MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by int_19h | 2025-11-23 04:26:35+00:00
FWIW I'm far left and in favor of UBI, but one thing to keep in mind is that while it's a simple concept, details (i.e. amounts paid and amounts taxed) matter a lot. There's no reason why UBI can't be redistributive if one desires it to be so - you just use more progressive taxes to fund it.

And, of course, reducing the complexity and cost of welfare ought to be a left wing talking point as well! Again, it depends on what you do with the savings - sure, it can just be taken and used elsewhere, or you could maintain the spending but raise the bar on how much UBI provides.
by cube00 | 2025-11-23 04:27:19+00:00
we have encountered a fatal technical problem that prevents us from concluding the election and accessing the final tally, [1]

How is someone losing their key a "technical problem"? Is that hard to own up and put the actual reason in the summary? It's not like they have stockholders to placate.

we will adopt a 2-out-of-3 threshold mechanism for the management of private keys [1]

The trustee responsible has resigned so why weaken security going forward?

I would have thought cryptography experts losing keys would be pretty rare, like a fire at a Sea Parks.

[1]: https://www.iacr.org/news/item/27138
by ffsm8 | 2025-11-23 04:30:12+00:00
> MyStructure -> [MyElements]

Right, from the structure you get an array with one element which is likely an union type from that naming.

Honestly, you sound more like your arguing from the perspective of a person unwilling to learn new things, considering you couldn't even get that type correct.

To begin with, that flat signature wasn't even hard to understand?
by dangus | 2025-11-23 04:33:36+00:00
Isn’t caffeine pretty much proven to be a non-factor for daily consumers?

Is it proven that he didn’t consume tea or coffee? Both were available in his time. England had coffee houses in the 1600s. Ever heard of the East India Conpany? They traded tea.

Besides that, you really think humans didn’t have awareness of various stimulant drugs at that point?

Did you read his Wikipedia page? I mean, the guy never got married, he had time on his hands. His Wikipedia page also says that he prioritized work over his own well-being.
by int_19h | 2025-11-23 04:33:41+00:00
We need a public healthcare system, but whether it should be single payer is not readily evident, and I rather suspect that clinging to that particular model is what's causing progressives to get stuck trying to push it through. It's probably because most people in US immediately think of Canada when they think of socialized healthcare, and there's very little awareness of what other countries do on either left or right, so we're essentially perpetually debating the Canadian model. We should look at Europe instead and pick something that's both proven to work and more agreeable with American sensibilities. German, perhaps.
by pear01 | 2025-11-23 04:33:49+00:00
Sounds like a very extreme remedy. Not sure you want whatever government is elected every four years to have this power. Doesn't address the concern re regulatory capture, could lead to worse government incentives. Why not focus on allowing regular people to more realistically hold corporations and their owners/officers liable in civil courts? It's already hard enough given the imbalance of funds, access and power... but often legal doctrine makes the bar to clear impossible at the outset.
by piafraus | 2025-11-23 04:34:05+00:00
Have you ever heard the famous "he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician" quote? There is a reason it is famous and it could be very much projected on programming. Programming requires be creative.

So I don't know where did the "generally known" comes from. In my 20 years experience, I knew hundreds of programmers and probably majority of them were extremely artistic. Writing games as a hobby, drawing miniatures, some were writing books, music bands...

> Finally, "full stop" is what you say when something isn't up for debate.

Is it the only way you can say "full stop"? Can't you just say it to yourself in the way of "full stop, this shows ME this is based on wrong premise, and I don't need to waste time on keep reading it"
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-23 04:34:14+00:00
This is the same logic that led to people throughout the 2000’s laying the blame for 9/11 at the feet of all Muslims to such a degree that a then-candidate Trump was elected saying he wanted to institute a “Muslim Ban” 15 years later. You still have people repeating his lie that Muslims in the US were “cheering on the rooftops.” The FBI attempted to bait “terrorists” at US mosques into extreme action and were themselves turned in.

I don’t blame all the Jewish people for the actions of Netanyahu and his government despite the large swaths of support his government enjoys in Israel. It would be unacceptable to express that kind of view - and rightfully so. But that shouldn’t go in one direction and we all have to be capable of not only holding a nuanced opinion but extending a more charitable interpretation to the people we disagree who also likely have equally nuanced views.

Talk to people. Hear them out. We can not assume the caricatures we’ve built in our heads are accurate. I have to remind myself of this constantly when I think about people I disagree with politically and I fail constantly but we man do we have to keep trying or we’re in serious trouble as a society.
by winrid | 2025-11-23 04:35:53+00:00
I'll never get back into daily morning caffeine. If anyone sees me doing this again regularly, you can just slap me. :)

I try to keep it to once or twice a week at most, and around lunch time, as I still like coffee. But this way you don't build a dependence.

This year I quit cold turkey and holy crap, night sweats, panic attacks, flu like symptoms for several days.
by kukkeliskuu | 2025-11-23 04:37:50+00:00
My feeling about GitHub Pages is that it is not unreasonable just to forget about the site. For any cheap shared hosting I would psychologically feel the need to monitor the site somehow, periodically check that the credit card works etc.

For me, there is a large relative (percentual) difference in the perceived cognitive load. Perhaps not a huge actual difference, but when you are running tens of projects, everything counts.

Now I am not talking about actual reality but the psychological effect. It might be that some shared hosting site is in fact more reliable than GitHub Pages.

Obviously, a blog that you just forget is not that useful, but last site I created using this method was an advertisement site for a book. I have several blogs where I write occasionally.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-23 04:39:29+00:00
Took me forever to find the actual quote - ChatGPT and Gemini kept trying to gaslight me that it’s not a real quote or that Willie said it to Bart until I gave the exact quote (at which point normal search engines were fine):

> A certain agitator, for privacy's sake, let's call her Lisa S. No, that's too obvious, let's say L. Simpson.

Lisa the Vegetarian
by Klaus23 | 2025-11-23 04:41:44+00:00
I don't have a background in law, but here are some suggestions. The German penal code often imposes harsher punishments for the same offense if a weapon was involved. Rape, for example, carries a minimum sentence of two years. If a weapon is present, it is a minimum of three years. If the weapon is used, the minimum sentence is 5 years.

Before the change, date rape drugs would have fallen under a minimum of three years because of a separate clause.

Classifying them as weapons would also affect crimes other than rape.

Additionally, if legal substances can be used as date rape drugs, classifying them as weapons would give the police more authority to act in certain situations.
by int_19h | 2025-11-23 04:42:21+00:00
At this point I don't think the constitution has much meaning left to it. So many matters have already saw massive changes, sometimes even going back and forth on it. And Wickard v Filburn is still standing precedent. In this kind of climate, SCOTUS could easily chip away at 2A case by case, especially considering that the current expansive interpretation of it only became the new policy less than 20 years ago.
by bigiain | 2025-11-23 04:42:55+00:00
> I assume roughly half of pop stars are male, give or take.

I'd question that assumption. My gut feel says there are way more women pop stars?

I did a very quick bit of research, and maybe we're both wrong.

https://wealthygorilla.com/richest-singers-world/

Splits up as 31 men to 19 women on their top 50 richest singers list. So closer to 2/3rds men that half.

I did realise while counting, that my gut feel wouldn't have included a lot of those men as "pop stars", in retrospect probably because my interpretation of "pop music" leans heavily towards women, and rightly or wrongly I'd label at least half the men on that list as "rock stars" instead (and very few of the women).
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-23 04:42:58+00:00
The actual death penalty is not a good idea for several reasons, including possibility of error (even if that possibility is small).

(In the case of a corporation, also many people might be involved, some of whom might not know what it is, therefore increasing the possibility of error.)

However, terminating the corporation might help (combined with fines if they had earned any profit from it so far), if there is not an effective and practical lesser punishment which would prevent this harm.

However, your other ideas seem to be valid points; one thing that you mention is, government monopoly can (and does) lead to corruption (although not only this specific kind).
by runako | 2025-11-23 04:43:16+00:00
> New Zealand effective taxes rates are generally higher than the US

US tax rates are complex due to local variance and other factors. Tax rate on the median NZ income appears to be ~30%. Tax on median US is lower, but state taxes can add significantly. There is not a neat divide between red states & blue states here; Alabama & Georgia have state income taxes, for example.

> The average person in the US already pays more in taxes that are spent on healthcare than in any other country.

And that's before the health insurance premiums!
by HumanOstrich | 2025-11-23 04:43:40+00:00
I doubt it's RF interference from something like christmas lights at those specific intervals for 17 months. Also, the author did provide DOCSIS diagnostic logs.

Even if it is RF interference, the problem is at the node level (because his neighbor has the same issues at the same times). So it's not his responsibility to figure out the problem for Xfinity.

Starlink is not an equivalent solution. It's much slower than his requirements, for one.
by AndriyKunitsyn | 2025-11-23 04:44:08+00:00
Not my experience, unfortunately. I worked on a SceneKit project, it was bad.

In general, it suffered from the problem of even Apple not knowing what it was made for, and what it even is. For a 3D API, it has less features than OpenGL 2. For a game engine, it… also has way less features than the competition, which shouldn’t surprise anyone - game engines are hard, and the market leaders have been developed for _decades_. But that’s what it looks like the most - a game engine. (It even has physics.)

Customizing the rendering pipeline in SceneKit is absolutely horrible. The user is given a choice between two equally bad options: either adding SCNTechniques which are configurable through .plists and provide no feedback on what goes wrong with their configuration (as like 3D rendering isn’t hard enough already), or using “shader modifiers” - placing chunks of Metal code into one of 4 places of the SceneKit’s default shader which the end users _don’t even have the source code of_ without hacking into the debug build! Or pulling it from Github from people who already did that [_].

If you just need something that can display 3d data, SceneKit is still fine, but once there’s a requirement to make that look good, it’s better to throw everything away and hook up Unity instead.

[_] https://gist.github.com/warrenm/794e459e429daa8c75b5f17c0006...
by caminante | 2025-11-23 04:44:17+00:00
The answer to your question seems straight-forward: they still do.

1. Companies have tuition reimbursement for general employees, but it's usually nominal at $5k/year and part-time education is implied.

2. Executive MBAs and more selective executive seminars are covered by companies so the focus will be better. These aren't cheap (easily $125k/year) and might come with early exit penalties. I'd be surprised if the Bells lab offer didn't have similar clawbacks.

3. Tuition in 1970 isn't what it is now! Wayyyy cheaper!
by cloudbonsai | 2025-11-23 04:45:17+00:00
Among the interviews, one with the former engineering director was the most eye-opening for me.

https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17236880&Fi...

It appears that all the engineers -- system designer, material engineer and structural analyst -- thought that OceanGate CEO was going to kill himself:

If you ever find <name-of-the-engineer>, he’s not going to have a whole lot of nice to say. He was very frustrated with the company. (...) And I understand why. He thought Stockton was going to kill himself.

And the director himself declined to dive on Titan when asked:

Now, the question is, why wouldn’t the engineer get inside his own vehicle? It was because of what I felt -- and I have a background in Navy diving in EOD operations. I knew firsthand that the operations group was not the right group for that role, and I told him as much, that I don’t trust operations and who he has there.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-23 04:45:40+00:00
What policy proposals would you have made with respect to MTV decades ago, and how would people at the time have reacted to them? MTV peaked (I think) before I was alive or at least old enough to have formative memories involving it, but people have been complaining about television being brain-rotting for many decades and I'm sure there was political pressure against MTV's programming on some grounds or another, by stodgy cultural conservatives who hated freedom of expression or challenges to their dogma. Were they correct? Would it have been good for the US federal government in the 80s and 90s to have actually imposed meaningful legal censorship on MTV for the benefit of the mental health of its youth audience?
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-23 04:45:42+00:00
Of course that is wrong and it is not immoral; but, if you want to do it in the moral way, you have to consider the lives of any living things (plants and animals), including but not limited to humans. Furthermore, there is the consideration of what exactly has to be sacrificed and what kind of coercion is being used (which might be immoral for a different reason); morals is not as simple like they would say.

But, yes people do find all sorts of justifications, whether or not they are any good (although sometimes it is not immediately clear if it is any good, unfortunately).
by pear01 | 2025-11-23 04:47:03+00:00
In these cases, what is prison time going to accomplish that a severe enough monetary remedy would not? Putting someone in a prison cell is a state power (criminal remedy). I think that is a useful distinction generally, and a power that should be employed only when legitimized through some government process which has a very high bar (beyond a reasonable doubt, criminal rules of evidence, protections against self incrimination etc), as it deprives someone of their physical liberty.

It strikes me that if you also appreciate this distinction, then your remedy to corporations that have too much power is to give the government even more power?

Personally, I would like to see more creative solutions that weaken both government and corporations and empower individuals to hold either accountable. I think the current gap between individuals and the other two is too severe, I'm not sure how making the government even more powerful actually helps the individual. Do you want the current American government to be more powerful? Would your answer have been different last year?
by g-b-r | 2025-11-23 04:47:10+00:00
Two decades and you don't see any value in writing down what's currently in your head?

Anyhow, ADRs are good, but they stand for Architectural decisions, not every decision is at that level.

In general, if there's a better place to store explanations, do use it, but often, in many projects, commit messages are the least bad place; and it's enormously better to write there than nowhere at all.
by phyzix5761 | 2025-11-23 04:48:53+00:00
Regulations make this very difficult. Take a look at FDA Section 804. Startup cost is in the low tens or hundreds of thousands just to get the application accepted and then the ongoing yearly cost is in the millions. Currently, the FDA makes it very difficult for new competitors to enter the market because of these really high fees. This is part of, but not the whole, reason why drugs cost so much in the US.
by koolba | 2025-11-23 04:49:24+00:00
> Randal had a long career of good takes, until around 2016 when they stopped being objectively good.

Specifically it was at this point in 2016: https://xkcd.com/1756/

> I’m not kidding at all, that my guess is he was doing drugs and stopped.

I don’t know if he stopped or started, but something changed.
by Animats | 2025-11-23 04:49:51+00:00
Replace "AI system" with "corporation" in the above and reread it.

There's no fundamental reason why AI systems can't become corporate-type legal persons. With offshoring and multiple jurisdictions, it's probably legally possible now. There have been a few blockchain-based organizations where voting was anonymous and based on token ownership. If an AI was operating in that space, would anyone be able to stop it? Or even notice?

The paper starts to address this issue at "4.3 Rethinking the legal boundaries of the corporation.", but doesn't get very far.

Sooner or later, probably sooner, there will be a collision between the powers AIs can have, and the limited responsibilities corporations do have. Go re-read this famous op-ed from Milton Friedman, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits".[1] This is the founding document of the modern conservative movement. Do AIs get to benefit from that interpretation?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
by tomhow | 2025-11-23 04:50:46+00:00
I've scanned your full list of comments and can find plenty that have an ideological flavor to them, and others that are in the flamewar style, but are not so clearly related to politics/ideology. I'm not interested in getting into an argument about which of your comments are ideological or not. That's not the issue. What is the issue is the hostile and inflammatory style of commenting towards other community members and HN as a whole.

It's notable in this instance:

- You posted a series of comments about controversial topics, having established a history of participating on HN with this persona of being a brave combatant for, I don't know, some worldview or philosophy that you seem to be fighting for;

- When a handful of your comments receive even a solitary downvote, you call in "the cops" (dang) to come to your aid, with a claim of "brigading";

- When we investigated and found that, no, there's no "brigading", some of those comments are not even net-downvoted anymore, and that any downvotes you're getting are to be expected given your combative style of commenting, you've responded with these incoherent attacks on moderation/moderators.

Whether we all agree that many of your flamewar-style comments really are, in fact, political/ideological, is not the point and seems to be a way for you to deflect from being held to account for your conduct.

What I'm saying to you is that people who care about making HN better have all kinds of ways of showing it, and it begins with making an effort to observe the guidelines, and it also involves engaging respectfully with other community members and the moderation system. We are always, always working to make HN better and our moderation approaches better, and we always welcome and engage with feedback, as dang has been doing with you in another subthread today. But we've both been doing this job long enough to sense when someone isn't really wanting to help make HN better at all.
by skissane | 2025-11-23 04:52:35+00:00
> Regenerating the cell layout was very costly, taking many hours on an IBM mainframe computer.

I would love to know more about this – how much info is publicly available on how Intel used mainframes to design the 386? Did they develop their own software, or use something off-the-shelf? And I'm somewhat surprised they used IBM mainframes, instead of something like a VAX.
by razingeden | 2025-11-23 04:52:41+00:00
gotta ask, just because i went through this with spectrum recently.

have you grabbed an extension cord and tried connecting the modem outside at the drop for awhile?

i hear you that your neighbor has the same issue. but if youre in. say a development by the same builder, or were all part of a comcast upgrade at roughly the same time ..

and well… you both recently upgraded to 1.2(?) because that would be the latter case

after my gig upgrade and a few tech visits i ended up finding a splitter that only goes up to 800mhz or so (if that) inside a wallplate.

TLDR:

you might have a 5-1000mhz splitter. thats widely used by comcast still.

MORE:

OFDM is 1008mhz or so and you wouldnt notice the problem under, or maybe just UP TO gigabyte speeds (eg: downgrading to 500mb might mysteriously “fix” it).

but you WILL notice this at 1.2gb.

spectrum is future proofing and using 5-2500mhz splitters

ANECODTAL:

my modem locked with the 800mhz splitter, but it dropped , cycled and had horrible upload speeds.

techs never tried or thought of this . the final boss tech took photos and even took the splitter back to show his boss. i guess multiple units had tickets after the gig upgrade and they had an “aha” moment.

TECHNICAL:

i would expect something more like multiplexing errors in this situation. forgive me because im 20 years out of the game (was an RF/install tech on analog CATV , and cable modems when those were brand new to Charter) and had to look it up but i think docsis 3.1 is dependent on 957–1151 MHz or 1008–1152 MHz

its that 1008+mhz where now your splitter is acting like a 5-1000mhz filter.

its not perfect like okay maybe 4-1003mhz gets through the filter maybe even more permissive if its a cheap one. but thats NOT a clean signal for that frequency band its more like bleed-through.

sort of similar to traps (the little barrels theyd screw onto your line to block you from getting pay channels in the olden days) and how you STILL could sort of see and hear. a little bit of what was going on on cinemax at 3am and at least get the IDEA. :>
by dfe | 2025-11-23 04:53:57+00:00
It's been a long while since I did anything with UEFI, but my recollection is that the standard data structures are reasonably well documented, especially when they are meant to be part of booting an OS

I imagine that whatever UEFI extension implements loading a disk image over the network probably also implements some way of knowing where the sectors are in RAM so that the OS bootloader can choose to hand off access to the memory disk to the OS.

Is such support implemented in any bootloaders? I have no idea. My guess is probably not because people would rather just have the bootloader use the available services to download the disk image itself.
by esperent | 2025-11-23 04:56:47+00:00
This study was doing the rounds last week.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/28412...

> Question Does consumption of caffeinated coffee have a beneficial, detrimental, or neutral effect on the risk of recurrent atrial fibrillation (AF) episodes?

> Findings In this multicenter randomized clinical trial including 200 patients with persistent AF undergoing cardioversion, the risk of recurrent AF was significantly lower in the group allocated to coffee consumption (47%) compared with the abstinence group (64%).