skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody ever changes their opinion on things with anything remotely like a high degree of frequency, and that's not a particularly bad thing. The "real" point of an argument is not to persuade the other side (though that is what you aspire to nonetheless) but to exchange views, and often to indirectly explore your own views more deeply, at least in the scenario where your 'partner' can bring up something you weren't aware of.

Our views actually shifting is something that only happens over many years and often for reasons we aren't really in control of. Me of 10 years ago would vehemently disagree with me of today on many things, and there's probably pretty much no argument I could have engaged with him to persuade him of what I obviously think are 'more correct' views. It required, most of all, life experience that isn't going to be able to be communicated with words. If it were we'd all have the wisdom of a man who'd lived for millennia. And if not all of us, then at least somebody - but that somebody doesn't exist.

One who wants to debate while rejecting the real state of mankind is oft going to just find themselves in an echo chamber.
How? Money.

There is one problem with the current US system: it overproduces talent. When the US system was growing rapidly, the people could build a long-term career in the US. But nothing can grow forever at an exponential pace. The US continues to pour plenty of money into STEM, but it can't keep up with the pace of grad student production.

People are making smart, individual decisions to head overseas for work. Places like China are rewarding them.
Near the top he shows two photos of the Cartwheel galaxy, one from 2014 and one from 2021 with the caption:

> Can you spot Supernova 2021 axdf?

Are you supposed to be able to spot the supernova?

All I've noticed is a couple of small stars that disappear in the latter photo, but this mostly seems to be because it's more blurry.
In your opinion how many hours spent in Grand Central station equal the radiation received from a CT scan?
UK VAT certainly has a complicated list of exceptions, especially "non-luxury food" (see the Jaffa Cake case https://www.astonshaw.co.uk/jaffa-cake-tax/)
Trump floated this week deporting citizens.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-wants-deport-so...
This article seems to be full of propaganda and downright lies. For instance, there are plenty of tool and die makers left in the USA, plenty of injection molding machines. I have personally seen them and met the tool and die makers as well as the machines making the molds.

It's difficult to address the giant article full of misrepresentations point by point. It's tough to see it up at the top of HN. Wish that I could do something to correct the misinformation that is being disseminated.

This person has a vested interest. They manufacture cheap crap in China (or Vietnam, I don't care) for American kids to suck on. What more do you need to know?
most of this stuff is getting flagged within minutes.
whats the relevance of them being a 'philosophy major' ?
mold making is also pretty complicated -- anything in the 1,000-1M parts produced will _probably_ be an aluminum mold (cheaper than steel) but they're still heavy and large to keep around.

I haven't met any injection molding shops in the US that do a huge amount of specialty parts like toys. The industry tries to get as many medical device jobs as possible.
I didn't get that reference. Thanks! Is it this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
The usual download strategy is to request the rarest pieces first, in random order. Most modern clients will prefer earlier pieces when the swarm/availability is above a certain size.

"super seeding" is a different feature where a seed won't upload more pieces to a peer unless a previously uploaded piece has been distributed to another peer first.
To call something “virtue-signaling” implies the primary motivation of the behavior is to associate characteristics with oneself. There is a problem with virtue signaling in a discussion if the purpose of the discussion is to evaluate ideas in an abstract space —- the discussion then ceases to be in good faith.

Moreover, if all statements made in such a context needed to be acted out in someway, that would negate the whole purpose of the abstract space.

The purpose of my rhetoric in this thread has been to illustrate the issues with your definition rather than to say something about myself.
FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure
Yes, definitely yes.

America suffers from a flattened income curve. There are many many more people earning $100k+ today than in 1960 (inflation adjusted). America has an envy problem first, equality problem second, spoiled child problem third.
> It's already diluted, you've already lost the battle

It’s not. The only place you see it being used this way is in a section of social media that blows everything out of proportion.

Where I agree is that the battle may be lost. In the same way “defund the police” (versus better regulate) kneecapped the criminal-justice reform movement, and bee-lining to “genocide” (versus the horrors of war and alleged genocide) hurt the Palestinian cause in America, premature extrapolation makes this look unserious. Because if the person who is calling what’s clearly not one a disappearance or concentration camp, why bother with habeus corpus?

> If someone got black bagged and flown to a CIA black site in Yemen, would you "Well, actually" me if I said they'd been disappeared just because we know they're in a Yemen black site?

No. That’s disappearance. The CIA doesn’t comment on its renditions, much less argue them in an open court.

> same courts whose authority is either being actively challenged AND actively ignored by the Executive branch, including so far in this exact case?

Challenged, not ignored. From what I can tell the administration is begrudgingly complying with the letter of the judges’ (and justices’) orders [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego...
Yes. Read the article.

Edit: even if he wasn’t, there’s a proper process for deportations. Sending someone without due process to a supermax prison let alone a country they’re not even from isn’t it.
Weird you don't have this requirement for the OP spewing his urban myths above.
I actually make pretty high cost products with relatively expensive labor (welders, electricians).

Even then, materials & parts dominate.
> People are making smart, individual decisions to head overseas for work. Places like China are rewarding them.

Wait what? I know that many Chinese students are staying in China, but this is the first I've heard of a substantial demographic immigrating to China to work there, esp from the US. Do you have data?
> Edit: apologies but I must leave the desk for a few hours - I will not be able to try and help moderate the submission for a while. As always, I recommend being cold headed, rational and productive.

Do you mean voting on comments like a regular user? You're not one of the official moderators (dang and tomhow), but your phrasing seems like you're putting on airs like you are one.
Countries change policies all the time based on the whishes of industry lobby groups or voters, not just the US. People focusing exclusively on what Trump is doing are myopic or arguing in bad faith.

And the global approach to net zero is not global, nor is it binding, it's more of a gentlemen's agreement bet which is basically worthless. Ideologically it sounds good, the issues are always when the tires hit the road, and then some spanners get thrown in on top: wars, pandemics, revolutions, natural disasters, political feuds, etc.

So yeah, outside of bubbles of privileged mid-upper class people in safe rich countries, nobody gives a crap about what's gonna happen in 2050 when they can't pay next month's rent/mortgage or their car doesn't start and their bank balance is red.

Capitalism got us chasing next quarter returns at the expense of what's gonna happen in 2050, so we'll be kicking the can down the road until everything falls apart, first very slowly, and then very suddenly.
good q! today, we'd clone the whole thing, but we're actively looking into solutions about that atm (ie: only cloning the relevant subdirs)

for custom rules, we do handle large monorepos by allowing you to add an allowlist (or exclude list) via glob patterns.
From the article...

“They’re just spinning their wheels, citing in many cases overstated or fake savings,” said Romina Boccia, the director of budget and entitlement policy at the libertarian Cato Institute. “What’s most frustrating is that we agree with their goals. But we’re watching them flail at achieving them.”

To your point, people have taken musk/doge at face value, with 'efficiency' being the goal. That's not been the goal. But... pointing that out seems to make you some sort of conspiracy theorist.

"Just give them time! It takes time!"

We did have some meaningful government cutbacks in the 90s. It took months of bipartisan collaboration and dealmaking, and we ended up with a balanced budget and a bit of a surplus. The process was a lot more open, experts were consulted, hearings and studies were done, and we did make some short-lived progress there.

None of that process was even entertained. We had a charlatan foisted on us in the role of "chief slasher of anything woke", and a third of our country cheered it on, until they got cut. Those not cut/affected still seem to support this circus.
Better not get the wrong "ideas":

https://i0.wp.com/www.techdirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/0...
And a BBC link, from the article, which is apparently currently HN'd: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy0332y7xzo
Why would obsession with anime and (I assume Jaoan is a typo for) Japan lead to sinophilia?

You know sinophilia means "love of China", and that anime and Japan are not Chinese, right?
I always thought it odd that companies would spend so much money on services like Symantec VIP, with their proprietary BS and high costs, when someone could implement TOTP in 15 minutes as an internal service.

It's a little more complicated now with push notifications and more complex flows, but for generic TOTP?
The UK continues to exist because it was replaced by a democratic American hegemony.

If an authoritarian country like China achieves hegemony the continued existence of democracy is at risk.

I want to live in a democratic world, not an authoritarian one.

America's democracy is a flawed one but of the two choices -- American hegemony or Chinese hegemony it is the best path to a flourishing global liberal democracy.

Can you foresee Chinese hegemony leading to increased democracy, individual property rights, due process, and rule of law?
Yes, you have administrator access to the VMs and can install any apps. The VMs are persistent so you can pause (hibernate) them and keep your custom environment.
At some point it seems like this can raise questions about whether they are flagrantly ignoring habeas corpus. But I'm sure we will all learn soon that governments disappearing people is what the Founders originally intended.
It's an action alright. The direction, however...
that makes total sense, thanks for the feedback! we debated this for a bit--will keep in mind for the next design pass on the site :)
I think the bystander effect is real.
Or errors an LLM agent would make...
Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling, establishes a precsenent that could have horrendous consequences
The article in general, and final paragraph in particular, reminded me of this essay:

https://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

Edit: if the connection isn't clear, I mean the aspect of it being difficult to argue rationally about opinions you've made part of your identity, since changing the opinion would be difficult.
TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days
I feel like we're part of a dying generation or something. I keep seeing people who want to post content to the public internet, but they still want to own the data somehow, and control who see it, but still on the public internet.

I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, as I see the public internet as just that, a public square. What goes there can be picked up by anyone, for any purpose. If I want something to be secret, I don't put it on the public internet.

Gonna be interesting to see how that "public but in my control" movement continues to evolve, because it feels like they're climbing an impossible wall.
Honestly, this isn't about that. People not getting credit for their discoveries is so common it has a "law":

"Stigler's law of eponymy",[1] states that "no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy

This is really about the search for role models for women in science. And in that regard, Franklin is worth mentioning.
It's not particularly constructive to talk about "extermination camps" when there is no particular evidence of that. Disrespecting rule of law is bad but an aggressive deportation policy after years of ignoring it, given that we don't have the infrastructure to support eleven million cases, is at least understandable in motivation. It's the only practical way to deport all of them, not a few thousand like most admins end up doing, though I disagree with these means of addressing the issue as opposed to forcing self-deports.
/vg/ also had a pretty cool amateur game dev general thread (/agdg/). No one was making any hidden gems there, but it wasn't trash either. At any rate, I liked it.
I have observed this and this is what I would expect to have happened thinking from first principles.
A lot of that was valid twenty years ago, and they certainly burned many bridges.

Now there's VSCode, TypeScript, WSL, Dapr and .NET, all open source.
I worked on a similar large social platform with shadow-bans and more strict auto-bans, we had <10% of accounts with "uncommon" usage patterns from paid-user farms, bots, and power-users. The platform prefers a user who sees ads, has rich tracking data, stays logged in, has clean analytics, has persistent caches. Their view is that if you're technical enough to trigger a bot-ban, you're technical enough overcome a ban and make a new account, after all there are 900 million other "normal"ish users with higher ARPU.

To avoid auto-bans, emulate the preferred "dumb" user:

- Use the default app

- Avoid VPN/Proxy (AWS-hosted VPN exits are blocked on Reddit, appeals ignored)

- Avoid analytics-blockers in adblock/pi-hole/dns

- Avoid chrome plugins that scrape (shopping, reviews, media downloaders)

- Limit incognito usage, keep your new-login count low

- Limit deleting / cache-clearing mobile app

- Limit new logins on many devices/browsers/profiles on the same IP

- Limit cmd+clicking 10+ posts in the background (triggers bot-like flag)

- Start new accounts slowly, don't over-do it the first month

To avoid report-bans / moderator-bans / strikes:

- Avoid posting screenshots / URL embeds unless common for the subreddit

- Always add flare (tags) to new posts, many subs auto-mod no-flare posts

- Be careful what you say on "brand" subs like r/Comcast_Xfinity, r/unitedairlines, r/NFL. They hire "brand managers" to use reddit, and if the brand doesn't like it, they can report your posts towards a ban.
Even this article can't get it right.

https://www.inc.com/chris-morris/why-elon-musk-doge-savings-...

It was originally $2 trillion.

EDIT: Missed this earlier. Still think you should lead with the original claim to highlight the disparity!

> When he was Mr. Trump’s most prominent supporter on the campaign trail, he said he could cut $2 trillion from a federal budget of about $7 trillion. After Mr. Trump was elected and Mr. Musk’s group began its work, Mr. Musk lowered that goal to $1 trillion.
And a large part of tech labour in this country is comprised of immigrants.
Not being working class.

Philosophy major is something educated classes can related to as in "It could happen to me or my friends."
>Bring back manufacturing, and make the US economy work better for workers.

Seemingly, this is going to magically happen? Where are the programs to make sure this does happen? Erecting tariffs is one thing, but having an actual plan and executing on said plan is another. So far, all I see is rising prices and looming threats of job cuts due to slow downs which stem from increased costs, and there is nothing coming to buffer that.

Let alone, the investment capital isn't moving in this direction. As of this writing, the general posture of the Republican donor class is 'wait and see how long the tariffs last' not 'lets invest in American industry again'

>Because usually the best-paying jobs were in factories, especially if you didn't have a college degree. A lot of towns in the Rust Belt were economically dependent on a local factory -- think cars or steelmaking. Often, part of the reason these factories were so high paying is because the jobs were unionized.

Emphasis mine. Do you believe that the modern Republican party is pro union? Do you really think they won't undermine organized labor even if jobs come back in some form? Even though the modern Democratic party have a spotty history on labor issues, the Republicans have shown for 40 years to be the anti labor party. They rarely - if ever - pass legislation that is pro labor. This administration isn't proving to be different in that regard either, and it wasn't different the first time around.

>I grew up in the Rust Belt and I'm old enough to properly remember when some of those factories were still operating. I saw with my own eyes what used to be a respectable blue-collar community decay into an economic wasteland.

So did I. Hallowed home town and all. One of the poorest in the state I grew up. You know what else never happened? Sustained public policy to help these areas. There were largely no programs to help transition workers from one industry to another. We don't have comprehensive safety nets and retraining / re-education programs for workers. We lack all of that. Why aren't we starting by implementing those programs? Its rather wishful thinking that bringing manufacturing back to the US, that it will end up in these same areas to begin with, because manufacturing is very different than it used to be. I doubt most of these areas would be good places to re-build manufacturing capacity in the US. What manufacturing is done here is already concentrated in the South which precludes huge chunks of the traditional rust belt.
Really cool to see more tooling making self-supervised learning usable on real-world datasets. Domain shift is a recurring pain, especially when labels are limited—so being able to pretrain directly on unlabeled data is a big deal. Also great to see it open-sourced under AGPL.
Have you tried LightlyTrain on any more niche domains, like satellite or industrial inspection data? Would be interesting to see how it performs outside the usual benchmarks. Nice work!
Nobody, not even the ATF, is claiming he bought the guns illegally. They're claiming he was illegally "engaged in the business of" dealing weapons because he didn't have an federal firearms license. Prior to 2022 he wouldn't even be on the ATF's radar but "with the principal objective of livelihood and profit" was amended to remove "livelihood."

This is the form you fill out when you purchase a gun[0]. Please let me know where on this form you "promise not to resell" a firearm you purchase.

Straw purchases are illegal. Reselling firearms is not.

[0] https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/4473-part-1-firearms-trans...
Türkiye too, just don't mind what happened to any opposition
Hmm how is it different in the US do you not get back in the sales tax that you paid for your input. Here the middle man pay tax on the buying price and then collects on the sell price. Then has to pay the government minus what they paid as input sale tax. So all increments on the price gets taxed till the end user. But the tax itself is not taxed again.
Seeing it as a "rip off" is indeed delusion, but turning a blind eye to the dangers of becoming (ever more) dependent on a foreign country is an even worse folly.
> "Just give them time! It takes time!"

Except it's exactly Doge and the admin at large who keeps saying how fast they're going to go and how easy it all is to fix, etc.
I think I don't believe that source without better evidence. It could be totally accurate - or, chances are, it's spinning a story.
How are high-performers building family culture while building companies?
My wife and I are both in venture and raising three young kids. We’ve been thinking a lot lately about how little is shared publicly about what it actually looks like to build something ambitious and raise a family with intention.

We’re starting a project exploring how high-performers—especially couples who work together or run businesses—create family culture while growing professionally. We don’t have a specific output yet, just following the thread and talking to thoughtful people walking a similar path.

If this resonates with you, we’d love to connect—either to chat or just swap thoughts. Also curious if anyone’s come across resources, books, or threads on this topic. It feels underexplored.
This post captures very well some mechanisms I learned about in the past years, the psychological mechanisms behind the behavior that people show towards people going through a high-risk pregnancy in a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

To my great surprise.
> Because, with rare exceptions, the last war Google the company won when it came to launching something of lasting value happened in the late 2000s, give or take a few years.

People repeat this a lot, but it's obviously not true. Google Photos is recent, really good, and had more than a billion users really quickly. Waymo is like a decade away from eating the entire urban taxi market. Gemini is the best LLM for writing code right now. I guess you could call these "rare exceptions" but I don't think that's a useful way to describe them.

Hell, even YouTube improves every year by leaps and bounds from both a revenue/profit standpoint, AND from a creator support standpoint.

Google deserves to be heckled mercilessly for how easy engineers have it there and how eager it is to kill off products, but suggesting that it's a dying company coasting on ad money is just totally wrong.
Robot drones probably are something the US should do. Access to US farms is useful for anyone making agriculture products. Remembers these drones are part of the supply chain for food, and so doing them in the US makes the supply chain closer. You want the ag drones made in small city, not Silicone valley. However your might write the software in Silicone valley - that is where you will find a supply of people who can do that - some of those people will then be making regular trips to the factory though to learn how it works.