MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tavavex | 2025-11-15 17:41:31+00:00
> Fascism (which is merely a flavor of Socialism)

Hitler and Mussolini, the infamous socialists. What an insane idea. Its only claim to fame seems to be famous American conservatives who want to cleanse the image of the far-right by writing off their ideologies to the other side. It also conveniently lets everyone pretend that totalitarianism could never happen here - it's all just evil communism/socialism, and we're not doing communism here, so just trust us, y'all!

These ideologies have very little in common. While states practicing both have been heavily totalitarian, the means through which they got there, the reasoning for their absolute power and its methods of enforcement, the strength of their grip and their national ideas/goals were completely different. Trying to shove them into one box is beyond reductionism, it borders on good-and-evil storytelling where all the bad guys have a simple, one-line explanation for their badness.
by radibear | 2025-11-15 17:41:33+00:00
the nice thing is you dont need to be cost competitive with other energy sources if there is no energy. and also that every form of energy is already subsidized like crazy. so as long as fusion is demonstrated to be reliable and scalable, then it can be left to the politicians to figure out how to allocate resources.

but i agree with the article about some points. proliferation and tritium I wouldnt say is much of an issue.
by qwertylicious | 2025-11-15 17:41:47+00:00
I mean, yeah?

That's why in my workflow I don't write single monster specs. Rather, I work with the LLM to iterate on small, individual, highly constrained specs that provide useful context for what/why/how -- stories, if you will -- that include a small set of critical requirements and related context -- the criteria by which you might "accept" the work -- and then I build up a queue of those "stories" that form a, you might say, backlog of work that I then iterate with the LLM to implement.

I then organize that backlog so that I can front-load uncovering unknowns while delivering high-value features first.

This isn't rocket science.

By far the biggest challenge I experience is compounding error during those iterative cycles creating brittleness, code duplication, and generally bad architecture/design. Finding ways to incorporate key context or other hints in those individual work items is something I'm still sorting out.

(and yes, I use en-dashes, and no I'm not an AI)
by spwa4 | 2025-11-15 17:42:14+00:00
I would argue it's more accurate to say tech companies take the "old-style" US approach. It's based on the idea that propaganda doesn't actually work. There weren't many actual communists in Russia, it was a dictatorship with mostly prisoners/hostages who were threatened into lying, and knew full well that they were threatened, and after the teenage phase is over, actually start asking "why are we being threatened over this?".

So as soon as they left with little intention to return, they suddenly become the problem that socialists really hate to discuss: ex-Soviets hate socialism. It's like cults, or, if we're honest, there's other repressive groups and repressive ideologies that have loooooooooong lost their any usefulness and really only the repression remains.

In other words, if tech companies show Chinese that non-communist democratic states exist and how it is to live there, then no amount of CCP censorship will ever actually convince those people that the CCP has good intentions.

Judging by my conversations with Chinese, it's working.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-15 17:42:31+00:00
I found a twitter thread years ago that talked about how the author had gone to school with a lot of (US) mafia children, and the school had unsurprisingly provided lunch via a local vendor with mob connections. Presumably some of the money wound up going to the mob.

But, the thread pointed out, since high-level mafia officials sent their children to that school, they had no interest in skimping on the lunches. And the lunches were excellent. After a big FBI bust, the mob-affiliated vendor was replaced with a major interstate school lunch vendor, and the quality of the food was rock-bottom.

I've tried to find the thread again, but I can't. If anyone else wants to dedicate an unreasonable amount of time to it, I'm pretty sure I originally found it through a links post on Marginal Revolution.
by survirtual | 2025-11-15 17:42:54+00:00
I am not writing the tests, LLMs are.

My objective is to write prompts for LLMs that can write prompts for LLMs that can write code.

When there is a problem downstream the descendant hierarchy, it is a failure of parent LLM's prompts, so I correct it at the highest level and allow it to trickle down.

This eventually resolves into a stable configuration with domain expertise towards whatever function I require, in whatever language is best suited for the task.

If I have to write tests manually, I have already failed. It doesn't matter how skilled I am at coding or capable I am at testing. It is irrelevant. Everything that can be automated should be automated, because it is a force amplifier.
by alvrod04 | 2025-11-15 17:43:02+00:00
Hello, I (3rd year University student) am currently in a group project for my edtech entrepreneurship course where we've launched a start-up website off of lovable, which provides an ai chatbot that helps check CVs and run mock interviews for finance and consulting students looking for internships. Right now we're aiming on getting sign-ups and people to test out the features so that we can improve it for our final project. Just sharing it so it can get out to as many people as possible. Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated since we're still in the early testing out stages. Thank you for your time! Here's the link: https://next-step-craft.lovable.app
by pverheggen | 2025-11-15 17:43:02+00:00
> I can send multiple queries over a single TCP connection and receive multiple responses over the same single TCP single connection, out of order.

This is because DoT allows the DNS server to resolve queries concurrently and send query responses out of order.

However, this is an application layer feature, not a transport layer one. The underlying TCP packets still have to arrive in order and therefore are subject to blocking.
by chem83 | 2025-11-15 17:43:26+00:00
For something portable with a dGPU, I recommend the Asus ProArt px13. Works very well with Linux, including NixOS with the right config, with the community asusctl and supergfxctl. AMD, OLED screen, nVidia 4070 (4060 in the US, maybe we'll get 50xx next year). Downsides: the keyboard is not amazing, it comes with MediaTek WiFi, but is replaceable, and the SSD is 2230, which limits capacity. I haven't been able to fine-tune touchpad sensitivity in Wayland and I do get some screen flickering despite fiddling with some boot params and being on 6.17.x. Fewer constraints if you're willing to go 14-inch with the Zephyrus.
by turnsout | 2025-11-15 17:43:27+00:00
I think you might want to examine your assumption that there are people who "sail through life." It may seem that way from the outside, and you may even observe people handling everyday stressors well. But I promise you, everyone is struggling. Everyone suffers. (btw, that's actually the first Noble Truth of Buddhism).

But you can learn ways to separate the stress you can't control from the stress you can control (your reaction/behavior), which is the foundation of CBT & ACT (and is the third Noble Truth).

I personally don't think upbringing has a big impact on our natural ability to do this; I think it's mostly genetic. But it doesn't really matter.

The good news is, the brain is plastic, and you absolutely can change your mind and behaviors pretty radically over time. This is the science behind psychological flexibility / ACT—and yes, it does replicate.

When I find myself thinking "some people just have it easier," I try to ask myself "is that a workable worldview? If I follow that train of thought, is that moving me in the right direction? Or is it causing me to give up or give in to resentment and frustration? Could I just let it pass?" You don't have to argue with the thought; you can just notice it and let it float on by.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-11-15 17:43:30+00:00
Hit me up, if you can. I’m focused on neolatin texts from the renaissance. Less than 30% of known book editions have been scanned and less than 5% translated. And that’s before even getting to the manuscripts.

https://Ancientwisdomtrust.org

Also working on kids handwriting recognition for https://smartpaperapp.com
by ikjasdlk2234 | 2025-11-15 17:43:33+00:00
The simplex method in linear programming was one of the first times I ever had something relatively complex "click" for me.

It's funny, I still think about that feeling weekly. My memory of it happening while working out a homework problem is actually sort of like in the first Harry Potter movie when Harry gets his wand: warm, bright lighting, widening eyes, and a feeling like my head was a helium balloon.
by hashim | 2025-11-15 17:43:33+00:00
No, what it comes down to is whether you can admit that Palestine and Gaza are being occupied by a colonial power that doesn't have the right to be there, has consistently engaged in ethnic cleansing, genocide of entire villages and war crimes since its foundation, and that resistance to it will continue until that fact changes considerably. No-one living in a Western bubble, least of all Israel, gets to set the terms by which a people who Westerners have helped occupy for the last 70 years resist - just ask the Viet Cong. Whataboutism is the fallacy of pointing to irrelevant examples, so no, pointing out hypocrisy is not that. As for asymmetry, I assume you're talking about the fact that one is a heavily armed Western-funded superpower and the other is a handful of militias using the few arms they can get hold of from the only real ally they have in Iran, and not much stronger than they were in 1948 and 1967 when they were villagers being waged "war" on by said superpower.
by pcrh | 2025-11-15 17:44:04+00:00
In this regard, note that the EU can only propose legislation that falls under one of its "competences". For example, national militaries, income tax, education, most of foreign policy, etc, do not fall under EU control.

The ECHR itself is independent of the EU, it is national governments that have signed up to this treaty.

So perhaps the EU institutions do not need to directly refer to the ECHR, only national governments should???

.... It would be interesting to hear knowledgeable legal opinion in this!
by Spivak | 2025-11-15 17:44:17+00:00
Yes but on the internet, at least in the US, asking "Are you 21 Yes/No" with no actual check has been acceptable. Same with all mature content like violence and porn.

Someone needs to make a case as for why in 2015 this was perfectly acceptable but in 2025 it's not anymore. The internet has gotten tamer since its inception and porn is still porn, exactly as depraved as it always was. What's considered the bad parts of the internet these days used to be the whole thing.
by rafabulsing | 2025-11-15 17:46:24+00:00
Regardless of what you think of the parents, it's certainly not the kids fault their parents failed to provide them food, for whatever reason. I don't care if the reason their parents couldn't afford the time or money to pack a lunch is because they spend it all on collecting nazi memorabilia and kicking orphaned puppies. I still want their children to be appropriately fed.
by solveit | 2025-11-15 17:46:35+00:00
I get the feeling that you're winging the specific numbers because they're spectacularly incoherent.

But anyway, the United States is extremely rich and has essentially no big problems that can be solved by a small amount (say, a few billion) of money. The problems are either so big that it would take trillions to solve (supporting aging population etc), or blocked by something other than money (politics, regulations, etc). The big problems that can be solved just by throwing a few billion at them are solved quite easily by either the government or by private entities like the Gates Foundation.
by 2b3a51 | 2025-11-15 17:46:40+00:00
The OA was describing the use of a refurbished laptop made by Fujitsu Japan (so 50% owned by Lenovo since 2017). No profit goes to Fujitsu UK (a subsidiary). And the Horizon system has a complex history [1].

But still, perhaps no, simply in solidarity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_accounting_system
by fragmede | 2025-11-15 17:47:14+00:00
The problem with accounts of life like the author is that it sums up a whole hell of a lot of time into a nice short Saturday morning read. In this case, it sounds like it spans multiple decades. It sounds like you feel socially awkward. You really don't think you can do something about that in thirty years? In November of 2055, you expect you'll be the same bag of awkward you are today? 1,500 weeks or so from now, you don't think you can leave the house or go somewhere multiplayer online to meet up with me people and make mistakes until there's a close enough impedance match that they signal (you) isn't too attenuated or overpowered? This weekend's not over yet, get out there!
by rgblambda | 2025-11-15 17:47:53+00:00
>And it's not 30 arrests per day for saying things the government don't like or that are politically incorrect, is it?

We don't know, as offence type isn't provided by police services.

The key takeaway is that arrests have risen since 2020 while convictions have not. Given the sole evidence needed for a conviction is also needed for an arrest, you'd think convictions would rise at almost the same level. But it looks like people are being arrested and later released for perfectly legal speech. That would arguably be seen by many as an impairment of freedom of expression.
by Izkata | 2025-11-15 17:48:33+00:00
> how is calculating it in your own head brute-force

Doing this calculation in your head is not brute force, which was their entire point. Their math question was an example of why the brain isn't brute-forcing solutions, replying to this:

> What makes you think your brain isn't also brute forcing potential solutions subconciously and only surfacing the useful results?
by energy123 | 2025-11-15 17:48:53+00:00
This is why Markowitz isn't used much in the industry, at least not in a plug-and-play fashion. Empirical volatility, and the variance -covariance matrix more generally speaking, is a useful descriptive statistic, but the matrix has high sampling variance, which means Markowitz is garbage in garbage out. Unlike in other fields, you can't just make/collect more data to reduce the sampling variance of the inputs. So you want to regularize the inputs or have some kind of hybrid approach that has a discretionary overlay.
by brettgriffin | 2025-11-15 17:49:47+00:00
> Generally, someone’s wealth level can be inferred from their net worth.

> But also, “assets minus liabilities” offers some large shadows to hide behind.

> So a better quantity to measure would be: the amount of money someone could bring to bear on a problem if they had to. If someone they loved fell deathly ill, but the treatment would cost some large amount of money, how much could they pull together in a month or two? How much could they borrow, and from whom, and on what terms?

The following breakdowns are largely just people's net worth (assets minus liabilities) with the credit they can tap because of their assets.

Not sure I entirely understand the point. Yeah, people with assets are generally more credit-worthy and can tap lines of credit.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-15 17:50:50+00:00
I always find the distinction between the two fuzzy (because many non-functional requirements can be argued to be functional requirements) but the list here is useful for the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-functional_requirement

Take things like "capacity". When building a system, you may have a functional requirement like "User can retrieve imagery data if authorized" (that is the function of the system). A non-functional requirement might be how many concurrent users the system can handle at a time. This will influence your design because different system architectures/designs will support different levels of usage, even though the usage (the task of getting imagery to analyze or whatever) is the same whether it handles one user at a time or one million.
by hashim | 2025-11-15 17:51:15+00:00
Is that what you see happening? Because I see most Western powers continuing to fund and enable Israel to act with impunity while reserving their harshest criticism for Hamas - the resistance movement set up in 1984, 40 years after Israel invaded Palestine, by the children who had grown up knowing nothing else. An occupier does not get to set the terms of how a desperate occupied people resist, least of all after 80 years, which was a lot longer than Vietnam lasted, and is much worse than South African apartheid. There's a reason Mandela was vehemently pro-Palestine. We can talk about how Hamas and the Palestinian people chose to resist their occupiers and hold them accountable for their relatively benign crimes once the occupation is ended. Right now, Westerners can't even admit that occupation exists, so we're nowhere near that, and virtually any criticism of Hamas is actually an attempt at deflection and maintaining the status quo of the last 80 years.
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-15 17:51:57+00:00
I open Gimp on a scratch workspace and immediately have my WM jump to it. How is that different from having to scroll to it?

If I need a Gimp in every workspace I just open a Gimp in every workspace where I need one. Or even customize my Xmonad to show specific Gimp instances on select workspaces.

Again, how does the scrolling layout do me ANY favors here?

Sure, Niri takes away the question of where to place it, but it definitely doesn't help with "Where the fuck is that one window I opened and how do I find it?" I'd rather just quickly select all my workspaces in the worst case than selecting every workspace and THEN scrolling through all the windows.

If you really need THAT much overspill on a workspace I would personally rather stop and re-evaluate the workflow instead of just spilling tons of windows all over the workspace.

It feels like if you'd sit down and re-evaluate the workflow and the setup, those problems could be solved almost without a WM.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-11-15 17:52:02+00:00
Absolutely. And it's not just cat's. Look at the number of deer that get hit by cars every year. And like I said in another post, I saw two dead raccoons by the side of the road yesterday in the space of a few miles. Cats, dogs, deer, raccoons, bobcats, etc. should all be strictly indoor animals.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-15 17:52:12+00:00
> The key takeaway is that arrests have risen since 2020 while convictions have not.

Yes, but this also coincides with the pandemic which put more people online and created a lot of anger and harassment of nurses, doctors, government officials, and it also coincides with growing activism in the trans debate space, which has undoubtedly led to more actual harassment.

> But it looks like people are being arrested and later released for perfectly legal speech.

But you just said we don't know, because offence type is not provided?
by vintermann | 2025-11-15 17:52:42+00:00
If there was one thing I could make people understand: Even though bad people are saying it, doesn't mean it isn't true.

Social media false flag tactics happen. People from all over all sorts of political spectrums tell the same story. The sites tell the same story.

If you decide to blindly dismiss claims of abuse because you don't like the ones claiming to be abused, you create a comfy little space for abuse to happen.
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-15 17:53:14+00:00
> Nail guns are great because they're instant and consistent. You point, you shoot, and you've unimpeachably bonded two bits of wood.

You missed it.

If I give a random person off the street a nail gun, circular saw and a stack of wood are they going to do a better job building something than a carpenter with a hammer and hand saw?

> Anything you do with AI needs to be carefully reviewed

Yes, and so does a JR engineer, so do your peers, so do you. Are you not doing code reviews?
by tock | 2025-11-15 17:53:46+00:00
> Let's tax 1% of that yearly, meaning we just gained $78 billion dollars per year! Congrats, with a $7 trillion yearly federal budget, your +$78 billion covers about 1% of federal spending.

Excellent point. I'm glad you see how much of a pittance 1% annually is. Though I've made the same point before(remember I said 1% of 1B is just 10M, thats a joke for billionaires). Increase the % as you wish. 1% does nothing for inequality given stock gains are far higher yearly.

My whole point is that its a problem that needs to be solved. How we can solve it is a great thing to discuss. Your entire argument so far is that it can't be solved. Which I don't agree with.

And for some reason you just ignore some points. eg. property taxes: "in 2023, approximately $363 billion in property taxes was collected on single-family homes across the United States. Property taxes generally account for about 10-11% of total U.S. tax revenue.". You said "Most middle class folks would never end up owning their home.". Turns out thats not true.

Tax the billionaires. You seem to think the current trend is bad as well. You just happen to think my suggestions to fix it is bad. That's fine. But I think its a better constructive use of your time trying to think of better ideas than give up.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-15 17:54:34+00:00
I don’t think those people you’re thinking about sail through life and never get bothered by anything at all. You probably only see them deal with things that are below their level of worry or frustration. They’re not going to be unbothered by the death of a loved one or major financial catastrophe.

However people who have good emotional control can appear to be emotionally invincible relative to people who are turn every minor annoyance into a catastrophe and are completely devastated by anything with minor significance.

> I've noticed it more in people who had a comfortable upringing and no money worries. Oh dear, dinner is burnt? No worries just order takeout! Lost your passport a few days before a holiday - no sweat, just pay the fast track processing fee. Car broken down? Just jump in a taxi. Coffee ruined your top? Just buy another one.

You’re only seeing one very narrow version of problems in their life that are easily solved by money.

I grew up around some kids who were very wealthy. Some had net worths in excess of $10 million in their 20s because their parents were tax optimizing their inheritance over decades.

While they were unbothered by simple things that could be solved with a credit card (burnt dinner, spilled coffee) they were, in general, much less prepared to handle the stresses of life than their peers. In fact, I can think of many examples where they fell apart and some who spiraled immediately into drug addiction the first time they encountered life problems that weren’t easily solved by money: Being broken up with by a love interest, denied promotions because they weren’t performing as well as their peers, doing poorly at their expensive colleges.

So I wouldn’t agree at all that wealthy people are inherently more resilient to stress. You’re only looking at a narrow set of financial problems which are already solved for them. Having those problems solved for them can actually lead to lower levels of stress resilience when the real problems come along.