MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-15 16:45:59+00:00
~75-80% of farmers voted for this administration. It's unfortunate. Better luck next election cycle.

“Too strong a belief in the rationality of people in general, or of the world, will lead us to seek purposive explanations where none exists.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/farm-labor-shortage...

https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/trump-election-far... (includes a map)

https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/10/15/midwest-farmers-ta...

> America’s most farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly backed President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election by an average of 77.7%.

> Some political observers questioned whether Trump’s support would wane among farmers after his first-term trade war, which led to increased prices and a drop in agricultural exports. During the campaign, Trump promised a return to high tariffs if given a second term.

> “His policies didn’t do us any good; his tariffs didn’t do us any good,” Lance Lillibridge, an Iowa farmer, told Investigate Midwest.

> Not only did Trump increase his support among farming-dependent counties, but more than 100 of those counties supported him with at least 80% of their vote.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-15 16:45:59+00:00
I (like GP, most likely) did not live through the events that occurred in Moscow during 1991. The only news media I consumed at the time was Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, which did not cover Soviet politics, and we did not cover any of this in school later in the 90s and early 2000s. Most of what I learned after the fact has been from Fox and MSNBC and Red Alert 2 and Call of Duty - that commies and socialists and Soviets are bad people who want to give kids free school lunches, will disrupt the temporal equilibrium, and give adults universal health care. I can skim the Wikipedia article about the coup [1] and I recognize the names of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, but I cannot even begin to articulate the political philosophies of their platforms or the power dynamics, coalitions, and incentive structures that either used to leverage one position or the other.

The intro paragraph, I think, is trying to use this to its advantage by describing an unfamiliar political landscape with conservatives and parlimentarians and Stalinists and "putschists" (what even is that word?). I barely know what conservativism means as distinct from "whatever the American Republican party does". I clicked on the article because I've observed that liberalism/conservativism/libertarianism/socialism/populism/marxism/fascism/neo___ism/etc. are bandied about more like sports team names to be cheered or derided rather than comprehended, and hoped to understand this phenomenon better.

I'll push through the article eventually, with frequent dictionary lookups for "societas civilis" and "diptych" and "affairs curricula". But it's clearly written for an expert in political philosophy and will take me a long time to do so. I'm an expert in computer engineering and pretty innately talented at understanding that, I'm not an expert in the social sciences and they don't come easily to me. But I still live in a society, and try to participate in its governance as best I can...while neither journalists nor public education have really helped me to get there. I don't observe my peers reading Chomsky, Hayek, Putnam, Piketty, Turchin, and Zinn before they go to the voting booth, but they get one vote each just the same.

I've actually looked it up and found that my local community college offers a "PL230 - Introduction to Political Theory" course, this winter it's held mid-day for full-time students but they're offering it virtually in the evenings next summer so that people who work during the day can participate.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_attempt
by projectazorian | 2025-09-15 16:46:11+00:00
> Mortgage will only ever go down, both in absolute terms (due to opportunistic refinancing)

If you bought a home during ZIRP, this doesn't apply. Even now, you're looking at cutting your rate by what, 2-3% max? And if rates drop by that much, the economy is probably bad. Hope you're still employed.

> and due to inflation, and proportionally due to your earnings increasing over your career. These three factors will erode a mortgage into nothing.

You must live in California and benefit from Prop 13, congrats. In the rest of the country property tax makes up a significant part of housing cost that only gets larger as your mortgage decreases. Property tax also increases over time in proportion to housing cost inflation and the local government's fiscal policy. Any improvements to your home increase your assessment as well. (Not sure if you have noticed but the quality of governance in the US is...not great, and many markets can expect double digit percentage increases in property tax over the next decade.)

Now you might say "yeah but this applies if you rent as well." Not as significantly for a few reasons:

- Smaller landlords will often eat the tax increase given the cost and risk inherent in switching tenants. Any rent increase incurs the risk of needing to find a new tenant.

- Larger landlords have access to sophisticated tax advice that you won't have as an individual homeowner. They also probably have a real estate law firm on retainer to contest changes in assessed value.

- When your locality jacks up property tax by 20% because they can't fund gold-plated public employee pensions for boomers, if you rent it's a lot easier to just move.
by egorfine | 2025-09-15 16:47:05+00:00
Title: PayPal [..] Reimagining How Money Moves to Anyone, Anywhere.

Text: PayPal users in the U.S. can begin [..] today, with international expansion [..] starting later this month.

So immediately out of the box it is exactly NOT for "anyone" and NOT "anywhere".

This is contagious: a couple of years ago Gnosis tried to launch their Gnosis Card[1] on Berlin DappCon with the exact same slogan: "Anyone, anywhere" while only accepting applications from a select group of people living in select EU countries.

I have had discussion with their CEO right there regarding this marketingspeak but he did not seem to grasp what's the problem at all here.

You can't make this shit up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4_6aOUagY4
by parsimo2010 | 2025-09-15 16:47:13+00:00
If you also consider half the Earth is experiencing day, while the other half is experiencing night, there's another benefit to transferring the power East/West as well as North/Sourth. Perhaps by doing both, we could create some kind of "power grid"...

That's just me being snarky, but we've been scaling towards this for decades, we just haven't fully gotten there. We can probably solve the technical problems, it seems the main issue to building a fully-connected worldwide power grid is that the cost of scaling that much isn't worth it (yet).
by cardanome | 2025-09-15 16:47:37+00:00
While I do believe that disposable vapes should be banned even if they happen to be more convenient, I really don't see it. When I vaped myself I liked having a re-usable vape so much more than the disposable crap.

With the disposable it would always be a gamble how long they would last. I don't get how people manage. Do they buy multiples at once and carry them around?

It was so much more convenient to carry that small bottle of liquid with me and have the peace of mind that I wouldn't run out of juice for the night. Never had issues with spilled liquid.

Not having a standard for pods sucks but you don't need to buy them that often. I just ordered them online anyway.

Of course it might be a bit of a cultural difference as well. Most of my smoker friends roll their own cigarettes which is way more inconvenient.
by rckt | 2025-09-15 16:47:38+00:00
> Whoever it was at Apple that decided to make this a CSS property is a genius because it makes it incredibly easy to provide different rules based on Liquid Glass support

What is genius here? Create something, that nobody asked for, create an in-house CSS property to use across approved apps. Genius? I would simply call this a dirty trick.

There are a lot of things, that they could have implemented, according to the CSS spec. But they decided to spend workforce on this shit. Yeah, they are a business and free to do whatever they want with their money. But I don’t like their choices.
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-09-15 16:47:39+00:00
I assume you can't use Crypto instead of the bank account link, you probably require both. Otherwise this might have some use as another blast radius reducer for Paypal's antics.

I switched to a hardly used checking account for paypal after they held $20 hostage for a couple months after selling an old video card on ebay. I'd heard some one say their bank account had become frozen by paypal during a dispute and that event reminded me of it enough to get some separation.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-15 16:47:43+00:00
> Of course, with a shift in energy production to renewables

clearly, you're not in the US as renewables are considered the problem here and not part of the solution. i'm waiting for the administration to come out with clawback plans for all of the subsidies for home solar and even the EV subsidies. gotta pay for those tax cuts some how
by Sytten | 2025-09-15 16:47:47+00:00
I was angry at first as a small software provider. Then you understand there is nothing to be done and you budget it so it becomes the cost of doing business.

The most common charge back case is when a customer loses its card and the bank charges back all the transactions of the past X days no matter what. It is stupid but a lot of banks do it instead of asking the customer which transactions are legitimate.
by StillBored | 2025-09-15 16:48:28+00:00
Which is probably exactly why this was added. The cheap way to usually tell if someone is using a 3rd party UI toolkit, is to start tweaking the system theming and see if the application follows some scaling/color changes correctly.

In this case some subset of apple provided apps weren't following the theme and they fixed it by adding a private css property.

Vs some other OS vendor that likely removed most of the theme controls so they didn't have to keep fixing a huge pile of 1/2 baked abandoned toolkits scattered across their product portfolio.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-15 16:48:44+00:00
> I’ve not had time to compile everything from source,

Then use the official binary packages?

> and compiling from source is a false sense of security, since you still don’t know what’s been compromised (it could be the compiler, etc.), and few have the time or expertise to adequately review all of the code.

That would still leave you in a strictly better position, surely? Any other distro would pull the same code and build with compilers, so that attack surface exists regardless.
by wavemode | 2025-09-15 16:49:11+00:00
This article is attacking a strawman. Nobody was ever advocating for labeling all em dash usage as AI. Even the tweet they reference (not that random tweets ought to be taken as some sort of authoritative gauge of the current state of society...) does not claim that all em dash usage is AI.

In certain contexts, em dashes are perfectly natural and human. That being said, everyone has encountered articles and posts that read so obviously like AI, and in those contexts the presence of numerous em dashes is certainly an additional data point.
by natmaka | 2025-09-15 16:49:22+00:00
You quote assertions. It doesn't proves anything about the nuclear industry. An indictment must specify who did what, when, and with what effect.

> the irrelevant "but China is also building renewables".

No, I state the fact: China is building WAY, WAY MORE renewables than nuclear.

> nuclear and renewables are only a contradiction in the minds of anti-nuclear advocates. Industrial nations do both.

They try to do nuclear (with meager effects) just like many of them do coal: inertia, political pressure...

>> Plan to build 6 then 8 more EPR2 → "only a plan"

> That is incorrect. As stated before, the approvals are being sought, 3 sites have been selected and multi-billion € contracts have been awarded.

Here, also, only acts prove anything. Everything started in 2022 and, 3 years later, only one site preparation project has begun.

>> Sites have been selected for the first 6

> https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bugey-chosen-to-host...

"Selected" is far from "nuclear-specific work is in order"!

> Apologies about pointing at Mitterand, that was incorrect. I meant Hollande.

Which action of F. Hollande did hurt the nuclear sector? Not a single one! No, not Fessenheim (French ahead, AFAIK a software translator does the job): https://sites.google.com/view/electricitedefrance/accueil#h....

> Translation: 'Green cabal paralyzes the nuclear industry’

The interviewee, Bernard Accoyer, does not make any specific accusations; it is a conspiracy theory. He is well-known for this in France.
by starkparker | 2025-09-15 16:49:40+00:00
> I am not very familiar with 'slicer' software yet.

and

> durable, temperature/chemical resistant materials such as PC/Nylon/ABS or infused materials.

are a little cart-before-horse. This is like asking what ink-and-paper printer to buy for making complex, multi-format printed books to specific criteria, while admitting that you've not used any form of publishing software or understand any of the non-software processes involved in making a book.

The slicer is by far your most important tool for _effective_ 3D printing with a variety of materials, moreso than CAD or 3D modeling. Get a cheaper, more plug-and-play printer that doesn't meet all of your criteria, and focus on learning how to effectively use its slicer.

Print basic things, experiment, and force and make hands-on mistakes with it on relatively forgiving PLA/PETG. Do these _before_ jumping up to a pricier, fully enclosed machine _and also_ before printing harder-to-use materials, each of which will add new difficulties. You don't want your first hotend blob to happen on a decent machine that you actually like while using a material that's difficult or dangerous to deal with.

A Sovol SV06 or SV08 meets most of your criteria at about 1/3 to 1/2 of your budget; I haven't had the best experiences with their reliability but they fit many of your criteria. Used Creality Enders might be even cheaper depending on where you are, and while also fussy are hackable and repairable to the point of often being used as platforms for entirely different printers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmMW6_7lrlQ
by Bender | 2025-09-15 16:49:58+00:00
I cannot imagine anything worse than doing this!

It's certainly up there. Not just what you mentioned but also the fact the earth moves. One decent earthquake and what was 14 inches of clearance can go to 7 inches or less. Water tables shrink which removes pressure and that can also cause ground movement. This is happening in Arizona and New Mexico right now from soft drink companies draining aquifers and then trying to shift blame to datacenters and farmers. Very much a roll of the dice. I still find it fascinating to watch. Emphasis on watch. I'm not going in that cave either. Maybe a drone that can both swim and fly accepting I might lose my drone.
by Twey | 2025-09-15 16:50:27+00:00
Important to note that in the Culture universe all the extant AIs are _explicitly_ noted to be psychologically flawed in some way, with every culture that's managed to produce a true ‘perfect’ AI immediately ascending to some godlike plane of pure energy, whence they interfere in the affairs of meatbags only in the most dire of circumstances. So it's surprising to me that Banks has said he considered it a utopia given how explicitly (in my reading) he made it a non-utopia in the books.
by OskarS | 2025-09-15 16:50:36+00:00
I'm a very dedicated anti-Google person who's trying to move everything I can off of any kind of Google service, so I very much understand the desire to self-host. But I find it hard to find fault with Google here. "If you don't want to worry about hosting, here's a one-liner you can add to CSS that hosts it off our servers. If you want to do something else, here are the raw font files as a single click download, do whatever you like!". That seems perfectly reasonable to me, and it's a great service to improve typography on the web.
by mnemotronic | 2025-09-15 16:50:37+00:00
Elected representatives frequently introduce bills that have no chance of passing or being considered. This proposed legislation is only to gain points with the electorate: "I introduced a bill to ban/promote XYZ but it was killed by the other side". It's red-cape waving. I would like to come up with a name for this behavior but I'm trying to restrict my use of bad language and negative thinking.
by arethuza | 2025-09-15 16:50:46+00:00
Self improving superintelligences that have had thousands of years to self-improve so they are near god like:

"I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side. We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too."

Of course, in the Culture universe there are things far more powerful than Minds - the transcended entities that still dabble in the base reality - such as the Dra'Azon. Although I seem to remember someone, probably a drone, snarkily referring to it as senile.
by sdenton4 | 2025-09-15 16:50:47+00:00
IME: most of the reviewers in the big ML conferences are second-year phd students sent into the breach against the overwhelming tide of 10k submissions... Their review comments are often somewhere between useless and actively promoting scientific dishonesty.

Sometimes we get good reviewers, who ask questions and make comments which improve the quality of a paper, but I don't really expect it in the conference track. It's much more common to get good reviewers in smaller journals, in domains where the reviewers are experts and care about the subject matter. OTOH, the turnaround for publication in these journals can take a long time.

Meanwhile, some of the best and most important observations in machine learning never went through the conference circuit, simply because the scientific paper often isn't the best venue for broad observation... The OG paper on linear probes comes to mind. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.01644
by isodev | 2025-09-15 16:50:51+00:00
> With whom is Apple competing on their own web pages and apps?

With every other app using a web view.

> without referring to monopolies

Of course it’s about monopolies. Safari is still “privileged” to be forced default browser. Making an alternative, Apple ensured to be very hard and expensive. So gating any kind of first party feature is a big no.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-09-15 16:50:53+00:00
>All that hardware must surely be worth more than half the value of the actual product!

I'm constantly struck at how bread (a pastry, say) in a plastic tray, wrapped in plastic, is so crazy to me. The effort and technology that went, and goes, into oil extraction and such - only to throw the packaging away immediately that I get home ... it's just so unsustainable.

I wonder when in the West we'll start mining rubbish dumps ('refuse sites' where household waste is buried)? Maybe we already have? I know in developing countries people spend their days manually picking over such places.
by bityard | 2025-09-15 16:50:56+00:00
I'm going to need to see some data to back up that claim. Americium-241 has a half-life of 432.6 years. The detector itself isn't going to degrade in any meaningful way after only 10 years.

Plus, many smoke alarms these days use a photoelectric sensor which don't wear out but are prone to false alarms from dust, etc. Smoke alarms SHOULD be cleaned at least once a year, by blasting them with compressed air. Dust buildup is a very common reason that smoke alarms stop working as well after any number of years. They require regular cleaning, just like everything else in the house.

Non-replaceable battery smoke alarms are popular because they are much more convenient to own. And you should NOT throw them away, the batteries in these contain lithium and must be recycled.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-15 16:50:58+00:00
Once I got suckered into at least texting one of these scammers. Had just got a new phone number, assumed it was the usual trying to reach the previous owner of the number, then all of a sudden they started talking about crypto, and it's ciao from my end...

Just blocked anyone I didn't know after that and after 3-4 numbers it stopped forever.
by tortilla | 2025-09-15 16:51:04+00:00
My niche SaaS (monthly subs, no annual) gets about 1 or 2 chargebacks a year.

I give instant refunds, we are very lenient with our terms, and I've made the unsubscribe flow 2 clicks from email or dashboard (want to cancel? click. Are you sure? click. Done. Confirmation email). Every subscription email also includes short instructions on cancellation.

Even with a very customer friendly posture, the chargebacks fall into three categories:

- bad experiences with other companies, so instant chargeback instead of emailing or calling - miscommunication between customer departments (accounting doesn't know about the subscription and chargeback) - fraud or lying about usage

We've won about 50% of the chargebacks disputes. I recently added an admin interface that has a chargeback defense function that compiles evidence into a handy package I can upload to Stripe to dispute.
by netdur | 2025-09-15 16:51:08+00:00
Meta is run by people with no regard for ethics, and if that surprises you, that’s on you. Their whole model is just packaging and selling you with whatever tech they can grab. If you’re worried, don’t install Meta apps. I’ve got WhatsApp on Android and Instagram on iPad, They’re already getting eaten alive by TikTok and AI girlfriends
by alephnerd | 2025-09-15 16:51:24+00:00
Yep! But this isn't a "car run over becuase of a pencil" situation.

This is a federal overreach on a business that has broken major labor laws in the US.

And that's why I'm a bit miffed. In all this discuss about ICE's overreach, we are ignoring the very real and persistent disdain Hyundai America has for labor regulations.

It's almost like (rightful) opposition to ICE's overreach is being used to whitewash what is a very very bad employer.

In Korean business and political discourse, the anger isn't about the humanitarian aspect, but the "how dare they even try to do this to us because we have put in so much money".

Being angry about ICE because of overreach and treating labor bad is valid, but feeling slighted that money doesn't buy impunity is not a good reason to be annoyed, and betrays a level of callousness that is sadly all to common in Korea Inc.
by Aachen | 2025-09-15 16:51:38+00:00
What is "not efficient enough"?

As a first guess, one would think it makes more sense to eat 30% loss (so you need 1/0.7=143% installed capacity) than to need 200% capacity plus batteries since it's night about half the time on average. And afaik HVDC is more on the order of ~15% loss
by tencentshill | 2025-09-15 16:52:04+00:00
The smell gets almost unbearable inside the plane as it sits on the tarmac.

Elevated lead levels are found in the blood of airfield employees. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/2012-0115-3186.pd...

That was in 2012, I'm sure things have changed a bit in aviation since then.
by yesfitz | 2025-09-15 16:52:42+00:00
To be a little more constructive for the author, as they themselves are an editor:

* Headings would be helpful. They let the reader see what the structure of the writing is. And I see that you definitely have a structure, we'd just benefit from knowing it before we dive into reading the whole piece.

* Once you're using headings, adding a table of contents or an outline at the top of the page is trivial.

* Consider adding a hook to the first sentence. It says that you went to a Nokia 2780 and won't be going back to a smartphone, but why should a reader scroll past the picture of Paris Hilton to keep reading? Are you going to tell them how/why to do likewise, or is this a meditation on your journey, or something else?