MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-06-04 19:42:34+00:00
How did they "gaslight" people into voting for Kamala?

They had an incumbent President who had already beaten Trump. He did badly during the debate, they panicked so they ran their VP.

That isn't a conspiracy, it's just political game theory. The Democrats would have been foolish not to field Biden, and the next best option after Biden was Kamala Harris. Their biggest mistake if anything wasn't setting up Harris earlier. Show me where the Trump Administration has ever said Trump is anything but masculine and virile, a brilliant and cunning orator, master statesman and strategist? This is just how political parties work.

And I mean... "word salad?" Can't relate to regular folks? Compared to the incompetent, barely coherent billionaire? Come on.
by donnachangstein | 2025-06-04 19:42:37+00:00
Can you define "local network"? Probably not. Most large enterprises own publicly-routable IP space for internal use. Internal doesn't mean 192.168.0.0/24. foo.corp.example.com could resolve to 9.10.11.12 and still be local. What about IPv6? It's a nonsense argument fraught with corner cases.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-04 19:42:43+00:00
> And what if there is no grand conspiracy?

You did the thing!

"'How dangerous is it that we are being linked?' Thiel wrote to Yarvin in 2014. “One reassuring thought: one of our hidden advantages is that these people”—social-justice warriors—'wouldn’t believe in a conspiracy if it hit them over the head (this is perhaps the best measure of the decline of the Left). Linkages make them sound really crazy, and they kinda know it.'"
by happyopossum | 2025-06-04 19:43:15+00:00
Sure, but how often is an enterprise deployed LLM application really cold-starting? While you could run this for one-off and personal use, this is probably more geared towards bursty ‘here’s an agent for my company sales reps’ kind of workloads, so you can have an instance warmed, then autoscale up at 8:03am when everyone gets online (or in the office or whatever).

At that point, 19 seconds looks great, as lower latency startup times allow for much more efficient autoscaling.
by no_wizard | 2025-06-04 19:43:39+00:00
Thats because there isn't one and there hasn't been for a long time, and I'm not talking about libertarian fever dreams. Regulatory capture and legislated protection for big corporations at the expense of smaller ones are rampant. They don't want real competition and they don't want real regulation, only regulation that will make it hard for others to enter the market without significant cost.
by deepsun | 2025-06-04 19:43:50+00:00
Kinda. Since it's Public Domain, there's little to no use in signing the code, because they explicitly forfeited any rights to it.

Public Domain means you can legally take their code, riddle it with malware, and distribute, claiming that's the real and true Direct File source code, and you are its author. What you do with malware is a different legal issue of course.

So I'm not sure proving you are commit owner by signing it is really helpful if anyone can do it as well, and there's no copyright holder to decide who's right.
by thangalin | 2025-06-04 19:43:57+00:00
> So far LaTex has been the only solution to allow binding shared sections

R, being a Turing-complete language, can do this. If R Markdown can do it then KeenWrite and pandoc+knitr support it. R can also do conditional includes. For Product A and B to share authentication steps, this could look like:

`r#inc( '../common/authentication.Rmd' );`

Where TeX may resemble:

\input ../common/authentication.tex

SGML, DocBook, AsciiDoc, RST, and other text formats have similar abilities.
by afavour | 2025-06-04 19:44:20+00:00
I don't know about that. Inertia is a strong force but it goes in both directions. Had this administration been a Democratic one four years might be long enough to establish it strongly enough that it would be very difficult to remove. Look at the Affordable Care Act. Imperfect though it was, Republicans have pledged over and over that they're going to get rid of it but when it power it seems they just can't.
by closewith | 2025-06-04 19:44:51+00:00
Right — and the facts are that early porn exposure is linked to earlier sex, riskier behaviours, body shame, and higher odds of aggression and coercion, especially when the content is violent. That’s not some moral panic — that’s the current consensus of peer-reviewed studies, UNICEF, and public health bodies. Believing otherwise in the face of that evidence isn’t rational scepticism, it’s delusion. You need to stop pretending kids watching Pornhub is harmless — it isn’t.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-04 19:45:08+00:00
I think it is. This stood out to me:

> As his ideas have been surrealized in DOGE and Trump has taken to self-identifying as a king, one might expect to find Yarvin in an exultant mood. In fact, he has spent the past few months fretting that the moment will go to waste. “If you have a Trump boner right now, enjoy it,” he wrote two days after the election. “It’s as hard as you’ll ever get.” What many see as the most dangerous assault on American democracy in the nation’s history Yarvin dismisses as woefully insufficient—a “vibes coup.” Without a full-blown autocratic takeover, he believes, a backlash is sure to follow.

And I don't think he's wrong; the longer it takes for the reality of a takeover to manifest, the less likely it is to happen.
by Dkumpikolo | 2025-06-04 19:46:41+00:00
If you wanna define it like this then apple would need to be your home ISP too.

And owning all the fiber connections between the base stations and their network.

And all connections from home to their network.

And even if they have that, you are not browsing Verizon services but from others like Google etc.

They don't do that.

Closest operator I know could be German Telekom because they came out from the state owned Telekom company and they got all the copper which was laying around.
by haswell | 2025-06-04 19:46:54+00:00
As a cyclist, the number of other cyclists I see doing utterly stupid and dumb things that are a direct violation of the rules of the road and put pedestrians at risk...is a very high number.

E-bikes are often even more dangerous because of their speed and additional weight, but I've often wished the cops in my city would actually go after cyclists more often.

Like I mentioned above, whether or not the solution described in the article is a good way to do this is another question. But I don't see an issue with them going after rule-breaking cylists regardless of bike type.
by foobarian | 2025-06-04 19:46:58+00:00
This guy reminds me of another breed of oldschool Usenet creature, the crackpot physicist. These individuals are very smart, and often have advanced degrees, but for some reason have these crazy ideas that almost seem like their brains have gone a bit off the rails. The content is typically very verbose, hiding the weaknesses in the volume, and also seems very alluring and can attract a bit of a following.

And then just how a lot of brilliant physicists have switched over to software because it pays a lot better, seems like this guy switched to political crackpottery for the audience. :-)
by carefulfungi | 2025-06-04 19:47:02+00:00
ISO-27001's change management process requires that [you have and a execute a change management policy that requires that] changes are conducted as planned, that changes are evaluated for impact, and are authorized. In my experience, auditors will accept peer-review as a component of your change management procedure as a meaningful contributor to meeting these requirements.

"All changes are reviewed by a subject matter expert who verifies that the change meets the planned activity as described in the associated issue/ticket. Changes are not deployed to production environments until authorized by a subject matter expert after review. An independent reviewer evaluates changes for production impact before the change is deployed..."

If you are doing code review already, might as well leverage it here.
by tombert | 2025-06-04 19:47:20+00:00
I have told this story before here, but it's relevant.

In 2021, I filed my 2020 taxes, and a few months later I get a letter from the IRS saying that I owed $8000 because I forgot to report a large stock transaction. I owed $7000 + a $1000 fine.

I wasn't mad at all about the $7000, I definitely owed that and it was just an oversight on my end, these things happen, and I was able to get the fine lowered by calling the IRS [1], so that wasn't a huge deal .

What did annoy me was why do I have to do anything? If the IRS knows about the transaction and is able to complain about me not paying enough, that suggests that they already have the information that I'm sending them. Why make me buy software and copy information from a piece of paper into that software, just for the IRS to check it against the numbers that they already have?

I understand that you might need to issue corrections, and maybe the software should exist for something like that, but it doesn't seem like it should exist otherwise.

[1] Who at least in my case was actually really polite and helpful! I had heard horror stories but that was definitely not the case for me. The people I talked to were very sympathetic and nice.
by a_e_k | 2025-06-04 19:47:25+00:00
Experience, though, can definitely vary by domain. Trying to get one to code an algorithm recently that I had a pretty good idea of took longer and gave worse results than just doing it myself.

On the other hand, something like wrestling with the matplotlib API? I don't have too much experience there and an LLM was a great help in piecing things together.
by LLgordon | 2025-06-04 19:47:46+00:00
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by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-06-04 19:48:10+00:00
13 hours is wild. I bought a house, got married, sold a bunch of stock, and qualified for a bunch of deductions last year. We filed jointly in maybe an hour and a half, including finding all of the paperwork. I'm pretty good with numbers and instructions, so I could see 4-6 being the average.

It was through freetaxusa, maybe handwriting balloons the job a bit? But it looks like only 14% file physically.
by Aloisius | 2025-06-04 19:49:29+00:00
If they were actually oligarchs, they'd have already done what they want.

Conflating some wealthy people who have, at best, mild influence over the government, with actual oligarchs in an oligarchy is... rhetorical nonsense.

I get how it happened. We started referring to wealthy Russians in the 90s who actually wielded substantial control over government similar to oligarchs and we continued to refer to them as such even after they lost any semblance of political power, but still.
by nulbyte | 2025-06-04 19:49:50+00:00
It took me about that long to do both fed and state with Free File Fillable Forms. I was so surprised, I wondered why I didn't check it out sooner. I think most Americans can do this just as easily.

I know folks outside the U.S. like to riff on us for our complicated taxes and the pay-for filing lobbies, and yes, they have reason to. But, I really think the issue is that we folk in the U.S. are just too scared to try what really is a simpler method.
by guywithahat | 2025-06-04 19:50:11+00:00
I mean there is lots of worthless regulation. The Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) form is new as of last year, and adds complexity to company formation while also risking tanking the company if you don't fill it out properly. The real-world upside is basically nil, despite their promises of fraud prevention.

Lots of these laws exist, and they stifle innovation. We're approaching a point where you need a lawyer and document service for a company formation, and these laws prevent small companies from attempting formation and can kill growing companies.
by haswell | 2025-06-04 19:50:33+00:00
This is a key point. A customer that buys $100K+ worth of software is automatically a future debook risk if they can't/don't implement it successfully and start seeing value right away.

The high touch approach ensures they're getting support at every step of the way and increases the chances that they'll use the software and renew later.

I'm not sure how many of these factors are in play for Mistral, but to your point, it's easy to imagine some scenarios.
by gidgid09 | 2025-06-04 19:50:50+00:00
I severely broke my wrist some years ago, which prevented me from using my dominant hand for many weeks. During this time, I used an AuthoHotKey script based on the Matias documentation in order to allow myself to continue to work efficiently in my technical role. The script worked by "mirroring" the layout of the left side of the keyboard with the right during the time when the spacebar was continuously held down. A momentary press of the spacebar still produced a space character.

I can wholeheartedly endorse this method. I never measured it precisely, but I would say I was still upwards of 80% proficient in typing speed using this script with just one hand.
by toxi360 | 2025-06-04 19:51:06+00:00
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by exizt88 | 2025-06-04 19:51:17+00:00
One of my favorite things about Curtis Yarvin is that one of his main ideas is laughably easy to prove wrong. He says that whenever we go into the past, the previous generation seems to be more "right-wing" than the current one. Which is almost comically wrong. For example, you get Victorian Era being much more conservative than its predecessor, Georgian Era. Same goes for Christian Roman Empire vs Pagan Roman Empire, Nazi Germany vs Weimar Germany, etc etc. There are literally dozens of examples. It seems that Yarvin genuinely doesn't know any of these high school-level facts.
by runako | 2025-06-04 19:51:21+00:00
Pointedly, I did not make any points about the state of the Chinese economy etc.

Rather, I observe that the Chinese continue to make large investments that will not pay off in the next couple of quarters. As the Chinese economy has expanded over the last 25 years, the average standard of living for Chinese people has increased. They continue to invest in infrastructure as if there will be a future.

This all stands in contrast to the United States, where eating seed corn (the OP reference) is a very good analogy for our policies and actions.
by fhdkweig | 2025-06-04 19:51:40+00:00
I certainly voted that way. I'd rather the old Dem guard retire, but until they do, anyone is better than a known bad guy.

And just a bit of history, sometimes voters would rather elect a dead man than a live one. Look into former Governor Mel Carnahan who was elected to Missouri senate, three weeks after he died in a plane crash. Also, Democrat Anthony "Tony" DeLuca died Oct. 9, 2022 a month before winning his seat.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=voters+elect+a+dead+man

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/26281/4-dead-politicians...
by timewizard | 2025-06-04 19:51:56+00:00
> yet legitimizing them at the same time by associating their name with this kind of person at all.

Discussing things does not "legitimize" them. No one is required to read The New Yorker.

> Just because of his far-out-there views?

Probably the length of time he's held and promulgated them.

> someone on the Internet will agree with you

We used to think that connecting disparate groups of people together was a good thing. I have no idea when that changed but apparently it's the style now to use the awesome power of the internet to deny people their individuality out of gross fear.

> think it's a good thing

You should have to prove it's a bad thing. Not the other way around.
by Spoom | 2025-06-04 19:52:02+00:00
No, the government already has almost all of your information every year from the start. Every time you get a W-2, a copy is sent to the IRS. Same with the vast majority of most tax forms. That why, if you lose any of your forms (at least the ones that say something akin to "This information is being furnished to the Internal Revenue Service."), you can request them from the IRS[1].

Some investment-related returns aren't sent to the IRS but I would estimate that for 90% of people, their taxes could be accurately calculated by the information the IRS has on file.

Additionally, I guarantee that these calculations are being made by the government anyway. If you file a tax return that is mathematically incorrect, you are very likely to receive a correction letter from the IRS[2]. This isn't an audit, it's just a letter saying that your taxes were wrong and they redid them for you, with a new outcome.

1. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/transcript-types-for-individ... (see "Wage and income transcript")

2. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/understanding-your-cp12-noti...
by kulahan | 2025-06-04 19:52:58+00:00
I agree fully with him. I don’t care what part of your job gets harder, or what software breaks if you can’t make it work without unnecessarily invading my privacy. You could tell me it’s going to shut down the internet for 6 months and I still wouldn’t care.

You’ll have to come up with a really strong defense for why this shouldn’t happen in order to convince most users.
by trod1234 | 2025-06-04 19:53:14+00:00
Unfortunately nowadays, blocking by ASN is not going to help you out much in solving this type of issue.

The reason for this is stealthy botnets.

For a brief rundown, I'd suggest this article.

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-...
by seanp2k2 | 2025-06-04 19:53:47+00:00
If you're interested in this, https://www.birdweather.com/ is a kinda neat automated sound-based bird ID and tracker in a nice little package. I'm not involved with it in any way, I've just seen it around recently and I'm interested in this space. You might also like Wildlife Sound Recording Society (WSRS) https://www.wildlife-sound.org/
by homebrewer | 2025-06-04 19:54:22+00:00
I vote for microcontrollers. I learned assembly on Atmel's AVR and it's was easy and straightforward because there's very little abstraction underneath, there's no OS, no heap, no multiprocessing and no context switching, no syscalls and no fat libraries, and you get direct access to the hardware. You also receive actual physical feedback — doing a tiny bit of bit fiddling gets you a blinking LED or whatever.

AVR's assembly is quite mediocre, with 120+ something instructions, with lots of duplication among them (IIRC — it's been... many years already), and some people swore by PIC which only had 35 instructions to remember. But it was still easier than lobotomizing oneself by trying to write a Win32 application in x86 assembly (which came later... and went to the trash bin quickly while microcontrollers stuck for much longer).
by klank | 2025-06-04 19:54:47+00:00
This exchange made me think about how I've always been a fan of using the "natural" units of a system when reporting metrics.

I do this because it helps those unfamiliar with the system more intuitively understand relative sizes, those unfamiliar with converting between units in their head to understand numbers, and even for those familiar, it can avoid confusion or misattributed units.
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by runako | 2025-06-04 19:55:01+00:00
One doesn't even have to look to salespeople knocking to find scams. It's widely accepted that key pillars of the way we choose to organize our society have scam-like elements.

Healthcare. Zero job security. Virtually nonexistent support for parents. Retirement. Education.

Switching to the American form of any single one of these would cause mass civil unrest in most rich countries, but Americans don't believe things can or should be better. Many believe the lie that we (poorest state has a higher GDP per capita than France) cannot afford the things other rich countries have. The pessimism is pervasive.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-06-04 19:55:45+00:00
Using unseasoned cooked chicken breast as your proxy for healthy food is...less absurd than using grapefruit would be, but not as much as you might think.

At least add like a quarter teaspoon of olive oil, an eighth of a cup of whole grain rice, and a side of like some sweet potatoes with its own seasoning or something.

Straight chicken breasts is like the meme level of what celebrities have to eat to maintain their figure, not what a reasonable human diet looks like. Chicken thighs with the skin on are reasonably healthy.
by krapp | 2025-06-04 19:55:55+00:00
I think it will happen, but not under Trump. We've normalized certain aspects of authoritarianism now: the unitary executive, the enforcement of political ideology and removal of political dissidents, and once the US gets rid of birthright citizenship Constitutional rights become entirely arbitrary, and anyone can be sent to the camps. We've normalized political violence after Jan. 20th. Palantir will have an extensive database created from all of DOGE's data. A third of the country wants it, and they live where the votes matter most. All of the pieces will be in place.

It just requires a competent leader and a movement based on ideology, not grift. Once Trump is out of the way the true believers will take over. Thanks to the weakening of the Federal government it will happen at the grassroots level with state governments in partnership with tech companies consolidating a power base, then "retaking" Washington. If there happens to be a Democratic administration to pin some anti-leftist moral panic or two on, so much the better.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-04 19:56:16+00:00
I hope you're right, but this administration so far has found almost no limit to the number of projects, lives, roles and institutions it can destroy or at least attempt to destroy. And the party that is supposed to be acting as the Opposition is basically letting them do whatever they want unhindered. Unless you consider "holding up little signs and making frowny-faces" to count as "doing something."
by cogman10 | 2025-06-04 19:56:33+00:00
It isn't perfect, but it's also undeniable that China is dumping a ton of money into infrastructure. It also has and has been executing multiple long-term initiatives (for example, high speed rail, renewable build out).

Chinese culture isn't perfect by a long shot, in particular it's both pretty isolationist with a strong slash and burn mentality for resource acquisition.

We can see both the positives and negatives of a country. I think it is a positive that china isn't as focused on short term results as the US political ecosystem is.