well, yeah, obviously we should fix that". It's the "common sense" play of the right wing. Yes, it's hard to disagree with. It might be right, and we might need to fix it. It also might not be the best use of our time, energy and money to fix. We don't know what the opportunity cost is.
I've been looking for a service just like searchcode, to try and track down obscure source code. All the best, hope it can be sustainable for you.
I agree that Earth’s problems should always be a priority, but I think there’s a tendency — especially in today’s political climate — to be overly skeptical of space exploration, particularly when the private sector is involved. It’s worth asking whether that skepticism comes purely from a neutral assessment of the facts or if it’s influenced by a broader narrative that frames space expansion as a distraction rather than an investment in the future.

The thing is, we already have a real-world example of how a large space program benefited Earth: the Apollo program. It wasn’t just about getting to the Moon — it led to a wave of new technologies that had nothing to do with space travel but ended up shaping industries back on Earth. That’s what happens when you push engineering and science to their limits. Space missions are, by their nature, some of the most ambitious and disciplined blue sky projects we undertake. They force researchers and engineers to tackle extreme challenges, and in doing so, they produce breakthroughs that spill over into everyday life. That kind of well-funded, high-stakes R&D has historically driven progress in ways that aren’t always obvious at first but turn out to be game-changers.

Now, when people talk about space expansion as unrealistic or too difficult, what they’re often really saying is that it’s too expensive. And historically, they’ve been right — cost has always been the biggest obstacle. But that’s exactly what’s changing. Before SpaceX, launching anything into orbit cost around $15,000 per kilogram. That meant sending a single astronaut into space could cost nearly a billion dollars. At those prices, space wasn’t an option for anything beyond government-funded prestige projects.

But we’re already past that era. Falcon 9 proved that launch costs can be dramatically reduced, and we’ve seen the direct impact of that—Starlink is a perfect example of a space-based system that’s already providing real-world benefits. With Starship, the cost of going to orbit could drop by another order of magnitude. If that happens, access to space will go from being a rare, ultra-expensive event to something routine. That completely changes what’s possible.

I think it’s shortsighted to assume space won’t provide massive benefits to Earth. Just like how early computing looked niche and impractical until it took over everything, space development is on that same trajectory. The same people who dismissed reusable rockets a decade ago are now watching them land on drone ships in the ocean.

I just think it’s worth taking a step back and asking: is this skepticism really coming from a place of objective analysis? Or is it just part of the broader push to downplay space exploration, especially when it’s coming from the private sector? Because if history has shown us anything, it’s that ambitious, long-term projects often look like distractions — right up until they change the world.
This is so insane it’s like a fever dream.
Regulating market is reasonable thing to do.

Sensible limiting of service providers ensures that prices are not driven through the floor. Like setting minimum wage.

Also regulation could allow capping of the prices.

And there is nothing that says that such licenses must be transferable or sellable.