MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-15 02:48:59+00:00
> begging mon to fri means $24000 per month (tax free)

Keep in mind that you'd have $24k in low value coins at that point :) You'll need a warehouse like Scrooge McDuck and a wheelbarrow if you wanna go shopping.

Of course you can change it into paper money or even a bank balance but you'll quickly reach the point where that can no longer be legally done tax free.

Even the income in one day would be 36000 coins in your scenario. Not sure how much that would be in Yens but 36000 US dimes would weigh 225kg or about 500 lbs :)

Ps I wonder if begging is even a thing there. They seem super strict on social etiquette and unwritten rules and I doubt being a vagrant with a cardboard sign asking for money would pass the mould.

It's also a big reason why I've never been there, I don't fare well in strict societies and communities. Formal stuff makes me anxious.

Edit: ah I see the rest of the thread answered my question (begging is illegal) and also raised the same point about the coins sorry.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-15 02:49:13+00:00
No.

SVG is a proper part of the browser. You get native text rendering, real links, real text selection, stuff like that.

Flutter is pure-canvas. You get no accessibility (unless you duplicate everything, in which case why even bother?), fake links which don’t behave properly, incorrect text rendering, megabytes of overhead, slow startup, &c.
by tzs | 2025-09-15 02:49:50+00:00
From the bill section 1798.501(b):

> (2)(A) A developer that receives a signal pursuant to this title shall be deemed to have actual knowledge of the age range of the user to whom that signal pertains across all platforms of the application and points of access of the application even if the developer willfully disregards the signal.

> (B) A developer shall not willfully disregard internal clear and convincing information otherwise available to the developer that indicates that a user’s age is different than the age bracket data indicated by a signal provided by an operating system provider or a covered application store.

> (3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a developer shall treat a signal received pursuant to this title as the primary indicator of a user’s age range for purposes of determining the user’s age.

> (B) If a developer has internal clear and convincing information that a user’s age is different than the age indicated by a signal received pursuant to this title, the developer shall use that information as the primary indicator of the user’s age.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
by Panzer04 | 2025-09-15 02:50:00+00:00
Landlords who rent at their cost and not the market price won't rent.

I don't see how your statement follows at all. I'm sure landlords would prefer rents to be higher than their mortgage but that will be determined by supply and demand, not their desires. The housing market is huge, with lots of alternatives and competition, so you can't exactly price fix it either.
by lutusp | 2025-09-15 02:50:44+00:00
> Yet if you want to set your threshold for evidence so high that nothing short of a large scale RCT will answer the question you can ignore all of this, because such an RCT will never be produced for obvious ethical reasons.

Yes, but this means existing studies can't be relied on to justify a conclusion that would have required the impossible study. Saying that a study isn't practical can't be used to justify making a policy decision based on circumstantial evidence.

My use of marijuana studies is meant only to show how bad science steers public policy, not to advocate for its use. There are other, better reasons to avoid that drug.

> This pattern is common in topics where people simple don’t want to believe a casual relationship might exist.

This is why science exists. But if the science cannot be carried out, then we have no right to draw conclusions that would require actual science to be legitimate.

This is moving away from the original topic, which is the kind of sloppy science common in modern psychology, where people wave their hands instead of their scientific results.

> I knew a guy who ...

A red herring, but I think you knew that.
by ksenzee | 2025-09-15 02:50:45+00:00
No, that’s incorrect. Krusteaz Complete Buttermilk Pancake Mix (which, at least where I live, ten miles from Krusteaz HQ, is the only “Krusteaz” anyone cares about) contains flour, sugar, dextrose, baking powder, salt, starch, soybean oil, and buttermilk. Unless I’m using enough of it to justify buying an entire canister of powdered buttermilk - which, by the way, is not cheap, and probably throws that $1/kg calculation off - I can’t mix it up in a shelf-stable way. And if I am using that much of it, I can get it in bulk for ~$2/kg.

Even if your math had been accurate, it’s breathtakingly condescending. If you live in a modern society, and you want to buy pancake mix (pancake mix! of all the inoffensive products!) you should get to buy the damn pancake mix.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-15 02:51:10+00:00
I consider China one of the most developed countries from an engineering and process perspective, and most suited to import trash for energy generation compared to ecologically and socially unacceptable alternatives due to potential harm to the environment and humans. If trash will be generated, it must be disposed of, and it can be responsibly managed by importing for energy, I see no issue.
by phil21 | 2025-09-15 02:51:39+00:00
Sure, but this is not universal.

I could have bought 15 years before I did. But because rent was less than half a mortgage (not even including maintenance), I was able to put that extra money into the market and save enough for more than a down payment on a forever home vs starter home when I was ready.

It’s certainly not like for like, but it would have been a poor financial decision to buy vs rent.

Where I live now this math is more or less inverted. Makes more sense to buy vs rent.

In the end your primary residence is a lifestyle decision, not a financial one. It’s not an investment in the traditional sense. It’s speculation at best.
by simianwords | 2025-09-15 02:51:43+00:00
>This isn’t surprising to me at all. These services put too much trust in “the most common answer” when that might not be the correct answer. Just because people think one thing doesn’t make it true. It’s super easy to spread misinformation online. And if you can SEO to the top, the AI will think your site is correct.

Yeah I want the answer that the world has converged on and not some looney answer.

It seems like you have never used AI (like in ChatGPT or Gemini) to fact check claims. It doesn't care about blogspam or anything and it prioritises good and factual websites.
by godelski | 2025-09-15 02:51:55+00:00
> nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week - Elon[0]

Yet... I listed a few... He goes on to suggest 80 is good with spikes into 100. I mean Elon is notorious for putting in those long hours himself[1], but he's definitely wrong in the quote.

So... who do you think those demands are for? He seems pretty clearly to be demanding it from engineers to execs. That also matches the experience of everyone I've known to have worked at SpaceX, including both programmers and aerospace engineers. Same with Tesla.

Also, thought I'd drop a link to this 996 HN post from the other week[2].

Honestly, I'm not sure who you're referring to, because when not taken literally that would seem to cover literally every employee.

[0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1067173497909141504

[1] https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/my-workload-went-f...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149049
by foxglacier | 2025-09-15 02:52:01+00:00
In the same way the interest payments on a mortgage go the the bank. And the interest is often the majority of the payments people make on a mortgage. If you're renting, in a market where rents are about the same or lower than mortgage interest, then you keep the leftover cash that the buyer put into their house and you can put into whatever investment you choose.
by DavidCanHelp | 2025-09-15 02:52:14+00:00
I'm a senior developer on medical leave who wanted to contribute to the community. I used Claude to help create the programming guides I wished existed - carefully prompting for content about languages I've worked with extensively. People were engaging positively with the Perl book before it was flagged. If there are specific technical issues with the content, I welcome that feedback via issues or PRs. But dismissing all AI-assisted content as 'slop' regardless of quality or utility seems shortsighted, especially as these tools become part of how we create and share knowledge.
by bombcar | 2025-09-15 02:52:31+00:00
There’s a Father Brown story which has the extreme of that: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton/the-secret-...

But in general yes - have a few or tens of stories you’ve rehearsed through long use, and practice ways to segue to one of them.

Once you get a handle for the few topics of small talk, it’s not terribly hard - and is a skill that can be taught and learned.
by Theodores | 2025-09-15 02:52:42+00:00
Thanks for chiming in. I vaguely remember the press trolling IBM for Aptiva too.

Where were the Ambra machines sourced? Were they special clones like Compaq (where the BIOS was different), decent commodity clones like Dell or were they generic clones like everything off-brand?

I never understood what the value proposition was. Was it a bit like a supermarket own brand where the customer kind-of guesses that the brand leader makes them, much like how Americans know CostCo Kirkland diapers are made by Huggies?
by LarsAlereon | 2025-09-15 02:52:59+00:00
I feel like this is the opposite lesson than you should learn. Firing people sucks for everyone involved, but investing a lot of time trying to interpret tea leaves to determine if candidates are a good fit doesn't have a return-on-investment in finding better candidates and firing people less often. Instead it always makes sense to take more chances, support new employees, and use some mechanism like a probationary period to exit those who won't thrive before it's too painful.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-15 02:53:29+00:00
I'd guess people are getting different results because of the varying A records https://dns.google/query?name=daggerjs.org

https://www.whois.com/whois/3.33.130.190 and https://www.whois.com/whois/15.197.148.33 are AWS

https://www.whois.com/whois/185.199.109.153 and similar are GitHub and is almost certainly this repo https://github.com/dagger8224/dagger8224.github.io/blob/main...
by Heretoexpose | 2025-09-15 02:53:39+00:00
I’ve filed a federal case in Oregon, representing myself, after uncovering a nationwide shell-company structure used by one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical corporations.

Thousands of W-2 employees were funneled through dissolved or fake entities — no benefits, no protections, no liabilities — while the real profits flowed up through private trusts and LLCs. This isn’t the typical “parent/subsidiary” setup. It’s the same playbook as past scandals (Enron, Elf, Wirecard), except instead of hiding debt, this structure hid people.

The case is valued at $15B based on the scope of concealed payroll. The IRS has issued claim numbers, the Department of Labor is engaged, and a federal judge has already ordered U.S. Marshals to serve respondents across multiple states.

I’m pursuing this pro se by choice, using AI to accelerate filings and research. Traditional firms would bury or narrow it — transparency is the only strategy here. Every filing, exhibit, and court order is public: https://15billiondollarcase.com.

Would love to hear HN’s perspective on whether AI-assisted litigation and public transparency could shift how cases like this are fought.
by foobar1962 | 2025-09-15 02:53:58+00:00
Probably a good place to post a 400 year old recipe for pancakes. I've made them, they are very good. Note that what is considered a "pancake" has changed over the years and changes with location.

https://rarecooking.com/2021/12/14/john-lockes-recipe-for-pa...
by crmd | 2025-09-15 02:55:01+00:00
1. I am rooting for wind and solar generation but I am skeptical that sodium ion battery production could ramp from today’s pilots to the >100 TWh needed for grid-scale alone in less than 20 years. There is also the issue of transmission network buildout.

2. You’re right about generation vs delivery. I just checked and almost 2/3 of my $750 bill from last month was for delivery vs supply. Appreciate the reminder!
by BigJono | 2025-09-15 02:56:05+00:00
Yeah, there was an entire season about ending the war on drugs and how it was the only thing that actually worked lol.

Also, they caught the drug kingpin at the end of the show by physically following his lieutenants to a warehouse full of drugs and arresting them all on the way out. The only thing the wiretaps were used for was to build a conspiracy charge against the leader, who had been standing outside for months/years doing face to face meetings with everyone that was arrested, clearly being the one in control of every conversation. If somehow that's not enough to charge someone with conspiracy then it seems removing a small amount of freedom to change that would be far preferable to reading everyone's messages and banning encryption.

"The Wire proves the need for mass surveillance" is the dumbest take I've ever heard. It literally shows the complete opposite.
by phil21 | 2025-09-15 02:56:20+00:00
Not all landlords min/max for peak financial outcome.

My landlord for 15 years raised rent exactly once when property taxes had a large jump one year, and was already under market when I started the first lease.

His mortgage was long paid off and he optimized for least hassle vs max money. Worked out for both of us - I called him maybe once a year at most, and he had a decent passive income stream reliably come in without worrying about 2am phone calls because a $50 thermostat broke. He had a nicely appreciated property to sell in his eventual retirement.

It was a 3BR place with a yard larger than I own now. Granted fit and finish is nowhere comparable, but I pay about 4x in mortgage and taxes than what I was paying him for about 1.5x the space.

Such arrangements are increasingly more rare as everything becomes a finance game, but they can still be sought out and developed.
by ksenzee | 2025-09-15 02:57:02+00:00
By the time I’ve soured some milk (to take the place of the buttermilk in the mix) and measured out the oil, I’ve spent five minutes and used a pyrex measuring cup or two that I didn’t otherwise need. That’s apart from getting out the kitchen scale, dragging out the dry ingredient canisters, taking the time to weigh or measure everything… I just don’t get it. Why do I have people telling me I should dirty even one extra dish? Or spend even five extra minutes? All so I can, what? Be proud of my homemaking skills? I’d rather be coding a side project, thanks. Your mom is more than welcome to make her pancakes from scratch. I’m glad she enjoys it. Personally I prefer Krusteaz. I do not understand why I am getting pushback on this.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-15 02:57:35+00:00
>I'm not the one trying to rationalize clear calls to violence under the guise of oh gosh we can't possibly know what he meant in any one of hundreds of examples, but your continued gaslighting attempts have been noted.

>You can't claim that things are being taken out of context when you can't possibly come up with context where his statements mean anything other than a call to violence when context is added.

It's all from the bigot's playbook, as Sartre observed:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

Keep that in mind. Your blood pressure will thank you.
by kragen | 2025-09-15 02:58:01+00:00
In that case it's plausibly a good deal, and of course it would be extremely deplorable to try to take away people's ability to buy pancake mix, or smoke, or drink Coke, or drink Everclear, or snort cocaine. People are almost always better at making the choices that are best for themselves than anyone else would be, because they both know more about themselves and care more.

But that doesn't mean they're necessarily good at it, and explaining how to get better at it is the opposite extreme from being condescending. Condescending is, "Oh, you wouldn't understand," not, "Here's an demonstration of how to work this out for your own situation, which you'll be able to understand," which is what my comment is.

Maybe you think it's condescending because everyone already works out hourly wages for thriftiness-directed activities, but I can assure you that your friends are very unusual if you think that.
by theologic | 2025-09-15 02:58:50+00:00
I completely understand that if you were there in the culture how this can hopeless outdated. So, I completely understand how this would be a massive flop today. However, at the time, it was extremely well regarded as effective and universally praised. It was just "grind it out" marketing, and maybe you would need to understand Ries and Trout to get it. But is was good by any measurement that was being run. However, it feels like a polyester jumpsuit.

I would argue things like the 1984 ad from Apple were bizarre, and while it makes the mark, it wasn't pivotable in terms of actually being effective. It appealed to Apples core, but wasn't effective in terms of ad dollars.

What was mind blowing is when Jobs came back to Apple, and Chiat/Day launched "Think Different." This was not grind it out. It was not "weird Apple" stuff.

It was awe-inspiring branding that changed the nature of technology marketing. It was beautify and emotive. I think it holds up well today, and may well hold together for many generations to come.

The subsequent "Get a Mac / PC vs Mac" ads were beyond brilliant in being able to pivot away from just emotion to an informed sense of humor.

I like the iPod ads, but we started to lose the edge.

I see none of the raw brilliance today that was a part of the previous years. However, I think they still do a great job of grind it out marketing, and they have continued to understand their brand. Maybe this is okay for where they are at.
by modeless | 2025-09-15 03:01:58+00:00
CO2 emission reduction is the hardest way. It requires coordinating most of the humans in the world to act in a way that disadvantages them, while anyone who defects gets an advantage.

A solution that can be unilaterally implemented by a small minority is much, much easier. Solving technical problems is much easier than changing human nature, which is in fact impossible.
by lifeformed | 2025-09-15 03:02:07+00:00
I'm saying its not trivial to replace a box mix in a recipe with from scratch ingredients. And no, frozen dinners don't have very good flavor or texture compared to the food it emulates. Boxed cakes are superior than from-scratch cakes by many metrics. But yes, I agree that people should definitely make their own and try to get better. It's just not a trivial replacement in a recipe. Box mixes in certain granny subcultures are a staple ingredient, almost on the tier of flour. If my meatloaf glaze recipe calls for ketchup, I'll just use Heinz or whatever, and not make it from scratch, unless it was really important to me.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-09-15 03:02:39+00:00
If there is no one who makes the laws, the law won't exist ;)

So we have the important three:

- judiciary

- law making by Legislature

- executive powers for enforcing law

It's one of the most important things to keep them separated and not interweaved. The three powers control each other and the fourth one controlling the controlling:

- journalism and it's covered investigations or whistleblowers

And then you need the rule of law that the law is the only law.

This ground pillars of democracy.
by necovek | 2025-09-15 03:02:58+00:00
> The median age of a renter is 42 years old and about half (46%) of renters are under the age of 40; only 10% of renters are in their seventies or older, and 15% are in their sixties. In other words, the age distribution of renters trends younger than the overall US population.

Which tells us exactly what the GP brought up: renters are younger than buyers.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-15 03:03:18+00:00
UK has the idea of contempt of court. Even as it stands, the court can demand you submit some evidence - say an encryption key for a document. And if you refuse, they can even imprison you until you surrender the key.

Another principle is that when someone is destroying evidence, you can presume it contained incriminating evidence.

I think you could make the punishment proportional to the presumed crime.
by musicale | 2025-09-15 03:03:19+00:00
> If they were not swimming in a pool of money this wouldn't happen.

Interestingly enough, Apple helped to develop a version of Linux running on the Mach microkernel, and handed out thousands of MkLinux CDs at WWDC and MacWorld Boston in 1996. Macs have been running Linux in various ways ever since.

http://www.mklinux.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

http://gate.crashing.org/doc/ppc/doc003.htm

Windows has also been running on intel Macs since Boot Camp in 2007. It remains to be seen whether ARM Windows will ever run natively on Apple Silicon however.
by ehnto | 2025-09-15 03:03:36+00:00
You can bring your own, non-plastic bags. I do wonder if maybe some cultures just don't have this and so the deprecation of plastic bags has left everyone quite confused.

It's a very solved problem, has been for centuries probably. You can even get some with little wheels! If you absolutely can't handle the looseness of the fruits amongst your shopping, you could use string nets.
by ses1984 | 2025-09-15 03:04:34+00:00
The idea that models are transformative is debatable. Works with copyright are the thing that imbues the model with value. If that statement isn’t true, then they can just exclude those works and nothing is lost, right?

Also, half the problem isn’t distribution, it’s how those works were acquired. Even if you suppose models 44are transformative, you can’t just download stuff from piratebay. Buy copies, scan them, rip them, etc.

It’s super not cool that billion dollar vc companies can just do that.
by ksenzee | 2025-09-15 03:05:15+00:00
Sorry, I still think an off-the-cuff “buying Krusteaz is the same kind of self-destructive choice as smoking a cigarette or drinking a Coke [unless you’re rich]” is condescending, especially when coming from someone who presumably is not a domain expert, and has not in fact done the relevant math. If it turns out you work for the USDA developing the Thrifty Food Plan, or something similar, I’ll retract my comment.
by theologic | 2025-09-15 03:05:49+00:00
Externally, it was universally praised. I was selling PC gray market at the time, and it was highly effective. The only people that I knew that had a problem with it was certain IBMers that felt it didn't rep the Blue Channel (corporate sales) and our corporate PCs. However, as the IBM sales took off, I met anybody inside of IBM when I eventually got there that said, "Well that stupid campaign we had...."