skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I deleted social media apps (IG, TikTok, Reddit, etc.) from my phone a few weeks ago (about two weeks ago perhaps).

The only one that I wish could be deleted is YouTube (because of YT Shorts), which comes with every Android. For now, I've restricted my usage using the App Timers feature.

WhatsApp Statuses sadly cannot be disabled. I wish I could fully delete WhatsApp for good[0]. Telegram Statuses feel wholesome. I admit I have a pet peeve with how Meta engineered WhatsApp after purchase.

I'm not feeling any withdrawal symptoms of any sort. If everything continues to be like this, I'm looking forward to finishing 2025 like this. I've been looking at dumb phones, E-Ink ones seem promising, but not yet quite there. Maybe also drop in a dumb Casio watch.

I did not delete my social media accounts, as I don't want anyone grabbing my public handles and wreaking havoc. I will always reserve these, even for leaving them empty.

I'm fine with HN being my social media.

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[0]: https://www.ivanmontilla.com/blog/goodbye-whatsapp
Right, but under US law you cannot give a license to a program. Only to people, or groups of people that we call a company. You’re giving Mozilla permission to implement the features in Firefox, since you can’t just give permission to Firefox.
I don't think ranked choice voting particularly helps preventing corrupt politicians. It mostly diminishes the incentive to be an extremist.
Looking forward to DoomCSS
All these parents who are quoted as thinking, approximately, “well, my kid only had mild symptoms, and I don’t really care about protecting anyone else” should maybe consider that measles causes long-term immunosuppression.

Here’s part of an article:

> Examination of child mortality rates in the U.S., U.K., and Denmark in the decades before and after the introduction of the measles vaccine revealed that nearly half of all childhood deaths from infectious disease could be related to MV infection when the disease was prevalent. That means infections other than measles resulted in death, due to the MV effect on the immune system.

> Furthermore, it was determined that it takes approximately 2-3 years post-measles infection for protective immune memory to be restored.

https://asm.org/Articles/2019/May/Measles-and-Immune-Amnesia

Those kids whose symptoms are over are not even close to being in the clear yet.
Well that wouldn't work because Wi-Fi is the wrong choice. Buuuuuuuut if you gave them cellular data plans? Now you're onto something. The Boron by particle comes to mind as a low cost dev option. The USB should let you talk to a computer as a flash drive, you can throw an SD card on/external to it for storage, and use the modem to sync to the others. As long as they're all on battery, should be fine.
The worst part of this is that Trump's followers are never going to blame him for this. They will find someone, anyone else to make responsible. He will stay in power, things will get worse, and they'll keep pointing the finger at absolutely anyone except for him.

We'll be lucky if he and his ilk are out of power sometime in the next decade.
The fact that scammers, fraudsters, Ponzi schemers and extortion racketeers have run trillions of dollars of swindles using US dollars is not evidence that the US dollar is a scam, a fraud, a Ponzi scheme or an extortion racket.
Can President Trump ignore Congress' spending laws? The debate over impoundment
Are you telling me that AI's are starting to diverge and that we might get a combinatorial explosion of reasoning paths that will produce so many different agents that we won't know which one can actually become AGI?

https://leehanchung.github.io/assets/img/2025-02-26/05-quadr...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228816, which was posted earlier and seems to be the article with the most background.
Nah. Just talk to people. Not behind a screen. So many more people saying wtf than go Trump.
Well rich people already own most assets. Why would they want their holdings to lose value? Market crashes hurt HNWI's the most, as they have the most exposure.

I am not sure if you feel the second point follows on from the first or stands on its own? I will respond to it as a separate issue and I take it to mean the economy as a whole and not just residences. That being said I agree it is the goal of companies to move that way as they will always push for more control and recurring revenue, but that’s just corporate incentives at play, not global a shadowy plan imho. If we the consumers push back and demand our DVD's and CD's (yes I still use those) there will be players who come forth to take our money for them.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224107 - March 2025 (40 comments)

Blue Ghost Moon landing Sunday 3:30am EST using Earth GPS lock 238000 miles away - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222015 - March 2025 (3 comments)

Nyx Space and Rust Power Firefly's Blue Ghost Lunar Landing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43217811 - March 2025 (1 comment)
I am european, and I don't really know if it's really a bad thing for europe.

I would say it's bad to lose an ally like the US, especially for defense, but what about trade?

The problem is that american hegemony also bother some people, and those people dislike Trump but are they still happy for the US to be less strong?

I would bet there are some europeans who are happy about the US slowing down, but I don't think there are many.

I thought that americans would be able to impeach him or congress/senate/judges to stop him, but it seems nothing will stop him.

Maybe american democracy is flawed and russia managed to crack it.
Was curious if a maple reserve existed. looks like Canada is leading the charge on that one: https://ppaq.ca/en/sale-purchase-maple-syrup/worlds-only-res...
If you read the 2nd paragraph of the very article you cited, you'll also see it says:

"Doomscrolling can also be defined as the excessive consumption of short-form videos or social media content for an excessive period of time without stopping."
They aren’t leaving the country easily: not paying taxes would mean selling their properties, relocating their businesses, and renouncing their citizenship. Most of the alternatives have higher tax rates, fewer economic options, or both – and they lose significant benefits like preferential access to the U.S. government. Anyone who wanted to pay 0% could already become a citizen of Anguilla, Barbados, etc. but the fact that most haven’t suggests that there is more to the decision than sorting by tax rate and picking the lowest.

> put it into advertising to make sure not one involved politician wins an election ever again.

That’s what happened in 2024 and we are facing rising inflation and a severe recession in the middle of a constitutional crisis. It’s unclear to me why anyone would think that the people who orchestrated that should be catered to.
(This comment was posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43235933, where the title was "Firefly Aerospace becomes first commercial company to successfully land on moon". We merged that thread hither.)
Perhaps regulation around lock-in: let people take their content with them - and not preventing linking to the outside world.
Turns out they couldn't do it very well and they shouldn't have done it in the first place.
Hey, so, these are not problems unique to git, for what it's worth. And if people don't want to deal with problems, then maybe software development isn't for them, because this is like a plumber complaining about joining pipes. (And don't bother belaboring this analogy, because I will not respond.)
"You pretend you feel it. You don't."

Plenty of research out there that investigates and shows nervous system/heart beat co-/dys-regulation amongst strangers. Not that I need any of that to know how I am feeling with others, totally random strangers. I cannot turn it off. Oh boy, I often wish I could. You can choose not to believe me, sure, I'm just inventing this to lie to your face for the kick of it. Or you can choose to look at the research. Or actually experience it for yourself, e.g. in a NVC practice course.
I absolutely do, and I know plenty of folks who will express dismay at these issues on the one hand, then turn around and justify Trump and defend him on the other hand. They literally will not connect the dots. Same for folks who think government is corrupt and broken and so choose a corrupt pro-thing-breaker to lead it.
Yep, but I’m talking about reducing friction to zero for viewing an SWF.
I agree and the radiation/physical effect is in my opinion the only possibility a normal computer may somehow be able to cause some kind of consciousness.
There is no reason for humans to ever return to the moon. The cost and risks are not justified. Drones and robots can do anything that needs to be done. They don’t need to breathe, they don’t need to sleep, or eat.
Separate compilation is relevant, because it means the version of the interface you compile against may not be the same version you run against. This is fine if the newer version is compatible with the older version. And for the present discussion, we consider an added enum value to not constitute a compatibility break. Nevertheless, it means that the client code can now receive a value that it couldn’t receive before. And it’s useful to be able to define a case distinction for such unknown future values, while at the same time having the compiler check that all currently defined values have been duly considered.

In other words, you want to ensure that you have the most appropriate behavior for whatever values are currently known, and a fallback behavior for the future values that by definition you can’t possibly know at the present time. Of course, this is more or less only practical in languages where the interface version you compile against is only updated deliberately, while the implementation version at runtime can be any newer compatible version.
A CEO running a non-profit into the ground does not deserve that kind of compensation
Can anyone who is pro-crypto (particularly: btc, eth) make the steelman argument for why a "strategic reserve" is necessary for these cryptocurrencies? Or even beneficial? I've been involved in the industry in various ways for years and I fundamentally don't understand why the government owning a lot of btc/eth is advantageous. I understand the "reserve" part, but I don't understand the "strategic."

I'm open to the idea that this could be both a good idea and a way to line insiders' pockets with US taxpayer money, but it really just looks like the latter to me.

(I've been able to come up with a few theories but they all involve the complete destruction of value of the US dollar, and I don't understand how that would be net good for America.)
If tax dollars are ever used to buy cryptos, that's simply a transfer of wealth to the crypto sellers, in exchange for nothing in return. This is just another "Tax and Waste" policy. It's just money taken from one group just to give to some other group. It's immoral and illegal, because the gov't is not an investment bank.
Yeah, I think it's coded to be super-conciliatory as some sort of apology for its hallucinations, but I find it annoying as well. Part of it is just like all automated prompts that try to be too human. When you know it's not human, it's almost patronizing and just annoying.

But, it's actually worse, because it's generally apologizing for something completely wrong that it told you just moments before with extreme confidence.
The post you responded to was about how medical schools are “schools” in name only. You may be correct that administrators are useless, but your kid’s experience, assuming they are in medical school is not really evidence because they don’t see more than a sliver of what the school does (and needs to do, by law).
agreed, thats the vibe I got from this story as well.

like fuck off with that, the data and the vibes all point to it being better for the employees and their productivity to work from home. too many "I went through it so you have to as well" types that aren't interested in evolving stuck in their old ways
Heh, I just checked and my portfolio peaked on Jan 23 and has been on a downward slope since then. Down about 6%. Wouldn’t have been a bad return if not for a bunch of tax implications.
I am too old for this sh*t
Market crash won't hurt the super wealthy. Oh no! My assets went to 60m down from 100m!

Day to day spending pressure is what tanks. Economy depends on money flow. Most of that flow is necessities (shelter, food)
We saw NYC and SF do this to disastrous effects. Journalists had to start looking at privately collected victimization rates to get an accurate picture since crime stats were clearly being juked.
It's not what I would call a REPL, but it is even better than that. It's incredible. Thansk!
Sure, will do. I am currently traveling but will reach out by Thursday!
> The technology worked but unfortunately the cost of implementing the technology and also the cost of delivering the electricity that was produced to a market was just greater than the revenue stream that we could create.

We said the same thing about solar and wind, also in 2008-2016. We found a way anyway
I live in Martinique, in the Caribbean and there is a somewhat inactive [0] volcano.
To generate electricity, we are importing oil/biogaz from Europe.
Solar is ramping up but it makes sense to use volcano heat if:
- the associated risks are low (earthquakes, just got a 4.8 30 minutes ago [1])
- tropical climate does not make maintenance too costly

Even if it's not the cheapest option, if it can provide some backup, that could be an option. Because solar panel and hurricanes are not best friends.

[0] that kills 30k people in 1902 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_eruption_of_Mount_Pel%C3%...
[1] https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_information/earthquake....
Consider a universe purely dictated by the mathematical laws of physics. It would be indistinguishable from our own to an observer, but such a universe would effectively be a fixed 4D structure, a statue incapable of experience. You have experience, yes? You think therefore you are. There exists something beyond maths and physics, experiencing the our universe, and you are that thing. How could such an entity develop from physical processes?
I'm German and I won't buy a Tesla anymore. Because only a*holes are capable to so what's happening over there. Actually, I won't buy anything made in US and sold here anymore. Bye bye US prime beef. I can't afford you anyway anymore :(

The reason is more that no one is buying anything anymore at the moment. It feels so insecure and it feels like corona is back. The ones that have been sold are sold for reasons we don't know. But we know everything is going hibernation.
well you try feeding the Busy Beaver Problem with large N to lean then and see what comes out.
FDR didn't "act like a King" he worked through congress, getting enabling legislation and appropriations for every thing he did.

In addition to winning his own elections he also maintained large Democratic majorities in both houses of congress. The only branch that opposed him was the unelected one, because every opportunity the people had to consent to what FDR was doing, they gave him not just a victory but an overwhelming one.
> Regarding overt assistance given, this is to help balance the scales for deep structural support given to men.

I don't see much effort to balance scales in areas where women have had much greater assistance and support available for an extremely long time while men have had little if anything. Parental rights, domestic violence, criminal justice, and physical and mental health, etc.

In many of these areas the "old basis" was mainly favoring women and there's been little effort to change that situation.
I know exactly how you feel. I brought up the prior success my team had with a yearly meetup for a week of good, solid, complex work and planning, and suggested teams try to achieve that using the cost savings associated with real estate reductions.

That was also promptly shutdown, in favor of two new tech hubs in cheaper countries and a smattering of MSPs.
I do not understand what practical problem this solves. Biology researchers aren't reverse engineering the binary outputs of qPCR machines. Regardless of what the machine itself does, malicious researchers control the inputs. It feels a little bit like "we have a signature system, let's stick it somewhere".

It would be easier to take this seriously if the work was accompanied by any kind of documented threat model.

I also don't believe this is even ostensibly addressing an important problem. There's a cognitive availability bias problem in discussions of research misconduct. Incidents are newsworthy, but more people in these discussions don't have a sense the scale of the field --- which is enormous. People are talking about a numerator without knowing the denominator. A simpler way to address this problem: ignore it, unless you work in the field.
Ideally "no", because otherwise the Presidency has a retroactive on-demand reversible line-item veto.

It's funny, in 2015 I pondered if a Trump presidency would be so terrible that, as a silver lining, the Legislative branch would be motivated to claw-back some of the power it has delegated to the Executive over the years.

As everyone knows, that's not how it turned out.
I can almost guarantee you most everyone who owns BTC will be 100% in favor of anything that will drive up it's price, because they falsely equate it's price as it's value. It has zero value despite it's price, just like beanie babies and Tulips always did.
Famously subject of the biggest heist in Canadian history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Hei...
OK maybe we are using different meanings of the word "operationalize"

If I were say in middle management and you asked me to "operationalize" the impact of mission statements, I would try to associate the existence of a mission statement on a team to some metric like financial performance.

If I was on a small development team and you asked me to "operationalize" our mission statement, I would probably make the same mistake the software industry always does, like trying it to tickets closed, lines of code, or even the Dora metrics.

Under my understanding of "operationalize" and the only way I can find it referenced related to mission statements themselves, I would actually de-emphasize deliverables, quality, stakeholders changing demands etc...

Even if I try to "operationalize" in a more abstract way, like define an impact score, which may not directly map to business objectives or even team building.

Almost every LLM offers a similar definition I offered above E.G.

> "operationalization" refers to the process of defining an abstract concept in a way that allows it to be measured and observed through specific, concrete indicators

Impact scores, which are subjective can lead to Google's shelfware problems, and even scrum rituals often leads to hard but high value tasks being ignored because of the incentives don't allow for it.

In both of your cites, they were situations where existing cultures were enhanced, not fully replaced.

Both were also short term, and wouldn't capture the long tail problems I am referencing.

Heck even Taylorism worked well for the auto industry until outside competition killed it. Well at least for the companies, consumers suffered.

The point is that "operationalization" specifically is counterproductive under a model, where infighting during that phase is bad.

If you care about delivering on execution, it would seems to be important to you. But I realize that you may not be targeting repeat work...I just don't know.

But I am sure some McKinsey BA probably has put that consern in a PDF someplace by now because the GoA Agile assessment guide is being incorporated and even ITIL and TOGAF reference that coal face paper I cited.

The BCGs and McKinseys of the world are absolutely going to shift to detection of common confabulations to show value.

While I do take any tools possible to make me more productive, correctness of content concerns me more than exact verbage.

But yes, different needs, I am in the nitch of rescuing failed initiatives, which admittedly is far from the typical engagement style.

To be honest the lack of scratch space on 4.5 compared to CoT models is the main blocker for me.
MIT 2024: 11,886 students. 17,490 Staff.

MIT Staff to student ratio: 1.47

No medical school.

The 17,490 number includes 4,500 Lincoln Lab staff. Backing those out. We get 12,990 MIT Staff.

So an MIT Staff to student ratio of: 1.09

https://facts.mit.edu/employees/
https://facts.mit.edu/lincoln-laboratory/
I tend to agree, which is why I’m skeptical about large-scale LLM code generation, until AIs exhibit reliable diligence and more general attention and awareness, and probably also long-term memory about a code base and its application domain.
Oh yeah agreed that the change in prices doesn't prove it's a scam, my thought was more along the lines of - when crypto insiders who have been talking up crypto as valuable/important because it's independent of the government quickly change their tune and cheer on government intervention when it goes into their pockets, it makes it pretty clear what the dynamic actually is.
Strategic reserves for actual physical commodities makes some sense. Then can reduce the volatility in markets due to sudden unexpected market shocks. In the case of maple syrup that might mean a stretch of really bad harvests.

But digital currency is made up. It isn't 'needed' for anything. So there is no sense to have a strategic reserve.
Yep.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/nyregion/yale-student-die...
Cuban isn't in charge here, in fact he literally campaigned for Harris.

Trump and Musk destroyed USDS and 18F. At worst Cuban is trying to salvage something from the wreckage.
"Heuristic" and "algorithmic" are not antipodes. A heuristic is a category of algorithm, specifically one that returns an approximate or probabilistic result. An example of a widely recognized algorithm that is also a heuristic is the Miller-Rabin primality test.

https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/heuristic.html

https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/millerRabin.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Rabin_primality...
Off the bat: I like Rust. I'm still very much a novice with it, but I enjoy it.

But almost the entirety of Computer Science is based on abstractions because they're helpful to "dumb down" some details that aren't super-important for our day-to-day work. E.g., writing TCP protocols directly is Assembly would be too fine-grained detail for most people's usual work, and using some existing abstraction is "good enough" virtually all of the time (even though we might be able to optimize things for our use-cases if we did drop down to that level)

There exists programming work where fiddling with lifetimes is just too fiddly to be worthwhile (e.g., web development, probably is more than fine using a good ol' garbage collected language). This isn't about "dumbing down" anything, it's about refocusing on what's important for the job you're doing.
All restrictions are bad, and accountability is bad. Got it. I'm glad to have had this discussion with you; very thought provoking.
uh, no pun intended on "authoritarian" the word i wanted to be there was "authorization"!
I look forward to writing Typescript that transpiles to Javascript that writes CSS that calls functions.