MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lxint | 2025-10-03 01:24:32+00:00
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by tdb7893 | 2025-10-03 01:24:46+00:00
For context these are the questions asked since obviously this claim will change a lot based on questions. I wouldn't say it's terribly surprising based on my experiences, I've met Republicans against a lot of these things. I'm also wondering a bit how they got their sample since they had way more Democrats than Republicans and how representative it is (it also didn't close to match the racial makeup of the US). Not hating on the study, I didn't spend enough time reading it to know it's effectiveness, mainly the actual questions seemed important.

Item 1) Abortion should be illegal.

Item 2) The government should take steps to make incomes more equal.

Item 3) All unauthorized immigrants should be sent back to their home country.

Item 4) The federal budget for welfare programs should be increased.

Item 5) Lesbian, gay and trans couples should be allowed to legally marry.

Item 6) The government should regulate business to protect the environment.

Item 7) The federal government should make it more difficult to buy a gun.

Item 8) The federal government should make a concerted effort to improve social and economic conditions for African Americans.

Edit: to be clear I read the study and they used Prolific (https://www.prolific.com/) to get the participants but that means nothing to me.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 01:24:46+00:00
>Look how what M&A is.

Mergers and Aquisitions? If that's the right acronym I hate it even more, thank you.

But yes, I can see how automating the BS of corporate culture then using it to impress people (who also don't care anyway) by saying "I made this with AI" can be "productive". Not really a job I can do, though.
by YZF | 2025-10-03 01:25:10+00:00
So what would you do if you're Israel? Suck it up? Leave the hostages to rot in Gaza? Wait until the next coordinated attack from Iran, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza? Israel's enemies want it destroyed- that's what's at stake here. If Hamas had a chance it would keep going and murder all Israelis, not just the ones they managed to before they were repelled.

What sort of adaptation are you proposing?

I do agree Israel is taking a hit on the world stage. This is part of the war and Israel has a hard time defending itself against enemies with vast resources. Those enemies are also more than happy to distract and splinter the western nations with this topic. Russia has a better standing in the world with its war of aggression on Ukraine amongst many other problems. Most western countries who were/are happy to abandon Israel would (and have) respond with significantly more force to a similar attack on themselves.

It remains to be seen what are the longer term consequences here. Not just on Israel.

What we have seen throughout this is not criticism. It is hate. It is often directed at Jews, not just at the Israeli government. Not 100% but a large percentage. It's not that Israel's response has no problems - it has many problems. But the discourse on this is not rational and not fact based. The media and the various actors are pushing agenda and ideology. This isn't unique to Israel here, we see this on political issues, a discourse that is tribal, not rational but rather emotional, manipulated by the media (social and otherwise). CNN here is treating Israel basically as it treats Trump and the republicans. CNN is not in the news business, it is in the shaping political opinion business.

Would you say the west's response to ISIL/ISIS chopping the heads off a few westerners, a couple of random terrorist attacks in the west, and burning a Jordanian pilot alive would also be characterized as "extreme actions against a weak opponent"? How did CNN cover that conflict?

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

- >83k militants killed.

- 10's of thousands civilians killed. (IMO vastly underestimated, one source claims 40k killed just in the battle for Mosul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mosul_(2016%E2%80%93... )

- millions displaced.
by brigandish | 2025-10-03 01:26:24+00:00
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this? The claim is that there are less rockets now, but that article doesn't show anything for 2024 or 2025. There is an article specifically for 2024 that is linked but only shows attacks up till May. Whether that means rockets have stopped, as is the claim, or that they simply haven't been recorded in the Wiki is unknown.
by listenallyall | 2025-10-03 01:26:57+00:00
This is a little tricky. I think it's more about understanding the philosophy. Lets say you make washing machines. The "academic" will say, great, for next year's model, let's fix the most common failure point and improve reliability so our customers love us while the "psycopath" or "savvy employee" will say, no, our brand is still strong, let's make cheaper machines and save money and we can manipulate some of the review sites and anyway, better for us if they fail after 6 years than 10 years, the customers don't have many choices anyway.

You can say the academic isn't solving the business problem, which isn't, how to make the best washing machine, but how can we make the most money by embracing enshittification. But that's probably not why he was hired.
by rayiner | 2025-10-03 01:26:58+00:00
It doesn’t raise any such question because “the executive power” refers to a pre-existing concept. Article II starts: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The use of the definite article “the” without any textual antecedent basis indicates the term refers to a pre-existing concept. In contrast, the use of “a” to refer to the “President” indicates that concept is further defined in the document.

In 1787, “the executive power” was a well understood concept in political theory. The 1653 constitution of the Commonwealth of England had a concept of separation of powers between the legislative and executive. Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1690), and the 1777 English translation of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws use the actual term "executive power" dozens of times each.

This is consistent with Article III, which mentions the “judicial power,” but doesn’t mention most of the functions of a court. It doesn’t need to—“the judicial Power” is a reference to a preexisting concept.

The Constitution’s vesting clauses are like the sentence “this operating system runs the virtual memory pager and file system in separate processes.” You know I’m talking about a microkernel without my specifying any further details because the sentence uses well known computer science concepts.

Moreover, whatever “the executive Power” entails, it must always be “vested in a President of the United States.” Congress can alter the extent of “the executive Power” by law, but it can’t take that executive Power—including the power to faithfully execute the law—and give it to someone else.
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-03 01:27:57+00:00
I mean "bad things" Hamas has done to their own? people ( Gaza people). Hamas has killed people who criticise it ( or I should say thats whats been reported ) Should also include many where Hamas built their war infrastructure un important (school and hospital ) infrastructure -causing these items to be valid military targets under military law

Must have cost $Billions to build (reported) 500 KM tunnels. Money that was supposed to be spent improving lives of ordinary Gaza people.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-03 01:28:48+00:00
It feels like you keep taking a less than respectful interpretation of my comments, and if it happens again I'm not going to respond to you anymore.

Is your issue with the way I framed victim mindset or my point that a major risk of AI (and social media) is propagating victim mentality and biasing people to have a victim mindset?

Are you advocating that there are cases when having a victim mindset is a good thing?

Have you looked up the definition of victim mindset?
by intrasight | 2025-10-03 01:29:23+00:00
I am really digging the railroad analogies in this discussion! There are some striking similarities if you do the right mappings and timeframe transformations.

I am an avid rail-to-trail cycler and more recently a student of the history of the rail industry. The result was my realization that the ultimate benefit to society and to me personally is the existence of these amazing outdoor recreation venues. Here in Western PA we have many hundreds of miles of rail-to-trail. My recent realization is that it would be totally impossible for our modern society to create these trails today. They were built with blood, sweat, tears and much dynamite - and not a single thought towards environmental impact studies. I estimate that only ten percent of the rail lines built around here are still used for rail. Another ten percent have become recreational trails. That percent continues to rise as more abandoned rail lines transition to recreational use. Here in Western PA we add a couple dozen miles every year.

After reading this very interesting discussion, I've come to believe that the AI arms race is mainly just transferring capital into the pockets of the tool vendors - just as was the case with the railroads. The NVidia chips will be amortized over 10 years and the models over perhaps 2 years. Neither has any lasting value. So the analogy to rail is things like dynamite and rolling stock. What in AI will maintain value? I think the data center physical plants, power plants and transmission networks will maintain their value longer. I think the exabytes of training data will maintain their value even longer.

What will become the equivalent of rail-to-trail? I doubt that any of the laborers or capitalists building rail lines had foreseen that their ultimate value to society would be that people like me could enjoy a bike ride. What are the now unforeseen long-term benefit to society of this AI investment boom?

Rail consolidated over 100 years into just a handful of firms in North America, and my understanding is that these firms are well-run and fairly profitable. I expect a much more rapid shakeout and consolidation to happen in AI. And I'm putting my money on the winners being Apple first and Google second.

Another analogy I just thought of - the question of will the AI models eventually run on big-iron or in ballpoint pens. It is similar to the dichotomy of large-scale vs miniaturized nuclear power sources in Asimov's Foundation series (a core and memorable theme of the book that I haven't seen in the TV series).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 01:29:50+00:00
This is probably the only place I can properly say "Programmers should be brought up with vim and man pages", so I'll say it here.

Anyways, IDE's don't try to offload the thinking for you, it's more like an abacus. You still need to work in it a while and learn the workflow before it's more efficient than a text editor + docs.

Chrome is a trickier aspect, because the reality is that a lot of modern docs completely suck. So you rely less on official documentation and more about how others have navigated an IDE and if those options work for you. I'd rather we make proper documentation than offload it into a black box that may or may not understand what it's spouting out to you, though.
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by righthand | 2025-10-03 01:29:59+00:00
It sounded as if they had the next 10 years planned out with little room for anything else.

I think point of starting much earlier is making the research, learning, testing just aspects of life. Then there’s no time spent during their teen years learning how to do that stuff when their minds are extra unfocused it’s routine. I would have probably preferred that than the way I was brought up (minus the prude attitude).
by mariodiana | 2025-10-03 01:30:20+00:00
Back in 2011, Apple removed apps that crowdsourced warnings about DUI checkpoints. It remains Apple's policy today.

According to Grok, "In March 2011, four Democratic senators—Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.)—sent letters to Apple, Google, and Research in Motion (BlackBerry's parent company) urging the removal of such apps […]"

So, we have precedent where four Democratic senators pressured Apple to remove an app that allowed people to evade law enforcement.
by elil17 | 2025-10-03 01:30:27+00:00
> I assume you are basing this on second hand information, or “really strong evidence” is doing a lot of work here, but volumes have been written about the efficacy of comprehensible input in foreign language learning.

What I really mean to say is that there's no strong evidence that CI is more efficient than other language learning methods.

>the folks who reach higher levels of proficient (B2 or higher to be somewhat arbitrary)

Realistically, this is a small subset of language learners. Most people vastly overestimate the level of proficiency they are going for. People also underestimate just what a high level B2 is.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-03 01:30:28+00:00
US had historically high rates of of domestic terrorism in the late 1960s, approaching 400 reported domestic attacks a year by 1970. It fell sharply by 1980 and has been historically low ever since.

Notably, domestic terrorism rose when US Gov increased it's surveillance of Americans. And terrorism fell when agencies were ordered to stop unconstitutional spying.

Domestic terrorism falls under the FBI's purview. While terrorism rose in the US, the agency was famously engaged in widespread domestic surveillance of it's enemies. Specifically, the agency dedicated it resources to compiling all possible evidence about Americans that Hoover (the thin-skinned autocratic director) decided were enemies. Very few of these enemies had any tie to terrorism.

And throughout the early 1970s, a series or articles revealed that warrantless surveillance wasn't limited to the FBI. US citizens were spied on by the US Army, the CIA, the NSA and other agencies. The Church Committee was eventually created to determine the scope of US Gov's domestic surveillance operations and curtail them.

One of the outcomes of that was that the FBI was directed to cease illegal surveillance of Americans and return to it's law enforcement mandate. It was during this period that domestic terrorism finally stopped rising. Over the next decade domestic terror rates fell to about as low as could be.

To this day, Americans continue to be safe. Some attacks are inevitable in a civilized country. But we can't be much safer than we've been - not without gifting massive power to governments and living with their severe and punitive measures (ex:North Korea).

But we've been gifting power to governments since 9/11 and this administration adores severe and punitive measures.
by 93n | 2025-10-03 01:31:11+00:00
I self-host n8n along with about two dozen other services for personal use.

I make extensive use of the webhook triggers. Being able to spin up an endpoint with minimal effort is quite handy.

The data table feature looks useful. Similar to another poster, I've been using json blobs on disk instead, since I don't have concurrency, scaling, or performance concerns for my use cases.

I get some very weird vibes from the n8n subreddit. There's a bunch of 'get rich quick with AI workflows' posts which feel icky.
by cool_dude85 | 2025-10-03 01:31:14+00:00
I think trying to compete with Google in search is a big problem. First you have to deal with all the anticompetitive stuff they can do, since they control email and the browser and youtube etc. Second they could probably stand to cut the price of advertising by 5 times and still be turning a profit. Will ads in ChatGPT be profitable competing against Google search ads at 1/5 the price, hypothetically?
by stingraycharles | 2025-10-03 01:31:33+00:00
I’m also an Apple shareholder.

Tim Cook is a very shareholder-friendly CEO. One of the first things he did after he became CEO, which jobs always refused, was to start stock buybacks.

I have a hard time believing Apple getting in legal fights with the current administration is something that shareholders will appreciate, even if it’s better in the long term.

Regardless, if shareholders care about long term instead of short term, shareholders - as a whole - put the wrong CEO in charge.
by cpgxiii | 2025-10-03 01:31:47+00:00
I think this is frankly the obvious consequence of the FAA inventing authority to allow commercial drone operations at low altitude (by "invented" I mean completely ignoring the precedent of United States v. Causby which establishes ownership of some airspace above one's property). Commercial drones are flying around at low altitude not because they should, but because they cannot safely share the airspace with other existing airspace users.

The solution here is not more NOTAMs or specific hazard detection; the solution is having commercial drones get the hell out of other people's property (i.e. very low altitudes) and safely share the rest of the airspace with existing users.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 01:31:47+00:00
> Their strategy was, I think, as bad as it could possibly be.

After the October 7 attacks it was critical that Israel re-establish deterrence, not doing so would be inviting more attacks.

> Hamas successfully baited Israel into a disproportionate response that killed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, which played directly into the dynamics of guerrilla warfare where a strong state's extreme actions against a weak opponent undermine its legitimacy.

It turns out a disproportionate response is a rather effective strategy at deterring ones enemies from attacking, it worked quite well with Hezbollah which was considered by Israel to be a much more serious threat to Israel than Hamas was.

> Walking into such a trap tends to be a real world-historical blunder for any nation.

What other option did they have realistically? The middle east isn't a region where pacifism tends to work out well.

> Yet, rather than adapting, Israel's network doubled down with censorship campaigns, crackdowns on protests, and weaponizing "anti-semitism" accusations to silence critics -- actions that have all backfired. Now international support is collapsing, the EU is pushing sanctions, and the US is slowly distancing itself. Israel's best option right now is to end the war as quickly as possible, and devote all of its efforts to repairing damaged relationships and mitigating the war's effects, before isolation accelerates to the level of sanctions similar to those imposed on South Africa.

Keep in mind that statements politicians make publicly about Israel are often rather different from what they really think, politicians placating various activist groups for domestic political reasons doesn't often translate into meaningful adverse actions against Israel. The Israeli stock market is at all time highs right now despite everything that has happened.

I agree Israel has been way too slow at ending the war, their reluctance to take actions to finish off Hamas(or force their capitulation/surrender) and end the war is not helping either the Palestinian people or Israelis.

> I'll also note that it's interesting how all sides seem to have lost. Hamas lost the shooting war, the people of Gaza have lost lives and livelihoods which may take more than a decade to rebuild, and Israel lost the information/media war so damn badly that it may genuinely not recover from this.

Israel losing the media war was probably somewhat inevitable, the extreme disparity between worldwide Muslim population sizes and Jewish population sizes being a big factor, but that isn't really an entirely new issue either.

Despite all this Israel has largely re-established military deterrence in the Middle East and is on a path to normalize relations with countries like Saudi Arabia once Hamas is either forced to surrender or degraded enough that they lose their ability to govern Gaza.
by no_wizard | 2025-10-03 01:31:48+00:00
Part of the brand after the FBI fiasco was about being a privacy forward company that didn’t simply capitulate to government demands on a whim. They demonstrated in smaller tests they were willing to put up a fight for those principles.

That of course was now almost a decade ago. They seem to have changed their entire messaging and with it, seemingly their interest in being more than a ROI machine.

It’s a regression not a step forward. Apple was never a paragon but this was legitimately a step in the right direction I felt, but alas, I suspect in today’s culture I am increasingly in the minority position