MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dillondoyle | 2025-08-06 20:13:02+00:00
There is definitely a thread globally.

Plenty of these groups pushing these laws are already publicly linked via $ and staffer revolving door: DonorsTrust -> SPN -> ALEC -> CLI -> Heritage -> $ from Dunn & Wilks and other christian millionaires -> continue the circle etc. [6, 7]

Their playbook - which is sadly working:

- far right christian anti-porn, anti-lgbtq crusaders use 'child safety' or revenge porn to organize public outrage and direct that pressure on the choke point of payment processing. For example the writer of the viral pornhub article worked for anti-porn christian group that also helped pass extreme anti lgbtq laws in africa, such as Uganda's gays “should be castrated” insanity [1] - Recent Australian version of this same story. Again, the buried lede is going after queer content (not by accident) [2] - Same in the UK: ADF creates UK branch. CARE, Christin Concern, etc. Same anti-porn, anti-lgbt. Same tactics and messaging. Also throw in anti-abortion. [3, 4] - Groups like Heritage & ALEC & SPN put out the blueprint and write the actual laws. Copy paste across red states. For instance Project 2025 advocates sending porn producers to jail & again backdoors targeting of Trans and queer people [8]. Another example in Tennessee [5]: define drag as adult only. impose narrow worldview that any gender expression not assigned at birth is wrong and adult only (pornagraphic). Just throw away 1a and dare scotus to blink on law 'loopholes' with private right of action b.s.

It's all just to inflict their christian worldview and 'morals' on the rest of us.

You know the porn thing is just a b.s. excuse to get their foot in the door because only a couple of large companies like Aylo (formerly Mindgeek) comply. They are the only porn sites with the $ and morals to actually moderate in the first place.

Whilst the other 99% of the internet is just an open stream of content with no care & no humans in the loop.

Therefore it's all just virtue signaling at best, and personally I see a very organized sinister plot to impose christian rule. Could you imagine if it was a muslim group organizing at this scale? Sharia anyone?

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1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/us-far...

2 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-ca...

3 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/02/us-anti-abor...

4 https://care.org.uk/cause/online-safety

5 https://time.com/6267962/tennessee-drag-bill-law-hold-friend...

6 https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/donorstrust/

7 https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Ties_to_ALEC

8 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-por...
by belter | 2025-08-06 20:13:13+00:00
Why study Economics, when you can be mathematically illiterate and make it to US President?

[1] " "We've cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500 percent. I don't mean 50 percent. I mean 14-, 1500 percent,"

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-doubles-down-impossibl...
by dnautics | 2025-08-06 20:13:48+00:00
I wrote an article about one possible pattern which is a concrete realization of your question -- though with more ceremony and complexity since the pathway is fully compiled out if you don't use it (vs a nullable pointer strategy):

> Are libraries typically designed to accept an optional input to store potential errors?

https://zig.news/ityonemo/sneaky-error-payloads-1aka

if you prefer video form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFeqWWJP4LE

The answer is no, libraries are not typically designed with a standardized convention for payload return.
by fortran77 | 2025-08-06 20:13:55+00:00
And this is _less_ than the national average. In fact, below the median.

From the article:

> By this math, 19% of California houses were owned by investors, ranking No. 36 among the states and just below the 20% national norm. By county, tiny Sierra has the most (83%) and Ventura the least (14%).
by 9dev | 2025-08-06 20:14:01+00:00
At Microsoft scale, common market rules no longer apply. What would you even call their "product" that someone could improve upon? It’s a giant maze of offerings, competing interests, corporate and government relations, revenue streams… hoping for someone to disrupt this due to better support is like hoping for a country to displace the United States for their superior social systems. It’s nonsensical, that’s not how global mega-corporations work.
by xwkd | 2025-08-06 20:14:26+00:00
Yes, let's bring these back. In fact, why don't we just build Khrushchevkas and skip the whole proletarian revolution step? We can even start wearing the funny little hats with flaps and drink until we forget about freedom or dignity. We're beyond that anyway, aren't we?

With this level of wealth inequality and these seeming like a good idea, I'd say we're gearing up for a bloody good time, to say the least.
by troupo | 2025-08-06 20:14:45+00:00
> billions of other people in the world will just work on a fork and that will become consensus.

Yes, yes, billions of people will work on the fork.

> To literally take Chromium as an example. Look at Google's manifest v3 changes.

That literally changed nothing in Chrome dominance.

> Brave and all the other chromium based browsers just put their own ad blocking shim on top and they're fine.

You mean: they literally just slap a skin on top of a Google-developed project, do no actual browser development of their own (do they even participate in web standards?), have vanishingly few users and are likely hemorrhaging money?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-06 20:15:10+00:00
Yes, if it happened once. If I get food poisoning every time, probably not. Perfection is impossible, I am reasonable and mindful of the challenges of consistency.

Hardware device arrives damaged or non functional? I’m just going to call and ask for another one. If it’s a critical need (I cannot wait for a return and delivery cycle), I’m buying more than one upfront. Spares go in inventory.
by kocial | 2025-08-06 20:15:18+00:00
- To encourage engagement at the initial stage, we have an auth wall for content inside the community, but community owners can change that when they create and choose their domain.

- You can create a community and explicitly mention whether you want your community to be listed and available for search in the community marketplace. The community owner has that option.

- Yes, logins are the same for all communities (like Reddit), currently there is no option to have a different secret for each community. But that sounds like a nice feature to have a separate identity for each community, hmmmm, I will add it in my bucket list and will think about it more.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-08-06 20:15:59+00:00
Well I certainly can't argue with something that is italicized.

But I should say that any engineer familiar with the AI tech stack could have bought NVDA at any point in the last five years knowing how big their moat is. That same engineer could have sold monthly covered calls, taking 5 minutes out of every month to do so.

And before you say it, no, they wouldn't be full port NVDA.
by varispeed | 2025-08-06 20:16:12+00:00
Slab of aluminium milled to a flat triangular-ish shape about 10mm thick, then inside hollowed out to half depth and 8 counter-sunk holes non-tapped. Common issues: - item is not flat - nicks and dents on the edges - non uniform depth of the counter-sunk holes - holes in incorrect locations - unapproved changes to design - scratches - pores (poor material quality) - incomplete milling

Then parts have to be hard anodised and sand blasted.

- Sand blasting uneven - Sharp edges remaining - Streaks - Contamination - Exposed bare metal (it is only acceptable in the holes that could be used for hanging)

Companies also have virtually non existent QA. You can list them things that will cause rejection and they send it anyway.

One company told him after sending a batch that was complete carnage "We can give you $100 coupon for next order!" he insisted on rework. So they sent again, even worse.
by kamikazeturtles | 2025-08-06 20:16:38+00:00
Students stay in dorms "for the experience".

I don't think any middle aged person is looking for any communal living type experience.

Also, what do you mean by "short term"? Usually it only makes economic sense to buy a house if you plan on staying there for 5+ years otherwise closing costs and realtor fees eat away any savings you made from not renting. The period of our life where we are the most mobile and willing to change cities due to job changes (20-40yrs) is also the period in our life when people start families and have children.

I think most people prefer houses
by deanmoriarty | 2025-08-06 20:16:39+00:00
Do you have any hope that either what you are suggesting, or an increase in housing supply, will ever actually happen?

It's clearly interesting to speculate the ideal solution on the Internet, but after having been here 10+ years I worry that it's just never going to get better.

I wouldn’t even be interested in a house. Just give affordable cookie cutter apartments in a 50-floor building somewhere.
by m4nu3l | 2025-08-06 20:16:52+00:00
I work in game physics in the AAA industry, and I have studied and experimented with ML on my own. I'm sceptical that that's going to happen.

Imagine you want to build a model that renders a scene with the same style and quality of rasterisation. The fastest way to project a point on the screen is to apply a matrix multiplication. If the model needs to keep the same level of spatial consistency as the resterizer, it has to reproject points in space somehow.

But a model is made of a huge number of matrix multiplications interspersed by non-linear activations. Because of these non-linearities, it can't map a single matrix multiplication to its underlying multiplications. It has to recover the linearity by approximating the transformation with many more operations.

Now, I know that transformers can exploit superposition when processing a lot of data. I also know neural networks could come up with all sorts of heuristics and approximations based on distance or other criteria. However, I've read multiple papers showing that large models have a large number of useless parameters (the last one showed that their model could be reduced to just 4% of the original parameters, but the process they used requires re-training the model from scratch many times in a deterministic way, so it's not practical for large models).

This doesn't mean we might not end up using them anyway for real-time rendering. We could accept the trade-off and give up some coherence for more flexibility. Or, given enough computational power, a larger model could be coherent enough for the human eye, while its much larger cost will be justified by its flexibility. In a way like analogous systems are much faster than digital ones, but we use digital ones anyway because they can be reprogrammed.

With frame prediction and upscaling, we have this trade-off already.
by exhilaration | 2025-08-06 20:17:13+00:00
Something like 40% of the homeless nationwide are actually working, employed, but unable to build up enough savings to rent an apartment.

Here's just one source I found on: https://endhomelessness.org/blog/employed-and-experiencing-h...

I got a tour of a homeless shelter a few months ago and the folks running it mentioned that one of their jobs is to wake up specific people at 6am, 7am etc so they can make it to work in the morning.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-08-06 20:17:21+00:00
It's probably easier to monetize chocolate bars, pizza and reddit (ads). Easier to slip into "junk" mode and harder to stop.

My exercise equipment is long paid for (10+ years ago), I watch sports while exercising (subscription paid whether I exercise or not) and going to bed early means less need for caffeine / painkillers to get through the day. Veggies are somewhat more expensive, not sure if the margins are as high on them as on ultra-processed food.

And yet, I'm right there with you - I struggle daily with doing the right thing.
by chmod775 | 2025-08-06 20:17:28+00:00
This might somewhat reliably work for children aged up to ~8, but above that many determined literate children will be able to circumvent these things for themselves and their friends. We had all kinds of tricks up our sleeves to play RuneScape in CS class and read various video game guides that would have normally been blocked by word filters in the school's proxy server. How are you going to stop a kid who figured out how to boot some Linux from portable media and is now handing these out to their entire friend group? At some point your only option is to closely watch them every second, but then what's the point of all that electronic parental control nonsense in the first place?

The only reason these kinds of controls may appear to work is that younger children simply aren't interested in the stuff that may be blocked.
by cyberax | 2025-08-06 20:17:40+00:00
This article is pure bullshit.

The lowest-cost housing is not in dense slums. It's in the rural areas and smaller cities. There you can buy a small single-family home for the cost of an SRO in NYC.

By adding more SROs the city housing will get MORE EXPENSIVE in the end. They won't solve anything, they'll just create more misery.
by nothercastle | 2025-08-06 20:17:41+00:00
I have one and I generally agree that the screen sucks, it could really use an upgrade.

Also it’s a pain in the a to zero out the co2 sensor the first time.

I would probably not recommend it to someone who does not like to dabble a lot with the tech. It’s not really a it just works and it’s easy for everyone product.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-08-06 20:17:48+00:00
I built a chat interface in 2017 (this was with chatscript dialog trees with hole-filling and semantic search) that was ostensibly to prevent our data scientists from redundant work, ie, before they spent all day writing a SQL script, describe the job of the script and see if one already exists. The chatbot would then ask for the parameters required for a script, run the job, and then present a CSV of the returned data.

As we collected user feedback and refined the UX, we got closer and closer to an option tree that could be better represented by a drop down menu. It was kind of depressing, but I learned that the actual job of that R & D wasn't to come up with a superintelligent chatbot that replaced data scientists, it was to come up with the infrastructure that would allow data scientists to put their python scripts in a common repository to allow re-use without re-installing locally and screwing around with pyenvs.

Anyway, I'm also traumatized by my involvement with a YC startup that actually had a very good (if ENRONish) product around peer to peer energy futures trading that completely fell apart when investors demanded they make it "AI"
by gcanyon | 2025-08-06 20:17:48+00:00
> a small room with a shared bathroom and sometimes a shared kitchen for a price that is unimaginable today—as little as $100 to $300 a month (in 2025 dollars).

This is exactly what I rented when I moved to NYC two years ago. It was a month-to-month single room in a six-bedroom apartment. I’m not sure how legal it was, but I rented from a company with a web site, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ That said, it was substantially more than $300/month - something like 4-5x
by circadian | 2025-08-06 20:17:59+00:00
This is really lush. Instantly it brightened up my evening. This kind of experimentation is always amazing to see.

As many seem to have mentioned below, it brings back memories of Rebirth in some ways. What it also reminds me of is the beautiful results you could have by plugging some simple modules together to create soundscapes. The limits are the things that provide some semblance of freedom and this is no different. Greetings from a fellow UK acid (techno) head! :P
by blindriver | 2025-08-06 20:18:02+00:00
This article is stupid.

You write content so that you get paid, usually through ads and clicks. If people aren't seeing your content because am LLM has consumed it and is regurgitating it and taking your ad clicks, then there's no benefit for you only for the LLM. You're doing the work of Sam Altman and helping him attain his multibillionaire status and you get nothing in return.
by verteu | 2025-08-06 20:18:04+00:00
From my cursory analysis, "# of new housing units authorized" is by far the strongest predictor of rent & home values decreasing: https://i.imgur.com/BMsPrKY.png (r^2 = 0.47, P-value 0.000)

Nothing else ("% of housing owned by investors"?) is even close.

edit: Yes, obviously I included a time lag (3 years).

[1] https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-investing-m...

[2] eg, https://www.zillow.com/home-values/10221/austin-tx/#/
by crooked-v | 2025-08-06 20:18:13+00:00
"Same-day" doesn't work if you live somewhere that the DMV is only open during work hours, has lines longer than 8 hours (https://dmvwaittimes.org/north-carolina), or is literally only open four days a year (https://trust.dot.state.wi.us/cscfinder/cityCountySearch.do?...).
by hypeatei | 2025-08-06 20:18:29+00:00
How did MAGA win in 2024 if Dems had illegals voting for them? I see right wingers regularly push the narrative that they're the underdog fighting against people rigging the election and that evil Dems are stealing it from them... yet they still go out and vote?

Please enlighten us with elections where illegals voted and changed the outcome.
by ianferrel | 2025-08-06 20:18:30+00:00
California has a homeowner-occupied tax exemption, and it is listed on the county assessor's website whether a given property is taking it (at least it is for a relative's property in CA I just checked). So I expect they're using that.

This might undercount (if owners don't file the form) or overcount (tax fraud or error), but there's financial incentives to get it right on both sides, so it's probably fairly accurate.
by jondwillis | 2025-08-06 20:18:41+00:00
I live in the (relatively affordable) part of the “hills” in LA, and there are a LOT of houses (single family and some multi-family, not apartments) sitting unoccupied, prices not moving. I’m talking 1+ year on the market. The managing real estate agents do some Zillow dance moves from what I can tell to obfuscate how slow the market is, and avoid lowering the prices significantly, even to 2021ish levels.

This indicates some broken market dynamics to me. Entities with more capital are having property sit unoccupied, decaying slowly, paying property taxes, because they are betting their self-interested reward for doing so outweighs the risk.

I realize this doesn’t generalize to the entire housing stock, but it sure seems vulgar to me.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-06 20:19:13+00:00
Trans people are over represented in compilers communities. You don’t get programming languages without the hard work of people in the trans community. In a world where they are constantly under attack, it’s important to make them feel safe and welcome. Trans people are welcome in our dev communities and that needs to be explicitly stated these days, because trans inclusion is not implied in our bigoted society.
by joe_the_user | 2025-08-06 20:19:30+00:00
The headline isn't misleading unless your only concern is placing California in relative position.

The headline is true and relevant if you are wondering how investors influence housing prices - with a 20% share, clearly investors influence prices a lot. Moreover, California is where the housing bubble began but it's quite logical it's no longer where the bubble is concentrated so again 20% doesn't imply investor ownership is unimportant.
by sophia-martinez | 2025-08-06 20:19:43+00:00
You’re working through a red team lab or real engagement. You’ve handled recon, started poking at privilege escalation paths, and hit a few dead ends. You know there’s more to explore—but now you’re second-guessing the next move.

Most training platforms don’t help with that part. They show you what can be done, but not what makes sense right now, in your specific context. No feedback loops, no real-time reasoning—just flags or checklists.

We started exploring how an AI assistant might help newer operators train the way real ops flow. Not by walking through playbooks, but by surfacing options that adapt to what’s already happened in the shell. A kind of guided sparring partner that builds decision-making muscle, not just technical recall.

This post walks through what we’ve been thinking, what PhantomShift is doing so far, and how this kind of AI could fit into operator development. Would love thoughts from anyone working in red team education, CTF training, or onboarding new security hires!
by pamelafox | 2025-08-06 20:19:56+00:00
I would argue that we're passing on 5% of life to the machines, not 100%. By the time bedtime has rolled around, my kids have been home for 5 hours - we have already spent hours reading, playing, parkour'ing, role-playing, painting, inventing, slime'ing, etc. We do manage to often tell a story ourselves (last night, we made the kids tell it!), but I am not going to judge a parent (or myself) for deciding to delegate a fraction of creative energy to a machine.

I was 100% against screens when first having a kid, but now I'm content with kids getting a spectrum of entertainment styles, and for parents to get a break every so often.
by ForceBru | 2025-08-06 20:20:21+00:00
> Shouldn't be that blatantly ideological, it's not a political platform

Yeah! This always stands out like a sore thumb on the website. Like _yeah_, all of it should go without saying! You're a freely available programming language, of course everyone can use it! Of course everyone is welcome! Does a hammer care about your gender or race? No, anyone can use it! It's also very weird and a little childish to specifically include "no nazi bullshit". Isn't it obvious that "nazi bullshit" isn't welcome? Like a no-brainer? Why does a programming language feel the need to say this? Are prominent nazis actively showing interest in Gleam and trying to promote their "bullshit" with it?

Also, the phrase "nazi bullshit" is severely downplaying the problem with the nazis. "Bullshit" is usually something mildly inconvenient, somewhat unfair, kinda infuriating, but it usually doesn't threaten anybody and doesn't fuel world wars.
by photochemsyn | 2025-08-06 20:20:42+00:00
No sane person wants to have to share a kitchen and bathroom with random transient strangers, as in the USA's SRO model. This is really where learning from other countries makes sense - in particular, Japan's high population density has led to the micro-apartment - that's a much better option, though probably still requires some regulatory overhaul (and isn't very compatible with car ownership as population density becomes too high):

> "Japan, particularly in dense cities like Tokyo and Osaka, allows and builds extremely small private apartments, often between 100–200 square feet. Despite their size, these units almost always include a private bathroom and kitchenette."
by kylecazar | 2025-08-06 20:21:06+00:00
I agree, and I advocate for adopting such solutions. I'm definitely not a fan of sending my ID to an arbitrary 3rd party with no visibility into how it will be processed. I am confident that if verification becomes the norm, a good solution will become ubiquitous (whether that's Google's ZKP or something else).

But, dismissing the whole verification effort on principle because "it's the internet and it's inherently for adults" is silly and unrealistic, IMO (not that you were). It's just not the world we live in anymore, the internet is used by everyone, for everything, and we should build accordingly.