skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If history has taught us anything, outright banning them only makes them into forbidden fruit.

They may be 'forbidden fruit', but does that means that it would lead to more use of them?

Do you think people drank more in 2020 or 1920 during prohibition?

Do you think people smoked more weed in 2025 or, say, 1985 when it was less legal?

Do you think there is more gambling in 2025, or in 1925 when the laws banning it were still fresh?

I think you'll reach the conclusion that outright banning does in fact reduce the usage of the vice.
> No checks and balances have been cancelled.

"President Donald Trump's administration made a calculated decision to ignore a judge's directive to turn around two flights containing hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News."[1]

> The article is showing one side.

Please share the other side of the examples given in the article.

1. https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-admin-ignores-judges-order-b...
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Inequality has also changed over the last 40 years .. students have to hustle gig-economy jobs just to get by, and incur substantial debt to study.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/wp-content/uploads...

Certainly there is no time to read widely or sit around thinking or chatting with people who challenge our views .. no time to hang around campus and engage in conversation.

Gary of Garys Economics YT channel makes the point that inequality - in and of itself - robs the middle class of wealth :

Essentially he argues that the fraction of dollars allocated to the middle class is less, and the total amount of dollars is used to apportion 'real' wealth - ie. the total number of atoms, people, energy supply, houses, land, paintings does not go up in proportion, so the same dollar amount will buy less realworld goods.

Science and Technology - universities and startups - require an abundant over-apportionment of capital to make sure that we cast a large net in order to reach those rare talents that make significant advances.

The side effect of wasted funding - students who learn/research stuff they wont use in jobs, and startups that fail to find PMF and scale fast .. is a well educated, better society in which to live.

Relatively low inequality and high progressive tax post-WWII funded the new medicine and tech we now enjoy.
All videos are edited.
> the government "disappearing" people (which they have objectively been doing lately)

If you know where someone is being held (like Louisiana, for example) they weren't 'disappeared'.
Watching the debacle from across the pond, wondering what everyone voting for Trump feared in the alternative. Kamala, extreme leftist? Guess youve never heard of USSR. And even not they were extreme.
That is the way it works, there is no "evidence of being disappeared", as there is no negative probe. This already happened in Argentina in the 70's, there were no record, in many cases until several years after, or never.
>The number of students there because they want to learn a subject rounds to zero.

I was one of those 'rounds to zero' students, in the physical sciences, long ago. I wanted to learn how to verify a hypothesis by looking at the evidence. And after 4 years, I was greatly disappointed by the lack of significant lab exposure. What we did get was cookbook labs, mostly on the very basic stuff. What we also got after that was theory, theory and more theory. Usually from unenthused teachers, going through the motions. From my perspective, it was mostly a waste of time.

Years later I learned what Feynman meant when he said "Science doesn’t teach it; experience teaches it." Maybe if I'd heard that, I've have dropped out after two years instead of hoping I'd get to the part where someone cared.
high score: 88
Totally disagree. Lecture is an opportunity to directly ask your professor to clarify the material or perhaps extend to an adjacent area. It is also an opportunity to learn from your classmates who may pose insightful questions or comments.

TFA omits this trend (seemingly since wide spread availability of the internet) to being solitary - the view that nothing of value can come from interactions with peers or superiors other than wasted time. [this is different from missing classes because of laziness which is implied].
1A is not about federal funds.
Yes. I'm well-aware of the analogy of the slowly boiled frog, etc. But it's also the slippery-slope fallacy, so... Why are we assuming facts here before we know of them?

She is a Turkish national on a student visa. Those folks do NOT (like it or not) have the same rights as citizens. You cannot, for example, support (not saying she's done this, just saying this is the law) an organization designated as an FTO, as a "green card" holder; you CAN (sigh) as a citizen. /shrug

sees downvotes ... Um, excuse me? Am I not allowed to have a valid dissenting opinion here, now? Why the downvotes, folks? Give me a valid reason please
Therapy. Maybe medication, should you choose to see a psychiatrist.
Then drugs and alcohol.

Good luck on your journey of healing.
Few years back, I thought it was wise to invest in some semi-pricey clothes which were intended to suite me for a while. The only formal stuff I had at the time was my Dad’s, or something I thrifted, which didn’t quite fit.

Some pants, shirts, which I could put a jacket over for something more formal. Some shorts and shirts for the gym.

Every single one of those pants ripped, to my surprise, because some of them were $150-$250. Some ripped in the belt loops, others between the legs. The dress shirt is barely holding up, there are little plumes of ripped material on the side.

Each time they ripped, I replaced them with something I found for $15-35 at Target. Not a single rip.

I still keep the dress shirt, because it’s the only one I have, and I’m not at all sure what to replace it with.

I dislike the shirts that Target sells because the frame they use is of a long, skinny man, with small arms, and an extremely wide neck. Not sure how the fuck that happened. But the material is perfectly fine.

If anyone knows where I can find a nice shirt (both collared and others for the gym), that’d be great. I’m set on target pants, though. They are indestructible.
I don't know how people are so smart here. You people are really so incredibly clever and driven.
I've found myself in a data analyst job where we do lots of python and linux stuff. That's cool and all but I am such an exhausted and deeply demotivated person. I don't know what to do next with my career. I am largely banking on building strong passive income streams.
I don't think I'm in the right job or career - but I don't know what I'd do otherwise. I am not sure I can afford to do an apprenticeship.
Maybe I should speak to a psychologist.
You’re quick with the insults. Keep it classy. I can think of another example off the top of my head: Fox News -> Disney -> Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street (edit (I looked it up): the top institutional shareholders).
So whose preferences should policy reflect? NGO presidents? Tech company employees in gatekeeper positions? Editorial column writers? Why these people and not the public? What gives them the right to rule?
Neat. I think Rust even today basically is good enough to almost never touch c++ again. The strengths outmatch the weaknesses significantly and you end up at a significantly higher output velocity because the software is more stable and higher quality.

> I didn't mean it as derogatory at all actually, more a matter of it's being pushed to developers that have never used a systems level language and had to deal with the types of algorithms at the systems level, and actually most of them can even do it because the abstractions are great. But those same developers can't see how those abstractions could be implemented and wouldn't know where to look.

While there are certainly people who came to Rust from higher languages and Rust’s safety guarantees makes system- level programming more accessible, the language authors and many early users are very clearly systems engineers and understand the space. That’s why noalias is such a critical part of the language and it turned out that LLVM implemented that incorrectly in a bunch of places because no c++ code actually exercised that attribute all that much (and the noalias is a good chunk of the reason why a straight port of c/c++ code often ends up performing slightly better). Rust is the first language I’ve seen where I’d feel comfortable designing a high performance system and then having someone with a web background also contributing without creating all sorts of problems. That’s why network just is impossible in c++
Yeah it'd be cool to consider this approach for some other domains. Sometime soon I'll make it so you can change the word in the top-left from "INVOICE" to "QUOTE" or "RECEIPT". The nice thing about an invoice is you know there's going to be a relatively small amount of data, so storing the state in the URL is a plausible approach (even if it looks obscene to discerning users ).
> Personally, I kind of pitied the non-STEM students.

The only time I've had this opinion is when I was younger and conceited, holding onto an attitude that they're all wasting their money, probably fueled by envy.

Although there are moments—largely driven by other aspects of bureaucracy—where I wish I'd completed my bachelors, I'm quite happy in retrospect that I instead chose a bunch of random off-topic interesting humanities courses and non-cs-stem stuff, some of which I failed for inane reasons. Aside from a few moments in data structures and algorithms, I barely remember anything from the CS courses, they were unbelievably dull and poorly structured. In one case I believe I got nearly 100% on all the homework but failed both exams because I just kind of zoned out and wasn't driven to write java by hand for 2+ hours, which generally shocked the profs because I was typically the most engaged, personable, and probably older than everyone else by like 4 years.
I'm working on the next release of Cyphernetes. It's a query language for Kubernetes that allows doing most complex k8s management operations in a much more compact and concise form (compared to writing shell scripts, using jsonpath+jq, nested kubectl, writing API code etc.).
Recently merged a visual overhaul to the Cyphernetes web UI and now working on adding support for ORDER BY, LIMIT and SKIP to the language.

Github: https://github.com/AvitalTamir/cyphernetes
I wish we made more efforts to check air quality. I went to a great school, and the water filter hadnt been replaced since 2005 (it was 2012 at the time, and filters were supposed to be replaced every 6 months). My point is people take it for granted that air quality or water quality in the US is great, but if we checked, I bet most of us are exposed to cancerous materials all the time that could be easily prevented (the water stations rn are made of plastic (PVC), which leaches in the water over time and leads to nanoplastics accumulating in all of us. Easily prevented through more expensive steel pipes). Hell, my office had asbestos in the ceiling that was painted over! It sucks we lack regulation, as I do not believe it is my job to check these things and report them, and I got tired of it. Given the EPA is lacking funds, it is imperative all of us do due diligence so our children do not experience the cancer rates that are ravaging us (our cancer rates are 30% higher than Europe once you rule out lung cancer, which is a result of their smoking habits. The europeans love their cigs).
How to simplify nested SQL in applications with esProc
The transactional nature hasn’t always been the same, though. It hasn’t always been that way, or at least the nature of the transaction has changed. Decades ago, surveys showed the predominant reason people went to college was “to develop a philosophy for life”. Now the main reason is “to get a good job.”
> society internalizes that it’s okay for a CEO’s actions to cause the deaths of thousands

How did they kill thousands? Insurance companies doesn't determine your treatment, doctors do. If you mean they deny some optional treatments, that is what socialized healthcare has to do as well, are you saying European politicians are also the cause of thousands of deaths since they deny some expensive treatments that could save lives, and thus should be killed?
I’m less concerned about logistic chaos and more concerned about them harvesting information to feed CCP AI war machines.
Critical thinking and skepticism are good, but much of what happens on HN is not that.

Thinking critically includes, most of all, finding value - you need to think critically (and skeptically) to avoid assigning value to things that don't have it, but you must find value. The goal is to build knowledge - just like the study author needs to find knowledge among flawed data, you must find knowledge among flawed studies - and they are all flawed, of course.

Focusing on the flaws and trying to shoot down everything is just craven recreation.
I clicked because I have strong opinions about calorie-tracking apps (just since I've tried all of the major ones and know what features I like). I'm impressed! Love the UI.
This time they have the 22nd amendment on their side. The law is crystal clear. He would need SCOTUS to ignore the constitution in his favour.

Many people think that the conservative majority on the court would automatically side with him and rubber-stamp his candidacy. I highly doubt that. He has already been publicly repudiated by Roberts (chief justice nominated by GW Bush) for his attacks on federal courts [1]. I am confident Roberts would not support any attempt by Trump to ignore the 22nd amendment.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/18/john-roberts-donald...
I had thought about it, but I found that in practice that the majority of applications I send out wind up in the 'Applied' state and don't get much further, leading to a large list in a narrow swim lane.

That and I am able to customize the flow of applications, and the number of swim lanes would be a bit messy. I have my app setup to track interviews, phone screens, take home assignments, and many more.

I found that a smart sorting algorithm is best for displaying the applications.

But its still early days of the app, possibly someday.
Every video that has been broadcast has been edited I'm not sure what your point is.
What are coupon websites / you can get free coupons from them(?)
What's even worse is when you catch someone copying from the questions instead of the answers!
Seriously? The video is all that matters, not the article...

>we don't know wha tthat woman did.

All she did was write a piece against israel, and either way, her due process was violated, which is the problem here. She was not charged with any crimes... How are you seriously hung up on the video source when there's a video of masked, plain clothes federal agents "arresting" a random PhD student with no warrant, and no crimes committed?

Frightening barometer reading for this community that this is what you focus on...
That doesn't tell us about the proportion of spies in the population.
I can think of two potential solutions:

Single payer healthcare. At least governments are (at least somewhat) accountable to the people.

Progressive wealth taxes. It's possible that the only solution is for CEOs to be accountable to the general public. Currently, their wealth insulates them from normal methods of holding them accountable (e.g. loss of social standing, stores refusing to do business with them, etc.) so people turn to methods like shooting them. Perhaps if taxation made them more accountable then people would have other methods available.
Same as last month (no update). Any insight would be awesome!

I’ve deleted all my social media apps. I’m trying to see what’s missing in my life in terms of interacting with friends and family and trying to build it.
Am I parsing this wrong? The perception is that Americans have _never_ worked hard to graduate successfully, including in the '80s. We were supposed to get beat by our Japanese betters because they were so studious!
It’s possible use after free isn’t actually possible because Rust’s ownership system lets you express lifetimes that the compiler enforces (or you enforce it at runtime yourself).

But handles aren’t uncommon even in c/c++ - it’s nothing to do with the language and more how the author thinks the particular problem domain is best modeled.
What happens when China offers more per person then?
I guess you didn't read to the line where it says

> two massive data releases are tabled for around 2026 and the end of this decade, respectively.
Well, if you look at it from the perspective of faithless reporting like that from Fox News and Newsmax, the information pipeline has been selling a narrative that the left has been on an authoritarian tear since Obama. The newscasts are chilling: every one of them for more than two decades has taken a position that the left is an existential threat to the United States.

With that kind of context, it's really no wonder there's support from the right for an authoritarian leader. They honestly just think they're playing the democrats game and playing it better.

It _is_ a bit odd there's a complete lack of reflection on some of these moves though, but I suppose so long as the current executive branch veers away from changing the second amendment and manages to carve out enough exceptions for their most ardent supporters, all's good from their standpoint.
I agree on eraser being superior.

I have an even weirder example from Russian language: file, folder and pocket are 3 out of dozen different words being used to describe a plastic envelope for documents in various regions and people don't understand each other. I remember only one more.
Nice work, this looks better than the established players in this space! You've got some customisation options in yours that I'd love to implement in mine as soon as time permits. Huge props for not forcing people to sign up for an account to use it!
I’m working on a live voice chat for settling rule disputes during tabletop gaming. It uses OpenAI’s realtime API to allow anyone to call in a “ref”, trained on the rules of the games, to answer questions about the rules.
If you want to experience it again, they re-released the final version awhile back; they've got emulators for both the mainframe and terminals.

https://codex.retro1.org/plato:operation.r1:installing
Yes, silly gas company, should just tell the local schools to open the windows and let the natural gas in.

You have heard of air pollution, I assume. Some schools are in places that regularly have polluted air.
I am working on Navi, an open source digital twin that helps you review the digital notes you've taken in the past week:

https://github.com/Melvillian/navi

Checkout out the README; it gives you a straightforward idea of how Navi works. Currently only works for Notion, but the idea is to make any notetaking tool (Obsidian, Evernote, Google docs, etc...) be ingestable by Navi.

Next steps are to make an SRS plugin, and to make a HTMX-based website so it's useable beyond just the CLI.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy

The thing about MLK, is that he existed as a backdrop to more violent alternatives. He is celebrated for being the better of those options, but when companies are not willing to negotiate with the nicer option, eventually they will make the violent one inevitable.

Additionally, I think the thing people get wrong about the "Luigi as martyr figure" is that UHC is itself a violent organization responsible for many deaths. When you project that you are only able to listen to "profits" and people don't have any way to provide feedback via "profits" to you, then they're going to look for other kinds of speech. And unfortunately, this kind of speech was made clear to work (see insurance companies sitting up and fixing a couple of the policies they had in the pipeline as a result of this action, and people's response to the UHC CEO being not negative).

I don't like this direction we're headed in, but I'd be lying if I said I saw other ways to make headway here. Especially given the current administration's interest in regulation.
I don't think Watson/Crick vs. Pauling rose to the same level of animosity as this did. I'm not familiar with "Candlin", who was he/she? Or did you mean Franklin?

I think Newton vs. Leibniz would be a good comparison for the rivalry described in The Nobel Duel.
I have been working on Hostup, with which I recently got accepted into Antler's residency program.

It's currently an upsell management and fulfillment platform built for hosts and property managers who list on Airbnb, Booking.com, and other travel websites. My goal is to make staying at Airbnbs as great as staying at a hotel (without the downsides) by building experiences for guests.

This currently includes the ability for the hosts to offer things like meal plans, at-home massages, etc. In the future, it will help them offer a faster check-in process, make personal recommendations, add interactive guides, and maybe even neighbourhood treasure hunts that involve other travelers.

[1] https://hostup.ae
[2] https://antler.co
We started with algorithm analysis freshman year CS, in the early 90s. It’s not too difficult for simple algorithms like bubble sort

Exams we would have to write code, or predict the results of code or spot bugs

My teacher was a bit of a dick and would sometimes intentionally leave out a brace. Therefore “does not compile” was sometimes a valid answer :-)
> The top 100k university students

Can you tell me which universities these students go to, or other attributes about them?
> dangerously productive

As in SIGSEGV dangerous? C is a language so simple that together with the lack of libraries it'll drag you down to problems you were not going to stumble into in most alternatives.

Sure, eventually you'll get your own scars and learn the hard way lessons that will stick and give you better intuition on how things work, but I don't feel there's need to keep using C these days beyond learning and doing specific low level stuff.
I wish there was more data on the effects of gasses in the air on people.

We seem to know:

- Elevated CO2 in rooms impairs cognitive performance.

- Elevated CO2 in submarines, at levels far higher than you would see in a normal room does not appear to impact cognitive performance.

- Installing carbon filters (what this study actually looked at) might improve classroom performance.

- People don’t like stuffy rooms.

All this is consistent with multiple hypotheses. It could be that we just don’t know anything about it. Or maybe there is some gas or gasses emitted by people that isn’t CO2 that makes people mildly uncomfortable and have worse cognitive performance.

CO2 is certainly a good proxy for ventilation quality in a space where air is exchanged with outdoors but where the gasses in the air are not otherwise changed. Carbon-filtered classrooms and submarines are not examples of this.
Was it this system? I used these terminals at U of Illinois in the late 80's, but I only remember using them to take my physics tests. I don't remember ever using them for studying or interactive learning.

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/magazine/plato
I noticed this too
I'm sure the average college student will know when the helpful LLM is hallucinating, misrepresenting or stating outdated material as factually accurate today, right?
Right, but it's what their news outlets tell them is going on. They fully believed Kamala was a threat to their gun ownership, and her race and gender (let's face it) was a threat to their ego.
How the Democrats went from having an excited and involved Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard in 2016, to pushing to re-elect a cognitively-impaired 80 year old in 2024 would make for an interesting expose, that's for sure.
I meant to simply imply: “more than one might commonly assume”