MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-05 07:13:21+00:00
Congress created the PEPFAR program and allocated money to it, but the executive seems to have completely shut it down with no replacement. I'm not sure how to square this with your idea that if Congress starts a project, then the later administrations cannot shut it down without an act of congress. (I mean, obviously they legally cannot, but it seems like they can in practice)
by saagarjha | 2025-11-05 07:14:10+00:00
No, it was a test by some misguided PM who was looking at her signups metric and not much else. It rolled out, everyone hated it, it got rolled back after some senior people complained. When Elon took over they turned the feature back on and then evidently rewrote it to be even more annoying and we have what is in place today. Source: my comments against it are probably in Slack somewhere if Elon is still paying for that
by simoncion | 2025-11-05 07:15:06+00:00
> It started requiring phone numbers and things...

a) You're already trusting them with every piece of information in your tax return. It'd cost like five cents to use that information to discover your phone number... if they're malicious, you're already fucked.

b) When? At the end of the process where you're doing stuff like attesting that you're not lied on your tax return? I don't remember them demanding a phone number up front, and I also don't remember whether or not I refused to provide a phone number at the end.
by Kephael | 2025-11-05 07:16:01+00:00
The Bay Area is far wealthier and much more economically relevant than NYC. NYC has a very large low income population. NYC doesn't have nearly as strong of an economy, financial services and trading firms are increasingly leaving. Whereas the Bay Area, particularly the peninsula, is home to the companies shaping the future like OpenAI and Nvidia along with a huge number of quality startups.
by lisdexan | 2025-11-05 07:16:04+00:00
Excuse me, in that video the second gentleman inherited a building bought in the late 50's. Meaning he has no mortgage, his costs are tax, unit related maintenance and the legally required renovation costs.

The apartment has stayed "untouched since the tenant passed away". It's clearly is still full of stuff of the deceased! I would understand if there's a big renovation needed (e.g., Asbestos removal, a hard to fix leak, replacing the entire plumbing/electric, etc.) but certainly one would've at least cleared the place oneself if the money is tight.

The non-controlled apartment he shows doesn't seem that different beyond aesthetics, sure the modern lighting and new paint job looks nice but the windows are just single-pane like the mothballed unit. I find it telling that he doesn't mention any specific issue, or that he frames not breaking even on the first month as shocking. I've seen plenty of NYC apartment tours in the internet of random 20 somethings. A lot of them didn't look like they were renovated in this millennium.

Isn't by definition, a landlord a property investor? Is it some tragedy if he has to invest and wait for a return? The building has been in his family for close to 70 years, did they do maintenance and renovations proactively? If he's so strapped for cash and doesn't have the cashflow or credit to repair the building, why doesn't he sell? Even if the price is lower because the rent control, the asset appreciation since the Eisenhower administration must be absurd.

Yes, the actual solution is building like crazy, but is kinda insulting to blame rent control while showing landlords crying woe is me and sealing apartments with the tenant fresh in the morgue, transparently making a bet that rent control will be repealed because they are letting their units to rot.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-11-05 07:16:58+00:00
>Knee jerk dismissing the evidence in front of your eyes because you find it unbelievable that we can achieve true reasoning via scaled matrix multiplication is understandable, but also betrays a lack of imagination and flexibility of thought.

You go ahead with your imagination. To us unimaginative folks, it betrays a lack of understanding of how LLMs actually work and shows that a lot of people still cannot grasp that it’s actually an extremely elaborate illusion of thinking.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 07:17:17+00:00
That's... not arguing against anything I said?

Maybe I wasn't clear. Let me try again. Many of the policies behind the ACA had long been championed by Republicans, or even originated in conservative circles. For example:

1. The individual mandate was something the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think tank) originally came up with back in the 80s, and was presented as an alternative to Clinton's healthcare plans in the 90s.

2. The state-based exchange system was something already present in some red states like Utah, and the concept is very similar to Republican proposals (again) back in the 90s. (This shouldn't be surprising: conservatives tend to prefer that states administer programs like these. Not a criticism; just noting a tendency.)

3. Much of the ACA's framework is similar to Republican Governor Mitt Romney's healthcare reform in Massachusetts from 2006.

Sure, there are parts of the ACA that Republicans genuinely didn't support (e.g. Medicaid expansion, high-income-earner tax increases, requiring insurers to cover contraception). But big, fundamental parts of it were similar to or exactly like conservative healthcare reform plans that had been proposed over the past couple decades.

The only reason I can see to explain why Republicans so vehemently fought and voted against the ACA (and have subsequently repeatedly tried -- and failed -- to repeal it) is because they didn't want Democrats to get credit for enacting it, and once it became "blue policy", it was automatically capital-B Bad to them.

It's also telling that Republicans have failed so miserably at repealing it (though they have done it damage). That's because they have no alternative... because the ACA is more or less what they wanted in the first place.
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-05 07:18:33+00:00
Sure, Thiel is identifying some of the same problems, but the solutions he's proposing are basically the opposite of the ones Mamdani is. Unsurprisingly, he's proposing solutions that benefit billionaires rather than everyone else (e.g. just les us build whatever wherever we want, of course we'll build cheap housing that brings property houses down! Who could ever imagine we'll build luxury mansions that keep property prices high?).
by bayindirh | 2025-11-05 07:18:46+00:00
A 24" 1080p monitor is perfectly fine for working with text of any kind. I still use mine at home, even after a decade.

As others said, resolution is not everything. DPI and panel quality matters a lot.

A good lower resolution panel is better than a lower quality larger panel. Uniformity, backlight color, color rendering quality, DPI... all of them matters.

--

This comment has been written on a 28" 1440p monitor.
by bfkwlfkjf | 2025-11-05 07:18:49+00:00
What a coincidence, I just discovered this tool yesterday. It made me really happy how a tool so simple makes such a huge difference in terms of how smooth it is to solve a problem, compared eg with using bluetoothctl.

It also occurred to me that there's a real value to tuis vs guis which is that since they're simpler to build with the same developer effort you can build more tools. I remember the dwarf fortress guys saying this in their interview, that they had at some point a similar game to DF but in 3d, but at some point they realized that by not wasting effort building the graphics part of the game they saved time to focus on what mattered.

If I have one tiny criticism about bluetui is the annoying fonts. I understand what they're trying to do: with more glyphs you can increase the density of information. But the thing is it's not really necessary in this case. Like someone else commented, there's plenty of white space. I know to some people it feels like eye candy, but to me the emojis sprinkled in the text are an eye sore.
by ascorbic | 2025-11-05 07:18:56+00:00
Absolutely. And I never said that everybody should use the cloud. Contrary to OP, it's more complicated than that. Not every site has the same needs. Some sites need scaling. Some sites are fine with being hugged to death, others would lose millions of dollars if they were. Some people are happy to tinker with their nginx config and package upgrades etc, others prefer to deploy and forget it (with cost controls enabled).

Disclosure: I work for Cloudflare, but 25 years ago served my own site from an iBook under the stairs.
by brazzy | 2025-11-05 07:20:56+00:00
The Morris worm is certainly the more historically important one but AFAIK nothing has ever beaten SQL Slammer (2003) for sheer sleekness and propagation speed: 376 bytes, sent as UDP packets to randomly generated IP addresses as fast as the network interface could pump them out. Infected all susceptible hosts on the entire Internet within 10 minutes. Thankfully, that was only MSSQL servers and, being that sleek, it had no persistence mechanism. So turning the machine off and on again removed the infection completely.
by procaryote | 2025-11-05 07:21:03+00:00
I'm not sure why you'd describe "sampling from a probability distribution over possible tokens" as "minimize surprise in predictions" other than to make it sound similar to the free energy thing.

The free energy thing as I understand it has internal state, makes predictions, evaluates against new input and adjusts it internal state to continuously learn to predict new input better. This might if you squint look similar to training a neural network, although the mechanisms are different, but it's very distinct from the inference step
by monocasa | 2025-11-05 07:22:47+00:00
It was straight up co-sponsored by very nearly a majority of Senate Republicans (18 out of 42 at the time). It's hard to say a "vast majority of R's didn't support it". Though recently Republicans have been trying to distance themselves from it because it doesn't make their reaction to the ACA look great. There's a lot of rewriting of history.

Yes it didn't get debated, but the formal debate stage of a bill is pretty late in the process these days. It's been theater at best for at least a century. The actual debating happens at the stage the HEART Act got to.

It got dropped because the Republicans won congress in the midterms and didn't actually want to change anything about health care; the HEART act was just what they came up with as a proposal if they were to be forced.
by simoncion | 2025-11-05 07:22:52+00:00
> Yes, obviously, everyone knows that.

It's pretty clear that daemonologist did not know that. Which is weird, given that all the tax law the average USian needs to know is "Read and follow the instructions for Form 1040.".

(RIP 1040-EZ. You were a good form.)

Also, I've had to file several forms in the past. It 'adds up', but it's all mechanically following instructions... not anything difficult.
by arjie | 2025-11-05 07:23:34+00:00
The slow transformation of 'deprecating' to 'ending' has somehow happened across a period where I didn't notice it happening. Most recently this bit me when a place I was contracting at received notice that a vendor was 'deprecating' some old API they used in May of 2025. Okay, thanks for the warning, and I'll prioritize dealing with that later in the year.

As it so happens, the vendor intended to say that they were insta-sunsetting/deleting/ending-access-to that endpoint. The switch wasn't too much effort for an engineer on the team but that was honestly my first encounter with the fact that "deprecation" today means "deletion" to a lot of people.

There's a few things like this that have semantic drift over time:

1. deprecate -> delete

2. refactor -> rewrite

3. data normalization -> data cleanup

4. hash/encrypt -> now often interchanged

5. authenticate/authorize -> interchanged

6. bricked -> has error, often recoverable
by timr | 2025-11-05 07:23:45+00:00
> Not "abolish", reduce funding.

Yeah, I understand that's what people are saying to rationalize it. And like I said: we'll find out! But see my reply to the sibling comment, where I link directly to his words:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820126

He's well-documented, saying many times, in many different variations, in many different places, that he wants to eliminate prisons, "dismantle" the police, and so on. One or two comments you might be able to brush aside, but this is a consistent pattern.
by aja12 | 2025-11-05 07:24:27+00:00
Bullshit journalism. This was not a post heist report, every buzzword chasing so called news outlets out there are repeating ad nauseam findings that were listed in a report produced by ANSSI in 2014! 2014! Eleven. Years. Ago! Did Louvre kept obsolete software around all this time, yes they probably did but this "Louvre" password claim just grinds my gears
by eikowagenknecht | 2025-11-05 07:25:02+00:00
Immediately when reading the „When stick figures fought“ title, I suspected that this piece would be about Xiao Xiao.

It was such an impressive piece of art for younger me (12 years old then and just getting started with this „internet“ thing) that apparently it made some lasting memories. Made my day to revisit these videos after such a very very long time. Thanks!
by woodpanel | 2025-11-05 07:25:11+00:00
I have some confrontational views about this, but in good faith I’d like to invite some discussion with it (not an American).

TLDR: You will see more Mamdanis in other cities. This is a treasure trove for MAGA. Expect at least 12 years of secure nationwide wins for whoever is championing that platform

> I’m reminided of Obama and his hopeful message

This is the gist of the PR campaign, voters fell for. It goes in line with him getting away with being “grassrootsy” when in fact he got tremendous funding from the typical NGOs (Open Society etc) and is a son of a Professor who was/is basically paid to tell American and African Top 5% why white people are bad.

His win also shows the effect migration has on elections. Immigration inherently is a deal where incumbent residents define the terms, and when the other party returns the favor by electing anti-incumbents into office some incumbents will have profound buyer’s remorse.

Fertile soil for the right.

Mamdani’s success also puts a spotlight on foundational problems of the democrats.

After all Mamdani is charismatic, yes, but more importantly he appealed on the issues. His policies will be abysmally failing to resolve the problems he criticized, yes - but that is unimportant to the voter. Important is that he believably criticized them.

How is it, that these well-established circles of the democrats, these well oiled machines, where in states like CA or NY (or most US cities) mayorships, senatorships, congressional seats, and governorships are basically handed out by the DNC, fail to win on those issues? It’s not like making life affordable is not a core branding of the party.

Well, it appears that the DNC gerrymandered itself to death. The dissolution of political contest from the public into internal primaries has stymied the platform’s vitality to a point where it can be easily hijacked by radicals.

Expect many more Mamdani-esque wins locally. Which will mean many wore wins for MAGA nationally.
by Cyphus | 2025-11-05 07:25:20+00:00
You can scale the UI according to your preferences, but the real problem is that if your monitor’s ppi is not close to the macOS sweet spot of 220ppi (or an integer multiple thereof) you’re going to have aliasing issues with text and other high contrast elements.

https://griffindavidson.com/blog/mac-displays.html has a good rundown.
by ETH_start | 2025-11-05 07:26:11+00:00
The most interesting finding is that increasing the initial congestion window — basically letting servers send more packets right at the start — can improve small connection performance by 30–40%. Considering that most Internet connections are short and lightweight, that’s a huge optimization target. It’s wild that the Internet’s default setting for this (10 packets) has stayed unchanged for over a decade despite how much faster and more stable networks have become.
by arcticbull | 2025-11-05 07:26:34+00:00
Yep, it's basically a federal version of Romneycare. [1]

[1] https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2...

Actually come to think of it a very similar pole reversal happened in Canada with the "Trudeau/Liberal Carbon Tax" -- a program originally proposed by the British Columbia Conservative Party, first implemented in Alberta by a Conservative Party and proposed federally by Stephen Harper of the Federal Conservatives.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-11-05 07:26:35+00:00
Since this isn't the 1960s, and it's Google with their resources, maybe they'd go for some superconducting logic based on Josephson Junctions, like RSFQ? In parts, at least?

So they wouldn't have the burden of cooling it down first, like on earth? Instead being able to rely on the cold out there, as long as it stays in the shadow, or is otherwise isolated from sources of heat? Again, with less mess to deal with, like on earth? Since it's fucking cold up there already? And depending on the ratio of superconducting logic vs. conventional CMOS or whatever, less need to cool that, because superconducting stuff emits less heat, and the remaining 'smartphony' stuff is easy to deal with?

If I had those resorces at hand, I'd try.
by dluan | 2025-11-05 07:26:45+00:00
well Prop 50 to redraw California's district lines passed by a nearly 30% margin and counting right now. That's an absolute spanking leading up to 26 midterms.

The story tonight isn't about Trump at all though, it's about millennial DSA types beating the establishment Democratic institution - in NYC, Detroit, Mississippi. In 24 everyone was astonished at the lack of response - "what is DNC going to do about losing to Trump, twice?". This is the beginning of what will be the eventual answer.

Also it doesn't need to be said, but the mobilization of 1M+ votes for Zohran's campaign today renders the fringes meaningless. He's now automatically in the conversation for the Presidential primary for 2028.
by roenxi | 2025-11-05 07:27:04+00:00
You're pinning a people problem on democracy. If the people of New Zealand are happy being a little out of the way island that is a nice place for a holiday then that is what they'll be. If they want to be as economically prosperous as Singapore then they have to argue it out and get a critical mass of people to decide that they want to be wealthier in a take-concrete-actions sort of way. They can do that if they want and they don't need long term government projects to achieve it. There aren't that many people on the islands, it is a pretty homogeneous place and they don't need any help coordinating themselves.

You can come up with a government that does less well at giving people what they want (surprisingly easy to do) but the obvious downside of that is people will be getting less of what they want. For example I have little doubt New Zealanders would be incensed if government spending dropped to Singaporian levels.
by simoncion | 2025-11-05 07:27:15+00:00
The 1040 has a spot for both a phone number and an email address. The 1040 instructions make it completely clear that both are optional.

You have the option of entering your phone number and email address in the spaces provided. There will be no effect on the processing of your return if you choose not to enter this information. Note that the IRS initiates most contacts through regular mail delivered by the United States Postal Service.
by jancsika | 2025-11-05 07:27:40+00:00
"Maximum out of pocket" is a single dollar amount listed somewhere in your health insurance plan. It'd be in the ballpark of $8 or $9k. (Again, double it.)

If you are saying you only have $5k saved then your plan effectively reduces potential bankruptcy-level of healthcare debt down to a manageable level of healthcare debt.

If you have a high-deductible healthcare plan (HDHP) through an employer, look into setting up regular contributions from your paycheck into a health savings account (HSA). You can use an HSA to build a healthcare emergency fund (and later invest those saving like you would in a regular retirement account, which is what it turns into when you hit retirement age).
by whoooboyy | 2025-11-05 07:28:52+00:00
Try telling people you voted third party because of a deeply held conviction about not electing corrupt politicians. You will be told you are evil, that you've got an unreasonable/impossible purity bar, that you don't really believe in that deeply held moral conviction actually, that you are worse than the people who voted for the other guy, that you are a utopian idealist, etc etc.

Don't get me wrong, I did vote third party and I will continue to do so if the Dems put up candidates like Harris and Biden. But don't expect most people to be willing to weather the storm of vitriol they'll receive for holding a high bar for their politicians.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-11-05 07:29:32+00:00
> Then instead of asserting that f(1, 2) == 3 you need to do f(a, b) == a+b

Not really, no, it's right there in the name: you should be testing properties (you can call them "invariants" if you want to sound fancy).

In the example of testing an addition operator, you could test:

1. f(x,y) >= max(x,y) if x and y are non-negative

2. f(x,y) is even iff x and y have the same parity

3. f(x, y) = 0 iff x=-y

etc. etc.

The great thing is that these tests are very easy and fast to write, precisely because you don't have to re-model the entire domain. (Although it's also a great tool if you have 2 implementations, or are trying to match a reference implementation)
by Frannky | 2025-11-05 07:29:39+00:00
I envision AI saturating every corner of life—yet its market is ultimately bounded by how much users will actually pay, weighed against the tangible value delivered. The rift arises from overoptimistic guesses about user spending, a chasm that only deepens as open-source models hit that critical "good enough" threshold, and AI data centers devolve into a cutthroat commodity arena, vying on price for off-the-shelf compute power accessible to all—particularly if agile rivals eclipse Nvidia through breakthroughs in efficient/smarter hardware.
by Madmallard | 2025-11-05 07:29:57+00:00
Is this like an entire astro-turfing for AI thread? Can mods like ban these topics? This is clearly just like monetarily incentivized amoral behavior.

As far as I understand still working with this stuff regularly. None of the actual problems have yet to be solved at all. AI still produces garbage for anything complex. And if it doesn't, it's because you specified in full detail how it should do everything and heavily hand-held it and reviewed the results, taking more time than just doing it yourself.

And it's either that or they are flying by the seat of their pants with the thing and free-balling their way to a broken system.
by mmooss | 2025-11-05 07:30:06+00:00
> advocating for mass individual consistent behavioral change is less than useless.

Again, the trend is to sound smart by saying it's hopeless. We behave much differently than prior generations in many ways. Heck, look at the rise of neo-right wing politics, the manosphere, YOLO investing, etc. Look at smoking, recycling, etc. Look at people using social media, when cell phones weren't universal for their parents

It doesn't require politics.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-05 07:30:28+00:00
Either your code shouldn’t fail or the apostrophe isn’t a valid case.

In the former, hypothesis and other similar frameworks are deterministic and will replay the failing test on request or remember the failing tests in a file to rerun in the future to catch regressions.

In the latter, you just tell the framework to not generate such values or at least to skip those test cases (better to not generate in terms of testing performance).