MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-05 06:28:52+00:00
I lived in a state when the state-run liquor stores were closed and it transitioned to the private sector. It was a massive improvement, a big win.

The weirdest part of the transition was the fear mongering about consequences. This despite the reality that most states don’t have state-run liquor stores.

I’ve never lived in a state where state-run liquor stores weren’t worse than what you had in states without them.
by danorama | 2025-11-05 06:29:36+00:00
Ah, the bridge jumping argument. What about if someone takes a slug at you when you’ve done nothing wrong? Or challenges your HN comment? You respond.

No, Texas has no such law, and that’s a shame. If Texas had, it might have prevented this situation. California is being repeatedly threatened by the Trump Republican government. The threat was exacerbated by the Texas Legislature (not the voters, of course). California voters would never have approved Prop 50 without them.
by mdhb | 2025-11-05 06:30:22+00:00
Only because American discourse and thinking is so utterly poisoned by the absolute bullshit that is “American exceptionalism”.

In terms of almost any possible quality of life metric you can think of Europe is ahead of the US.

That combined with just a breathtaking level of ignorance of what Europe is actually like in any meaningful sense. You saw this a lot in this NYC election where they were trying to paint Mamdani as an actual communist because well over half of the country has no idea what “democratic socialism” means let alone communism.
by testfoobar | 2025-11-05 06:30:29+00:00
First - a rent freeze directly transfers inflation costs to the property owners. It is a tax by another name.

Second - there is no similar freeze on property taxes - or the expected inflation in maintenance costs, insurance, and so on. Again - a tax on property owners by another name.

Third - starting with a rent freeze is an indicator of a property owner unfriendly administration. Any builder would have to calculate this into their expected returns on capital investment.
by dbg31415 | 2025-11-05 06:31:13+00:00
True (*)

They can't deny coverage for pre-existing conditions anymore, but insurers still have hundreds of other ways to avoid paying.

There's no silver lining in the U.S. healthcare system -- it's built to exhaust, confuse, and bankrupt patients. And it's only gotten worse in recent years. (Will only get worse with the addition of more AI.)

Joe Lieberman, a supposed Democrat, killed any real chance for reform we had in our generation. He then left Congress and quickly died -- his legacy is the broken healthcare system we have today, totally rigged against the very patients it's supposed to serve.
by tguvot | 2025-11-05 06:31:27+00:00
mamdani, circa 2021

"But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel), right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.

"And what I want to say is that it is critical that the way that we organize, the way that we set up our you know, set up our work and our priorities, that we do not leave any one issue for the other, that we do not meet a moment and only look at what people are ready for, but that we are doing both of these things in tandem, because it is critical for us to both meet people where they're at and to also organize and organize for what is correct and for what is right and to ensure over time we can bring people to that issue."

so yes, it's not 1950s soviet bloc communism. it's more like he has as a target 1917
by wk_end | 2025-11-05 06:31:44+00:00
Really depends on where you are in the city; I used to shop at Whole Foods on the UWS and it was lovely, and when visiting this past summer my friend and I visited both the Bowery Whole Foods and the Wegmans near Astor Place and zero complaints with either of them.

But TBH I don't think the grocery deserts he's looking to service are going to be anywhere near where the average HN user lives.
by uecker | 2025-11-05 06:31:48+00:00
If you know these extension exist (for a long time), why spread the misinformation about "drawing commands" in the first place? A client does not need to support old functionality. A server does for backwards compatibility and this is a good thing! In fact, breaking decades of compatibility is the worst blunder of Wayland. The idea that this is a "tremendous amount of functionality" or a huge burden to maintain is also misleading, first because some drawing commands from the 80s are not a lot of functionality to support from a modern point of view, and also because all this is still being maintained anyway, just much worse because the resources redirected to Wayland. And even if one had deprecated some stuff eventually, this would not have broken compatibility and many other features at the same time as Wayland did.
by seanhunter | 2025-11-05 06:32:07+00:00
No it’s very important for physics to have a mathematical object that doesn’t change so that you can represent these characteristics of the universe that don’t change. For every observer in every reference frame even though they will use different basis vectors and different components, the combination of basis vectors and components will be the same. That’s extremely powerful. Try the video I linked a few posts above for what I think is a really excellent explanation of what a tensor is (using practical household objects to illustrate everything practically). I think you’ll get it.
by mmooss | 2025-11-05 06:32:14+00:00
> ACA was the most radical package that could have passed

And they only passed it by bypassing the fillibuster and using the budget reconciliation process.

But arguably, if they were more aggressive and offered bigger benefits, they'd get more support. The GOP has been extremely aggressive, generally. People don't vote for those hesitant and afraid of conflict.

> You know what we’d have with a few more Sinemas and Manchins in the party right now? A majority.

True, and it's also true if the Dems had a few more Sanderses and Warrens - and then they'd have a solid majority rather than one that caved like Manchin. But they'd need a bunch more to pass a healthcare bill without reconciliation.
by scrubs | 2025-11-05 06:33:04+00:00
A salient factor in this election is Trump. I've been saying for years that overreach on the right creates space, then oxygen, then agency for the (far) left. This election is the natural and logical consequence of maga overreach (and vanilla skanky stupidity) and reminds economic popularism is not wholly owned by the right.

My fear is the US will cycle dumb right to stupid left, which helps absolutely nobody.

It's too early to eval mandarin... that will come ... but this under current has now got first and second derivative postive.
by macNchz | 2025-11-05 06:33:12+00:00
> once the effects are borne out, win congress in a landslide.

There is a deep, foundational information problem that would need to be overcome for this to ever actually happen. Medicare, for example, is viewed incredibly favorably, but tons of people don’t even know it’s a government program! This survey found only 58% of people over 65 recognized that: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/medicare/medica...

We are in an information twilight zone where perception of policy outcomes is basically entirely dependent on choice of news sources.
by arjie | 2025-11-05 06:33:54+00:00
Absolutely agree. Realistically, everyone was playing around with this thing because everyone was using Sci Hub, /r/Scholar, and god knows what else to get PDFs. This is one of those things where the reality is well-known and people pretend that something is actually going on in copyright enforcement.

And if I'm being honest, I'm tired of the International Brotherhood of Stevedores[0] style of shredding human productivity to protect some special interest group. If Elsevier died tomorrow, we'd lose a curation function to scientific papers, true, but we wouldn't lose the science itself. And while the curation on scientific output is clearly valuable - China is suffering the lack of this while producing prodigious science - I think it's far less important than the scientific output itself. This is especially true of US science.

0: IBS, the AMA, pharmacists, teacher unions, firefighter unions, tax preparers: the distributed cost to society is huge because we decided on protecting these special interest groups. Blocking AI would be a bridge too far.
by colonial | 2025-11-05 06:33:56+00:00
After spending a summer working in Singapore, I fully support introducing corporal punishment to America (and accelerated capital punishment for drug trafficking offenses.) It turns out that - surprise! - actually punishing criminals where it hurts, even for "petty" offenses, works wonders for making your country a nice place to live.

Now, obviously, Singapore's methods aren't perfect - a common complaint I heard was that money can buy you kid gloves - and I imagine the Supreme Court smackdown over caning versus the 8th Amendment would be biblical. But any return to broken windows governance would be much appreciated.
by mzl | 2025-11-05 06:35:28+00:00
Is there any property in particular of dancing links that you think helps in determining this, or is it just that a backtracking search can be used to test all cases?

For pen-and-paper puzzles like Sudoku there is usually the goal that a solution should be findable by a series of deductive steps. For 9x9 Sudoku, most deductive steps used correspond to the effects well-known propagation techniques offer[1]. With a suitable propagation level, if the puzzle is solved search-free, then one knows that both there is only one solution and that there is a deductive path to solve it.

[1]: See "Sudoku as a Constraint Problem", Helmut Simonis, https://ai.dmi.unibas.ch/_files/teaching/fs21/ai/material/ai... for some data on 9x9 Sudoku difficulty and the propagation techniques that are needed for search-free solving.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 06:35:28+00:00
> unless you want dorms with communal bathrooms and kitchens.

I personally wouldn't want to live in a space like that (maybe when I was younger), but I'm not convinced this sort of thing is so bad. Some people might like it, if it would cost less than a more traditional home.

Others whose housing situation is marginal, or who are homeless, might find it much preferable to the alternative. That's not an ideal reason for doing it, but perfect is the enemy of the good.
by danorama | 2025-11-05 06:35:57+00:00
I agree with you! But that’s not where we are, and this is a valid response to the Texas Leg trying to disenfranchise Democratic voters everywhere and Texas’s Democratic voters in particular. The Leg had months to undo this when they saw the possible response from CA. They chose to assume Democrats couldn’t fight back after the first blow. They were wrong.
by qzu | 2025-11-05 06:36:55+00:00
I’ve built a project titled “Civilization Heartbeat Sentinel” — a Raspberry Pi + SDR system that monitors FM, DVB-T, GSM, ADS-B, GNSS and other signals to verify whether key infrastructure is still active.

Here’s the GitHub link: https://github.com/Telefonorosso/heartbeat-sentinel

It's a work in progress / non-working project atm... Thanks for your time!!

Best regards, Francesco Talarico - Rome - Italy
by davydm | 2025-11-05 06:37:18+00:00
The author claims lower cognitive burden from debugging ai output than from doing the work themselves - to which I'd counter that they're probably in the wrong profession if the process of the craft itself is tedious to them. There are plenty of writers who love the act of writing, and I'm sure they'd feel like I do about aigen code tools - it's way more effort, for me at least, to debug generated code with subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) bugs than to iterate it out myself. If I don't know what direction to take, that's what TDD gives me - build the next smallest part, forget about the big picture for a while.

And if this is the sentiment of someone who is not impassioned with their craft, then I suddenly understand the ai uptake for codegen too - so many people are in programming professions for the simple reason that it can pay quite well, not because they actually enjoy solving problems with code. Now, I respect your right to select for money over happiness, but this has brought inherent problems in the past - coders who don't care are sloppy, and I've had to clean up after a few of them. Coders who don't care _and_ use aigen are more likely, therefore, to produce reams of code they have no interest in, no desire to see crafted "just so" - it's a job, a 9-too-5, a paycheck. Which is fine for them, but increases the burden on their team as the people who _do_ care have to pick up the pieces.

I also see a lot of what can only be described as an entitlement - expecting to produce production-ready code outputs without knowledge of how any of it works. This is an even sharper protrusion of the scenario outlined above - these are people bold enough to openly state that they don't care about the craft or the process, and only care about "productivity", where "productivity" is measured in commit and pull request counts, conveniently leaving out defect counts or user impact.

I can't wait for this ai bubble to blow wide open.
by gregoryl | 2025-11-05 06:38:40+00:00
Ooft. If it helps, this is the PEM I'm getting. LetEncrypt signed.

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by miley_cyrus | 2025-11-05 06:39:13+00:00
No that is a huge failure. That is perhaps the biggest failure of Obamacare.

That means I, as someone with healthy lifestyle habits, has to pay largely the same premium as someone who smokes, is obese, and doesn't exercise. And sure enough, life expectancy in the US immediately stalled after the law's implementation: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni.... Exactly what economics would predict would happen.
by 4ndrewl | 2025-11-05 06:39:23+00:00
The great thing about TIF was it's extensibility. Flexible (data could be stored as tiles or in stripes), multiple compression options etc.

Well documented spec, easy to bolt on extras either as public tags - GeoTIFFs added projection metadata - or private, for your own needs.

Back in the day, to improve a desktop application's performance I found it was simple to create a custom reader and writer to handle cases where tiles were completely one single colour removing the need to decompress at run time.

Thank you TIFf!
by YZF | 2025-11-05 06:40:00+00:00
Europe isn't just simply about taxes and services. There are many more layers to the difference between where the US sits and Europe. Hopefully this is obvious.

I believe Europe has plenty of toll roads as well ;)

I find it weird that these priorities are set at a level of a city. I mean NYC is a big city but it is part of a state and a country. There are much better economies of scale and ability to exert control at the levels of government these policies usually exist at.
by aeternum | 2025-11-05 06:41:52+00:00
Note that they don't have to be a monopoly to cause a problem. Usually the way things go is these state-run grocery stores get subsidies. The goal is to provide food in food deserts, not to be profitable. Over time the subsidy inevitably grows meaning higher taxes for non-gov grocery stores. This leads to a cycle where the state-run stores pushes out the corp-run stores with the thinnest margins.

Ultimately only the bougie grocery stores remain in rich neighborhoods and now you have to really hope that you can continue funding those state-run stores or you just made the food desert problem a whole lot worse.
by thayne | 2025-11-05 06:42:02+00:00
Yes. I've used Free filllable forms several times. For basic tax situations, and even mildly complex ones, the problem isn't so much that it is hard as that it is very tedious.

It involves reading a lot of instructions, with many references to other documents and other sections. It involves copying a lot of numbers from one place to another, and doing basic math on them to get a new one.

It could be improved a lot just by automatically calculating more fields, and adding more of the "worksheets" that are in the instructions into the forms so it can calculate those for you.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-05 06:42:23+00:00
I have not met anyone that says you should only fuzz/property test, but claiming it can’t possibly find bugs or is unlikely to is silly. I’ve caught numerous non-obvious problems, including a non-fatal but undesirable off-by-1 error in math heavy code due to property testing. It works well when it’s an “np”-hard style problem where the code is harder than the verification. It does not work well for a+b but most problems it’s generally easier to write assertions that have to hold when executing your function. But if it’s not don’t use it - like all testing, it’s an art to determine when it’s useful and how to write it well.

Hypothesis in particular does something neat where it tries to generate random inputs that are more likely to execute novel paths within the code under test. That’s not replicated in Rust but is super helpful about reaching more paths of your code and that’s simply not able to be done manually if you have a lot of non obvious boundary conditions.
by eru | 2025-11-05 06:42:27+00:00
> 1. It requires you to essentially re-implement the business logic of the SUT (subject-under-test) so that you can assert

No. That's one valid approach, especially if you have a simpler alternative implementation. But testing against an oracle is far from the only property you can check.

For your example: suppose you have implemented an add function for your fancy new data type (perhaps it's a crazy vector/tensor thing, whatever).

Here are some properties that you might want to check:

a + b == b + a

a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c

a + (-a) == 0

For all a and b and c, and assuming that these properties are actually supposed to hold in your domain, and that you have an additive inverse (-). Eg many of them don't hold for floating point numbers in general, so it's good to note that down explicitly.

Depending on your domain (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_semiring), you might also have idempotence in your operation, so a + b + b = a + b is also a good one to check, where it applies.

You can also have an alternative implementation that only works for some classes of cases. Or sometimes it's easier to prepare a challenge than to find it, eg you can randomly move around in a graph quite easily, and you can check that your A* algorithm you are working on finds a route that's at most as long as the number of random steps you took.

> 2. Despite some anecdata in the comments here, the chances are slim that this approach will find edge cases that you couldn't think of. You basically just give up and leave edge case finding to chance. Testing for 0 or -1 or 1-more-than-list-length are obvious cases which both you the human test writer and some test framework can easily generate, and they are often actual edge cases. But what really constitutes an edge case depends on your implementation. [...]

You'd be surprised how often the generic heuristics for edge cases actually work and how often manual test writers forget that zero is also a number, and how often the lottery does a lot of the rest.

Having said this: Python's Hypothesis is a lot better at its heuristics for these edge cases than eg Haskell's QuickCheck.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 06:42:48+00:00
It's not property-owner-unfriendly, it's landlord-unfriendly.

Which is just fine in my book.

Builders do not have to "calculate" any of this into their "expected returns", because new construction will not be subject to rent freezes or even stabilization. You're selectively ignoring a key part of what the GP said in order to further your incorrect argument, and that's not cool.

As for your first and second points... tough shit for the landlords. That's a cost of doing business. Taxes, even implicit ones like this, change all the time. And a landlord owning a rent-stabilized unit should already know that there are limits on what kind of rent increases they can push through, and that those limits could change at any time, even to zero.
by wtallis | 2025-11-05 06:43:46+00:00
HDMI is first and foremost (and at times, almost exclusively) designed to serve the needs of TVs and related devices. Its presence on PCs and other devices outside the home theater space is largely a consequence of the fact that HDMI until recently was just a new connector carrying DVI signals plus some extensions.

The more relevant connector here would be USB-C, which can readily carry a mix of DisplayPort video signals, USB (including HID), and power, over a connector that is now universal for smartphones. A phone today connected over USB-C could handle all the processing for a very "dumb" car head unit. Aftermarket head units are mostly Android devices already, albeit not literally using USB-C internally.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-05 06:43:47+00:00
You are right in a deep way (as you often are on this site). Wins Against Replacement isn't something most people can comprehend. If you look at baseball, you'll see that a lot of what they're doing with what they think is advanced moneyball would seem like normal statistical techniques to anyone. But then you realize that what is trivial in an HFT firm is kind of black magic to anyone else. Even WAR is beyond the comprehension of the average person.

The average person wants someone who "totally dunked on the other guy, dude" and then loses the election but "never sold out, man". Part of the wisdom of supporting Rosa Parks and not just the first Black woman who was in that position is about being good at winning so your cause advances.

Our lives in America are so good that winning or advancing your cause doesn't really move the needle as much as "making a stand, dude" is. Given that life is really good and change isn't immediately to acute suffering, almost all politics for the average person is about posturing and signaling.

From closer to home, people are annoyed in San Francisco that the state speed camera laws are not permanent and the fines are not humongous for someone going 100 mph over the limit. Most people fantasize about things happening as God placing down edict from upon high, rather than the thing that can happen on the political frontier.