skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good question - I'm not sure. The rpmspec doesn't seem to install it, so perhaps it's not quite that bad. The atop program _itself_ runs persistently, though, so, uh, still bad. :)
That’s my point though. Infinity isn’t useful for computation in a lot of cases where numbers are called for and it’s debatable that it even is a number. So it’s already a special error value, and if that’s the case, why use a value that accidentally behaves like a number sometimes?
I literally just got covid and it was bad as the first time I got it. Anecdotal, n=1 even, but it's still here.
send them a personal email or linkedin msg
“the rest of the story seems overblown” sounds like a thought-terminator to minimize impact.
Author here!

I explain the methodology here:

https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/methodolo...

If you'd like to add your metadata, I'll happily accept a PR here:

https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/m...
The shell should just have better UX. If 5408 is the id of the command ran... just list that out in the printed table. Powershell and nushell do this really well.
Seems like bad advice. Regardless of the reason given, recruiters and employers will likely interpret a request to postpone as the candidate waiting for another offer.

I have never heard of “I need more time to prepare” as a reason for postponing, but even if a recruiter or employer believed that it seems weak. If you need to prepare that much for an interview what does that say about your skills and ability to produce right away?
When you keep improving, it's always going to be the best or most: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPkso_6n0vs
Just because something isn't labeled classified doesn't make it not classified. If you work anywhere with classified information, you are expected to know certain information is classified, or may become classified later. You may not always know the latter, but you should know the former.

I'm not going to defend classifying embarrassing information because it's well -- embarrassing. But the established trend is to classify information "just to be safe" and let someone else make the declassifying decisions, particularly someone that's not you.

There was a weird issue with Wikileaks in that publicly released information was still considered classified, and any documents must be still treated as such.

Was that silly, yes. This led to a weird issue where journalists and members of the public had more access to certain classified documents than people holding clearances.
Malleable Overview-Detail Interfaces
Alarmingly, I had it installed on my home server, for some odd reason. I don't remember ever using it.
Here's a Gemini 2.5 provided summary of this Hacker News thread as of the moment when it had 269 comments: https://gist.github.com/simonw/3efa62d917370c5038b7acc24b7c7...

I ran this command to create it:

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/43473489" | \
jq -r 'recurse(.children[]) | .author + ": " + .text' | \
llm -m "gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25" -s \
'Summarize the themes of the opinions expressed here.
For each theme, output a markdown header.
Include direct "quotations" (with author attribution) where appropriate.
You MUST quote directly from users when crediting them, with double quotes.
Fix HTML entities. Output markdown. Go long. Include a section of quotes that illustrate opinions uncommon in the rest of the piece'

Using this script: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/claude-hacker-news-themes
These are often-repeated arguments; we really need some facts to work with. Is there research on this?
>Could it be that platforms are deliberately showing you more and more of that, while not showing you positive interactions?

Doubtful. The platforms I'm talking about are mostly HN and /r/worldnews. There's no recommendation engine for either of those. And I don't see other Europeans arguing against this stuff, either.

I elaborated further here regarding why online discussion matters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477385

>Right now it seems more likely that these same Americans will be fighting with Russia against us, so I hope you can accept that I have very little love left for American "patriotism" right now. Maybe try not threatening allies and dividing the spoils with our shared enemies, that would certainly help.

I certainly wouldn't want the US fight with Russia against Europe. I highly doubt that will happen. But if you like, you can view my "American patriotism that Europe loves to belittle" comment as an explanation of how we got to this situation.

>Okay, but why is this suddenly such a big deal? You're apparently not perturbed by American xenophobia against us, why did you suddenly become so sensitive?

I am perturbed. But to be honest, I'm skeptical that you received much American xenophobia, especially compared to the oceans of anti-Americanism that have been washing across the internet for ages. If you want to show me an example, maybe that will help me understand.

In any case, it's not the anti-Americanism that gets to me so much as the ingratitude. The US has been one of Ukraine's biggest supporters. Yet even when Biden was president, there was a lot of anti-US sentiment in Ukraine discussions, because they wanted even more. They never mentioned countries such as Brazil which gave hardly anything. The US was probably their #2 most hated country after Russia.

I'm arguing for the principle that people who do good things should be appreciated rather than disdained. I see that as a prerequisite for any sort of prosocial society, or a prosocial world order. That's much more important to me than anti-Americanism. In cases where I believe anti-Americanism is justified, it doesn't bother me nearly as much.

So many of these US policies like supporting NATO were justified on the basis of gaining "soft power". The reality is that soft power isn't worth very much, and in the modern world, trying to do good things actually reduces American soft power, not increases it.
I started blogging weekly recently. I’ve been surprised at the efficacy of simply asking readers to subscribe. At the end of each post I make the request and provide an email box.

After only three articles, 28 people have signed up. It’s not a lot compared to some folks, but it validates two important things. First, being direct can work. Second, people care and want to hear more.
The easy infographic generation scares me on the implications for society.
I don't think you had to work so hard to prove "I don't like your facts so I'll attack your intent".
I'm sorry, but this advice can sometimes sound like "sell one of your kidneys so you can eat". What if your means are not sufficient to avoid hunger? Investing negative difference? What if on top of that you're trying to do the work you enjoy and your means - incomes - stop completely? Do you see the problem with advice?
> I think the board are basically sitting around praying that the horse learns to sing before they’re forced to act.

I know this is off topic, but I find that sentence beautiful. Is this a common idiom or did you just come up with it?
Some other White South Africans have taken sides with the same political grouping (I don't know their position on that issue).
That last line for sure reads as '(author) can't tell you now, but can (plans to) tell you later'; NDA and/or CVE as most likely reasons.
> when the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore: It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist.

Now there's a [flag] for ya.
The CIA files AI chat bot
I am already selling enough of my time, energy, skills, knowledge etc. I also have enough to not sell, things that provide me personal satisfaction and value, that is more important than what I sell to others. I got to look after my health first and finances second.
Presumably the NSA warning required ability to read above the third grade level.
Buy a small parcel of land and park a trailer on it or build something expedient.

My house cost like 20% of almost anyone else in my area by just doing it myself without any code inspections. All it takes is courage to bypass the conventional system, society was wrong and I won by calling bullshit.
If you limit it to July 2021 (when you started blogging) until the present, you're at #16:

https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?end=2025...
> then why bother taking away the coping mechanisms people have available?

If the kids won’t learn anyways, we might as well give them their dopamine and depression machines so they can really double down on not learning?

Calling schools prisons?

Sorry, this is ridiculous. Learning isn’t always fun and it’s unfortunate that, as a child, you were asked to do things that weren’t 100% the most fun thing you could be doing at any given time, but it turns out playing video games all day has no value. It turns out, simply being a student with some anecdata gives one no insight into actual teaching.

This just reads as angsty teenage frustration.
But also decided she couldn't share the same information with the committee.
Isn't that the whole point behind A/B testing? Find the accidental dark patterns that will maximize extraction?
Call me cynical but every time I hear something like this I assume it's a ploy to crap all over the used car parts market. There's nothing the OEMs would love than to have every junkyard be some big corporate facility beholden to them so they can do things like refuse to sell classes of parts because it's "not repairable" or whatever.
There are some logical leaps in your comment that don’t make sense to me.
Pure speculation; but it sounds to me like she was doing some sysadmin triage and possibly stumbled onto a backdoor/exfiltration through atop.

She likely can't disclose anything right now.
Visual internet content is completely over. Pack it up
As opposed to applications authorized by professionals in charge of equipment.
If however you're only having an idea of a product, even half-implemented, you still need to sell the idea to get money for the full implementation - enough for it to be sellable as a product. Catch 22 indeed...
I actually think the major powers mostly know what the others are doing.
Let me know when we can remove "RSS Feeds".
You could try, I contacted the new owners awhile ago. They don't/won't even sell new copies of the archive dvd. I tried. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14345682 but a kind soul responded to that request :)

https://archive.org/search?query=dr+dobbs

https://archive.org/details/DrDobbsDVD5

https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6

Sad part is that the DVD doesn't have issues going back to when it started as "Dr. Dobb's Journal of COMPUTER Calisthenics & Orthodontia Running Light Without Overbyte"

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01_201710

I have a like 81-84 that I should just send to the IA.

The Living Computer Museum had a small library that had the complete archive of Dr Dobbs, but who knows where it went after Paul Allen's sister closed it and sold everything off.
This is true, but lacks specificity. Do you think CISA would recommend sharing details of imminent military operations via signal?
I think he could have just been a bit lazy.
Could any attorneys comment on why habeas corpus actions aren't used here. Isn't this sort of thing exactly what habeas is for?
The most popular theory is that he has the same initials as someone else. Notice that most of their usernames were just their initials.
https://github.com/orgs/github/projects/4247?pane=issue&item... - GitHub is working on immutable actions. Let's see then how they really work...
Apple silicon chips
> Islam not relying on subjugation and force

Ah yeah, so long as we disregard a lot of history both within and outside of Islamic societies this is true.

Huge waves of conquests, the jizya. These are all coercive as any Christian state act.
Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten should probably be combined. Also, it's odd that while ACX's author is listed as "Scott Alexander" (his long-time pseudonym), SSC's is listed as "anonymous." He went by Scott Alexander even in the days of SSC.
Programmers tend to be paid well?
> the current passenger vehicle fleet in the US is increasingly dominated by SUVs and pickups that are substantially bigger and heavier than their predecessors. “Their weight, poor visibility from the driver’s seat, and high, flat front ends prove far more lethal, especially to pedestrians, than smaller passenger cars,” the report reads. Consumers “buy them for their own safety, but in doing so, actually increase the danger to other road users.”

> Kei trucks have the opposite problem: comparatively harmless to other road users; less so to drivers and occupants who tangle with hulking megatrucks.

This seems analogous to motorcycles in the US. If you mention that you ride one in polite conversation there will invariably be somebody that says that you shouldn't because they're dangerous. If you point out that such statistics are skewed by reckless operators and that you don't fall into that category then the response becomes "other people on the road don't pay attention and will hurt you". In a similar vein if you point out people egregiously running stop signals or driving in two lanes or not signaling then the common response is that "nobody is perfect" and that "you shouldn't take it personally". If you have a problem with motorcyclists then replace "motorcycle" with "small car" and much of the same still applies (particularly in rural areas with a higher percentage of truck ownership).

My theory is that as vehicles increasingly larger, more comfortable, and automated they have disconnected people from the fact that they're operating a 4000 lb mini-tank that goes faster than the quickest land animals on Earth. Plush suspension and 10-way sound systems have conditioned people to subconsciously equate auto travel with being in a living room or private train car instead of something that requires immense care to operate safely. The act of driving has been devalued for decades as peoples' attentions shift elsewhere.

It probably doesn't help that owning a car is a practical requirement in most parts of the US but I'm sure somebody more passionate about that than me can speak more effectively to that phenomenon.
"so what". Still no competitive phone-top for the new trifolds coming out of Asia, a notable decrease in speed with every update, clunky UI that can't hold state (here's looking at you "show time machine in menu bar"). If it weren't for apple pay and maybe imessage I'd be gone by now.
I'm not sure I really disagree much. We both agree on the main part about the perverse incentives. But

> I am simply not sure we can really add anything truly new.

I do not like these types of attitudes. Defeatist (I apologize if I'm misinterpreting).

Our world has progressed so we have strong evidence that we can add new things. Not only that, but we can make things better! It wasn't long ago people shit in a bucket and threw it out their window. While there's a lot of shit now I have no doubt things, in the long run, have improved. Even if things are worse now than 5 or 10 years, in the long run things improve.

The other part is that just because you're a small cog in a large machine doesn't mean you can't change things. I very much understand this feeling and I think it's natural too! But the cog is needed, even if there's some redundancy. You don't have to be a giant cog to have impact.

The reason so much goes wrong is also why this last part is true. Things exist in an unstable equilibrium, like an inverted pendulum. It takes little to throw things off balance (I can explain more if needed, with examples). Which is the very reason why small things matter. But there's observation bias and we can't forget. When things work smoothly we often don't think about it and all the little things that needed to go right to make that happen. But we do think when things go wrong. Of course we have this bias, because we want to relax and reduce cognitive load. But the world has gotten more complex and so we probably need to think about this more. It's becoming more important. Because as things get more complex low order approximations become less useful. It's the bitter curse of advancement. The bitter curse of adding new things. But I believe we can do it
Well, that one seems to be true, from a certain point of view.
It also depends on what you’re selling and who you’re selling it to. Do it too much, and you’ll incur the wrath of the mob—or worse, be ignored into oblivion.

In the software world, salespeople are almost universally hated because of how obnoxious they can be. I recently attended a Couchbase talk, and now the salespeople are all over my inbox and LinkedIn DMs. You don’t want to sell your work like that.

While not all work needs to be published, monetized, and advertised, this piece only focuses on the kind that needs to be done but isn’t.

I absolutely agree on writing about software. I don’t write to advertise my thoughts. Writing is the process that helps me think deeply about a topic I’m interested in.

While I write for myself, and my blog[1] usually focuses on the things I’m currently tinkering with, it has garnered a solid number of readers. I even got hired at two places because someone higher up read my writing at some point. So I believe the author is encouraging everyone to publish and advertise these kinds of work.

[1]: https://rednafi.com
Yeah, but the abstractions have been useful so far. The main advantage of our current buggy apps is that if it is buggy today, it will be exactly as buggy tomorrow. Conversely, if it is not currently buggy, it will behave the same way tomorrow.

I don't want an app that either works or does not work depending on the RNG seed, prompt and even data that's fed to it.

That's even ignoring all the absurd computing power that would be required.
Jack Dorsey's Block to lay off nearly 1k workers in another reorganization
> I'm not suggesting punishment, or even prosecution, for the people involved.

I am. Throw the book at them.
It seems self-evident that clinging to inherited faith traditions can impede critical thinking, open inquiry, and evidence-based governance.

But it seems empirically true that much of what we consider critical thinking, open inquiry, and evidence-based governance has been handed down to us through societies that practice(d) inherited faith traditions. That is, even critical thinking, etc. that did not originate in a particular faith-clinging society has been preserved and nurtured through multiple other societies even when the interceding societies largely clung to inherited faith traditions different than the origin.

So perhaps faith-clinging societies can be inconsistently close-minded and open-minded at the same time. Rather human.
that sounds like a great idea actually
at this point we're _good data_ limited, which has little to do with scraping.
'Brainrot' AI on Instagram Monetizing the Most Fucked Up Things You Can Imagine
DALLE-3 with ChatGPT has been able to approximate this for a while now by internally locking the seed down as you make adjustments. It's not perfect by any means but can be more convenient than manual inpainting.

Ditto Instruct Pix2Pix
https://www.timothybrooks.com/instruct-pix2pix
[citation needed]

Assuming this is true, how did they determine what a "top" government official is? So if you're the SecDef you should use it but not the deputy SecDef? How would this guidance not pertain to all government officials?
You’re assuming that teaching fleshy monkeys to smear their gunk on glorified bathroom tissue was ever a good idea.
iPhone added this feature very recently (just a few months ago, it basically just randomly restarts the phone if it is unused and not connected to a network for over 24-48 hours - phones connected to a network can be erased via iCloud). Android doesn’t have it at all.

There is a shortcut, however, on iOS to secretly put an iPhone into BFU mode - quick tapping the power button 5 times will lock the phone and erase the aforementioned in-memory keys so that it needs a password to unlock.

(EDIT: it does not actually put the iPhone into BFU mode. It just disables biometrics.)
The word "fascist" still applies as a descriptive term, even if Trump doesn't identify with or intentionally pursue it.

I mostly agree with your characterization of him, but those tendencies of sleazy egoism naturally lead to authoritarian policies. When your ego must be stroked and your word must be last, you naturally fight against important democratic safeguards that would restrain you, like apolotical bureaucracies and separation of powers, both of which we're seeing play out literally right now. Trump is defying Congress's sole authority of appropriating government funds, and has strongly signaled intent to defy court orders (and only hasn't technically defied them yet because decisions are still pending). DOGE is a thin excuse to purge federal agencies and fill them with partisan yes-men (or simply destroy them altogether and give Trump full control).

Despite Trump's personal politics, it's obvious that those in his orbit (including several cabinet appointees and his VP) do have intentionally fascist ideals and goals. Whether Trump personally cares or not is a distinction without a difference. He may not care about pursuing a "night of long knives", but many who have influence in his administration do, and Trump probably won't care to stop them, especially if it makes him seem like a strong, no-nonsense leader.

Fascism is coming to America and Donald Trump is the one commanding the cult of personality that is making it happen. That alone is worthy of criticism. It should be concerning to anyone who opposes fascism, regardless of who exactly is to blame or how exactly it is being done. Arguments like yours are mostly a distraction.