skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People's health insurance is tied to their job. Mass firings by the largest employer in the nation could easily result in several deaths as medical treatments are disrupted and medications missed, delayed, or changed with insurance companies.

No, this could not "easily" happen. People get COBRA to continue their health coverage after losing their job. There is Medicaid and other programs for people who can't afford care. There are state exchanges where you can purchase insurance upon qualifying events like losing your job. There are a million and one ways to deal with this. Contrary to popular belief people in America do not immediately drop dead the second their health insurance lapses. This is nonsensical fear-mongering.
We definitely have not won, locked-down consumer device vendors like Apple are the prime example of how we lost.
That seems to be only real course of action, but I need to be sure if I am doing anything wrong.
Capitalism is a positive choice to grant the positive right of extreme property ownership.

Light property ownership is when this toothbrush is mine. Normal property ownership is when my house is mine. Extreme property ownership is when your house is mine, that section of airspace over there is mine, precisely four tenths of the revenue generated by the billboards on the Eiffel tower is mine - using a heavy dose of the legal system to artificially extend the principle of ownership to all sorts of things that aren't naturally property and things that would naturally be someone else's property. This is a positive action done on purpose by the legal system, not merely natural default like me owning my toothbrush.

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Did you know one of the common pesticides in the USA but banned in the EU interferes with hormone levels in certain species, making them way more individualist? One of those species is humans. Still a positive freedom?
OK, but consider that _my_ opponents are genuinely Dark Mirror ideologues. Silly of the author not to consider that.
Is it really true that the phone must be passively listening? The field of the payment terminal will induce current in the NFC-coil and that should be able to wake the phone as necessary.
> - C has a relatively limited type system by modern standards, no memory safety, no bounds checking, a slew of non-reentrant stdlib functions, UB, and relies on the user to account for all of that to benefit from its speed.

That is a feature, not a bug. Add your own bound checks if you want it, or use Ada or other languages that add a lot of fluff (Ada has options to disable the addition of bound checks, FWIW).

I am fine with Bash too (and I use shellcheck all the time), but I try to aim to be POSIX-compliant by default. Additionally, sometimes I just end up using Perl or Lua (LuaJIT).
I feel that there a few people (wielding extreme power) in this world that are/were cancer for humanity. Hitler (obviously), Stalin (obviously), Mao (obviously). Two more that don't have blood on their hands (debatable for Zuckerberg - Myanmar) but have messed up plenty of lives are Zuckerberg (already done - through action, inaction, and corruption) and now Altman (about to do - through action, and corruption).

Every time his name is in the new I 'like' him less and less.

I hope some 'wise king' will stop him, or at least slow him/them down until controls are in place. We cannot have a "move fast/break things" for _this_ newest technology.

I totally admire the 'setup' that US has, making it the 'best inventor' in the world (gathering talent, giving them the tools/funding/environment to thrive), but this reminds me the Hellhounds from Supernatural. We don't see them, but they are out to get us.

I foresee the future.. Altman will be on Joe Rogan in a couple of years from now stating how he was 'tricked' into making the mistake (a la Zuck), which caused upset, and havoc, and ....

As for Diana Papan.. I will go ahead an imagine that she secured the funding she needs for her next campaigns!! And so the lobbying (aka legal bribing/buying politicians) continues!!!
Market research.

I guess I should have included the purpose of my research.
The free marketplace idea obviously has not worked to combat disinformation, because we're trying the radical free marketplace idea and so many people are believing so much disinformation that they're threatening to destroy every western country. One of them is already destroying itself, not just threatening to.
I hear this repeated, “we don’t want manufacturing jobs, they suck”.
I work in manufacturing, and my job definitely does NOT suck!
That short sighted western leadership were so eager to ship off manufacturing jobs to China has been a disaster for the west. I can’t be the only one who sees this?
I don't see what crusty implementation details have to do with a philosophy. In fact, UNIX itself is a poor implementation of the "UNIX" philosophy, which is why Plan 9 exists.

The idea of small composable tools doing one thing and doing it well may have been mostly an ideal (and now pretty niche), but I don't think it was purely invented after the fact. Just crippled by the "worse is better".
Also if you then saw colleagues discussing company secrets or legally privileged information on a group chat, the onus is on everyone in the chat to call that out as wrong.
I keep hearing this BS, but unskilled manufacturing jobs are a downgrade from unskilled service jobs, and if official statistics aren’t lying, there’s been a growing shortage of unskilled labor in service. Expecting people without a skill and can’t even bother to flip burgers to want to do heavy labor in factories is ridiculous.
MIT and BSD predates it, and GPL only had a go at it for two reasons:

1 - Sun decided to inovate by spliting UNIX into user and developer SKUs, thus making the until then irrelevant GCC, interesting to many organisations not willing to pay for UNIX development SDK.

2 - AT&T tried to get control back over UNIX's destiny, and made BSD's future uncertain
It's not THAT easy.

You don't know if there will be a u-turn. There's no logic at all to this administration, they could just announce the "Biden correction" is over and that the tariffs have now worked, plus the government is buying stocks.

Any fantasy scenario is possible.
A lot of skilled jobs were shipped of to China, particularly heavy industry.
I am actually trying to use it for the purpose it is built for; Commercial research.
If they provide something of value to their audience, they can take money from their audience, in exchange for that value. If they do not provide value for their audience, them ceasing to exist is not a loss for society.
> will today wake up with a portfolio loss of >5% without the market even reopening.

That's pretty much irrelevant unless you opt out next reopening. If you have your portfolio down 15%, 20% or 30% it does not matter. That's the short term picture. If you're investing and looking at how those numbers fluctuate to make decisions and panic you will lose money for sure. No different like going to the casino. You're supposed to buy and hold forever, regardless the market crashes or rises. That's Bogle's advice and I believe is sound advice. So, there could be an opportunity to buy lower now if you are playing the long game.
I think you miss the point of the article, which precisely says that we store a ton of data we don't need to store in the first place.

Photos of kids are obviously not part of that "crap" (even if we have too many of them and it would be worth triaging for our own sake).

The question is: what makes for most of that data? Is that all business records, or is that storing stuff because we can? I've worked in multiple startups, all were tracking users as much as they could. Adding tools that collect data is easy, and storing that data is cheap. "We may need it later". Never needed any of that crap, and it was invading our users' privacy.

In any case, I think the article raises a good point: it's so cheap to store crap that we don't even think about it. And it's bad for the environment. Just like it's so cheap to take a plane that we don't think about it, even when taking the train takes almost the same time.
> It's interesting (and troubling) how these ragebaiting, Dark Mirror style positions used to be a bit less common but with the advent of social media have absolutely exploded into the dominant form of political discourse that now determines elections.

I think that's because it really has become more common to support certain politics merely out of opposition to other people. There are people who seem to support Trump not because they actually believe what he says, but merely because he hates the right kind of people. There are people who seem to just want to "make libs cry" even if it hurts themselves.

I suppose the real ideological difference there may be that they see their political opponents as inherently evil and they believe they need to be punished at any cost, but at some point it becomes nearly indistinguishable from a dark mirror.
> the cost of storing data is less than the cost of figuring out what to do with the crap.

Or the cost of figuring out that it's not worth saving...
So what you’re saying is, Trump fights for the poor and underprivileged.
> soldiers on the battlefield and a heavy usage of devices close to the line of contact. Android users might turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and even remove their SIM card

I would think a faraday bag would be far more efficient for this - should take care of the NFC issue too
"He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely." - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/congress-stoc...
90% of libraries consist of books that are never opened. These books were all produced by destroying and processing trees, sometimes with toxic chemicals, and their information density is orders of magnitude lower than that of a hard disk or SSD. Same with photo processing, where 90% of photos taken are discarded, and the toxicity of the chemicals is even higher.

So the question isn't simply whether storage is wasted; it's how much waste there is relative to the environmental impact. Granted, books and photographs don't need to be continuously fed energy to make the information available. However, the cost of storage is now so cheap that even with 90% waste, it's economically viable to keep it online. So the problem, if you can call it one, is that energy is too cheap, and externalities are not accounted for in the cost.
Apologies.. I kinda had trouble communicating the idea I had in mind - when I was bashing SF, I wasn't rallying against novels of Hugo and Nebula quality. The word I was looking for is genre fiction.

Lately I've been consuming more of it than I would admit in polite company - LitRPG, Military SF, YA stuff,. - and quite a bit of it is aimed at a younger audience.

A lot of this stuff is well written and engaging, but highly derivative, and is patterned on classics.
"We" - humanity.

"We" actually experienced all social systems "we" invented so far, which are allowed by "our" productivity.
Financial collapse ? Surely we can just roll out AI powered money printers and make them go BRRR /s
> That short sighted western leadership were so eager to ship off manufacturing jobs to China has been a disaster for the west.

In what way are you quantifying this? Would you agree that the quality of life has improved significantly compared to the 1980s or whatever period you want to compare to?
…what? I’d be keen to know what “verified torrents” pass your extensive checks. Literal Linux ISOs.
> That is gambling, not investing. And you can lose lots of money by gambling.

Most trading professionals would not call it gambling if you have positive expectation and a process.

Positive expectation properly and repeatedly executed over time is a business.

Would you say a casino is gambling by offering table games to customers?
Show HN: I rebuilt my platform afetr getting 2 clients
Hey everyone,

I first launched Alytica, my product analytics platform, back on December 21, 2024. I built it for two simple reasons:

1.I needed a solid and easy-to-use analytics solution for my own projects.

2.I'm naturally curious (okay, a bit geeky ) and wanted to see firsthand how these platforms handle tons of events.

Initially, I challenged myself to create and launch the MVP in just three weeks. Honestly, it wasn't perfect—in fact, it was pretty rough. But I decided to launch anyway, and surprisingly, I got a few clients who actually liked it.

Two or three months ago, I started rebuilding it from the ground up, and I'm excited to finally share Alytica v2! This new version is exactly what I had in mind from the start—more reliable, user-friendly, and packed with improvements. And there's still plenty more coming soon.

To celebrate this relaunch, I'm giving the first 100 users 20% off their first month with the code LAUNCH20. There's also a free plan available, so you can easily try it out without any commitment.

Check it out at alytica.tech and let me know what you think!
When you grant people the freedom to take away freedom from others, it leads to less freedom in total.

This should be obvious.
I guess we can look forward

to a bright future

where we focus 100% on work

and AI will play our games

/s
It helps not to mistake UNIX with GNU/Linux, as first step into tranquility.
"Make America Great Again!" feels more and more like "hold my beer!" or "YOLO!".
Keep track of where it has been; you don't need to buy at the absolute lowest point, if it creeps back up you can slowly buy in again.

Have a look at trackers like the S&P 500 after previous crashes, it takes 3-6 years for the market to return to its previous highest value. Or six months in the case of the panny-D crash.
I'm a bit uneducated in the ways of shorting options. Is this topical because Mr. President induced a massive stock market meltdown in the US and his friends could have made a fortune for knowing the details and shorted the most likely biggest loss-makers?

Or is that not how the markets work?
COBRA is a joke. It's way too expensive. Medicaid is on the chopping block, but even then it doesn't cover everything and not every doctor accepts Medicaid and "other programs". Tens if not hundreds of thousands of Americans die every year because they don't have insurance and can't afford the treatment they need.
I think that you are ignoring Newton's 3rd law, which pretty much can be applied to economics in this case. What made the US really great was the fact that it was the center of the liberal world order and the coalition of friends that it built around itself, including the EU countries. Let's see how well the US does when it loses most of its friends. Focusing on the EU, the US wants to balance the goods trade deficit with the EU, but it has a services surplus with the EU. Goods deficit vs services surplus roughly balanced each other before the tariffs. Guess what we in the EU will need to do? In the end it will be loose-loose for everyone, but in the long run the then friendless US will be the biggest loser.
Semile old man's death pact seems to be the way our entire government has been working for the last 10 years.
A recent (2014) and intriguing concept for making a small computer that feels like it was made in the past is the PDP-11/Hack, which only uses a DEC J-11 microprocessor, some RAM, and a common UART.

The original concept By Brent Hilpert:

http://madrona.ca/e/pdp11hack/index.html

Another implementation:

https://www.chronworks.com/J11/

A more complex and modern PDP-11/Hack:

https://www.5volts.ch/pages/pdp11hack/
If you ever though any of these guys makes their money because they are smarter, just watch this:

https://youtu.be/bPdsN_YmP60?t=74

https://youtu.be/JOBs27jckCo
That's exactly my point! Take the train to Zurich, then fly out of there and you'll get both a better experience and emit less carbon
If they do some corrections, the big guys will use it as a window to get rid of high risk investments onto smaller inexperienced investors riding the hype. That'll just blast the market further.

The confidence is gone. The risk is high whatever happens. The lowest risk strategy is now betting on market failure.
Thing is there is no "Windows philosphy" cargo cult, and I don't worship OSes nor languages, all have their plus and minus, use any of them when the situation calls for it, and it is a disservice to oneself to identify themselves to technology stacks like football club memberships given at birth.
If you worked for the Trump administration, you would then be fired for getting in the way of what he wants.
> If pro life people really cared that millions of babies were murdered every year there would be assassinations against abortion providers and bombings of clinics.

Are you claiming there aren’t any?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence#United_...: “In the United States, violence directed towards abortion providers has killed at least eleven people, including four doctors, two clinic employees, a security guard, a police officer, two people (unclear of their connection), and a clinic escort.

[…]

According to statistics gathered by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), an organization of abortion providers, since 1977 in the United States and Canada, there have been 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault or battery, 13 wounded,[I 30] 100 butyric acid stink bomb attacks, 373 physical invasions, 41 bombings, 655 anthrax threats, and 3 kidnappings committed against abortion providers.

[…]

According to NAF, since 1977 in the United States and Canada, property crimes committed against abortion providers have included 41 bombings, 173 arsons, 91 attempted bombings or arsons, 619 bomb threats, 1630 incidents of trespassing, 1264 incidents of vandalism, and 100 attacks with butyric acid ("stink bombs")”
Sorry, my comment was intended to be reply to the one of yours that said

I/O is done piecewise, a line at a time. The file is never "loaded up". Again
you're applying an intuition about how parsers are presented to college
students (suck it all into RAM and build a big in-memory representation of
the syntax tree) that doesn't match the way actual config file parsers work
(read a line and interpret it, then read another).

So, the whole file is usually loaded up (if it's short enough). At this point you might as well parse all of it, instead of re-reading it from the disk over and over, and redoing the same work over and over; parsed configs — if they are parsed into falgs/enums, and not literal strings — usually take about the same, or less, memory than a FILE structure from libc does on the whole.

The complexity of the algorithm is about the same, either the early exit is here or it isn't (in fact, the version with the early exit, now that I think of it, has larger cyclotomatic complexity but whatever).
"PHP is in decline" or "PHP is dead" can be happily ignored. People saying this based on “data” pulled out of someone else's butt. This is going on since almost 10 years, and it is wrong since ever. PHP is chugging along just fine and will do this for the coming decades. PHP is in this regard the COBOL of the web.
We got a really nice Bosch induction hob for 700€. I installed it myself in less than an hour (the hardest part was cutting the appropriate hole in the worktop).

All of our pots except one was compatible. You will only have problems with very cheap aluminum pans, or with some high end copper cookware. I don't know anyone who has copper cookware, so the problem for most people are their cheap aluminium pans and pots. You should probably replace them anyway. Most stainless steel, all cast iron or forged iron pans are compatible with induction.

Induction is pretty spectacular. It's a bit different than gas, but a good induction hob is both more powerful than gas on the high end, and much better at controlling temperature at the low end.

The only thing I dislike are the touch controls on most units, but I guess you can't have it all.
Isn't this DeepMind achievement from 2023?
Thank you for the comments!

Moldable Development is different from programming in Smalltalk. It's not a way of advertising Smalltalk, it's a new way of programming :)

Moose indeed came from academia and was focused on various kinds of analyses. Glamorous Toolkit does include a small part of it, but it is a whole environment.

Thank you for the suggestion related to use cases. Today, people tend to look for specific tools that can be used out of the box for a specific set of problem. Something like gritql fits in that expectation well.

The challenge we face is that Moldable Development is generic and it is applicable in a wide range of scenarios. For example, the video on the front page tries to provide an idea of classes of use cases. The GT book offers many more such case studies. All of these are accommodated uniformly in the same environment with small energy. This is novel and requires awareness which leads to a catch-22 problem.

We try to address this also coming from the larger problem at https://moldabledevelopment.com, including a new book I am writing with Simon Wardley.

We would be interested in suggestions for how to communicate it better.
It's not gambling capitalising on stupid people's response to stupid people. Watch the market open today :)
Article makes it seem like finding diamonds is some kind of super complicated logical puzzle. In reality the hardest part is knowing where to look for them and what tool you need to mine them without losing them once you find them. This was given to the AI by having it watch a video that explains it.

If you watch a guide on how to find diamonds it's really just a matter of getting an iron pickaxe, digging to the right depth and strip mining until you find some.
99% of people who work are just in it for the money.

You’re a very blessed individual if you’re doing it for the love of the job rather than because you have to pay the bills and buy food.
While I'm of the opinion that countries should become more self-sufficient for as many things as possible (because pollution of intercontinental shipping and political tensions / leverage... although that goes both ways), I know it's simply not possible since not everything is available everywhere, resource and knowledge / expertise wise.

But if more independence was the goal, they should've made it a long-term goal, not a trap door. China does this a lot better with their 5 year plans in my opinion. I'm not a fan of China either (human rights etc), but they are on track to take over as the world's leading economic force. In fact I think they already are, but the west is sleepwalking. China has got a(n economic) hand in a lot of countries around the world, and I think the raw figures like GPD are only telling part of the story.
Eastern Air Lines flight 401 crashed because the pilot accidentally changed the autopilot setting while diagnosing a separate problem.

Of course, the more fundamental reason was that he wasn't looking at where the aeroplane was going, not even periodically.
> I don't think you fully grasp the gravity of Trump's actions.

I "grasp the gravity", to the extent that anyone is actually able to do so at this time. I am unwilling to engage in hyperbole in order to create the illusion of a nearby black hole.

This is a non-partisan reaction. I am opposed to tariffs; I am also opposed to panic and exaggeration.

> This goes well beyond the suspicion that Trump is a Russian stooge.

Your choice of neutral, unbiased language is compelling.
I sometimes liken our civilisation as a reed mat floating across the pacific but with ants on it who have invented telescopes, and are trying their best to work out what sales are on at 5th Avenue - I love that we are “concerned” about atmospheric stripping millions of miles away - it gives me hope for those ants floating around
Yep. Just look at countries with unbounded capitalism, like Russian Federation after fall of Soviet Union. It was a mess.

Developed countries installs thousands of regulations (100k - 2M regulatory acts per developed country) on top of wild capitalism to tame it.

However, even heavily regulated liberal capitalism is better than other systems.