MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-08-14 14:39:49+00:00
Lol, of course the Bible is always OK, but you can find much worse.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. – Genesis 19:33–36. And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee. Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. – 2 Samuel 13:11–14 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. - Isaiah 13:16. And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. - Ezekiel 23:11-21 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. – Numbers 31:18

It's OK because there's no gay stuff. Just good old fashioned heterosexual rape and incest, as God intended.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-14 14:39:51+00:00
I think that wouldn't be too foreign to anybody who has worked for a while in Rust? It's definitely more compact and expressive than the Rust equivalent, though.

This doesn't look or feel all that different to me:

enum Expr { Const(f64), Var(String), Sum(Box<Expr>, Box<Expr>), Diff(Box<Expr>, Box<Expr>), Prod(Box<Expr>, Box<Expr>), Quot(Box<Expr>, Box<Expr>), } fn print_expr(exp: &Expr) { fn open_paren(prec: i32, op_prec: i32) { if prec > op_prec { print!("("); } } fn close_paren(prec: i32, op_prec: i32) { if prec > op_prec { print!(")"); } } fn print_rec(prec: i32, exp: &Expr) { match exp { Expr::Const(c) => print!("{}", c), Expr::Var(v) => print!("{}", v), Expr::Sum(f, g) => { open_paren(prec, 0); print_rec(0, f); print!(" + "); print_rec(0, g); close_paren(prec, 0); } Expr::Diff(f, g) => { open_paren(prec, 0); print_rec(0, f); print!(" - "); print_rec(1, g); close_paren(prec, 0); } Expr::Prod(f, g) => { open_paren(prec, 2); print_rec(2, f); print!(" * "); print_rec(2, g); close_paren(prec, 2); } Expr::Quot(f, g) => { open_paren(prec, 2); print_rec(2, f); print!(" / "); print_rec(3, g); close_paren(prec, 2); } } } print_rec(0, exp); }
by Aurornis | 2025-08-14 14:39:51+00:00
> Currently that university's tuition is 80,000 a year.

University tuition is a known example of an extreme inflation outlier. The cause is also known: The availability of loan dollars and the laws preventing their discharge in bankruptcy.

Tuition figures are also misleading because almost nobody pays that number. The tuition number is the maximum possible amount someone could pay without financial assistance, but when you look at the numbers you would be surprised to see that often 80% or more of students have some financial assistance. At many universities now, students with families below certain income levels have tuition adjusted down to $0.

You can’t judge university prices by the number on the website any more.
by kelipso | 2025-08-14 14:40:48+00:00
I remember a while ago there was a small computer vision wiki that was very useful and somewhat widely used, not that many computer vision people at the time. Then, after around 2010 they decided to move the wiki to Wikipedia. You can guess what happened, original wiki was gone, very few articles survived because, of course, it's Wikipedia. A great resource just gone.
by keybored | 2025-08-14 14:41:31+00:00
> Have a large part of the population always been susceptible to insane conspiracies and psychosis or is this recent phenomenon?

I read this more like a question biased towards “yes” because there is nothing supporting it.

> The feels less of a ChatGPT problem and something more is at play.

Even if the begged-for answer is true... both things can be true. And on the specific topic of LLMs you can find ways to solve that particular problem which reduces the overall problem. Because if the root problem is “stupid people” or “naive people” or whatever else: you get less accidents if you make the territory less booby trapped.

But these rhetorical topic changers—if they are indulged instead of being interrupted—tend not to approach any fruitful discussion. And that’s despite whatever intentions that the original poster had. Because the side topic then either turns towards arguing for or against the premise. Or else the premise is accepted and all we get are aw-shucks grandiose statements about how human nature is so-and-so and that etc. etc. some subset of the population will just get bamboozled anyway and technology is irrelevant and fin conversation.

Yes despite the intentions of the OP who might have indeed wanted to “broaden the conversation”. Because (1) this particular topic can’t be analyzed when things are generalized so aggressively, and (2) that’s just how this misanthropic community acts on these topics. In aggregate.
by monkeyelite | 2025-08-14 14:41:42+00:00
That’s because consumer inflation is subjective. You can choose which goods and data point represent personal experience.

As you well know the government uses “hedonic adjustment” which is when they say a car in 2025 is so much better that a car in 1980 that higher prices should be reduced to reflect that better good.

A different model is that you need A car to participate in society so even if it’s better we just raised to the cost to exist.
by snvzz | 2025-08-14 14:41:58+00:00
There's about one way[0] to fix timing side channels.

The RISC-V ISA has an effort to standardize a timing fence[1][2], to take care of this once and for all.

0. https://tomchothia.gitlab.io/Papers/EuroSys19.pdf

1. https://lf-riscv.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TFXX/pages/538379...

2. https://sel4.org/Summit/2024/slides/hardware-support.pdf
by achempion | 2025-08-14 14:42:46+00:00
I would encourage you to read about the Edward Snowden guy and the PRISM program on wikipedia and most recent attempts of EU to ban the encryption.

Also, here is what Pavel Durov mentioned recently in interview to Tucker Carlson

> In the US you have a process that allows the government to actually force any engineer in any tech company to implement a backdoor and not tell anyone about it with using this process called the gag order.

It doesn't matter what anyone claims on the landing page. Assume if it's stored somewhere, it'll get leaked eventually and the transitioning/hosting government already has an access and decryption keys.
by Levitz | 2025-08-14 14:43:23+00:00
Aren't public schools part of government? This looks like a bizarre state of affairs to me if the government can't regulate speech from the government.

Say someone in the police department takes the public stance, as a police officer, that black people are subhuman degenerates, is any pushback from the government a first amendment issue? Note this is an ideological stance and doesn't involve any of their duties.

EDIT: I should have done better than to comment this without the very relevant input from the article. Better late than never I guess:

>A second key component of this ruling is on whether or not regulating books in school libraries constituted “government speech.” Officials for the state argued that they were empowered to make decisions about the materials in those collections because it constituted “government speech” and thus, was not subject to the First Amendment.

>Judge Mendoza disagreed.

>“*A blanket content-based prohibition on materials, rather than one based on individualized curation, hardly expresses any intentional government message at all.* Slapping the label of government speech on book removals only serves to stifle the disfavored viewpoints,” he wrote. While parents have the right to object to “direct the upbringing and education of children,” the government cannot then “repackage their speech and pass it off as its own.”

Emphasis mine. This is frankly even weirder to me. If the government made a blanket, content-based prohibition of any material with a black character, that wouldn't express any intentional government message at all? Really?
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-14 14:43:29+00:00
> "the pro Linux distribution" i.e. not beginner friendly, but secretly still easy enough that you don't need much effort.

That's a common perception of Debian, perhaps even more than Arch. One difference being that Debian actually has a lot of notable use in production. It's also just as stable as any "LTS" distro, which is a welcome convenience for many beginners as well as more experienced users.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-14 14:43:46+00:00
I feel like I have done a somewhat decent job of trying to keep some of that childlike wonder in my own life, even just not abandoning things that I love like video games, watching anime, the occasional cartoon.

I do wonder in practice how this really works for making friends, once you leave camp there is now a distance limitation.

But I have long wondered about the idea of recreating some of the experiences from childhood as adults. Things like camp, maybe going to a "day care", or other things to just not think about all of the stress of life for a little bit.

Sure we have things like going to Disney, amusement parks, adult oriented arcades like Dave and Busters. But as fun as those are they are not really replicating the childhood experience like this seems to do and other things that could be made similar.
by compsciphd | 2025-08-14 14:43:49+00:00
1) you don't need to amend the constitution. The constition just requires proportional seats in the house per size of state, how those seats get allocated isn't defined by the consititution. It's currently defined by federal law (i.e. congress has the ability to define it) and is defined as single district voting. That can easily change if congress (i.e. the people) wanted it to

2) as others have noted, there's no reason we even need districts under the constitution. Just let people vote for a party and divide the seats that way. I did the math after the previous election and if we divided each states seats by the way they voted for president, california would have a lot more republican seats, but the republicans would still control the house with a smaller margin overall.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-14 14:43:51+00:00
Just my opinion (but I did work in the defense industry from 1974 to 1998), but I just don’t believe the published ~ 800 billion defense spending numbers. A few presidents ago, the chairman of the joint chiefs publicly said that 7 trillion in military spending is unaccounted for.

Also, I admit to getting much of my information from professor Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, an economist.

I took an online economics class from Wharton business school, specifically on the economics of globalization. Fascinating stuff.

Anecdotal, but as a hobby for the last 20 years, I enjoy comparing the coverage of major news and economics stories in USA vs. other countries.
by lukas099 | 2025-08-14 14:43:57+00:00
I don't agree. If I dig a hole in my yard and find a huge chunk of gold, when I sell it very little of what I charge will be for my labor.

Also, even if you're right, the "salaries and compensation" of anyone outside the U.S. are effectively NOT that, since the thing in question is whether defense spending is mostly a jobs program.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-14 14:44:12+00:00
I used public transportation less when it was free here in Seattle because it felt less safe. The buses have improved a lot since Seattle started enforcing fare collection again, and a few dollars isn’t much compared to not getting stabbed by some drug addict having a fent crisis.

Switzerland is different though: you know the police aren’t going to put up with crap at all (and they will arrive fairly quickly if there is an incident), so free could really work. Although I was never tempted to drive while living in Switzerland (in the next city over from Geneva). I don’t think free works in the USA however.
by rich_sasha | 2025-08-14 14:45:13+00:00
I mean, that's a bit of a simplistic take. I'm all for accountability for politicians, but a lot of inflation does kind of happen on it's own.

The biggest inflation shock of recent era was Russian invasion of Ukraine. And, fine, that didn't "just" happen, but hard to blame Western politicians for it. Western governments had to make a choice between inflation and security. You might disagree with the choice, but it's a balance.

Further, inflation and growth are largely affected by a single lever, central bank rates, and making growth better makes inflation worse, in general. Central banks (mostly) diligently try to walk the right path. Of course I'm not referring to cases where politicians just say, hey you there Independent Central Bank Head, lower rates or else. But that case is an exception.

Then, salaries may or may not keep up with inflation. Inflation is generally bad, as businesses have a hard time lowering notional salaries - but they can more easily not increase them with inflation. But as a strict matter they can do it anyway and labour force can get screwed if they don't hold enough bargaining power.

So I would say that largely, yes, inflation does just happen, and it can be exacerbated by some degree (none to massively) by bad politics. But I think to say it's always just bad government is not right.
by CalRobert | 2025-08-14 14:45:15+00:00
Agreed, but in terms of moving around a similar land mass, an even bigger economy, integrated currency, etc the comparison seems reasonable. If anything the US has more freedom in that sense, at least on paper. I don’t need to register with the gemeente when I move interstate. (Though I’d likely need a new drivers licence)

Also, for better or for worse it helps that almost everyone speaks English everywhere.
by Chris2048 | 2025-08-14 14:45:16+00:00
It looks like many of them now live outside Belarus; should have changed their names, and/or fired any slavic nationals?

* Dmitry Gurski; CEO

* Tamara Orlova; CFO

* Anna Klepchukova; Chief Medical Officer

* Kate Romanovskaia; Chief Brand & Communications Officer

* Joëlle Barthel; Director of Brand Marketing

* Nick Lisher (British); Chief Marketing Officer
by epistasis | 2025-08-14 14:46:26+00:00
I'm asking about "absolutist" and it's meaning. You replied with something different, about which books should or should not be in a school library.

What does "absolutist" mean to you if you think that limits to what's in a library are a "good idea"?

Remember, I'm not talking about whether there should be limits or not, I'm asking about your self-description of "absolutist" and why absolutism still has fuzzy definitions of what is allowed or not.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-08-14 14:46:31+00:00
I have no issue with GNU, Linux or Debian. The opposite, I am postulating that we would all be better if every one worked on those instead of creating yet another distro or grep clone, even if they provide their creators with satisfaction.

As for ensuring - how it is, that in 2025 AD we have more FOSS projects than ever, yet your typical computer user has less freedom and privacy than, let's say, in 2000 AD?
by FredPret | 2025-08-14 14:48:13+00:00
I agree with your points. It's ridiculous to suggest Americans don't have freedom of movement. The US economy is actually roughly double that of the EU.

But European countries are much more different from one another than the States are. I think it's actually quite a challenge to doing business there - growing into another country means you have to appeal to a very different culture, deal with different laws, speak a different language.

The US states have their differences but there's a reason they're part of the same nation.
by ryanblakeley | 2025-08-14 14:48:19+00:00
People who have so much in assets that they can live (and support their family) with the interest they earn on those assets, and by a huge margin, not just comfortably retired people. Those are the people who get richer, at the expense of your kids. Inflationary housing expenses are a drop in the bucket when someone's assets are in the billions.
by yenjay | 2025-08-14 14:48:36+00:00
Have you seen the oEmbed format: https://abdus.dev/posts/youtube-oembed/ ?

I was really happy when I discovered it when I was researching how Wagtail CMS implements the embedded content previews.

For your example it returns:

"thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bJ7mTY9501c/hqdefault.jpg",

The file is smaller but shows up correctly!
by GreedClarifies | 2025-08-14 14:48:44+00:00
Fred has the data:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP0000EZ19M086NEST#

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SUUR0000SA0

I’m driving, it’s difficult to put them on the same chart and normalize. But they are very similar. There are differences in methodology (housing, healthcare) but those generally add a small amount to US inflation chained index vs HICP.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-08-14 14:49:00+00:00
I'll hold my breath for the fast food chain that lowers its prices to better compete with the chains that raised theirs.

We have plenty of examples, with documentation and receipts, of businesses participating in price fixing, collusion, and other cooperative behaviors that result in higher prices for consumers and reduced competition between businesses.

You are naively assuming that all businesses express greed in the same way. Some of them realize they can make quite a lot of money with a lot less work by working together to raise prices. Not all markets are easy for a newcomer to break into, competition is far from guaranteed if the established players are cooperating.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-14 14:49:03+00:00
I completely disagree with this law, but I don't understand how this is a free speech issue. AFAIK the law isn't restricting anyone's right to freedom of speech because under this law anyone in FL is free to own, publish, buy, sell, read, or stock any book in any privately owned library.

It seems to me that the government is allowed to decide what books to buy and stock in its own libraries. I don't understand how freedom of speech obligates the government to make a book available for free. It seems to me like compelled speech to require the government to stock certain books. As this pertains to schools, I don't understand how the government doesn't have the same right to control the curriculum as it does in any other case. e.g. it is not a violation of a teacher's right to free speech to order them not to teach flat earth theory in public schools because that teacher is an employee and not on their own time. Same as my employer can restrict my speech while on the job without violating my rights.
by fanatic2pope | 2025-08-14 14:49:05+00:00
Forgive my ignorance but I am curious if this be a good alternative for an android user who uses a Fitbit primarily for tracking sleep and heart rate and who would love a more open platform? Would something like this be usable as a reliable replacement or is it more targeted at hobbyists? What apps do pebble users use for tracking things like heart rate, sleep and steps?
by initramfs | 2025-08-14 14:49:49+00:00
I looked up the most expensive laptop with an RTX 5090: https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/consumer/gaming-laptops...

$5599.00 https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/consumer/gaming-laptops...

Although you can get them with fewer specs and the same GPU for $3,899.99

https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/consumer/gaming-laptops...
by KineticLensman | 2025-08-14 14:49:51+00:00
> the author actually reworded future editions of the book to make it clear that Gollum is a small creature

The primary retconning occurred in 1951, when the encounter in The Hobbit between Bilbo and Gollum was rewritten to be confrontational rather than amicable, because TLOTR now needed the Ring to have a malevolent influence. The retconning is reflected in Bilbo's apology in the Council of Elrond to those (i.e. Gloin, but implicitly the readers) who may have heard a different version of his story. I'd love to see a first edition of the Hobbit to see what Tolkien actually did say about Gollum.

[Edit]. Just checked my (third edition) copy of The Hobbit. It only says that Gollum was "a small slimy creature" who "had a little boat". There aren't any other descriptions of their relative size, except that Bilbo actually jumps over Gollum's head when escaping him (Gollum is crouched down at this point), as a sibling comment has just observed.
by Anonbrit | 2025-08-14 14:50:05+00:00
You can have radical empathy with somebody while standing against and fighting every single thing they stand for. Indeed empathy /helps/ you fight better, because you can begin to fight root causes rather than fighting symptoms, and help people heal rather than just shouting them down.

You as an individual are not required to do this if you don't want to, but if a movement wants to be successful then a degree of empathy with those who are resisting the movement is likely necessary for success.

To have empathy with a view is not condoning it
by zahlman | 2025-08-14 14:50:55+00:00
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
by jcfrei | 2025-08-14 14:51:04+00:00
They have just done a full turnaround. But speaking of "the markets" is a bit problematic at the moment since the mag7 now constitute a third of the SP500 market cap and they have been affected little by tariffs. Instead the great AI story keeps chugging along pretty nicely while the rest of the market - the SP493 - goes basically nowhere.
by briandw | 2025-08-14 14:51:24+00:00
Very few people that I talk to are truly in favor of free speech as a principle. They are either in favor of free speech in cases like this, where christians are banning books that they like, and not in favor when it’s about political correctness (misgendering, banning words, hate speech etc) or vice versa. Free speech for me and not for thee seems to order of the day.