MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chii | 2025-05-02 14:30:42+00:00
> Multiple states want his ass on a platter for crimes in their jurisdictions outside of his function as President

if this were truly the case, then the orange man will fight to remain in power indefinitely. There should and need to be a civil war 2.0 if this happens - lest the bastion of western democracy falls (and it will, if that comes to pass).

Then china is the least of the USA's problems. But perhaps this is the engineered outcome desired by russia, if you would believe the conspiracy theory that trump is a foreign asset.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-02 14:30:51+00:00
> And they have one job. To sell.

There's an underappreciated corollary to sales comp.

1. If they're variable comp. 2. And corp controls equations. 3. Then corp can drive sales outcome it wants by changing equations.

For how messy ground-level sales at scale is (read: relationships, promises, conversations), this nicely simplifies and aligns what leadership wants to happen in sales with what actually happens.

Simply by tying sales comp to whatever the specific sales plays leadership wants more or less of.

Smart sales people are excellent at self-aligning their behavior to compensation incentives.
Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)
by adnjoo | 2025-05-02 14:30:53+00:00
Inspired by motherfuckingwebsite.com, this is a 100% static HTML/JS app.

You get one task box. A “do nothing” button. And zero bullshit. No login. No tracking. No frameworks. Just focus. Under 300 lines of code.

Built for fun. Possibly for sanity.
by quectophoton | 2025-05-02 14:30:54+00:00
On first visit:

* "Please wait while we verify that you're not a bot, for which we'll need to associate a unique identifier with your browsing session." (logged in or not)

* The validation needs to do a quick redirection to an external centralized service, because if they can already identify that you're not a bot, you save CPU cycles, and you care a lot about carbon footprint after all.

* Redirect back to the original website, passing the "proof of not-a-bot" somewhere in the URL. This is just a string.

* The website absolutely needs to load the external script `https://proof-validation.example.com/that-unique-string.js` for totally legit purposes obviously related to detecting bot behavior, "somehow".

Half-joking because I don't think this would fly. Or maybe it would, since it's currently trendy to have that PoW on first visit, and users are already used to multiple quick redirections[1] (I don't think they even pay attention to what happens in the URL bar).

But I'm sure we'd get some creative workarounds anyway.

[1]: Easy example: A post on Xitter (original domain) -> Shortened link (different domain) -> Final domain (another different domain). If the person who posted the original link also used a link shortener for tracking clicks, then that's one more redirection.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-02 14:31:04+00:00
You're missing the part where app developers take away the Apple payment option because that way they can make it much harder to do refunds, cancel subscriptions, etc.

That decreases trust. Period.

You're claiming this is about adding choices, but it's not. App developers will be removing the choice for consumers to pay via Apple.

Saying it's my choice to then not use the app is disingenuous. When a good option is replaced with multiple worse options, there's no benefit to "more choices".
by cdrini | 2025-05-02 14:31:11+00:00
That is a very cool UI; super fun to just hit random and find new niche genres/styles. I'd never heard of klezmer, for example, but such a nice style! I don't know if it's the music, but it's been a while since a website has put this big a grin on my face!

I keep wanting to save some of the songs I hear. Damn, I don't think I would really be able to tell in a blind test that these were AI.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-05-02 14:31:12+00:00
Endstate of the game theory of free markets is cartel or Monopoly.

All it takes is a single competitor to gradually gain more and more strength and competitive advantage via dumping, regulatory capture, or other means (see: organized crime and syndicates) to win the death struggle.

What has saved us hasn't been some magical free market, it has been the markets themselves, once they achieve trust status, fundamentally undermined by science and technology creating a new market that upends the old one.
by jdrek1 | 2025-05-02 14:31:13+00:00
> But my main gripe with tabs is that no one agrees on the width.

That's the entire point of tabs. One tab means one indentation level and you as the user can decide how that's displayed. Spaces forces everyone to see the code exactly as whoever decided on his favourite width and that is in the best case "only" annoying to people with different preferences and in the worst case actively hurtful to people with disabilities.

The only argument spaces people ever have is "some of my colleagues are too stupid to properly indent with tabs and align with spaces" and that is trivially fixed by either of those:

- don't use alignment, it's useless anyway

- get better coworkers

- educate your coworkers

- use commit hooks to check wrong usage

So basically there is no argument left on the spaces side at all^[1]. Meanwhile tabs semantically mean "one indentation level", take up less bytes, and most importantly allow everyone to have their own preferences without affecting other people. And honestly I am insanely baffled by how many people don't get the importance of that last part. Accessibility like that costs you nothing but means the world to other people, similarly how we have ramps at public buildings for the elder, wheelchair users, strollers, and so on. And not to mention the fact that there are a lot of autistic people in programming, which often have a harder time dealing with things not being as they want them to be. Is there any reason to choose an objectively inferior method and force that onto those demographics just because "muh alignment"?

[1] Okay fine, there is one: "Tools I don't own don't display tabs as I want them, for example GitHub with their retarded default of 8". But first of all you can change that if you're logged in and second you're supposed to use your IDE and not a web interface...
by freedomben | 2025-05-02 14:31:23+00:00
I think you've been hit with what I call the "hidden agenda" fallacy, which is something many people seem to commit routinely (or almost non-stop on reddit). It's closely related to (and involves) the Strawman fallacy, but includes some specific flawed reasoning. It basically goes like this:

1. Read the argument

2. Disregard argument and instead try to read the person's mind or guess "what they really meant" to uncover some hidden agenda that you think must exist since it's simply not possible that somebody has a good argument against your pre-supposed belief.

3. Attack what you think they must actually believe rather than what they actually said.

You can also gas it up with some emotion too, especially if it's something deeply enmeshed in your identity like religion, politics, or Apple.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-02 14:31:27+00:00
More or less (disclaimer: I haven't actually played those games so I'm going by reputation). The big difference is that the dodge/parry mechanic in Clair Obscur can be punishing. There have been cases where a boss would one-shot characters if I don't get a dodge off, which is very frustrating - I don't play Souls games for a reason, and I don't want that level of fuck you difficulty. But mostly, it is at the level where you will need to spend more time healing if you take hits, but you can muddle through.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-02 14:31:41+00:00
Yeah, the morality of taxation and the role of the state is a deep topic that has been debated for thousands of years.

Nearly everyone accepts that taxation is justified for some cases where you can't really avoid benefiting from the expenditure, the textbook example being public goods like defense (you can't opt-out of benefiting from the defeat of an invading army) or a lighthouse (you can't stop a sailor who didn't pay from seeing it).

And post-communism most people accept that taxation is not justified for many other cases, for example, using tax money to gift the president a private golf club would not be moral (he can buy golfing time with his salary or prior wealth). The benefit only accrues to the user in that case, and they can easily pay for it themselves.

In the past you could argue that state media was more like a lighthouse, because signals were broadcast from towers unencrypted and there was no way to restrict reception to people who paid. So, pass a tax and make everyone pay if they own any kind of receiving device at all.

But technological progress has changed everything. It's now easy to restrict broadcasts to only people who paid for them. TV/radio is no longer like a lighthouse, it's now more like a magazine and therefore it's immoral to tax fund them because they're not public goods anymore. You wouldn't be happy to find the government had forcibly subscribed you to the Wall Street Journal, right? You'd point out that people who want to read it can just buy a copy themselves. Same thing for TV/radio.
by softwaredoug | 2025-05-02 14:31:58+00:00
The current administration is politically powerful in one sense, they're also not particularly adept, making them increasingly unpopular and hardening others against them.

For example, they if they were reliable negotiators they could be leveraging power to get historic wins over how Universities are structured. But because they're not reliable negotiators, these universities have to fight like cornered animals.

Similarly, deporting people with the Alien Enemies Act might have snuck by a conservative supreme court. But the administration seems completely unwilling to show that there is room for remediating mistakes. They've annoyed even conservative Supreme Court members who don't seem eager to support the power grab.

If they were smart they'd also be doing things that made the economy strong, not intentionally harming people and creating a fairly universal thing to bitch and moan about - tariffs/high prices.

On the one sense GOP has had a strong negotiating position historically, as they're the party willing to burn it all down. But eventually you get to a point of unreliability as negotiating partner, that there's no appeasement to be had, and you have to go all in on opposing them.
by EcommerceFlow | 2025-05-02 14:32:14+00:00
If you haven't watched Tim Sweeney's appearance on Lex Fridman (which went live two days ago ironically), he discusses this battle against Apple, which he's maintained at a furious pace for years. He goes into detail on how the previous guidelines stifle innovation, how app developers are basically forced to implement anti-consumer practices to maintain the ridiculous costs of achieving success on the app store, etc.

His Crusade for open platforms/services in general is very very respectable.

Fortnite, in my opinion, has been a gold standard for F2P monetization. No gambling, no randomized loot boxes, etc. Compare that with Counter Strike 2, and I can't imagine how much money Epic has left on the table by choosing this path. So I give Tim a lot of credit for maintaining such a principled stance.
by celsoazevedo | 2025-05-02 14:32:14+00:00
This classification was made by the BfV[0], created in the 50s. They're tasked with finding extreme groups (right and left) that might present a threat to Germany's democracy.

Now, if this should happen and all that, I don't know, but it doesn't seem to be a new thing in Germany (or in other countries like the US where the FBI classifies groups too). In any case and independently of my political views, I can see why a country with Germany's past flags anything that leaves the centre of the political spectrum. I also can see why they're paying attention to this party... their positions about Russia, funding, etc, should raise some red flags.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_the_Protect...
by naniwaduni | 2025-05-02 14:32:42+00:00
This is a bit of a nonsense benchmark—the author is basically benchmarking process startup time, and finding that if you only start one lisp process, it runs faster than if you start one jq process per input file, which runs faster than if you start one lisp process per input file. This becomes quite clear at the end when they compare multiple jq implementation (which are known to have nontrivially different parsing performance characteristics, which is the bulk of the "real work" for this task lies) and come up with execution times on the same order of magnitude.

A more apples-to-apples comparison would be to use find {} + to pass multiple filenames to jq and output using input_filename.
by TeaBrain | 2025-05-02 14:32:58+00:00
How predictable. I'm referring to the purpose of the publication grouping stats together in a story. Saying "causation and coincidence" is to say nothing. There is never a clear direct "causation" in financial price movements, and both the readers and the publication are aware of this, but that does not mean there is not an implicit narrative. Financial news publications don't mention random coincidental stats just for the amusing random coincidence. The language will always be ambiguous, but pairing specific stats with price moves in ambiguous language is still effectually to create an implicit narrative.
by lucky_cloud | 2025-05-02 14:33:14+00:00
Same for PBS and its member stations.

The only truly worrying part of the EO for me is the "The heads of all agencies shall identify and terminate, to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, any direct or indirect funding of NPR and PBS."

Some of the most interesting work we've done has been almost completely funded by the Department of Education.

The station I work for has many sources of revenue but I suspect this will harm some smaller stations.
by 9_BAR | 2025-05-02 14:33:14+00:00
Howdy -- I just spun up my own instance yesterday, as it turns out. Very slick! I've already converted from NextCloud's Bookmark manager.

Quick suggestion:

I like to maintain separate browser configurations (in this case, using top-level collections named "Vivaldi," "Chrome," etc.). What might be nice is the ability to link other (non-browser) collections. So, if I create a collection of news blog websites, I can turn around and include those in each browser collection. That way, those news blog sites are centrally maintained once. In other words, browser collections become assemblies.

Let me know what you think!
by vorpalhex | 2025-05-02 14:33:21+00:00
Environmental factors for one. Moving cheap crap around long distances is a huge source of pollution. One of the core ways we can actually reduce CO2 emissions to consume less stuff, and bulk Temu crap is the worst of it.

Then comes the human rights factors of forced and unfair labor. Your cheap t-shirts are made off the backs of ethnic minorities not allowed to leave the factory site after their 12+ hour shifts.

Finally comes industry hallowing. Yes, America and Canada and Mexico DO want to produce clothing. No, it will never be $5 or less for a t-shirt. Maybe that's fine. The issue is not that clothes are too expensive - almost everything you see at the thrift store is headed for the trash bin.
by next_xibalba | 2025-05-02 14:33:23+00:00
The “admission” was not part of the original publication. They added both that note and changed the title well after the fact.

https://archive.is/2020.08.27-191914/https://www.npr.org/sec...

The mere fact that they platformed such an extreme, insane viewpoint is the issue. If you can find a similarly sympathetic platforming of a far right nutter by NPR, maybe I’ll take you seriously. Show me one NPR story about the J6 riots that contorts this far to justify and I’ll concede the point entirely.

I listened to NPR for over 20 years and the bias became gag worthy toward the end.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 14:33:23+00:00
The news portions of Fox News make shit up. They run things on the ticker that aren't real.

It's also largely opinion shows, which are entirely political. NPR is very much not that.

When people make these kinds of comparisons, I wonder if they actually watch Fox News (and if they fact check it, if they do, or just assume "oh yeah all this is true and the only reason nobody else except far-right sources mention it is because of bias") or if they're going by reputation and making assumptions. It's wildly bad as a news source, in fact.
by vel0city | 2025-05-02 14:33:28+00:00
So, is Abrego Garcia back in the US and actually having a real trial? What of the other 200+ people who were illegally taken? Still there despite many court orders to return them?

The courts have asked for those people to be released from ICE custody, they haven't complied with a lot of those requests. The courts have asked for them to stop abducting people off the streets without cause but they continue doing it.

Its not a misleading perspective when it's the actual facts and reality. You're acting like well he only send a few hundred people to a torture prison so far, no big deal I guess. He's only deporting some US citizens without due process. He's only arguing having court cases for some crimes is too cumbersome so we should ignore due process for those crimes.

When will they end up charging you with a crime that's too cumbersome to prove in court and thus you no longer get due process? When your imprisonment gets publicized for how terrible it is, will you also be happy to have people shrug off that reporting as a "misleading perspective"?

Every one of those things should be klaxons sounding in the streets.

We'll see if there really aren't any more transfers to El Salvador.
by shadowgovt | 2025-05-02 14:33:40+00:00
Correct. This is why I take his "jokes" about a third term quite seriously.

It is not even necessary he be, formally, a Russian foreign asset; his actions would be beneficial to Russia whether or not they actively supported him. It cannot be overstated: he is a man who believes in will-to-power logic, has consistently operated on the principle of "whatever they let me get away with is good," and has no incentive to ever stop being President.
by Y_Y | 2025-05-02 14:33:48+00:00
I love this idea, and the lost is full of gems, but I see a couple of issues. If you actually intend you or anyone else to read these and stay sane I'd remove the mathematical tables (there is value in reading these, but only for a very rare soul), the Bible (lots of really dry stuff about begetting and knowing), the complete works of Shakespeare (hard to understand without careful study, way too long to cafefully study).
by ramses0 | 2025-05-02 14:34:25+00:00
There's a few jq patterns I've adopted:

echo "$SOME_JSON" | jq '.[]' --raw-output --compact-output | while read -r LINE ; do ... ; done

...lets you process stuff "record by record" pretty consistently. (and `( xxx ; yyy ; zzz ) | jq --slurp '.'` lets you do the reverse, "absorbing" multiple records into an array.

Don't forget `--argjson`

echo "{}" | jq --argjson FOO "$( cat test.json )" '{ bar: $FOO }'

...lets you "load" json for merging, processing, formatting, etc. The leading "{}" is moderately necessary because `jq` technically _processes_ json, not generates it.

Finally, it's a huge cheat code for string formatting!!

$ echo "{}" | jq \ --arg FOO "hello \$world" \ --arg BAR "complicated \| chars" \ --arg ONE 1 \ --arg TWO 2 \ '"aaa \( $FOO ) and \( $BAR ) and \( ($ONE | tonumber) + ($TWO | tonumber) ) bbb"' "aaa hello $world and complicated \\| chars and 3 bbb"

...optionally with `--raw-output` (un-json-quoted), and even supports some regex substitution in strings via `... | gsub(...)`.

Yes, yes... it's overly complicated compared to you and your fancy "programming languages", but sometimes with shell stuff, the ability to _CAPTURE_ arbitrary command output (eg: `--argjson LS_OUTPUT="$( ls -lart ... )"`), but then also use JSON/jq to _safely_ marshal/deaden the data into JSON is really helpful!
by sofixa | 2025-05-02 14:34:53+00:00
> The funny thing is, that the GOP is not "conservative," in any way, whatsoever. They are extreme

The word that describes them the best is reactionary. As a political ideology it fell out of favour some time in the late 19th, early 20th century with the fall of the various reactionary regimes (Austria under Metternich, Imperial Russia).

But the GOP, and some other parties looking to them for inspiration, are reactionary. They are opposed to any social progress and want to go back.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-02 14:35:18+00:00
Clair Obscur is really good. The storytelling and writing have been fantastic, the graphics look great (and the art direction is beautiful), the music is good, and even the voice acting is good. It's also fun to play (though some fights are too hard like I mentioned in another comment). Honestly, I hope that it wakes up the devs at Square Enix because this is what Final Fantasy should have been for the last 25 years instead of the hot mess they have made of it.
by vel0city | 2025-05-02 14:35:18+00:00
No, they were arguing these things are so obviously bad and wrong, Trump would never actually do these and these aren't his platform. They're just conspiracy theories by Democrats to slander Trump. So many people and news orgs kept repeating Trump's lies about how he doesn't know anything about Project 2025 and its totally unrelated to what he wants to do.

Some examples on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505433

> It’s “real” in the same way as Steele Dossier was real.

> As far as I can tell it’s just a smear device along the lines of “when did you stop beating your wife”, or fake “dossier”, or “Russian collusion”

And even if you were dumb enough to think "this is just puffery, he wouldn't do things this terrible", why are you voting for the guy arguing he's going to do terrible things?!
by chii | 2025-05-02 14:35:42+00:00
> I think when Trump suggested at a rally that his supporters could shoot his opponent if she won, and that didn't immediately end his political career

that reminds me of the scene from Batman Begins, where falcone says he could shoot someone, and the some off duty cop sitting near him at the restaurant would not have batted an eye: https://youtu.be/4DjGB-wPGkc?t=25

does art imitate life, or life art?
by svieira | 2025-05-02 14:35:43+00:00
BINGO! The issue here of course is that now instead of _two_ components (Front End A and Embed B) you now have four (the back ends must communicate and if A didn't need a back end ... well, now it does).

Now, if you meant "Use OAuth2 in the browser", that's just the original case (you can't authorize if you can't authenticate and it's the ambient authentication that's being stripped when you eliminate third party cookies).
by smallmancontrov | 2025-05-02 14:35:47+00:00
Yes, but temporarily embarrassed millionaires abound. They eagerly employ the concept of "free markets" in bad faith, propelled by the hope that the corruption can be made to work for them rather than against them. Some of them are right, most are wrong, but they are propelled to spread the faith just the same.

Beneath them, people tend to get good at programming before they get good at spotting exploitation, so there is always a stratum of True Believers to feed the operation. Individually they wise up and graduate, but the stratum remains as it is fed from the bottom by the proverbial sucker born every minute.

Then we have the top of the pyramid which actually does benefit from it all. They are small in number but they have enough money to fund the whole space (more importantly: enough money to have a reason to fund the whole space) so they have outsize influence. They could decide to ban me for saying this, for example.