skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really wild. I'm not sure if people have just reached a level of fatigue with the lies -- they say after so many lies peoples brains just shut down discernment of truth.. He leverages this very well.

In absence of truth, its just trolling and abuse. I think for some of the followers, this is what they really want. They have lives devoid of meaning and subjectivity as they are long numb, and so watching someone troll / hurt others (including them at times) helps them feel anything.
Evidence of 22,000-year-old vehicles found at White Sands National Park
'India imports most of its energy'. So what's happened to the extremely abundant 'free energy' available from the sum in India. They have the expertise, they could make the funding available. What is missing in their thought processes or is there something wrong with the premise?
'WhyQ'

• why respect the customer's actual search query when we could auction keywords instead?

• why allow the user to sort by price when they might find a product we get lower commission on?

• why not spam 'Prime' on every page, and use dark patterns to trick users into a subscription?

• why bother with expensive safety and quality audits of third party seller products?

• why ignore our private metrics on popular third party products when we could use them to create a knockoff and drive them out of business?
ouch i will check why
This feels like something one could easily procrastinate with (customizable, developer-friendly...).
Announcement post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-read-replication-beta/
It does have multiple uses - it communicates both your busy status, and your excess of disposable income.
Chicago transit expanding gun-detecting camera surveillance program
There's no shortage of governments where the professed ideology fails to line up with its actual policies, just look at the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
> half of its inhabitants now live with Fox News induced cognitive dissonance and are literally "ride or die" with the GOP.

This is a bit of an overstatement. In 2024, Trump received 49.8% of the vote on 64.1% turnout, which is only 31.9% of eligible voters and of course doesn't include millions of people who are ineligible to vote, mostly due to age. And some of Trump's total, relatively small yet crucial, consisted of nonpartisan "swing" voters who are not loyal to Trump or the GOP. The way our electoral system works, small differences are greatly magnified.
My wife works at a European engineering university with students from all over the world and is often a thesis advisor for Masters students. She says that up until 2 years ago a lot of her time was spent on just proofreading and correcting the student's English. Now everybody writes 'perfect' English and all sound exactly the same in an obvious ChatGPT sort way. It is also obvious that they use AI when she asks them why they used a certain 'big' word or complicated sentence structure, and they just stare blankly and cannot answer.

To be clear the students almost certainly aren't using ChatGPT to write their thesis for them from scratch, but rather to edit and improve their bad first drafts.
What has changed related to the topic? Can kids learn computers easily today? (No)
Every source I see says the vaccine is approved only up to age 45, but are you saying my doctor will give it upon request?
Third parties can answer.
The principled approach to YIMBYism is to say yes to (or rather, to not artificially stand in the way of) every development (within reason). Otherwise you're just another NIMBY with slightly different opinions about what types of things you don't want in your backyard. Generally speaking the market is pretty good about sorting out what what developments provide value on its own without interference from the loud minority of people who want to vote on everything with their voices rather than their feet.
This indicates to me that you treat blogging as an obligation rather than a way to share your ideas. I guess if you read enough AI blog spam, blogging itself just feels like a status game of what you've written about, divorced from quality of content? If you're padding out your own ideas with AI filler, why not just make your style more shortform and save your reader's time?
As someone who's been in Amazon for 7 years and has seen the constant decline since Jassy took over, I have to say he once again delivers disappointment.

This is by far the longest letter to shareholders ever written, and yet it's the least inspiring. All he does is try to justify the choices he has made since he has become CEO.

He is just so lame.
I really wish it were considered bad practice to waste README space on what amounts to advertising. A README should plainly provide a high-level overview and documentation. It shouldn't stand in for a website, a blog post, or marketing.

> security and safety is guaranteed

Only memory safety is guaranteed, and only if the library avoids `unsafe`, right?
This assumes the point of education is to be fair and get everyone a good grade, which it's not (at least, it shouldn't be).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6186730

HN thread last time this was posted (12-ish years ago)

things are worse now, I presume.
funny, this sister comment here makes the exact opposite argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639593

but even if you are right about retired people stopping to work, you also need to consider their age, and maybe the feeling that they have earned it after working for decades?

the same isn't true for young people, so the comparison is not conclusive.
> The essence of the question is why do people who love the outdoors vote for politicians who want to repeal laws to protect the outdoors?

Because they don't believe that most of those laws are having meaningful benefits. The law of diminishing returns applies to everything, including ever-increasing regulations.
When all your servers get more expensive what is going to happen to all your services that rely on servers?

Also we're going to see similar increases in consumer goods.
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That is probably the coolest sales pitch page I have seen. Love the design and animations.
> with new techniques and materials on top of old work done in a way that was usual at the time.

But is there any long-lived project for which this isn't true? Linux and the BSDs surely have many components that fall into this category.

> For example there's BString and BList.

BString is a much nicer string class to work with (IMO) than std::string. It lacks some modern conveniences, and it has some unfortunate footguns where some APIs return bytes and some return UTF-8 characters (the former should probably all be considered deprecated, indeed that's a BeOS holdover), but I don't think there's any intent to drop it.

BList could be better as well, but it's still a nicer API in many ways than std::vector. Our other homegrown template classes also are nicer or have particular semantics we want that the STL classes don't, so I don't think we'd ever drop them.

> Haiku also has seams of BSD code where there'd be a project to do Whatever (WiFi, TLS, drivers, etc.) "properly" in a way unique to Haiku

What would be the point of implementing WiFi drivers from scratch "uniquely" for Haiku? Even FreeBSD has started just copying drivers from Linux, so that may be in our future as well. I don't know that anyone ever really considered writing a whole 802.11 stack for Haiku; there was some work on a "native" driver or two at one point, but it was for hardware that we didn't have support for from the BSDs, and it still used the BSD 802.11 stack. Writing our own drivers there just seems like a waste of time; we might as well contribute to the BSD ones instead.
>Mobile has killed technical competence. We now all carry around computers that pretend to be mobile phones or tablets

To me this is a thing, I wonder how may kids out there hack their Computers if they even have one.

In spite of AI, I expect a huge shortage of real programmers in 10 years or so and the teenagers of the 90s start retiring.
I'll probably get downvoted for this. When I started dating a woman from Israel, her stories didn't jive with the stories we hear here. So I started digging into it and understood why she said it was such a mess and there was no way anybody outside of Israel could understand what was going on.

I'm not saying this as a form of both-sides-ism, but an acknowledgment that it's a shitshow and may never be untangled least of by US/EU.
> You have to eat. If a burger is the best choice in front of you, it is reasonable to make that choice.

Ok. Now try that sentence with "leg of a dog". Does that still feel reasonable? I think the difference isn't that one is more moral, it's that one is more familiar.

I also don't think he was talking about activists. There are plenty of "hardcore MAGA" types who are pretty passive about it. And even there that doesn't necessarily involve cognitive dissonance. I know plenty of people who vote for Democrats that are able to oppose it on certain particulars while still deciding it's the best voting option. But I think MAGA in particular is a cult of personality, which is very hard to justify intellectually.
https://archive.vn/2025.02.17-085311/https://www.telegraph.c...
Neat. I have something I use that was $25 on Amazon. It's not as fancy and has a crappy app, but it works for what I want with displaying something to others while I stay focused.

The other features are interesting, but software features that may not warrant a hardware.

This also doesn't seem bigger than a phone and makes me wonder why not use a phone mount.
There are people who would answer yes to both of those questions and then proceed to spout all manner of bullshit about it being harmless.
So many visa and proctored exam consultancies in India and I never heard of any of them verifying interviewees for remote jobs.
Seems like Trump blinked first in this game of chicken, not unexpected.
If you can afford a $250 light up piece of plastic nonsense to taunt and gatekeep your coworkers with, chances are you can probably spend $20 on a time management book.

this seems like an actively hostile narcissistic addition to a collaborative workplace that would get you fired in a week.
Welcome to the fishing forum flame wars.

Many divisive topics, such as catch and release or eating young fish ("bucket heads"), barbless hooks, etc. Hell, even fly fishermen get into internet slap fights over certain kinds of flies.
I'll wait for the £30 knock offs, pretty cool though.
I thought the process we were talking about was the visa application?
He made something that currently searches references on a given set of topics. It's not as if this automates thinking or writing any more than spell and grammar check.

There's quite a bit of vitriol in the comments that seems overblown. There's a line where we're typing a few words in to get some AI slop out, but I think this is a long ways away from there.
I am really curious to hear what evidence there is of that high-capacity fiberoptic undersea cable connecting LA to Hong-Kong (being worked on by many companies like Google/Meta/etc.) ever having any plans of being used as a “backdoor” for China to intercept all the user data.

Either there is some massive grand conspiracy going on between all those different companies (a good number of which have exactly zero products or revenue or business presence in China) and the Chinese government or, which I am leaning more towards given the claims, this is all just oversensationalized lies.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so far we only got the “bush did 9/11” level of evidence for claims that are arguably even more wild and convoluted than that.

The author, for example, also claims that “yeah, this was all according to the plan, until congress stepped in to stop the fiberoptic cable due to those concerns.” Any record of congress doing that for those reasons?

What about existing fiberoptic cables going through China right now? Are those cables not as special or useful for that purpose? Why not?

I am not even defending China and their approaches. I am familiar with deep packet traffic inspection and other things of a similar nature their government does. But that’s not a blanket excuse to just claim wild massive multinational conspiracies involving so many actors, all without as much as even good reason for why it would even make sense for them all to cooperate.
If one actually wanted to work around the idiotic "tough on crime" political machismo - it might help for rival politicians to play up the "disabled elderly prisoners, living in nursing homes with bars and guards, at taxpayer expense" angle.
I do not know.

I think all they are taught is Microsoft Office and Adobe products. How many kids/teenagers know what 0x20 is these days without doing a WEB search ?
That feature where less powerful plugs can be inserted into higher rated sockets but not vice versa is very cool.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/NZS_3112
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That hand... it's totally in the uncanny valley of hand motion.
No, but attacking students, physically preventing them from attending classes and screaming death threats based on their religion has tremendous implications. First stop all the funding (not only NIH, but prevent Qatar from funding universities) and then kick out those who are on student visas (or better send to jails in El-Salvador) and send to jail the citizens.
I'd pay for a cheaper app version of this that I could run on an old no-SIM phone.
Those are two different uses of 'cannot'. I know how to kill a cow, but 'cannot' bring my self to do it. I 'cannot' build a train because I don't know how to, but if I did I would be happy to do so.
> Ok. Now try that sentence with "leg of a dog". Does that still feel reasonable?

Yes. If dog legs are readily available in the store then sure.
It’s interesting because I just watched an interview with him on cnbc and left it with much the same thoughts. Not that I took issue with anything in particular but he really didn’t say anything particularly insightful it was just bland, zero risk platitudes which to me is shocking for the CEO of what is supposed to be one of the most forward thinking companies in history. Like give us some bold predictions, opinions, etc. Not a great sign for Amazon imo
Bro! My brain just ejected this idea today and it seemed so profound. So, I went on Grok to ask if anyone was testing it out already and that's how I found this write-up!
Extreme Sleep deprived people did hallucinate.

Nature may give us some hints to improve "AI" reliability.
> I run NixOS on every computer I'm allowed to install it and I really don't think it's hard to use, just different.

I work at a place that uses Nix for almost everything. Despite that, most developers do not like it (and usually create tickets asking the "experts" to fix things). The above quote is basically exactly what the experts are always telling the developers. That, along with "you just need to try harder." As if it's not valid that someone can think Nix isn't ergnomic and often sucks to use.

I personally don't mind it all that much, although nowadays I just use it for home-manager. But I've seen people go from disliking it to hating it because of the way some experienced Nix people have treated them.
Trees are a renewable resource. It won't be gone at all. Not only that, but the US is actually logging at a slower rate than trees are growing. We are currently gaining over 2000 square miles of forest every year.
Mastodon is not hard to use. You register at any instance and use it as if instances don't exist. Bluesky will repeat the fate of Twitter. It's centralized and for-profit.
Take a step back and look at the information flows of democracy. One or two ballots per year, with a handful of questions on them. For the national races, that is maybe 3 bits/year on average? Compare with the constant stream of ads, speeches, news articles, etc. Then at the higher level it's not like adding repeated answers to the same question preserves much information (cf Central Limit Theorem). So really the information flows to the voters are the more significant part of this setup, with the act of choosing serving as a commitment to make you think you wanted everything you voted for.
> we have to do more to defend our own cultures

What does "defend" mean?

> against immigrants imposing their cultures

How can a minority "impose" its culture?

> How you do that without being outright racist

You can start by not saying "defending" and "imposing". There's no attack. "Defending" only means enjoying and promoting all the elements of your existing culture - language, music, entertainment, food, dress, architecture, religious and other traditional celebrations.

Immigrants like to be part of the mainstream so most of them will participate, unless made to feel unwelcome, usually bringing some of their own food to the party (always a plus).
Depends what you mean by, "Best choice in front of you"

Most people in developed countries are not in a situation where if they do not eat the food in front of them now, they will starve. Nearly every grocery store should have things like tofu, lentil, beans, etc easily available. It may be most convenient, or most delicious, or something like that but vegetarianism and plant based are both very viable options for most of the developed world at this point.

Voting for a candidate in a 2 party system is not comparable, as there is literally not another viable choice in most cases.
Nothing is stopping someone from rigging it up to continue the absurdity.
The proper claim is that raising people from deficient (<20ng/ml) to a sufficient level (>30ng/ml ideally) should improve outcomes. Sometimes looking at a subset of those who started deficient is good enough to find such an effect, but sometimes it isn't, such as if the dose used was not high enough to raise people up enough, particularly common if the subjects weights were high which requires higher intakes to move the needle a lot, so other subset analysis look at norm-weight subjects. Proper study guidelines were published in the mid 2010s and meta-analyses like this one that aggregate many studies that don't conform to these guidelines are just as invalid as individual studies that don't.

For detailed treatment of this see this thread on X: https://x.com/KarlPfleger/status/1732514710715514883
I can also speak to this. Mine have been trouble free since 2015.
You don’t understand why people changed the subject rather than address an incurious question — and immediately resort to calling them “snowflakes” for doing so?

I think you’re answering your own question about why people don’t engage in discussions with you.
At the risk of being dismissive of people's interests, I've increasingly come to view many hunters and fishers are largely driven by the ego. They don't care if they can hunt or fish in 20 years as long as they can brag to their friend group that they bagged the biggest fish or game. In fact, it'd be better if they no one could hunt/fish in the future because that means they'd hold the "record" indefinitely.

All those pesky rules and regulations are just getting in the way.

Go sit in a bar in hunting country during deer season. You won't hear people talking about how peaceful, relaxing, or enjoyable it was. You either hear (1) them bragging about how big of deer they got (2) how big the deer was that "got away".
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I didn't read the paper, but this sounds very familiar and similar to the change in the NRA.

Pre 1970s the NRA was very much a hobby gun club meant mostly to keep american boys/men using guns for war readiness, along with promoting hunting/outdoor recreation. Then, in the 1970s, the NRA changed tune. After a big leadership shakeup the organization became very proactive in promoting anti-government, 2nd amendment, and "patriot" ideals. This likely stems from the Nixon impeachment, wherein republicans felt "wronged" and actively started seeking out revenge.

The federalist society was also born out of this same period and sentiment. The sentiment is that nixon's impeachment was a hit job. That's when we saw the advent of conservative media and the idea that "emotions are more important than fact" started to get some traction.

There's a great This American Life episode on the NRA's transformation from a hobby group to a lobbying group. I think this is it, https://radiolab.org/podcast/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-... . Great episode, highly recommend. It really puts the whole 2a movement into perspective.