MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esseph | 2025-06-10 05:43:35+00:00
The US spent a lot of time assassinating democratically elected leaders is South American and Central America for decades, along with tons of psychological warfare and economic sanctions.

This, along with bullish economic policies to get them to capitulate to demands of US-homed multinationals (along with plenty of their own internal problems like everywhere else), has caused a problem that has now come home to roost.

It wasn't their fault, they were just born in the wrong country. If they can make it here to work and build a better life for themselves, great. Pay taxes. Get ID'd. Done.
by gamblor956 | 2025-06-10 05:44:18+00:00
The "fiscally irresponsible" states provide more tax dollars to the federal government than the "fiscally responsible" states, all of whom would be completely insolvent without the extra tax dollars they receive from the federal government.

The fair alternative to not eliminating the SALT cap would be to allocate federal dollars spent by the amount of tax dollars paid by the citizens of that state. But then every GOP state would be insolvent, so obviously that's not going to happen.
by 827a | 2025-06-10 05:44:19+00:00
Actually the scariest part is, its probably not even coordinated, at least in any traditional meaning of the word.

The left believes the aggressors are the Trump administration. The right believes its the left and the Biden admin. The real aggressor is the division itself; upstream from both these administrations. Those sad quirks of human nature, tribalism and division, which the algorithms picked up on, which feeds back into content creators biasing toward serving those algorithmic niches, which feeds the cycle further. Russia probably disinfo'd a bit in there, but honestly, they don't even need to; human nature does it itself.

Social media and AI-accelerated tribal bubble reinforcement is going to destroy the world. If you work in social media: Your work is destroying the world. You need to stop. The only way to save modern society is to turn off social media.
by pivic | 2025-06-10 05:44:45+00:00
There's a wonderfully made two-part podcast documentary about Sly Stone and the Family; the documentary focuses on one song but is really a well-told story about the world around Sly Stone: https://500songs.com/podcast/song-175-everyday-people-by-sly...

Sly wasn't just a brilliant performer, singer, and accomplished multi-instrumentalist but a fantastic songwriter and hugely influential producer. He knew his way around music and lost sight of all ways.
by ajb | 2025-06-10 05:44:57+00:00
Curved glass is easier in the historical method, because flat glass was made by blowing a large bottle and flattening a piece of it against something before it set (which is why you could only get small flat panes). So to get a curve you'd just shape it against something the right curve.

I'm not sure how you get curved glass today. Possibly you have to start with a flat sheet and heat it until it can be bent.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-10 05:45:58+00:00
Go isn't horrible for this stuff. But I don't think it's notably better than a lot of other languages either.

Frankly, anything that has a compiler and supports doing asynchronous stuff decently probably does the job. Which of course describes a wide range of languages. And since agents inherently involve a lot (some would say mostly) prompt engineering, it helps if the language is good at things like multi line strings, templated strings, and just generally manipulating strings.

As for the async stuff, it's nice if a language can do async things. But is that enough? Agentic systems essentially reach out to other systems over the network. Some of the tasks may be long lived. Minutes, hours, or even days. A lot can happen in such long time. IMHO the model of some system keeping all that state in a long running process is probably not ideal. We might want something more robust and long running and less dependent on a some stateful process running somewhere for days on end.

There is an argument to be made for externalizing related state from the language and maybe using some middleware optimized for this sort of thing. I've seen a few things that go in that direction but not a lot yet. It seems that people are still busy reinventing wheels and not fully realizing yet that a lot of those wheels don't need reinventing. There's a lot of middleware out there that is really great at async job scheduling, processing, fan out, and all the other stuff that people eventually will figure out is needed here.
by nivertech | 2025-06-10 05:47:45+00:00
I like TBC (Token-Bonding Curves) and friends, but the fault here is not understanding that funding public goods is a complex adaptive system, and no closed form / analytic solution with nice looking smooth curve will help to model it. These things together with the Game Theory are better left for textbooks, not real-life projects;)

There is another method of funding public goods re-surfaced by crypto folks: DAC (Dominant Assurance Contracts) which is more like SiTG (Skin in The Game), and I think many blank check companies / SPACs use some elements of it

BTW, that’s why economists can’t predict sh*t: they trying to use simple curves / closed form solutions, instead of using ABM (Agent-Based Modeling) or even more advanced simulation methods
by achierius | 2025-06-10 05:47:58+00:00
What? No it doesn't. There's no reason we can't have a society that lets people have ~2 kids happily on average. Collapsing population numbers will be a disaster for everyone involved -- this isn't even some quirk of capitalism (though that is why the rates are collapsing in the first place) but just a consequence of the simple fact that the elderly require the young to take care of them.
by joegibbs | 2025-06-10 05:48:48+00:00
200 years ago you would have ten children, a few would survive until adulthood, and you needed to have children or nobody would look after you in old age, help you out when they're grown or take over your farm when you became infirm - and besides, everyone else has children, so if you don't you're the odd one out.

Now, you have both parents in the workforce - even with generous parental leave the mother loses a lot of opportunity in the prime of her career.

Then you have to pay for childcare if both are working (or lose out on one income if they aren't), food, clothing, schooling, extracurriculars. And you're competing in the workforce against all couples with less children. And then when you get old you aren't relying on your children to look after you - this is frowned upon, and you get paid out from your investments or the government pays you a pension. Basically most of modern life is set up economically against having children, and the main reason to is purely the biological drive.

I think all these factors need to be taken into account when devising economic incentives for people to have more children, and the current levels in any country are too low to have enough of an effect.
by rocqua | 2025-06-10 05:48:50+00:00
Isn't it going to take a tipping point to get republicans to impeach Trump, or at least reign him in? And if Trump isn't reigned in, it seems to me the US will backslide into authoritarian (light) facism.

So a tipping point is required. ideally you engineer it to more likely tip the right way. But doing nothing because otherwise it might reinforce the status quo, will guarantee the status quo.

Horribly, this means one of the best possible outcomes is an unprovoked massacre by these Marines, ordered by Trump.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-06-10 05:50:22+00:00
I would note they aren’t guilty of a crime - it’s a civil infraction. “Illegal” is a pejorative used to imply criminality, being an undocumented immigrant is not in fact criminal or a crime.

The issue however that prompted the protests was the way they are pursuing deportations with militarized tactics, brutality, and snatching people off the streets as abductions. They do not declare themselves, do not present their civil warrant, do not produce identification, and subsequently frequently do not follow laws, regulation, or the constitutional requirements of due process.

There is no reason that their neighbors, family, and friends need to be happy with what’s happening. They are afforded protection in our society to be angry and disclaim the government without fear of persecution or prosecution. When they’re then persecuted and prosecuted for doing that, people are pissed by the injustice. Then when their governments responsible is to fly in the military, you should expect an explosive situation.

Indeed it seems pretty clear the explosive situation was premeditated and planned - using armored vehicles and riot armored police to invade immigrant neighborhoods and abduct service workers and day laborers in broad daylight when a simple standard ICE operation was clearly designed to provoke strong response in those neighborhoods. Everything after that has been pretty deductively arrived at to create this precise situation. Even the language of insurrection and rebellion - laughably absurd claims for even a riot - which hadn’t happened until the national guard were deployed - are carefully chosen words to provide pretext for what comes next.

I desperate miss the states rights individual freedoms libertarian leaning republicans. They would never have done these things.
by birn559 | 2025-06-10 05:51:32+00:00
The process is far from perfect, but it works well enough mid-term and works pretty well long-term.

It's also better than any alternatives, as far as I know. Haven't heard people pushing the idea of restructuring the process, the only exception being that journals shouldn't cost (that much) money and instead institutions should pay for publishing a paper. This wouldn't however change the foundation of the process.
by k1t | 2025-06-10 05:51:49+00:00
Presumably it's just this meeting, filtering down the ranks:

So in late May, Stephen Miller, a top White House aide and the architect of the president’s immigration agenda, addressed a meeting at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The message was clear: The president, who promised to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, wasn’t pleased. The agency had better step it up.

Gang members and violent criminals, what Trump called the “worst of the worst,” weren’t the sole target of deportations. Federal agents needed to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” Miller told top ICE officials, who had come from across the U.S., according to people familiar with the meeting.

Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/protests-los-angeles-immigrants-...
by bawolff | 2025-06-10 05:52:34+00:00
I think there is a world of difference between being "annoying" or not "respectable" and being threatening.

Being annoying can be quite beneficial to a protest. It brings attention and forces people to think about you. There is a point after which it turns people off, and becomes a net negative, but you usually have to be very annoying for that to happen.

Being scary is entirely different thing though. When people are afraid they tend to become closed off to new ideas, and look to strong leaders. You absolutely don't want that in a protest.

> The protest has to be disruptive enough to affect the powerful, and approachable enough for sufficient people to join.

I think the ultimate point of a protest is to reach the ordinary people who aren't part of a movement. Movements succede and fail not by how much they convince the die hard supporters, but by how much they convinced average uninvolved people.
by Balgair | 2025-06-10 05:53:03+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin

Not only was William a loyalist, he was the last colonial governor of New Jersey and was one of the chief leaders of the loyalists. His early years and heritage are just crazy stuff, even for our times.

There is a good reason you've not heard about ol William before, because his story and relationships are totally nuts. My lord, the conflicts of interest are at actual war.

Imagine if Putin's bastard son was one of Zelensky's most important generals.
by gamblor956 | 2025-06-10 05:53:40+00:00
LAPD on Sunday night live with NBC 4 Los Angeles confirmed that most of the Sunday night looters were arrested. They also confirmed that most of the looters were part of a retail-theft gang attempting to use the protests as cover, and that at least one of the looters was actually a far-right-wing activist (unsuccessfully) attempting to stage a false flag operation to justify the use of military force.
by golf1052 | 2025-06-10 05:54:53+00:00
According to reporting Rosetta will still be supported for old games that rely on Intel code

> But after that, Rosetta will be pared back and will only be available to a limited subset of apps—specifically, older games that rely on Intel-specific libraries but are no longer being actively maintained by their developers. Devs who want their apps to continue running on macOS after that will need to transition to either Apple Silicon-native apps or universal apps that run on either architecture.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/apple-details-the-en...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 05:55:03+00:00
> One fights the enemies of the state

"At stake is a fundamental component of the framework of US constitutional democracy. It begins with the principle, enshrined in law, that military forces exist to protect the country from existential threats — such as an invasion or rebellion — not to enforce the law.

Most fundamentally, the founders of the American republic understood very clearly that concentrated military power, loyal to a single man, could be used to achieve total control by that person. And they had a historical example in mind: Rome — a republic governed by the people and the Senate — was transformed into an empire ruled by an emperor as a result of the Roman army being turned against its citizens."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-09/trump-...
by rocqua | 2025-06-10 05:55:20+00:00
Nonviolent protest doesn't need to be respectable. It needs the moral high ground. That means you need to goad the enforcement to use violence against you.

This doesn't just work by getting the public on your side. It works by showing that you are not repressed by fear. Fear is how facists rule, so showing others they don't need to fear, that they can decide not to fear, that is the real threat to authority.

That means they will abuse you to make others fear. When that happens, you need it to trigger outrage as widely as possible.
by vidarh | 2025-06-10 05:56:58+00:00
I used to have a fox regularly lounging in my gazebo right outside my office window in South London. He didn't care about me unless I opened the door (at which point he would wander off), and didn't bother me at all. It was not a problem beyond a bit of fur on one of the pillows that he liked to sleep on.

London foxes are used to people.
by edhelas | 2025-06-10 05:57:49+00:00
"Collapsing" is really the word we should use there ? Shrinking okay.

Collapsing is the word we use about the biodiversity collapse, or the collapse of some environmental numbers.

There's no catastrophy about having a population shrinking, we are doing that to most of the other species on the planet and only a few people seems to really care.

We are in a humanity re-adjustement, not a collapse.
by sireat | 2025-06-10 05:58:02+00:00
What do you mean? I am in Eastern Europe and as far as know software development costs are fully deductible just like any other employee costs.

Even more so for startups in Estonia and Latvia (probably Lithuania too) you can fully deduct R&D in general - not sure for how long.

That is you have you have 1M in sales 200k in net profit(after paying for everything including software development).

If that 200k in net profit is plowed back into speculative R&D it does not incur income taxes until money is paid out.

Even more so you can invest some 200k pre-tax in assets such as buildings. You only get taxed when you actually take out the money. In a way this is a pretty big loophole provided you are actually cash flow positive.

Basically in Baltics you can follow the early Amazon strategy of not making net profit, but investing in growth.
by mcv | 2025-06-10 05:58:08+00:00
While I totally agree this is a ridiculous way to tax corporations, to my (probably very limited) understanding, it looks like this might actually be less bad for growing startups, because they don't make much money during their first years.

So a startup that's paying $200k in its first year but only making $40k in that year, they still get to deduct the labour costs over the next 4 years.

But of course this is only true as long as revenue is less than labour costs. Eventually you do want to make money, and it feels like you can only do that when you stop hiring more people.

But regardless of its effects on different types of companies, I don't understand how anyone could pretend that this way of handling labour costs makes any kind of sense.
by antics | 2025-06-10 05:58:12+00:00
Kind of, kind of not. I think it's fair to argue a lot of theory people would argue that it is effectively guaranteed to terminate, for any reasonable definition of "guaranteed."

As I mention elsewhere, for a coin where P(H)=0.75, with 600 flips, the probability of not having received an answer is less than 1 divided by the number of atoms in the universe. While this is not 0, neither is the probability of the atoms of the coin lining up just right that it falls through the table, producing neither H or T. Theoretically and practically we do generally consider these kinds of things immaterial to the problem at hand, perhaps papering over them with terms-of-art like "with high/extremely high/arbitrarily high/ probability". They all mean roughly the same thing: this algorithm is "essentially guaranteed" to terminate after n flips.
by Timwi | 2025-06-10 05:58:51+00:00
As an observer to this conversation, I can't help but notice that both have a good point here.

Soulofmischief’s main point is that meesles made an inappropriate generalization. Meesles said that something was impossible to do, and soulofmischief pointed out that you can't really infer that it's impossible for everyone just because you couldn't find a way. This is a perfectly valid point, but it wasn't helped by soulofmischief calling the generalization “patronizing”.

Bluefirebrand pushed back on that by merely stating that their experience and intuition match those of meesles, but soulofmischief then interpreted that as implying they're not a real programmer and called it a No True Scotsman fallacy.

It went downhill from there with soulofmischief trying to reiterate their point but only doing so in terms of insults such as the Dunning-Kruger line.
by nitwit005 | 2025-06-10 05:59:16+00:00
> People became more anti-vax largely due to the prior administration more than RFKjr.

I can remember Trump trying to take credit for funding the vaccine efforts, and getting nothing but negativity from his crowd.

Unfortunately, it predates both presidents. It's just kept creeping upward in popularity, along with a lot of other conspiracy theories.
by guybedo | 2025-06-10 05:59:29+00:00
looks like there isn't much to take away from this, here's a few bullet points:

Apple Intelligence models primarily run on-device, potentially reducing app bundle sizes and the need for trivial API calls.

Apple's new containerization framework is based on virtual machines (VMs) and not a true 'native' kernel-level integration like WSL1.

Spotlight on macOS is widely perceived as slow, unreliable, and in significant need of improvement for basic search functionalities.

iPadOS and macOS are converging in terms of user experience and features (e.g., windowing), but a complete merger is unlikely due to Apple's business model, particularly App Store control and sales strategies.

The new 'Liquid Glass' UI design evokes older aesthetics like Windows Aero and earlier Aqua/skeuomorphism, indicating a shift away from flat design.

Full summary (https://extraakt.com/extraakts/apple-intelligence-macos-ui-o...)
by DoodahMan | 2025-06-10 05:59:37+00:00
The idea of unregulated blue state militias has me chuckling a bit, given how said states have largely neutered their citizen's ability to own capable rifles.

We are to depend on our trusted local law enforcement to protect us, as well as our valiant governors who will assuredly call up local guards to do the same. Examples of brave, novel Democratic resistance to Trump abound these days. There's no need to worry!
by jsphweid | 2025-06-10 05:59:40+00:00
I've always wondered, what fraction of the decline could be attributed to indoor pet dogs?

Ok, this is half humorous and half serious. But I'd wager that the answer is non-zero.

This is all just anecdotal, obviously, but I think childless humans with pet indoor dogs could have less of a desire to procreate for various reasons, but perhaps mainly because the instinctual thirst to care for a living thing is quinched to some extent when you have a pet indoor dog.

Obviously not every or most or even many. But perhaps _some_.
by Gigachad | 2025-06-10 06:00:44+00:00
Huge disagreement here. Maybe true for something critical like the control board on some heavy machinery.

But for something like a phone or messaging app, I want to see the return of fun, creative, and unique. We had such a great era of design around 2006-2013 and then it all rapidly went incredibly dull since then.

I want to see creative menus back, I want to see whacky UIs like windows media player skins back. Ultimately for basic stuff of low importance like your phone, the most absolutely optimal UI doesn’t matter, much like I don’t care for the most absolutely optimal furniture. Its visual appeal matters.
by gamblor956 | 2025-06-10 06:01:00+00:00
ICE agents are also deporting a lot of people here legally. Just last week: they attempted to deport and ban the wife of a U.S. soldier visiting her husband on leave with a valid tourist visa ; several U.S. citizens working for at the Westlake Home Depot despite being shown proof of citizenship; a U.S. Marshall of Mexican descent who was born in the country to legal residents.

That doesn't include the hundreds of students legally here on student visas.

And of course, if ICE is going to deport people in the country illegally: it's well establish by now that Musk and Melania violated the terms of their nonresident visas when they first came to the U.S., rendering their U.S. citizenship null and void (Musk worked in violation of his student visa; Melania both worked in violation of her tourist visa and overstayed her visa by several years; if she hadn't married Trump she would have been deported and banned from the U.S. for 10 years).
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-10 06:01:03+00:00
That's just one of many problems with this whole lie.

The best is Trump crowing about historically low unemployment numbers, and then peddling hysteria about illegals "taking American jobs." None of his degenerate followers care that this argument is stupid, and calls them stupid.

Now it's been papered over with other excuses, like the mythical "fentanyl" that's pouring in from Canada.
by koliber | 2025-06-10 06:01:09+00:00
…you get paid out from your investments or the government pays you a pension.

Your investments and the government pension are financed by the active work of someone’s children. If there won’t be enough of them around your retirement will not be as comfortable as you planned.

Retirement is still dependent on children. Before it was your children. Now it’s a collective mass of children.