skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And perhaps a broader point is: "Facts are simply opinions we generally agree upon."

At its best, "Science" doesn't claim the force between two objects is proportional to the product of their masses. It merely observes that this has been the case in all known, well-documented instances, and attempts to find exceptions have failed, so that this "law" is valid and reliable, and expected to remain so forever.

We use the term "fact" very casually, and eagerly. "The Dow is up 20% year-over-year, unemployment is under 4%, and the dollar is strong. The economy is strong. That's a fact!" Not only is that not a fact, it's not even a fact that unemployment is under 4%. That's (presumably...) just the U3 number as published by the Department of Labor.

My point is: the best "facts" still require a certain amount faith in the data sources around us. That's fine. I don't wish to visit every country on Earth to ensure that it exists, and observe the weighing of the Kilogram in Paris. (I mean, unless I can take time to sightsee a bit.)

There has been a genuine breakdown in that faith in authority in US culture. Maybe Ukraine attacked Russia first. Maybe poor people are inherently lazier than rich people. Maybe the Earth is flat.

I believe this breakdown has been intentionally orchestrated and groomed and fed by nefarious people like Rupert Murdoch, but that's just an opinion. Based on things I like to call "facts".
False. Read Oxfam's report on the topic: https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/takers-not-makers-unjust-p...
How is this connected to the submission? Or is a random tangent because the article mentions "student activism" and "Trump" in the opening? The only part mentioning anyone Jewish is:

> You have prominent Jewish figures around the country who get comfortable with Trump, it seems to me, because they can say he’s fighting antisemitism: “He’s good for the Jews.” It’s pathetic. It’s a travesty of Jewish values, in my view.

But I'm not sure how that is connected to what you wrote.
Economist C. Northcote Parkinson's 1960 book "The Law and the Profits" notes the decline of Britain started in the early 20th century with the rise in the bureaucratic state and the commensurate rise in taxes.
Ask HN: Where is MongoDB source code?
There are no commits or tags for two months: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commits/master

In the meantime, 8.0.5 and 8.0.6 were released: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/release-notes/8.0/

Those appear to be patch releases for major releases, not rapid releases, so the source should be available: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/versioning/

There is a forum post without an answer: https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/source-code-in-github/316442

Is MongoDB no longer source-available?
Just flag the comment and move on.
> Most restaurants smuggle obscene amounts of butter

God I wish that was true. Butter is far too expensive to do that, so restaurants will use the cheapest alternative (usually soybean oil with butter flavoring) instead.
I have never observed the phenomenon you're describing and would like to learn more.

Can you link me to one of these stories where "sensationalists said race discrimination" about a program to alleviate poverty which was not actually racially biased?
> make this make sense.

Sure. Modern Chinese RoRo vessels fit more than 1 shirt on them. The average shipping manifest to America looks more like 125,000 shirts, 10,000 tons displacement of natural gas, 40,000 sex toys, 20,000 Macbooks and a few dozen merchant marines making the trip. The "great cost to the environment" was manufacturing these products. The carbon footprint for shipping linens around the world is negligible, and cheaper than buying American-made.

It doesn't take a genius to see that this isn't an environmental issue, China will fuel up their boats regardless and take their surplus elsewhere. This is about American businesses outright failing to compete in the free market in places that matter, like car manufacturing and $1 tee shirt factories.
It is still really bad - (again if it was the case) monitoring very simple things like "# of changed payment" instructions could detect this sort of fraud quickly, or at worst speedbumping the time to change payment instructions.

Pre self service on the internet call centers / mail in processors would have noticed if a large % of customers changed their payment details over a few days.
Scott Alexander, for what its worth, is a psychiatrist, race science enthusiast, and blogger whose closest connection to software development is Bay Area house parties and a failed startup called MetaMed (2012-2015) https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/MetaMed
How I Built & Launched a Micro App in 3 Days with the Help of AI
I'm glad you shared your experience because I've dealt with this for decades. It's usually a small snippet, 15 seconds or less, of a song that just loops over and over for me.

What I do to combat this, and other "brain noise", is also to listen to music but I use headphones with high volume. I also listen to the same playlist repeatedly so it's not distracting and instead quiets that loud part of my brain to allow me to focus.
That's an important distinction.

Case in point:

https://sandersinstitute.org/event/bernie-sanders-arrest-at-...

Convicted of resisting arrest.
The AI Agent Index
It seems to pretty much be about these packages:

https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-python/cuda-core/latest/
https://developer.nvidia.com/nvmath-python
A transistor is just a way of connecting some wires, and that's exactly what it's good for. It's reducing a phenomenon into some core essence and pretending like there's not a bigger picture.
nice work, you forgot to remove your API key tho
Interesting discussion on the merits of the initial plan of a paid link shortening service and the opposite approach (easy-to-setup paid access to links).They were discussing adding Bitcoin as a payment method when it was 0.7 cents a pop.
Yes, the silver standard was a thing before the gold standard, and those switched back and forth depending on the current gold rush.
You have no intention of having a discussion in good faith. You're going to use whatbaoutisms, pedantry, and goalpost moving. Kindly stfu
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You have to understand, in modern Britain bureaucracy is the point.

Everybody is lazy, nothing works, and nobody is going to do anything about it because doing something would require fighting an army of bureaucrats. And, dear reader, who would blame you for not doing that?

I had British Telecom around to fix a wiring issue. The rental agency said they'd be coming by on Thursday or Friday and I should pick. Simultaneously, I get a text from BT that they'll be by on Wednesday. The gent shows up Tuesday. I ALSO get a call on Friday (while I'm at work): "Mate, I'm about 15 minutes away from your house...".

Everything is like this. Everything.
Automattic is a $7b+ company. That's the twenty-year body of work you should use to evaluate his execution and strategy.
If there's no due process for everyone, that distinction literally does not matter in the slightest!

Dozens of citizens could have been sent into slave labor for all we know, and no judge has been able to provide the constitutionally mandated oversight. It has been upheld many times and for hundreds of years that the Due Process clause applies to non-citizens for this reason.
You are right, these quirks are not something you struggle with very often. The only one that has been troublesome at some point during my now 8 years as a professional, mainly Javascript with Vue, web developer is the automatic semicolon insertion example.

The simplest fixes for it is to just insert semicolons yourself, always use const, and not start any lines with [ or (.
Yes, that is what precludes it being a Lotus Improv, et al. replacement, it is oriented towards a 2D structure, rather than requiring that the user tear off and label specific axes one at a time, which was what made Lotus Improv such a breakthrough app.
It depends what you mean by do. In the US, if you didn't notify police or call for help and just stood and watched while someone died, no jury would pass on convicting you. You're expected to behave reasonably. There need not be a written law. It's called common law.
Nobody writes hello world for a living. This is a useless metric.
If you're a guest, act like a guest. Anti-Israel protests are by extension a protest against the US foreign policy, so yeah... You protest your host in a violent and disruptive manner, you probably shouldn't have been allowed in to begin with.
Some people use VSCode extensions
Is that a new feeling?

I figure the people who want the US to withdraw from the global stage have been working on Trump ever since 1987 when he paid for that full page pro-tariff ad in the New York Times. Power hungry maniacs are a dime a dozen, but ones that are also hell bent on committing economic suicide are a scarce resource and need to be nurtured with care if you want them to actually do it.

It's what I'd do if the US was bullying me around. It's a well tested play (refined during the US interventions in South America in the 70's and 80's).
It's possible. The wealthy are a lot better positioned to make a lot of money during a bear market then the average person, as they can afford to buy a lot of stocks when they're cheap. Just look how much money billionaires like Bezos or Musk made during COVID.

But even if that's their plan, that doesn't mean they're executing it competently. The specific tariff amounts do not seem well thought through, and fighting a trade war against literally every other country in the world seems like a bad idea.

There's an idea called Hanlon's Razor which states "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". It's a good rule of thumb, but it implies that malice/stupidity is an either/or choice. I think that the Trump tariffs are a malicious plan executed stupidly, and if nothing changes the effects will be catastrophic.
Show HN: My non-vibe-coded game engine
AI is just another abstraction. It's not like a senior Java dev can implement LocalDate.now() or CompletableFuture.await()
I'm other side of Nottingham and have to say that things aren't that bad either.

I made my peace with not earning London salaries but being able to comfortably live in a nice area and pay off my mortgage early a long time ago.

My parents weren't of the University generation, so I'm ~better off than they were at the same point in our lives. On the other hand, we're worse off than my in-laws would have been at the same time, because of housing. But housing is a fixable problem. The government just needs to legislate to allow the building of more of it. Even in London, the real answer, whether politicians want to say it or not, is the densification of suburbs - allow redevelopment of suburban areas into higher density developments, and prices will come down.
How will this thing which is connected to the Internet ... get data?
A bit off-topic, but I find it weird that they use "group" to refer to Apple, instead of, say, "Company". Is this an FT thing? I kept thinking that they were talking about some larger group of Silicon Valley companies (i.e. "the Silicon Valley group"), but no, they just meant Apple.
I think even if you have volume factored in like photogrammetry/lidar, the inside of the food could be something else too like a chunk of meat inside potatoes
So given you didn't address any other part of the reply am i to assume you agree ?

Future consequences and poor outcomes based on current day incompetence and mismanagement ?

To address your reply:

If you don't know the phrase "there is no ethical consumption" then looking it up might be interesting reading for you, it's a large part of the plot from the last half of "the good place", if that helps at all.

Anyway ,it's the same idea but taken to it's logical conclusion, everything everyone does is causing harm in some way somewhere down the chain and therefore it's impossible to do anything without some harm being caused.

If that's your point then i agree, but specifically here i was pointing out the direct point to point link between removing monetary aid and the deaths of people relying upon that aid.

You asked for costs on money and lives, and while i think billions and millions were hyperbole there are still directly attributable deaths, even now.

The key part here is the "directly"

The difference between "physically taking away someones food until they starve to death" vs "participating in a societal structure that routinely lets people starve to death" one is direct taking an action to achieve an outcome, the other is not.

I think those numbers will grow significantly larger in relatively short order, i think it's naive to think DOGE is running on any platform of competence but it's entirely possible i'm wrong.

However, there's not a lot of evidence i am wrong,
I can't speak for others but in my experience, NOAA gave me the most accurate weather for my area, and it wasn't even close. If they take the site down I hope they at least keep the API's up so folks here can build frontends
I'm probably just missing something obvious, but in this scenario with really long names, doesn't that just mean all code will be extremely verbose? Or are you saying there'd be some way to have shorter bindings to those longer names within a specific context? But then what would that look like? Typically we use modules to denote contexts within which you can import longer fully-qualified names with shorter aliases.
Apple has added support for F16C and BMI instructions to macOS 15.4
All the colonialism and racism apologists coming out of the woodwork.
There was a TV show made in the 1980s called The End of Empire [0] which is (mostly) available on YouTube. It chronicles what happened in India, Palestine, Iran, Egypt, Cyprus, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Singapore etc. and may be of interest to those musing about Britain's decline.

I learned about it from watching Coup 53 [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2WaMdGl0uw&list=PLanJEt7jLo...

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1984135
This is a few years old, but interesting to see Miyzaki's reaction to AI generated video.

“An insult to life itself”: Hayao Miyazaki critiques an animation made by artificial intelligence

https://qz.com/859454/the-director-of-spirited-away-says-ani...
Well what did they do to get called out?
Another angle: The planned demolishment of democracy involves a recession/depression.
Your comment inspires me to write an essay titled "What's wrong with hypocrisy?" because it seems like no-one really cares about it anymore. It's like the concept itself has lost meaning. Hypocrisy a big, abstract word that has the audacity to refer to other big abstract words like "character" and "virtue" and "fairness". Now many people accused of hypocrisy say "so what?". What's going on there? It has the feel of a situation where someone says your software has memory leaks, and you say "so?" not knowing what that even means. "Hypocrisy" and "memory leaks" share the notion of a characterization of a set of flaws that can and will show themselves in many disparate ways. Powerful signals to a specialist, and noise for a generalist. And not just noise, but a signal against the critic as an elitist snob that uses words and concepts no-one understands.
Can't help but notice he's basically knowingly "donating" the code to multi-billion corporations to train their LLMs on (while in general those same corporations source their training data in ethically questionable ways), while mere mortal human individuals and small businesses are bound by a non-free license. An interesting decision to say the least.
I would be shocked if anyone is really looking for anything practical out of this, its more of a lab exercise that lets you learn by actually doing things. I learn best this way. It's one thing to draw a circuit, or even put it in a simulator, but the act of hooking up the chips, and watching the blinking lights really sticks with me, and far more deeply ingrains the concepts in my head. And while the 8-bit kit is expensive, and time consuming, I found it worthwhile. There is probably a lot more value to be had in the 6502 series though, if for no other reason that the 6502 is iconic, and it was something of a thrill to me to really understand at a basic level the chip that powered the NES I spent so many hours with.
> Losers don't get to define what is Right

I mean, is this wrong? This is the literal reason we have elections, so the losers can’t tell us what to do.
The ignoring of quoted words is pretty annoying, especially when the search engine assumes you have spelled something wrong. Search is also incredibly sales oriented - shopping results are prioritized and fill up your results over the information you're wanting.

I was joking last year that we needed AI because regular search had gotten so awful. Not really a joke now.
Didn’t they just release a small-ish one ?
Mac Mini with Ultra might be 10-20x faster in terms of tokens/sec on the same model.
Yeah, it's pretty awesome, right?

REAL windows enterprise companies worth their salt use a shared drive on \\global.
...and we're force-feeding it to our kids.
The actions were bringing in a ton of people who worked on it, to the campaign and nascent administration before the election, which happened before Trump's lies about how that wasn't the plan.
Advertising can work. Reputable advertising firms track the numbers. You've always got correlation-causation problems, but there's too much data for it to be a coincidence.

There are two problems:

1. Even for reputable firms, they don't know beforehand what works. As the famous quote goes, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” That was over a century ago, but it's still true.

2. There are a lot of disreputable advertisers. So many that you can easily miss that any sincere advertising exists. And even the reputable advertisers are forced to use tactics that they wouldn't use in an environment with less noise.

Banning all advertising is a baby/bathwater situation. I promise you that there is a baby in there, and you'd notice if we threw out that ocean-sized bathtub. And then you'd want to build up a new advertising mode... and you'd find it a challenge to do in a way that is simultaneously effective and fair.
India's Subprime Bubble Grew 2,100%. Now a Bust Looms
Again, it comes down to how you define "Right" doesn't it?

Clearly Christian theology and other strains of thought think otherwise... that there's an ethical/moral "rightness" which can be judged independent of what the powerful say.

To be clear, I'm not arguing for that position. I just am pointing out in part why the Democrats and liberals are so pathetically unable to confront this situation. They thought they were part of a gentleman's club, and they could all take turns ruling according to a set of rules.
Ah alright. I don’t know too much about this which is why I was asking. Thanks for the reply.
Trump during the midterms:

"You are going to buy, baby, buy!"
archive.is blocks most DNS requests coming from Cloudflare. One would either have to hard code one of their IP's in their hosts file or use a different resolver.

Here are a few archive.is IP's:

45.95.146.96

178.170.84.251

31.210.170.251
You also have to ramp up the propaganda, because you need people to believe that things are fine, and that working hard can improve their lives just as much as it could in their grandparents' day. That becomes a harder sell all the time.
> The only people who can topple Apple

I've got some tough news for you: Apple isn't anywhere near the main problem here.
But but but.. sir.. he went to Joe Rogan.. he had a live chat with Musk and 350m live watchers (I think _that_ was the day that Trump decided to make Musk his wing-man.. an audience of 350m live watchers is a staggering number!)

Keeping it impersonal (and only understanding/analyzing "how" the elections were won/lost), I think that "Trump didn't win". Instead "Democrats lost", took a risky bet and to quote the meme "the risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math". [0]

[0]: https://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/963/073/e2...

EDIT: I think it was Bill Burr that said on his (latest) SNL monologue "you would think that after the assassination attempt they would just give it to him" (because yes, that was a critical security failure, and so badly designed (the "security" of the event") that one could easily be tricked into thinking that it was purposeful)(a proper Hanlon's razor)
Putting a bunch of foxes to guard the henhouse isn't cleaning the swamp. It's replacing the old swamp, which was nakedly self-interested, with a new swamp, which is also nakedly self-interested.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
they do in fact need to be sustainable and profitable. thats how numbers work. no one gets paid they leave. this isnt a charity.
Cock.li links donated email domain 'hitler.rocks' to two intelligence agencies
replaced slavery with indentured labor you mean?
I'm just making a general point, since the trade between China and the EU is qualitatively similar to China-US. And while the EU is anti-Trump at the moment, I do not think it is beyond aggressive economic action against China for political reasons, if nothing else. (And let's not forget about the new tariffs on Chinese electric cars).
Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity (2011) [pdf]
> It is 5x if you are already a senior SE knowing your programming language really well, constantly suggesting good architecture yourself ("seed files" is a brilliant idea), and not accepting any slop / asking to rewrite things if something is not up to your standards (of course, every piece of code should be reviewed).

If you know the programming language really well, that usually means you know what libraries are useful, memorized common patterns, and have some project samples laying out. The actual speed improvement would be on typing the code, but it's usually the activity that requires the least time on any successful project. And unless you're a slow typist, I can't see 5x there.

If you're lacking in fundamental, then it's just a skill issue, and I'd be suspicious of the result.
Watch long videos then YT will recommend more long videos. They are also like a crack but typically more useful.
Show HN: An intentionally annoying app to break doomscrolling
Based on personal struggles, I built an app that shows annoying things on my phone when I doomscroll. This includes dancing cats, the screen time police, or rain.

Social media is great as long as you don't overuse it -- I learn and connect with friends thanks to it. But it's too easy to get hooked.

When you open addictive apps, SpeedBump gives you a few options: 2, 5, 15, 30 minutes. The more you want to use, the more you have to wait before opening. Once time's up, it starts to annoy you a lot. There's no way to extend the timer without breaking your streak; you'll have to take a 15 min break.

I used Compose Multiplatform. It's been very fun to develop and actually works for me.

Check it out here and let me know what you think: https://speedbumpapp.com/ :)
Columbia has an endowment that stands (pre- Liberation Day) at 15 billion dollars.

They kowtowed to some of the militant Zionist interests involved in that endowment in order to attain a fractionally higher return, and betrayed their students.

They kowtowed to the fascist administration on the grounds that it was threatening 400 million dollars in grants, and betrayed their students to the point of facilitating a project to unilaterally deport many of them based on Constitutionally protected quasi-private speech.

At this point I don't think they want or deserve to be called a university. Let's go with "Tax-exempt investment fund".
AI actually doesn't really work for the "a couple days" scale yet. As a heavy AI user, this sort of iterative correction would usually be priced in in a 10-minute AI session. That said-

> Acting like a LLM now :P

Hey, if we're going to be like that, it sure sounds like you gave the employee an incomplete spec so you could then blame it for failing. So... at least I'm not acting like a PM :P