MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by landl0rd | 2025-07-14 01:43:59+00:00
Do you really think it's fair to compare a questionable UFO sighting to what I've learned from talking with and knowing people, seeing how this affects them? I don't think it is. Or talking with their girlfriends and hearing about this issue.

If you want good evidence that this is hard to study well, even if you maintain that political concerns are a non-issue, around 11% of men report some agreement with the statement, "I am addicted to pornography." https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7044607 Of course, another analysis found that just 51.7% of men used pornography, which seems optimistically low: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11234758/ See the concerns I mentioned around getting truthful data, which are also well-known within nutrition. 17.4% of those men were "problematic" pornography users.

I'm back on a laptop now so can pull this up a little easier, but I don't think you're defending this from the right angle. It's the same as when the marijuana legalization advocates say "it's basically medicine lol" or deny that addiction is possible and that it's known to somewhat increase risk of schizophrenia, because they are scared that admitting that something is bad means they are somehow supporting a ban on it. There are a lot of bad things people consume and I support banning very few of those. Pornography is not one. Please don't mistake my position.

I'll also point out that my original comment explicitly stated that I didn't see it as the role of the state but of parents. I'm not sure with whom you're arguing here about that.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-14 01:44:20+00:00
I kinda blame the fact that, after zooming out to national or party level,

Anyone who speaks favorably about marginalized groups is dropped into the "anti-institution" box

(Otoh this is mitigated by my observation that, e.g., liberal christians are recognized by the influential on the right to be prosocial-- and by themselves to be basically pro-institution.)

This is why you need a Mamdani to convince the center-left that it's not divisive to do so (& it's great that he's prioritizing the economic marginalization angle)

With Harris there is another mixed signal independent of her stage skills: swingvoters cannot decide if she is pro-or anti-institution (support from people like Powell-Jobs is counter-productive)

(Aside: let me know if that was confused)

As mentioned by Ezra Klein, Trump is a moderate-- my additional take is that he is intentionally so. Due to dark traits he knows to kayfabe extremism-- this provokes the divisive elements on the voting left, but the politically influential on the right do not see this as anti-institution
by a_vanderbilt | 2025-07-14 01:45:13+00:00
The prices will continue to increase so long as buyers keep paying for them. In a car-centric country like the US, the demand isn't as elastic as it is elsewhere. People could buy more cost-effective vehicles, but they don't for a variety of reasons.

I foresee that car loans will contribute to the next market crash, as the abysmal LTVs trap people similar to the way vehicle loans originated during COVID did.

The OP is a poignant example. I have been in the market for an AWD Maverick, but I cannot find a vehicle on sale at a reasonable price. I see Mavericks with high milage selling for 80% as much as a brand new one MSRPs for. Dealers add to the fire by adding markups or tacking on insane windows prices. The outcome of the loan doesn't matter to them, just so long as they can get the initial sale.

I feel so much of this problem could be resolved be eliminating the middle man. Allow manufacturers to sell direct to consumer, and so much of the perverse incentive evaporates.
by est | 2025-07-14 01:46:00+00:00
TCM is not a single branch of "alt" theory, but a clusterfuck of inconsistent, contradictionary schools of thoughts which was umbrella-ed by state funded insitutions after 1949.

Forget blind test, you can get 13 different perscriptions from 10 TCM doctors. I am not joking. During the pandemic, top-notch TCM scholars call Covid-19 warm-disease, another group categorize it as cold-disease. Some others name it wet-disease, they all came up with totally different "treatments", which basically boils down to dead bodies of insects and herbs.

But why do billions of ppl believe in TCM anyway? Because scientific medicine is hard, and does not cover 100% symptoms. AFAIK There isn't a effective cure against viruses like antibiotics. This market is dominated by pain-killers and "alt" medicines. And yes sometimes ppl refuse or forget to take vaccines.
by maxbond | 2025-07-14 01:46:02+00:00
It is considered rude to listen to other people's conversations in public. While it's wise not to say anything in public that shouldn't be overheard, that doesn't mean it isn't rude to eavesdrop.

It's not a moral issue but it is an ethical issue. I meant morally as in "in spirit" even if it's not illegal. Sorry if that was confusing wording.

(For what it's worth, this behavior of restaurants is not on my radar as a priority, and I'm making no calls to action. I was responding to GP's confusion and trying to provide an explanation. I wouldn't support legislation to make it illegal for restaurants to Google you or something.)
by protocolture | 2025-07-14 01:46:20+00:00
>It's never been easier to do that, but people would rather not.

Never been harder with ubiquitous surveillance.

>As of 2025 everyone globally has everything they need to make the world a great place for everyone.

Disagree. Even if theres enough food being produced, its not produced evenly, and the extra labor and resources to distribute it evenly would screw a lot of this up. Then theres the idea that a bureaucracy large enough to distribute it worldwide would be efficient.

>I've tried to start multiple non-heirarchical anarchist cooperative organizations and the number one challenge is finding people who will put the group ahead of the individual.

The group is made of individuals. Ultimately eventually they will need some reward for their participation. Whenever I have involved myself in these groups theres ultimately some unsavoury character who has positioned himself as leader and siphon off the glory for themselves. Or in one case, it was just an avenue for the "leader" to gain access to vulnerable women. These groups dont work because they get hijacked, not because the people doing the work dont want to work.

>Unions now make most of their money from capital investments [2], which is directly in opposition to their anticapitalist philosophical roots.

Unions are about protecting workers. They dont have to be socialist paragons as long as they meet that directive.

>At this point in history, everyone has access to the information they need to make globally holistic decisions.

Lmao, where to start with that doozy. Local knowledge still trumps the disinfo hose.

>lack the cognitive ability to think beyond Dunbar's number

People just dont trust beyond that number, and with good reason.

>Self elimination is the only possible arc for humanity.

Lmao, there's no reason why we cant keep going like this. An engine built on brutal exploitation. Predicting humanities doom seems greatly premature.
by cyberax | 2025-07-14 01:46:28+00:00
> In the mean time TCM practitioners have answers that often work for these kinds of things.

You can also take some homeopathic remedies and do a couple of chiropractic adjustments meanwhile. I've also heard that some Christian Science practitioners work wonders if you give them all your Earthly belongings.

The ability to say: "It's likely a viral disease. Wait and see if it worsens" - is a pretty powerful point _in_ _favor_ of modern medicine.
by therealdrag0 | 2025-07-14 01:47:22+00:00
Why wouldn’t it be a good house to rent? It’s usually not tourist rental (airbnb), it’s long term living rental (annual lease). Anyone who doesn’t own has to rent an apartment or house.

Theres also a chunk of people who “don’t believe in debt” so even when they have kids and live in a house they rent until they can pay cash. Or there’s young people who get together in a group of 4 and rent a house to share etc etc.
by Kapura | 2025-07-14 01:47:26+00:00
> The first team to deliver a model that can run on a GPU alongside a game, so that there is never an "I took an arrow to the knee" meme again is going to make a LOT of money.

this feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of how video game dialogue writing works. it's actually an important that a player understand when the mission-critical dialogue is complete. While the specifics of a line becoming a meme may seem undesirable, it's far better that a player hears a line they know means "i have nothing to say" 100 times than generating ai slop every time the player passes a guard.
by nerdix | 2025-07-14 01:47:42+00:00
You'll likely have to be careful with profiling here. You'll probably need to have documentation/proof that you ask this question to all candidates regardless of race or immigration status. And yes, that means you'll need to ask it to people that clearly aren't North Korean (though that maybe be a good thing in general as I'm sure the next step for the NK regime would be to pay people who are not Asian or who have American accents to do interviews if the practice became widespread)
by landl0rd | 2025-07-14 01:47:57+00:00
This is, as a matter of fact. Both sides of my family are essentially universally obese. I grew up with it. I saw lots of it. I am probably genetically predisposed, but I'm not giving my DNA to one of those sketchy testing companies, so I can't say for sure.

It's not an issue of metabolism. I've walked in on people sneaking a junk food binge at 1:30AM too many times to believe this. I've seen all the sneak-eating, all the extra oily sauce when they think "well it's a salad", to believe that.

Diet and exercise are actually great long-term fixes, they're just not easy. We can see this pretty well by how reducing appetite via a GLP-1 agonist helps to decrease body fat, even with older-generation drugs that act almost entirely by just reducing appetite and increasing satiety rather than by additional mechanisms. There are also benefits like increased muscle mass increasing one's BMR so the same-size meal might no longer cause one to gain fat.

I understand that it's complex. It doesn't mean I want to blame or castigate people. I can empathize strongly with struggling against impulses to sin.

Both sides of my family also have extensive history of alcoholism. This has caused me to be very, very careful around alcohol, because despite a predisposition, drunkenness is still a sin. Somebody may have anger issues, but clocking somebody is still a sin. Many of us will have all these impulses or commit these sins. Most of the time, my reaction is to sit and empathize, particularly for "victimless crimes" (rather, sins where the only victim is one's own soul.)
by acdha | 2025-07-14 01:49:19+00:00
The problem isn’t the people but the government which controls every aspect of their lives. If I hire a remote worker from England, I don’t have much reason to worry that they’re secretly working for MI-5 and plotting to infiltrate our systems unless I work for a drug cartel or military supplier, and I have a high degree of confidence that if they engage in misconduct they’re subject to a real legal system. If you hire a North Korean, abuse is far more plausible since the invention of cryptocurrency has helped them immensely when it comes to getting and laundering ransoms – and with nobody actually in a country subject to the jurisdiction of a government which cares what you think, they’re going to see it as a safe operation even if it brings you considerable harm.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-14 01:49:21+00:00
That’s only one of the scams. You pass background checks if you’re new to the US. It’s a fairly common grift to place contract programmers at big companies with fake degrees and experience, who then send the work back to Asia to be done overnight. It’s easier now with ChatGPT - you can send photos of screens and instantly extract the text.

You also have people who outsource themselves. That’s one of the ways that the people who work multiple jobs pull it off.
by zdragnar | 2025-07-14 01:49:45+00:00
It is very regional. An older house on 5 acres (2 hectare / 20k square meters) could go for $300k. $500k could get you a really nice house. Picking a random rural area in a random midwest state found this beauty: https://www.landsearch.com/properties/16167-160th-st-letts-i...

The homes investors would look to pick up to flip and sell or rent would go in the $80-120 range in this area, I'd think.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-14 01:49:52+00:00
MV3 was FUD. But what's interesting is how FUD spreads. There were some people who identified that MV3 severely limits adblockers. That's true. There were some people who had an agenda who exaggerated the effects of those limits, making it seem like ad blocking would not work in MV3. Then there were people who read those articles, and believed them without question. There are a lot of them commenting on every thread about browsers.

I suggested that MV3 would be a big nothing from the beginning. And people on HN argued with me every step of the way (mostly people in the latter category who refused to do even the slightest bit of research or verify that the people who they were parroting were actually reliable reporters of anything at all).

Now that MV3 is here, we can see this. MV3 is here. MV2 is gone. And ad blocking still works.

I just installed Google Chrome, clicked on some YouTube videos, and verified that I was getting ads. Then I installed Ublock Origin Lite, and the ads disappeared. I no longer get display ads or video ads on any website.

Now, if you want to bring up some edge case or something, be my guest. But for 99% of even ad block users, strictly speaking, blocking ads is more than enough.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-14 01:50:08+00:00
There is a radical proportion of American Christians which believes this, yes. I'm fine with calling out those beliefs. That's not my issue here, more tarring Christianity broadly, or even specifically those of us who hold conservative social beliefs but don't believe in imposing those via state coercion.

I don't see any moral benefit to forcing people not to sin. There's no virtue when there's no choice.
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-14 01:50:13+00:00
They are not a body cam company. They sell all sorts of equipment to police, including but not limited to body cams. They used to be named Taser international (guess why!) and later branched out into body cameras. They will happily service any law enforcement client, with or without body cams.

https://www.axon.com/products
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-14 01:50:56+00:00
That's the first order analysis. It's correct within its assumptions, but it neglects leverage.

But if you bought a place before the pandemic you could lock in a ridiculously low interest rate for 30 years.

Now you have the value of the mortgage (leverage) locked at an interest rate lower than inflation. Let's say rent covers expenses and mortgage. The return on an initial $50k down on a 250k property might be around $10k/year, or 20%.

Tell me, where does one get an investment returning 20% annum?

Real estate is the easiest and safest way to leverage your investment.
by charlesju | 2025-07-14 01:51:14+00:00
From my personal account, I started with PHP and Perl (high school and college) and then graduated to Ruby on Rails (early dev career) and now its Python and JS.

I would say Ruby on Rails was a 10x on raw PHP in terms of feature specs per hour and AI is a 10x on Ruby on Rails (and its derivatives).

We're probably 100x the developer productivity on a per developer basis from the early days of Web 2.0 with PHP, just a personal anecdote though.
by kbos87 | 2025-07-14 01:51:34+00:00
GLP-1s have legitimately changed my life for the better. I've always been very active but have consistently been moderately overweight. A relatively low dose of Semaglitide has helped me lose 40lbs and keep it off. I'm a year and a half in and have had very few side effects, no loss of efficacy, and my muscle mass has increased slightly despite all the negative press about muscle loss. My diet is similar in composition to what it was before, but I probably eat 25% less by volume. Recognizing I'm a sample of one, but my experience is reflected in the research.

I plan on being a GLP-1 for the rest of my life. Perfectly fine with that. It seems like society has more problems with GLP-1s than its users do.
by intrasight | 2025-07-14 01:52:06+00:00
That was my mom and pop in the 80s they bought about one house a year. Empty derelict houses purchased from the city for between $1000 and $15,000. The city provided matching grants to fix them up. Also the city paid the rent for the Cambodian and Vietnamese migrants that came here to live. My parents invested the organization and literal sweat equity to fix up these homes.
by kyboren | 2025-07-14 01:52:42+00:00
Hallelujah. Shout it from the rooftops!

Markets are powerful tools--perhaps the most powerful tool we have to shape human interactions. But too many people believe in a sort of market gospel ("Supply Side Jesus"); that market forces are as inevitable and inflexible as the force of gravity. In reality, policy choices shape markets and careful market design can deliver politically-favorable outcomes.

Markets work for us, not the other way around. "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!"
by rayiner | 2025-07-14 01:52:49+00:00
All the smart engineers must have left to do AI stuff. The new windows 11 "power savings" settings menu has this gamification angle. It tells you that you've enabled "5 of 7 power saving settings" or whatever, in a way that implies the goal is to get all 7. It triggers my OCD every time I see the screen and it implies that quest is unfinished.
by ggm | 2025-07-14 01:53:06+00:00
Whats your relationship to the RIR delegated stats files, and BGP and other sources of "ground truth" around location and connectivity?

Maxmind (for instance) add their own sauce to map endpoint IPs behind VPN.

Cloudflare and Apple have some kind of airport code based model to geoloc the Ips they use in Warp and the Apple private VPN to approximate locations.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-14 01:54:15+00:00
What makes me a "homophobic bigot"? If I believe sleeping with a woman before y'all marry is wrong, am I a premarital-sex-phobic bigot? Maybe standing with signs and saying mean things to people who do so, or lobbying to ban doing so, would qualify, but I'm not doing those things with either belief.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-14 01:55:23+00:00
> How much is tuition in Vietnam

Public medical school tuition is around $3-6k per year in a country where most households aren't earning above $300/mo, financial aid is nonexistent, and "student loans" for the middle class means going to some tattooed chain smoker jeweler who pounds Ruou San Dinh like water and demands double digit interest rates.

> you could change some trivial details and end up with a valid description of JHU

You don't have JHU students (or any Western medical students) moonlighting as unlicensed doctors under their professors working license and giving them a $200-500/mo cut. This is fairly common at UMP Hanoi and HCMC, let alone lower tier programs. You also don't need to pay a $1-3k bribe in speed money to get your working license in the US.

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There's a reason my SO immigrated abroad like a lot of her peers - if you don't have the right connections or enough money (black or white), you will not succeed in Vietnam.

Thao Dien, Landmark 81, Sunrise City, and D1 is not representative of middle class Vietnam - neighborhoods like D10 and Phu Nhuan is.
by wxw | 2025-07-14 01:55:42+00:00
Thanks for sharing, interesting article. 13 years later and his takes are still quite relevant. With the AI era, now seems as good a time as any to consider a new paradigm for the Web (and other tools), but things always move slower than we think.

> There's nothing wrong with that, except that when you have something like the Industrial Revolution squared, you wind up setting de facto standards — in this case, really bad de facto standards. Because what you definitely don't want in a Web browser is any features.

> That's why I never use PowerPoint. PowerPoint is just simulated acetate overhead slides, and to me, that is a kind of a moral crime. That's why I always do, not just dynamic stuff when I give a talk, but I do stuff that I'm interacting with on-the-fly. Because that is what the computer is for.

Also, lol

> Kay: I was never a great programmer. That's what got me into making more powerful programming languages.
by BrenBarn | 2025-07-14 01:55:50+00:00
You're right in a sense. The thing is what people are "willing" to do or what they "want" is a somewhat amorphous concept and depends on how options are presented to people.

Human nature involves the ability to let different dimensions of our cognitive apparatus cover one another's weak spots. In my view, a lot of what many would consider wise decisions throughout human history have been instances of this, many of them in the form of law, from child-labor restrictions to drunk-driving laws to birth control to incest taboos.

There just seems to be a certain segment of society that for some reason insists that "what the consumer wants" has to be construed in this narrow way as what is in the person's mind at the instant of a decision, and that any attempt to broaden that person's decision-making is somehow unnatural. Well, no. It's good to make changes that create immediate costs if doing so can save us from future costs that we're not good at foreseeing at the moment. It's good for Ulysses to ask his men to tie him to the mast. It's good in many cases for people to deliberately, explicitly, not do things they feel like doing because they will regret those things later. I believe this is often true even from a perspective of self-interest (e.g., people will not like it if a monopoly emerges and raises prices later), but it's even more true if you incorporate a bit of consideration for the well-being of others, and I think plenty of people are willing to do that to some extent.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-14 01:56:18+00:00
> Any company which has earnings beyond those of operating costs is a concentration of wealth by definition

Let's say I buy $20 worth of art supplies, and I paint a landscape and sign it with my moniker, "bright". Since "bright" paintings are very rare and go for a million bucks each, I now have created a million bucks of value. Who did I transfer the wealth from? Nobody. I took nuttin from nobody. Yet I have become wealthy.

Let's say I sell it to you for a million bucks. Did I take your wealth? Nope. I traded a million dollar painting for a million bucks. You are exactly as wealthy as you were before.

Now, if you decide to use my painting as compost (sob!), you are dissipating the million dollar value. That's not me concentrating wealth, it's you destroying your wealth.

If you stole the painting from me, then you concentrated wealth. But we're not talking about theft here.
by jmpavlec | 2025-07-14 01:56:27+00:00
Something funky with your personal beats. It says your best 5k was in 35:35 but your best 10k was in 43:26. Not possible for those both to be true . I guess the 5k data is screwy since that is quite a slow 5k time.

Edit: seems maybe tht 5k is mislabeled, should be 5 miles... But that feels like a less standardized time.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-14 01:57:34+00:00
I agree with this to an extent actually, which has led me to conflict strongly with the structure of most denominations. There are a few exceptions (the Roman Catholic Jesuits are a good example) but I'd actually say the Roman Catholic Church contributed far more to the Church-as-a-power model than Puritans overall. That aside, some days, I get as much from reading Eckhart or Kierkegaard as a Newman or Aquinas.