MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 17:51:04+00:00
>"The only way people in the US get jailed for taxes is by committing fraud; we correctly left debtor's prison in the past" and be done with that, yes?

False. You can be jailed for "tax evasion" which could be as simple as simply saying "yes I owe taxes, no I won't bother calculating and I have put all my money in bitcoins and I'll never give them to you." That needn't be fraud -- everything about that could be 100% accurate and true with no intend to defraud yet still criminal. (btw we still have debtor's prison -- you can be jailed for not paying child support debts and the absurd argument often used you're jailed for violating the court order to pay the debt rather than owing the debt is little more than a legal parlor trick).

>Taxes aren't slavery

They are by your definition, where I need to trade work to pay for them to improve my health (get thrown into a prison, a den of disease and mental health problems). Of course, we could get into a semantic debate about slavery, but it's clear you've already defined slavery not to be literal chattel slavery, i.e. as black people in chains working the cotton fields, rather you appear to be referring to being forced to work under threat of violence which in this case you take the violence to be a threat to your health.

>You do raise the interesting question of funding it by buying bonds though. I don't see an issue with that; the argument against loans is a practical one, not a theoretical one ("the private debt incurred upon patients is, in essence, an involuntary one-sided loan granted to them, and we've seen that lead to massively unfair outcomes"). Voluntarily loaning the government money seems to work great and is miles distant from involuntarily-accrued (or accrued under duress; "sure, that procedure is optional because you always have the option to die") medical debt.

I also find this to be one of the most interesting solutions. Hypothetically if a 22 year old were to have some illness, it's totally conceivable that a bunch of lenders could bid for a race to the bottom so the 22 year old could get a loan low enough that it would easily be both a net positive for him and for the people who helped loan the money that saves him. Of course, if charity or some other option is available instead, all the better.

In any case, the biggest enemy for both of us is overregulation of the health system. Once medical licensing is eliminating and medical regulations eliminated, fights over how to pay become much lower stakes.
by lesuorac | 2025-09-26 17:51:18+00:00
Even just the military won't solve the Ukraine. Like lets say superman comes down and lasers all the Russians.

Who gets what land? What happens to the people whose houses are destroyed? What happens to those whose farms are litered with landmines?

This is the posters point. The military can execute on a lot of things effectively but in order to go from 80% to 100% you need more than just them.
by scott_w | 2025-09-26 17:51:27+00:00
> Since time immemorial our right to vote without having to present papers was prized and protected and caused no appreciable problems whatsoever.

I don’t disagree at all, however we are where we are. The laws were introduced by a different government in a failed bid to maintain power by disenfranchising voters less likely to have ID.

That being said, we are where we are and having government-provided ID is a benefit in that context.
by HPsquared | 2025-09-26 17:51:37+00:00
This might be a "grass is greener" thing. Do elected representatives actually have higher approval rating, or enact policies that better fit with public opinion, under proportional systems? Sure it'd probably make things a little better, but it won't actually solve anything hard, I think. All Western countries are struggling (and mostly failing) to deal with the same problems regardless of details like electoral system.
by conductr | 2025-09-26 17:51:51+00:00
It’s a matter of procurement process and personnel. They simply aren’t always concerned with cost as the primary decision point and thus tend to not negotiate as hard as you might like. I’m in a finance role, company’s money is my responsibility so I very frequently have to tell procurement people that think a product “ticks all the boxes of the RFP” or similar, that the runner up product only missed on items we can live without so paying 2x isn’t worth it. I does come off as lacking critical thinking, but I’ve come to learn they just go off the requirement and don’t really know which things are critical versus nice to have. Those kinds of things, so I’d blame this entirely on whoever is supposed to have financial oversight over the bureaucracy. Do they have CFOs or similar, idk honestly, but that’s a reason most for profit companies do. They are monitoring large financial decisions for reasonableness.
by roryirvine | 2025-09-26 17:52:39+00:00
Yep - and, in urban areas, buses are pretty much the best possible use case for BEVs, aren't they? Short distance, high utilisation, predictable routes with far more stop/start than normal traffic.

Consider also that bus depots are the perfect site for big battery banks hooked up to their charging stations, and tend to have plenty of room for solar panels on the roof. So electrification is good for the grid too.

It's one of those rare situations where everyone benefits.
by zahlman | 2025-09-26 17:52:56+00:00
> Garlic and chopped orégano (wild marjoram)

It's wild to think that it's been less than a century since North Americans were apparently generally unfamiliar with an herb as ordinary as oregano, and would use a diacritic to indicate the pronunciation. For that matter, nowadays it seems like you'll hardly ever hear mention of marjoram.
by 9rx | 2025-09-26 17:53:05+00:00
> If the Chinese want to subsidize our mass transit buildout, why not let them?

The contention is always around the debt that is created when you let them. If China never calls the debt, that's a huge win — you just got something for free! You'd be crazy not to take that deal. But others are concerned about what happens if they do call the debt. You might not like what you have to give up in return (e.g. houses, farmland, etc.). Just ask Canada.

Of course, there is always the option to stonewall their attempts to collect on the debt, but that creates all kinds of other negative effects when the USA can no longer be trusted to make good on its promises.

Tradeoffs, as always.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-26 17:53:11+00:00
Answering myself. For those interested in AMD fall late 2010, Jim Kellers Computer History Museum Oral history is really great on what the issues with AMD were at the time, and how they turned it around.

Interestingly, he said he didn't really bring in many new people, AMD had great people, and it was more a matter of reorganizing and refocusing on the right things.
by godelski | 2025-09-26 17:53:12+00:00
Sorry, but sometimes they are. Laws are reactive so can only be updated when harm is done. But if businesses and people act to hold up the spirit of those laws then the harm doesn't happen in the first place. It's proactive vs reactive.

Plus, bring proactive saves everyone a whole lot of time and money. So many things would be better if people (and every entity) was just trying to do their best and no one was trying to fuck each other over. You may call it a dream and that's fine, but also remember that the vast majority of people already operate that way. A small number of people do the most harm
by ecshafer | 2025-09-26 17:53:32+00:00
I think that the authors solution, outsourcing production is not quite right, they gloss over other issues.

>In a large country like the US, some variation in bus design is inevitable due to differences in conditions like weather and topography. But Silverberg said that many customizations are cosmetic, reflecting agency preferences or color schemes but not affecting vehicle performance.

This is kind of absurd, I have been on busses all over the country, a metro bus, is a metro bus. There are not really differences based on topography or climate.

>Two US transit agencies, RTD and SORTA, bought similar 40-foot, diesel-powered buses from the same manufacturer in 2023, but RTD's 10 buses cost $432,028 each, while SORTA's 17 cost $939,388 each.

The issue here appears to be: Why is SORTA's purchasing so incompetent that they are buying 17 busses for the price of 35? They are over double the price of RTD.

> That same year, Singapore’s Land Transport Authority also bought buses. Their order called for 240 fully electric vehicles — which are typically twice as expensive as diesel ones in the US. List price: Just $333,000 each.

Singapore has a very efficient, highly trained, highly educated, highly paid administrative staff, and their competency is what is being shown here. They thought to get a reduction in price because of the large number of busses they are ordering.

One solution the author doesn't point out is that Federal funds often come coupled with a large amount of bureaucratic red tape. It could be cheaper in the long run to have more tax collection and expenditure at the local level, and not rely as much on federal grants.
by keyringlight | 2025-09-26 17:53:33+00:00
I think the closest we've had is Cyberpunk 2077, although it's still a very different game. I can appreciate why they're hard to do, when you start piling on variations in how the player can approach situations plus short and long term story/character choices it quickly starts multiplying the complexity and quantity of work involved to make something satisfying for dozens of hours
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-26 17:54:05+00:00
When I was in Australia and applying to study medicine (late 90s):

Course acceptance is initially driven by academic performance, and ranked scoring.

To get into Medicine at Monash and Melbourne Universities, you'd need a TER (Tertiary Entrance Ranking) of 99.8 (i.e. top 0.2% of students). This number was derived by course demand and capacity.

But, during my time, Monash was known for having a supplementary interview process with panel and individual interviews - the interview group was composed of faculty, practicing physicians not affiliated with the university, psychologists, and lay community members - specifically with the goal of looking for those well-rounded individuals.

It should also be noted that though "undergrad", there's little difference in the roadmap. Indeed when I was applying, the MBBS degree (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) was a six-year undergrad (soon revised to five), with similar post grad residency and other requirements for licensure and unrestricted practice.
by rootusrootus | 2025-09-26 17:55:09+00:00
Perception, maybe? My local transit agency seems to do pretty well. There will always be critics, but they don't seem unnecessarily bloated, the vehicles are well maintained and clean, etc. Not any different than a typical bus in, for example, UK. And I would caution that if you think everybody other than the US does government-owned transit very well, you may be focusing in a small subset of wealthy first world countries.
by mnahkies | 2025-09-26 17:55:12+00:00
The nuance is that you can have a NI number, then have your visa lapse for whatever reason - you still have the NI number. Hence the requirement to prove your right to work through another means.

Previously you could use proof of British nationality or a physical biometric residence card - but they've been replaced by the digital share code system (which tbh hasn't been too bad)
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-09-26 17:55:17+00:00
I believe they're speaking within the scope of the Bayesian analysis. We could interpret games outside of the winning streak as evidence to whether he's a cheater or not. Instead, I believe they are looking at the question of "given this winning streak in particular, what's the probability of him cheating in this set of games"?

They start with a prior (very low probability), I'm assuming they use the implied probabilities from the Elo differences, and then update that prior based on the wins. That's enough to find the posterior they're interested in, without needing to look outside the winning streak.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-26 17:55:48+00:00
LLMs don't make a distinction between prompt & data. There's no equivalent to an "NX bit", and AFAIK nobody has figured out how to create such an equivalent. And of course even that wouldn't stop all security issues, just as the NX bit being added to CPUs didn't stop all remote code execution attacks. So the best options we have right now tend to be based around using existing security mechanisms on the LLM agent process. If it runs as a special user then the regular filesystem permissions can restrict its access to various files, and various other mechanisms can be used to restrict access to other resources (outgoing network connections, various hardware, cgroups, etc.). But as long as untrusted data can contain instructions it'll be possible for the LLM output to contain secret data, and if the human using the LLM doesn't notice & copies that output somewhere public the exfiltration step returns.
by zahlman | 2025-09-26 17:56:08+00:00
> bs is one thing, ibs is another.

bs=BYTES read and write up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512); over‐ rides ibs and obs

As described, the script should have worked as is, and the problem is in the handling of the dd options. (But I didn't verify the accuracy of the description.)
by amscanne | 2025-09-26 17:56:25+00:00
I mean sure, you are just asserting a range. It is also true that there have been between 0 and 2,000,000 gazans killed by the IDF, but this fact does not do anything useful in discussing the issue. (And just like the 680,000 gazans "murdered by the IDF" it is nearly impossible to be accurate, fabrication because it defies reality.)
by jerf | 2025-09-26 17:56:51+00:00
A free of cost TLD is probably not practical. There are some special things that go along with being a TLD and being in the public suffix list: https://github.com/publicsuffix/list

If you drop the TLD part though, you can do whatever you want with any domain you want, up to and including handing out free subdomains to anyone who asks. As usual, though, if you try to do this, the dark internet will make you regret it as one day, quite suddenly, you'd find you were hosting the DNS of some massive scam email or other, or any of who-can-even-enumerate ways of making you sorry you put this service up because of their abuse of it. Just like anyone can make a URL redirector, and many people even use it as a sort of "learn this language project" but if you actually put it up online you will rapidly regret it.

It's a bummer and I'm not celebrating this fact, but, yeah, it's not something you want to do.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-26 17:57:01+00:00
In Australia, Medicine was/is typically an undergrad degree.

In the mid-90s my school started offering a Bachelor of Biomedical Science which was targeted at two audiences - people who wanted to go into Medicine from a research, not clinical perspective, and people who wanted to practice medicine in the US (specifically because it was so laborious for people to get credentialed in the US with a foreign medical degree, that people were starting to say "I will do my pre-med in Australia, and then just go to a US medical school").
by vl | 2025-09-26 17:57:09+00:00
There are other brands that make quality quiet fans.

My Vornado runs 24x7 and on minimal setting is inaudible, on second setting is very quiet. And it costs way less than a Dyson!

I have two units in the house, and when I ordered second unit I got a defective one - probably fan was not balanced. It was making noise like normal fan. I exchanged it on Amazon, and boom - second quiet fan in the house.
by 80hd | 2025-09-26 17:57:21+00:00
I wasn't expecting to, but I got chills listening to some Suno creations from artists who are clearly very talented at using this new medium.

Much like those of us hammering away at LLMs who eventually get incredible results through persistence, people are doing the same with these other AI tools, creating in an entirely new way.

I'm sure Suno are working hard on this and these AI tools can only come together as fast as we can figure out the UX for all this stuff, but I'm holding out for when I can guide the music with specific melodies using voice or midi.

For "conventional" musicians, we (or at least I) would love to have that level of control. Often we know exactly what it should sound like, but might not have session musicians or expensive VSTs (or patience) on hand to get exactly the sound we want. Currently we make do with what we have - but this tech could allow many to take their existing productions to the next level.
by guptadeepak | 2025-09-26 17:57:29+00:00
I’ve been exploring how AI is reshaping top-of-funnel growth for B2B SaaS. A few patterns stand out:

1. AI is driving hyper-personalization at scale, especially in outbound messaging where dynamic content adapts in real time to prospect behavior.

2. Predictive intent models are proving more reliable than traditional firmographic filters, helping teams prioritize accounts with higher conversion likelihood.

3. Multi-channel orchestration is shifting from manual sequencing to algorithmic optimization—AI selects touchpoints and cadence based on historical engagement data.

The challenge isn’t lack of tools but integrating these systems without fragmenting data flows. How are you managing the integration between AI-led demand gen systems and legacy CRMs?
by rammanrashida | 2025-09-26 17:57:39+00:00
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by lovich | 2025-09-26 17:57:50+00:00
I do not think the racism was masked anymore than the monarchist bent. Monarchists are just more palatable than racists.

I have been railing against these people for over a decade.

My experience with every friend or acquaintance denying their racism pretty much came down to “no one is actually that bad, you’re being ridiculous”

Between that and the people telling me Project 2025 was a caricature of a cartoon villain and would never happen last year, I am losing my mind at all the people confiding in me hat in hand that maybe, these people might actually want to bad things

It was really obvious what these people wanted. They advertised it. They wrote entire books about their plan. But all they had to do is say “no, that’s not true” in a single interview and everyone bought it because the alternative was mentally painful

You can have members of this group straight up admit to lying[1] and yet I have people who I can show the video of them admitting to lying who then still try to claim the lie is truthful.

If you are reading this comment and had seen these actions and events and had waved them off previously, then my opinion is that you were actively ignorant to save yourself the mental anguish

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jd-vance...
by w10-1 | 2025-09-26 17:57:54+00:00
mermaid layout doesn't scale for me so I keep using yEd/yFiles and their tgf (trivial graph format -- tab-delimited relations) input with orthogonal layout. It's a bit of a hassle in a meeting but updates take about 15 seconds to refresh if you have everything set up. Automating it fully would require an expensive license.
by _heimdall | 2025-09-26 17:58:24+00:00
Okay, I'll try to take this from the top.

> Yes they do - as I've said, you can't invoke politics as a shield.

That isn't the issue at hand. You are describing using ones political views against them simply for them holding those views, not someone being an asshole and attempting to justify it as a political act.

> Most companies don't want to hire people they think are assholes.

Sure, though they would base that on behavioral tendencies rather than a political survey.

> Ultimately, it's very simple human behavior. I don't want to work with people who suck. You don't either. Okay, so we must discriminate based on politics or other beliefs.

Ultimately you're the one worse off for viewing people this ways. Views and beliefs don't make a person suck, actions do.
by duxup | 2025-09-26 17:59:57+00:00
I remember in Murthy v. Missouri we had states arguing that the federal government influenced social media platforms to suppress speech they didn't like... and they felt that was wrong.

SCOTUS ruled (IMO correctly) that simply any contact between the feds (some of the evidence was just that phone calls had taken place) does not mean they had coerced these media sources. After all politicians do call news people and so on to say "hey your story was wrong" and that's normal.

Several conservative judges dissented and wanted to rule that the feds had coerced these media orgs and were wrong to do so.

So here we are today, the feds threatening news people, arranging their buddies buy media orgs and outright saying they should manipulate the information available.

Doubt they have much to say about it ... because of course it's ok when it is their guy.
by patapong | 2025-09-26 18:00:04+00:00
I think stopping exfiltration will turn out to be hard as well, since the LLM can social engineer the user to help them exfiltrate the data.

For example, an LLM could say "Go to this link to learn more about your problem", and then point them to a URL with encoded data, set up maliscious scripts for e.g. deploy hooks, or just output HTML that sends requests when opened.
by Symbiote | 2025-09-26 18:00:53+00:00
Every bus in Copenhagen has a button next to the door to lower the wheelchair ramp, but I have never seen anyone use it. I've never seen a wheelchair on a bus.

The metro and suburban trains have level boarding (the platform is at exactly the same level as the floor of the train so it's very easy for a wheelchair user to wheel themselves in). I've still only seen wheelchairs users on these trains once or twice.

I suspect wheelchair users prefer to call the disability taxi service. It's free for wheelchair users and blind people [1]. I don't know if this service is more or less expensive to provide than adapting buses and trains, but it is probably easier for everyone.

[1, in Danish] https://www.moviatrafik.dk/flexkunde/flexhandicap
by bwv848 | 2025-09-26 18:01:00+00:00
IMO Rostropovich and Jian Wang[1] have the best recordings, two sides of the same coin. I never understand the hype of Yo-Yo Ma. And if you like Jian Wang, you would probably also like Viktoria Mullova's interpretation of Sonatas and Partitas

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCSqHFgSUhU&list=PL8Hi9pw3gE...
by numpad0 | 2025-09-26 18:01:10+00:00
I'm starting to feel many of "next big Twitter to fill its power vacuum" projects are tackling the problem slightly wrong - they all perfect the Twitter feature set, then hit the wall with user growth and content deprivation chicken and egg problem. People gather where there are others and that's still around the rotting whale.

That OpenAI timeline thing that just launched is more better approach, it solves content problem by just gathering data in background and feeding it to the user anyway. That particular implementation might not work but it sounds correct.

IMO, not much of value of Twitter for most users is in ability to post tweets, it's in data bandwidth. 99.9% of users don't post anything interesting, those might as well be local text file or oit of band shared filler content. The value is in content sourcing, so something like multi-social RSS reader with optional P2P should be the way to go. Just IMdimO, though...