MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-22 04:37:42+00:00
> Investment isn’t a business expense.

Investment is the thing where you pay a business expense today expecting a return in the future.

> Capital gains of precious metals “yield” drops you below inflation.

This is a defect in the tax code. Taxing inflation as a capital gain is ridiculous.

> Someone needs to do that for your hypothetical 10% S&P gains.

And then those companies get a tax deduction. Or in many cases they do make those returns without doing those things, because a lot of those companies have high returns by buying off regulators to constrain competition and then charging high margins to captive customers, which is another thing we don't like to promote over the ones actually making productive investments.

> Giving handouts to wealthy people hardly discourages them using a private jet, just the opposite.

The tax isn't deferred on the money used for personal consumption.
by Aloisius | 2025-06-22 04:38:51+00:00
Well. Some guys with a tiny fraction of the funding Iran has managed to fly a few airliners into some buildings a few years back.

So, I imagine there are perhaps unconventional options available to a country which is fully willing to fund terrorist groups for decades against a country with a very large amount of largely unprotected infrastructure.

But who knows? It just seems a bit premature to argue Iran's defeat. Feels a bit... mission accomplished.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-06-22 04:39:09+00:00
Yes, before 1947, back when the Secretary of State as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all seasoned professionals who had just won WW2, strongly advised AGAINST supporting Zionism in Palestine. They correctly asserted that demands from the Zionists would never end, and that it would sour the US's otherwise solid relations with the entire Arab region.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1946v07/d5...

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1946v07/d4...
by Teever | 2025-06-22 04:39:29+00:00
Sure, but is a kinetic pre-emptive strike in this context legal?

Because this is what underlies all of this -- is the premise that Iran is behaving in an unacceptable and illegal fashion and therefore a legal response with violence is justified.

This all presupposes that Iran is breaking the law with their production of nuclear weapons. Are they breaking the law with their production of nuclear weapons?
by discoutdynamite | 2025-06-22 04:40:01+00:00
I seriously doubt its possible at all. This isnt a question of an alternate formula, its about computability and number theory. circumference is = π x D. π is an irrational, transcendental, constant. it cant be constructed with any mathematical tool, other than referring to said equation. any other construct that approaches or approximates it, usually has pi or a circle built in so its self-referential.

All forms like radians which appear to work without pi, do so because they just tokenize it somewhere, and do not evaluate it.
by giblfiz | 2025-06-22 04:40:19+00:00
Hi Gwern, I'm the owner of 7goldfish, the developer in question, and a fan of yours via reputation and the occasional comment I run into on Reddit.

First I want to acknowledge that draft one of this was LLM written, by Claude, though it reflects a pretty detailed outline of an experience pretty accurately. As you point out the quotes from both Mr. R and myself were also mostly spat out by the LLM as well (though not the quotes from external entities)

Mr. R signed off on the draft before posting, and well, it was me. I tended to think of it more as a "movie treatment" than a technical post-mortem, so I wasn't really worried about it. I also was only expecting this to get circulated within my own small/medium sized community so, in general, wasn't really worried about it.

That said, I definitely love using LLMs to write. To be perfectly honest they write considerably better and faster than I do (as you noted, lots of typo-o's and similar. I was still spelling at a 6th grade level when I graduated from Uni with CS degree), though I still feel like I have both ideas and experiences worth sharing. If you click any of the earlier stuff you will probably see the clumsy results that take about 10x the time.

I waffle on the idea of how much disclaimer of "written via LLM, but with multiple revisions and actual thought" vs "just don't bother saying anything" it's worth including. I'm curious if you consider having a ghost writer to be lying, or a cinematic re-enactment. I notice as I say that that it sounds defensive, and I want it to be a genuine question, as I share your concern about living in a media world where it feels like "basically nothing can be trusted".

For what it's worth, the numbers should be about right, though there is only so much energy we were willing to spend on the post-mortem. If there is some informational reason you would like to get into it deeply I would be happy to share the post mortem docs privately.
by muzani | 2025-06-22 04:41:35+00:00
Our student loans were around 1% interest while a man in another shiny tower would give 4% interest. So the logic here is to borrow from one to lend to another.

There's a trick with credit cards which might not work in all countries. You max out one credit card, get all the loyalty benefits and free flights, then pay it off with another credit card before any interest is charged. I guess nobody feels bad about ripping off the man in the shiny tower.
by verisimi | 2025-06-22 04:41:40+00:00
Folks do know. Folks knew before the Iraq war too.

But what does this generic knowledge have to do with anything, when the military action is already decided for geo-political reasons? The only decision to make is what pretext to use.

In a way, the 'iraq wmd' justification has proven it's value as a pretext - so why not tweak it and use it again?
by faramarz | 2025-06-22 04:41:54+00:00
The factual's don't matter in Politics, not when mad men are at the helm. Funny how Trump closed his address with thanking god, and the Iranians start theirs in the name of god. So different, yet the same.

The US posturing against Iran dates back to the Cold War era when Iran was tagged as “northern tier” state, and any nationalist moves inside looked like a Soviet opening, and a threat to the Anglo stronghold of Iran's Oil.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-06-22 04:42:05+00:00
The full title is:

> What is CREC? The Christian nationalist group has a vision for America − and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s support

This line from the story is what prompted me to post it. It sounds like it was lifted from the Handmaids tale:

> The CREC broadly asserts that the government and anyone serving in it should be Christian. For Wilson and members of CREC churches, this means Christians and only Christians are qualified to hold political office in the United States.
by partiallypro | 2025-06-22 04:45:26+00:00
History disagrees with you, and Iran is the #1 state sponsor of terrorism. They were even providing Russia with arms for their invasion of Ukraine. Let's not equate them with many others, such as Poland, etc. Iran absolutely should not be allowed under any circumstances to have a nuclear weapon. If they were as close as what intelligence seems to indicate (though I know that's hard to believe after the Iraq war, but we aren't in a ground war so the burden of proof is understandably less) then I frankly don't think it would have mattered if it were Kamala, Biden, or Trump in office. The facilities were getting bombed.

The scenario was already war gamed during the Biden administration, it was already a possible outcome. The G7 already backed this idea that Iran can't have this before, and they'll do it again. The US doesn't stand alone on this, Saudi Arabia and basically everyone in the region and world doesn't want Iran having a nuke sans Russia/China. I'm not even sure if Russia/China really want it either. It's just common sense.
by giblfiz | 2025-06-22 04:45:49+00:00
I'm the original author. I'm not sure why you got down-voted for this, this was absolutely a "tax dodge". The polite term is "tax mitigation strategy", I'm also not sure why this is seen as an openly negative thing? The government wants a type of thing done, they say "hey, we won't pay people directly to do it, but we will subsidize it thru tax incentives"

I was like "yeah, I like that thing (solar) and think it's good for the world, I will do it in return for tax incentives"

Why exactly is that bad?
by econ | 2025-06-22 04:46:05+00:00
I've long joked that modules should be made easy to swap with a forklift. Trains are usually full of small defects that aren't serious enough to take them out of service.

If they are comfortable you could rent out the cabins when not in use either fitted on the train or not. You could also retire the units there.

You could make a platform only and make it easy for others to design modules in a broad price range. Maybe most modules should be in storage until booked.

You could park the "hotel" module on the destination and put it back on the train for the return trip.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-22 04:47:54+00:00
"Will be done in 'x' months" vs "Could be ready within 'x' months" are distinct statements.

My project managers often ask how long a project would take. I might say something like "two weeks after we're approved to start".

The PMs will wait a few months, approve the project, and then look flabbergasted when it is not instantaneously completed! "But you had all this time! Months ago you said it would take weeks!"
by simonh | 2025-06-22 04:49:15+00:00
The main problem is the Iranian regime's view that it is their religious duty to destroy the state of Israel. This is why they supply weapons to Hamas, Hizbullah, the Houthis, and anyone who will attack Israel, and incite them to do so.

They will not stop, and they can't be negotiated with on this, again because they see it as a religious duty.
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-22 04:49:43+00:00
> These problems are better solved through accessibility focused computer vision models.

This may be coming soon but I think it's a bad trend. Wiring app properly is much better. It's like native apps vs Electron apps, more effort = better result.

> ARIA is a 'boil the ocean' solution that primarily helps the accessibility industry

Disagree. If you are a dev capable of reading some references then you can implement ARIA. You don't need to outsource it to some separate "industry"
by dralley | 2025-06-22 04:52:06+00:00
What does "legal" even really mean between states at war. The consequences typically come down to a popularity contest and Iran is one of the few states with fewer friends than Israel.

Was Iran's activities funding militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, which launched attacks against Israel and US forces "legal"? Which of the US' activities were "legal"? It's all mostly a bad joke.
by roughly | 2025-06-22 04:53:09+00:00
No, the western kind of logic here is to assume the people we’ve taken as enemies are irrational and fanatical caricatures, instead of normal-ass humans who are attempting to maintain agency over their lives and responding to the actions of those around them.

I think if you look at the actions of Iran over the last 20 years and attempt to categorize it as one of either a geopolitical foe attempting to maintain some degree of control over their local surroundings OR an implacable suicidal death cult, one of those theories is going to fit the facts a whole lot better than the other, as evidenced by the fact that the Iranian regime is still in existence, despite all but daily attempts by both the US and Israel to bait them into attempting “suicide by global cop.”
by creato | 2025-06-22 04:53:53+00:00
> Length of 6.2 m times 5 tonnes per cubic meter gives a sectional density of 31 tonnes per square meter, which is about 15 meters of dirt. So Newton's impact depth approximation would predict a penetration depth one fourth of the reported 60-meter depth.

This seems to assume that the weapon would penetrate until it displaced an equal amount of dirt by mass, which seems like nonsense. Why would that be the case?
by giblfiz | 2025-06-22 04:54:32+00:00
Hey, I'm the original author here.

I didn't want to do BTC for two reasons: 1) I'm already WAY over exposed on crypto in my portfolio 2) I consider energy burn on mining to be part of a "zero sum helps no one" situation. I was trying to actually do something net positive for the world so didn't want to just drop more into that bucket.
by daft_pink | 2025-06-22 04:54:34+00:00
I don't think dropping a few munitions to destroy the nuclear program of a hostile country commits us to full scale war, especially when that country is currently losing a full scale war with a much less powerful country and will be lucky to survive.

If you believe they are stupid enough to start a war with the United States, then denying them nuclear weapons was inherently the correct decision.

I think virtually every US President since Jimmy Carter when given the opportunity to destroy an enemy's nuclear weapons program after another country has decimated them would take it.

The existing narrative suggests that possessing nuclear weapons deters invasions, potentially motivating countries to develop nuclear capabilities as a means of securing their regimes.

Using military resources to prevent pariah countries from getting nuclear weapons and bombing them because they are putting together a nuclear weapons program turns that on it's head and sends the message that seeking to acquire nuclear weapons will make it less likely that your regime survives. Taking back that narrative makes us all safer and less likely that the world will end from thermonuclear war.
by mindslight | 2025-06-22 04:54:36+00:00
Just to be clear, this isn't "useful [to make] a bomb" - it's useful in a thermonuclear warhead that already has a primary fission stage using the originally-mentioned highly enriched weapons grade uranium, plus a second fusion stage that (as far as I'm aware) Iran is not working to develop.

edit: phrasing. it feels like we're going around in circles nitpicking based on a poor framing and the tendency for innuendo on this topic
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-22 04:54:56+00:00
I wasn't suggesting we literally bombard teammates.

The whole point is that with LLMs, you can explore ideas as deeply as you want without tiring them out or burning social capital. You're conflating this with poor judgment about what to ask humans and when.

Taking 'bombard' literally is itself pretty asinine when the real point is about using AI to get thoroughly informed before human collaboration.

And if using AI to explore questions deeply is a sign you're 'not cut out for the work,' then you're essentially requiring omniscience, because no one knows everything about every domain, especially as they constantly evolve.
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-22 04:55:01+00:00
I think that whether or not you have free will is not so important when making these considerations.

Whether or not you have a choice and free will, you can influence and be influenced by other stuff, since that is how anything is doing.

> punishment might still be justified from the point of view of reducing offending and reoffending rates, but if that is the goal then it is only justified to the extent that it actually achieves those goals

I do agree with that, and I think that whether or not you have free will is not significant. Being emotionally difficult is not what makes it good or bad in this case (and it also does not seem to be so emotionally difficult to me, anyways). Reducing reoffending rates is what is important.

(Another issue is knowing if they are actually guilty (you shouldn't arrest people who are not actually guilty of murder); this is not always certain, either.)

I also think that it should mean that prisoners should not be treated badly and that prison sentences should not be too long. (Also, they shouldn't take up too much space by the prisons, since they should have free space for natural lands and for other buildings and purposes, but that is not quite the same issue, though.)

However, there may be cases where a fine might be appropriate, in order to pay for damages (although if someone else is willing to forgive them then such a fine may not be required). This does not justify a prison sentence or stuff like that, though.

Also, some people will just not like them anymore if they are accused of murder, even if they are not put in prison and not fined. This is not the issue for police and legal things; it is just what it will be. And, if it becomes known, people who disagree with the risk assessment can try to avoid someone.

And, if someone does commit a crime again and may have opportunity to do again in future, then this can be considered as being wrong the first time and this time hopefully you can know better.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-06-22 04:55:59+00:00
Pretty much. My understanding of current US realpolitiks is that leadership finally realized that they can't really do much about Chinese superiority in every single competing industry, and all these unwelcoming outcomes are just freak outs and bunch of "hail mary"s with the hopes it can somehow reverse something. It's just not acceptable from an American PoV to not perceived as "best and strongest", so everyone is having a hard time coping with it.

Japan kinda went through the same problem in 80s/90s, but from a different angle. The problem is, US can't pull the same on China as it did with Japan.
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by giblfiz | 2025-06-22 04:57:20+00:00
Original author here, If you look a little more carefully the thing that killed us was an actual physical infrastructure problem. Mineral rights were a nightmare, but we were humping our way thru it bit by bit.

Interconnection was limited because the wires they thought were in the ground were not what was actually there. (well, had degraded)

This was more of a "atoms are hard" kind of issue.
by partiallypro | 2025-06-22 04:58:10+00:00
We didn't want Israel to have nukes either, we tried to stop them and failed. We wouldn't bomb Israel's nukes because they -already- have them, and they have grown in a semi-reliable regional ally since then. We are trying to stop Iran from having them at all to prevent them from being essentially off-limits to retaliation (note Iran is the #1 state sponsor of terrorism / people's fears of supporting Ukraine given Russia keeps threatening nuclear action) and kicking off a regional nuclear arms race.
by varenc | 2025-06-22 05:00:40+00:00
alas, macOS refuses:

$ sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:00:00:00:00:01 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Can't assign requested address

edit: but this worked on my external NIC! Network wasn't happy though and DHCP didn't work. Ubiquiti had a funny note about this MAC: "Officially Xerox, but 0:0:0:0:0:0 is more common"
by mahkeiro | 2025-06-22 05:01:49+00:00
They don’t care about the regime, they only want it to be aligned with the US and Israel. The Saudi absolute monarchy regime (something that is way worst than the Iranian one) that is directly coming from middle ages, doesn’t get the same journalistic treatment in the US. Women rights in Iran are lightyears ahead of what is happening in Saudi Arabia. But who cares? Talking about Iran regime change only is pure hypocrisy when your best friend in the region can kill anyone by just deciding it.
by Retric | 2025-06-22 05:02:50+00:00
> Investment is the thing where you pay a business expense today expecting a return in the future.

Investments like land aren’t necessarily consumed. You can reasonably deduct when an actual expense happens, but buying steel etc to be used next year doesn’t guarantee it is actually used rather than sold.

> Taxing inflation as a capital gain is ridiculous.

It’s a useful feature to discourage the exact wasteful approach you proposed.

> The tax isn't deferred on the money used for personal consumption.

Money is fungible, you hand me money to buy land and I can redirect money I would have spent to buy something else.
by theonething | 2025-06-22 05:03:23+00:00
Here's some history I don't want to repeat:

1939, Nazi Germany starts fucking around and nobody does anything about it and then we have WWII on our hands.

You've totally missed the point. It's precisely because we didn't "properly" bomb Germany to stop that first invasion of Poland, that WWII happened and we lost 400,000 Americans, 6 million Jews etc.
by dingaling | 2025-06-22 05:04:09+00:00
The MOP isn't particularly 'advanced', it's basically refined version of the Korean-vintage Tarzon guided earthquake bombs. It's just too heavy for most military aircraft to carry.

The IDF has the F-15I which has a centerline hard point rated for 5,000lb load. That's immense for a fighter but a magnitude too low for the MOP.

There are a variety of smaller US penetrating bombs that the F-15 can handle, but they don't have the mass and structure to penetrate as deeply.
by stogot | 2025-06-22 05:04:31+00:00
So many armchair quarterbacks in this thread. You haven’t defined how silly this is beyond your feelings. Are you a munition expert? If you were an AF general given this order, what tactic would you choose excluding a nuke?

The same bomb hole tactic is an untested theory (which may be ineffective but not silly) but we’ll know more later this week once MAXAR surveillance and other independent or IAEA analysis rolls in.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-22 05:04:41+00:00
What are the chances of getting this to compile on linux? I have no idea about how to deal with an Xcode project or have enough C++ knowledge to know if this can even be compiled on linux. CoreFoundation.h looks to be OSX? and on my quick glance that looks to be the main hurdle but that is as much as I can say.