MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2025-10-31 03:00:14+00:00
Source? Wikipedia contradicts you.

>Before 1917, the U.S. had no debt ceiling. Congress either authorized specific loans or allowed the Treasury to issue certain debt instruments and individual debt issues for specific purposes. Sometimes Congress gave the Treasury discretion over what type of debt instrument would be issued.[25] The United States first instituted a statutory debt limit with the Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917. This legislation set limits on the aggregate amount of debt that could be accumulated through individual categories of debt (such as bonds and bills). In 1939, Congress instituted the first limit on total accumulated debt over all kinds of instruments.[26][27]

>In 1953, the U.S. Treasury risked reaching the debt ceiling of $275 billion. Though President Eisenhower requested that Congress increase it on July 30, 1953, the Senate refused to act on it. As a result, the president asked federal agencies to reduce how much they spent, plus the Treasury Department used its cash balances with banks to stay under the debt ceiling. And, starting in November 1953, Treasury monetized close to $1 billion of gold left over in its vaults, which helped keep it from exceeding the $275 billion limit. During spring and summer 1954, the Senate and the executive branch negotiated on a debt ceiling increase, and a $6 billion one was passed on August 28, 1954.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling#Leg...
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-31 03:00:42+00:00
Read some old o’reilly books on systems administration. Solving problems in a business domain and operating the infrastructure to support that are, indeed, very different. Urban planners needn’t understand how to orchestrate a bunch of heavy construction equipment and civil engineers needn’t care about how the sight lines affect the revenue of the stores in the buildings. They’re all building the same exact thing.
by tombert | 2025-10-31 03:00:51+00:00
I got in trouble at a BigCo because I said "we all do this for the money", and they claimed that I had a "bad attitude".

But I don't think I was wrong. Work is fundamentally a business transaction; I sell my time and expertise and they give me money and benefits. Ultimately for any job I've had, even jobs that I really loved, if they stopped paying me I'd stop showing up [1]. It's nothing personal, that's just the transaction that I agreed to.

If I had some bloviating wannabe-demagogue telling me that I should keep working and to not expect backpay, I am quite confident that I would quit, or at least keep calling in sick. I am not going to blame anyone who would do the same. I have no fucking idea why half the country voted for this.

[1] This has actually been tested for one job.
by dlubarov | 2025-10-31 03:01:42+00:00
The investigating authorities aren't being defrauded though; making someone's job harder isn't fraud. Google or Amazon could be committing other crimes,[1] but not fraud.

[1] If they actually violated a gag order, which realistically they won't. In all likelihood there's language to ensure they're not forced to commit crimes. Even if that wasn't explicit, the illegality doctrine covers them anyway, and they can just ignore any provisions which would require them to commit crimes.
by samlambert | 2025-10-31 03:01:47+00:00
I remember. It was a very painful moment for everyone involved. I still miss the people who aren't here anymore. I am not happy that it happened but I am also I am very glad to be at a profitable company. I get to work at a company that is growing sustainably surrounded by people I admire. I love our customers and I think in the long run people will root for a company that isn't just lighting money on fire at the alter of fake growth.

Either way I don't care what you remember or think.
by tomlockwood | 2025-10-31 03:02:12+00:00
I don't think intuition is in the same class as "perception". I think intuition is better characterized as a byproduct of perception interacting with our preconceptions. I think fundamentally, intuitions are that part of the pattern-recognizing mind which allow us to quickly decide which tunnel is safe when fleeing a tiger. They are an antidote to indecision, but I think that perception is actually more reliable and factual than intuition in pretty much every sense, because it, in general, has some relation to the world that is thinly mediated by our minds. Intuition is the most unreliable part - it's mind all the way down.

So, to address the final two points:

> (1) if cross-cultural variance undermines the evidentiary value of rational intuition, then it also undermines the evidentiary value of perception for the exact same reasons.

No, perception in a sensory context has some relation to real or imagined phenomena. Intuition isn't predicated on that relation.

> (2) experimental philosophy depends upon perception to arrive at its conclusions (as do all experiments). Therefore, if we can’t count on perception to give us the truth, we can’t trust the results of experimental philosophy because of that very fact.

What about "I think therefore I am"? However, I'm quite frankly never sure I've landed on the truth as a philosopher, and I feel the same way about science. But that doesn't stop me trusting it.
by hyrix | 2025-10-31 03:02:14+00:00
Just a couple of bros, traveling the countryside in each other's company. History is full of such roommates.

Just the other day we were thinking about how recent generations have gotten more conservative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734620

The author proposes that it may reflect the incredible stability we've enjoyed in recent decades, which rewards more conservative "life planning":

> Our super-safe environments may fundamentally shift our psychology. When you’re born into a land of milk and honey, it makes sense to adopt what ecologists refer to as a “slow life history strategy”—instead of driving drunk and having unprotected sex, you go to Pilates and worry about your 401(k). People who are playing life on slow mode care a lot more about whether their lives end, and they care a lot more about whether their lives get ruined. Everything’s gotta last: your joints, your skin, and most importantly, your reputation. That makes it way less enticing to screw around, lest you screw up the rest of your time on Earth.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-31 03:02:24+00:00
While it's amusing, I think it's sensible: One of the main tasks in most businessy programming is to take what a human wants, translate it to code, reverse-translate it back to human understanding later, modify it, and translate it again to slightly different code.

This creates friction between casual stakeholder models of a mutable world, versus the the assumptions an immutable/mostly-pure language imposes. When the customer describes what they need, that might be pretty close to a plain loop with a variable that increments sometimes and which can terminate early. In contrast, it maps less-cleanly to a pure-functional world, if I'm lucky there will at least be a reduce-while utility function, so I don't need to make all my own recursive plumbing.

So immutability and pure-functions are like locking down a design or optimizing--it's not great if you're doing it prematurely. I think that's why starting with mutable stuff and then selectively immutable'ing things is popular.

Come to think of it, something similar can be said about weak/strong typing. However the impact of having too-strong typing seems easier to handle with refactoring tools, versus the problem of being too-functional.
by Rileyen | 2025-10-31 03:02:32+00:00
Just because AI sounds convincing does not mean it is telling the truth. I have believed something it said before because it sounded right, only to find out later that it was completely wrong. These days I never rely only on what AI says and always check the original source. The most reliable way I have found to use it is to treat it like a smarter search engine.
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2025-10-31 03:02:52+00:00
Really late coming back to this, but yes, I own several sleeping bags with zippers, tents with zippers, backpacks, down coats, gadget and storage bags of various kinds, various other jackets, all kinds of stuff with zippers.

You say "[w]hen they're such a bane for others," but that's not my experience. Here in my seventh decade of life, I have never heard anyone but you complain so much about zippers.
by the_af | 2025-10-31 03:03:08+00:00
I have so many questions to ask people with aphantasia related to sex, but it would get uncomfortably personal, so maybe best not to.

The best I can do: do people with aphantasia only get aroused if the stimulus is present? Can't they not get horny just imagining things, like I imagine most people can?

Does steamy literature do anything for them? I imagine it doesn't, since if you cannot imagine things then words on a page just have no power.

In my opinion, the fact erotic literature exists is proof aphantasia is not normal. Words cannot be arousing if you cannot imagine things "in your mind's eye".
by josephg | 2025-10-31 03:03:48+00:00
> If you want a language where const is the default and mutable is a keyword, try F# for starters. I switched and never looked back.

Rust is also like this (let x = 5; / let mut x = 5;).

Or you can also use javascript, typescript and zig like this. Just default to declaring variables with const instead of let / var.

Or swift, which has let (const) vs var (mutable).

FP got there first, but you don't need to use F# to have variables default to constants. Just use almost any language newer than C++.
by ehsankia | 2025-10-31 03:03:55+00:00
functional programming has a lot of wonderful concepts, which are very interesting in theory, but in practice, the strictness of it edges on annoying and greatly hurts velocity.

Python has a lot of functional-like patterns and constructs, but it's not a pure functional language. Similarly, Python these days allow you to adds as much type information as you want which can provide you a ton of static checks, but it's not forced you like other typed languages. If some random private function is too messy to annotate and not worth it, you can just skip it.

I like the flexibility, since it leads to velocity and also just straight up more enjoyable.
by tasn | 2025-10-31 03:05:24+00:00
Functional programming languages (almost always?) come with the baggage of foreign looking syntax. Additionally, imperative is easier in some situations, so having that escape hatch is great.

I think that's why we're seeing a lot of what you're describing. E.g. with Rust you end up writing mostly functional code with a bit of imperative mixed in.

Additional, most software is not pure (human input, disk, network, etc), so a pure first approach ends up being weird for many people.

At least based on my experience.
by ipython | 2025-10-31 03:05:58+00:00
My concern is that we will end up in a state of perpetual government "shutdown". The republicans, instead of reopening the entire government, will simply choose agencies to fund in order to keep the pain felt by the American people just low enough so they don't get fired (ala office space).

Once that happens, Congress has basically iced itself out. Oversight from unfriendly government agencies? No worries, they're shut down because they're unpaid. And clearly this demonstrates the executive needs more power, since Congress is completely frozen. Finally, the Supreme Court is no longer an issue either, since that's not funded either.

Someone tell me why this couldn't happen.
by kianN | 2025-10-31 03:06:07+00:00
Haven’t dug the repo too much yet but looks like a super cool project. I’ have a few questions:

1. To what does 71% accuracy refers? I assume picking which team will win in any given matchup?

2. How does 70% compare to say, picking the team with the better record to win, or some simple time weighted rolling average of SRS record (metric that factors in opponent difficulty)? Because a solid percentage of games are between teams of extremely different talent levels, especially as tanking becomes more prominent later in the season.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-31 03:06:41+00:00
The job of the US Supreme Court is to interpret the constitution, not pass laws. "Interpreting" the Constitution and concluding that it contains a right to abortion, when the constitution says nothing whatsoever about abortion, was an absurdly "creative" interpretation. The left was undermining the constitution long before Donald Trump started to do so.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-31 03:06:43+00:00
"They already operate the world's largest and (profitable) information index, they design their own chips, and employ the best engineers who know how to deliver massive systems cost-effectively."

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204425...

"Nature of Operations

Google was incorporated in California in September 1998 and re-incorporated in the State of Delaware in August 2003. In 2015, we implemented a holding company reorganization, and as a result, Alphabet Inc. ("Alphabet") became the successor issuer to Google.

We generate revenues by delivering relevant, cost-effective online advertising; cloud-based solutions that provide enterprise customers of all sizes with infrastructure, platform services, and applications; sales of other products and services, such as fees received for subscription-based products, apps and in-app purchases, and devices."

Would "(profitable) information index" be included in (a) "online advertising" (b) "cloud-based solutions" or (c) "sales of other products and services"
by cogman10 | 2025-10-31 03:07:26+00:00
We almost certainly could have floated through this had Reagan not gutted the ATC union (while firing a huge amount of staff) with congress neutering their negotiation power.

We never really fully recovered from that. We took away the power of employees in a high stress job to voice their concerns and needs which, as a result, made the job extra hard to hire for.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-31 03:07:31+00:00
"Blood" euphemisms are commonly used by antisemites and racists of all types. Hitler made many reference to "German blood, "Jewish blood," "our blood," and so on, essentially as shorthand meaning ethnicities. The KKK repeatedly emphasizes the importance of "blood purity" to promote its ideology. Which is why Trump's recent claim that immigrants are “poisoning the -blood- of our country” got so many people riled up--it's an obvious dogwhistle, using the preferred terminology of some very, very bad people.
by cyphar | 2025-10-31 03:08:23+00:00
Not if you use git submodules, which is how most people would end up using such a scheme in practice (and the handful of people that do this have ended up using submodules).

Go-style vendoring does dump everything into a directory but that has other downsides. I also question how effectively you can audit dependencies this way -- C developers don't have to do this unless there's a problem they're debugging, and at least for C it is maybe a tractible problem to audit your entire dependency graph for every release (of which there are relatively few).

Unfortunately IMHO the core issue is that making the packaging and shipping of libraries easy necessarily leads to an explosion of libraries with no mechanism to review them -- you cannot solve the latter without sacrificing the former. There were some attempts to crowd-source auditing as plugins for these package managers but none of them bore fruit AFAIK (there is cargo-audit but that only solves one part of the puzzle -- there really needs to be a way to mark packages as "probably trustworthy" and "really untrustworthy" based on ratings in a hard-to-gamify way).
by noduerme | 2025-10-31 03:09:00+00:00
Why loops specifically? Why not conditionals?

A lot of code needs to assemble a result set based on if/then or switch statements. Maybe you could add those in each step of a chain of inline functions, but what if you need to skip some of that logic in certain cases? It's often much more readable to start off with a null result and put your (relatively functional) code inside if/then blocks to clearly show different logic for different cases.
by eigen | 2025-10-31 03:09:20+00:00
> But it seems like certain jobs are funded for the duration anyway (infamously, members of Congress are one).

I think thats due to the 27th Amendment [1]

> No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

can't change (or stop) congressional pay until an election. guess it's a double-edged sword they can't give themselves in immediate pay raise, which I think was the point of ratification in 1992, but also can't cut their pay for failing to pass a budget.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-27/
by the__alchemist | 2025-10-31 03:09:44+00:00
I think it's because (I'm looking at Haskell in particular) there are a lot of great ideas implemented in them, but the purity makes writing practical or performant time-domain programs high friction. But you don't need both purity and the various tools they provide. You can use the tools without the pure-functions model.

In particular: My brain, my computing hardware, and my problems I solve with computers all feel like a better match for time-domain-focused programming.
Tell HN: Netflix app on iPad Pro has broken audio-video sync
by garyfirestorm | 2025-10-31 03:09:58+00:00
The Netflix app on my iPad Pro has major audio-video sync issues — sound is clearly out of sync with the picture. Pretty unbelievable that in 2025, there’s still no way to reach Netflix Support for help when their app fails. I know it was a given with free services like Google/Facebook...but this is frankly frustrating.
by lurk2 | 2025-10-31 03:10:19+00:00
> So anyone who reports higher numbers than Minecraft is lying, but Minecraft's numbers are all accurate?

Minecraft has made press releases detailing active player counts (“Up to”139,000,000 MAU in 2021). See here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210809155838/https://news.xbox...

This does claim that 238,000,000 copies have been sold but that there are 400,000,000 registered Minecraft players in China (this would be about 1/3rd of the population so I think it’s probably a typo).

Epic is privately held so I suspect they wouldn’t bother reporting official player counts. Roblox actually does have numbers listed in their annual report, it just wasn’t showing up when I Googled it: 3.6 billion in revenue and 82.9 million daily active users. So that would put it within the wheelhouse of Minecraft’s playerbase, but still about 20,000,000 short.

It may well be that all the kids are playing it over Minecraft, though, since the document I linked above claims the average Minecraft player in North America and Europe is 27. I have no idea what those numbers look like for Roblox but from what I understand the playerbase has always skewed substantially towards minors.

> You have literally just invented a conspiracy theory to affirm your biases around this matter.

This was incredibly abrasive.
by sjm-lbm | 2025-10-31 03:11:45+00:00
That's the debt ceiling, which is a different weird quirk of how the USG is funded. The relevant page for shutdowns is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un...

"Funding gaps have led to shutdowns since 1980, when Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti issued a legal opinion requiring it. This opinion was not consistently adhered to through the 1980s, but since 1990 all funding gaps lasting longer than a few hours have led to a shutdown. As of October 2025, 11 funding gaps have led to federal employees being furloughed."
by antonvs | 2025-10-31 03:11:57+00:00
I wouldn't say "hear", but I do have an inner monologue. When I read, I have an experience of the words in my mind. But similarly, when I look at the world, I have an experience of what I'm looking at, while I'm looking.

The difference comes when I close my eyes vs. block my ears. When I close my eyes, I don't see images, I can't voluntarily make images appear. But with my eyes and ears blocked, I can still think words - my inner monologue - which I experience in much the same way as I do when I'm reading. I can't conjure other sounds though, which is why I don't really consider that equivalent to "hearing" - it's not sound, it's the concept of words. I don't have any analogue of that for images.

Ordinary aphantasia doesn't imply anything about lack of inner monologue. Some people apparently do lack an inner monologue, and if they're also aphantasic, that's been described by some authors as "deep aphantasia". But there's no evidence that the two conditions are related, except in a kind of conceptual sense.
by seabrookmx | 2025-10-31 03:12:30+00:00
> but for ordinary work you're better off using gunicorn

I'd like to see some evidence for this. Other than simplicity, IMO there's very little reason to use synchronous Python for a web server these days. Streaming files, websockets, etc. are all areas where asyncio is almost a necessity (in the past you might have used twisted), to say nothing of the performance advantage for typical CRUD workloads. The developer ergonomics are also much better if you have to talk to multiple downstream services or perform actions outside of the request context. Needing to manage a thread pool for this or defer to a system like Celery is a ton more code (and infrastructure, typically).

> async i/o solutions are all single threaded

And your typical gunicorn web server is single threaded as well. Yes you can spin up more workers (processes), but you can also do that with an asgi server and get significantly higher performance per process / for the same memory footprint. You can even use uvicorn as a gunicorn worker type and continue to use it as your process supervisor, though if you're using something like Kubernetes that's not really necessary.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-31 03:12:50+00:00
The Apple ecosystem, in general, is notorious for this: If you update your OS, some 3rd party applications will suddenly no longer work, because Apple keeps introducing breaking changes. But, if you don't update your software, other 3rd party applications will quickly abandon you and block you from using their software until you update. So, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Complicating this is: if your hardware is "too old" (as deemed by Apple), you can't update your software, so eventually you're left in the dust. You can't win.
by llbbdd | 2025-10-31 03:13:07+00:00
My naive intuition is that any assertion like this is hokey. If we did live in a simulation of some kind, there are no expectations that we can measure the physical rules that govern us accurately - either they behave according to some deterministic manifold or there exist gaps where the simulating environment papers over with whatever it wants. It seems like a fundamentally untestable hypothesis and the proposition of the article doesn't do much to push me in the direction of believing that you can come anywhere close to drawing reasonable conclusions about this.
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