MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rayiner | 2025-10-02 01:25:52+00:00
No, “emanations from penumbras” is calvinball. This is simple. Article II says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

As you note, the FTC enforces antitrust laws. Enforcement of the law is a quintessential exercise of executive power. What’s the Fed’s core function? It performs open market operations to influence the economy as a bank. Is that an exercise of executive power? Maybe. But it’s a very different question than whether the FTC exercises executive power.
by protocolture | 2025-10-02 01:26:17+00:00
The issue was resolved by complaining to the Uber Maps team for 9 months until they removed their fake road block.

The work around in the interim was a combination of:

1. Writing a long description of how to access our property. 2. Trying to limit the distance an uber driver had to travel. <1km made it more likely for them to review the map and comment before driving. Dont ask me why. 3. Oscillating the drop off marker on the map to make it more likely that the driver was sent to our street at all, where we could wave at them to get them to drive beyond the psychological roadblock. 4. Attrition lead some drivers to remember my name, and just come straight to the property ignoring the map.

Any other mapping service delivered people to our property fine. Its just that Uber randomly blocked the end of our street. Meaning our street had no entrance.

Problem was that, uber has an exclusive relationship for delivery with one of our local supermarkets, and my wife doesnt drive and was stuck at home with an angry baby for the duration.

Due to this issue we did push the maximum amount of our orders through other delivery apps, probably taking significant income away from uber. But they have deliberately structured their support channels to be impossible to deal with.
by pino999 | 2025-10-02 01:26:35+00:00
Thinking about complexity as entropy, the friction, so they try to estimate "useless work" in their eyes. Heat transfer is velocity then. Firing up the next cycle. Detectable Delectable malicious, makes me hot really. Fiery.

It is just engine design really;) How bad can that be?

We don't even get real time, just pretend time. But I have to say, I admire this idea. All the time wasting around it, retro's with stupid humiliations. They run on naming and shaming. Sticks and carrots.

Works well :D Until people stop participating in the retro's. There is nothing to say, nobody says anything. They start atomizing the tasks infinitely or always inflate the estimate by 2. The standup nobody speaks, but they work like silent ghosts.

Scary sight huh? Happy Helloween vibes inglorious bastards.
by vkou | 2025-10-02 01:26:40+00:00
> call everyone a nazi

The parent poster didn't call you anything, but one does raise eyebrows at people who look at the crazy authoritarian shit that is being done, and say 'this is legal, and good, and desirable and it makes me happy :)'.

They are certainly a prominent and loud and very defensive group of people, they are definitely not 'everyone'.
by mirabilis | 2025-10-02 01:26:59+00:00
I’m not certain it’s the case for McCarthy’s works, but I think inept attempts at manly men could certainly veer into accidental parody. An “overly masculine” character might just bring Johnny Bravo to mind. To offer an example, I tried watching “Untamed” recently and the highly concentrated gruff machismo coming off of that main character mostly had me wondering if he would ever do or say anything that wasn’t so cliche as to be scripted by predictive text. (Maybe it gets better, but the first few episodes did not hold me.)
by ux266478 | 2025-10-02 01:27:03+00:00
> Functional-programming evangelists tend to be on the stricter side, though.

> I think that a lot of the aversion to functional programming advocacy comes from advocates demonizing anything imperative

I find these types to often be more motivated by things like nicely designed grammars and powerful type systems more than functional programming itself. A convenient test is give someone over to a J codebase. If they principally learned in a functional environment, or otherwise mastered functional programming, they'll love it. If they just like having language features that aren't 50 years old, they'll want to tear their hair out.

I have seen academic-types that abhor the idea of a flip-flop. I'm not programming a blackboard, so I pay this no mind.

> When programming with “functional core with imperative shell”, is that functional programming overall?

The functional parts surely are. The imperative parts are probably not (since they have to be very granular). Why reduce it to a binary overall? A complex codebase is a highly entropic thing. How much does the functional core influence the non-functional shell? It probably varies, and would require a high dimensional manifold to accurately graph.

> Regarding functional (de)composition and proper structuring, that was very much a thing in imperative programming from fairly early on.

Imperative and functional aren't generally mutually exclusive in my eyes. You can use statements to structure programs in a functional manner. No problem.

Threaded code is relatively similar to functional programming, but it's also very dead unfortunately. Most people's introduction and exposure to it is exclusively through Forth toys. It was (and maybe still is?) a real assembly technique. You need better control over the callstack than you get out of most imperative languages these days.

Point-free style is a critical component of functional programming in my eyes. Far more important than purity. It's not exclusive to functional programming, but it's pretty much holding up half the sky. Without it, you get crap like recursively descending a list of function pointers and void* args. Not ergonomic.

I should also note that I would consider ENIAC's programming paradigm to be rather close to functional:

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/eniac/simulator.html
by pfooti | 2025-10-02 01:27:30+00:00
This is also fascinating from the perspective of me, someone who is autistic and open about it at work. My work collaboration profile comes out and says "I'm autistic", and sets out a few things to know.

When I hit the workspace rearrangement event I felt it in my bones, since my employer did that. However because I have a doctor's note about my noise and light sensitivity, they were able to accommodate me with a dedicated desk in a quieter area.

It isn't the quietest, and I still get shuffled around, but I get to preview the new location and pick the best spot for my sensitivities each time I've moved. So in my case, being open with my management (and reports) about my autism has been a very helpful thing.
by someothherguyy | 2025-10-02 01:27:38+00:00
Who is going to buy the houses? Who is going to own the land? Not many people need a plumber. Look back some decades. We can't all just work in the trades. It doesn't make sense from a supply and demand stance.

A decrease in quality of life is an acceptable cost to stay alive. In a very different economy, people will just fix their own toilet with scavenged or bartered parts.
by tiffsaw | 2025-10-02 01:27:42+00:00
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by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-02 01:28:48+00:00
A little over a decade ago MS used to offer a full multi day course with certification simply to understand their licensing. If you were a reseller you needed at least some of your people to go through it if not all of them.

The funniest part was by the time they had got their certification, their information would often be outdated, so even their licensing experts would often be wrong about their licensing.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-10-02 01:28:56+00:00
> Yet an expression such as cols (replicate 0 (replicate 3 0)) should still work (and evaluate to 3)

Denotational or operational semantics: pick one for your programming language and stick to it. The author (who I generally think is very smart) here is striving for denotational semantics (type level data) and trying to torture the operations into supplying the appropriate result. Operationally `cols (replicate 0 (replicate 3 0))` is 0 not 3. So now you have to bend over backwards and implement custom shape functions that not only return weird answers but have to be special cased AND context sensitive - ie without trying the language I'm 100% sure that

cols (replicate 0 "x")

returns zero, but as described here

cols (replicate 0 (replicate k "x"))

returns k. Ie cols has to introspect semantically into its argument. That's not just tedious, it's impossible unless you don't let people add names that can participate (ie arbitrary functions). Or you ask them to implement the same shape functions (which doesn't solve the problem because they'll be no more equipped than you are).
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-02 01:30:31+00:00
Well it is like eating a bowl of ice cream or two every day, and I only take half of the recommended “servings” at a time, just shake it right up in a 24 oz shaker with water and it’s good to go!

I stay active and all that, so it works for me.

Before all of this I was having a hard time keeping my energy levels up, this works for me!
by dimal | 2025-10-02 01:31:16+00:00
While everyone deals with some version of these issues, what you’re missing is the scale and quantity of these issues for autistic people. Would you want to work in an office that smelled like rotting garbage, loud distracting music was constantly playing, and strobe lights randomly flashed in your eyes? This might get you close to what it’s like for me to work in an open office.

I can often smell the people around me. Generally, they don’t smell good. I can often hear conversations that are on the other side of the office. (Have you ever tried to add up numbers while someone else says other random numbers at you? It’s like that.) When people walk past my field of vision, I can’t focus on my screen. When I try to tune out all of these distractions, it consumes a lot of energy. Doing it hour after hour, day after day would leave me depleted, exhausted, unable to focus. I’d be unable to do the work that I was hired to do. How is that reasonable?
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by Aachen | 2025-10-02 01:32:16+00:00
That sounds like it'll require access to the phone number to set it up on a new device, and that's assuming the user promptly has the funds for a new device

Even if it works for desktop clients also, that still needs to be set up using a data matrix scanned by the mobile device (or if that's already done before you lost the origin device, you can "simply" extract the faux-encrypted sqlite format that the desktop client uses, albeit with having to recompile this encryption extension for Sqlite manually — ask me how I know..)
by farmdawgnation | 2025-10-02 01:32:18+00:00
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by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-02 01:32:24+00:00
This is good but the effects are also highly marginal. The key change would be if the U.S. moved to the EU system where a new food needs to be proven to be safe before it can be sold as opposed to the current system where a new food is assumed to be safe until proven otherwise.

That is the systemic shift that’s actually important and would have automatically handled the dyes issue as well.
by vkou | 2025-10-02 01:32:29+00:00
> Are there any reputable law scholars that supports this argument?

Yes, literally everyone, because that's how the law is written.

Note https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2436 - this would reclassify it from a civil to a criminal offense, but did not pass into law.

Also note that entry into the US after having been removed from it is, by law, a criminal offense.

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> What about "illegally" parked cars? Those are also civil infractions.

You should note that nobody calls the people who put them there 'illegal drivers'. (We also don't apply that moniker to people speeding, failing to signal on a lane change, or being responsible for many other moving violations. We do apply it to people driving drunk or without a license - which are criminal offenses.)
by mindslight | 2025-10-02 01:32:29+00:00
I don't think we'd ever interacted, and I can't remember the last time I called anyone a Nazi.

FWIW I'm pretty sure when someone is at the point of saying they "have empathy ... but", it means they do not have empathy. It sounds like something deeply hurt you in the past, and for that you have my sympathies, but lashing out at others is not going to solve that.
by chmod775 | 2025-10-02 01:33:00+00:00
Isn't another hardware problem being ignored here? Pound-for-pound muscle fibers are just superior to what you can achieve with electric motors or pneumatics.

Take size, strength, precision, longevity, and speed. It's not hard to match or beat organic muscle fibers on one or two of these dimensions with an electrically driven system, but if it does, it's going to neglect other dimensions to such a degree as to put building a humanoid robot that achieves parity with a human completely out of reach.

You can slather as much AI as you want on top of inadequate hardware - it's not going to help.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 01:34:18+00:00
>The Democrats are basically in complete shock right now and probably realizing that they’re gonna have to rebuild the entire party.

If that's the case, so be it. Step down and leave it to those who do have all those factors.

>I fail to see anyone at this point in time within the Democratic party that is capable of taking the reins that has any charisma or plan that really addresses the key issues that most Americans care about.

I see some. They are of course cast down for the same reason Kamala was (despite her being much more moderate in comparison). Legacy media is not going to show off that charisma, you need other channels.
by Aachen | 2025-10-02 01:34:53+00:00
> even with Grooveshark being down it still works!

Wait what, how does (did?) that work?

And more importantly (I can find the opus files myself): can/could it retrieve my account data to know which songs to download?

I've been able to partially reconstruct my music from localStorage, downloaded songs on my phone (yay for having root and access to that data folder), and memory, but it's still incomplete

Fwiw, here's my own little contribution to getting song data from Grooveshark, in my first blog post: https://lgms.nl/blog-1 (not my first blog site though). Happy to meet other fans :D
by aeonfox | 2025-10-02 01:34:56+00:00
By sandboxing:

> We first discuss the implementation considerations of the input to the Wasm-side Init() API call. The isolated linear memory space of Wasm instance is referred to as guest, while the program’s address space running the Wasm instance is referred to as host. The input to a Wasm instance consists of the contiguous bytes of an EncUnit copied from the host’s memory into the guest’s memory, plus any additional runtime options.

> Although research has shown the importance of minimizing the number of memory copies in analytical workloads, we consider the memory copy while passing input to Wasm decoders hard to avoid for several reasons. First, the sandboxed linear memory restricts the guest to accessing only its own memory. Prior work has modified Wasm runtimes to allow access to host memory for reduced copying, but such changes compromise Wasm’s security guarantees
by godelski | 2025-10-02 01:35:17+00:00
> Playing into your game

You may have noticed I stressed this particular issue and Funding the government

There's a time and place for partisan politics but funding the government is not one of those.

> Centrism isn't enlightened, but foolish.

And how has this philosophy worked out? For someone who seems to hate Trump so much you really seem to like increasing this support base.

There's a whole country of people with varying needs and issues. You can't put everything under one clean umbrella. So why don't you start listening to what people are saying instead of responding to what you heard?
by throwaway81523 | 2025-10-02 01:35:17+00:00
I'm pretty sure RMS has never had a cell phone. He also (as of 10 or so years ago) had famously never eaten at McDonalds. He went to some lengths to maintain that. It wasn't really about disliking the food or the company. He said he wanted for there to always be at least one person on Earth who had never eaten there, and the only way to ensure that was to make himself be that person.
by ChanningAllen | 2025-10-02 01:35:18+00:00
This article makes me want to cry. I'm an unbelievably big Cormac McCarthy fan and the findings in his library shed so much light on many inscrutable and poetic passages from his books.

I think for example about the following quote from the judge, an insatiably curious (and evil) character from Blood Meridian:

> Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Cormac's personal library contained "upwards of 20,000 volumes." Turns out, that wasn't the judge speaking but McCarthy himself.
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-02 01:35:32+00:00
I would say there seems to be a hole in some legislature systems (Israel, Germany, India?) where the thresholds required for various functions seem unlikely to be attainable with certain vote total splits between multiple parties.

And in those times, voters are unlikely to defect from parties just because.

Ergo, there's a succession of very weak governments that rapidly collapse.

Which doesn't seem great for governance either. Feels like a perfect system would have a better 'there is no mandate attainable, so no one gets power but a shared government is forced into office for minimum X years' numerical escape hatch.
by rayiner | 2025-10-02 01:36:04+00:00
The US has had a nationally bank since before the constitution was adopted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bank_of_the_United_State.... The U.S. has had a central bank that controls inflation by performing market operations since 1811: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bank_of_the_United_Stat....

The core concept of a central bank that influences the economy through its transactions with other banks has a lengthy constitutional pedigree. It predates the 20th century precedent on “independent federal agencies” by 120 years or so.
by gnubeardo | 2025-10-02 01:36:28+00:00
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by iJohnDoe | 2025-10-02 01:36:29+00:00
It’s interesting everyone having different experiences and those experiences drive what they do.

I would never dream of running Docker in production. It seems so overly complicated. Also, since day one, I could never understand using a public registry for mission critical stuff. When I was learning Docker, I would unplug the network cable so I wouldn’t accidentally push my container online somewhere with all my data.

I totally get the concept at scale. I also get the concept of just shipping an application in a container. I also get the concept of self-hosting of just give me the container so I don’t have to think about how it all works.

However, the complexity of building the container, cleanup, deleting entries, environment variables, no SSH availability, even on Railway in the beginning, ambiguous where your container needs to be to be to even get it somewhere. Public registry or private registry.

Certainly most of it is my lack of knowledge of not sticking with it.

Just give me a VM and some firewall rules. Cloning VMs can be automated in so many different ways.

/rant
by noosphr | 2025-10-02 01:36:46+00:00
No one expected natural language to be solved in 2020. At the time the smart money was on 20 to 80 years. Many people are still acting like it's not.

Things happen not at all and then all at once.

We have the cheap humanoid platforms coming out of China and they cost six months minimum wage salary in the developed world. Once a model is developed that can use those platforms to match humans for simple tasks we will see the hollowing out of all unskilled physical labor overnight.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 01:38:02+00:00
>most voters are already decided so a reduction in party membership didn't have much of an impact.

2024 clearly says otherwise. They won't vote for R's, but they may also just not vote at all. That's almost as dangerous. The DNC definiately needs to energize its base again, not just say "well we aren't Trump".
by kcplate | 2025-10-02 01:39:43+00:00
> …supermajority is required, when it simply isn’t… It’s the rule they use, are you advocating here for the GOP to use some sort of rule change “nuclear option” to push through the CR? Pretty sure the GOP saw (and warned against) that sort of thing back in 2013. The current makeup of the Supreme Court should give your pause about these “just change the rule” notions.

Do you realize that literally what Schumer is trying to do here is to blackmail a political policy on the country that he did not have enough support to get included in the One Big Beautiful Bill right? He is holding government operations hostage because his party lost an election, the majority who were elected passed a bill that was signed into law by Trump that the dems didn’t like.

The democrats are literally trying to thwart democracy with this shutdown and people on here are acting like that’s a good thing?