MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hopelite | 2025-08-27 21:20:21+00:00
Do you insist on paying your home tax rate if you go somewhere else and buy food or products?

I’ve never understood people like you that say anything and everything to increase taxes.

How does it make any rational or logical sense that you should pay higher taxes for something?

So when you go to Delaware that has 0% sales taxes, you make sure to log everything and pay taxes to your home state upon return?
by lovich | 2025-08-27 21:20:27+00:00
If you haven’t heard the term you should look up accelerationists.

There’s several competing flavors of it like the ones who think “the good” communist revolution will happen after society collapses vs the ones who want democracy to fall apart because they think monarchical societies are morally superior, but they all have the same line of thinking that “the collapse” is coming any day now and they want to accelerate when they say occurs
by antirez | 2025-08-27 21:20:48+00:00
Indeed, but in some way the Redis version is a bit too Redis-ish, that is, memory saving concerns are taken to the extreme instead of having a more balanced approach about simplicity. In my YouTube channel C course, I'm showing something similar to SDS in the latest lessons, and I may use SDS again in later course in order to show how to integrate back the useful features that diverged. Maybe an SDS3 maybe a middle ground among the Redis version, some API error that should be corrected (but not in Redis: not worth it), and other improvements.
by raincole | 2025-08-27 21:21:18+00:00
If the article has a video or something showing how to "using a fingernail or a credit card to break the seal" I'd be so much more convinced.

I can't even imagine how to do that correctly when I'm sitting in an air-conditioned room so the chance I'll able to "break the seal" in the wild as the expert suggests is around zero. Especially the article says one has to do it "quickly" so it doesn't have time to vomit blood back into me.
by grover_board | 2025-08-27 21:21:25+00:00
The administration has just directed the head of the FHFA to create a pretext to illegally remove a governor of the Federal Reserve, what on earth do you think would stop House Republicans from ginning up some nonsense pretext for a politically motivated DoJ investigation? Why on earth do you think these people are bound by anything other than what they can get away with?
by godelski | 2025-08-27 21:21:50+00:00
> Companies can be really complex

I think this is a great argument for flexible code, though it was unclear to me that the author of that post was talking about that.

> The best software around is the one that's opinionated.

I think I might be on the same page as you but I would say that the best software is written to be an environment more than a specific tool. You're absolutely right that you can't solve all problems.

tikhonj jokingly suggests emacs but even as a vim user I fully agree. Like they say, the beauty of it is that the complexity draws from simpler foundations. It is written as an environment rather than just as a text editor. Being written that way lets it adapt to many different situations and is what has kept both vim and emacs alive and popular after all these years. There's a constant in software development: requirements change with time. The point of writing an environment is that you're able to adapt to these changes. So any time you write a tool that tool is built out of that environment. Anything short of that means the tool won't be able to adapt as time marches on.

I definitely agree that writing software like this is hard but I'm not sure if it is harder. It takes more work up front but I'd argue it takes less work in the long run. It's just that in the long run many efforts are distributed across different people and time. But hey, good flexible code also tends to be much easier to read and that's big short term benefit to anyone coming into a mature project.
by petralithic | 2025-08-27 21:22:09+00:00
It's as much theft as piracy is.

> AI is not intelligent or emotional.

Yes, I agree, my point is that people use arguments against these types of issues instead of stating plainly that their livelihood will be threatened. Just say it'll take your job and that's why you're mad, I don't understand why so many people try to dance around this issue and make it seem like it's some disagreement about the technology rather than economics.
by chatmasta | 2025-08-27 21:22:32+00:00
This article is useless. It seems like an English translation of some German blogspam (and the ads are even making it through my filter).

It says nothing other than PayPal is having some security failures and banks are blocking deposits from PayPal. What are these security failures? What is the mechanism of fraudulent activity that is being exploited?

I’m surprised this was upvoted so much… am I missing something? It seems to be a bunch of words saying basically nothing.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-27 21:22:32+00:00
The same in whatever sense you want to compare the art rather than the creators. Pollocks try to convey the action and emotion of the creation process. Our hypothetical copycat lacks that higher level meaning, even though they've created an otherwise similar physical product.

As an aside:

...art should be able to come from anywhere and anyone.

is an immensely political view (and one I happen to agree with). It's not a view shared by all artists, or their art. Ancient art in particular often assumes that the highest forms of art require divine inspiration that isn't accessible to everyone. It's common for epic poetry to invoke muses as a callback to this assumption, nominally to show the author's humility. John Milton's Paradise Lost does this (and reframes the muse within a Christian hierarchy at the same time), although it doesn't come off as remotely humble.
by absolute_unit22 | 2025-08-27 21:23:18+00:00
I actually opened this hoping it’ an alternative to vimtutor but for experienced/intermediate users.

Is there such a thing? I feel like someone has probably made something this - something that progressively works through soem of the more complex features of vim.

I’ve found soem absolute gems mostly through online blogs and reading through vim docs

If anyone has any repos that’d recommended I’d be happy to try!
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-08-27 21:23:24+00:00
No more than 1.2 volts on vsoc... but YMMV.

"According to new details from Tech Yes City, the problem stems from the amperage (current) supplied to the processor under AMD's PBO technology. Precision Boost Overdrive employs an algorithm that dynamically adjusts clock speeds for peak performance, based on factors like temperature, power, current, and workload. The issue is reportedly confined to ASRock's high-end and mid-range boards, as they were tuned far too aggressively for Ryzen 9000 CPUs."

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/asrock-attri...
by BlackFly | 2025-08-27 21:23:24+00:00
> Per your definition, anyone who desires a vacation to a tropical island is greedy. Or eating at restaurants.

It isn't my definition, it's Merriam-Webster dictionary, and I suggest reading the definition more carefully, it really isn't that hard to understand. That is how the word is used.

All of your examples are not selfish or excessive. So not greedy. That it isn't a clear bright line isn't a problem, most judgements in life are not clear cut.
by bill_joy_fanboy | 2025-08-27 21:23:39+00:00
You may have a more reasonable stance than most landlords, but that doesn't change the essence of the transaction.

If you could get higher rent without getting punished by the market (turnover), you would do it. If you could spend less on maintenance without getting punished by the market (turnover and reduced resale value), you would do it.

Many, if not most, landlords push both of these levers to their absolute limits.

The essence of being a landlord is that you've got your name on the title of a scarce resource that is difficult or impossible in some cases to duplicate: real estate in a particular location. The fact that your name is on this title means that you can extract value from people who need a place to live and did not arrive there first so they could buy the cheap property, build the building, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I hope to be a landlord too some day. Ownership is what matters when there's nowhere else to move. I look forward to the rent checks. However, I won't be pretending there's anything noble or fair about what I'm doing. It's just how the rules of our economy are set up.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-27 21:23:40+00:00
> In the book he gets off mars by going to the launcher staged for the next mission, which again is a case of prepositioning extra hardware before sending someone to the planet.

There's a "world" of difference between the Eagle returning to Apollo 11 in low lunar orbit, and prepositioning a interplanetary vehicle capable of Mars-Earth (after getting from Earth to Mars), landing it (and without live feedback/guidance, because of roundtrip radio time, not to mention, this isn't some Rover, it's a really large rocket) well in advance of the manned mission (8 month flight time, IIRC, which means realistically it's going to be hanging out on Mars for a minimum of 6 years, even if you launch the manned mission within a couple of months of its arrival, which seems ... risky) and hoping that one solo astronaut is going to be capable of fixing any issues that arose during landing or during its ~year, untouched, and five years of his habitation.

Martian dust storms are a thing. "Smaller", continent-sized ones lasting weeks at a time, hit a few times a years. And then you have the planet-covering ones.

> Individual dust particles on Mars are very small and slightly electrostatic, so they stick to the surfaces they contact like Styrofoam packing peanuts.

So many issues. We're not solving these by 2035.

We are still at the point where unmanned, tiny craft with none of these challenges routinely fail. We're making progress, but we're not making that much progress, not that quickly.
by ryanjmo | 2025-08-27 21:24:07+00:00
Last week my PayPal account was "permanently disabled" this also happened to two of my friends at the same time. Is anyone else going through this right now? When I looked it up on Reddit it seemed like a widespread error that started last week. Could it be related to this? Are there any steps I should be taking to try to get my account back? Any help here would be really appreciated.
by graypegg | 2025-08-27 21:24:23+00:00
I think the range of radiation dose might vary too much to make a radiation source a totally isolated system, but trying to keep it as a simple physical lockout, I could imagine part of the start up process involving inserting a small module containing a fuse that breaks at a certain current that could be swapped out for different therapies or something. Could even add a simple spring+electromagnet mechanism that kicks that module out when power gets cut so radiotechs have to at least acknowledge the fuse before start up each time.

I will say that me pretending to know how to best design medical equipment as a web developer is pretty full of myself haha. Highly doubt whatever I'm spouting is a new idea. The idea of working on this sort of high-reliability + high-recoverability systems seems really interesting though!
by xg15 | 2025-08-27 21:24:50+00:00
No, antinuclear sentiment in Germany runs much deeper - but if anything, we were scared after Chernobyl.

The German antinuclear movement started as a local aspect of the 68s civil rights and environmental movements. Then, when Chernobyl hit, West Germany enacted restrictions in daily life to cope with the risk of radioactive fallout and contamination. The daily experience of many Germans was probably not too dissimilar from the Covid time. (The restrictions were less severe but the mood was similarly apocalyptic)

This experience made a nuclear-free Germany an absolute core part of the progressive movement here. It's part of the founding story of the Greens.

Other flashpoints were plans for "eternal storage" facilities for nuclear waste. The conflict around the Gorleben facility was going on between government and local population for several decades and had given rise to entire protest communities.

It's a partisan topic like maybe abortion in the US.

The only aspect of Merkel's decision that was surprising was that she did it. She seemingly switched political sides and enacted several parts of the progressive agenda (also gay marriage and "wir schaffen das" - the famously liberal stance on refugees) - as head of the conservative party. Her party and voting base were not happy with that...
by tptacek | 2025-08-27 21:25:05+00:00
You claimed that "searches do not have as much protection" within (paraphrased) "the 100 mile zone". This is false, though it is something ACLU has repeatedly claimed (and which it now clarifies is false in its current guidance). Let's just start there.

Your own cites back up what I'm saying (as does the ACLU now) so I'm not going to find you new cites; start by rereading the ones you provided.
by miki123211 | 2025-08-27 21:25:46+00:00
Is there even such a thing as a "Mississippi IP?"

I.E. Are US ISPs, particularly big ones like Comcast, required to geolocate ISPs to the state where the person is actually in? What about mobile ones?

Where I live (not US), it is extremely common to get an IP that Maxmind geolocates to a region far from where you actually live.
by hopelite | 2025-08-27 21:26:12+00:00
I don’t see how, but the people trying to implement total control of speech, thought, and communication in America are a diabolical and crafty bunch that will likely try putting someone through the wringer for that one day.

The end game here is total control and awareness of who is saying what at any time, in order to allow those messages to be thwarted.
by gadsentz | 2025-08-27 21:26:16+00:00
In the past, Chromebooks were seen mainly as affordable laptops built for browsing, note-taking, and light productivity. But times have changed. With the rise of cloud computing, Android app integration, and web-based tools, Chromebooks have grown into versatile machines capable of handling more demanding tasks including video editing. Whether you’re a student working on a class project, a YouTuber editing vlogs, or a professional looking for portable editing solutions, there are now plenty of video editing software options for Chromebook that deliver solid performance.
by arghwhat | 2025-08-27 21:26:17+00:00
> Expats often chose their location based on such factors.

You're not answering the question I wrote. Recreational or investment properties in foreign countries, i.e. not a peron's only property in their home country.

Expats pick a country to live and work in. They don't get to pick different countries for income tax, for property tax, for company tax, etc., like a billionaire being a US citizen with a swiss bank account, luxemburg company, luxury vacation homes in e.g., gated communities in Morocco.

(Also note that this isn't a discussion of just property tax, but billionaires avoiding tax in general.)

> Good luck finding someone who actually pays zero property tax on US land they own

Observe the point above - US citizens owning land in foreign countries.

Also, US citizens paying way less by severely misreporting and paying people to look the other way, like the earlier example.

> Comparing wealthy taxation is only meaningful based on percentages.

All taxes should be fixed, unavoidable percentages yes, that is my original argument. Progressive tax doesn't fix things because it doesn't hit the ultra wealthy like people think, as those evade the flippin' thing anyway. Deal with the corruption and evasion, get some proper (and fixed) rates to apply to their business, and you won't need complex progressive tax systems.
by chatmasta | 2025-08-27 21:27:14+00:00
Yeah, it does say “Do you want to grant Terminal.app access to ~/Documents?”

I agree this should be more granular to the actual process/binary attempting the access. Or at least there should be an option like on iOS, to grant access but “just this once.” That way you know it’s the program you just ran, but you aren’t granting access to any program you execute in the terminal in perpetuity.

But I’ve yet to grant it since I treat that prompt as an indication I should move the files I’m trying to access into a different directory.
by nayajunimesh | 2025-08-27 21:27:50+00:00
Hey, I did some benchmarks if you're interested - benchmarks results are in the README.md.

https://github.com/nimeshnayaju/zod (Fork of Zod's repo which already included benchmarks comparing Zod 4 against Zod 3, so I simply integrated my validation library)

https://github.com/nimeshnayaju/valibot-benchmarks (An unofficial benchmark suggested in another comment comparing Valibot against Zod)
by dcre | 2025-08-27 21:28:46+00:00
To me this (coupled with their DeltaDB announcement[0]) feels like Zed trying to get out of the business that Cursor is in, and maybe even kicking them on the way out, if the protocol helps bring-your-own-agent take off. These agent tools are already not particularly sticky, especially when they are outside the editor. I don't use Cursor or Zed full time, but I have heard that the most compelling bit is the tab completion, which isn't even part of the agent stuff. I'm sure it's nice, but it's very hard to imagine that being a moat for an editor.

I think I agree with the implicit judgment from the Zed team that it's too early to try to lock people in and capture value, and the best way to build long-term user loyalty is to just be the best editor and let people work however they want to work. On top of that, it is not a great use of their dev time to iterate on the details of an agentic coding tool when there are 10 other ones doing the same thing, and any prompting secret sauce a) is trivial to copy, and b) gets eaten by the next model generation anyway.

I don't really understand what Cursor's business model is supposed to be long term -- at least Zed is trying to come up with new things that an editor can be (see their chat ideas and now source control). On the other hand, I also don't buy the argument some have made that Cursor and friends were banking on the marginal cost of inference going to zero, keeping prices at $20 a month, and pocketing the difference. It seems obvious (even a year ago, but moreso now) that in that situation, the IDEs also compete down to zero. If anything, higher total inference spend has to be better for them: more to skim off of. If you're already spending $50 a month on LLM tooling, Cursor doesn't have to be that big of a value-add to get you to pay them $52 instead.

[0]: https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-o...
by kiitos | 2025-08-27 21:28:59+00:00
maybe step back and think about what this targeted, repeated, deeply meticulous sequence of challenges to this very narrow topic of conversation is communicating about you, and is achieving in the net sense

is this the right application of your time and energy? perhaps that time and energy is more usefully spent fighting against the actively malicious current US political administration, than deconstructing arguments in that same vein?
by next_xibalba | 2025-08-27 21:29:34+00:00
Apparently, U.S. statutory and case law establish that a business has an "economic nexus" in a state can be made subject to that state's laws. An economic nexus doesn't require a physical presence, just sufficient economic activity. Sufficient economic activity is usually defined, by each state, according to revenue or volume of transactions. Another test for an economic nexus is something called purposeful availment, which is whether a business is targeting the residents of a jurisdiction. So it seems like, "Are you intentionally selling to Missouri residents?"

To enforce all this, states can sue companies and they can take steps to ensure companies can't do business in their state (so like maybe force ISPs to block Dreamwidth?).
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-27 21:29:48+00:00
You can't "elevate" state criminal charges to federal charges, though the state can simply seek your extradition (which, if the receiving state resists, the federal courts can enforce, because it is a Constitutional obligation).

(It is possible for state charges existing to make other actions federal crimes, though, e.g., there is a federal crime of interstate travel to avoid prosecution, service of process, or appearance as a witness. But state charges themselves can't get "bumped up" to the federal level.)
by CyberDildonics | 2025-08-27 21:30:26+00:00
C++ has a runtime (however minimal);

No it doesn't.

Also, even if there was no associated runtime to deal with, C++ isn't wholly C-FFI-clean

Yes it is, you just extern "C" whatever you want.

All the stuff that people like about C++ — all the reasons you'd want to use C++ — result in codebases that aren't cleanly C-FFI exposable

Not true at all, the biggest two things, destructors and move semantics you still have everywhere except for the boundaries with C.

And even if you bite that bullet, and write your library in C++ but carefully wrap its API to give it C-FFI-clean linkage (usually via a hybrid C / C++ project), this still introduces a layer of FFI runtime overhead

There is no overhead here, it is not different from C.

I don't know where all this comes from, but I doubt it comes from heavy experience with modern C++.
by etler | 2025-08-27 21:30:56+00:00
I think there is a need for the AI counseling use case, but it should not be provided by a general purpose AI assistant. It should be designed by professional psychologists and therapists, with greater safeguards like human check-ins to make sure users get the help they need.

The best way to stop this is to make those safeguards stronger and completely shut down the chat to refer users to seek help from a better service. Unfortunately those services don't really exist yet.

There would be false positives and that'll be annoying, but I think it's worth it to deal with some annoyance to ensure that general purpose AI assistants are not used for counseling people in a vulnerable mental state. They are not aligned to do that and they can easily be misaligned.
by latexr | 2025-08-27 21:30:58+00:00
I initially tried, but your whole comment is one big slippery slope salad so I had to stop or else I’d be commenting every line and that felt absurd.

For example, you’re extrapolating one family making a complaint to a world of “full safetyism / scapegoating”. You also claim it would cause “significantly less safety and far more harm”, which you don’t know. In that same vein you extrapolate into “kids being banned from AI apps” or “forced” (forced!) “to have their parents access and read all AI chats”. Then you go full on into how that will drive them into Discord servers where they’ll “egg each other on to commit suicide” as if that’s the one thing teenagers on Discord do.

And on, and on. I hope it’s clear why I found it pointless to address your specific points. I’m not being figurative when I say I’d have to reproduce your own comment in full.
by petralithic | 2025-08-27 21:31:39+00:00
It depends what the copycat was thinking, maybe they wanted to follow in Pollock's footsteps, maybe they wanted to showcase the point you're making, whether a copycat is as good as the real thing and therefore also considered art, perhaps even as important (apprentices often copied their masters, such as da Vinci's), maybe they are just creating it because it looks good. If there's no other reasoning, then I'd still say they're the same, because how can one say they're not art too? Even as an observer of the art, what if I like the copycat more? These are all open questions to the philosophy of art and I'm glad it's accessible today to everyone rather than only to the historically abled.