skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, most doctors believe in vaccines, but that's not group think, it's based in evidence that they have studied. From the outside, it might seem like group think.

I'm willing to bet that in most cases, that is groupthink. It's hard to tell, because the conclusion is identical to one based on evidence, so you can't infer from the opinion whether it's groupthink or not.

Sometimes you can tell by how someone holds a belief. Defensiveness, unwillingness to consider ways in which their chosen belief is not 100% wholly good, or shouting someone down are evidence of groupthink. For example: if someone brings up that in the past some inactive virus vaccines contained live viruses and a doctor claims that it never happened and could never happen, that's either groupthink or just a doctor sick of arguing with uninformed patients who has given up bothering with explaining the intellectual basis of his beliefs.

My personal suspicion is that the 1% don't exist, that everyone's opinions and beliefs are a mishmash of tribalism and intellectual conclusions, it's just that the balance is very different in different people. I try very hard to make my stances intellectually based and evidence-driven, yet I continually discover that more and more of my deeply held policy positions aren't as clear cut and the real world is more nuanced than I thought.

It's not like nuance is a binary thing (by definition!)
Also https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ exists, and has an app with everything you'd need. And is just crowd sourcing nutrition labels and barcodes.
Coupled with tax cuts?
You just cut out half the sentence and responded to one part. Your description is neither well defined nor us it unambiguous.

You can't just pick a singular word out of an argument and argue about that. The argument has a substance, and the substance is not "shorter is better".
Might some of that be due to long-term medical conditions (such as cancer or dementia) that were treated less effectively during the pandemic, but which didn't cause immediate loss of life?
That is what I thought.

BTW when you hover over the ingredients, you just get back the name. Are you guys going to do something with it in the future? Right now there is a visual feedback (the cursor changes), but it is not useful yet. I am not entirely sure what I would have expected, perhaps a description of what it is, and upon clicking on it, it could have information gathered from various sources, like examine.com and what have you, but that would be a huge change on its own, the short description upon mouse hover-over should work for now and may not be a huge change.
> These biases and trends are facts most people may not be aware of, but big pharma certainly is.

I have a hard time believing that “most people” also means “most epidemiologists” or “most medical organizations” would be unaware of such an obvious problem. It seems like it would be day one of school stuff.

It seems trivially obvious to me, someone whose closest qualification to being able to debate the actual science here is having a bachelor’s in physics and very technically being involved in some academic research. I’m not going to second guess the overwhelming majority of scientists and medical professionals I’ve heard comment on this because of something like that.
It takes time to ramp up olive oil production, so it’s way more cost effective to just import olive oil from countries with established crop.
It doesn't matter what the root cause of increasing prices is. Fed doesn't have any other levers but to adjust rates up to reduce demand. It will work either way because even if demand is not the source, it will reduce whatever demand that was there.
Boomers is anyone 60 or older right now - not just 70+

That being said, Boomer has evolved to mean anyone older, established and conservative.

Like the counterculture saying from the past, don't trust anyone over 30.
Tangential recommendation, but anyone interested in North Korean hacking should check our the BBC World Service's Lazarus Heist podcast[0].

0. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvg9/episodes/downloads
If the consumer price index, which is a metric the Fed uses, goes up, then inflation has gone up. Every dollar buys you less (less purchasing power), and the nominal price has increased. To me this indicates inflation. Of course, you need to calculate how this balances out in terms of jobs/wages and the flow of investment, but that's really hard to figure out at this point in time.

I'd expect the CPI to go up in the event of global tariffs at a baseline of 10% assuming all things go ahead as described.
How I Built and Launched a Japanese Kanji Learning App Using Vibe Coding
Yeah, that's fair - it's very easy to tell that LLMs are not the end state, but it's near impossible to know what comes next.

Personally I think LLMs will be relegated to transforming output and input from whatever new logic system is brought forth, rather than pretending they're doing logic by aggregating static corpora like we are now.
Hey thanks! I stare at our docs site multiple times a day and sometimes I lose all sense of what looks good so your comment is much appreciated.
Yeah, I remember that being discussed pretty heavily in the early days of systemd (especially the socket activation model & parallelization) but (IIRC) there were some concerns about how it would integrate with the rest of the linux world which did things a lot differently than Mac OS, especially in the server space where Linux has to be near-universal with nearly any conceivable application running on top of it. That definitely smells to me like a subjective determination and there were people at the time who disagreed with that analysis, so I'm not presenting it as fact, just my recollection of the winning argument(s) at the time.

Edit: Yes, I looked at the original "Rethinking PID 1" post and that seems to be the case[1]

[1]: https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
3-4 years is not long at all in this context. Most places take that long to get permits, and additional years to build the factories, and additional years to even become profitable and self sustainable in ideal circumstances.
The goal of the world now is to specifically target red swing states with counter tariffs so that the democrats will win the midterms, pass legislation to prevent the president from being able to unilaterally impose tariffs in the future and thus put a swift end to the golden age.
>each country will impose equivalent taxes on the import of US goods

Many of these countries already have tariffs on U.S. goods. The EU has a 25% tariff on US agricultural, chemical, and some manufactured products.
> It would be fair to say that these things are symbols representing people

This is built in to the normal context of the topic. When people talk about the constitution in this situations people are not talking about a piece of paper with writing on it.

> Like, as in the citizens that voted for him? ... They have not (to this point) established the obligation.

Can you layout the existing cases for him being obligated? You are not addressing any of the common/standard political theory arguments for it here. I can not tell what sort of political theory or government you are proposing here either so I can not respond to that.

>> Let's separate that from enforcement mechanisms.

> You can't, really. Without motivation, there is no obligation.

This seems like it is a semantics issue.

": the action of obligating oneself to a course of action (as by a promise or vow)[1]

Yeah All presidents do that when they take their oath.

"1. a moral or legal requirement; duty" [2]

yeah that applies too.

"An obligation is a course of action which someone is required to take, be it a legal obligation or a moral obligation. Obligations are constraints; they limit freedom. People who are under obligations may choose to freely act under obligations. Obligation exists when there is a choice to do what is morally good and what is morally unacceptable.[1] There are also obligations in other normative contexts, such as obligations of etiquette, social obligations, religious, and possibly in terms of politics, where obligations are requirements which must be fulfilled. These are generally legal obligations, which can incur a penalty for non-fulfilment, although certain people are obliged to carry out certain actions for other reasons as well, whether as a tradition or for social reasons." [3]

Yeah that applies to the presidential case too.

So you are not using obligation in 100% typical fashion. You really seem to be using obligation as a synonym for ~"enforcement mechanism" or maybe "enforced action" and more often than not that is not how I have seen it used both in everyday life and political theory.

I think you are breezing over the existing "enforcement mechanism" and consequences or at least potential consequences for situations like this as well. That maybe because you have a political theory, that is not laid out here, that covers/makes that obvious though.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obligation

[2] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/obligat...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligation
I don't think you can just hand-wave away high value services that other parties are willing to pay for as being "fake".
I definitely know that people have complained that modern ThinkPads are not as good as before, and they have been doing that for ages, just as Socrates back in the day already was complaining about modern kids and their behaviours ;-)

In this case I was referring to post-T480 ThinkPads which have soldered memory, and no longer have hot-swappable batteries or on-board Ethernet.
The reshoring efforts you're talking about will not come remotely close to restoring what was lost and what could have been. We're so far behind outside of software and finance it's almost unfathomable. To grasp the full cost that has been paid, you need to imagine a scenario like all of NYC, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, etc., just don't exist at all. That kind of scale is what we've lost out on -- not in software, of course, but in most other industries.

Fly-over country should have been the site of the greatest industrial and manufacturing innovation the world has ever seen. We threw away one of the greatest opportunities in history to juice stocks for a couple decades.
I don't want to work for a business created by, uh, upper class folks that wouldn't have done it if not for temporary tax breaks by a pandering grifter executive.

I believe in a strong middle class and upward mobility for all.

I don't think we want businesses that are dependent on war, hate, fear, and division for continued profitability.

I don't know whether a flat or a regressive or a progressive tax system is more fair or more total society optimal.

I suspect it is true that,
Higher income individuals receive more total subsidies than lower-income individuals.

You don't want a job at a firm that an already-wealthy founder could only pull off due to short-term tax breaks and wouldn't have founded if taxes go any higher.

You want a job at a firm run by people who are going to keep solving for their mission regardless of high taxes due to immediately necessary war expenses, for example.

In the interests of long-term economic health and national security of the United States,
I don't think they should be cutting science and medical research funding.

Science funding has positive returns. Science funding has greater returns than illegal wars (that still aren't paid for).

Find 1980 on these charts of tax receipts, GDP, and income inequality:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140500 :

> "Federal Receipts as Percent of Gross Domestic Product" https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

> "Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product" https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43220833 re: income inequality:

> GINI Index for the United States: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA

Find 1980 on a GINI index chart.
I did somehow miss this lawsuit, but this is an advertisement for the law firm, not actual documentation of the ruling, because the ruling hasn't been issued yet. The wording is very precise here: the judge ruled that those claims were credible and allowed the case to move forward. That is not the same thing as the judge siding with the plaintiffs.
Local multiplayer on steam is borderline unusable.

A software engineer can (temporarily) get it working after hours of diagnosis.

Compare that to the switch.
The challenge is that for a lot of countries, the forex markets for their own currency aren’t deep enough to settle all of their international trade.

Consider a country that has a large trade imbalance—they import a lot of goods and have very few exports. When a business in that country tries to import goods, say from the Philippines in Pesos or from Germany in Euros, the business will have to go to a forex markets and sell their local currency to buy the foreign currency.

Who’s going to take the other side of that trade? Normally, if a country exports a lot of goods, then foreign businesses will need to buy the country’s local currency to pay for them, and that provides a market for exchanging Pesos and Euros for the local currency. But the country doesn’t export very much, so other businesses in the Philippines or the Eurozone don’t have much use for the business’ local currency, and that means that there isn’t a large market of people selling Pesos or Euros to buy the local currency.

This example is a bit of an edge case where this fictional country runs a trade deficit with all of its trading partners. In reality, you’ll likely have a trade deficit with some partners and a surplus with others. If you decide to denominate some of your international trade in US Dollars, then you’re able to use the excess dollars coming in to your country from your exports to finance your imports. It’s a lot easier than hoping that you can sell enough of your local currency or the currencies of the countries you’re exporting to to buy enough of the currencies of the countries you’re importing from.

In some ways it’s similar to the hub-and-spoke model of airlines. If you want to get from small town A to small town B, there might not be enough traffic in both directions to warrant a direct flight. But if there’s a hub X, then there might be enough traffic between A and all the other flights into X to make it worthwhile to fly from X to B and vice versa. There might not be enough balanced trade between two small countries for there to be a deep market in their currency pair, but if you have both imports and exports denominated in US Dollars then you can generate an internal market in your country for exchanging your local currency for USD.
I have tracked my macro intake seriously for years and use the database every day, as do many folks who used the initial app releases. It's actually more valuable to me to have the data in this format, even estimated, because what happens with other apps is you get gaps in macronutrient reporting on things like Omega 3's, and you wonder 'Am I not eating any Omega 3's or does the database containing the food I ate just not include them?'. In that case I'd much rather have an LLM that had access to as much relevant data as I could feed it reason through approximate nutrient distribution and give me the best estimate it could.

Appreciate the feedback!
Tell HN: Effects of the front page on a non-profit
A few days ago I posted Vets Who Code[0] on HN[1]. It got put into the second chance pool and made the front page yesterday.

Not sure how high it got, but I saw it in the teens.

The founder just shared the impact on his organization in a post on LI[2], but I wanted to share it here.

> We now have 12 new mentor volunteers and received a donation.

Thank you, HN community, for helping out with not just attention and comments (though I've found those extremely valuable in the past) but concrete action.

0: https://vetswhocode.io/

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533124

2: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7313539233317543936/
Tunisian here. Tunisians on social media are baffled/amused because olive oil is basically the only product imported by the US.
> The media has been perpetuating that that tariffs are borne by consumers

They’ve not done that enough. The title is literally “34% tarriffs on China”. Heh, not __on__ China but 34% import tax on products which come indirectly or directly from China, imported by $country residents or companies.
Draw a diagonal across a square, as illustrated, a bisected right angle has two equal angles, 45 and 45. I would guess it was instead meant to represent the angle from the base of the formed tetrahedron along one of its three sides to the apex ... unless this is not a cube but a rectangular block (rectangular cuboid.)
Comments like this make me wonder why some Americans think they should be able to move on every other country “like a bitch”.

In some places, dollar is not god. Important, but not god.
As a guess (without being able to see the article) it is a "just spray it on and it will make everything better" type quote.
Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in
I've been a long-time Cloudflare user, but sometimes I just want a global load balancer without the lock-in and with full configuration control (e.g., some Cloudflare rules require an enterprise plan).

I love Caddy for its easy configuration, and that's why I created Novnaode. It makes it easy to launch hosted Caddy instances (with Nginx coming soon) and puts you fully in control of how to manage the configurations.

No more being restricted by enterprise tiers or limited configuration options - just simple, powerful, and flexible global load balancing.

Check it out here: https://novanode.sh
Not really, the fundamental problem shared for all the tools mentioned by GP is the same of concurrent edits. We as an industry typically ignore it in regular CRUD settings due to low conflicting operation frequency, but it gets problematic in offline and multiplayer settings since those cause it to become more common/visible.

As for documents vs DB, technically you can often compose documents into a number of tables. And having it decomposed into a regular DB simplifies a lot of visibility tasks since you don't need to built an extra layer to manage that and/or you might want to implement partial permissions into something that feels "document like" but really pertains to a larger system.
I read the article. It's a compromise of UBI. The start of the plethora of confusion diluting the concept, part of the eventual destruction of the idea.
Well yeah, that's the point. Its so factories paying local wages can now compete with factories overseas where wages are much lower.
As a developer not of this, but of dynamic derivations in Nix itself, let me put it this way:

A long term end goal is that if you don't change headers and only change is single C/C++, anywhere in the build graph for your entire system you should get a quick recompile of just that file + relink just the executables/shared libraries the output object file is built in.

This will require boiling an oceans, to get all the packages' build systems using Ninja or similar like this. But that's hopefully

- less boiling that rewriting the whole world of open source in Bazel/Buck2.

- a far more incremental, crowd-source-able project, as you could convert packages one-by-one, starting with big builds like LLVM and Chromium as Edgar says.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" has been a Republican cornerstone for decades. None of the DOGE stuff should be the least bit surprising, and to say that they fail to understand what these agencies do is to miss the point entirely. They don't care. Government agencies are axiomatically bad and shutting them down is axiomatically good, that's it.
funniest text I read in university
It's a bit difficult to nail down direct citations for what is basic knowledge of how tariffs work in reality. It's covered in AP/college macroecon and U.S. history classes.

Wikipedia's articles on Smoot–Hawley and the Tariff of Abominations both have sections on their effects.

In short, we'll see a brief rise in the domestic economy, then a sharp recession. One of the reasons SE Asia, BRICS, and the EU have been so active to disconnect themselves from the U.S. is they don't want to get caught up in the U.S. economic failure like they did in the 1930s.
It's perfectly fine to love Apple and Steam. They are both great companies and offer great products. The issue I have is in trying to extrapolate that love into labeling them pro-"software freedom", which is idiotic. Both these companies ship opaque binaries of their storefront and products. Their apps/games have restrictive DRM. You cannot install/register games without an account and internet access. They artifically limit resale/sharing/lending of digital goods. They are actively user hostile (such as not offering refunds until forced to by courts). Even the Steam Deck is full of proprietary blobs which would be illegal to revese engineer and reshare. Nothing about the experience is FOSS.

Again none of this is inherently bad if your argument is "I like the convenience and don't care about the restrictions". But don't delude yourself into thinking this is "freedom".
TIL that there were no organ works in the history of humanity until electrical power was invented
You're right, many crypto exchanges operating on the right side of the law will freeze these funds.

For those interested in this, CT (crypto twitter) makes tracking North Korea's stolen winnings a bit of a sport.

samczsun, an excellent security auditor who's working at Paradigm these days, broke down some of the org in a post the other day.

https://x.com/samczsun/status/1906754853063565720?t=N4aqa6Vy...

Taylor Monahan at MetaMask also makes a habit of tracing funds and shares some pretty interesting finds around NK's laundering efforts.
His issue is actually that Putin told him to jump, and so he has to jump. You're utterly delusional if you think Trump gives a single diaper filled with shit about the "blue collar workers"
"Should common American citizens" ... is a question

"How should..." is the really important and interesting question. Even when everybody answers yes, which most people do, to the "should" question they will often completely disagree on the "how should" question.
Emotional investment is a subtly different issue to package-deal opinions.
Love this idea -- can't wait to try it out @ Quome
>The market's needs change faster than senior executives can adapt: if they always produced what the market was actually clamoring for, the company would run around like a chicken with its head cut off (this actually happens when the CEO panics, and a key CEO skill, and part of the reason they're paid so much, is the ability to ignore every piece of market data saying "You're not hot anymore. Nobody wants you, and the market has moved on" and keep doing what you're doing even though your intuition is telling you that you're doomed and going to lose your cushy $20M/year job)

You know what I absolutely hate about this take? It ignores my shared experience I've had with others (IE, its not just me). I've worked in this industry a long time. So I've inevitably worked for places that ran into financial trouble. In multiple of those cases, it could have been prevented if upper management actually listened to what those of us developing the product had to say about shifting customer behaviors and expectations, that what we were seeing was different from what they were trying to sell and have us develop. It always ended in disaster.

They refused to listen, but never paid the price for that failure, my colleagues did and in one instance, I was on the receiving end of a layoff along with others as well.
I will admit that the tool itself is still a bit janky (had to make a lot of workarounds with Streamlit). Will def continue to work with my professor for polish and additional features.