MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-16 10:01:36+00:00
Excise taxes are effectively sales tax but only on specific products. This is less economically efficient than broad-based taxes unless the thing you're taxing is something you're specifically trying to discourage (e.g. cigarettes) rather than having the purpose of generating revenue, but since 1955 the government has become more inclined to ban things it doesn't like than tax them.

In a global economy higher business taxes just cause large international corporations to incorporate in a different jurisdiction, which gives them an advantage over smaller purely domestic corporations, which is bad.

Social Security is already taking in less money than it's paying out. Reducing the Social Security tax would imply reducing Social Security benefits, since that's where it goes, unless you're proposing a more significant reform of the system in general.

The size of corporations and the amount they're taxed are two entirely different things. Indeed, the tax code does a lot of things to encourage corporations to be larger, like taxing dividends and capital gains after corporate income has already been taxed, which creates a tax preference for leaving the money inside of an existing corporation rather than investing it in starting a new competitor.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-16 10:01:40+00:00
> people like doctors rather than billionaires

That's not a progressive-tax brackets versus flat-tax thing.

That's a "having different rules for different ways of making money" thing.

> the complicated system is the thing that allows the billionaires to pay less

Something true of a parts is not necessarily true of the whole, and vice-versa. The reason billionaires pay less than we might expect comes from relatively simple factors, not because the tax-code is too complex for poor people to get the same result.
by retrochameleon | 2025-10-16 10:02:13+00:00
I'm more inclined to believe it's a foreign nation state actor with the goal of inciting more division over the issue. America's at a very hot point over the topic right now. Despite that, I don't feel like I see much support for Hamas; more so repeating calls to end fighting and negotiate peace. Both Israel and Hamas (not the innocent civilians of Palestine) have participated in condemnable atrocities.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-16 10:03:11+00:00
My apologies! I found a “it’s incredible that this exists” tweet/x post with a picture of this sensor, and didn’t find anything more than the spec sheet.

To me, the sheer existence of it is incredible. I didn’t realize… such a small sensor was possible?

But yes, I’d also love a writeup/blog/video about it. Hopefully someone can share something on it.

Cheers
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-16 10:03:44+00:00
The tax preparation industry exists in much of the world.

Taxes are simple if you live in one place and only receive income from your employer. If you have multiple sources of income, connections to multiple countries, etc., things can get very complicated very fast. That's why the tax prep industry exists - and not just in the US.

That being said, the Internal Revenue Service could prepare the taxes of most Americans. A simple system of, "Here's what we think you owe, based on the information we have on hand - sign and submit if you agree" would work for most people.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-16 10:04:19+00:00
Comments like yours make me feel justified that potential burn-in issues were why I stuck with an IPS panel when I purchased a new monitor earlier this year.

My past monitors have lasted me 5-7 years in the past, and I only upgraded for size (once) and gsync (also once).

I don't want to be forced to buy another one just because of burn-in.
by denis_kkk | 2025-10-16 10:05:35+00:00
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by timschmidt | 2025-10-16 10:05:42+00:00
Over the years, I've found that the complexity is there whether or not it's been papered over by a runtime. It's wonderful to forget about, until it's not. Some applications may never run into the limitations imposed by abstracting it away, but others run into them quickly.

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" as the saying goes.
by roenxi | 2025-10-16 10:05:46+00:00
Why bother? It hasn't caused a major problem so far. This isn't new, it is how the world has worked for all of military history.

I know classified US secrets, the leaks around the Snowden era were pretty interesting. Guarantee you the people in the building know more than me. The NOFORN stuff actually tends to be the spiciest if you feel an urge to go look at something.
by smaudet | 2025-10-16 10:06:39+00:00
It's a combination of diet and education.

If you want to understand the first, take McDonalds - you probably have one and don't think it's that bad? Imagine everything on the menu is either 10 times sweeter (sickening), or made with wilted products on the cusp of expiration, and that's "standard" food.

It's so bad, many Americans hate anything "healthy" because any time they are exposed to it, it's not much better than pigs swill. So there are many who will only eat meat, because that is harder to make taste poorly, despite being even more disease riddled (there are almost no standards for meat inspection).

So then, you are constantly sick, low energy.

And then education - suffice it to say there are many communities where it is seen as "reasonable" to believe in nonsense like "flat earth", and many struggle with basic things like addition. It's a wonder we aren't illiterate too... I suppose it's too useful to be able to read about products to buy them, so we can at least all read the adverts...(for now)
by globular-toast | 2025-10-16 10:06:51+00:00
Agreed. I have been personally archiving anything I find high quality for a while now. YouTube is fighting that, though. I hope one day we can get past this and just share this stuff in a distributed way (like BitTorrent).

I still think what we lack is an easy way to do the busking model online. I refuse to pay by watching ads, and I refuse to further monopolies and contribute to garbage like MrBeast by paying for YouTube Premium or whatever. But if I could regularly pay into an account, say £20/month, and choose where to allocate that to each month by doing something low friction like clicking a button that would be perfect. I don't want to automatically pay for everything I see because I don't think it's all worth it. I'm not forced to pay for buskers in public just because I heard them.

I think we have all the pieces we need for this kind of system, namely BitTorrent, Bitcoin and the public domain or CC licences etc. What we really need is polish and the network effect, ie. the last 20%. Unfortunately we all know the last 20% sucks and we only do it if we're forced to do it.
by xixixao | 2025-10-16 10:07:47+00:00
I can't find a photo of Jobs in sneakers and in turkish instead of a lotus pose. The only reference is this toy, which matches the coin:

https://majorspoilers.com/2013/10/17/toys-legend-toys-announ...

But the famous photo I do know doesn't match it:

https://milenanguyen.com/blog/steve-jobs-20s-the-head-of-a-h...
by audunw | 2025-10-16 10:08:07+00:00
No, it’s not really about intelligence. That’s not what’s driving the behaviour. That’s like saying a calculator is dangerous because it was used to make an atomic bomb. A calculator is infinitely smarter at math than any animal. Yet it’s not what’s dangerous.

What’s driving humanity’s dangerous behaviours is that we’ve evolved over millions upon millions of years to compete with each other for resources. We had to kill to survive. Both animals and each others.

AI is under no such evolutionary process. In fact quite the opposite: there’s an absolutely ruthless process to eliminate any AI which doesn’t do exactly what humans say with as little energy wasted as possible. There is no room in that process for an AI to develop that will somehow want to compete with humans.

So whatever bad happens, it is overwhelmingly likely to be because a human asked an AI to do it. Not that an AI will decide on its own to do it to further its own interest. I don’t even think a “paperclip maximiser” scenario is remotely probable. Long before there could be a successful attempt to exterminate humans to reach some goal, there will be countless failed or half-assed attempts. That kind of behaviour will have no chance to develop.
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-16 10:08:28+00:00
National security has been the excuse of damn near every uncharacteristically authoritarian move our government has made, and the pentagon has unprecedented means to securely discuss and transfer information. The onus of controlling that information has always fallen on people with clearance, and the biggest sensitive information compromises in the past couple decades were perpetrated by national political figures. There are people a lot snoopier than reporters looking for information a lot more sensitive than they are who’ll leak it to foreign governments without us ever knowing — that’s who they really have to worry about. Controlling media is, and has always been about protecting themselves from embarrassment.
by boomskats | 2025-10-16 10:08:39+00:00
I went to see him when he came to London a̶ ̶c̶o̶u̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶g̶o̶ in 2015, and they easily had the most feel of any band I'd ever heard (balkan gypsy brass bands aside). No click, no tune, monitors all hanging out. It was sublime.

My heart sank when I heard the news. MJ, Prince, and now D'Angelo - the last of the three.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-16 10:08:41+00:00
The OSI are the people who made it up, and the only reason why anybody cares about it. If you call yourself Open Source and you don't comply with the OSI definition, you're a parasite trying to commit fraud with the good will generated by other people.

I also don't care if somebody in 1975 said "I like to be open, and I'll let anyone look at the source." Old McDonald had a farm before McDonald's was a restaurant, but that doesn't mean that if you open a restaurant called McDonald's that is decorated like a McDonald's, you're not a scammer. I know your plastic fruit is carbon-based, but if you label it as "organic" you're a thief.

If you're not trying to scam people, be creative and make up your own catchphrase for letting people look at your source code - or don't even, because the whole idea of having a branding for allowing people access (and rights to) the source is imitation of the FSF and OSI.
by akvadrako | 2025-10-16 10:08:56+00:00
If you mostly care about data integrity, then a plain RAID-1 mirror over three disks is better than RAIDZ. Correlated drive failures are not uncommon, especially if they are from the same batch.

I also would recommend an offline backup, like a USB-connected drive you mostly leave disconnected. If your system is compromised they could encrypt everything and also can probably reach the backup and encrypt that.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-16 10:09:17+00:00
Additionally, in any case, now I know what I have to do to free up some space. Get rid of Rust projects I built from scratch.

Maybe something like this to figure out what directories to delete:

# With dut find . -type f -name Cargo.toml -printf '%h\n' | sort -u | xargs -r -d '\n' -I{} dut -s {} | sort -h # With du find . -type f -name Cargo.toml -printf '%h\n' | sort -u | xargs -r du -sh | sort -h

I found "websocat" and "ripgrep". Thankfully I got rid of everything else.

ripgrep $ cargo clean Removed 3411 files, 1020.2MiB total websocat $ cargo clean Removed 1726 files, 820.7MiB total

That said, ripgrep itself is only 5.0M.
by cge | 2025-10-16 10:09:47+00:00
>However, there is significant popular opposition to that, people seem to massively prefer notes.

One of the most important features for cash is that it actually be accepted widely, and if I recall, that is a significant problem for $1 coins. I expect the majority machines that accept cash don't accept them, and trying to use them with a cashier is likely to result in amusement or confusion at best, rejection as a very possible outcome, or even accusations of fraud. That there were few instances where an individual would ever get these in normal activities probably made recognition and use even worse, especially as the instances I cam remember often seemed like attempts to push them inconveniently; I seem to remember that some government machines, I think in post offices, would insist on giving change with enormous numbers of one dollar coins, which would likely generate some resentment for users expecting change that would actually be accepted elsewhere.

It likely doesn't help that the design is rather large, eg, it is wider than a two euro coin and almost as heavy, and that one dollar notes are still being produced. For some reason, the US seems far less willing to be decisive in these changes.
by Amezarak | 2025-10-16 10:10:15+00:00
They do, it's called free fillable forms. If you have salary-only income that's about how long it takes.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

Tax prep software exists for people with more complicated tax situations and people who are unwilling to add and subtract a couple of numbers. The 1040 form is not complicated and anyone can use it to file their taxes for free.
by gethly | 2025-10-16 10:10:22+00:00
I could but I do not need to, so i'd rather make better use of the time it would take me to move at this time.

Biggest pain point actually are not programs, but the need to format all hard drives to some linux file system. I cannot just replace windows with linux and that is it. No, I have to migrate all my data somehow to reformat all my drives and then move the data back. That was always huge pain in the ass.
by fingerlocks | 2025-10-16 10:10:22+00:00
Apple introduced an entirely new language and UI framework to make it easier, Swift and SwiftUI respectively. They have tutorials, classes, thousands of example projects, playgrounds, videos, and documentation. No, it’s not hard at all.

But very few users seem to care about performance or polish, so why not save a few bucks and build your desktop software with some cheap JavaScript devs?
by technofiend | 2025-10-16 10:10:23+00:00
It's happened more than once that people thought $2 bills were fake; here's a recent example: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/houston-school-confuses-2-...

I had someone pocket a Susan B. Anthony $1 coin and put their own money in the register to replace it, but that was because it was a rare coin, not because they thought it was fake.
by looofooo0 | 2025-10-16 10:10:35+00:00
I don't understand your point? The only thing I said that the process of developing new medicine is ill-suited for phage treatment. This due the fact bacteria and phages are coevolving, hence any phage treatment is highly specific and hence not worth of developing. It needs new ideas to standardize the process and to make this process a legal treatment option.
by aa-jv | 2025-10-16 10:10:39+00:00
Your position amounts to "but ma' America Special".

If the ICC is good enough for Laurent Gbagbo, its good enough for Obama, Bush, Biden, Trump and Clinton.

The ICC delivers one thing Americans refuse to deliver: justice for victims of war crimes.

That this is not obvious, or prioritised, clearly belies the situation vis a vis American Exceptionalism.
by DanielHB | 2025-10-16 10:10:51+00:00
I dunno, it does sound like significant work and way outside my (and most devs) area of expertise. I can definitely supervise a managed RDBMS (like RDS) by myself without help on the side even though I am no dba.

A mismanaged VPS is downtime and churn, a mismanaged DB will insta-kill your business if you have unrecoverable data loss. I would definitely use a managed solution until I can get a dedicated person to babysit the DB, but I would consider managing a VPS myself.
by Voultapher | 2025-10-16 10:10:56+00:00
You can't do remote attestation without something like a TPM.

Let's compare these scenarios:

A) TPMs are optional and 30% of users have them. A bank is thinking about requiring remote attestation to use their services. Since they'd lock out 70% of users they decide to not do it.

B) TPMs are mandatory and 90% of users have them. A bank is thinking about requiring remote attestation to use their services. Since they'd only lock out 10% of users they decide to do it.

And banking is the nice example here. Refusing to serve a site if the user is using an ablocker is very much in the interest of powerful players in the space, see WEI. Every platform that has wide spread TPM adoption, namely Android and iOS have shown that they will abuse them for anti-consumer purposes sooner or later. We are talking about Microsoft here, the current and past poster child for anti-consumer decisions.

I hope that explains why making TPMs blanket available introduces new risks to sovereign computing.
by EmanuelB | 2025-10-16 10:11:07+00:00
Very happy to have you onboard!

The initial intention was actually not to build it in this way. I ended up with this design by trying something simple, finding limitations that prevented scaling to new features, changing the design, rinse and repeat. A much simpler design can solve 80% of all needs, but I have been obsessed with the last 20% over many years. Of course all features won’t be there at launch, but I know they are possible to do in a nice way with this design.

Food is incredibly diverse and each country, language, culture etc have a different way of doing the same thing. I don’t know what this app will be in 1 year, but I know that the foundation is like clay that can be molded into what it needs to be, even different experiences for different users. I wasted so much time and energy on food and found no recipe app (tried 50-60) that worked for me, that I figured someone should solve this issue once and for all. Humans should not deal with these issues anymore.

I believe Kastanj will make it easy for beginners to start cooking really good food without spending too much effort on everything that goes into it. I also believe it will scale well to more advanced users that needs more of a reference, and not the same help. The idea is that the app will be a tool that helps people regardless of their experience level, and get out of the way when they don’t need the same help. This internal graph design is the only design I have encountered that managed to adapt to these diverse use cases.

There are a long list of use cases a recipe app could cover: - some people track their calories. - some people follow certain diets - some people have allergies - some people live in regions where certain ingredients are hard to find or seasonal. - some people want to reduce their climate impact - some people want to save money, budget cooking - some people only cook for 2, some cook for 30 - some people prefer certain units, even in metric Europe there is variation. - people are picky with what they eat and don’t eat. - sometimes guests with allergies come over and you have to cook something you never cooked before, and it must work on the first try - and so on

Food is complex, people are even more complex and have complex preferences. All of these cases adds complexity with various edge cases. These cases are the last 20% a recipe app should solve. Very high effort but most people can live without it (diminishing returns). I believe Kastanj will solve these issues + many more. I believe it will enable people to start cooking and still help those that already know how to cook. The current design have adapted really well so far even for use cases I didn’t imagine. Now let’s hope it was worth the effort. It makes me happy to hear that you also imagined a design like this :)
by 827a | 2025-10-16 10:11:56+00:00
I deeply disagree. Docker’s key innovation is not its isolation; it’s the packaging. There is no other language-agnostic way to say “here’s code, run it on the internet”. Solutions prior to Docker (eg buildpacks) were not so much language agnostic as they were language aware.

Even if you allow yourself the disadvantage that any non-Docker solution won’t be language-agnostic: how do you get the code bundle to your server? Zip & SFTP? How do you start it? ./start.sh? How do you restart under failure? Systemd? Congrats, you reinvented docker but worse. Want to upgrade a dependency due to a security vulnerability? Do you want to SSH into N replicated VMs and run your Linux distribution specific package update command, or press the little refresh icon in your CI to rebuild a new image then be done?

Docker is the one good thing the ops industry has invented in the last 15 years.
by fabian2k | 2025-10-16 10:12:13+00:00
So you want a dictator? You want random tariffs based on Trump's gut feeling? You want foreign-looking US citizens to be detained at will by ICE? You want every part of the government to be corrupt, rampant insider trading based on political decisions? You want a government that retaliates against companies and people it doesn't like, and uses the force of the government to harrass them?
by mdhb | 2025-10-16 10:12:25+00:00
To which the counter argument I guess would be.. there’s no sense in trying to solve for some abstract future set of problems that the vast majority of people are never going to have ahead of time on the off chance you’re one of them.

That too requires a substantial investment of time and resources.

I think in a more pragmatic sense too that you can form a very good understanding on if you’re going to have weird special requirements just from looking at what others have done with the same tools in similar situations before you.
by npteljes | 2025-10-16 10:12:29+00:00
I believe that it's not a protected term or a trademark or anything, but rather it's the case of misleading marketing. Open source is widely understood to be a specific thing, which Liquibase explicitly isn't.

Although, on the other hand, "Two years after release, the license for each applicable version of Liquibase Community code reverts to Apache 2.0". So, it's like... eventually open source. Which is still misleading, as it doesn't apply to the current versions.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-16 10:12:39+00:00
> I don't see any other way that Ollama can not be enshittified without making a quick buck.

Me neither. The mistake they did was getting outside investments, as now they're no longer in full control and eventually are gonna have to at least give the impression they give a shit about the investors, and it'll come at the cost of the users one way or another.

Please pay for your tools that are independently developed, we really need more community funding of projects so we can avoid this never-ending spiral of VC-fueled+killed tools.
by sskates | 2025-10-16 10:13:18+00:00
Norman Borlaug's story is amazing. He brought modern farming practices to Mexico and created a new strain of high yield disease resistant dwarf wheat at quadrupled wheat production in the country. Did the same in India, Pakistan, and Africa. Saved a billion lives as a result. Solved food as a limited resource for the first time in human history. We've now gotten to transcend food scarcity as a society.

It's super cool that the US Mint is commemorating his work.