MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-13 20:37:53+00:00
Living expenses are pretty tied to your 'scarcity', yes.

Transportation and home heating or cooling costs will go up when petro products rise. Oil is scarce and globally priced. Gas for the car is 3% of household income. Utilities are 6-7% of income

Fertilizer costs rise. Nitrogen-based fertilizers come from natural gas, and phosphate and potash are globally priced and often imported. That means higher costs for farmers, stacked on top of rising fuel and transport expenses. That's foods already 10-15% of income.

So food gets more expensive from every angle. Inputs, shipping, storage. All of it.

So that's 20%+ of household expenses hit.

Education costs go up too. Foreign students now effectively get a discount if their home currency strengthens and universities are expert at making that squeeze when they have room to raise prices without losing demand (if students still come, if they don't come well...education costs also go up to make up the shortfall of high paying foreign students).
by lazystar | 2025-04-13 20:38:00+00:00
> After this last election, I think political groups realized local subreddits were underutilized and have regrouped accordingly.

its not that. they realized: a) that folks were filtering out the astroturfed subreddits in /r/all, and b) that r/all's filter list has a hard limit of 100 subreddits. so, by astroturfing >100 subreddits, they can guarantee to their clients that their posts will make the front of r/all for everyone.
by YZF | 2025-04-13 20:38:52+00:00
None of the articles say what you claim. There's no mention of dressing civilians in IDF uniforms. The claim is they are forced to enter suspected booby trapped building, not "conducting military operations". It's quite possible that this happens sometimes, and yes it's not supposed to, but that's war for you.

From the CNN article btw: "The soldier said that he and his comrades refused to carry on with the practice after two days and confronted their senior commander about it. Their commander, who first told them not to “think about international law,” saying that their own lives were “more important,” ultimately relented, releasing the two Palestinians, the soldier said. "

This goes to show you to what degree Israeli soldiers do consider the international law and these sort of moral questions. They would rather risk their own lives. But yes, over a long war of this kind the threshold is going to become lower. It's the Hamas choice to keep fighting the way it does (booby trap every civilians building e.g.).

Now find me the Hamas "soldier" who refused to carry out orders to murder civilians or refused to hold civilian hostages and got their commander to free them. Let's see where's the moral equivalence.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-04-13 20:39:17+00:00
Sounds like we need an industry/language-wide test suite to check these many date/time/calendar libraries against. Like the browser acid tests, though focused to baseline functionality only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3

I like this new lib (Thank You) but the name unfortunately implies the opposite of what it is. "Whenever" sounds like you don't care, but you'd only be using this if you did care! Also Shakira, haha. Hmm, pedantic is taken. Timely, precise, punctual, meticulous, ahorita, pronto, etc. I like that temporal name.

Finally, none of these links mention immutability, but it should be mentioned at the top.
by lazystar | 2025-04-13 20:39:40+00:00
its astroturfing by for profit companies. after the election, they realized: a) that folks were filtering out the astroturfed subreddits in /r/all, and b) that r/all's filter list has a hard limit of 100 subreddits. so, they switched tactics - by astroturfing >100 subreddits, they can guarantee to their clients that their posts will make the front of r/all for everyone.
by sureglymop | 2025-04-13 20:39:59+00:00
I have experienced similar. A while ago I had some memory issues due to severe insomnia over weeks. It certainly sucked but the memory loss part wasn't so bas as I basically just felt happy often, not even remembering little annoyances.

It's kind of a double edged sword in my opinion because it's not really affordable to always be in that state.
by Swizec | 2025-04-13 20:40:07+00:00
> The vast majority of cases stock options end up worthless

My fav manager had a great way of phrasing this: "There are more ways for your options to be worthless than to make you rich"

But I also personally know plenty of people who made off great with their startup equity. They're def not worthless.

Ultimately I think you should never take an uncomfortable pay-cut to join a company and you should maximize your stock compensation on top of that. Don't forget other types of equity – brand, exposure to good problems, network.
by epc | 2025-04-13 20:40:21+00:00
No. I found it frustrating that so many BASIC programs had odd quirks or dependencies on one platform that I couldn't figure out how to mimic on whatever I was programming on (first a MicroVideo Interact, then an Apple 2 with Integer Basic followed eventually by AppleSoft Basic). I used to type in programs from the Creative Computing compilation books and hit various roadblocks because some of the programs would rely on commands specific to paper tape or the specific digital tape (not home computer cassette) drive in use.
by xandrius | 2025-04-13 20:40:33+00:00
You saw someone making a bunch of observations, setting up an experiment and trying to use maths/programming to prove an hypothesis they believed to be a sign of "lack of human-ness"?

To me it showed curiosity and ingenuity, sure they might not have studied a certain subject but it is a totally valid approach to an unknown problem. It might actually get people who have similar "silly questions" to run a similar set of experiment and perhaps stumble upon something novel.

You comment showed less human-ness than OP, ironically.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-04-13 20:40:44+00:00
>The fact is, parents don't want to be blamed for traumatic upbringings, so they can pin it on the child's brain and almost always succeed - creating more trauma, symptoms and learned helplessness in the process. And nobody ever realizes the truth. Literally everyone you're supposed to trust buys into the same narrative of medicalization - guardians, teachers, counselors, doctors, the media - which means what what you think of yourself is set in stone from an early age, and the worst part is that it's totally false. You have to spend years trying to undo the damage stemming from this by yourself - and that only gets you so far. Some of it never goes away.

God yup, I know exactly how this one feels. I may have given myself too much credit in my original comment; I got incredibly lucky. I happened to have two very wise people in my life who were smart enough to see through that lifelong medicalization. Talking to them was how we slowly came to understand how the meds worked and the perverse nature of the whole thing. I would have been completely screwed without them. Everyone else around me, without exception, framed it as though I was simply treating the symptoms of a bodily disease, when the primary purpose for me was the psychoactive effect itself. The euphoric, motivational feeling helped me temporarily suppress a heavy burden of negative emotion that hung over me for unaddressed reasons. The problem is, this gave stimulants addictive qualities for me. I'd abuse them to an excessive degree. I sometimes went on multi-day binges, during which I never slept, and almost certainly did myself permanent damage.

It's the inevitable result of treating ADHD as a simple symptomology and lumping everyone with those symptoms into a single group. You'll get lots of people like me for whom a good relationship with stimulant medication is a struggle. The worst part is that the medicalization itself makes a good relationship impossible. Understanding them as drugs, thinking of them like any other psychoactive substance, is the framing that makes it possible to use them in a way that's actually helpful--small, targeted doses that change how you feel to make it easier to operate in the world when you have no alternative. It would be odd to recommend that someone put themselves in a perpetual caffeine high, yet for amphetamines this suddenly seems reasonable? It's the medicalized framing that makes this logic make sense to people, and, as you said, the lumping together of many disparate conditions under one banner.
by watwut | 2025-04-13 20:41:50+00:00
I assure you that taking care of a family does not make you independent. Regardless of who the family member to care about is. I am quite pro "you should be helping family" and as such I am fully aware that caregivers are giving up quite a lot. And in particular, having kids makes you much more dependent and limited then whatever was your life before them. That goes for those who stayed at home and depend on partner for everything, those who are primary breadwinner focusing on work only and for those who juggle childcare with work.

As for owning property instead of renting, that one is massively more influenced by whether you can afford to buy a property or rent. Renting requires much less money and that is all there is to it. Neither makes you more or less satisfied in life.
by mmooss | 2025-04-13 20:42:05+00:00
> Fortunately, if history goes to show us anything, it's these hate-fueled-orders always end up imploding.

That's taking the 'in the long run' analysis to an extreme.

In WWII, after hundreds of millions died - including over 10 million murdered by the hate-filled - major parts of the world were devestated, and the free world united in a massive war, the hate-fueled were stopped. They didn't implode.

The idea that they will implode is a common fantasy that you (and many others) won't have to do anthing, face their fears, fight an uncertain fight. If you really believed they would implode, the fight would be certain. They won't stop until you stop them.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-13 20:42:32+00:00
>This thing has 8 motors. It’s easy to imagine that it could have 8 independent batteries and could be able to perform a controlled descent if two fail. Similarly, it could have redundant sensors and use commodity “majority rules” logic circuits where all calculations are run three times. On top of that, they can already cut over to ground control if the computer can’t proceed.

Most of these are a total nightmare to implement. There is no such thing as a "controlled descent" into a dense urban center. Even keeping maneuverability with a single defective motor is a hard task, you need to develop and test for this.

>On top of that, they can already cut over to ground control if the computer can’t proceed.

So ground control can do what? The only reasonable way these could ever safely operate is with a high degree of sensor fusion, information about nearby crafts, their trajectories, obstacles, etc. combined together. You can not put a human into that system and have him make split-second decisions.

>With all that, it’s “just” a software problem.

Passenger plane automation is also "just" a software problem. It is just an enormously difficult software problem with exceedingly high stakes. The problem is not that it is "impossible", but that it is extremely difficult and not worth the risk getting it wrong.

Again, what is the acceptable failure rate for these things crashing into sky scrapers? If it is zero, we are very far away from them being able to take flight.
by ajigarjian | 2025-04-13 20:43:16+00:00
We only want people to pay for Crystal if they feel they get outsized value out of it; we’d never ask you to pay just to make a few searches.

That being said, each query makes a few LLM calls to make sure we’re returning the most relevant datasets, which costs money. So at some point we would expect power users to contribute, which seems reasonable.

Ultimately our goal is to democratize access to this data. So the cost would never be more than a nominal amount
by Lammy | 2025-04-13 20:43:35+00:00
Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

…a.k.a Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
by xandrius | 2025-04-13 20:44:31+00:00
If you put an object of color X of intensityn N in a net with color X of intensity N+M, then the object will get some spill over from the net similar to M, which the brain/person doesn't necessarily realise and simply assigns it to the object ad well.

It is also a consumer advice about not comparing an orange inside a bag (of any color) with one outside of one as we have a hard time truly comparing them.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-04-13 20:44:41+00:00
I don't know about Canada, but here in France many things come as a long-term contract with monthly payments and cancelation fees. Most common which come to mind are mobile phone plans and ISP subscriptions.

Many companies still have 12 or 24 months plans, and you're on the hook for some form of penalty if you cancel before the term. And no, I'm not talking about buying a plan-subsidized phone, even "naked" plans have this.

Since some years ago, companies have started offering monthly-only plans, so you can cancel anytime. But, for some reason, there still are cancelation fees, which are fixed. What's funny, is that they also usually offer rebates if you switch providers, which usually cover those fees.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, but, at least where I live, the Adobe scheme is fairly common.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-04-13 20:45:01+00:00
Yeah, I see this a lot on HN as well. "$BigCorp is secretly doing $NefariousThing!" "How good is the evidence for this, though?" "Why are you shilling for $BigCorp, we all know it's nefarious!"

Like, I can easily believe that many big corporations are doing all sorts of shady stuff, but the lack of precision makes it impossible to put everything into perspective. (And it's not like "just break them all up, regardless of the details" is a viable solution: you'll just end up with a bunch of slightly-smaller shady corporations.)
by eesmith | 2025-04-13 20:45:09+00:00
Sure. My mention of "printing press" was specifically meant to be moveable type, but that detail doesn't matter.

Now how do you get from your true observation to characterize how technology now is 'several orders of magnitude' greater than the 'very little "technology"' af3d had as kid?

When you talk about "demands it places on our lives", do you mean modern life has higher demands, or lower? And is that a good thing?

Like, in the 1800s, employees worked 12 hour shifts, 6 days/week, with few rest days or holidays. Working conditions were horrible, and a simple slip in attention could cut your fingers off or worse.

That placed a high demand on people's lives - higher than ours now, and higher than those in the Middle Ages. Quoting https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_... :

"Before capitalism, most people did not work very long hours at all. The tempo of life was slow, even leisurely; the pace of work relaxed. Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure. When capitalism raised their incomes, it also took away their time. Indeed, there is good reason to believe that working hours in the mid-nineteenth century constitute the most prodigious work effort in the entire history of humankind."

My mother would make clothes for the family when I was a kid. Sewing is a complex skill which takes effort and time to learn. She stopped when the price of cloth got more expensive than the price of pre-made clothing. Does technology place fewer demands on our lives now?

And how do you factor in the lack of effort we should have been doing to avoid global warming - a problem we've known about since I was a teenager in the 1980s?
by RamRodification | 2025-04-13 20:45:09+00:00
> does the same thing

Does that feature really send each URL you attempt to browse to a bunch of third-party services to be verified before it lets you browse them?

Edit: Made some not-very-thorough research and it seems like "strict blocking" in uBlock Origin does not do the same thing. It does local lookups against regularly updated filter lists. Like all of uBlock Origin's blocking, I guess.
by YZF | 2025-04-13 20:45:14+00:00
Right and this is exactly why the Hamas covenant says: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

I mean he must just love the Jewish people. Lovely guy indeed.
by ghuntley | 2025-04-13 20:45:21+00:00
re: cost analysis

There's something cooked about Windsurf/Cursors' go-to-market pricing - there's no way they are turning a profit at $50/month. $50/month gets you a happy meal experience. If you want more power, you gotta ditch snacking at McDonald’s.

In the future, companies should budget $100 USD to $500 USD per day, per dev, on tokens as the new normal for business, which is circa $25k USD (low end) to $50k USD (likely) to $127k USD (highest) per year.

Above from https://ghuntley.com/redlining/

This napkin math is based upon my current spend in bring a self-compiled compiler to life.
by crote | 2025-04-13 20:45:32+00:00
Because time spent updating dependencies won't contribute to adding new features.

Besides, any update risks breaking stuff. Not freezing dependencies isn't an option, because that means any commit can cause breakage in a completely unrelated part of the codebase, in a way which can be extremely confusing to debug. And you don't really want to install the very newest versions either, better wait a week or two for someone else to run into bugs and release a .1 version.

The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle: update often enough to avoid updates becoming a massive burden, stick with fixed versions between updates. I reckon it's best to just schedule some dedicated time for it every month or two.
by dttze | 2025-04-13 20:45:50+00:00
From that same CNN article:

> “They dressed us in military uniforms, put a camera on us, and gave us a metal cutter,” he said. “They would ask us to do things like, ‘move this carpet,’ saying they were looking for tunnels. ‘Film under the stairs,’ they would say. If they found something, they would tell us to bring it outside. For example, they would ask us to remove belongings from the house, clean here, move the sofa, open the fridge, and open the cupboard.”
by mdaniel | 2025-04-13 20:46:01+00:00
I'm glad to hear that all libraries you use honor semver religiously. For the rest of us stuck here on planet Earth it's rolling the dice what, exactly, is going to happen going from 1.7.12 to 1.7.13 for any random dep. The only way to find out is to try it and then unfuck things when it spits out some transitive error message because it turns out that package-A and package-F hate each other but only on Thursdays with a full moon
by timewizard | 2025-04-13 20:46:12+00:00
These same flaws exist in every safety device we deploy. In practice it's obvious that having a consistently deployed base mostly solves these issues. There are corner cases, to be sure, but how is the greatest amount of good served?

Having these on delivery trucks ferried by unskilled drivers in non emergency vehicles who might just happen to be close enough?

Or just having them in almost every house on the block even if some number of them fail to work on first use?

I strongly suspect the latter is the better choice. Just replace AED with fire extinguisher and we could literally repeat this entire conversation.
by Kon5ole | 2025-04-13 20:46:21+00:00
I don't understand arguments against UBI that rest on people not working anymore if they get UBI. A society where UBI is possible surely has to be one where humans no longer have to work. Otherwise it's impossible to finance.

I've never seen any explanation for how it's going to be financed that passes even the most rudimentary fact check. There is not enough existing money to pay for it, and if we create new money it will lose value.

As long as necessities are valuable, meaning people actually have to work to make them, we can't pretend that they're worthless by covering their costs with a UBI. I see no way around that.

Before we reach the stage where necessities are free, UBI seems to result in taking thousands from people in need in order to give twenties to everyone including FAANG-programmers and lawyers.

I'd rather see the ones in need get thousands and actually survive.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-13 20:46:38+00:00
I agree with you here. I do personally believe in democracy, though for a slightly different reason.

I believe in democracy because I think the public should be able to collectively pick their fate and then own the outcome. I don't want an elite class doing what they think is best for the rest of us, and I don't want to own the result of their decisions if I had no say in the decisions.

I live in a very red state. Though I didn't vote for Trump I am surrounded by a strong majority of people that did. I've viewed it the way you're describing from the beginning - we made this bed, now we get to see what the result is and decide what to do next.
by eikenberry | 2025-04-13 20:46:40+00:00
As long as they don't need to decrypt your data, then that is fine as they are working strictly as a dumb storage at that point. Eg. I have keep encrypted backups in the cloud.

For other things it's about being in control, if just for tinkering. I self host mostly to not being reliant on 3rd parties for everything and to just know how it works. I don't do it for privacy. IMO if you want something private, you don't put it on the internet.
by mulmen | 2025-04-13 20:46:56+00:00
As an American please be careful blaming all of us for this. Less than 1 in 4 Americans voted for Trump. It doesn’t mean you need to buy an F-150 but please separate the concept of the American people from the GOP voter base. The complexities of our electoral system and our unique racist history made this very hard to avoid. Please don’t assume Americans in general wanted this or are ok with it.

> nobody took the Nazis seriously when they had already written a book about how they saw the world.

This is completely false. A cursory internet search will find many examples. Churchill was a vocal opponent of the Nazis in the 1930s.

> But none of this is shocking.

Right. Nobody who was paying attention is shocked. This includes many Americans.
by dmurray | 2025-04-13 20:47:42+00:00
The best oranges [0] I've had were half green. Fresh from the tree, but still plenty ripe.

It's my understanding that oranges for transport to colder countries are picked unripe and ripened in the holds of cargo ships. This ripening process is great at making the skin more orange, and OK at improving the flavour, but nowhere near as good for that as ripening on the tree.

So if I saw green patches on my supermarket oranges, far from the tropics, I'd be conditioned to expect them to be really good. They wouldn't be, of course.

[0] Satsumas? Clementines? I don't want to get into a debate about what taxonomically is an orange, but these were citrus fruit that turn orange in colour when ripe.