MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by astrange | 2025-09-24 23:40:45+00:00
> Walmart is one of the most heavily subsidized businesses on Earth. Directly you have agricultural subsidies but another is food stamps paid to Walmart employees [1] as well as Medicaid. Why? Because Walmart pays below a living wage.

No, food stamps are a subsidy /against/ Walmart, not for it. They're paid to the worker and increase the worker's negotiating power. An example of a subsidy to Walmart would be wage supplements used to get businesses to hire low-functioning disabled people.

Although if you're also arguing Medicaid is a subsidy for Walmart you might just be fedposting (as leftists call it now) or a wrecker (as they used to call it). Do you think any good thing in the world is a subsidy for Walmart simply because it's not being forced to pay for all of it? Because you're arguing against food stamps and Medicaid here, two good things.

> If you buy from Walmart, you're paying the Walton family, Blackstone, Vanguard and all the other shareholders (or capital owners).

BlackRock[0] and Vanguard don't "own capital", they manage retirement funds. The people who own the retirement funds own the capital. That would be you.

[0] not Blackstone. People on social media seem to confuse these two a lot, like with that totally false claim that houses are expensive because BlackRock bought them all.

> Also, Walmart is known for setting up in a town, selling their products at below cost to kill all local businesses and then jacking up the prices, if not leaving outright, creating a new food desert.

The evidence is fairly strong that food deserts are mainly caused by a confusing definition of "food deserts".

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/1cpp9yp/comme...
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-24 23:41:15+00:00
It absolutely is. I fear for the older generations and less tech minded people who google their bank, and get some random phishing site. Or similarly google what should be libre software and get some random malware on a site that looks 'close enough'.

Lets call it what it is, a cancer, one that literally enables countless bad actors and purely for a search engine's own profit. In theory theres a time and place for ads, but maliciously inline and disguised as the actual results people want arent it.
by seec | 2025-09-24 23:41:21+00:00
Well I don't use Safari anymore. A few years ago, it stopped syncing passwords correctly with my iPhone and nothing I did could fix the problem (there is an issue in the backend on their part, maybe it has been fixed since). On top of that it didn't show favicon for bookmarks which was quite annoying and was slow/worked poorly with some web apps. So I went to Chrome, monopoly be damned.

At the rate it's going, there isn't going to be a single app from Apple that I want to keep using, quite soon.

By the way, the PDF export for Notes is ridiculously bad. It's an old note and there is some migration bug, all the links have the same target. I haven't bothered to investigate yet, but the plan is to stop using Notes as well, so whatever.
by bri3d | 2025-09-24 23:42:16+00:00
Does anyone have benchmarks for Rosetta with TSO vs the Linux version with no-TSO? I guess it might be a bit challenging to achieve apples to apples, although you could run a test benchmark on OSX and then Asahi on the same hardware, I think?

I've always been curious about just how much Rosetta magic is the implementation and how much is TSO; Prism in Windows 24H2 is also no slouch. If the recompiler is decent at tracing data dependencies it might not have to fence that much on a lot of workloads even without hardware TSO.
by switz | 2025-09-24 23:42:35+00:00
I didn't even really realize it was a SPOF in my deploy chain. I figured at least most of it would be cached locally. Nope, can't deploy.

I don't work on mission-critical software (nor do I have anyone to answer to) so it's not the end of the world, but has me wondering what my alternate deployment routes are. Is there a mirror registry with all the same basic images? (node/alpine)

I suppose the fact that I didn't notice before says wonderful things about its reliability.
by gambiting | 2025-09-24 23:43:17+00:00
I mean current gen consoles are already massively underpowered(in the literal sense) compared to actual PCs - PS5 uses like 120-150W when running, that's laptop terittory(in fact it's half of my gaming laptop). Clearly they could do a lot more with a higher power budget, but are choosing not to because the gains are not worth the increased heat and noise.

And with modern upscaling solutions I think you'd be surprised what can be done in a small package - so in that way a "portable" PS6 that can be used in or outside of the dock makes perfect sense.

>>As kids keep becoming adults their lifestyle evolves away from regularly taking their console to school and their friends houses.

You see, as I got older and got my own kids I lost appetite for playing on the TV or my gaming PC. I'd rather have something portable so I can play next to my wife on the sofa. That's why my Steam Deck is seeing 10x more use than my RTX5090 desktop PC.
by jwrallie | 2025-09-24 23:45:12+00:00
My observation is that in language learning there are always people that will come to correct or improve your method, say they have something better and tell you why you are wrong.

It’s important to be a bit strong willed against this type of comment in the internet and stick to your instincts. Not to say good things cannot be learned out from others, but finding out what works for your particular needs through self experiment is really important, and on the long run time exposure to the target language trumps over methods.

Some examples:

- Learn grammar from a good book vs. absorb it naturally from material.

- The [tool I’m using] is better than [tool I’ve never tried].

- The [method I used for a month] is better than [old method I used for years].

- The [tool I’m selling] is better than [my competitor’s].

It’s easy to get discouraged if you don’t see the patterns and think you are doing something wrong, it’s better to keep vigilant.
by cyborgrising | 2025-09-24 23:45:28+00:00
Observationally, Google search and Kagi are fundamentally different business models.

Google followed/trailblazed the "enshitification" arc of providing a free service that sees widespread adoption by the public, and then financially exploiting the widespread adoption by leveraging usage of the service to serve ads like in the screenshot.

Kagi is a subscription service you pay for and they generate their best effort at an ideal service for you using the money you gave them.

The Google model of providing a free service sort of requires that it be enshitified in order to close the circle on the business case. Reliance on VC money in this model is likely a further aggravating factor to aggressively exploit usage of the service once widespread adoption is achieved.

The Kagi model has an opposite pressure, where if it tries to exploit adoption of the service in a way that users don't appreciate, users will simply abandon their subscription, putting a core revenue stream the business has built itself around at risk.

Is it possible for Kagi or a business like that to become shitty? Sure, a new manager that misunderstands core realities can show up anywhere and ruin the business, or sagging business financials could require VC injection which then pressures further financial extractions from uses. But the structural pressures on a Kagi-style model certainly seem to steer it in the right direction when Google's structural model invariably steered it into something that becomes less pleasant than we all initially knew.
by leakycap | 2025-09-24 23:45:29+00:00
No.

Reddit just allows people at keyboards to type and post and upload things in a semi-public way semi-immediately and get reactions

Twitter used to be kind of like this, but it's X now and discussion is behind a login and half the users left making it less interesting even if you do log on

So now we get links posted to Reddit to the one non-login-blocked X post of a gruesome bloody murder and you're complaining about Reddit, which didn't even host the video but just lets people write things.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-24 23:45:34+00:00
For people complaining about battery control and android emulation on linux, ChromeOS is a boon.

You effectively get an actual Linux distro + most of android, with a side of Chrome. It's way closer to "a real computer" than an iPad for instance, and only loses to the Surface Pro/Z13 line in term of versatility IMHO.

It really wasn't bad, my only deal breakers were keyboard remapping being non existent and the bluetooth stack being flaky.
by dwaite | 2025-09-24 23:45:54+00:00
The removal of Java was perhaps the best example of people expecting Apple's obsolescence policy to be the same as Windows, and getting burned.

There were large software vendors who had not yet started on a strategy around the deprecation of Java until it was removed from the OS. They didn't look like they even noticed it had been removed in betas and come up with a plan on what to tell customers.
by riemannzeta | 2025-09-24 23:46:03+00:00
Coase was a founder of the field sometimes called "New Institutional Economics" and I think Terry is basically independently reaching some of the conclusions that have already been published in that field, including some of Coase's.

I think North, Wallis, and Weingast's Violence and Social Orders is a little more directly on point to his posts, but I believe I share at least part of your point of view here — and would love to see a precis of the magnum opus!
by coderenegade | 2025-09-24 23:46:24+00:00
And if citizens don't have access to guns, they'll still be used in crimes.

The second amendment isn't about safety or preventing death, it's about the right of the individual versus the overall collective. Governments and systems break down, but what doesn't change is the individual's right to defend themselves. Whether or not you think it improves individual safety in practice is irrelevant, because it's not your call (nor even the government's) to make.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-24 23:47:06+00:00
In June. Source is a tweet from two weeks ago: https://x.com/atla_kouhou_en/status/1965701798448013737

Previously: (27 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227997

Related: Japan releases image of Railgun installed on naval vessel (13 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788741
by timr | 2025-09-24 23:47:21+00:00
Let me make this simple for you: you will not get rich by 30.

I know, I know...there are examples! And yes, there are, but statistically, they won't be you. You're playing the lottery, only it's a lottery that steals your youth and gives you psychological problems.

If your only goal is to get rich, then don't do a startup. You have to have some more fundamental reason, or the agony will beat you.
by lunarcave | 2025-09-24 23:47:34+00:00
In the "choose a default search engine" page, it has a slightly amusing summary for each.

> Google

> Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices.

> Qwant

> Based in Europe. Uses Bing results. Sends tracking data to Microsoft.

> DuckDuckGo

> Privacy-focused. Relies on Bing results but never tracks or profiles you.

> Ecosia

> May plant trees for clicking ads. Relies on Bing and Google. Sends tracking data to Microsoft and Google.

> Microsoft Bing

> Collects extensive personal data. Privacy controls are buried and limited. Subjectively overwhelming UI.

> Kagi

> Privacy-focused. Customizable results without ads or tracking. Requires a paid account.
by octo888 | 2025-09-24 23:47:49+00:00
LOL there is literally a "$0 total" deal ($0.24 rounded down). At least it's REALLY obvious it's a scam:

Due today: $0.00 Due at car rental counter: $0.24 Car rental: $0.20 Scg - lpf $0.01Scg - iva $0.03"

I'm guessing there is some crazy location fee, mandatory insurance at an inflated price and/or "oops the car you booked isn't available"?
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-24 23:47:50+00:00
The issue you're describing is ranking results or ranking between promoted/ad content.

The problem more at hand is unless you're paying big bucks, they can and will place content that at best is another competitor, or at worst is genuinely trying to harm your users. Ads being inline and as close in appearance to regular results as google can legally get away with is the problem. There are heavily misaligned incentives at play, ones that enable a lot of malware and phishing attempts.
by kuekacang | 2025-09-24 23:48:54+00:00
I'm aware of that gesture, but I think it shows the point that it requires extra intention from the user to do select+copy on an input-looking field with copy button attached, instead of being part if the default ctc button experience.

Not that I am searching, but I wonder if there's already tog/nielson/other ux research on this specific interaction.
by mc3301 | 2025-09-24 23:49:43+00:00
I'd go as far to guess that the tech-literate people (who would be both less susceptible to clicking on enshitified links and more likely to report or discuss them) have, somewhere in their tracked-data-portfolio, a "don't serve too much garbage to this person, they aren't gullible and they'll tell people we're serving garbage" setting.

Apologies for the weird grammar.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-09-24 23:50:43+00:00
It's really us who have to change our mindset about companies. It's foolish to expect them to retain the quality or purported ideology they claimed to have when they were trying to win customers, after they reach a point where they can exploit and extract money and suppress choice and competition. A CEO will say anything now and might even mean it, but it's empty words really, and not even their choice in the long run.

We have to not get attached to companies, and not get the idea that they care or have feelings of good or evil. They are tools, like a hammer, or a stapler. A stapler isn't evil if it mashes up all the staples into a tangled mess. It's just broken. You don't mourn a broken stapler, eventually tools just wear out. You throw it out and get a new one. Corporations are the same, McKinsification / enshitification / etc are a part of their natural lifecycle, you should expect that and just switch to a different tool that actually works.
by DHolzer | 2025-09-24 23:50:53+00:00
I would hate to have a 40px title bar doing nothing except wasting space on my screen. I've been using this layout for years, and I didn't even consider that anyone could have an issue with this until I read your statement.

I'm not saying that you are wrong to disregard it due to your personal preferences, but please consider that this might not be such a horrible design as you make it out to be. Also, you can be certain that you are not the only sane person left - I think it's just that most of them don't show up on boards and forums.
by defrost | 2025-09-24 23:51:04+00:00
This is from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

founded in 1992 and is a non-profit organization. The constitutional organs are the General Assembly, the Board of Trustees, the Board of Directors and the Scientific Advisory Board. On the 31.01.2025 PIK had 466 employees, of whom 297 were scientists, 101 were support staff and 68 were student assistants and apprentices. PIK is a member of the Leibniz Association. The basic funding is provided by grants from the Federal State of Brandenburg together with the Federal Government and the other states. In 2024, the institute received around 14.8 million euros in institutional funding. Additional project funding from external sources amounted to over 25 million euros. As an independent, non-profit research institute, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research also advises the German Bundestag and the German government.

https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/institute/about
by gnabgib | 2025-09-24 23:51:26+00:00
Related (yes.. it's that scientist):

Scientist behind Trump's Tylenol claims was paid $150K to give evidence (17 points, 21 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45355707

Trump admin links autism and Tylenol ingredient use during pregnancy (36 points, 2 days ago, 40 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45339794
by ropable | 2025-09-24 23:51:26+00:00
Couldn't agree more. Many (most?) of our opportunities are afforded by the family, community and society in which we grew up. Of course individual talent and choices make a difference, but it's my feeling that many people wildly underestimate how much their external life circumstances contribute to their success or happiness. In fairness, it goes against our sense of self-efficacy.
by diogenescynic | 2025-09-24 23:51:27+00:00
Try searching for "FedEx phone number" and it's not even in the top 10 search results. Not sure if FedEx is using SEO or paying to suppress results, but I was shocked Google couldn't even return this basic search successfully. I remember when Google Search used to actually work and have useful results and something like "FedEx phone number" would have the 1-800 number in bold text for you to click and immediately use. Now I use ChatGPT for those type of questions--and get the results I expect.
by astrange | 2025-09-24 23:51:49+00:00
Expanding the labor supply does not decrease wages.

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

More people = more economy = higher wages. Otherwise killing people and stopping other people from having children would increase your pay.

As for the middle class, most of the reason for the decline is people moving into the upper class.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/31/th...
by leakycap | 2025-09-24 23:52:25+00:00
> We know

Who is we, and where is their evidence?

> Go to any post on the topic in r/news, r/politics, or default r/all and half the comments are celebratory.

This is complete hyperbole - this sounds like someone talking nonsense in the lobby of a hair salon or barber shop, shooting random things out to see what interests people, maybe? But your statement is false and shows you're just making things up to back up your own feelings on the matter.

> That isn't good for society.

Hyperbolic claims with no evidence that can be easily proven false are not good for your argument.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-24 23:53:20+00:00
Thanks. I've obviously not thought about mimetics very much, I've just been more interested in figuring out how Thiel, specifically, wields them as a tool of influence (for now, in the limited sphere of SV intellectuals/rightwing politicians)

-- which I thought was comparable to how a swath of people orientate themselves with respect to (such entities as TV tropes and) memes.

Anyways. Memes are much more alive than mimetics; tapeworms are an adequate metaphor in that sense
by timr | 2025-09-24 23:53:22+00:00
Sure. Google "selection bias". You aren't meeting the 10,000 who failed.

I also live in NYC. I lived in SF, during possibly the all-time greatest period of wealth creation in the last 50 years. I knew billionaires when they couldn't afford bar tabs. I ate leftover boxes of Obama-Os (again, Google it) that nobody wanted.

I'm still telling you the truth. Every one of those people who succeeded went through hell and back, and even then there was no guarantee that there was a reward at the end of the hell. Doing a startup is like getting punched in the face repeatedly for many, many years, with only your faith -- in something -- to carry you forward. You have to have more than just a desire to be rich.
by anematode | 2025-09-24 23:53:33+00:00
I don't think there's a single instruction to do this, but you could probably do it with a combination of shld + bzhi + cmov. rustc already seems to do a great job, and whatever I could come up with that assumes [src, src + len] is always in bounds isn't that much better.

Edit: https://godbolt.org/z/rrhW6T7Mc
by octo888 | 2025-09-24 23:53:34+00:00
I was trying to ascertain if we're discussing just taxes etc, or from the article "fees (like baggage, seat assignments, and service charges)" and whether you /need/ to select extras to have a decent standard of a service

Also, so much is unbundled these days, you have to be really careful what that initial price really includes. For example, with Sixt, they often don't include the basic CDW + Theft coverage which for a long time was always included in the base price. I assumed it was law in most of Europe. Luckily Avis, Hertz, Europcar don't stoop that low

You're right - you can book a car, and if you don't inadvertently agree to extras either verbally or on the ipads at the rental desk, and don't incur any extra charges/fees during the rental, the price you pay should be what you initially reserved :-)

And you're right about booking.com - they seem to do a fairly good at at incorporating tourist taxes etc into the final price.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-24 23:53:45+00:00
I'm old enough to remember when the web didn't exist ... and when I dumped Altavista and Ask Jeeves and co for the cool kids: Google.

I'm fucking livid. Well actually: mildly unimpressed. The cool kids rarely last as such and "do no evil" ended up behind a green tent and a single shot was heard.

Actually, I am slightly stressed over this whole thing.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-09-24 23:53:46+00:00
With a normal airline? You walk up to the gate, say you lost your paperwork (boarding pass, ticket, doesn't matter), show your ID, and get a new boarding pass issued within about a minute of managing to get someone's attention. At least that was my experience. No hassle, no fee.

Ryanair? I would expect them to offer you their boarding pass printing service for only $99.99 (you missed the $49.99 special that was only available until 4 hours before boarding, silly you).
by rtpg | 2025-09-24 23:54:08+00:00
currently CPython's WASI build does not have asyncio support out of the box (at least according to [0]). This is, by my understanding, downstream of asyncio implementations in the standard library being built off of primitives around sockets and the like. And WASI, again by my understanding, does not support sockets.

In a browser environment there are theoretically ways you could piggyback off of the async support in the native ecosystem. But CPython is written to certain systems, so you're talking about CPython patches.

BUT the kind of beautiful thing is you can show up with your own asyncio event loop! So for example Pyodide just ships its own asyncio event loop[1]. This is possible thanks to Python's async infra just being built off of its generator concepts. async/await is, in itself, not something that "demands" I/O, just asyncio is.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3.13/library/asyncio.html [1]: https://pyodide.org/en/stable/project/release-notes/v0.17.0....
by KyleBerezin | 2025-09-24 23:54:13+00:00
Yea, cost. It was supposed to be installed on the Zumwalt, with a guided 155mm cannon as an interim, also with the goal to be cheaper than missiles. Unfortunately both ended up being more expensive than missiles. Replacing the rails isn't something that can be done quickly or cheaply.

It is kinda comparable to hypersonic missiles in that it can penetrate air defense, but that is about the only overlap, the railgun is long range for a gun, but nothing compared to something like a hypersonic missile.
by dh2022 | 2025-09-24 23:54:45+00:00
Your heart is in the right place, and Stanislav Petrov deserves all of our respect. However, the reality is more complicated. Due to geography, USSR used a system called dead hand [0] to detect a nuclear attack and to retaliate. In particular, SLBMs launched by US off the coast of Norway needed only 5 minutes travel time to Moscow. Similarly, US Pershing missiles stationed in West Germany required about 6-7 minutes to reach Moscow. All of these meant USSR required a nuclear retaliatory system that could prevent hasty decisions. Hence Dead Hand system.

On the other hand, Vasily Arkhipov probably stopped a nuclear war in Oct 1962 [1]...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov