MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-04-04 23:20:33+00:00
Mmmm, I'm not so sure about that anymore ... at least not for a while yet.

Trump has a lot of leeway to declare emergency rulings and to have those enforced in the short term. Such powers come with a short leash that require appeals to be addressed in a short time frame.

That mechanism was upended twenty four days ago when US Republicians effectively "stopped time" ..

Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025.

~ https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio...

"Each day [..] shall not constitute a calendar day"

This does not appear (on my admittedly brief search) to be something routine in US resolutions.

There's some further commentary here:

The Constitution gives to Congress, not the president, the power to impose tariffs. But the International Emergency Economic Powers Act allows the president to impose tariffs if he declares a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, which Trump did on February 1. That same law allows Congress to end such a declaration of emergency, but if such a termination is introduced—as Democrats have recently done—it has to be taken up in a matter of days. But this would force Republicans to go on record as either supporting or opposing the unpopular economic ideology Trump and Musk are imposing. So Republicans just passed a measure saying that for the rest of this congressional session, “each day…shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of terminating Trump’s emergency declaration.

~ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2025
by strken | 2025-04-04 23:20:46+00:00
This is just asinine. Consider the same argument flipped around:

"If you get deported for saying something stupid, you may want to consider the notion that you do not deserve to live in the US. They’re called consequences, and if you don’t like them, remaining silent is free."

Both arguments are ridiculous because they present no evidence as to whether someone deserves a job or a visa stay.
by Avicebron | 2025-04-04 23:21:31+00:00
> The "extreme realists" or Platonists, . . . hold that abstractions exist as real entities or archetypes in another dimension of reality and that the concretes we perceive are merely their imperfect reflections, but the concretes evoke the abstractions in our mind. (According to Plato, they do so by evoking the memory of the archetypes which we had known, before birth, in that other dimension.)

I think the concepts of forms and shapes rubbed her the wrong way.

Here's a quote from Piekoff that I think explains why much better than what Rand would have written.

> Momentous conclusions about man are implicit in this metaphysics (and were later made explicit by a long line of Platonists): since individual men are merely particular instances of the universal "man," they are not ultimately real. What is real about men is only the Form which they share in common and reflect. To common sense, there appear to be many separate, individual men, each independent of the others, each fully real in his own right. To Platonism, this is a deception; all the seemingly individual men are really the same one Form, in various reflections or manifestations. Thus, all men ultimately comprise one unity, and no earthly man is an autonomous entity—just as, if a man were reflected in a multifaceted mirror, the many reflections would not be autonomous entities.
by jsmeaton | 2025-04-04 23:22:11+00:00
Perceived only at this stage, though the kind of volume we’re looking at is 10s to 100s of millions of jobs per day. https://github.com/riverqueue/river/issues/746 talks about some of the same things you mention.

To be clear, I really like the model of riverqueue and will keep going at a leisurely pace since this is a personal time interest at the moment. I’m sick of celery and believe a service is a better model for background tasks than a language-specific tool.

If you guys were to build http ingestion and http targets I’d try and deploy it right away.
by Jotalea | 2025-04-04 23:22:24+00:00
In my defense, I was playing Bedwars (competitive Minecraft mini-game with floating islands, ability to make bridges across them, purpose being to break other team's beds), and once I found out there was a cheater in my team, I left my team's bed with no protection, to make the game easier for the "clean" players. It didn't work, the cheater in my team eliminated all the other players.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-04-04 23:22:42+00:00
Depending on the age of your children, you should play music to introduce them to it. Some of my best memories from when my kids were young is of them dancing around uncontrollably to In The Hall of the Mountain King and Hergest Ridge (a particular section). They loved it. It activates something.

They need to know there's more out there than The Wiggles.
by baranul | 2025-04-04 23:23:43+00:00
Have to disagree. Some type of solid metric has to be used, beyond claims by fans or language creators bombarding multiple social media sites.

First, "future prospect", is a claim almost any language can try to make. Unless it is a language created by a well known corporation (Carbon for example) or famous programmer (Jai or Mojo), such claims lack a foundation. A new language can really only make the argument of truly being a future prospect, if it comes from something already successful or famous.

Thus, for most newer languages, GitHub is a valid metric. Not just stars, but the number of contributors and activity associated with the repo. Other things like books on Amazon by third parties or articles about the language in well known magazines, would clearly count too. These things are measurables, beyond just hype.
by crudbug | 2025-04-04 23:23:51+00:00
I was also looking at alternatives -

K8S-based -

https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack

https://github.com/kubero-dev/kubero

https://github.com/pluralsh/plural

DCR-based -

https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify

https://github.com/dokku/dokku/

https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy

https://github.com/swiftwave-org/swiftwave

Most of these projects are maintained by a single maintainer; for business critical apps look elsewhere.
by nozzlegear | 2025-04-04 23:24:08+00:00
> Protests are effective - no they're not, this is a myth because people believed they ended the Vietnam War. If you have power and a belief in doing something, why should you care if a random stranger doesn't like it?

MLK's civil rights movement was one of the most effective protests in history. If you said that they're not always effective I would agree, but to say that they're not ever effective? It doesn't hold up. Even in modern times they can continue to be effective — the BLM protests were a huge personal focus¹ of Trump's at the end of his second presidency; he hated that people were protesting and blaming him, and his advisers immediately recognized the protests as politically threatening to his reelection. BLM eventually lead to wide policing reforms in many cities and states.

¹ Source: Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
by roenxi | 2025-04-04 23:24:08+00:00
You're describing a scene that I have seen in a fairly un-affluent country (namy, Thailand back in the day) that looked fairly affluent (central Bangkok, the place was thriving). There were a lot of beggers, I grant you. But homelessness beggars are famously common in some of the most affluent places in the world, like San Francisco. It is probably more linked to outdoor min & max temperatures than anything else.

You can find relative class status of an area by the number of beggars, I grant you that. But you aren't going to get a bead on the actual affluence of the high-class people. Are they thousandairs or billionairs? All we really know is they aren't beggars.
by robocat | 2025-04-04 23:24:21+00:00
I suspect you think that healthcare is helpful, and that if we could only buy poor people more healthcare then their lives would be improved. Healthcare regularly doesn't help that much. Even the richest often die young because healthcare regularly cannot FIX things (think chemotherapy then die).

There's some mental fallacy we buy into that health can be fixed - when the only healthy choice is preventative mitigation. The answer is to live a healthy life: especially regular exercise. But also sensible food choices and removing stress (remove stressors or maybe learn techniques to ignore stress), and avoiding drugs/alcohol/smoking.

Rich Americans are unhealthy too and for the majority how much they spend on medical interventions usually doesn't fix their quality-of-life or length-of-life.

The poor mostly have as much access to a healthy life as the wealthy: so why are both the poor and the rich unhealthy?

The hard question to answer is why we live unhealthy lifestyles ;; is it capitalist advertising ;; should we blame cultural mores ;; are we victims of our own poor choices...

Anecdotes (New Zealand specific):

1: a poorer friend with hip problems that needed replacements in 40s but was forced to live in excruciating conditions for years due to how New Zealand's socialised health budgetary constraints are implemented (via waiting lists). No money was saved by the government because the surgery was eventually paid for (background: surgery cost for both hips was approx equal one pretax year of minimum wages in NZ).

2: two friends with a poor backgrounds that got middle aged diabetes - my guess is caused by booze & maybe smoking. Both THEN started exercise and also changed their habits and lifestyle. One is well off and money didn't really help them. Both could have previously lived healthier lifestyles but only changed their habits after being faced with severe frightening outcomes. Drugs like metformin help (that drug is cheap, however ongoing regular monitoring by doctor is not cheap). Expensive surgical interventions caused by diabetes will never fix the problems caused by poor living.

How much we should blame people's "choices" for poor health outcomes is difficult to answer. If someone chooses to drink booze, how much should society pay for their choice? We have high sin taxes in New Zealand so people have often paid for their medical help however the taxes do not cover the overall societal cost. A better example is acquaintances that have destroyed their health through recreational drug usage (which definitely isn't sanctioned by larger society, and definitely is sanctioned by peer society). I'm a huge believer in personal choice - but I'm no fan of having to pay for the bad choices made by others.

That's the issue with New Zealand's socialism. I can carefully live a prudent life : however it galls to be taxed to pay for people that ignore the cost of their choices.

Aside: it really neeps my bibbles that doctors are seen as saving lives. Engineering, economics and science save most lives. Doctors don't help much. (Ofc "saving" lives is a nonsense term anyway)
by alexjplant | 2025-04-04 23:25:13+00:00
> In the past few years, getting songs stuck in my head (earworms) has become so easy I pretty much don’t listen to music with vocals anymore.

Ditto the sibling comment about this happening to me for instrumental music. I have thousands of hooks floating around my head. I whistle and sing when I walk around if nobody is within earshot. 90% of the time I wake up with a melody in my head that won't go away. I kind of like it because it's developed my musical ability in a passive, cumulative way.
by wvenable | 2025-04-04 23:25:16+00:00
> Completely false. Windows was already a monopoly, and the US government successfully sued Microsoft for using their Windows monopoly to leverage sales for Office.

The government lawsuit was specifically about Internet Explorer, not Office. At no time were manufacturers forced to pay for Office licenses. Go ahead, look it up, I'll wait.

Where do you get your stuff and why are posting it? You do know that Office applications existed before Windows, right? Excel came out for Mac OS first.
by spacechild1 | 2025-04-04 23:25:42+00:00
The GUI of Pure Data (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data) is written in Tcl/Tk. In the 90s this was a popular and sensible choice, but not so much in 2025 :) I still have hopes that one day we'll manage to replace it with something better.

(There are alternative implementations of Pd, such as PurrData or PlugData, that use different UI frameworks.)
by mrangle | 2025-04-04 23:27:33+00:00
No. Respectfully, you don't understand how money works and the proposal of vaguely applied ten cent terms can't make up for that. Ironically, this means that you also don't understand socialism.

Capitalism is simply the innate nature and structure of the monetary system. The maintenance of the properties of money require capitalism. Otherwise, you will begin to not have money. No matter what word that you use for it. I'm not saying that this is a good thing. It's just a concrete thing.

The more socialism that you apply, especially in terms of shelf goods, the less actual money that you have. Due to how prices will react, what you begin to have is something akin to allotted credits or even just de facto allotted goods. The former which necessarily implies price controls. The only question then is how much food each person will be allotted.

Tell me which companies, ahem, I mean "socialist countries" aim to maximize free GDP allotment (in this case for food) to each individual citizen instead of minimize it to the lowest possible level? Consider a hypothetical wherein this socialist country has 300 million people.

The negatives of capitalism are not because of capitalism. They are because of the structural nature of money, which only maintains value roughly relative to the degree to which a large amount of people don't have it.

Smart countries attempt to maximize socialist benefits without affecting their currency value, in order to control and promote social stability to the best of their ability. But this generally excludes socialism for common goods, or else the characteristics of money begin to change.
by bsnnkv | 2025-04-04 23:27:54+00:00
I've been putting a lot of my energy into side projects for the last five years, and while I've considered them all successful (i.e. they have filled a concrete need I had, and having addressed that need the workflow of my life has improved significantly), it's only this year that one of them has really started to take off financially.

I started selling commercial use licenses for one of my side projects in January, and in 3 months I've had more people sign up for license subscriptions than I've had people sign up to be sponsors on GitHub in 3 years.

I'm very cautiously optimistic that if I keep working at it, within a year or two I might be able to have enough license revenue to pick up part-time shift work somewhere that offers healthcare, and then spend the rest of my time in the blissful Zen of my good side project (will it still be a side project at that point??)
by smj-edison | 2025-04-04 23:28:36+00:00
Funny that Tcl was mentioned today. I've recently been hacking on jimtcl[1] (a small footprint implementation of Tcl) to make objects multi-threaded safe, as that's the core language that folk.computer[2] uses (the main authors are making the interpreter and reactive DB parallelizable rn, so I've been tinkering with how to reduce copying).

[1] https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl [2] https://folk.computer/
by thefounder | 2025-04-04 23:28:56+00:00
I think that's more common in other parts of the world. (i.e. getting places that people actually live in).In Europe most/all of the apartments I've stayed in are basically business apartments (more or less).

You don't feel that someone lives there because nobody actually lives there. It's like a long term rental apartment that in best case scenario someone is using as a savings/investment vehicle but on short term. "Worst case" it's part of an apart-hotel.

When I travel as part of a large group(i.e. more than 3 people) a short term apartment is great because we need a big affordable space (i.e. someone may sleep on the couch and we don't want the hotel "greetings & house keeping" experience) but nevertheless I don't want or expect a dirty place in any way, shape or form be it in Cairo or somewhere else. I'm pretty sure there are people living in less than sanitary conditions all over the world including Western Europe and the U.S. That doesn't mean I have interest in experiencing that kind of "living/sleeping".

All that being said I've stopped using Airbnb years ago. It seems a broken system. For short term rentals/apartments Booking.com is the only sane choice(IMHO).
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-04 23:31:22+00:00
> What would it take to change your mind on these tariffs?

If there was a positive outcome? US citizens financially better off in 4 years than they are today?

I don't think most MAGA voters would see it as a win if US was slightly less dependent on imports, but they personally are considerably worse off financially, which seems the likely outcome.
by Hizonner | 2025-04-04 23:31:25+00:00
> This is about a meta analysis from 2018 and therefore misses that the biggest recent growth in the anti-porn movement has been among secular feminists.

Citation needed. Secular feminists have always been there. They don't seem any more dominant to me. But I'm prepared to be convinced. By actual evidence of some kind.

Also, you're completely missing the point. The article is about people who have issues with their own porn use. The secular feminists you're talking about aren't the people who (a) believe they're addicted to porn and (b) are having problems with feeling bad about it.
by dmitrygr | 2025-04-04 23:31:38+00:00
There was an old joke. University math class. Professor writes a huge formula on the board. Says, "and from this, it is obvious that," and writes another very different large formula on the board. He stands for a second, says "hm...", and walks out of the lecture hall. He returns 30 minutes later, throws a stack of papers freshly-covered in writing unto the desk, mutters "yeah, that indeed was obvious", and continues the lecture.
by ximeng | 2025-04-04 23:31:54+00:00
AI centric argument:

The policy indicates trade, traditional partnerships, and traditional financial metrics are less important for the administration. It is largely symbolic rather than analytically worked out - the direction is more important than the details.

This is consistent with the economy being radically altered by robotics and AI. Comparative advantage in labor costs is becoming irrelevant, so a large part of the justification for trade disappears.

Wealth is being further concentrated into those with existing assets, as the negotiating position of labor becomes weaker. It is less important to maintain partnerships when you can do everything yourself.

Recession becomes less important than pushing hard for leadership in AI. Deepseek’s model release had a huge impact on the values of leading US firms. With AI traditional measures of the economy become significantly less relevant.
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-04 23:32:31+00:00
Who is we in this regard? You and I do not decide on such matters (was there a survey or referendum?) I agree with your sentiment, but I reject that a select few (rich Jews like the Adelsons) get to decide who comes in by donating to a campaign and influencing intepretations for our ammendments. Let us apply this standard to everyone and block IDF soldiers alongside those individuals. Will this ever happen? I doubt it (Gal Gadot served in those armed forces for instance, and is a darling of Disney executives). The problem I have with this issue, is it is being weaponized by one group to subjugate another. I am not sympathetic to either sides (although as of late, I am much more sympathetic to the Palestinian plight, given they are victims of an oppression at the hand of a much more powerful entity, backed by powerful states that are losing the propaganda edge they have mastered for so long). I have an issue with the weaponization of free speech to advocate on behalf of one group that holds a lot more power in the US. That is not something I accept. Ultimately, you and I can debate this, but no effect will result from this. The Adelsons made donations to Trump explicitly because of Columbia's protests, and what they asked for was crystal clear: everyone (including citizens) must be deported or blacklisted from jobs for protesting against darling Israel. The deans of Harvard and Columbia were sacked. You see this as a free market or a lawful interpretation of Immigration. I see it as foreign interference with a cooperation from American traitors (like the Adelsons) and treason to American values. It is an anti-American initiative that prioritizes the wellbeing of Israel at the expense of American free speech and the well-being of students that chose to come here.
by smj-edison | 2025-04-04 23:32:33+00:00
Yep! It's called shimmering. The way it works is it has a string and internal representation. When the internal representation is modified it invalidates the string version. If the string version is needed later it'll regenerate the string representation. That way it can always be used as a string, but internally it is pretty efficient when it stays as the same type.
by listenallyall | 2025-04-04 23:33:32+00:00
Good point and it affects far more than just Airbnb. I'm sure some companies internal ROI for app notifications is universally positive... but when you send me 10 app notifications a week for a product or service I only purchase occasionally, I'm uninstalling the app. Obviously I'm in the minority because the app still has millions of users but hopefully others have turned notifications off.
by crq-yml | 2025-04-04 23:34:50+00:00
Our lack of building is directly tied to dollar reserve currency policy. We export a lot of dollars; other countries export goods to the US and end up with dollars. The things they can invest their dollar in are dollar-based assets. That results in the massive consumer sector and bubble dynamics. Simultaneously, calls to "reinvest in America" fall on deaf ears, because this reserve currency model needs free trade, and free trade allows capital to uproot and leave a place, whether in a direct sense or through creative loopholes. So long as the balance sheet of the assets is prioritized, the country cannot invest in its people, because that will show up as a cost(in tax, benefits, or regulation). Balance-sheet efficiency means consolidating and centralizing profits while outsourcing costs, and what is actively supported by policy and investment is whatever the market is hyped for(dot coms, social media, crypto, AI), which results in technical development towards the ends of oligarchs. Nothing new can be built unless it's pitched in terms of profit and market share.

The current regime is the endgame: The distortions grew large enough to cause a flip to mercantalist policy-making and winner-loser dynamics. It has a short-term logic to it, but it is also incompatible with where we are. All the biggest businesses in modern America were built around dollar debt, consumerism and outsourcing, and all the workers were likewise tied to either the fortunes of these businesses or the government itself. All it'll do is produce a crisis, which can only resolve through a more holistic policy framework.
by kbelder | 2025-04-04 23:34:58+00:00
The question then becomes, whose money are you going to take against their will and give to the beggar?

And you may believe that this would be a greater good, and a proper role of government... different people may think differently about that, and discussions can be held. Don't gloss over the fact, though, that the only alternatives to voluntary charity are either no charity or involuntary charity.