MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TrackerFF | 2025-09-22 16:16:31+00:00
Here in Norway we have a sort of unique wealth tax, and ever since, there's been nothing but doom and gloom in the media about wealthy people exiling to Switzerland. Especially the past couple of months, in the run-up to the election. The wealth tax debate was all-consuming, and really did reach a fever pitch.

Turns out, of course, that some of the rich folks that did move to Switzerland, were funding PR and social media campaigns on this topic.

It was so omnipresent, that even high school kids had "wealth tax" as one of their most important topics.

EDIT: Personally, I think their strategy kind of backfired. There was just too much talk about wealth tax, which doesn't seriously affect too many here. They did try to angle it as "If all the billionaires leave, who's gonna create jobs for the rest?" - but it still didn't resonate too much with the average citizen.
by grayhatter | 2025-09-22 16:16:39+00:00
> No one is talking about "recording". Of course you can record anyone in a public space. You're moving the goalposts.

that's an unhelpful amount of pedantry, but sure you got me, you said walk over and demanded a bunch of information.... which you might notice, no one else said either. The discussion was about if identifying police was legal.

sigh

> Also lol @ "toxic". Sometimes I forget that people can be offended by insufficient outrage.

> In a famous example you might have heard of, the federal government can overrule states' laws legalizing slavery, and make it illegal nationwide.

This is a very demeaning way to phrase this, it's dripping with disgust and contempt. You may not have intended either, but without a doubt both are included by phrasing it this way.

Because both are divisive and obstacles to a fair and healthy conversation, that makes them toxic. As in harmful to others, or the discussion.

Is that a fair interpretation of your comment? IMO, Yes. But even if you elect to disagree, in a very heated thread a reasonable person knows to expect their messages will be read in the context of frustration which makes negative inferences much more likely. A good person who wants to be understood will take care to avoid that. But a toxic person will embed such language ignorantly or intentionally to stir up shit.

A lot of people probably would call insufficient outrage toxic; but that's not why I did. It doesn't have to be about insufficient outrage, when you elect to write things in a way that appears to imply contemt (instead of collaboration) for the people who you're trying to talk to, that's toxic.

No idea if you meant to or not, but that is the message you sent to everyone who down voted you. So really the question remains, are you trying to be dismissive and disrespectful to the people you're talking to? Or are you just bad at communicating with people who you disagree with?

https://xkcd.com/1984/
by nvlled | 2025-09-22 16:17:22+00:00
> There are no "latter operations or (re)definitions" here.

Yes, in the literal narrow sense, there is no such thing in the submitted article (if it isn't already clear, I'm referring to my own example). That's why it's an analogy. I don't know the precise term that go uses for this, closest is probably "shadowing", but again it doesn't matter, it is besides the point. The point is that the exhibited behaviour is unintuitive, in contrast to what the others are saying.

> it completely replaces the intuitive thing that's happening with an unintuitive thing that isn't happening

What is the intuitive thing are you referring to here? If it's my example, then you are in total agreement with me, but you seem to think otherwise. If you are referring to the linked article, then you are just merely invoking tautology, to disagree with me. It's intuitive because you said so, therefore my analogy is invalid. Did I get that right?
by kipchak | 2025-09-22 16:17:25+00:00
I'm one of those people-For clarity I'm referring to influence in the active 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' sense. To me "influence" and "manipulation" seem like forms of persuasion but with positive and negative connotations, like "public relations" versus "propaganda".

None of them are necessarily bad on their own, but the choice of words seems like it depends on the perspective who is perceiving or describing the influencer/manipulator and their motives. Influence can be seen as manipulation and manipulation seen as influence.

For example someone who dislikes an "ifluencer" is probably more likely to think of them as manipulating their audience into buying products. Convincing someone to join a religious group could be seen as positive influence by current members, and manipulation by an outsider.

Clarity of purpose from the person doing the persuading is not necessarily clear as well. There is likely there's likely a mixture of factors motivating them to persuade, including some to their own benefit. People, especially those who think they are doing good, will also generally grade themselves on a bit of a curve and rationalize their actions towards being positive, especially in moral and emotional contexts.
by vidarh | 2025-09-22 16:17:27+00:00
>> Then:

Only if you're running a distro that lacks basic defaults from Systemd. Are you a distro like that? Have you tried just creating /etc/rc.local and seen if it gets executed?

It's not systemd's fault if your distro ships with a broken systemd install.

> "if /etc/rc.local is present and executable - run it". Yeah, I can understand the security implications of that.

That is indeed what happens if you're on a distro with a non-broken systemd install.

> Before long Ubuntu will ship with no cron installed and then just a bit later it won't even be available in packages. Not even as a rust rewrite.

Then don't use Ubuntu. Still not systemd's fault.
by gdulli | 2025-09-22 16:18:27+00:00
You'd also be censored from selling cigarettes in packaging that promises they'll be healthy for your lungs.

We live in a world that needs to have rules, it's absolutely unavoidable. The people awkwardly trying to set the boundaries of the rules preventing you from saying cigarettes are healthy are helping you more than the people trying to lie to you about cigarettes. Save the histrionics for the latter group.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-22 16:18:34+00:00
This entire well is completely poisoned by the bad-faith whingeing of retailers end to end.

First of all; in times long past, retailers had zero shoplifting incidents, because every order was fulfilled by their employees, who would pick from the stock room and present the customer with a ready-to-take bag of their goods, and a purchase receipt. Shoplifting in this context was basically impossible.

The advent of customers picking out their own goods let to the introduction of customers attempting to leave the store without paying, but it also saved retailers incredible amounts of money, not having to pay to have employees both stock and pull orders.

However, because nothing is ever profitable enough, much further down the line (and, worth noting, when crimes are at historic lows) we get self checkouts, which are basically honor boxes with speakers. And that's fine, I love self checkout and my only complaint with it is now retailers are over-reliant on it, and, again in the name of cost-cutting, have 6 to 10 registers overseen by one worker, who has to sprint between them to sort out when the stupid things can't detect a light item, or have a conniption fit when you don't place a 75" television on them, and of course they have to also make sure all of those registers are ringing up the correct items, which has itself then given rise to bag checkers at the door.

And to be clear, I'm not like, endorsing any particular system here. I don't care how stores want to convey products to me terribly, just make it clear what the fuck I'm supposed to do, and I'll do it. What I am saying is retail theft is largely enabled by retailers who do nothing but chase the bottom line and constantly try and make their stores work with fewer and fewer people who are less and less skilled over time and are then SHOCKED when someone just takes something, because their ludicrously under-staffed stores are incredibly easy to steal from, if you want to.

And I would ALSO point out that throughout this long history, the cost of slippage has been built into the business, because theft is far, far from the only reason a product that is purchased wholesale may not make it all the way to a paying customer. Retail supply chains and especially grocery ones are simply AWASH in waste, and somehow, all the time, these stores make money.

So no, as a customer and taxpayer, I don't particularly give much of a shit about shoplifting.
by dmitrygr | 2025-09-22 16:18:41+00:00
Many states are [edit: almost] completely able to stop shoplifters. If yours is not, think long and hard about your choices at the next election.

Edit: I do love the down votes. It kind of proves the point. People want to complain, but don’t want to do anything about it or hold themselves responsible for the fact that they are the ones who chose the situation they are in. Literally. At the ballot box.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-22 16:18:47+00:00
> But we will never stay competitive or self-reliant if we destroy our domestic markets by allowing companies to use H1 workers and offshoring to subvert our own labor supply. And it guarantees its demise if all incentives for

To solve that the US needs to

1. Offer tax credits and subsidizes comparable to what countries like India and the CEE provide in order to reduce the incentive to offshore

2. With the provided tax credits add a GC and Citizenship quota that isn't onerous but nudges a firm to hire overwhelmingly in the US. A 25% quota is the magic number in my experience.

3. Work with universities to revamp CS education. The philosophy of segregating CS and CE in the US needs to end. The EECS model such as Cal's is a better approach to providing education that is aligned with that used in every other country.

Trump's proposal did nothing to solve the 3 points above which are the primary drivers for offshoring in product-led companies. All the proposal did is give a dollar value to the expected cost of hiring immigrant labor versus shifting abroad - and that dollar amount is the same amount that you would need to spend in the CEE, Israel, or India to avail significant tax windows and subsidizes.

Instead of an office with 50-60% American labor now this move incentivized shifting the entire office to Warsaw or Hyderabad instead of hiring domestically. A new grad with a CS degree from (randomly chosen) Ohio State simply isn't worth a $120k TC or a chronically unemployed (unemployed longer than 6 months) SWE isn't worth hiring as a business. If this administration actually cared to get us to hire those two archetypes, recommendations 1-3 would have solved it.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-22 16:18:50+00:00
> How does society make this wealth possible?

You're kidding right? A stable society is necessary for wealth to exist. A lot goes into creating a stable society. Education, law and order, roads, access to food and drinking water, affordable shelter and giving people hope for their futures.

War and revolution are the ultimate forms of wealth redistribution. It's why the descendants of the descendants of monarchs and wealthy families don't control all the wealth today.

Leftists (of which I include myself) are demonized by neofeudal serfs who have replaced Catholicism with Capitalism but all we're trying to do is avoid the outcome we're hurtling towards where the heads of the wealthy end up on spikes outside the city walls and we have land reforms.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-22 16:18:55+00:00
I've thought trains are cool ever since I was a kid reading about the Silver Streak and the Orient Express, so every now and then I look into travelling by train. Unfortunately, Amtrak is like someone was tasked with making train travel as inconvenient and expensive as possible to make the idea of state-funded rail look bad. It's so bad someone wrote a book about it, called "Derailed."
by fny | 2025-09-22 16:19:02+00:00
As a Persian, I feel compelled explain.

The entire of the Middle East operates on a principle of magnanimous hospitality. The Arabs call this karam, for example, which is considered to even be a religious obligation.

So if you're a stranger passing through a town and chat with some locals, you can expect for someone to invite you for tea and maybe even dinner!

Do you take them up on the offer?

Most people in the West would ask themselves "do I have the time", but a middle easterner would think "do they have the time?" Remember, you as a guest are also magnanimously hospitable--in this case, the least possible burden. Unfortunately, the guest must navigate whether they are being considerate or insulting by refusing hospitality.

Now to address taarof specifically. Persian's have pathologized hosptiality to the point of psychosis. The behavior is often mechanically choreographed (e.g. you should refuse at least twice before accepting a cucumber.) In other cases, it's insane.

Story time:

My mom and aunt had not seen each other for 3 years and met for lunch at a cafe. They went back and forth over who would pay at the register until it erupted into a fight. They sat at separate tables for lunch.

A close family friend--with no provocation from my sister--offered to house her for a weekend she was visiting. My sister accepted. That friend later complained to my mother.

A friend of mine went to a mechanic who offered to fix a small issue for free. My friend knowing better paid him anyway, but the mechanic was still upset since he didn't pay enough!

Edit: Just to address some of the comments. Abroad, the degree of hospitality is warped for foreigners (for what I hope are obvious reasons). Middle easterners in the West are far more inclusive.
by churchill | 2025-09-22 16:19:11+00:00
It's clearly documented that Mossad committed terror attacks against Jews across the Middle East to terrorize them into fleeing. Iraq, Egypt, etc. Zionist authorities had to bribe, maneuver and scheme to get many of these communities to make the journey. Not a conspiracy - you have actual Jews like Naeim Giladi who wrote, 'Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews,' documenting these efforts.

For instance, Moroccan Sultan Mohammed V protected his country's Jewish population of over 250k instead of straight up handing them over the Nazi-aligned Vichy regime.

Throughout all these countries, the Arabs & other non-Jews had a tight grip on state power and could have exterminated the Jews anytime they wanted. So, why didn't they? Why did the population of Jews in those countries grow for centuries? Isn't that the argument online Zionists use to defend their genocide in Palestine?

Western normies always lick up the 'they expelled us, so we had to expel the Palestinians,' but, please, don't do it here. It's wrong at best, and outright immoral at worst.
by jkingsman | 2025-09-22 16:19:14+00:00
> All I know is a [knot used to join a length of rope into a circle/loop, performed three times) is nearly impossible to untie [when tied with large-diameter polyethylene plastic rope] after [falling (while climbing) and being caught by the loop I made to take load] made out of it. It's sort of comforting have the rock hard knot; it'll break the [loop itself, structurally] before untying. Interestingly, [if you don't tighten the knot by dropping bodyweight from a height on it like I did, they're] pretty simple to untie!
by dfee | 2025-09-22 16:19:20+00:00
i'll take the opposite side. i was very impressed with their website.

the very first line:

> The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases

the second line:

> PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud. Both our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding.

i know exactly what they do. zero fluff. and, i'm now interested.

https://planetscale.com/
by bko | 2025-09-22 16:19:40+00:00
Yes it happens on the margin and once you have roots, it's unlikely you'll leave. But these kinds of things happen all at once and it's hard to reverse.

If you look at Detroit which was a manufacturing hub for a long time, it would be difficult to imagine a world in which they were irrelevant. All these people built lives there and there was all this specialization and industry there. And it worked well until it didn't.

Once a place loses its dynamism and people have had enough, it'll be very hard to get them back
by galaxy_gas | 2025-09-22 16:19:48+00:00
When the selected here its are using the worst lowest bar providers that are reseller of lowest cost network with the absolute lowest quality, In this case roaming probably Three HK and Plus Poland are the "norm"

These are some of the most "slop" provider, which is mostly ads and affiliate links unfortunately. It's same reputation as nordvpn whereas the best you could say is it's well known
by balamatom | 2025-09-22 16:19:55+00:00
What you write here is not unreasonable.

What's kinda fucked up though is that the guy whose name you wear might not have been describing a "traditional persian conception" but a cognitive artifact produced by his own arrogance.

You explain the underlying concept rather better than the tale you originally quoted, and I dare presume it is easier for one to be understood about such things when they are not explicitly sourcing their soundbites from authors liable to be judged as ethically compromised.
by twotwotwo | 2025-09-22 16:20:44+00:00
Interesting--I'd seen Chinese characters surprise inserted when it was just repeating back input with one provider, but not others. (I'd also occasionally seen tokens surprise-translated to Chinese.)

There's a GitHub bug about it that leads to more discussion here: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/issues/849

Good to see a fix and that it goes with some benchmark gains!
by tomatohs | 2025-09-22 16:20:56+00:00
I started a company to do exactly this a few years ago, and got to work with amazing companies testing their developer experience.

The problem is not the docs, it's Conway's law. One team designs the API, the other team designs the portal, and another team designs the SDK. The user has a holistic experience that cuts through each team.

That, and the docs are usually written first by the most technical person around, who has a hard time sharing the world view of a noob.
by overfeed | 2025-09-22 16:21:10+00:00
> If they are, then the web is already fucked since neither corporation has a benevolent track record pertaining to Open Source.

Interesting take, since Google has both authored and supported hundreds of FLOSS projects over many years. They even sponsored summer "internships" for students to contribute to Open Source software as long as a maintainer bothered to register and promise to mentor the student via "Summer of Code"
by dimal | 2025-09-22 16:21:14+00:00
Great, I love to debate. Does that mean that you have faith in our political institutions then? If so, how do you justify that faith?

From my perspective, it’s self evident that our political institutions are hopelessly corrupt, so I can’t imagine what it’s like to have faith in them. And since I’ve lost faith in our institutions, I see criticism as positive, not negative.

I don’t see how pointing out flaws is self fulfilling. It’s the only way to improve anything. My guess is that an internet comment has less effect than the wishes of billionaires who are able to control our political institutions using their economic power.

If you admit that our political institutions are in a bad state, how do you propose we begin to fix them without voicing negativity about them?
by wqaatwt | 2025-09-22 16:21:36+00:00
Well majority of the white population in South Africa don’t have a home country to return to either. Afrikaans people moving to Australia, Britain or the US is not much different than forcing the Jewish people in Israel to go to those countries.

Besides that Apartheid South Africa is remarkably similar to Israel (of course the race part is entirely replaced by religion/culture making assimilation into the Israeli society actually somewhat feasible).
by jjkaczor | 2025-09-22 16:21:37+00:00
Trump doesn't seem to hear alot of questions - and has been reported to ramble on about all sorts of nonsense, during state visits and high-level meetings.

Almost like a dementia patient.

...but that is just my opinion - even so... not clarifying an asked question is not, well uh a sign of overall "great leadership"...
by dmitrygr | 2025-09-22 16:21:43+00:00
I’m not sure I understand your point. Are you implying that shoplifting should not be punished? Wouldn’t lack of enforcement or punishment for wrongdoing only lead to more wrongdoing? Isn’t the well-accepted viewpoint on this website that if the cost of violating a law is lower than the profit, that is what companies will do. What makes you think people won’t make the same calculation?

The way to solve this problem is to make the cost significantly higher than the benefit. Suggested reading: Lee Kuan Yew’s memoirs. Of any person who has ever run any country, he solved this problem in the most effective way.
by TheDong | 2025-09-22 16:21:54+00:00
If your data format is so complicated that all commonly used implementations are not compliant with your spec, maybe it's a problem with the data-format.

Every single implementation people actually use seems to be a messy mix of yaml 1.1 and 1.2....

Maybe if the yaml project wants to consider this fixed, they should have written some correct reference parsers themselves for any languages in need, and encouraged their use.
by sqwrell | 2025-09-22 16:22:09+00:00
Episode Feed makes your life easier by allowing you to keep track of currently-running TV shows you like. You tell it what shows to track, and the site gives you a custom URL to an RSS feed with torrent links, containing only your selected shows.

Even feed your Google Calendar with dates/times of shows!

It hosts no shows, and is not a torrent site, just a feature rich rss generator.
by PickledJesus | 2025-09-22 16:22:17+00:00
The Henley and partners analysis isn't very good, but nor is this, both are from biased sources. It seems to amount to "that isn't a large proportion" rather than looking at the trend.

Dan Neidle[1] and the FT[2] have already done much better debunking of it, although that doesn't mean there isn't truth to it, just that Henley and Partners's report doesn't prove anything.

Chris Giles at the FT did a good summary[3]

[1] https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/27/henley-partners-milliona... [2] https://www.ft.com/content/28ebf57d-af22-48a0-91b9-880e3f1fb... https://archive.is/w6New [3] https://www.ft.com/content/0a24be5e-395e-43db-a91f-4b4f02d99... https://archive.is/Le05V
by kragen | 2025-09-22 16:22:28+00:00
Happy to help!

I think you're mistaken about assembly language.

In assembly language, the thing that plays the role of these definitions like if and then and ?<resolve is the assembler's symbol table and relocation logic, which goes back and changes your jump instructions (etc.) to jump to the places where it finds that your labels have been defined to point. Typically this involves things like hash functions, hash table collision resolution, various operand encodings for things like short jumps and long jumps, and so on.

Although you can write an assembler that does all this in an afternoon, I don't think you will ever find an assembler whose implementation of all this functionality is easier to understand than the above 30 lines of code. It might be easier to understand per line of code but there will be a lot more lines of code to understand, like 10× or 100×.