MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sershe | 2025-11-05 04:28:02+00:00
Rent control in particular is an economic basket case policy, the fact that it's popular at election time should have about as much bearing on it making sense as the fact that another "experimental" candidate was considered by voters in 2024 to be "better on immigration"

As for offering free stuff, the problem that - if you look at relative population numbers - NY, CA, etc are already facing is that on the margin people he hopes will pay for it will just move away.
by bdangubic | 2025-11-05 04:28:03+00:00
that isn’t the fatal flaw. the fatal flaw is campaigning and staking your entire political career on something and the delivering something sooooo subpar.

the sad thing is, history will remember him as first black President and that’s really about it. and most of us cried watching that speech from lincoln park.

our current president is causing most of us to cry daily but will be remembered as one of the most influential presidents in the history of this country… sad, very sad, but all true
by vacuity | 2025-11-05 04:28:53+00:00
Morality partially stems from autonomy (in the sense that "I should be able to act as I please"). According to autonomy, a person should be able to act freely, and two people should be able to interact similarly. One person's policy will be judged by any other, who is free to act by a distinct policy. But autonomy alone doesn't make for a good person, or a good society. The other factor in morality is non-hypocrisy (in the sense that "I should act how I say I should act").

I've laid out a neutral response. Of course I have my personal beliefs, as one does, but I speak here without pretense. Believe what you will.
by panxyh | 2025-11-05 04:29:44+00:00
Isn't there any margin? Does it calculate stopping before end of runway or before causing damage?

Surely uncertainty about the situation contributes to defaulting to committing, but what if it's a passenger plane and at V1 pilots know they've lost power? Wouldn't veering into highway at 30 mph be weighted against certain, big loss of life?

Edit: I now see that this has been partially answered by uncle comment
by DoctorOetker | 2025-11-05 04:30:24+00:00
any sane advice on

1) integrating cscope with nano?

2) integrating exuberant ctags with nano?

3) integrating universal ctags with nano?

3) any sane advice on pattern matching (say find, or find and replace) where newlines, tabs etc can be part of query, part of the substitution?
by nneonneo | 2025-11-05 04:30:57+00:00
I am so glad that I insisted on buying a car with CarPlay five years ago. At the time a number of our options did not have CarPlay, but were otherwise quite solid cars. If I'd gone with any of them I'd likely be a lot less happy than I am now: given that I use CarPlay on literally every drive, it's probably the single most important feature to have.

I get that GM doesn't want to cede the important center console to third parties because it feels like giving up their control, but man, is it ever going to be the wrong choice for them.
by sublinear | 2025-11-05 04:31:01+00:00
What was wrong with using Free File Fillable Forms in the first place? It's the real deal forms just online and with nothing obscured or sugar coated.

I use it every year, and while I wouldn't exactly say I enjoy doing my taxes, I do enjoy being fully aware what I'm filing and not being forced to do it on paper just because others have obtuse opinions or are lazy.
Theory – how to make it so nobody's poor
by AdityaNa15 | 2025-11-05 04:32:00+00:00
The economic system is unstable. Wealth concentrates and stays there. As such, the means of production and also the goods concentrate as well.

This is highlighted in the income and wealth global graphs. They clearly show a gap where the bottom of the income chart receives no money (for bare necessities like food), and the bottom of the wealth chart shows the bottom have no savings.

I propose a plan to solve this systemic problem of wealth concentration “rugging” the bottom.

First, I set up a company, Myshkin (www.myshkin.club). Myshkin is a buffet that delivers. Effectively, you’re always connected to a buffet via your phone, for a monthly fee of $1000.

This feeds the people with money in society.

Then, I take the excess meals from the organization, and I donate them to religious institutions throughout a city, so that they may be had by the poor within a city for free. I make up any difference with the profits from Myshkin.

This feeds the people without money in society.

Now, everyone’s fed, which cures the first gap in the income distribution: now everyone receives food.

There is but the second gap in the system, in the wealth gap. If you ignore that the people at the bottom are fed, the money itself still concentrates to the top and swirls. The bottom are fed but still poor. And the way I like to describe this is that “if everyone could afford iPhones every year, Capitalism would be bigger.” And yet the money still concentrates.

For this I propose that we establish a decentralized currency as the receipts of Myshkin’s transactions. So now every month, customers pay $1000, and get 600 Receipts.

This increases monetary flow. So now the people can buy more. By a little bit at first, then a lot. Say globally people pay $1000 and get 10,000 Receipts. More monetary flow.

And yet the problem isn’t solved because the money, dollars and Receipts, concentrates still.

Until we flip the switch.

Before the switch, everything in capitalism is a bad move financially. Everything takes your money. And we’re stuck in being pulled.

The switch consists of the following: * Before * Lose $1000 * Gain 10,000 Receipts * Now * Gain however much you want * Lose only if you take too much

This switch changes the system by virtue of the fact that now the rules themselves say money is abundant. Take as much money as you want. If you take over a million Receipts we’ll throttle you.

This odds beneficial to Capitalism. Why? Because now everyone can afford iPhones. Apple grows through the roof. Every company does.

And we get back to serving one another.

Shortly thereafter, we take the extra money and we buy all of the automation we ourselves need to automate ourselves out of our business. It’s coming in 3 years.

And with all the money, we automate ourselves out of the economy.

And we control the income and the wealth graphs to reflect abundance.
by carnufex | 2025-11-05 04:32:06+00:00
Socialism works in places with more or less homogenous populations. I always hear Norway/Sweden have universial everything. Yes they do cause taxes are sky high and the culture there is more or less the same.

NYC is not Norway.

People in Norway let babies sleep outside the supermarket when they go shopping. When you have that level of trust in a society, socialism has a fighting chance for sure.

I think the establishment messed up big time here and Mamdami snatched it up.
by enobrev | 2025-11-05 04:32:41+00:00
I wholeheartedly agree that it's significantly worse than single-payer, but to say it hurt young people simply doesn't match reality as I saw it play out.

The ACA allowed me to get insurance for the first time since I'd left home several years before. I knew lots of other freelancers at the time who were in the same boat.

Of course in the following years, insurers found plenty of loopholes to increase prices significantly year over year - and this is why leaving the middlemen in the middle was a TERRIBLE choice - but at the very least the quality of those plans still has a reasonable low bar.

I still find myself on the ACA from time to time. I can't afford it. But the plans are still significantly better and thus more affordable than what was available before.
by tombert | 2025-11-05 04:32:41+00:00
I swore a blood oath that I would never buy an Asus product ever again, after three terrible laptops from them in a row, but holy hell do I kind of want this monitor.

My main "monitor" right now is an 85" 8K TV, that I absolutely love, but it would be nice to have something smaller for my upstairs desk.
by metricshome | 2025-11-05 04:33:52+00:00
It’s somewhat important to point out that this is the same thing that was done during the Iraq war to potential “insurgents” so the biometrics tech was “trained” and used experimentally there before it has been brought home. Wouldn’t be surprised if the people that used it in Iraq (as technicians) are now going to be the people operating the tech now in the US.
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-05 04:34:06+00:00
Is there a good search engine which does not execute any JavaScripts on files that it scans? (This is not the same as excluding web pages that use JavaScripts (I have seen some search engines that do this); I still want to be able to search for them, but I do not want the search queries (or the summaries of the results) to include anything that is only displayed due to JavaScripts.)
by adastra22 | 2025-11-05 04:34:09+00:00
AGI is artificial general intelligence. It is defined in contrast to so-called "narrow" intelligence, which is AI systems limited to specific problem domains. This has always been a well-accepted definition, at least prior to the recent AI boom. In 2006 no one would have questioned this -- you can go find books and conference journals from this time that discuss AGI with this very specific definition.

What happened was: over the 8 years between 2006 - 2014, a particularly vocal and organized group of fringe singletarians promoted the idea that once AGI is achieved (the originally well-defined conception of AGI), it will rapidly undergo recursive self-improvement and emerge as a singularly powerful entity with absolute power and control. The debate was whether this would happen in mere hours/days (fast takeoff) or months (slow takeoff). These nutcases would go on to take founding roles first at DeepMind, then OpenAI, and later Anthropic & other foundational labs.

That they would achieve AGI and then neither of those outcomes come to pass was not in their range of predictions. Rather than admit to themselves that their analysis was wrong, they move goal posts: ChatGPT isn't real AGI. Real AGI would have taken over the world, so that can't be it. It is circular reasoning.

No, it is real AGI. Real AGI didn't cause a singularity because intelligence actually doesn't matter as much as a bunch of autistic smart internet people think it does.
by userbinator | 2025-11-05 04:34:43+00:00
Relatedly, 30 years ago someone attempted to turn the Windows 3.1 API into an ISO standard:

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

It didn't become one, but it did become standardised as ECMA-234:

https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...
How I manage my medical condition (Year in Remission)So I Can Work on My Startup
by iliaov | 2025-11-05 04:34:51+00:00
IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This is my personal experience only and should NOT be taken as medical advice. Do NOT stop, change, or adjust your medications without close supervision from your rheumatologist. Autoimmune diseases are complex, individual, and potentially dangerous if not properly managed. What happened in my case may not apply to yours and could be harmful. Always work with your healthcare provider.

I developed autoimmune arthritis a few years after graduating and starting work.

My doctor suggested—and I believed—that my arthritis was triggered by work stress: “Consider working less to keep your arthritis under control.”

But now I’m building a startup. I need to work more, not less. This created a real problem.

The bigger issue wasn’t the joint deformity or pain—it was the immunosuppressant medications. With my immune system suppressed, I got sick easily and frequently, and recovery took longer.

Try building a startup when you’re frequently ill. Try traveling with a weakened immune system.

Years ago, I’d experienced an unexplained remission. My doctor checked my bloodwork, confirmed my remission and took me off the meds. With that in mind, I started paying closer attention to what made my symptoms better or worse.

After a while, I noticed something odd: working at Starbucks seemed to trigger especially strong flares. My rheumatologist restarted my meds immediately.

The final straw was that my renewed medications seemed to have lost their effectiveness. My arthritis kept flaring even as my immune system got weaker. Running out of options and frequently unable to work, I needed to try something different.

After some experimentation, I discovered something surprising — my symptoms went away once I stopped drinking coffee AND tea AND orange juice. I also noticed that not eating acidic foods (ketchup) and not having heartburns also improved my symptoms.

Once I eliminated these dietary suspects, my symptoms improved rapidly. My rheumatologist let me off the meds completely as my blood tests showed no inflammation. I’ve been in remission for a year now, with regular monitoring.

My immune system seems to have recovered — I’m no longer getting sick frequently. This has allowed me to work on my early-stage startup.

Here’s what I still find puzzling: I’m now working 24/7 with considerable stress, but my arthritis remains in remission. My doctor had originally suggested stress was a trigger.

In my case, it seems possible that it wasn’t the stress itself, but rather the lifestyle changes that came with transitioning from student to professional—specifically, starting to drink coffee and tea regularly. Of course, I can’t know this for certain.

Again: This is my individual experience with my specific case of arthritis. Your disease is different. Your treatment should be different. Work with your doctor.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-05 04:35:17+00:00
Rent is a nonproductive component in the economy. It shouldn't even exist. If we want an economy that actually provides goods that people need we should focus on productive components like building more houses and actual shelter rather than using limited housing to extract profit, often without even improving the housing itself.

> are already facing is that on the margin people he hopes will pay for it will just move away.

This myth is promulgated constantly with no evidence to back it up. The tax increases he has proposed are a drop in the pond to the bracket he aims to tax. If those people care so little for the city, so be it, they can leave. I don't need to share communal space with people who want to live as atoms and don't actually care about the place they live beyond how it affects their bottom line. If they actually love NYC for the city it is, they will stay. The increases are not going to be untenable for those people, it all comes down to their priorities, and if they don't want to prioritize NYC, then yes, they should gtfo because they are characterless, tasteless people who only care about themselves and their money.
by dralley | 2025-11-05 04:35:36+00:00
Manchin and Sinema shouldn't be mentioned together in the same sentence.

Manchin was genuinely the best Democrats could hope for from West Virginia. Sinema was absolutely not the best Democrats could hope for from Arizona. Manchin was also, while not perfect, more honest in much of his opposition than Sinema was, and sometimes he was actually right.
by sublinear | 2025-11-05 04:37:31+00:00
> translate the official IRS forms to a machine readable format

The instructions for each form published by the IRS every year are already written by professional technical writers to be unambiguous. Do you mean that someone ought to write a simplified english grammar transpiler? I think that would genuinely be interesting. What's missing are the guidelines the technical writers are using, but that can probably be derived.
by koolba | 2025-11-05 04:37:47+00:00
It’s basic economics, supply and demand. To lower prices you need to either increase supply or decrease demand. The reverse shifts the curves the other way and costs go up.

The ACA did nothing to increase supply. There were no new doctors or clinics.

And the subsidies and mandates to purchase insurance increase demand for medical care.

So it causes prices to rise.
by smithclay | 2025-11-05 04:38:38+00:00
Been experimenting with OpenTelemetry->Parquet conversion lately for logs, metrics, and traces. Lots of related projects popping up in this area. It's powerful and cheap.

- https://github.com/smithclay/otlp2parquet (shameless plug, based on Clickhouse's Otel schema) - https://github.com/Mooncake-Labs/moonlink (also has OTLP support) - https://github.com/open-telemetry/otel-arrow (official community project under early dev)
by codebje | 2025-11-05 04:38:58+00:00
I really love this comment, it's got a very "tree-falling-in-the-woods" vibe to it.

On the direct face of it, no, it turns out it doesn't matter: plant cellulose is not toxic to humans, a certain level of it is in many processed foods, and that information isn't secret.

By the time it matters to people, it's at the level where you can tell it's happened: large, pointy chunks, eg, or so much the flavour or texture is ruined. Or toxic contaminants, albeit at the significant risk that one might only be able to tell at the point of suffering from the consequences.

But if we modify the proposition a little, we get a statement about the possibility of a vegan's metaphorical sawdust being cut with ground beef. Now, it's more likely to matter. By and large, dietary choices like that are based on some belief structure, so the presence of the unwanted ingredient could be considered as an attack on the belief system.

When we move the metaphor back to AI generated code, does this reveal a belief system at play? If the resulting program is not poor quality, but the use of AI is objectionable nevertheless, does that make a "no AI in software" stance a sort of veganism for code? (And can we coin a good term for that stance? I vote for hominism, because while I quite like anthropism that leads to anthropic which is obviously not going to work.)

Given there's a regulatory number on acceptable bug parts per million for confectionary, is there a hypothetical acceptable bytes per million for AI-generated code that can still be called hoministic?
by sz4kerto | 2025-11-05 04:40:21+00:00
I think compliance is one of the key advantages of cloud. When you go through SOC2 or ISO27001, you can just tick off entire categories of questions by saying 'we host on AWS/GCP/Azure'.

It's really shitty that we all need to pay this tax, but I've been just asked about whether our company has armed guards and redundant HVAC systems in our DC, and I wouldn't know how to do that apart from saying that 'our cloud provider has all of those'.
by tombert | 2025-11-05 04:40:50+00:00
Wasn't part of the impetus for the free file program because TurboTax actively hid the free filing options?

I am pretty sure that state filing would have happened in the future if the Trump admin hadn't killed it; you have to start somewhere, federal is as good a place as any.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/...

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...
by hyperflow-ai | 2025-11-05 04:41:00+00:00
John Wainwright is an accomplished Australian computer scientist renowned for pioneering the development of pure object-based programming languages. As the principal architect behind ScriptX (1992–1996) and MaxScript (1996), his contributions reshaped multimedia and 3D scripting paradigms. His early contributions include selling Apple Computer his object-oriented structural framework “Objects in C,” which featured language and virtual machine design. This foundational work became the basis of ScriptX, developed at Kaleida Labs, which aimed to merge a scripting language with multimedia playback capabilities.

After Kaleida Labs shut down in 1996, Wainwright transitioned to Autodesk 3ds Max, leading the design of MaxScript, the platform’s scripting language. MaxScript supports explicit syntax tailored for 3D animation workflows and has been instrumental within pipelines like Maxis’s Sims series.

Wainwright’s executive leadership extends beyond development. In 2001, he co-founded Kontiki Inc. (later known as Kollective Technology Inc.), a company focused on peer-to-peer content distribution technologies. He became Vice President of Engineering as of 2015. Later, in 2007, he co-founded Crowd Science, an online ad-tech venture, alongside his nephew John Martin and Paul Neto. The company received funding from Granite Ventures, demonstrating his acumen in both technological innovation and entrepreneurial leadership.

Of particular note, Wainwright was Amazon.com’s first non‑employee customer, ordering the book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. Amazon honored him by naming one of their buildings after him—highlighting his symbolic importance to the platform.

In 2020, Wainwright co-founded Mirinae, Inc. in South Korea, where he engineered a Korean language learning cloud service (mirinae.io). His personal journey learning Korean inspired this venture, seamlessly combining his technical expertise with personal passion.

Most recently, Wainwright has been closely involved with Hyperflow AI, a no-code generative AI platform that empowers users to build complex AI workflows without writing code. Leveraging his decades of experience in software architecture and product leadership, he has contributed strategic insights and technical expertise to Hyperflow’s mission to democratize AI development. Hyperflow AI’s innovative approach aligns with Wainwright’s lifelong vision of creating accessible, powerful tools that enable creativity and productivity across industries.

John Wainwright’s career demonstrates a remarkable arc—from innovating object-based scripting languages to shaping media and animation pipelines, leading tech companies, applying AI-driven innovation to language learning, and now pioneering accessible AI development platforms. His technical legacy and entrepreneurial history make him a rare polymath within the computing world, continually pushing the boundaries of what technology can enable.
by dralley | 2025-11-05 04:41:09+00:00
> Mamdani. Millennial candidate. No dirt. Other that some stupid stuff he said while he was young, his policies are relatively common sense and middle of the road, and are aimed at leveling the playing field.

Look, Mamdani ran a good campaign, and if I was an NYC voter (I am not) I'd probably vote for him out of the options provided.

However, this just is not true. Many of his policies are neither "common sense" nor "middle of the road". Especially not on education and dealing with the homeless and public transit. And lots of his dumb comments were from like 2 years ago, not 12 - he was not "young" when he said them.
by chongli | 2025-11-05 04:41:16+00:00
I really miss the spatial classic Mac OS too. I don't think spatial orientation will ever come back to the Mac. Apple seems to have moved on completely.

In some ways, the world has moved on as well. Spatial orientation worked really well when the number of files and folders we typically dealt with was fairly small in number. Now we tend to deal with huge numbers of files, most of which aren't even on our local computer. It's hard for me to imagine how a spatial system like that could be made to work with all of that. What would a "spatial Wikipedia" look like?