skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mmhm. And not only can I read — it would be quite amazing if I could write the posts you're angrily responding to without being able to read — I'm also pointing out that there is nothing that qualifies as a 77-year genocide in which the population grows year over year the entire time. No serious scholarship exists that even claims a 77 year genocide starting in 1948. Every time someone dies in a conflict, does not equate to an attempt to destroy a people "in whole or in part" — quite obviously, or else even a murder would count as a genocide, along with every single war ever. Certainly Palestinians have killed Israelis with the intent to destroy them — even prior to 1948. In fact, it was Israelis who accepted the 1948 partition plan, and the Palestinians who rejected it in favor of a war that they subsequently lost (but intended to win, and killed many people while trying!). Have the Palestinians been committing genocide for 100 years? No, obviously not. Your claims do not hold water and do not support a 77-year supposed genocide. Please try again.

BTW the five acts are: killing — typically systematic, targeting civilians rather than militants; bodily/mental harm (e.g widespread slavery, systematic rape); deliberately inflicting conditions meant to destroy the group (e.g. mass starvation); forced birth control e.g. the Uyghur genocide; or forcible transfer of children outside of the group. If any of these things had been systematically happening for 77 years straight as you claim, the population would not have grown: it would have been demolished, like in every other case. That's the whole point of the term genocide, vs other, lesser terms. If the group wasn't meaningfully destroyed, it's pretty unlikely there was a genocide.

Even if it were true that the end goal of Zionism has always been the complete expulsion of the Palestinians — which isn't the case, and in fact many early Zionists advocated for peacefully living together, as do plenty of modern ones — expulsion is not genocide, or else India and Pakistan have been committing genocide against each other for even longer. Even with that steelman you're still wrong!
Just because a bunch of war criminals keep saying it, it doesn't make it true.
Without defending or justifying the practices of health insurance companies (I’m going through a hellish denial/appeal process at the moment), there’s a major difference between advocating for and resorting to violence as a way of attempting to bring about change and the very real consequences of a broken system.

The world is filled with complexity and systems that are broken. They require thoughtful solutions, not chaos. Setting aside the moral and ethical dilemmas that arise, advocating for the murder of company leaders is essentially a roll of the chaos dice attached to a wish that somehow the resulting situation will sort itself out.

If you remove all moral/ethical considerations (not the least of which is that blame is shared by many people), it’s far from obvious that the result would resemble the thing people want. Pragmatically, it’s a poorly considered idea that introduces potential for equivalent or greater harms.
Do you mean the people who voted for Donald Trump or the people who voted for "Fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma which gave a lucrative position to Hunter Biden" or "10% for the Big Guy held by H"? Just to clarify what you're talking about when you talk about voting for more corruption and self-dealing
The primary reason why Russia can exploit the failures of the system is that those failures exist. Western political elites are locked into old alignments and captured by special interests groups. They became more opportunistic and less values-driven, ignoring modern challenges and demographic changes and becoming less competent in general. This is why in Europe, which is more democratic than USA, we see significant changes in political landscape with new parties emerging on the right and on the left and getting visible share of votes. USA has a major flaw that doesn’t allow the country to escape bipartisan system, so it’s going to agonize in its current state until it finally breaks.
Foreign influence here is really a secondary matter.
Another nice longform essay, from the NYer (2017)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of...
There's a wide berth between ignorance of how a thing works at a deeper level and true useful/societal applications, and simply being ignorant of its what it is entirely.

It's like hating social media in 2003 because MySpace was being used by pedophiles to target minors vs not understanding WTF it is entirely. The former is reductionist, but it was something that indicated one is aware of its presence, what it looks like, how it functions at a basic level, etc, that could be used to springboard further discussions.

The fact that someone who is in charge of public policy is so wildly ignorant of something they allege they'll implement, in a public speech, is shocking, and should draw no parallels to even the most basic get rich quick tech bros.
Most insurance claims which lead to these kinds of stories are actions the FDA doesn’t issue approvals for, such as surgical procedures or off-label uses of expensive drugs.
Let's look at a concrete example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3175099/#S12title

About 40% of male domestic violence victims who seek help are accused of being the abuser.

Completely coincidentally I'm sure, the federal law on domestic violence is called the "Violence Against Women Act", which furthers the bias that men can't be victims.

How would you improve the situation for male victims without making people on the left hate you?

The same people who say that "firemen" is sexist, will hypocritically say that the naming of the law isn't sexist.
Yes, but more so on undesirable people.

There are people that at best they don't want to "see", at worst to exist.
The point of this is explained further down in the article:

> But some people argue that previous research on trans regret and related issues have been poorly done and is outdated.

> "We are starting to see much greater numbers of young people who are seeing that they went down the wrong path for them and they're now left with irreversible changes to their body and they no longer identify as transgender," says Evgenia Abbruzzese, the co-founder of the group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. "But they are left with these permanent effects."

> She adds: "There are a lot of negative impacts of transition. And regret is definitely one of them," she says. "It's a very important area of medicine to study."

> Others agree.

> "The research on detransition is very useful, it's a very important area," said Michael Biggs, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oxford. "This is an understudied population to collect systematic data on."
Oppenheimer was considered to be a left wing agitator, there are tons of very smart people who are pro labour organization which the US has historically seen as left wing agitation.
Tom I'm afraid you're misreading the tone of my posts and their character.

I could post anything objectively true in this thread like "the sky is blue", and some idiot will post a one sentence response that in fact it's not. This idiot likes to be the last person getting snark in responding to a completely reasonable statement of fact or opinion by an expert in the space.

What I do differently is that yes, I do reply to the snark with a rebuttal. Is this rebuttal snarky? Potentially, but is it earned? Definitely.

You're moderator so let me speak to you that way. If you don't let people rebut bullshit in this comment section, you'll just end up with a bunch of uninformed discourse, where the final word is made by some idiot, who doesn't even make multiplayer games and everyone ends up thinking the sky is fucking green. This has real world consequence when future game developers try to build games on poorly made technology, which ruins game studios and people's lives.

Then again, it's hacker news, and what do a bunch of wannabe startup guys know about making games in the first place. Unskilled and unaware of it. Moderate away sir!
Okay, but you can also take the company's well-deserved reputation into account when deciding whether to do business with them.
Google Cloud had $50B in revenue last year, so clearly plenty of companies didn't get your memo.
The exclusion is by category: Smartphones, laptop computers, memory chips, machines used to create semiconductors, flat screen TVs, tablets and desktop computers. Apple, NVidia, and Dell are simply examples of some companies that will “benefit” (be harmed less).
Everything about equality is unjust, it’s literally the opposite of justice. You cannot have equality without injustice, there’s no way to fairly redistribute resources without taking from people who’ve earned what they have and giving to people who haven’t
I really don't agree. When you learn the mechanics well, you can consistently win runs.
Having to fight to get payment for anything major has been more common than not, in my immediate family's experience and from what I've heard from friends and relatives, for a long time.

The tens or even hundreds of hours on hold with insurance providers and hospital billing departments and calling state regulatory agencies and time sorting through the fifty bills scattered over ten months from nine different entities, all for a couple days in the hospital, are a massive unaccounted-for cost of our already-record-settingly-expensive healthcare system.
A larger economy but drastically more inequality and a despicable caste system.
> Obamacare destroyed a system that made most people very happy with it. I've experienced it myself. I was perfectly happy with my insurance until its price skyrocketed and they denied me all sorts of stuff in the last 10 years.

People were not happy with the system. I'm old enough to remember the pre-existing condition bullshit insurance companies pulled to avoid paying out in all situations. They classified the stroke my mother had in 2004 as a preexisting condition and refused coverage sending my family into bankruptcy.

It was still a bandaid solution on a rotting wound but this revisionist history of the pre-ACA era does not exist.
I would prob say the hospital knows the optimal price already. It might not be 100% applicable to the US but here is an example in Ireland, if I go to the hospital without any referral or by not being brought in an ambulance which would make it free, I have to pay. The funny thing is that they ask you beforehand if you have insurance and substantially increase the price of an overnight stay, etc if you do, to which point insurers are suggesting customers to withhold such a fact and lower the bill.
It’s exactly as easy or cheap to build a smartphone or PC business as it was a month ago. The headline is misleading.
Absolutely agree Microsoft is better there - maybe that's why Google hired someone from Microsoft for their AI stuff. A few people I think.

I also agree the business models aren't known. That's part of any hype cycle. I think those in the best position here are those with an existing product(s) and user base to capitalize on the auto complete on crack kinda feature. It will become so cheap to operate and so ubiquitous in the near future that it absolutely will be seen as a table stakes feature. Yes, commodities.
> America’s reputation as a land of opportunity for talented immigrants

Does America have this reputation? H1B is around 20% success rate, all the jobs are in places with COL so high you’ll never afford a home.
SAP can mean so many things that it's easy to get lost in the weeds, and I'm just talking about getting familiar with their landscape... While working on that post, I found new vulnerabilities that SAP is now addressing.

I'll be honest, I've never been on the other side dealing with red tape. It'd probably drive me mad. But from the researcher/consultant side, it's definitely gotten easier to report vulnerabilities. Vendors now have security contacts, coordinated disclosure policies, and even bug bounty programs. Not all vendors, of course. But compared to 10 years ago, it's night and day.
More recent models are producing much higher quality code than models from 6/12/18 months ago. I believe a lot of this is because the AI labs have figured out how to feed them better examples in the training - filtering for higher quality open source code libraries, or loading up on code that passes automated tests.

A lot of model training these days uses synthetic data. Generating good code synthetic data is a whole lot easier than any other category, as you can at least ensure the code you're generating is gramatically valid and executes without syntax errors.
But things like deductibles and covered treatments are negotiable. The majority of health care is not “you will die without this specific treatment” there are usually options.
You are exactly right.

When I read of a man from California killing his kids in Mexico because they are possessed by lizard people, or mothers killing their kids because the voice of God in their mind says so, I think of this quote I cannot quite place: to be silent in the face of a tyranny of evil is to be complicit.

No greater evil in this world exists than American Thought Control, thought controlled Americans, or an America thought controlled.

I am quite sincere friend.
The fact you think this is a $100k watch shows you may not really be looking at it with the right framework?
In Greece, it is prohibited by Holy EU.
The problem is that you can't parasitically launch a sitcom off on streaming by placing it in a subsequent timeslot to an establish sitcom with similar audience targeting. At least not with the present streaming model, though I suppose if streamers would bother to make more advanced autoplay viewing models than by-series you could do something similar.
Free might as well be a curse-word to me, and I'm not alone. I'm old enough to have experience in pre-internet era magazines, and the downgrade in quality from paid publications to free ones has been quite substatial.

Free-to-play is a thing in video games, and for most, it means they'll try to bully you into spending more money than you'd be otherwise comfortable with.

I think everyone at this point had enough bad experiences with 'free' stuff to be wary of it.
Yes. Immigration is hard. You need to learn a new language, adapt to the local culture and city design, navigate the increasingly hostile immigration system, and distance yourself from your family.

In the past, dreams of American opportunity made the tradeoff worth it. But now we're Magaland when the president sometimes crashes the economy on purpose and immigration officials randomly detain scientists at the airport. It's hard to believe that top engineers and aspiring scientists will continue to give it all up for a shot at life here
> In the end - the absolute best of everything is expensive. Very expensive. I doubt a system can afford to have that happen for everyone,

It's not a question of money. If there's one person who's acknowledged as "the best" at something, that puts a hard limit on the number of people who can hire "the best" for that thing in any particular time window. Paying more won't give that one expert more hours in their day.
Because, in reality, they voted for his regressive cultural policies, not his regressive economic policies.

Though in November I'm sure they were telling us how good he would be on the economic front.
AWS had a cleaner host-guest abstraction (the VM) that makes it easier to reason about security, and likely had a much bigger gap between their own usage peaks and troughs.
> then they voted for Obama because a younger black guy talking about change seemed credible

Some people voted for Obama because he made them hope for a better future. Some people voted for Trump because he promised them hell for other people. They are nothing alike.
Articles said causes supported by Trump.
Trump's Revenge on Public Health
Firstly, the First Amendment legally speaking, applies to American citizens, not visitors on a visa.

Secondly, there's big difference between free speech (as in saying what you want openly), and congregating to occupying public or private spaces to generate protests, be loud, obnoxious, block foot traffic, cause litter, incite to violence etc.

Your speech is free as long as it doesn't inconvenience others. Can I come outside your house, occupy the sidewalk and shout in a bullhorn my political opinions at your window 24/7? No? Why is that? It's just my free speech bro. You see how free speech works?
The first amendment of the Constitution guarantees free speech for everybody in the US, not just citizens. This is well established, and is only now being questioned because the current administration is trying to silence viewpoints they don't like.
If you reframe agents as (effectively) slave labor, the economic incentives driving this stampede become trivial to understand.
It's what built every single country on Earth except theoretically Egypt?

Your point is just makes no sense to me.
You can express disagreement loudly with the power in place while still following the laws and not causing "issues" in the way most people think about issues.

Whether visa holders have such right depends on the countries however; I don't believe France has such restrictions (https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2190 does not mention "political activities" as a valid motive for refusing entry). I think some other countries do restrict political activities for non-citizens.
Well that was very short sighted. Because the other person was clearly saying how they’d make it much much worse.

But nobody had ever accused the voting public of the U.S. of being able to see the past the end of their nose.

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/project-2025-could...
Using comm(1).
I hate all that too,
the people they're deporting are the ones protesting to stop an ongoing US genocide, it's all connected.
His crypto coin also allows anyone to bribe him anonymously. It's incredibly corrupt.
The proportions matter and I think much fewer people would be saying the result was not legitimate if it was through some sort of campaign and primary process than an insider decision made through whatever backroom deals they did.
I mean the guy that is shaking down law firms and countries and universities and immigrants. The guy that launched a multi billion dollar pump and dump crypto scheme on the eve of his inauguration. The guy that is almost certainly selling pardons to people like the former CEO of Nikola. The guy that is possibly tipping off his friends and donors about when a tweet of his will send the stock market up 10%.

I don’t give a shit about Hunter Biden, he wasn’t the president. Nepotism happens everywhere, good luck stopping it. Hunter Biden is a crackhead and shouldn’t have had the position he did, but he is a sideshow to distract you. Trump himself was impeached for withholding foreign aid from Ukraine to try and boost his reelection chances, but you conveniently left that part out. I’ll admit it was partly political, but it still happened.

If the Biden family was doing corrupt things like receiving bribes, by all means prosecute them. If there’s evidence Joe Biden got kickbacks from Burisma, the DoJ should file charges. There’s not a personality cult for Biden like there is for Trump.

Trying to compare an actual convicted felon who is nakedly corrupt in public vs a guy who has a few accusations is ridiculous in the same way as presenting young earth creationism as equally valid as the universe being 13.7B years old. It’s “but both sides!” at its worst. Joe Biden is no saint, he’s a politician after all, but he’s not even close to Trump. Bob Menendez (D, NJ) is much closer to Trump than Biden, he was actually tried and convicted for corruption. I’m glad he was found guilty.
It’s not a miracle, it’s statistics. Once you understand it’s a clever lossy text compression technique, you can see why it appears to do well with boilerplate(crud)/common interview coding questions. Any code request requiring any kind of nuisance will return the equivalent of the first answer of a stack overflow question. Aka. Kinda maybe in the ballpark but incorrect.
It is, but it is still tiny compared to C/C++. And many people also do not like it.
It's a story all right, but that's all it is. Windows has a GetVersion function that returns a struct of major/minor/build, and they're all ints. That's how you've always checked for versions, with older versions checking against a single int that contained both major/minor.

Microsoft had no reason to support blatantly stupid development practices that no one ever actually did. They were trying to avoid brand confusion with the consumer, because even people who know about versions will still do a mental double take at seeing "Windows 9", expecting another digit. The confusion might not last long, but it still detracts from the brand.
>It's almost impossible to get residency in Canada

How does that square with the fact that 1/5 of the Canadian population were born abroad? Seems plenty are able to move there.
It's so bad, people can't even think of obvious alternatives.
That's their plan though :c

So far a judge has blocked it when he tried the first time

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5270572/birthright-citi...
Tbh the only thing that surprises me about Luigi Mangione is that there hasn't been a thousand more like him over the years. What a farce the US healthcare industry is.
Indeed. In case I didn't explicitly state it, I was expressing more of a fascination that there are these companies that seem to make high priced luxury items (so they have to be low volume, and likely handmade) but are still large enough in scale to afford these massive fancy buildings, as opposed to be boutique watchmakers, which is how I would intuitively think of this class of craftsmanship.
That seems like a recipe for class action false advertising lawsuits. The AI is extremely likely to make materially false claims, and if this text is an advertisement, whoever placed it is legally liable for that.
I think EU will be fine, it really depends on how much the US cares about advancing Russian interests.

Long game, the UK may transform into being a sort of vassal of the US, assuming it survives as an entity. The EU interest may align more with China. If the US is de-empathizing NATO, they need a counterweight to the Russia/US axis.

It's the end of pax americana, and the future is more uncertain.
Exactly. I hope our government can survive the next 4 years for criminal investigations into this era. We can't become Russia.
Intent does matter if you want to classify things as lies.

If someone told you it's Thursday when it's really Wednesday, we would not necessary say they lied. We would say they were mistaken, if the intent was to tell you the correct day of the week. If they intended to mislead you, then we would say they lied.

So intent does matter. AI isn't lying, it intends to provide you with accurate information.
Very few are successful in this position. Zapier comes to mind, but it seems like a tiring business model to me.
I'm not convinced things were as bad as people claim. The right wing has been conducting a concerted propaganda war for the last 20 years to make people scared.
Where I am in the US, it seems like there are two endgames for the "anchor" of a strip mall.

Typically this starts as a grocery store, but sometimes it will be some other larger retailer that collapsed (see Bed, Bath and Beyond or now Jo-Ann Fabrics)

They either become a Goodwill or they become a gym.

It's interesting that they are almost never subdivided-- they'd rather have a single 2000 square metre shop, presumably paying a concession "better than leaving it empty" rent, than to modify the layout of the building to open it up as two or four smaller shops.
Isn't this like DRuby?
And that wasn't even his most spicy quote. That man is a goldmine when it come to politicians saying the quiet part out loud.