skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The two major political parties fundamentally realigned during the civil rights era of the 1960s.

> This is an incorrect analysis looking at the wrong causal factor (civil rights rather than economics).

Boy, is THAT ever a contrarian take, verging dangerously close to crank theory. Economics was distinctly in third place as a factor in the political parties' realignment. In first- and second places were the Vietnam War (nationwide) and civil rights (in the South, with race riots and black militarism being a factor nationally).

1. VIETNAM: I came of age during that era. I was very politically aware. My family on both sides had been Democrats for decades. Most of my family switched to the GOP in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their main driver was dislike for the Vietnam War protestors (and for race rioters).

Most of my family regarded support for the government's war policy as a patriotic duty, even if they happened to harbor doubts about the merits of specific policies. That was true during both the LBJ and Nixon administrations. (The men on both sides of my extended family were pretty much all veterans, from WWII, Korea, and/or the Cold War.)

2. CIVIL RIGHTS: I grew up in various southern states during the 1960s and early 1970s (my dad was military, we moved around). You need to read up on the GOP's so-called Southern Strategy, starting with Nixon's courting of George Wallace voters and continuing with Reagan's dog-whistle support for "states rights," Lee Atwater and the Willie Horton campaign ad for GHW Bush, etc.

A signature moment was when arch-segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond switched from being a southern Democrat to the GOP — and was welcomed. Sure, other reasons were cited for these switches, but those were mostly window dressing.

The race riots of the mid- to late 1970s, and the publicity attending the Black Panthers, were also a factor in my extended family's switch to the party of "law and order" (the GOP). Example: During the rioting after MLK's assassination in 1968, my dad carried a .45 pistol on his commute to work in downtown Washington D.C. And in our suburban Maryland neighborhood — populated largely by military, CIA, Air America, etc. — my dad and other men on the block loaded up their hunting rifles, put them close to the front door, and gave us kids strict instructions not to touch them. They did that because of rumors that carloads of black rioters were roaring down the streets in white neighborhoods, throwing Molotov cocktails. (That certainly never happened in our neighborhood — or anywhere, AFAICR.) My family members weren't racist, but they regarded obeying the law as paramount.
> And even variations of the small things: are keys copied or not!

Yeah, or if duplicates are allowed or not, initial size, load factor, and so forth.
I'm sorry, on the Blockchain we don't recognize legacy concepts like dead-tree nation state laws or ancient superstitions purporting to define morality. The future is all about registering ownership information in digital ledgers.

If you wanted to retain control of your keys, you should have encoded them in a secure, nonfungible image of monkey on the Ethereum Blockchain. That way, everyone would know those keys belonged to you.
Original discussion thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614
> With states pushing to revoke things like no fault divorce [...] Then add the strongly religious connotations marriage has in the US

Yeah, sorry about that. My comment kind of assumed living in a modern western country where women still have choice and religion doesn't run the country, but of course many here are in the US, so should have been a bit more specific.
European VAT is significantly higher than any US sales tax, reaching as high as 25% or more. Also, foreign manufacturers do not get any VAT credits.

Also, every person in the US can import goods to a value of $800 per day without having to pay any duties. In Europe you have much less generous rules, and sometimes the limit is €0.
I like to quickly at a glance be able to distinguish between "this is a member access on an object" and "this is referencing something in a module".

I like that the compiler can distinguish those two things too, so that I can refer to things within modules even if I happen to also have a local variable with the same name. Go sometimes annoys me because I need to rename a module or a variable just because the syntax doesn't distinguish between the two things.
Intel have fabs in the US, Israel and Asia. So it depends.
Skype is retiring in May 2025
If the past decade is any indication, nothing has stopped the long list of cancelled right wing grifters, racists, and various other flavors of fools and bigots from finding gainful employment and signal boosting and platforming among like-minded people who do exercise their right to associate with them, despite their behavior.

For (allegedly) being so persecuted and silenced, it's weird how so many of them have so much more power, reach, and wealth than ever before.

Perhaps getting booed at in the last college campus they held a rally at is not quite the yellow star, or the mark of Cain that they convinced you it is.
For illegal good behaviour, see Aaron Swartz
Yes, that makes much more sense.
Any idea what the motivation could be?
Show HN: Be There: The First Event Planner Built for Slack
The voice of reason, but no amount of reason can dissuade anybody from believing what they want to believe.
Well, when it comes to conflating, I'll take your calling Israel a terror state as a standard: The democratically elected government of Gaza-Palestine is the Hamas, which is a terrorist organisation. Thus by your conflation regarding Israel to be a terror state, the Gaza strip part of Palestine is as well. Its population chose a known terrorist organisation, everything is run by a terrorist organisation, they did terrorist things such as bombings, abductions and murders of innocent civilians. Thus (Gaza-)Palestine is therefore a terror state. Supporting it is therefore supporting terrorism.

Thus either you apply your conflating standard equally, Palestine and Israel are both terror states, and any support of them is supporting terrorism. Or you rather differentiate, and separate Palestine as an abstract concept of a hypothetical future homestead of the Palestinians from the Hamas, the Fatah and other (mostly terrorist) organisations that govern it, and the population that, in parts, is governed by them and elects and supports or opposes them and their actions. But if you do that, you will also have to differentiate between Israel as a state, its military, government, parties, population and their respective support and actions.

In that second case you can support Palestine as an abstract idea without supporting terrorism, you can support the population and their rights, hopes and struggle. As you can do with Israel and their people. However, on pro-Palestine protests, I've never really seen this kind of differentiation applied, I've seen far too many Hamas flags, heard far too many calls to wipe Israel from the map, far too many praises for terrorists (called "martyrs"). Thus, in practically all cases, I'd without hesitation call supporters of Palestine supporters of terrorism.
How will things be for the US if China and the rest of the world reduce tariffs for each other?

Trade will be less centered around the US and US products and services will take on less importance.

Yes, other countries will be hurt. Some will be hurt more. Seems like the US will come out worse than the average country.

Am I seeing this right?
Thanks a lot for the review you did which was much more than i requested. i noted all the 4 comments you did to apply on the package. Thanks again.
Also currently we have Laravel backend and Laravel + Redis + Horizon [0] + Supervisor as a queue runner for our production and it's working fine for us. but would be great to can access Hatchet from php as well which we might switch in future as well.
Another thing since you mentioned handling large work load do you recommend Hatchet as kafka or Rabbit message queue alternative to microservice communications ?

[0] https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/horizon
> the idea behind "28 Days Later" was that everyone got a cancer vaccine and turned into zombies

This was not in the movie at all. It was the extremely contagious "rage" virus, inadvertently released by animal rights activists.
IMO the main difference between downstroke and alternate picking is that at the same tempo downstroke will have 2 times shorter attack, because the player will have to move their hand 2 times faster.
Same argument can be said for not using any tooling really. "Tech is the easy part". No difference typing code on notepad and having zero process/engineering infrastructure I guess. Because stakeholder management is the main engineering skill apparently.

Btw, AI doesn't just code, there are AIs for debugging, monitoring etc too.
What's funny is the tariffs announced a couple day sago explicitly excluded semi conductors and pharmaceuticals. We are literally about to tariff t-shirts but not those more strategic industries.
>> the US is not the ultimate global hegemon anymore

The hegemon concept is also out of date. World trade is not dominated by countries but by multinationals. For instance, there are no real "US" car companies. There are a handful of huge conglomerates who can choose to operate wherever best suits their needs. These respond to edicts from individual countries but operate at a level above nation states.

This is why international cooperation on things like taxation or environmental protection is so important. And it is why petty bickering by individual nations will be so damaging.
True, though at least with drugs if there's a shortage compounding pharmacies are given broad freedom outside the patent holder's control. See semaglutide.
I know it was just an example, but https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... definitely stopped me doing separate first and last name columns.
Ah, for more a DIY approach, if you have an arduino and/or some basic components laying around, connecting a USB port that can do MIDI (or a DIN MIDI port) together with an Arduino or similar platform and some pots/buttons shouldn't be that hard and also there is a ton of resources online for building just that.

Just Hackaday have 45 articles on the subject of "MIDI Controller" :) https://hackaday.com/tag/midi-controller/
I bet the downvotes are done by people who have absolutely no need to take any medications, or have no clue what it is like to be called a junkie for the rest of your life for taking medications that were prescribed to begin with.

Or if not, then what, is it not true that both substances and AI can be used responsibly, and irresponsibly?

"People is why we can't have anything nice. It sucks." is also true, applies to many things, just consider vending machines alone, or bags in public (for dog poop) and anything of the sort. We no longer have bags anymore, because people stole it. A great instance of "this is why we can't have nice things". Pretty sure you can think of more.

Make the down-votes make sense, please.

(I do not care about the down-votes per se, I care about why I am being disagreed with without any responses.)
Thanks for pointing that out. I knew this already, but if I didn't that would be exactly the kind of factoid that would stay stuck in my head for the next 30 years
Britain imported resources India which was a source of resources, which it then used to sell high value items globally.

I think the UK ran a deficit with India, but a surplus with (richer) countries that bought those high value items.
> CD distortion

lol.
What are the newer searching techniques that make more sense?
Come on, did you see the trade for goods and services deficit with EU? It's ludicrous. But hey, the president decided to focus only on goods. Why not on everything? Because it's unjustified. He needs money. A lot. And throwing out accusations at other countries is the only way he can get out of it fine. If he had just set a 10-15% tax on all imports "just because" people would have never approved. Now, on the other hand, look at those unfair European, Canadians, Mexicans, ... penguins :)
Does it have native fixed point types?
E.g., I think, there are now entire generations, who never played anything as a child that wasn't tied in with corporate IP in one way or the other.
Because you need them, otherwise a car would cost you 3x.
> yet the entire value of an iPhone counts only as a Chinese export.

> That’s not true.

You're right. It's not always the "entire" value paid by the consumer.
Only if you don't learn anything while developing. Which is also never the case.
Absolutely. A functional civilization hinges on rational, equitable and cooperative solutions. Extremists are not interested in those things, though. They want what they want and they want it now with all the petulance and emotional regulation of a spoiled toddler.
How to Discover Mindfulness in a Nazi Solitary Confinement Cell
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License is very limiting for Business
Warren's plan was to sell to exporting nations import credits (ICs) that are less fundamental than national bonds, and that diminish intergenerational unfairness from foreign real estate holdings. The proposal sounds like a gentle version of capital controls or outright bans on foreign land ownership, which US trading partners implemented.

The irony of course is that Warren is a leader of the very business community that struck this Faustian bargain, and he probably accumulated a fair quantity of land and bonds through exactly this process. He's basically pleading with politicians to change the math so he can make money a way that is better for the nation.
the latter. people even claim to want change, but then they go about doing the same old things every day. they want others to lower their quality of life or spend more.
Britain was not importing.
Britain was stealing resources from India.
It was beyond slavery.
The words plunder and pillage come to mind.

USA on the other hand has a completely different problem (perhaps opposite of what you describe - being the world’s gracious and benevolent trade partner).
We at DollarDeploy building a platform to deploy apps to your own VPS. For now we just run it on one server, but plan to use DigitalOcean and Hetzner load balancer offering to offer workload scaling beyond one server.

Why did you choose fly.io? The traffic there are very expensive which is an issue for people who would want to run LB.
But then you don’t get convergence which is a requirement and LLMs will be just as good for Git as they will be for CRDTs.
To a forum run by an American company, moderated by Americans.
Mostly we're reducing it's spread. Countries don't want to rely on others for a core set of industries. Also culturally I think being good at one or two things is unhealthy. My 2 cents.
While the protests are per se not illegal, the people arrested aren't accused of just protesting, they are accused of supporting a terrorist organisation. The right to free speech isn't as all-encompassing in Germany as it is in the USA, so shouting the wrong slogans can very well get you in trouble.

Also, the right to protest in public only applies to German citizens:
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_8.html

Foreigners are usually still free to do it, but they don't have a constitutionally protected right to public protests.
Why Trump's tariffs are so bad for Big Tech
I've found the reference now: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sticks-discovered-...

Based on this article I think that there's is a reasonable body of evidence to suggest it might be true. Sure, not irrefutable evidence, but evidence does exist.

I'd be genuinely interested to see evidence that it doesn't happen, too, though.

> The fact that this mechanism of loss exists is already sufficient to prove that a tradition can't last 10,000 years.

That seems a bit of a non-sequitur, and without being a glib keyboard warrior Sagan's "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is pretty relevant here.

As I argued previously, there's a fairly strong line from ancient fertility rituals to Christian tradition, and I'm not sure that those syncretic routes are particularly disputed at a top level. I agree that there are definitely people who run away with those sorts of inheritances and make all sorts of claims using them, but the simple thread of "moon > fertility > Iah > Osiris > Dionysus > Christ" is not (as I understand it) particularly contested.

So I'm not sure that a "mechanism of loss" is proof that a ritual can't last 10,000 years in native populations with an exclusively oral cultural tradition - it might be fairer to say that we have no proof that it can persist.

Again, I don't have the reference, but I remember reading something that was essentially "the archaeology of story telling" tracing early oral tradition through to things like fairy tales, to the modern day.

Similarly, things like flood myths and myths around the seven sisters - the latter of which astronomers think could be as much as 100,000 years old - indicate to me that stories, and by extension ritual, could persist for far longer than 10,000 years.
> I can't imagine there would be any green-field deployments in the last 10 years or so - I'm guessing it's just supporting legacy environments.

This is not entirely the case.

I have been writing about VMS for years. The first x86-64 edition, version 9, was released in 2020:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/openvms_92/

Version 9.0 was essentially a test. 9.1 in 2021 was another test and v9.2 in 2022 was production-ready.

There's no new Itanium or Alpha hardware, and version 8.x runs on nothing else. Presumably v9.x is selling well enough to keep the company alive because it's been shipping new versions for a while now.

Totally new greenfield deployments? Probably few. But new installs of the new version, surely, yes, because VMS 9 doesn't run on any legacy kit, so these must be new deployments.

It's been growing for a few years. Maybe not growing much but a major new version and multiple point releases means somebody is buying it and deploying it. Never mind no new deployments in a decade... more new deployments in the last few years than in the previous decade.
Corporations would prefer lower corporate tax.

US corporate tax rates are actually every high. Partly due to the US having almost no consumption tax. EU members have VAT etc.
> very real risk of societal collapse or species extinction

No, there is no risk of species extinction in the near future due to climate change and repeating the line will just further the divide and make the people not care about other people's and even real climate scientist's words.
i believe Sahil mentioned they’re moving away from Rails soon, as he sees it as technical debt.
I'm someone who has used and continues to use desktop applications like that. I'm old enough to know what "work offline" and an email "outbox" is. Those are not the same things.

The always-online apps bring a lot that is not possible with such software, even simple stuff like editing the same file at the same time. Try that with tools like Dropbox and you'll get conflicts that you need to resolve. It's totally possible to get offline software if you either give up on many features or accept complicated conflict resolution etc. The basic options are either immutability, like email, or conflict resolution, like git. This is about not making those sacrifices.

"Local first" is a misnomer and that misnomer does probably reflect the different experience of youngsters, but if you can get past that there is something new here that is interesting and challenging.
I bought Tintin T-shirts 40 years ago in Thailand (the "branded" choices were amazing). They were actually really good, still got them!
HP box. It is a former HP product.

Version 9.x has been out for 5 years, stable for 3, and primarily targets and supports hypervisors. It knows about and directly supports VMware, Hyper-V and KVM.

So, yes, get a generic x86-64 box, bung one of the big 3 hypervisors on it, and bang, you are ready to run VMS 9.
Love the British humour! Read the bold heading of the first subsection.
So basically, you want everyone to depend on you, but you want to depend on no one.

And if a more balanced trade relation arises, your current leadership is willing to destabilize the whole world, and threaten war.
As an individual you would own consumer goods.

A lot of international trade is other goods. Think of how much the UK has paid for things like American aircraft, ships, machinery, or materials used in manufacturing. Our armed forces use a lot of American stuff, and often even British made things have American parts (and a lot of it is covered by ITAR, to an even greater extent than the rest of Europe).

People also tend to hugely underestimate the amount of British manufacturing for the same reason, and because of lot of it is Foreign branded (e.g. Nissan cars).
Nice move! With so many tools existing in this space, I want to read more about the rationale and long term vision for the project
I can't say. It's definitely not the same as running on bare metal. Then again, any benchmark in a test environment is just an approximation of the real thing. To see how anything will act in the real environment, you have to run it there.

In our use case we wanted a way to quickly and easily set up benchmarks that would allow us to compare our software to our competitors under the same conditions. Given that Benchi can run the same benchmark scenario for different tools, the results are comparable with each other. We also run all benchmarks on an empty AWS EC2 instance, to minimize any other factors. But does that mean that the collected results show the absolute limit of what the tools can handle? Probably not. Under different conditions, results can change, but that's just the nature of benchmarks.
As a UK non-citizen resident, my observation is that our economy is pretty much involved with USA (and the global economy more generally).

I just looked up the latest trade and investments factsheet[1] and there are some interesting deets. If you're wondering about direct investment in the US as well as imports:

- Total UK imports from United States amounted to £111.5 billion in the four quarters to the end of Q3 2024 (a decrease of 5.1% or £5.9 billion in current prices, compared to the four quarters to the end of Q3 2023).

- In 2023, the outward stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) from the UK in United States was £494.1 billion accounting for 26.7% of the total UK outward FDI stock.

In addition to direct investment I would also count portfolio investment since we're sort of involved at an individual level through our workplace pensions (and/or personal), savings, stocks and shares ISAs, and so on. A preliminary report[2] foreign holdings of US securities as of June 2024 puts the UK as the top holder at over 3 trillion USD.

1. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67b6f8efbd116...

2. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0037
The one I'm familiar with is:

> It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Of course this can be used to justify all sorts of terrible things, but I've mainly seen it as pretty innocent in work environments when applying common sense.
I used to call it "cURL", but apparently officially it is curl, correct?
That's because many people just don't have time to take action or inform themselves, because all they care about (and rightly so) is how to bring food on the table for their kids.

Of course, this is exactly what authoritarian governments want. People who are exhausted, just poor enough but not too poor to start a revolution. People who don't have the time to read (really read, not watch TikTok videos) about important issues.
Is wearing an "autism awareness " tattoo considered speech?
Yeah, it's more of a "source available" than Open Source in its definition. I'd rather they use AGPL or something like that.