MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nozzlegear | 2025-10-23 16:15:42+00:00
> Not sure why you're being down voted. SNAP was bleeding us on the front end by subsidizing sugar water mega corps and on the backend by subsidizing the collosal medical bills that come from the overweight, diabetic millions.

Letting people starve is a better solution than letting them drink soda and potentially develop diabetes over the long term? Preposterous. I don't understand why the common sentiment is that everyone who uses SNAP must enter into a contract with the state to lose weight and only eat heads of iceberg lettuce, lest they be labeled leeches.
by yorwba | 2025-10-23 16:15:50+00:00
Many of those regional militias are or were integrated into the Tatmadaw as Border Guard Forces to hold territory against other militias. E.g. the scam centers in Laukkai were run by the local BGF until 2023 when the Tatmadaw lost control to the MNDAA, who then shut them down, presumably as part of a deal with China. The Tatmadaw doesn't control many towns on the eastern border anymore, but they do control Muse near the border with China, where scam centers were operating unimpeded until after that offensive, when the Tatmadaw began to target them with arrests and deportations https://shwepheemyay.org/english-edition/junta-raids-muse-sc... probably to get back on China's good side.
by alexashka | 2025-10-23 16:16:10+00:00
It will always boil down to people.

This fantasy of free markets, laws, branches or anything else solving what Plato wrote about in The Republic thousands of years ago is pure folly.

If it is of any comfort - it's always been this way and it's not going to get any better :) We have technological progress, not progress in wisdom. People are better behaved because well fed humans behave better than hungry humans - everything else is as it's always been.
by nekusar | 2025-10-23 16:16:18+00:00
That doent make any sense. There's no way we *sold* $1T of bonds and t-bills in 1 year.

That's what I'm asking who the debt actually belongs to. If it's "us", then how was it generated, who accepted the debt risk, and why's it going up faster?

Again, I make an analogy to $10000 tylenol pills, $16000 bandaids, and other obviously absurd medical fake number pricing. This $1T per year feels just as absurd and fake. And well, it's also a great wedge in Congress to bemoan and attack/shut down congress over that made up number.
by hackeraccount | 2025-10-23 16:17:12+00:00
I'd suggest looking at two things. What percentage of the economy tax receipts represent and the breakdown of how much revenue comes from the top tax brackets. You could also look at spending a percentage of GDP over time.

My view with all that in mind is that spending has gone up quite a bit. Overall tax revenue has stayed remarkably consistent and the tax system is progressive (i.e. if you make more you pay more). Is it progressive enough? I don't know. What percent of the budget should that top 10% (or top 1%) be paying? 20%? 30%?

At the end of the day though getting 20% of GDP in to the Federal government as tax has historically been a heavy lift. If you get a government that's willing to vote to do that then I would be that that you will soon find new one that's willing to vote not to do that.

That said getting spending in the range has the same problem.

At some point though it seems inevitable that one (or both?) of those statements will prove to be untrue.
by freedomben | 2025-10-23 16:17:33+00:00
Every human is self-interested. Fortunately there are a lot of good people out there who try to temper that instinct, but remembering that everybody by default has a "what's in it for me" line of thinking (even if consciously attempting to subjugate it) is important for understanding as much as we can about how the world works. I don't think a sleasy real estate agent is behaving any differently (by jacking up fees, putting people in properties that may not be in their best interest, strong-arming FSBOs into listing with them) than the billionaire is, it's just the scale of their blast radius that is different. That's not to equate the two, because obviously scale matters, but the underlying motiviation is largely the same.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-23 16:17:38+00:00
> Starlink doesn't even offer service in Myanmar!

If this is the case, what is the justification for allowing them at all? If the receiver's location is not in an authorized service area, why allow it to connect? In fact, I'm surprised that's not automated. I can't access websites due to geofencing, yet Starlink can't figure out the location of the dish accessing their network? I'm not buying that at all.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-10-23 16:17:43+00:00
Hegseth is publicly just a huge fan of war crimes and this is probably the main reason he got the job he has now. The big thing he's been signaling, and not really even in a sly or dogwhistly way, is that war crimes are ok to do now.

If your goal is to do war crimes and enable others to do war crimes then removing the war crime reporting tool may not directly benefit you much but it certainly doesn't hurt you. And there is a certain idealogical alignment.
by walkabout | 2025-10-23 16:18:26+00:00
One nice thing about pointless witch hunts that go nowhere despite enormous efforts is that you can be sure a much-quicker process ending with something like actual consequences would ensue if there were real criminality to investigate.

If all they can come up with is bullshit, things must be going ok, and if they’re committed to pursuing bullshit, odds are good they’d be thrilled to find something real to attack, if they could. Similar deal with Republican election complaints: if they don’t bother to investigate when they can, or find nothing substantial when they do, those concerns can be safely dismissed, which is nice.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-23 16:18:33+00:00
If it gets to that point, the Federal govenrment will have ceased to operate as anything recognizable, and most of the finance industry is faced with two options:

a) update the valuation of their assets, recognizing that they are instantly insolvent, cease trading, and lock their doors;

b) continue operating "illegally" in the hope that some sort of order will materialize

Option (a) causes all the non-cash economy in the US to stop functioning. The gold and silver bugs are, briefly, ecstatic - this is their moment. Everyone else who would rely on their debit or credit cards to buy food and gasoline, less so. The legal order that is supposed to maintain things like elections theoretically remains in place, but the rapid collapse in public order forces states to step in. You have elections to some thing called the "United States", but when most of its money has been rendered worthless, does it really exist any more? Essentially this is the "prepper" fantasy.
by rayiner | 2025-10-23 16:18:41+00:00
Picking and choosing which laws to enforce is baked into the concept of prosecutorial discretion. There is a reason the country’s prosecutor in chief is an elected position. It was understood to be a fundamentally political office even in Jefferson’s day: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/02/thomas-je...

I agree we should abolish the filibuster. It makes incremental changes difficult and fosters extremism.
by bertili | 2025-10-23 16:19:09+00:00
Here is a puzzle:

Investors in bonds look for a percentage growth, year over year. That's an exponential. A linear growth would be non-investable in the longer run.

From the other side, the US debt is quite linear on a log scale, so also exponential. That suddenly looks scary. But that is really to be expected? Exponential is the natural curve. If it wasn't exponential it would disappear, year over year.
by freedomben | 2025-10-23 16:19:31+00:00
What is so hard about understanding their desire? They want to keep more money for themselves so they can buy more yachts, invest in more things, whatever. This is just how humans are.

It's up to policy makers (i.e. government when it comes to taxation) to structure the system to mitigate the inherent self-interest that people have. Obviously that's easier said than done when the ultra-rich buy off the politicians, but human nature just is what it is.
by rendx | 2025-10-23 16:19:45+00:00
"Denial" typically refers not to the denial that something bad happened to you, but to not see how you act it out on others (or yourself). It is exactly those in denial that would claim that they "have moved on", and try hard to make it look like they did also to those around them. It then shows up in violent tendencies, lashing out against kids, enemy images, patterns of avoidance, psychosomatic symptoms, burnout, addictions, obesity, sports injuries due to overdoing it, inability to sit still and listen, etc. - not necessarily PTSD symptoms.
by alluro2 | 2025-10-23 16:19:48+00:00
Trump is, inevitably, in the comments a lot.

And I'm just surprised when people still react to what he does as "unbelievable", "illegal" etc... I get it, but it's weird how persistently people still try to frame Trump's actions into moral, legal, historical, cultural, responsibility or any other framework.

He is someone who was born into wealth in the worst way possible, and was never - ever - subject to any moral restrictions, material consequences, or requirements that depend on any positive qualities, effort or success.

In those conditions, his bullish way of behaving always got him what he wanted in the moment, without any downsides or counter-weight that would regulate it. Time after time, he was given proof - by us, the society - that there are no consequences, or they are just so unimpactful, and that he can continue doing what he does. There is no framework that he needed to adhere to.

He was then placed into practically the same position within the government - being able to do whatever he wants and benefits him (directly, or through benefitting his posse), and there will be no material consequences of any kind. If he comes up to any inconvenient restrictions put in place before, they can just be removed first.

And that's it, that's what he's been doing all along. He doesn't have any higher interests, any ulterior motivation, or ambitions - in every situation, he just uses it to get something for himself in that moment - even if openly solely to be able to brag that he did it - and he makes himself look big by lying or belittling others, and that's it. Just a very simple unrestricted narcissist, on grander scale.

Their behavior is quite simple to understand and predict. It's just that they can rarely be SO up there, so unrestricted, that people still seem to struggle to not try to tie him to norms and frameworks.
by jaccola | 2025-10-23 16:20:18+00:00
You are mostly correct in my opinion.

The fundamental problem is, there is really no "free market" of countries.

A US citizen who hates what the country has become cannot go off and set up a new one, they have a choice of a few styles of government (and it is very expensive to go and try living under another government!) Perhaps a benefit of space exploration will be experimentation with style of government.

My only niggle with your statement would be: A lot of what is happening now is happening because of "friction" in the system. If, for example, in an ideal world courts adjudicated instantly (instead of taking months or years) the current situation would be quite different. Similarly, if all congress people voted without fear of intimidation, some might vote quite differently. But, you are right, it's not like the founders didn't know that courts are slow or people can be intimidated.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-23 16:20:53+00:00
And this is why politics is broken in the US, and in most of the Western world for that matter. What you just said is completely false, but it's being rewarded because people want it to be true. Here [1] is data on the annual deficit. [1] We've only run a "surplus" four times since 1970. Twice under George W Bush, twice under Clinton. Since then it's been going mostly into loony land.

The reason for the quotes is because that's an incomplete picture since various things can affect the debt without being noted in the annual deficit. For instance some programs are considered off-budget, there's various accounting restructuring, and so on. If you simply look at the total debt it has increased every year (again since at least 1970) with the only exception being 1999 to 2000 depending on when you measure it. If you look end of year vs end of year (as opposed to fiscal year), it decreased by a few billion dollars, and that was the only time.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD
by malcolmgreaves | 2025-10-23 16:21:10+00:00
The tea party was a front by the Koch brothers to pay less taxes. It was and always will be a thing by the rich, for the rich. It was also just wrapped up in the entire republican agenda of trying to sabotage the first Black president, because too many white folk couldn’t accept that the president was Black. There was never any possibility of a bipartisan agreement.
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by pubby | 2025-10-23 16:21:36+00:00
You're very correct but I suppose I was really answering why compilers centralize around SSA. It's a bold choice to choose one data structure for everything, and that requires more motivation than, "it makes certain optimizations really easy". Because again, it makes other stuff harder.

>And going further with the sea-of-nodes representation just makes them all more powerful; I really do recommend reading Cliff Click's thesis.

We might have to agree to disagree on this one. I actually found sea of nodes to be a boneheaded idea. It makes one or two optimizations a little more elegant but everything else a huge pain in the ass. At least, that was my experience.
by tguvot | 2025-10-23 16:21:45+00:00
did you also raised objections when president of ICJ on cases of Israel had 2 decade history of anti-Israel statement and it seemed like he biased and has conflict of interest ?

did you also raised objections when ICJ disregarded it own evidence rules and used twitter posts by NGO as evidence that it used to underpin it rulings ?

did you even bother to read dissenters positions to see how court ignores actual evidence in order to come to conclusion ?
by ryandrake | 2025-10-23 16:21:54+00:00
Then, how do you choose how many facts to present?

ChatGPT, what causes it to rain?

ChatGPT: Well, some people say that air temperature and pressure changes cause existing moisture in the air to condense and form liquid water, which falls to the earth. Other people say it is caused by a supernatural deity to bring good crops for the harvest. Others say it’s a unicorn who lives in the sky, and rain is its tears. Still others say Joe Biden causes it to rain in order to ruin Conservative’s weddings. Others think rain is generated by chemicals sprayed in the atmosphere by passenger jets. There’s not a broad consensus, and nobody really knows for sure!
by jandrese | 2025-10-23 16:22:28+00:00
let K = A(A(A))(A(A(A))(A)(A)(A)(A)(A); let S = A(A(A(A)(A(A)(A(A)))(A(A(A(A)((A(A)))))))(A)(A);

Interestingly enough, the sounds escaping my mouth while looking at that match the argument list.
by senfiaj | 2025-10-23 16:22:30+00:00
My code accepts only a very limited subset of HTML tags and their respective attributes. (<a>, <img>, <font>, <br>, <b>, <strong>, <i>, <em>, <del>, 
, <u>, <p>, <hr>, <li>, <ul>, <ol>).

I could easily add more, like headings or tables. Just decided to not overwhelm the readers. But all of the allowed elements / attributes here are harmless. When I'm copying them, I'm only copying the known safe elements and attributes (forbids unknown attributes, including styles/scripts, event handlers, style attributes, ids, or even classes). I have fine control over the allowed elements / attributes and the structure. This makes things much easier. For a basic html content management this kind of filtering is fine since DOMParser actually does the heavy lifting.

Sure, DomPurify is powerful and handles much more complex use cases (doesn't it also use DOMParser though?), no doubts about that. But a basic CMS probably has to handle basic HTML text elements. I guess inline SVG sanitation is more complicated (maybe just use ordinary <img> instead?).

If you have some html example that will inject js/css or cause any unexpected behavior in my code example, please provide that HTML.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-23 16:23:23+00:00
It isn't at all, this is the dumbest "gotcha" ever.

You can absolutely support someone who doesn't support you back. Queers for Palestine isn't saying "Free Palestine so I can move there and live my life", it's saying "Palestinians should be free even if they don't like me, because freedom is imperative"

The ACLU did the same fucking thing with literal nazi marches decades ago and nobody made this kind of dumb claim, and a shocking number of people who make this "gotcha" about queers for Palestine get upset that the ACLU now says they shouldn't support the right of Nazis.

I support the freedom of religion for people who practice religions that say I am the devil or need to be saved or I should be oppressed. I do NOT support those religions enacting such oppression, or modifying my government for stupid things they believe in, but that doesn't mean they should not have the right to practice their own beliefs that don't affect other people.

I want Palestinians to have a country that does not oppress women and outlaw birth control (That's why most of Palestine is children by the way; oppression), and murder random people in the town square, but that still requires they get "freedom" of some kind. I would argue that freedom also requires the Palestinians are made free from Hamas, but there is an awkward chance that Palestinians right now would choose Hamas given a free choice. I don't have a solution for that.

Regardless, the solution to any of that is still not fairly indiscriminate bombing with high accepted collateral casualties.
by rrix2 | 2025-10-23 16:23:30+00:00
you're being downvoted, i suggest folks read up on the whiskey rebellion, the economic depression after the revolutionary war, the economic problems and internal strife caused by policies that Washington and the other federalists enacted to "strengthen the republic" in the years between the war and the constitution being ratified.

https://archive.org/details/tamingdemocracyt0000bout/
by krapp | 2025-10-23 16:23:32+00:00
>"Algorithm" has got to be the least useful word in English today.

On the contrary, it's the word that's going to justify balkanization and government control of speech on the web. It's spooky magic that controls people's minds to most people. You know we're cooked when it becomes common on HN of all places to claim that "algorithmic feeds" should be illegal because they're the source of all society's ills, toxicity and political dissent.
by bmelton | 2025-10-23 16:23:57+00:00
If you assume that Biden had influence on the prosecution, then we should not forget that the original deal posed by the DOJ was for Hunter to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges for which he would have received 2 years probation, and pre-trial diversion on the federal gun charges.

The judge threw this out, but those are pretty generous terms for what penultimately amounted to guilty charges on 6 felonies and 6 misdemeanors (before all charges were pardoned.)
by jimmar | 2025-10-23 16:24:39+00:00
Conservatives want to cut taxes to force liberals to cut spending. Liberals want to increase spending to force the conservatives to increase taxes. But voters don't like increased taxes (on themselves) or decreased spending. So we end up with the worst of both worlds--higher spending without the tax revenue to afford it. Then we get to watch each side win the war of opinion on cable news. They throw each other under the bus, eventually come to a deal, and both sides claim victory. Rinse. Repeat.
by waffletower | 2025-10-23 16:24:50+00:00
In principle this is a great thing -- but in reality this will only continue to exacerbate the monoculture of 1970s era musical metaphors in digital music production. The VST3 format is confined, much like MIDI 1.0, to provide extremely opinionated and limited instrument and sound processing designs. If AudioUnits were suddenly MIT licensed I would react very differently.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-23 16:24:58+00:00
We live in an age where some people will say they're not lying as long as what they said has the vaguest association with the truth. Let's not contribute to that.

People in these threads are arguing aggressively this "myth" is not at all possible when the truth is lots of people experience it, including yourself.

Let's not dilute the meaning of the word "myth" to mean "its somewhat difficult".

A unicorn is a mythical creature from fairy tales, this doesn't mean the same thing as "the zoo with a unicorn exhibit is a few hours away and pretty expensive".

This isn't some nitpick of a minor detail better described with slightly different wording. It's people passionately arguing a common experience is impossible.
by arczyx | 2025-10-23 16:25:22+00:00
> actively hunting down and murdering on a consistent basis

There's only one man being killed in the article you linked, and his killing is way more complex that the article made it to be.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/g-s1-17637/hebron-west-bank-i...

Pretty sure that's not enough evidence for 'actively hunting down and murdering on a consistent basis'.

On the other hand, Israel had probably killed tens if not hundreds or thousands of queers in Gaza as of now. That surely count for 'murdering on a consistent basis'.
by mort96 | 2025-10-23 16:25:36+00:00
I feel like back when D might've been a language worth looking into, it was hampered by the proprietary compilers.

And still today, the first thought that comes to mind when I think D is "that language with proprietary compilers", even though there has apparently been some movement on that front? Not really worth looking into now that we have Go as an excellent GC'd compiled language and Rust as an excellent C++ replacement.

Having two different languages for those purposes seems like a better idea anyway than having one "optionally managed" language. I can't even imagine how that could possibly work in a way that doesn't just fragment the community.
by peterfirefly | 2025-10-23 16:25:39+00:00
Are you objecting to the trivial extension to cos(α - β)? The cos(α + β) identity itself is nicely explained in the text.

The third thing you quote is the result of fairly simply symbol manipulation that requires no new knowledge apart from the original cosine identity and the obvious corollary about subtracting an angle being the same as adding a negated one.

There is zero advanced math there. No complex numbers, no calculus, no limits, no Fourier, no "functions are vectors, too".
by tastyfreeze | 2025-10-23 16:25:57+00:00
We already bastardized the senate by electing senators by popular vote. Senators are supposed to represent each states government, not the people of the state. As a single member of the union a state doesn't need more senators. Making ingredients the proportional to population just makes the senate another house. The people have the house. The cap of representatives has also been harmful to the voice of the people being heard. Representatives are the face for too many people for them to truly represent their constituents.