skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet theory is this is why adults stagnate while child seem to be sponges.

Children will repeat / re-enact things (and just try stuff in general) while adults are too stubborn about looking foolish.
Meta comment but … I find the title of “What to do” vs. “What should one do” (topic first sentence) to mean two slightly different things.
Trump the person or Trump the family or even Trump the idea.
> Nowhere in your quote does it say it only applies to government.

> It only says that government won't make laws restricting it.

These are the same thing. Further, private corporations have editorial control over what they allow in their publications or on their platforms which is also free speech. Or are you suggesting that the New York Times is required by The First Amendment to publish every letter it receives? That a website is required to leave scam comments or spam up? The no corporate owned platform can moderate in any way?
Notably 23andme is, at least said to have been, already sold:
https://cacm.acm.org/news/multiple-data-leaks-at-23andme/

Specifically there were those hacks a year or two back where a hacker named "Golem" publicized hacked data, I believe Sergey Brin or Larry Page and various others were in there. That was just HLA typing from what I saw (not the whole set of SNPs)

Separately, as listed in the source above, it was said 300 TB of 23andme data was leaked through a hole in the pharma API, sold on the darknet to an Iranian guy, never to be heard from again
Thanks! I think it was, though the hug was gentle, haha.
Regarding civic duty, I would start by “being civil with your fellow citizens”. The irony is not lost on me.

Edit: To be clear, my comment is not aimed at you. I mean we’re missing the A in the ABCs of civic duty. It’s each person for themselves.
I'd be interested to know how popular foldables are among HN readership. I myself have a Motorola Razr+ that I quite enjoy.
> Would it target unsympathetic CEOs in other industries?

Industries that are essential to living, sure. I think the health insurance industry is so egregious is because you PAY them money and they DENY you health care.

It evokes a very strong response, because it can clearly be interpreted as theft.

I can't imagine a comparable scenario in e.g. grocery industry where you'd pay for something in a grocery store and get nothing for it.
> What has changed exactly? Chronic absenteeism. As a friend in Sociology put it, “Attendance is a HUGE problem—many just treat class as optional.” Last semester across all sections, my average student missed two weeks of class.

I graduated from college in 2001 and the above was true back then too so not sure why the author is making this seem like a new thing.

e.g. for CompSci classes at Rutgers back then:

- First week of class: no open seats in a giant lecture hall

- Halfway through semester: about 50% of people were showing up

- 3/4 of semester: I distinctly remember there being ~10 of us in a lecture hall able to hold 100 people and someone asking "where is everybody??"

- Final exam: lecture hall 90% full with people taking the final
You might have an interest in this: https://globalcomment.com/how-to-defeat-an-autocrat-flocking...
You said you didn't know what to do, so some ideas to start the ideas flowing for you:

- support media, particularly local.

- there are protests to attend if that's your thing. Tesla takedown is one set that's getting a lot of traction. (Note: these are peaceful protests; don't hurt people's cars). There's a broad "hands off" protest April 5, as another example.

- build and stay in touch with community.

- encourage others to do the same. Can you get folks to move off Twitter? Get some web site you're associated with to replace their twitter share icon with a masto/bsky one? Get folks to make a plan to vote in the next election? To themselves support local media or organizations? Perhaps to run for school board or other local office?
> third of young people aren't flat Earthers

Just about!

“4 percent of the 18- to 24-year-old age group said they actually believe the world is flat. Rather, there seem to be a relatively large number in this age group who are willing to entertain doubts: 9 percent said they had always believed the world was round but were recently having doubts, 5 percent said they had always believed the world was flat but were becoming skeptical of that conclusion and 16 percent just weren't sure” [1].

[1] https://www.livescience.com/62220-millennials-flat-earth-bel...
And how is that attacking the problems that led here?
> The difference between this and a real dictatorship is the courts. If we lose that, we're in trouble.

Trump admin has ignored judge's orders regarding deportation.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-admin-ignores-judges-order-b...
I have done similar for a few customers. I have found that useful pattern is to have both raw queues (incoming data) and clean queue (outgoing data). Outgoing data in single queue only (so all changes are ordered, so we avoid eventual consistency) that has well-defined data model (custom DSL for defining it) and tables/REST api that corresponds 1-to-1 to the data model. Then we need mappings from raw queues to the clean queue.
It makes people on this site uncomfortable because they are seeing that while they build their AI powered debt collectors and insurance denier startups, the general public would celebrate them being shot.
Stream processing/materialization engine written in rust that can be compiled to wasm.

Graffiti art.
You do you. Continue to vote, and if you can find a local cause that you can give time and attention to, do that. If you can find some small way you can help people who are affected, do that. Subscribe to news sources you trust and think are shining a light on the right things. Maybe setup small donations to candidates you think are pushing the country in the right direction. Not everyone needs to fight every fight.
We are already long past the point of no return. He is the manifestation of a popular will. Even if he vanished tomorrow, those voters will remain.

They will not be daunted by an electoral setback. They control the Supreme Court, and will for decades. They control a majority of state legislatures -- which control how voting and districting work.

We've been past the point of no return since 2016. If you still had hope then, it should have died the same day Ruth Bader Ginsburg did. At this point it's all just telling ourselves fairy stories. It gets monotonically worse from here, and there is no longer anything we can do about it.
It was added back in 2022, when it was still official. This project is just not very active anymore. https://gitdab.com/cadence/breezewiki/commit/8b200d621ab6fa4...
If anything, schools able to implement air filtration and fresh air exchanges systems are likely those flush with cash and supportive parents.
A JVM written in go. [0] We're committed to a high-quality implementation that works reliably--so our test code is > 2.x the size of our production code. We can already run lots of classes, but the finished product won't be ready for alpha testing until, we hope!, end of this year.

[0] jacobin.org
For me it was extracting the most value for the money, which meant getting the best possible education within the boundaries of the degree. This involved taking graduate courses and substituting them for undergrad to get more of a challenge, taking more math courses both undergrad and graduate (I was a CS major), etc. Yes ultimately I was paying for a piece of paper, but when you're paying $15k/yr I wanted to be damn sure it was money well spent, and to this day I still feel shortchanged.
Ventilation and air purification have a strongly theoretical basis and there have been real-world studies showing a clear benefit.

https://cleanaircrew.org/

https://www.cleanairschools.com.au/
The paper is here: https://edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/Gilraine_Air...

I didn't see the model specified. They also said some schools got carbon filters, which is a different type of filter.

There's footnote saying many filters weren't even installed because some teachers thought they made the air "too dry", which is major placebo effect at work (air purifiers don't extract moisture from the air).

The entire paper is really not good quality, to be honest.

You can get a small HEPA purifier for a single room to remove particulates. The size of the filter, noise level, and amount of air moved are things to look for. Stepping up to activated carbon would remove VOCs, but cost significantly more (see IQAir, Austin Air, but ignore the cheap models that don't have 10-20lbs or more of activated carbon).
ICE is not the FBI. They aren't even in the same part of the federal bureaucracy (HomeSec vs DOJ). So it would behoove you not to conflate ICE's recent actions with the FBI's recent actions.
Reliability is a commodity these days, and we don't use Google services.

Apparently, ubiquitous surveillance is acceptable to you. Not an uncommon stance, but I'd never recommend it to others. It's a disservice when freedom and privacy respecting choices, that are just as reliable, already exist.
He can't run again.
It's interesting times when one finds oneself an unlikely supporter of the second amendment.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-new...

Everyone should at least watch this video. Taken in America. "Land of the free."

That this is only one of many such videos is terrifying if you know the history of fascist regimes.

I hope everyone here is familiar with the "first they came for the communists..." poem.
> what is painful to set up with C toolchains?

This reads remarkably tongue-in-cheek, especially when combined with the "dangerously productive" remark a bit later, but: navigating the maze that is picking a C runtime, a libc implementation, a compiler or potentially compiler frontend and backend, a linker, a build tool, a dependency manager, and then figuring out the linking, figuring out the dependency management, figuring out the building process, tackling version control crap (setting up submodules) if needed, then rinse repeat for every single project ever. And if you're targeting not just *nix, but also platforms people actually use (Windows), then this gets especially nasty.

Not your project? Well then you get the chance of taking a deep dive into a random assortment of these, taking up however much of your time. Or you'll just try building it and squash errors as they come. Such a great and sane toolchain and workflow.

All of this is of course completely excluding the very real factor of even knowing about these things, since being even slightly confused about this stuff is an immediate ticket to hours of research on various internet forums to even get to know what it is that you don't know - provided you don't just get sick of all this crap and move on to some other toolchain instead, or start the rote reproduction of some random dood's shitty guide, with the usual outcomes.
Regarding people not reading books:

My first semester of business school, I realized I opened only half of the books/packets I was told to buy.

I made a decision to see if I could do the next 3 semesters without buying any books or packets.

I think I needed a book once or twice for some specific homework assignments. For the packets, I even took an Ethics in Business class where every week you were supposed to read a case to prepare for class discussion. I would just listen to folks make points for the first 15 minutes, figure out what the case was about and then make a new point based on that. Professor even wrote in my class feedback "you always have a good insight to bring to class discussions."

I mention this to point out that a lot of emphasis is put on textbooks that either:

- the professor doesn't even use but is required to select (one professor stated this explicitly)

- are considered "great!" by the professor but awful at teaching the material

- are pretty good but duplicate what is in the lectures.
As best I can tell, the simplest way to fight back via legal channels sans unlimited legal budget is to run for office. Like I’m seriously trying to figure out if that’s a sane option for me despite my total disregard and distrust of authority. Also my distinctly aggressive distaste for bullies, traditions or bullshit.
Can you time line that out for me? I didn't follow those events too closely but what you're saying doesn't really line up with how I remember them.
Run for office and aggressively fight back.
Zeropod – pod that scales down to zero
Which bits do you think are wrong?
While Oka itself claims to be free of the systematic bias of Wikipedia, how can you be so sure that Oka itself is not free of systematic bias, even if it tries to be as public and transparent as possible?

So unfortunately, even if Oka claims to be doing for the good, I still see it somewhat as a political group, even if our values are aligned, and thus, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who will watch the watchmen?)
Sure, but is that actually doing something?

This isn't meant to be passive aggressive; presumably if you're advertising it, you're doing more than "just being a member", I'm just curious what that is.
Food for thought: elimination of basic rights impacts all citizens regardless of their political affiliation.
Sure, and making the grade often has nothing to do with getting the job (e.g. just because you have a CS degree doesn't mean you're a shoe-in for that dev job you applied to). But since tests and degrees are simply indicators, not absolute proof, that you're qualified, people fudge tend to things every step of the way; it's turtles all the way down.
Eh. The FBI has made mistakes w/ unsubstantiated espionage accusations even during the last administration, and I have severe doubts that this one is less trigger happy.
What would that class be like if no one made an effort to read and study the material though? Just a brag?
Higher does not necessarily mean better. Higher grade filters filter more in each pass, but can overall provide worse performance as the air flow rate goes down. The air is being recirculated in a portable unit or in a standard domestic ducted heating/cooling situation.
> The Navy isn’t constrained by economics

And solar less so than nuclear. Nuclear receives only ~1-3% of energy subsidies in the US [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies_in_the_United...
> I wrote the textbook for a course I regularly teach.

> I believe they didn’t buy the books, but I’m skeptical that cost is the true reason, as opposed to just the excuse they offer.

> All texts combined for one of my courses is between $35-$100 and they still don’t buy them.

How about don't charge for the material you present in your course? That is scumbag behavior to teach a course and require your students to buy books you stand to profit from.
If a different party did the same thing it would be the same.
I just did some benchmarks of this!

Linux in general provides the same speed for pure CPU workloads like generating JSON or HTML responses.

Some I/O operations run about 20% better, especially for small files.

One killer for us was that the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient is 7x slower on Linux and 10x slower on Linux with Docker compared to a plain Windows VM!

That has a net 2x slowdown effect for our applications which completely wipes out the licensing cost benefit when hosted in Azure.

Other database clients have different performance characteristics. Many users have reported that PostgreSQL is consistent across Windows and Linux.
We don't really have to look for an explanation. The author says it, pure and clear.

"It’s the phones, stupid"

That's it. Every other variable, including the transactional nature of acquiring a middle class job, has stayed the same. People are just getting dumber [1], and the phones are causing this drop.

I am as tech forward as the next person. I think AI deserves the time to figure out what it is. But the phones have basically shown us where all their negatives and positives are. Time to regulate, get the phones out of the schools. If you're in one of these states [2] get behind the active legislation, if not, start it!

[1]: https://theweek.com/science/have-we-reached-peak-cognition

[2]: https://apnews.com/article/school-cell-phone-bans-states-e6d...
You say that now. Every system designed to protect the constitution has been captured by him.

America has 4 years to set things right, it had better make it count.
How was my response uncivil? Your reply is bad faith because it provides no evidence.
Who reads his blog posts like these? Okay, I'd try to frame it this way - who does he write his blog posts for? No, I am not trying to say he mustn't, but I am just curious because it's hn and he is, like what, founder of hn or creator or so (?); and whenever one of his blog posts is posted here, it gains a lot of traction. I find them really sterile, trite, and filled with basic abstracts and attempted philosophy. Oh, by the way people love to call it "essays" here, not blog posts - oh no, no - "essays" it is. I see brilliant blog posts posted here on hn and they don't even make more than few comments which can be counted on a single palm (palm as if on human hand, not the device) and then his posts just get comments after comments. What intrigues me is a lot of those comments are just trying to guesstimate, assume, interpret on his behalf what he tried to say - like when you stare at an art piece in a museum, which is just three straight lines and a dot on an otherwise blank canvas, you hear someone explain to someone else few feet away - how that art captures the sublime, infinity, futility of life, and concision, among other heavy worded things, at the same time.

So, these posts err.. essays.. of his are pieces of abstract textual art that arrive here to be interpreted by commenters and also for admiration and mandatory vc adulation (maybe)?

Or maybe since he is rich now and is influential in making other people rich, lots of them actually, he gets to post whatever it is and also gets to make them gain traction. Yeah, this makes sense. Of course.

Or maybe I am from the crowd that doesn't understand modern art of making money at all; obviously.
From the interview:

> “There are methods which you could do it,” the president said when asked whether there are strategies on the table to allow him to seek another term. Welker mentioned a possible plan in which Vice President JD Vance would run in 2028 and then “pass the baton” to Trump. “Well, that’s one. But there are others too,” the president said, before refusing to elaborate.

The other method of course, is to not have an election at all! Why risk losing?

Anyone who thinks there is going to be a presidential election in 2028 hasn't been paying attention. There is no way Trump is going to that risk. He doesn't have to. All checks and balances have been suppressed already.
In case it's useful, there are three official monthly threads HN about jobs. They will be posted again tomorrow Tuesday. Perhaps you can post in one of the threads and take a look of at the others.

If can peek last month edition (read onlu now) or wait and see the new ones in https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

PS: Do yo have a blog with some of your projects? A followup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42426726 would be nice to read.
Keep watching. He's got close to 4 years to figure out how to cross that Rubicon.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted, he is openly stating he plans to try to violate the 22nd amendment of the Constitution[1].

If you think that can't happen, think about this: the Constitution already prohibited him from running as an insurrectionist. Multiple states found that he committed insurrection and the US Supreme Court forced him on their ballots anyway. The reason: they assert that the amendment isn't self-enforcing, and congress must proactively write a law in order to create enforcement measures for the 14th amendment's prohibition on insurrectionists. They didn't, so he was allowed to run and take office.

That same logical jiu-jitsu the GOP used to successfully violate the 14th amendment could just as easily be used on the 22nd.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-third-term-president-con...
There are reasons things evolved as they did. Societies with forms of social cohesion beat those without. Maybe it's different now but then again, maybe it's not.
MERV 13's are optimal for particle removal because compared to a HEPA some of the removal requires multiple passes but the filters are a lot less restrictive and allow higher airflow. Corsi and Rosenthal looked into this with the CR box and came to the conclusion its technically faster at clearing a room than using HEPA standard filters. For infections and damaging PM2.5 particles mechanical filtration with MERV13 is the best you are going to get.

You could also add potentially get a HEPA with a carbon filter which will get rid of volatile organic compounds which can also be damaging (but also just be the smell of food) but they don't tend to be as effective and depending on the mix of VOCs verses particles one filter may run out before the other and carbon really doesn't capture all that much or well. It is a good way to get rid of smell at least for a while.

There is a whole world of different standards for filtration for industrial and hazard chemicals which the FFP2/3 and N95 standards for Personal Protective Equipment respirators will lead you into if you want to go into that rabbit hole, but for a household typically its mostlt about Particulate matter, Volatile organic compounds and CO2. CO2 is about bringing in fresh air from outside.

Then when outside of the household N95/99 or FFP2/3 respitators do the same job in unclean air environments which is basically everywhere, outside or indoors in public places pretty much never meet the World Health Organisations levels for PM2.5 and often exceed CO2 (a proxy for re-breathing and a high change of viral infection spread) standards too.
To be fair to my analogy, both ICE and Jet engines need high RPMs too, and pull power but not on the same level.

Browsers layout and rendering will have some elements similar to that of a game, but it isn't on the same level. A game can usually assume that it's trusted to run that shader, in a browser that's a vector for attack. Security design will impact game engines and browsers differently.

Granted, people are doing their darnedest to make games in the lowest common denominator technology, i.e. Electron.
I think this is a foolish belief.

> The third presidential term of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on January 20, 1941, when he was once again inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and the fourth term of his presidency ended with his death on April 12, 1945

There's already precedent.
what a domain name. and the name is spelled differently in the domain's logo :D
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-third-t...
I agree but he doesn’t and neither do his voters.
If you don't want to wait till they get to the comments here they are

https://archive.ph/9RALs

>seize control of the lightcone forever.
See the group Run For Something, who are actively helping people do this. https://runforsomething.net/run/
Can you please rephrase that, I find the sensory experience overwhelming.
Trump is elected and everybody suddenly start caring about civil rights
I can't respond to any specifics of the documentary, but it looks to me like the universities themselves are the biggest cultivators of this perception, with the goal of increased enrollment.

If a college degree wasn't so important in the job market, do you think there we'd be handing out even 1% of the ones there are today? Sounds like a recipe for a lot of unemployed professors.
I didn't conflate anything. I said ICE and others, because these things are not limited to either ICE or the FBI or this current specific incident.

And as long as we're presuming to correct each others reading comprehension, this comment was in fact in response to a comment about staying calm in the face of ICE actions.
Lemma/Proposition/Theorem, which one should we pick?