skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider that we're living in a post-truth world, so you may not like the answer.

With enough propaganda, it's easy to blame whatever self-inflicted problem on others.
Oh yes also nitrogen.
People talk about meaning, but they rarely define it.

Ultimately, "meaning" is a matter of "purpose", and purpose is a matter of having an end, or telos. The end of a thing is dependent on the nature of a thing. Thus, the telos of an oak tree is different from the telos of a squirrel which is different from that of a human being. The telos or end of a thing is a marker of the thing's fulfillment or actualization as the kind of thing it is. A thing's potentiality is structured and ordered toward its end. Actualization of that potential is good, the frustration of actualization is not.

As human beings, what is most essential to us is that we are rational and social animals. This is why we are miserable when we live lives that are contrary to reason, and why we need others to develop as human beings. The human drama, the human condition, is, in fact, our failure to live rationally, living beneath the dignity of a rational agent, and very often with knowledge of and assent to our irrational deeds. That is, in fact, the very definition of sin: to choose to act in a way one knows one should not. Mistakes aren't sins, even if they are per se evil, because to sin is to knowingly do what you should not (though a refusal to recognize a mistake or to pay for a recognized mistake would constitute a sin). This is why premeditated crimes are far worse than crimes of passion; the first entails a greater knowledge of what one is doing, while someone acting out of intemperance, while still intemperate and thus afflicted with vice, was acting out of impulse rather fully conscious intent.

So telos provides the objective ground for the "meaning" of acts. And as you may have noticed, implicitly, it provides the objective basis for morality. To be is synonymous with good, and actualization of potential means to be more fully.
I’m sure there’s a flashy way to say it, but yours reminds me of this one:

> Only ask for permission if you want to be told “no”
Not my experience from living in South London. There is rubbish everywhere and I had my front garden vandalised many times.
Not at all. I meant it more as response to the sentiment that someone in the UK doesn’t need American goods and services, while posting on HN.
I dunno, if the package name is just some local thing that could be nice. Is “all software is part of a package” ever a nice simplifying assumption?
For big artists, I tend to just go to my local record store, pick up a CD, and rip it when I get home.
Maybe, but now you are pushing opinions, not facts.

I am pretty sure that you will not see a negative correlation between tax and GDP, just look at that list.

And maybe the politicians and tax officers in Denmark are people that got there because they enjoyed free university education instead of getting it paid by their parents?

Or maybe they were even re-educated factory workers?
Irony that the person who assumed the worst of the article author is offended by bad faith accusations.

But I do believe you that you just didn't read it.
"Computer" used to be a job title https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
But Monarch is the backend, so people rarely interact with it. As of the time I left Google, the UI is automon, the language to write alert rules in is gmon, the language to do interactive exploration in is mash, and the CLI to interact with retentions and metrics etc is monarch_tool. It didn't matter if the backend was Monarch or not.
I don't agree with or support the overall position of the GP, but feel the parts their argument you attack are not the important parts. The Dems most certainly did sabotage their own campaign. Incredibly weak leaders and they kept telling people who are really hurting and falling farther behind that "everything's great; the last 4 years have improved dramatically!" when it just wasn't the case for the exact same people Trump told he would make everything so much better. He lied, won't help them and doesn't give a shit about the vast majority of citizens, but he told them exactly what they wanted to hear. The Democrats were incredibly tone-deaf, and massively discounted 1. how many people were mad and 2. how many were willing to plug their noses and vote for Trump.
The human still needs to think, of course. But, I can get to my answer or my primary source using a tool faster than a typical search engine. That's a super power, when used right!
1. I've worked with analysts and done analysis for 20+ years. I have used Machine Learning with OSINT as far back as 2008 and use AI with OSINT today. I also work with many related analysts.

2. Most analysts in a formal institution are professionally trained. In Europe, Canada and some parts of the US it's a profession with degree and training requirements. Most analysts have critical thinking skills, for sure the good ones.

3. OSINT is much more accessible because the evidence ISN'T ALWAYS controlled by a legal process so there are a lot of people who CAN be OSINT analysts or call themselves that and are not professionally trained. They are good at getting results from Google and a handful of tools or methods.

4. MY OPINION: The pressure to jump to conclusions in AI whether financially motivated or not comes from perceived notion that with technology everything should be faster and easier. In most cases it is, however, just as technology is increasing so is the amount of data. So you might not be as efficient as those around you expect, especially if they are using expensive tools, so there will be pressure to give into AI's suggestions.

5. MY OPINION: OSINT and analysis is a Tradecraft with a method. OSINT with AI makes things possible that weren't possible before or took way too much time for it to be worth it. Its more like, here are some possible answers where there were none before. Your job is to validate it now and see what assumptions have been made.

6. These assumptions have existed long before AI and OSINT. I seen many cases where we have multiple people look at evidence to make sure no one is jumping to conclusions and to validate the data. MY OPNION: So this lack of critical thinking might also be because there are less people or passes to validate the data.

7. Feel Free to ask me more.
It is not only copyright that is problematic. It generates Franco when asked about the best Spanish leader in the 20th century.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67efebf4-3b14-8011-8c11-8f806c7ff6...
FSD with just cameras for input breaks down in times of low visibility (fog, smoke, heavy rain). That’s a straightforward fact
Even if companies are convinced they need to manufacture stuff locally (ie they believe these tariffs are never going away, whereas in practice you'd expect that, at absolute most, they're gone within four years, likely two, and maybe within weeks), you're talking about years to build up production capacity. China is likely taking the (reasonable) view that US consumers won't put up with years of higher prices.
Trump is supported by the people running Silicon Valley (Musk, Thiel, Andreessen - with Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos financing his inaugural), hedge fun titans like Robert Mercer, heartland industrialist like the Uihleins. Plus white, Christian, married families who don't live in large coastal cities support him in the majority.

So I take this in the dialectic sense - that it is not destructive but self-destructive.

Also the opposition's obsession with Russia points to their loss. The average American doesn't give a damn what Putin thinks. Trump is focused on the US (or maybe Canada or Greenland) while the opposition is focused on Russia. Liberal Denocrats disliked Russia when Khrushchev was in charge too, they just have some anti-Russian animus that you can read about in the New York Times back to 1925 and before.
We just got an induction range and our long-time nonstick pan did not work with it. I couldn't figure out why the cooktop was turning off a few seconds after turning on until I switched to a cast-iron pan and saw that the cooktop worked as expected.

It worked great once it got going though. I don't think I'm going to miss gas.
Yes that was the whole point of my post.

For further info it was Redbubble.

>Redbubble is a significant player in the online print-on-demand marketplace. In fiscal year 2023, it reported having 5 million customers who purchased 4.8 million different designs from 650,000 artists. The platform attracts substantial web traffic, with approximately 30.42 million visits in February 2025.
I'm quite sure my grandma could not. You can make the argument these people aren't intelligent but I think that's a contrived argument.
> The democrats have an even lower approval rating and seem to be staunchly refusing to change.

These two statements can't both be true for very long. The Democratic Party is going to reinvent itself. Turbulent and uncertain though it may be, this is how it works.

The GOP just used its generational transformation, has been given free rein to prove their ideas, and lo and behold: they suck!
I didn't mean visual fidelity, I meant the way that plot and theme and art interleave. I first watched My Neighbour Totoro on VHS with no visual fidelity and it was still magic.

You can easily steal the style of a political cartoon or especially XKCD but you cannot steal or generate genuine fresh insight or poignant relevant metaphor for the current moment.
I feel like the US have a culture of big chains like that. You want an email? GMail. You want mexican food? Chipotle. etc. I don't mean that as a criticism, but there seems to be a cultural thing.

In most parts of the world, you don't almost exclusively chains of restaurants, and people don't expect that. Just like it's normal to have someone suggest a restaurant you have never heard about, it's normal to have someone use an email provider you've never heard about.

Or maybe that's completely unrelated, I don't know :-).
This is actually something that I think a lot about with tariffs. The price that you pay at the corner store for an item, even an imported item, is nowhere near the price that an importer pays at the border.
I think far too much effort was spent building critical frameworks in social sciences without the lesson sticking that it is a two way street. You build the critical framework to frame specific criticisms. By doing that, you can highlight influences that may be missed in another framing.

Which isn't a bad thing. But the key there is in building frameworks. Instead, we seem to have built large portions of the public into thinking these are the only frameworks that matter. And so everything has to be tied back to them.
If you don't bother to vote, then you're [almost literally] saying you're OK with whoever wins. If that wasn't your intention, you would vote for some third party that you were OK with.
Yeah, corporations have the resources to do that kind of investment in Linux which random hobbiests don't.

But why do they do it in the first place, instead of investing in their own obviously supiriour massively invested in OS's? Because Linux IS better, and the whole idea of it is better than some closed source crap. By nature of the GPL license it will snowball and everyone else will be left behind.
I didn't say that it is. You don't have to take my word for it, American independent voters believe he is doing very badly on the economy.
The senate voted to null trumps Canada tariffs, but it's not expected to pass the house. The president can also veto the decision and it would go back and require a 2/3 majority. Not impossible just unlikely.
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> how hard can it be to serve those data with HTTP on a web server?

We're talking about TB and TB of scientific data, so pretty hard.

Meanwhile, here's a nice well-organized easily-accessible glorified FTP server of all this: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-mmz4ve4u5cdui... https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/
There is also the obvious angle to destabilize the world economy to benefit Russia, whose name was not on the tariff board at all.

Yes, the excuse was that sanctions already apply but who would like to place bets on when those are lifted (as a negotiation for Ukraine)

Were it not also the fact that the US just canned the head of the NSA and publicly ceased cyber activities against Russia, it’s hard see this any other way
There are many axes on which to measure homogeneity or diversity.

I don't think you're wrong about the axes for "academic intelligence" or "political outlook". But those are just two of many. Geographic, racial, economic, class (in the European sense), language, culture .. these are all equally valid, and likely to vary more in a university than in a workplace (even in the military).
the thing is, engaging with a poem only as a literal screed on the general topic is a very black and white way to engage with it. The author is negative on LLMs sure, but I'm sure the feeling this piece evokes clicks with many people; including people who use LLMs as power users (like myself). I don't have to fully / always agree with this. It's something that should be said. And there are times when I want to take off my technological wizard hat and put on my simple humanity hat and enjoy a poem like this. And then sigh, double check my impulse to look at my phone, double check my impulse to talk about money making, sex pursuing schemes, look at my friend in the bar and realize they won't be around forever and say, genuinely, 'hows it going bud'
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> It just trails in productivity and income. It's like a comfortable, house paid off retiree with a part time job, mostly living off accumulated wealth and prestige.

Britain is a retirement home with a handful of warships attached.
I've been introspecting lately on why I've got this kind of reaction to the whole situation despite rationally knowing the benefits involved.

We're currently _already_ in the midst of a tech and social revolution in the form of social media platforms. About 15 years ago, everyone became excited about how they could connect with old friends whenever they want on Facebook, from their computer. 10 years later, the story started to curdle as people realised being plugged into the internet 24/7 has major societal drawbacks. I think about how detached I've become from local communities, and just how much my life I entrust to a handful of tech companies in San Francisco.

Now a new group of companies come along, peg themselves to every facet of life, and demand billions of investment dollars for their products and whip up a bunch of evangelists. I'm in the midst of reevaluating my relationship with tech and now tech advocates are in every part of my life trying to tell me how much better my life should be. Maybe I'll install a copilot at some point, but I just want to get on with things for now.

It never helps that my current team has a fetish for rapidly expanding our tech stack without considering the learning cost to the rest of the team, so I'm at my capacity for learning atm
> The article didn't even mention it.

Literal first thing in the article - it's a block quote right under the title.
The Fed may raise interest rates, that is, proposing that securities be sold at a higher discount.

A fearful market may end up bidding up these securities anyway, bring the effective rate down.
Sounds of guillotine being sharpened...
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Pessimistically I think it's more out in the open because they think it won't catch up to them.
It's part of the calculus. NZ/AU seems safe.
For more on Loomer, perhaps see:

> The far-right celebrity Laura Loomer was at the White House on Wednesday. If you don’t spend a lot of time online, you probably don’t know who Loomer is, and that’s healthy. To say that she is a “conspiracy theorist” is not quite enough: She has referred to herself as a “proud Islamophobe” and has claimed that 9/11 was an “inside job”; she has charged that some school shootings were staged, accused Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis of “exaggerating” her struggle with breast cancer, and questioned whether the “deep state” might have used an atmospheric-research facility in Alaska to create a snowstorm over Des Moines. (Why? So that foul weather would suppress the turnout in the 2024 Iowa GOP caucuses and hurt Trump’s campaign.)

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/a...
found it https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/dining/easter-eggs-potato...
Sure, unless they flip-flop on tariffs and make your investment not as attractive as it initially seemed.

People assume there's going to be massive investments into what is essentially an uncertain market. A reversal of the capital outflows of the previous decades or something, dunno?

Why, exactly, would people from other countries chose to invest in the US when they could just keep their investments at home and/or engage with more reliable trading partners like the EU, South America or Asia?
Singing in adult choirs has been one of my most spiritually and socially rewarding activities. You really feel a brother in arms with your fellow singers. Perhaps it is because singing is such an embarrassing activity in isolation, but then the sheer force of all the voices come together to make something of such power and beauty that you are incapable of replicating yourself. I’ll never forget the tenors I sang Faures Requiem or Beethoven 9th with.
> You can't take the GDPR, and conclude that regulations as an idea is bad.

Though I didn't make that claim, in fact I precisely think that more often than not that's indeed the case. Regulations often serve no other purpose than to create yet more red tape procedures and self-serving structures.
Not sure what's your point though. I do think people will always do "some" unreasonable things, but doing all reasonable things at once and as much as we can is probably not smart so we should at least discuss it. How large should a burger be? How many times per day should you wash your car? What temperature should you use for your AC? Don't know, but if someone tells me they eat 1kg burger at each meal, they wash their car 3 times a day and they put the AC to 15 in the summer I would tell them they are not reasonable and that they can enjoy life better if they change a bit their habits.
We all work for US tech companies, do we?
> I don't think anyone imploring us to change agricultural practices is unaware of these fundamentals about human nature.

I don't disagree necessarily, but to be clear my comment was't directed at a wide audience, but rather directed at GP who did say something that to me would indicate heavily that they are either unaware of or choose not to acknowledge those fundamentals about human nature:

> You wanting the burger has all these negative consequences for humans, animals and nature.

I fully concede that I may be reading it too literally, but I don't think it's unreasonable to take what people say at face value. In fact I think that's the most reasonable thing to do as attempting to read minds over the internet quickly deteriorates conversation into talking past each other and people assuming you're lying/misrepresenting your true intentions (aka, reddit). I don't think I've interpreted their statement uncharitably either, though if I have that was inadvertent and was not my intention.

But also, my main point was more about the path to success than the tediously obvious truism. My main point is that shaming people for their nature isn't generally effective. I've seen this first-hand having grown up in a religious environment that heavily shamed sexual feelings/activity outside of marriage. The path to success (IMHO of course) is to develop palatable alternatives to meat.
Somehow someone had notified Nintendo

Is this correct? I would guess Nintendo has some automation/subscription to a service that handles this. I doubt it was some third party snitching.
Yeah, er, or sadder.
My first wonder: is there a good reason for canceling the contracts? Were the contracts reasonable, or was the U.S. gov't getting fucked?

If they were paying reasonable, open-market rates to Amazon and Google, this could be a tragedy.

If they were getting fucked, it could be a reasonable response to sloth and indifference on the part of our civil service.

Has anyone bothered to check, or is this all just wailing and gnashing along party lines?
And you're in bad faith. The parent I responded to was responding to this:

> Completely agree. Reducing or getting rid of livestock animal agriculture will help with many major challenges we have today, like climate change, loss of biodiversity, animal cruelty, antimicrobial resistance. But hey, gotta have that cheap burger, huh?

They said "I don't care if it's cheap, but I want my burger".

Can you understand where I come from?
They likely expect Europe and the other big economies to join in. US attacks every country in the world, most of those countries retaliate by attacking the US (at this point, the US, which has a trade war with the world, is in a worse position than everyone else, who only have trade wars with the US), US capitulates, would be the theory. The intent is to make the problem go away, quickly. Of course, the flaw there is that this requires borderline-sane leadership.
I got Radio Tirana once (1990-ish) on my shortwave. The program informed me something to the effect that that Albania is often known as the Switzerland of the Balkans because of its crystal-clear mountain lakes.
One thing I experimented with was writing a tag-based filesystem for that sort of thing. Imagine, e.g., using an entity component system and being able to choose a view that does a refactor across all entities or one that hones in on some cohesive slice of functionality.

In practice, it wound up not quite being worth it (the concept requires the same file to "exist" in multiple locations for that idea to work with all your other tools in a way that actually exploits tags, but then when you reference a given file (e.g., to import it) that needs to be some sort of canonical name in the TFS so that on `cd`-esque operations you can reference the "right" one -- doable, but not agnostic of the file format, which is the point where I saw this causing more problems than it was solving).

I still think there's something there though, especially if the editing environment, programming language, and/or representation of the programming language could be brought on board (e.g., for any concrete language with a good LSP, you can re-write important statements dynamically).