MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-14 14:29:52+00:00
God revealing himself as weak by human standards is a core experience of Christianity. Christianity/Judaism is (according to my knowledge) the only religion where not humans are seeking God, but God seeks to connect with humans. The whole bible, old and new testaments are stories where people sometimes care about God, most times run away from God, but always God running circles to meet the people again.

That is the reason why Christianity is news-worthy. People wouldn't run around the world to tell you that God is that detached monarch who likes to govern humans. That's a concept a lot of cultures already had.

That doesn't mean God is "weak". It means applying human concepts to God just doesn't make sense. He will always be greater and above them.

> not see the absolute madness it implies

They absolutely agree with you there. That's why "they" flip out. That's what "they" find so important to tell you: absolute madness being true.
by RobAtticus | 2025-08-14 14:29:55+00:00
While true, there is another nuance missing here. The deficit was higher in 2020 & 2021 due to the Covid stimulus spending. Looking at 2017-2019 for Trump and 2022-2024 for Biden probably gives a fairer picture of what happened during both presidencies. It's basically been an upward trend since 2015, excluding the Covid outliers.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-14 14:30:32+00:00
There's no longer a blanket ban, but there are still obstacles:

* Mastercard and Visa don't allow debit card surcharges, even if the transaction is run as "credit".

* American Express only allows surcharges if they also apply to all other forms of card payment. This includes debit cards, which interacts problematically with the previous rule; if you want to do a card surcharge while accepting all three card brands and remaining compliant with all their rules, you have to apply it only to Mastercard and Visa and not American Express, even though American Express is the most expensive.

* Several states still don't allow card surcharges, and others don't allow merchants to profit from surcharging (which makes it hard to advertise a uniform surcharge) or have regulations about how prices have to be listed if a surcharge is going to apply.

Rules like these don't make it impossible to do surcharges while remaining compliant, but they make it significantly harder than it'd otherwise be. I think this is the primary reason why most merchants still don't do them. (Well, that and that their competitors don't, but that could explain either equilibrium.)
by lan321 | 2025-08-14 14:30:32+00:00
That was my disclaimer, but I do prefer, regardless of what works on GrapheneOS, having a QR in my invoice letters. You could shine a light on the envelope and likely read it without opening, but having anyone be able to touch their phone to the envelope to see I owe Y$ to X sounds worse. It's also nice in email since there's less to copy over, and my PC doesn't have NFC.

I'd only prefer to have NFC over QR for in-store payment, and I transact way less money per month in-store.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-14 14:30:44+00:00
Here in Sweden what organizations are engaged in terrorism is up the courts and the government has no right to intervene at all to proscribe a group, with EU and other political terrorism designations being irrelevant.

Furthermore, I think that there is a duty, if one suspects that a capability is or may be used to aid genocide, to destroy that capability. Hopefully Palestine Action are incorrect, and targeting assets that have not been used to aid genocide or otherwise make it easier, but if they are right and the UK have actually aided genocide, then they have done too little violence.
by neutronicus | 2025-08-14 14:30:44+00:00
Yep, subsets of circles.

Users can specify them by three points on the perimeter, by tangents at endpoints (up to 180deg of course), with various other conveniences (you can place two tangent arc or bezier vertices in a row and create an implicit g1 interface between the two arc / bezier segments).

Constraint solvers are good at circles and you can offset them analytically so they make a lot of sense for CAD.

I can't really say this rigorously but I also think that Bezier segments and circle segments are good "partners" for approximating smooth curves - each has just enough degrees of freedom for you to require g1 continuity between them, one of them always has constant non-zero curvature, the other cannot have constant non-zero curvature, and the locality aspect matches the intuition of a human operator.
by adrai | 2025-08-14 14:31:06+00:00
The team at Convex is building an awesome product. You're right that you can absolutely achieve real-time functionality with Convex, but we think about the problem with a different philosophy and focus.

The way we see it, it comes down to the level of abstraction and what problem you're trying to solve:

Convex is a powerful, full-featured backend platform. It gives you a database, serverless functions (mutations and queries), and file storage. It's a fantastic choice if you're looking to build your entire backend on a modern, reactive stack. You write your logic in server-side functions, and Convex provides the infrastructure.

Vaultrice aims to be a simpler, more focused real-time component that often requires no backend code from you at all. Our goal is to feel like a frontend tool—like a "cloud-based localStorage".

The key difference is in the developer experience:

With Vaultrice, for things like cross-domain state sharing or a simple "who's online" list, you just instantiate our SDK on the client with your credentials and start using it. There are no backend functions to write. Our SyncObject API, where you just modify a JavaScript object and it syncs, is designed to completely abstract away the server.

So, a good way to think about it might be:

Choose Convex when: You need a complete backend replacement, with server-side logic, schema validation, and complex queries.

Choose Vaultrice when: You already have a backend (or don't want one for this feature) and you just need to drop in a real-time, cross-domain state layer with a dead-simple, frontend-friendly API.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-14 14:31:27+00:00
> Over the years I have read a few articles or blogs

Without linking the blogs or articles it’s hard to say much.

Inflation is a topic that attracts a lot of quackery. There are a lot of blogs and websites that go viral from time to time with claims that the “true” inflation number is dramatically higher.

There is a quick reality check you should run whenever you encounter these claims: Take the claimed inflation number over a period of time and calculate the net multiple. Then run a reality check on something like a $500,000 house or a $5 hamburger.

There’s one prolific website and author who claims the “true” inflation rate is some number like 11% going back decades. If you do the math, that means something purchased 50 years ago in 1975 would cost 185 times less. A $1,000,000 home today would have been $5,400 in 1975 and a $5 hamburger today would have been less than $0.03. Obviously these numbers don’t work, so you can discard the author’s claim.

Actual inflation numbers over long periods are very sensitive to small changes due to compounding. Even over a 10 year period. When you see someone claiming dramatically different results, run a quick math check.

Also be careful for the cherry pickers: They’ll identify one or two outlier year-over-year jumps (eggs during COVID, home prices during a housing rush, insurance prices in a city after a fire) and try to use those as their basis.
by Lendal | 2025-08-14 14:32:22+00:00
That's what tariffs do though. If you have a product that competes with another that now costs more due to tariffs, you're now free to raise your prices as well, in order to maximize profit. Your product may not have a tariff, but it does have greedy shareholders that see that they can now raise their earnings because competitors suddenly aren't so competitive anymore.

Try going on a shareholder earnings call. They're free. It's company executives trying to impress shareholders. It's the only place I've ever heard people brag about how much they've raised their prices.
by btilly | 2025-08-14 14:32:37+00:00
There is a lot of evidence that engaging emotionally with literature will shift people's values. In a way that engaging with intellectual ideas does not.

These are not just literary classics, they carry a specific culture forward. People whose values are threatened by that culture need to not engage with them. They do so by finding things to be offended by in the books. In many cases the offence is perfectly genuine. It is caused by cognitive dissonance, and not cynical manipulation.

That doesn't make it less frustrating. But understanding why people have trouble with these works helps build empathy for them. And empathy is necessary to present your points in a way that is persuasive to their views. Yelling in anger at them is easy. Actually changing their minds is far harder. And it does require trying to understand.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-14 14:33:12+00:00
The bible is a crucial piece of literature reference. Pretty much every literary piece written before the middle of the 20th century assumed that their reader was also intimately familiar with the bible.

For example, a writer could call a woman a "Jezebel" without any expository context, assuming that the reader would know what that meant.

Thus the bible should be in every high school and higher education library.
by idohlevi | 2025-08-14 14:33:39+00:00
It's a real Tamagotchi that needs regular care - feed it, play with it, clean it, or it gets sad. The twist? It watches your coding

sessions and reacts to what you're doing. It'll share thoughts like "That's a lot of TODO comments..." or get tired when you've been debugging for hours.

The more you code, the hungrier it gets. Take breaks to play with it. Let it sleep when you're done for the day. It's surprisingly good at making you more aware of your coding marathons.

Your pet lives at the bottom of Claude Code, breathing and thinking alongside you while you work. It has idle animations, reacts to your

actions, and develops its own personality based on how you treat it. Watch it celebrate when you're productive or get grumpy when neglected.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-14 14:33:48+00:00
Yes, that’s why I prefaced my comment with “technically.” To claim Biden grew the deficit, you would have to explain that COVID was some sort of exception and then argue that it still grew in spirit (rather than technically).

Although without COVID Trump was definitely still on track to have significantly raised the deficit since it was falling in most years under Obama compared to 2008/2009 (before COVID he grew the deficit significantly with his first round of tax cuts, just like he just did with the big beautiful bill), and it isn’t clear that Biden would have diverged from Obama without COVID around.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-08-14 14:33:57+00:00
> these bans were made in bad faith

It's possible that the worst of these bans were done in strategic bad faith in partnership with the plaintiffs: to provide standing and legal cause for the plaintiffs to sue.

There may have been bans made that were reasonable but politically one-sided (perhaps an illustrated kamasutra, just to give an example), and the strategy to re-establish them was a sort of reverse motte-and-bailey -- get things that are far more innocent banned in a bid to sue and reverse all bans.
by abtinf | 2025-08-14 14:34:12+00:00
Certainly. So would materials expenses and theft and insurance and so forth.

But the confusion is that somehow, money not spent on “salaries and compensation” doesn’t go to people. All of it goes to people.

Defense spending isn’t buying “defense”, it’s buying time and effort for people to focus on and produce defense related things. This is the root of the original post that defense spending is a jobs program.
by raphlinus | 2025-08-14 14:34:23+00:00
There's a new game in town for portable, multiversioned Rust SIMD: fearless_simd. It's still early days (we're gearing up for an 0.2 release soon), but we are using it very successfully to accelerate rendering algorithms in vello_cpu and vello_hybrid. I believe it represents the best compromise on stable Rust today. We're not saying it's ready for production use yet, but I encourage people exploring this space to try it and give us feedback on how well it works.

There's also a big discussion to be had about how the Rust language might more natively support SIMD. There are some hacks in fearless_simd to work around limitations in the language (especially relying on inlining as load-bearing), and it would be excellent to make that more robust. But the best path forward is not obvious.

[1] https://github.com/linebender/fearless_simd
by jwally | 2025-08-14 14:34:33+00:00
This is the key to everything in the US right now I feel. Laws exist, but they're not being enforced or are difficult to enforce legally.

This lets people at the top do whatever now since the eventual consequences (if any) are way out in the future and punitive to the gains they get now.

Its like being a bank robber with a Ferrari when the cops are stuck using horse-and-buggies.
by bluGill | 2025-08-14 14:34:41+00:00
I would say you have a responsibility to ensure you are getting legal data. you don't buy stolen things. That is meta has a reponsibility to ensure that they are not partnering with crooks. Flo gets the largest blame but meta needs to show they did their part to ensure this didn't happen. (I would not call terms of use enough unless they can show they make you understand it)
by tomjakubowski | 2025-08-14 14:35:44+00:00
> It even starts at their high schools with super unhealthy ham and cheese sandwhiches and what not

What do you mean, Europeans don't eat jambon-beurre?

Wikipedia:

> More than three million jambon-beurre sandwiches are sold in France each day, more than any other kind of sandwich, except for hamburgers.
by ivape | 2025-08-14 14:36:18+00:00
Because it’s getting bad. I’ve dealt with overpriced pizza where they try to save money on the sauce and cheese. They are beginning to nickel and dime customers the way banks and the tech industry engineer margins and fees.

I called some of these places and had to tell them to stop scamming customers. Fuck that, I’m buying a pizza oven.
by thisisit | 2025-08-14 14:36:25+00:00
5 years ago I was researching the iOS app ecosystem. As part of that exercise I was looking at the potential revenue figures for some free apps.

One developer had a free app to track some child health data. It was long time ago so I don't remember the exact data being collected. But when asked about the economics of his free app, the developer felt confident about a big pay day.

As per him the app's worth was in the data being collected. I don't know what happened to the app but it seemed that app developers know what they are doing when they invade privacy of their users - under the guise of "free" app. After that I became very conscious about disabling as many permissions as possible and especially not using apps to store any personal data, especially health data.
by gosub100 | 2025-08-14 14:36:39+00:00
Same thing the far left does on college campuses. They just do it under the guise of victimhood with terms like "assault" being used to describe someone speaking an unpopular opinion. If the school book wars said the kids were "assaulted" by this "hate speech" would that make it okay? Is that what they are missing is someone feigning victimhood?
by Someone | 2025-08-14 14:36:40+00:00
> And since a lot of devs are lazy (let’s be real), they’ll directly paste whatever they get from the platform.

If so, there will be a zillion slightly different ways to do foo in the code base. I don’t see how that would decrease bloat.

Asking the LLM to reduce code duplication might help a bit, but (call me a pessimist) I think it will introduce subtle bugs, too.
by jjice | 2025-08-14 14:37:48+00:00
I see what you mean, but I believe that's more so directed towards the massive scale businesses. Companies that get measured in billions and not millions.

At a smaller scale (the majority of business, but maybe not the majority of revenue), that existing wealth and power is often much smaller and eliminating competition is much less feasible.

Like a local coffee shop, for example. Or a small industry specific software company.

Maybe they matter less in the grand scheme, but they're still a big part of things.

But I do agree with the idea that VC subsidized services to then grip the market and wring them later seem counter productive to a "free market".
by mendelmaleh | 2025-08-14 14:37:50+00:00
In 2022 I scraped the current prices for things I bought on amazon the year before, and got a 7% increase.

Unfortunately amazon stopped providing order reports recently...

``` $ inflation -y 2021 -f items.csv 86 successful items, 30 failed items 2256.76 total 2021 2427.62 total now +170.86 (+7%) difference ```
by komali2 | 2025-08-14 14:38:00+00:00
Aaaagh! I feel your frustration but I myself am frustrated at this dance Americans still play at that there are constitutionalists there, or people interested in "maintaining the institutions" or "free speech." There are only two kinds of politicians in America: neoliberals who are looking for opportunities to commodify the State or people in it, and fascists (or baby fascists) interested in achieving Christian nationalist or white nationalist goals by any means necessary.

Even the word "libertarian" doesn't mean "anarchist" in America as it does everywhere else, to refer to the most far-left you take take political ideology. Instead it refers to a deeply right-wing ideology obsessed with corporatocracy.
by xphos | 2025-08-14 14:38:09+00:00
I don't think the administration is taking positive steps combat inflation they basically received an economy at 3% and stayed at 3% inflation. Which is above the Fed target of 2%.

Now you might ask why the Fed targets 2% and not 0% and that's because a world where inflation is 0% is brutal for debtors which is basically everyone. The fact that inflations occurs basically guarantees that people who don't over leverage won't be stuck in perpetual debt. That means people can take out loans, start companies and buy equipment to grow the economy. If we had 0% inflation all of that activity becomes much harder.

Another way to see it is:

If you have mortgage inflation comes of the liability of that debt since inflation is not just inflating all the bad parts but all the parts of the economy. And de-risks investment mostly because debt is in nominal terms. Now you cannot have rabid inflation but its not just as though anything above 0% inflation is bad.
by jeffreysmith | 2025-08-14 14:38:23+00:00
Howdy, HN. Authors here. We got tired of text-to-image leaderboards that only focus on aesthetics, so we built our own benchmarks to test what matters for real work: fidelity to complex prompts, safety, bias, and IP infringement.

We analyzed 18 models and found that no single model is good at everything. For example, GPT-4o has the best safety guardrails but also a 98% IP infringement rate on celebrity likenesses. Google's Imagen 4 Ultra actively counters bias (e.g., 90% of its "CEOs" are female) but struggles with generating crowds. X AI's Grok 2 blocks almost nothing.

Lots more detail in the post. We'll be here all day to answer questions.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-14 14:38:24+00:00
Well... it is nice to get some good news on this front but I can't shake that this is likely short lived given the federal government right now...

There is less and less any reason for them to try to hide their true intentions and can just be more open with their blatant racism, sexism, homophobia, etc etc.

Side note: was quite surprised to see a reference to Cloud Atlas. While not surprised given the entire point of that book, it makes me wonder how much these people are actually reading these books and what that looks like.
by nyc_data_geek1 | 2025-08-14 14:38:31+00:00
I had a rather unsettling thought occur to me the other day.

There are many people in this world, to whom truth and reality are fungible, malleable, unimportant things in the face of their agendas. These same people are overrepresented at the highest rungs of the corporate ladder, in the highest echelons of the halls of power in our world.

For them, right 70% of the time is more than good enough, because that which is real has always taken a back seat to that which is expedient.

So what if the Plagiarism Engine spews Confidently Stated Bullshit 30% of the time? They themselves do that at least as often, and for far more than the cost of what LLM's demand per call. Besides, they're so used to "perception=reality" that they figure for the 30% Confidently Stated Bullshit, they can just paper over it, bully, disconcert and repeat until reality matches their expedient bullshit.

The sad thing is, so much of our economy and society is based on bullshit and scams now, they may not be wrong. In fact, they're probably right, for at least a significant percentage of the populace who believes chemtrails are making the frogs gay etc.

I suspect some very hard lessons will need to be learned from disciplines where rigor is required 100% of the time, else lives are lost, and lives will be lost, because the business idiots will continue to shoehorn this garbage in everywhere they possibly can, to sustain the hype cycle bullshit they're all cashing in on. Only once many lives have been lost, and the link conclusively drawn to the garbage spewed by these statistical wordcloud predictive autocorrect machines, then we might see a modicum of forceful pushback. But I ain't holding my breath
by basilgohar | 2025-08-14 14:38:37+00:00
No other country has this many of its citizens working in such key roles, and Israeli nationals have a noted history of spying for Israel in the US. Their high degree of presence especially in Cybersecurity firms (which US Government contractors make heavy use of) is particularly alarming. With the growing disapproval of the American public towards Israel, they will utilize their influence in these American companies towards working in their favor despite the shift in public opinion.