skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels largely like a gish gallop away from the parts of topic that would be pertinent to the article. The article in question here is about This American life and I don't think the reason it got past people's critical filters was because of a reflexive instinct to believe state department narratives. I think it had a lot more to do with the credibility of this American life, the motivations of the person being interviewed as the primary source for the story, and the narrative beats that this American life was interested in representing to its audience.

>But the positions of the U.S. government and its vassal states are not defacto truth.

I don't know that anyone here is making that argument, so I'm not sure it's a prudent use of time to be engaging with it, and I think engaging would take us further away from the article with increasingly diminishing returns.
No, that's education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U#t=7m40s
It seems to be killing all remaining connections, as it just stops old container when new is deemed healthy.

So not completely downtime by definition, is it?
Yea, I find it hard to believe that is the largest.
Is well-written code “sexy”? I’m not so sure about that.
Why anyone would want to watch vibe coding is beyond me.
Ah yes. It appears that nothing has changed in the last decade for the Android ROM community. Still the same experience as downloading a custom ROM from "XDA Developers" for your HTC phone in 2016 and then finding out that it can't make phone calls and is bugged beyond comprehension.
Indeed I would argue that this is the worst possible "conservation", since it eliminates the only thing that values conservation, human brains.
Thanks. I put it on hold at the library.
LOL, no, Android flagships, usually more expensive than most expensive iPhones, are more popular because people like them more.

The fact 150€ phone can be purchased doesn't mean it has a majority of the market
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I’m analyzing the relationship between post popularity and post features - trying to understand what makes certain posts resonate more than others. So far, I’ve been looking at standard factors like text length, topic and timing.

Now, I’d like to consult the swarm intelligence of HN:
What subtle or overlooked features do you think make a post catch fire?
- Have you written or shared content that unexpectedly did really well - or flopped - and why do you think that happened?
- Personal experiences, unconventional ideas, or even half-baked theories are welcome. I’m hoping to uncover some less obvious insights, or at least expand the list of features worth analyzing.
Thanks in advance!
Fair enough. Though saying there's no such thing as a working-class professional is a deeply classist take - and kind of proves my point. All the best!
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In Ithaca, NY property taxes have become a left-wing issue as tenants realize that they pay them too. It's particularly tough in Ithaca because so much land belongs to Cornell, Ithaca College and local government so only a fraction of the land carries the whole tax burden. Last year the school district tried for a 13% tax increase which was handily voted down in an area which values education and developers, who expect a tax break for anything new they build, are facing more and more scrutiny over it.
> But for this specific case, would it have been any different a year ago?

Yes? They may have kicked her out of the country—not locked her up for 19 days.

> Because saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I didn't realize I got the wrong visa" is like saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I thought that sign said speed limit 80 MPH, not speed limit 30 MPH".

And if someone said that, do you think they should get locked up for 19 days?
AI will improve the lives directly of people who work in that field or apply it profitability, so naturally we're enthusiastic.

Whether the products of those efforts improve the lives of other people remains to be seen. In many ways, and like all other technology, the current use cases have both wide benefits and equally wide downsides.
Thing is, Brexit didn’t _really_ happen in 2020. The UK was, for practical purposes, in the single market until 2021 under a transition arrangement, and even after that, it kind of petered out over years. Some special arrangements are _still in place_: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-brexit-border-checks-dela...
I fully agree in theory. In practice everything gets poisoned due to the circular earth global-level natural recyling system.

So basically you need to steam distill water to remove pollutants, plant your own veggies in non-plastic containers, test your own soil, keep your kids out of public schools...

It's doable, but you really need to put in the hours!
Love it. This addresses a long persisting itch in the back of my mind.
Great recommendation. The second and third books leave something to be desired, in my opinion, but no other sci fi authors I'm aware of are as good as he is at what he does. His sci fi speculates about biology and ecology, and extrapolates outward from them, the way most sci fi speculates about technology and society.
Sure, but if you can't find out some is toxic or cancer causing, this is impossible. I'll note that asbestos' health effects were covered up for years. If you're not an expert you can't know. That's why there was a regulatory state.

Also there's a little economic concept called "externalizing". I come to your neighborhood, set up a popup forever chemical factory, foul your neighborhood, and when you figure out your children are born with spina bifida because of my factory, I leave at 3am. I externalized the health effects, but I made a tidy profit!
If we have the opportunity to revive a species that humans exterminated, and said species doesn't present any immediate and obvious danger to humanity, then we absolutely should.

Worst case (according to the article's arguments) we get depressed, ill mammoths that actually damage the ecosystem. So exterminate them again, I guess, and try again when the science improves? Nothing was lost.
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Agreed. The genie isn't going back into the bottle. While connecting with that world has lots of downsides, it is also incredible and fascinating. Humanity does some amazing things, has amazing people, and social media does give us lots of glimpses of others.

The anti-social networking anti-online people need to do a lot better than their useless squalid whining & saying we should turn it off & touch grass instead. Get a little more creative than that, find something less than the polemic version to advocate for.
Were 10 people in fact staying when the listing max was 8?
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Atleast in places like HN. Its not uncommon to see articles being called out for indulging in "narrative" where mere reporting of facts would have sufficed
Me neither, but the media is in a frenzy to scrutinize Trump. He certainly gives them lots of reason to do so, but I doubt those type of actions as response to visa violations didn’t occur before.
So showing a full screen modal explaining the change and offering a button to disable it without fiddling with the settings app is considered “sneakily”?
> I wonder how helpful it would be for music and art education if AI could help us deconstruct some songs.

Was thinking along the same lines as I fell into the trap of Ghiblifying pictures earlier this week. As someone who spent countless hours in my childhood trying to copy the styles of my favorite comic books (Japanese and otherwise), at some point in this AI exercise I started rendering each picture in the artistic styles of each of my favorite artists and placing them side by side for comparison. Realized an exercise like this would have been very useful back when I drew in comparing different styles and what _exactly_ made them different. Maybe it speaks more to how I think —- lacking a true artistic intuition —- but simply comparing styles and giving words to their distinctions helped me appreciate them in a way I hadn't (of course the AI didn't produce a perfect representation but a crude enough approximation)
iOS supports usb Ethernet.
OK, and?

What should I be looking for in the bond yields? What questions do you think they are going to answer, and how are they going to answer them?
i understand what you mean now. you are referring to the yield of treasury bonds, which, at least historically for <10 year tbills, do track the fed rate.
Death treats and torture I think
People often say there is no contradiction by looking at it on a philosophical level, but it's interesting to look at it at a more meta level, namely the fact that Rand felt she needed SS.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/#...

> Pryor: I had read enough to know that she despised government interference, and that she felt that people should and could live independently. She was coming to a point in her life where she was going to receive the very thing she didn't like, which was Medicare and Social Security.

> I remember telling her that this was going to be difficult. For me to do my job, she had to recognize that there were exceptions to her theory. So that started our politial discussions. From there on - with gusto - we argued all the time the initial argument was on greed. She had to see that there was such a thing as greed in this world. Doctors could cost an awful lot more money than books earn, and she could be totally wiped out by medical bills if she didn't watch it. Since she had worked her entire life and had paid into Social Security, she had a right to it. She didn't feel that an individual should take help.

Emphasis added. If a successful writer, who built their success on their supposed keen insights on business, the economy, and their relation to the government, if that writer could be totally wiped out and feel the need to take Social Security, what chance do the less successful have? Or should they just die?
Internet Explorer levels of dissolution threat.
Aircraft are hardly niche products.
>There are whole communities in the US that lived for generations on civic duty and kindness of heart.

But not entirely. Living in the US means they take advantage of the American capitalist system and infrastructure to some degree, which means they benefit from taxation. And obviously they pay their taxes otherwise the men with guns would have shown up.

And again, the free rider problem is intractable at scale. You can't simply build "community structure" and expect everyone to buy in. If that were possible, we wouldn't need laws at all, we could just expect everyone to play nice. And the fact that most people play nice by default doesn't imply laws aren't necessary.

And we can centrally fund and manage problems. That does work. Look at the numerous public work projects in the US like Hoover Dam, NASA, interstate highways, modern agriculture, the internet. None of that happens if all you can depend on is kindness of heart.
Oddly, I'm moving all my stuff to k8s because of how convenient and easy everything is to admin with tooling like k9s. But I've only ever worked with toy clusters with nodes in the single digits, and I can see what a nightmare debugging something like networking or storage at scale can be.

Also, helm gave me a loathing for yaml I never knew I had in me. I avoid some of helm's more vulgar gyrations by using helmfile, but I'm also giving yoke a look.
Isn't this also true for USA though? The US's fertility rate is only a bit higher than China's and also has an aging workforce. Plus, even if China has a lower birth rate, their sheer numbers will mean their workforce will remain huge.
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> My current team scrapped the algorithmic questions entirely. We now do pair programming on a small feature in our actual codebase, with full access to Google/docs/AI. The only restriction is we watch how they work. This approach has dramatically improved our hit rate on good hires.

I've been on this gig for about 20 years, this process is by far the best one to participate in an interview both as an interviewee as an interviewer.

As an interviewer I have a lot more joy to tackle an actual task, or a problem very similar to how my team works, with someone applying for the position, it's easier for me to feel like a human instead of an assessment machine. I don't have to learn the N different potential case studies to run the interview, I don't need to feel like I'm ticking boxes when giving my feedback, it's all natural.

As a candidate it relaxes me a fucking lot, I don't have to brush off old books, go through a grind of studying and still feeling like I haven't studied enough because there's an endless amount of knowledge to learn if I need to cover all bases. I also feel a lot more like a human, I can talk through my train of thought, work as I normally would checking documentation, searching, etc.

This bizarre ritual feels almost like hazing by this point, at some point Big Tech decided this was "the way for hiring", then herd mentality took over to the point where tiny startups just cargo-culted processes without even questioning (I heard from a non-technical founder once "if Google does it then it's the best way to do it"). A few generations later of folks hired through this Byzantine process turned it into a hazing ritual, if they had to go through this pain then they might as well inflict the pain to make candidates prove themselves worthy.

It's a giant cycle of bullshit, and no matter how much I tried it's been always impossible to change the minds of HR that this is not the best way to assess candidates, the herd mentality is even stronger around there since there's always the dumb scapegoat: "we do benchmark peers in the industry and they all do this way, so we will do this way".

Sorry for the rant but it's one aspect of this job that really grinds my gears, I fucking hate running interviews with candidates because of it, I never feel I could properly measure someone's real abilities, and I really hate having to go through it myself...
I always found those photos deeply unsettling. None of the women look particularly happy about being there. “If I don’t do this, Timmy doesn’t get that operation” vibes. The photo in the advertisement was bad enough, the outtakes are worse.
You really shouldn't. Help him set up a Squarespace/Wix/Wordpress or similar that you don't have to maintain.

Anything you code, manually or vibe-ly, is going to become a pile of unmaintainable garbage in a year or two and either you're going to have to help him fix it then or he's going to have to pay hundreds for someone else to do it for him (if he can find anyone).

Please believe me when I say I've wasted way too many years of my youth trying to hack together things like that for clients. That way lies madness. Don't let yourself go down that path. It's not a good use of time and money for you or your client.
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One could also categorize them as slop vs churn programming.
Exactly. "Conservation" is the wise use of resources, while "preservation" is the complete rewilding of those resources.
>Retaliation measures are within the scope of consideration

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/04/economy/jap...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/03/economy/tru...
A performer may think they can play for 8 hours, but if they can do that they can also likely hit 8 hours and 1 minute…

So you could interpret it a slow tempo you can definitely finish, a tempo you might finish, etc but actual limits are not really predictable.
I can see a difference that I can understand the Python’s error message, the Tcl’s one not so much.
That reminds me I once emulated a NumWorks N0100 [1] and a HP Prime G1 [2] with QEMU, to the point where the emulators managed to run the official firmware.

- [1] https://github.com/boricj/qemu/tree/numworks_calculators

- [2] https://github.com/boricj/qemu/tree/s3c2416-boricj
Well, to be fair, postmarketOS isn't Android. For Android I've had tons of custom ROMs with no obvious hardware issues, mostly CyanogenMod variants, over the years. postmarketOS, though, tries to run stock Linux. It's a different ballgame.

The alternate approach is actually to utilize the fact that Android is relatively better supported and wrap Android components into a standard Linux userland, using a compatibility layer like libhybris with patched vendor kernels. It's pretty ugly but if you want Linux on phone now it's your best shot at a flagship experience.
This seems even more egregious. You can't even submit a support ticket if the LLM does not deem it worthy.
My theory is the tariffs have simply been set by relative trade deficit and after Trump has announced them and been ridiculed someone tasked economists with finding an explanation for the rates. This formula kind of just works out if you estimate the elasticities for all import from all countries conveniently at 2.
"[Yann LeCun] believes [current] LLMs will be largely obsolete within five years."
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J.p. morgan predicts a 1.5% consumer price level increase this year from the tariffs. The 43% example in the article will be at the extreme high end.

Recessions affect different people differently. The stock market boomed during the Obama recovery from 2008, and during Biden, but most people didn’t feel it so much. A financial recession would be borne mostly by the laptop class.
AI hasn't killed radiology, but it is changing it
Also easier to research the applicable laws in the comfort of your home before you leave instead of trying to triangulate the situation while in detention.

According to the article the Workaway website explicitly says the traveler is responsible for securing the proper visas, which the woman here clearly did not do.

IANAL but I know enough about US law to know that giving accommodation is explicitly barred from being counted as compensation. Workers have to be paid minimum wage regardless of any room or board provided. I would be surprised if the law was much different in the UK.
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My guess would be that branch misprediction does have an impact on interpreted language, but much less. If bytecode instructions take on average 20 CPU cycles to execute, and the branch misprediction penalty is 50 CPU cycles, the relative cost of a misprediction is much smaller than in compiled code.
But that was his entire campaign: we’re going to shoot ourselves in the face, and it will be the best thing ever for everyone. So maybe someone bought into the “it will be the best thing ever”, fine, but if they bought into that but not the “we’re going to shoot ourselves in the face”, then what did they believe? The effect will happen but the cause won’t?
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Learning and working on this stuff almost always felt "all or nothing," (either it worked or it didn't), which was very frustrating.

This looks interesting:

> Like Ghuloum [2006], this course is different. Our development is by extending the complete, working compiler one small step at a time. At each step we end up with the working compiler, for a subset of the source language. Specifically, the methodology ([Ghuloum, 2006, §2.6]):

> 1. choose a small subset of the source language that is easy to directly compile
to assembly;

> 2. Write the extensive test cases;
As for your last paragraph…in those days the US was the only country in the world that could manufacture stuff. Africa and Asia and Eastern Europe had been wrecked and would remain devastated by imperialism, war, failed attempts to try to make a planned economy work, etc.

Over the past few decades, the rest of the world has managed to develop and compete.

In regards to making global trade expensive again….the policies that the United States is pursuing won’t make global trade more expensive. It will just make trade with the United States more expensive. The other countries will continue to trade with each other cheaply and will continue to gain prosperity and continue to advance.

It is possible we may see a world in which the United States has stagnated to not compete with the rest of the world. And a world where maybe the dollar has been replaced with the euro or some other currency as the reserve currency. If that is the case…well things won’t be too good for Americans to say the least.
Did this topic get resurrected and then re-timestamped somehow? The timestamps say many of the comments were posted 16 hours ago, but I definitely posted these way longer ago (like 3 days ago, I think). There's also a lot more voting activity now and possibly some green-name astroturfing.

I know HN has a "second-chance pool" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), but I didn't know it would artificially change the timestamps too...