skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think any amount of evidence of actions would convince you this isn't a vibe, but a clear pattern.
PSA pauses card grading submissions from outside the US
The purpose of tax is not to raise money to government, but to redistribute wealth. The government prints money to cover the bill of its expenditure. If it issued no taxes, then that burden would fall on all people through inflation, affecting the poor moreso than the rich. Taxes are an issue separate from spending that allows the government to move money down from rich to poor, and in doing so offset the inflationary effects of spending. This is why tax is a solution to rent. Rent is poor people giving money to rich people, and tax allows you to reverse that flow.
well i dont know who in the world Douglas is, probably some geriatric weirdo but he is completely wrong.

am in the second group and ur comment just feels like ragebait, sure there are enough “hip and trendy” teenagers to twenty, thirty something people who like influence more than technology and are on their “vibe code” grind and idk, fucking their AI every night with their claude wrapped fleshlight but I for one am not one of them.
Where does all the money they spend on housing & energy go.
Honestly, no one should be using water to grow alfalfa in Utah. The way Western water law currently works with prior appropriation encourages extremely wasteful uses of water, just because they don’t want to lose their valuable water allocations (use it or lose it). Alfalfa is a VERY water intensive crop, growing it in the desert wouldn’t make sense without these perverse incentives.

There’s a lot of effects, but one very visible one in Utah is the fact that the Great Salt Lake is drying out, because too much water is being diverted from its tributaries. Now there’s dust getting stirred up from the exposed lake bed that’s chock full of heavy metals, which is less than ideal next to a fairly big city.
Leaving wealth to one side, do you think value creation is a lie?
Ahh, interesting times.
crazy thought, maybe a $1 item shouldn’t be shipped from overseas at great expense to the environment? 5 years ago all anybody would talk about is the environment and now people are burning down EVs and complaining that they’ll have to pay more for a cheap $1 shirt they don’t need to be moved 6000 or more miles? make this make sense.
As much as I'd like to pretend otherwise, I'm just a programmer. Say I build,
I dunno, an Eventbrite clone. Okay, cool I've got some code running on Vercel. What do I do next? I'm not about to quit my day job to try and pay my mortgage on hopes and dreams, and while I'm working my day job and having a life outside of that. There's just not enough hours left in the day to also work on this hypothetical EventBrite clone. And there are already so many competitors of them out there, what's one more? What's my "in" to the events industry that would have me succeed over any of their numerous existing competitors? Sure, Thants to LLMs I can vibe code some CRUD app, but my point is there's so much I don't know that I don't even know what I don't know about business in order to be successful. So realistically it's just a fun hobby, like how some people sew sweaters.
Trump really held a gun to the head of the American economy and pulled the trigger.
Absolutely, but then you have to be the guy training users when everyone else is training them differently.
Man At Gaslight Again
It is natural for humans to eat and desire to eat meat. You might as well criticize people for having sex drives (which clearly sometimes lead to negative outcomes), or needing to urinate, or criticizing dogs or lions for their eating of meat. I think we can and should develop alternatives and put our higher levels of intellect to use, but that isn't going to change our natures and it's not reasonable to expect large amounts of people to voluntarily choose to become monks and forsake the natural man. If you really want to fix things, developing more sustainable and healthy replacements is the way, not trying to shame them for their naturally-endowed characteristics.
> have you tried Python, Java, Kotlin, or C#?

Yes, plenty of experience in the first two, but the last two are better contenders. At any rate I work primarily with TS when I do front-end code, it's very rare for me to write raw JS, so a lot of footguns automatically go away.
We are most certainly not "overpopulated" in any way. Usage per person is what the issue is.

And no society, ever, has had a good standard of living with a shrinking population. You are advocating for all young people to toil their entire lives taking care of an ever-aging population.
My favorite one ever:

017 == '17' // false

018 == '18' // true
Exactly! One would never, ever do that with x86.
He has addressed this numerous times. His statement was that he was Citi Bank's best trader in 2011, which is true. The dispute is an attempt to discredit him by suggesting that him not being the best trader in other years debunks his 2011 figure.
On the bright side, the environment will do better since people will be buying less stuff.
I suspect this is related to what Nikhil Rajpal was doing at NOAA. He was originally reported to be asking about Google sites. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-engineer-noaa-data-google-m...

@nikrdc, if this is you, why are you doing something so destructive and stupid?
We're not talking about trade, we're talking about executive actions hampering trade.
He is indistinguishable from a deliberate attack from Western civilization's worst enemies.

What would Trump do differently if he were a Russian asset? I mean, besides trying not to be so obvious about it?
Google makes the impossible, hard, and it makes the easy, hard.
I call this bad faith. You're right, living the way we live is unsustainable. That's why almost all species are dying, and that's not yet a consequence of global warming. Now, some things are harder to change than others, and have more or less impact.

Stopping to eat meat/fish is probably the one thing that is reasonably easy, cheap (vegetarian food is globally cheaper), and would have a huge impact.
Hello margin-call, my old friend…
You can try qobuz and 7digital.
Machine learning helps construct an evolutionary timeline of bacteria
'"Results show that at least 3 aerobic lineages appeared before the GOE -- by nearly 900 million years -- suggesting that a capacity for using oxygen evolved well before its widespread accumulation in the atmosphere," Professor Hugenholtz said.'
What do you use for your remote server? Because even a VPS seems kinda overkill, if all it's doing is some redirecting. I guess you could do TLS termination there aswell...
Unemployment literally only tracks those interacting with State unemployment insurance. People out of work who aren't interfacing with said established monitoring may as well not exist in the same manner as engine & cockpit shot planes in WWII.

In short, citing unemployment is falling for the mother of all survivorship biases. If you're more interested in fake paperwork derived numbers than the actual world though, you do you then.
There's no discussion happening, though! They're just repeating themselves over and over and ignoring the contents of any replies.
> what Buffett suggests in the article is a cap and trade system on imports.

A H1B visa but for goods instead of people...
But the price of eggs is going down, right? Right? Guys? Bueller? Bueller?
Visiting China earlier this year broke me, left the place dismayed about the situation back home.

I'm no communist, just someone who recognizes the social and economic benefits of abundant housing, cheap energy, and forward thinking transport policy.

I have no idea how we'll get back on the track of improving human development but it's not going to be easy.
I don't know why you're attacking me, since I just responded to:

> Seriously, what does one really expect from an unethical convicted criminal?

and your subsequent comment on that.
I only use one-time code stuff, and I don't need a smartphone to do that. Even if I expand to other MFA types, I can't think of one that actually requires a smartphone to perform. A smartphone is a convenience, yes, but not a necessity for me as near as I can tell.
You are still condoning unauthorized computer access. You are accessing facilities or resources that you are not authorized to access. Just because you are typing on a computer does not make it any less worse.

"Real damage" means more than that. You can enter a building without breaking a door or a window, not sure where you got the notion that is not possible. If you enter a building there is no physical damage but the reputation of the security company managing the building gets damaged once it's found out.

Just because you don't see it, does not mean that the damage is not there. Similarly, if you SSH into a server, the company handling the security gets its reputation tarnished. In both cases, there is a financial penalty that those companies will suffer. Someone in some company will be under crazy stress because of your actions. Just because you don't get to meet that person does not mean that the damage is not real. Similarly, accessing someone's private cloud and viewing their files will cause someone emotional distress. Again, you won't see it but does not make it any less real. Imagine, someone spying on you while you sleep (whether online or in person) or while you are in the toilet, again there is no "real damage" according to you but the emotional distress is very much real.

All those people hacking web cams for "fun" without causing "real damage" are indeed causing emotional distress which very much falls under real damage.

I suggest you review your definition of "real damage" as it is likely to get you into trouble one day. You should not be condoning federal crimes.
They were fired by the administration. Looks to me like the system working. Government agency does something stupid. Congress investigates. Situation corrected. I'm looking forward to that oversight of the current administration. Enjoy your kite.

> In November 2024, FEMA fired a supervisor for directing relief workers to avoid assisting homes displaying support for President Donald Trump in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. In response, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into political discrimination at FEMA and held a hearing with former Administrator Deanne Criswell. This week, FEMA informed the Oversight Committee that it has terminated three additional employees for failing to uphold the agency’s standards of conduct. The agency is also implementing additional training to reinforce that political affiliation must never be a factor in disaster relief efforts.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-applauds-fema-for-...
And yet he's brainwashed (slightly less than) half of the population into believing heart and soul that he's here to save Western civilization. By ushering in the end of American hegemony and paving the way for China and Russia. We really are living in the post-truth era.
Funny that.

Also I think you mean agent, not asset. He’s obviously an asset.
Don't make yourself out to be the grandstander here, that's my job. Politics is so hard and so complicated that your expected contribution is almost certainly net negative, so take that time and energy and apply it to things you actually have a hope of reliably improving. The true cowardice is spending 6 hours a day spinning your wheels instead of getting to work on things that actually work.

An example inspired from the paper: I'm sure medieval surgeons felt they were doing God's work, putting in 12 hour days incising people with razors, and yet without a basic understanding of germ theory they almost certainly make many people much worse off. For a more recent example, did you know that less than 50 years ago it was believed infants didn't need to be anesthetized when modern surgeons operated upon them, despite showing extreme pain responses?

Politics is many orders of magnitude more complex than both germ theory and anesthesiology, and yet people somehow feel they need to study it systematically even less. It's not hard to summon a litany of state sponsored actions which would make Genghis Khan blush, and yet, for each one of those actions, some group of people thought it was such an obviously good idea it simply had to be done.
All this winning.
A bunch of the tariffs still haven't even taken effect (despite his repeatedly saying they were hitting at midnight when he made the announcement Tuesday—I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I found out Wednesday that that was bullshit, but I still was).

This continues to mostly be harm from him just constantly going back and forth on the notion. It can get so much worse if he sticks with it this time.
“A decommissioned nuclear power station required to power it.”

“Not to mention millions of gallons of water required to cool it.”

Pretty sure that isn’t an iPhone. ;)
The numbers are cooked up. See https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-... from above.

Basically if you ignore computers, there was zero growth in manufacturing sector. If you take computers into account but ignore processing power increase, there was zero growth. So pretty much the only driving force in the manufacturing sector for the last 20 years was Intel, AMD, Nvidia. This is even with the increased productivity per person in manufacturing sector (so there was also massive reduction in employment).

It is highly concerning and the numbers were very much cooked up.
This seems to happen with increasing frequency on HN these days.
You can enroll your own certificates as long as you have unlocked firmware. However, in order for vendor ISOs to boot without modification, they need to be signed by some trusted root beyond your control.
Why Local AI Matters
Everyone can get depressed, everyone can get a low period. I don't get why this is on the front page of HN.
Sincerely I feel bad for everyone with a 401k. According to the CFRA as long as the stock market doesn’t fall 20% or more and enter bear market territory, it takes on average four months to recover from a correction. Unfortunately we already see the bear coming.
Even if I don't particularly like the individuals, it did feel like some people involved felt compelled to be there, even if they didn't really want to be... Rex Tillerson comes to mind. I can't imagine Trump's moral character sat well with a literal boy scout. John Kelly was another no-nonsense member who seemed steady & driven by a motivation that, agree with or not, was defensible vs. the current batch's motivations. Surprise - he didn't last long either.

If there are anyone on the (currently) winning side in this Congress who aren't a bunch of greedy, self-serving boot lickers they better step up soon. I can't imagine someone like John McCain would remain silent in this environment. Best case scenario: history will forget most of these assholes; if not, it will not be kind.
"it's gonna be wild"
I agree we should do all that right now- but I will say a huge number of problems in our society right now are caused by a prioritization of profit over social stability which is inherent to capitalism.

One thing that convinced me is that we don't need to get rid of markets even- just make it so that its not a extremely small pool of unelected shareholders making all the major decisions affecting our lives.
I have seen people consider the outcome is one of "candidate A wins" or "candidate B wins" (so binary). I do not fully agree, but practically it seems to be a good approximation - as in 30 years nobody reached something significant, and there was only one instance in 1872 when the 3rd candidate had more than 30% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third-party_and_indepe...)

Any of the supporters of "candidate A" or "candidate B" will have a vested interest to model it this way, because it can mean more votes for their candidate.
Given this particular cult has access to one of the major stocks of nukes on this planet, I'm not sure "leaving" is a realistic option unless you have a timeshare on Mars.
Yes! I'm not sure what the your intended upshot here is, but those absolutely would be beneficial changes in behavior and are perfectly in line with prevailing recommendations of ways behaviors need to change to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, and related recommendations more broadly in line with environmental conservation and public health.

Far from a counterpoint, they testify to the reasonableness of the request in this instance, of stepping away from factory farming, because it belongs to a class of similar and well respected recommendations. Getting people to actually change their behavior is an important issue, and the purpose of recognizing it should be to reckon with it in a serious way rather that use it to tee up complaints about hypocrisy that seem to imply the futility of doing anything.
For the Excel web application I’m guessing
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't trade their way of life for our concrete. It's just hard for us to see because we are used to living in concrete.
> How much time do we need?

A few years will start to show if what AI is producing is a lability, or if it is just fine, methinks. If you haven't felt any pains from its legacy cruft by that point, it isn't apt to magically appear a long way down the line.

> If we take space exploration as an example, at every stage, we have actual usefulness for what the technology so far was able to accomplish.

When Archytas propelled a wooden bird with steam, the first recognized step towards building the rockets that got us to space, what usefulness was found in that?

It offered a basic foundation on which we were able to consider other solutions and the concept in general. But couldn't you say that is, at very least, where we are at with LLMs right now too?
The scary thing about 21st century Britain is the extent to which they now wallow in the never-happened fantasy of the Harry Potter universe to compensate for it. That has changed absolutely everything, not all bad to be sure.
They probably are.

It's like the claim that pharma had tripled the price of a 100 year old drug(insulin) that the inventors had sold for only $1 and were now charging $450 a month for it.

Then you dig into the claims and you find out that, the original insulin is still available, it's new formulations that have the higher cost.

>Until now, the only so-called “Walmart insulin” you could get for a lower price (roughly $25 to $35 per vial) was the older, human versions of insulin — R (or Regular) insulin, N (which is Novolin, aka NPH insulin); and a 70/30 mix of the two other types. Those formulations have been around since the early 1980s, but they work much differently and are seen as much less reliable than the analog insulins that first started appearing in the later 1990s.
https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/walmart-relion-novol...

But the new stuff works better, is faster acting and allows a freer lifestyle.

I agree that there is a problem with the pharma industry but lying about the problem to try and get change is not going to help the cause.
In my opinion, the real breakthrough described in this article is not bigger models to read the web, but models that can experiment on their own and learn from these experiments to generate new ideas.

If this happens, then we indeed enter a non-linear regime.
Well, apparently, the guys in Xerox did sit in meetings not knowing what to do, until Steve Jobs visited PARC and saw what was possible.
>It's even worse when paired with the ability for a local authority to go bankrupt when it can't cover the bills and be forced to sell off major capital assets (e.g. buildings, sometimes of significant public interest like concerts halls, leisure centres and other community venues).

Which may be perceived as a actual goal of this mandate if you have enough of tinfoil in your hat.
i had a similar experience in scouting. german scouting has a strong singing tradition to the point that there are regular competitions that attract groups from all over europe. also camps where multiple groups meet. imagine your after party experience every night for multiple days, maybe even a week or two.
I am very curious if the current wave of mystery distributed (AI?) bots will just run javascript and be able to get past proof of work too....

Based on the fact that they are requesting the same absolutely useless and duplicative pages (like every possible combniation of query params even if it does not lead to unique content) from me hundreds of times per url, and are able to distribute so much that I'm only getting 1-5 requests per day from each IP...

...cost does not seem to be a concern for them? Maybe they won't actually mind ~5 seconds of CPU on a proof of work either? They are really a mystery to me.

I currently am using CloudFlare Turnstile, which incorporates proof of work but also various other signals, which is working, but I know does have false positives. I am working on implementing a simpler nothing but JS proof of work (SHA-512-based), and am going to switch that in and if it works great (becuase I don't want to keep out the false positives!), but if it doesn't, back to Turnstile.

The mystery distributred idiot bots were too much. (Scaling up resources -- they just scaled up their bot rates too!!!) I don't mind people scraping if they do it respectfully and reasonably; taht's not what's been going on, and it's an internet-wide phenomenon of the past year.
I'm neither an economist or mathematician. But I'm smart enough to observe my surroundings. I observe that the middle class is shrinking rapidly. Wealth concentration is increasing rapidly. Income has not kept up with the price of goods. And it's increasingly difficult for working people to accumulate wealth.

Can you point me to other theories which articulate the cause of my observations?
Does anyone think they’re doing it on purpose to profit from short selling stocks? I mean they peddled two sh*tcoins right on Inauguration Day so it doesn’t seem too far fetched they would intentionally tank the stock market as well. It’s hard to see any other angle to this ridiculous policy. If you know where stocks are going you can profit regardless whether they go up or down, and making them go down is easier than making them go up, as a president.
>The student that runs fake clubs and stacks extracurriculars is admitted over the student that runs a real business.

Yeah. That's how it works. When you do community building and participate in activities in addition to "the grind", people like you more.

This doesn't just apply to academia.
https://eggprices.org/national-data

I mean, yes. So, fair trade then? I mean who uses money from their stock market investments to buy eggs?

Though I suppose if you can preserve them, perhaps it's time to re-balance your portfolio and include them in your asset allocation?
First user tests and the paperclip problem
ChatGPT killed Lorem Ipsum
The definition of open source is itself a corruption of free software which came before it, and was corrupted by the same people.
Ideal for whom?