MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-15 22:23:36+00:00
> Going after preferential treatment of unrealized gains categorically attacks every single one of these tricks. It nukes the hydra rather than trying to chop off heads one at a time.

Now think about how they're going to respond to it.

A major problem with taxing unrealized gains is how to measure them. For publicly traded companies that's pretty easy -- the stock is undergoing regular market transactions so you have a pretty good idea about the price. But what about assets that aren't? Closely held private companies that aren't listed on an exchange and haven't undergone any stock transactions in ten years. Art. The value -- or liability -- of a private contract for the future sale of goods at a defined price, when the market value of those goods might have since changed, or depending on what they are, be indeterminate.

It creates endless opportunities for playing games, and that complexity is exactly what allows the people who can afford fancy accountants to pay less in tax than everybody else. If you want to fix it you need to make the system simpler rather than even more complicated.
by bena | 2025-12-15 22:23:50+00:00
If you go back a bit, you'll find a comment about Grok that got flagged. I'm guessing that was his straw...

I don't know, but it's not the topic of this newspost, so this entire thread is likely to get nuked. So, like, fair warning.

Edit: I don't know if it was dead and I missed it or whatever, but there was a tiff about dark mode that set them off.
by Loughla | 2025-12-15 22:24:01+00:00
I would've loved to get a lightning when we replaced the farm truck this year. If would've been great to be able to charge it while our solar array was pumping out power. But the price on those things is eye wateringly high. We got a gas f150 for about half the price of the lightning. I'm not sure who they were trying to sell those to, to be honest.
by brendoncarroll | 2025-12-15 22:24:12+00:00
I recently released Blobcache v0.0.2. https://github.com/blobcache/blobcache

Blobcache is a content-addressed data store for holding application state, and buiding E2EE applications. This most recent release includes a git remote so you can push and fetch Git data into and out of Blobcache.
by user982 | 2025-12-15 22:24:24+00:00
The bill had no traction, "until Oct. 7. The attack that day in Israel by Hamas and the ensuing conflict in Gaza became a turning point in the push against TikTok, Helberg said. People who historically hadn’t taken a position on TikTok became concerned with how Israel was portrayed in the videos and what they saw as an increase in antisemitic content posted to the app."

"How TikTok Was Blindsided by U.S. Bill That Could Ban It" (https://www.wsj.com/tech/how-tiktok-was-blindsided-by-a-u-s-...)

> its very obvious from public statements by both co-sponsors that the primary motivation for this bill was concern with Chinese influence.

Here's an op-ed authored by bill sponsor Mike Gallagher entitled, "Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok.": https://www.thefp.com/p/tik-tok-young-americans-hamas-mike-g...
by mnorris | 2025-12-15 22:24:31+00:00
Why food? It's static, and AI 3D models do not make food that I want to eat. Using photogrammetry means that high quality reconstructions of real food look tasty - it's an easy qualitative metric for me.

Previously the app only produced 3D models and threw away the original video, but incorporating the underlying videos both shows off to new users what type of content they're supposed to record (i.e. a 1 second video of a darkly lit pizza box is NOT going to produce good content), and it makes the output shareable content.
by xkcd-sucks | 2025-12-15 22:24:57+00:00
> Katie Ledecky didn't put in a huge amount of effort in her training before her world-class swimming performances.

Although the training takes lots of energy and time, it needn't be driven by striving towards abstract goals. Rather the training can be a playful/fun practice for the sake of doing it well in the moment. This makes it feel easier to practice a lot, and also makes the practice more "productive" by freeing up attention from distractions of purpose and self.

It's hard to say if most elite athletes are able to do this all the time, but they probably don't have as bad a time of it as normies when it comes to physical exertion.
by kelnos | 2025-12-15 22:25:16+00:00
The credit card thing doesn't surprise me. I expect United makes a ton of revenue from the card. With how credit card transaction fees are capped in Europe, I doubt it's worth it for European airlines to bother pushing their branded card much, if they even have one in the first place.

I was on a Virgin Atlantic flight last week, and while there weren't ads before the safety video, there were three ads before every movie I tried to watch... and it was the same three ads each time.

I flew Turkish in October, and was annoyed to find the movies and TV shows heavily censored, including blanking out or dubbing over minor swear words. It was also wild to see the Qur'an in the entertainment system's reading library. (No judgement there, just notable as I've never seen the Christian Bible present on other airlines.)

I think you're just falling victim to the usual thing where what you're used to feels normal, and everything else seems weird. I've definitely experienced the same as an American, when flying on European, Latin American, and Asian airlines.
by rurp | 2025-12-15 22:25:42+00:00
Everything except the bed size has grown enormously on modern consumer trucks. Nowadays truck beds look proportionally tiny compared to trucks from 20-30 years ago when the bed made up a much larger percent of the vehicle.

Ford knows their market. Most F-150 buyers aren't looking for a functional truck, they want a comfortable commuter car that looks like a cool truck.
by floatrock | 2025-12-15 22:26:04+00:00
And apparently implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency using TrumpCoin.

> Backed by the White House, Tech Force will tackle the most complex and large-scale civic and defense challenges of our era – from administering critical financial infrastructure at the Treasury Department to advancing cutting-edge programs at the Department of Defense – and everything in between.

Also, surprised their AI reviewer allowed the use of DoD... I thought they identify as Dept of War now.
by dijit | 2025-12-15 22:26:15+00:00
and my IRC servers that don’t have any HTTP daemon (and thus have the port blocked) while being balanced by anycast geo-fenced DNS?

There are more things on the internet than web servers.

You might say “use DNS-01”; but thats reductive- I’m letting any node control my entire domain (and many of my registrars don’t even allow API access to records- let alone an API key thats limited to a single record; even cloud providers dont have that).

I don’t even think mail servers work well with the letsencrypt model unless its a single server for everything without redundancies.

I guess nobody runs those anymore though, and, I can see why.
by encroach | 2025-12-15 22:26:28+00:00
If you prefer a simpler style, then why did you write "the deeper I got into the world of literature" instead of "as I studied literature more"?

Why did you say you were "pushed towards" simpler language instead of "I liked it more"?

Why did you say "I feel the pain in my bones" and "drives me insane" instead of "I dislike it"?

Why did you say "the big boy SAT words should pop out of the page unaccompanied" instead of "there should only be one big word per page"?

Perhaps flowery language expands your ability to express yourself?
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-15 22:26:46+00:00
You're changing the point though, you claimed "I don't find that dynamic typing reduces the number of places I need to update stuff", which just because your editor makes the change, doesn't suddenly make the change not show up in the diff for you and others. A change is a change, regardless of how it's made, unless you don't keep your code in a SCM that is, which I'm assuming most of us do.

I'm not saying it's hard to change types in TypeScript, I understand that your IDE is connected with the language and they're used together, but again my argument was that having types leads to having to change things in more places. Which is true too, and it's a good thing, it's on purpose, and the tools you use help with that, so yay for that! But it's still more changes, and at least for me it's important to be honest about the tradeoffs our choices leads us to.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm fan of static typing in many situations, just not all of them. And I'm not blind to the negatives they can bring too, I guess I just see more nuance in the static typing vs dynamic debate.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-15 22:26:47+00:00
> we will continue to have non-experts who generate high engagement content running policy decisions more and more in the future.

I don't see why you'd assume that only non-experts will generate high engagement content.

I don't disagree but such a sweeping assumption surely needs some argumentation and elucidation. Understating the mechanics of this quite unnatural state of affairs is vastly more valuable that the mere observation of its existence.

All I've seen to date are appeals to human nature but that's a highly misleading line of reasoning that creates more confusion about both human nature and the forces driving content creation.
by maqp | 2025-12-15 22:26:59+00:00
Yeah if you buy a number with Durov's TON shitcoin. The original sales are over and number auctions start from opening bid of 37 dollars, and run all the way to 14,000 USD https://fragment.com/numbers, and they take very long, even up to one year to close.

Also, Telegram is not private.

1. It's not E2EE by default

2. It's not E2EE for groups on any platfrom

3. It's not E2EE 1:1 on desktop clients forcing you to downgrade from secret chats to insecure chats

4. It's collecting 100% of your metadata, including

* who you talk to, when, how much, what type of data you exchange,

* your IP-address which sort of defeats the purpose of having no phone number, and

* when you enable secret chats

Telegram is also not transparent about its funding, about who develops it, and who has access to the plaintexts stored on their server (meaning, anyone with a zero day or two).

Journalists who went to look for Telegram's office in Dubay found out no-one in the neighboring office had ever seen Telegram staff enter the space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg8mWJUM7x4

Telegram was built with blood-money from VKontakte, and Durov has been marketed as living in exile, when in reality he has visited Russia on average once every 2.4 months since the exile began, and strangely Durov has not had his underwear poisoned and windows have been kind to him despite supposedly betraying Putin's interests.

tl;dr Telegram reeks of FSB/SVR honeypot.
by stephen_g | 2025-12-15 22:27:30+00:00
They could very much force it on you, for new units at least - depending on what micro is on the boards, they could potentially very easy start shipping them with locked bootloaders (and disabled JTAG/SWD porrts) that would only run binaries that are signed by them.

They could potentially have their software load a unexpectedly re-flash existing units with a locked bootloader too, it would just be harder to keep the key secret (because the tool flashing the new bootloader on the first time would need to know it)
by vablings | 2025-12-15 22:27:38+00:00
I am not anti ALPR. They do have merits on flagging things like stolen vehicles and human trafficking. What I do dislike is a private company owning up the entire market share and has little to no obligation to behave.

Why can't cities hire good software developers to create custom solutions that are safe and secure rather than paying a startup thousands of dollars in taxpayer money. Austin City Council spent 1.2 MILLION dollars on just a handful of cameras. Texas already ruled that red-light cameras cannot issue tickets or citations so why are we allowing cameras to creep into the same space. It's just another tax on people

>The ACLU is fighting DUI laws in CA right now for instance. SF is a hell-hole because of these crime loving activist groups.

Not sure what you are referring to here but if you do find the news stories be sure to post the article and I will read the cases on PACER to see what its all about
by pdonis | 2025-12-15 22:27:51+00:00
> Breaking up the monopoly and the price fixing led to lower prices through the system.

Not in the cases I gave.

> Oil barrel prices

Not sure what you mean by this. If you mean crude oil, Standard Oil was not a seller of crude oil; it was a buyer. It bought crude oil and refined it into various products that it sold. The prices of those refined products went up after the breakup.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-15 22:28:02+00:00
> Couldn’t you buy an electric van instead

Not sold (really) in the US. There's the VW electric van but that's more of a gimmick than anything else.

In the US, there's also just a pretty big infrastructure around tooling trucks for professional work. Not that that doesn't exist for vans in the US, it's just somewhat more common to see trucks having full toolsets on the side for quick access with a decent sized bed. The F350 is a major workhorse for that sort of thing.
by saltcured | 2025-12-15 22:28:06+00:00
OK, I see that is a potential downside. I can actually remember way back when we used to see sporadic disconnects and bus resets for IDE drives in Linux and it would recover and keep going.

I wonder what it would take to get the same behavior out of USB as for other "internal" interconnects, i.e. say this is attached storage and do retry/reconnect instead of deciding any ephemeral disconnect is a "removal event"...?

FWIW, I've actually got a 1 TB Samsung "pro" NVMe/M.2 drive in an external case, currently attached to a spare Ryzen-based Thinkpad via USB-C. I'm using it as an alternate boot drive to store and play Linux Steam games. It performs quite well. I'd say is qualitatively like the OEM internal NVMe drive when doing disk-intensive things, but maybe that is bottlenecked by the Linux LUKS full-disk encryption?

Also, this is essentially a docked desktop setup. There's nothing jostling the USB cable to the SSD.
by bgnn | 2025-12-15 22:28:48+00:00
It's indeed the tightness of the grain, but also volumetric density (975 kg/m³) is higher than oak or spruce. What I mean with light is, indeed you can make very thin utensils and they won't break, bemd etc so at the end the product is lighter than the obe made with a softer/less dense wood.

Boxwood was for centuries the choice of wind instrument makers because of its stability and hardness, which made it possible to create thinner more practical instruments (clarinets, flute etc). till humans discovered granadillo wood, which is as dense as boxwood but much more humidity and temperature stable.
by hnburnsy | 2025-12-15 22:28:50+00:00
>I have heard great things about the Rivian trucks. They seem to have rabidly loyal customers, like the Teslas

Dead last...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/cars/research/2025/10/24/cons...

And have you seen the stories about fender benders?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/rivian-r1t-fender-bender-turns...

https://axleaddict.com/news/a-small-rivian-r1t-dent-just-cos...

https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/7-months-later-an...

https://insideevs.com/features/669752/rich-rebuilds-rivian-r...
by umanwizard | 2025-12-15 22:29:01+00:00
> As for the West Bank, it's ruled by Fatah

You've repeated this claim a few times in the thread, so sorry if this is repetitive, but just to recap:

1. Fatah is not allowed to build an airport in Palestinian territory -- the Israeli military controls its airspace.

2. Fatah is not able to determine who comes in and out of the territory -- Israel controls both its border with Israel (which I suppose is reasonable) and its border with Jordan (which is not).

3. Fatah does not control the population registry or decide who can receive a Palestinian ID card -- Israel does.

4. Fatah does not have a monopoly over the use of military force in the West Bank -- the Israeli military can (and does) operate wherever it wants to within the territory.

5. Fatah does not control who can move where within the West Bank -- there are many Israeli-only settlements and Israeli-only roads, with access controlled by the Israeli military and police. Even when moving between Palestinian areas, residents are often subject to Israeli checkpoints (with long lines).

Is Fatah allowed to control some civil matters, e.g. the education system? Sure.

I will let others reading this be the judge of whether this constitutes "Fatah control" or "Israeli control". To me, the answer is clear.

> Israel is under no obligation to provide services to foreign governments, especially those compromised by antisemitic terrorist organizations.

Obviously. Nobody is complaining, for example, that Israel doesn't provide services to Iranians or Syrians or Yemenis. Those are legitimately foreign countries that Israel doesn't control.

...

Taking a look at the rest of the thread, it seems that, having had no success justifying your ludicrous position that "Israel doesn't control the West Bank", you've instead pivoted to explaining how the fact that they control it is Palestinians' fault, or at least justifiable due to Israel's legitimate interest in preventing terrorism.

Well, which is it? Does Fatah control the West Bank, or does Israel control it but the occupation is justified?

There's a lot I could say about this topic, too, but I don't think I'll bother. Galloping from one canned talking point to the next faster than the points can be refuted is not a good-faith debating style and a waste of time to engage with.
by woodruffw | 2025-12-15 22:29:34+00:00
> would suggest that we eventually end up in a place where the major ACME CAs join the list of heavily-centralized companies which are dependencies of "the internet"

I think that particular ship sailed a decade ago!

> Its less that LE becomes more of a single point of failure than it is that the concept of ACME CAs in general join the list of critically available things required to keep a site online.

Okay, this is what I wanted clarified. I don't disagree that CAs are critical infrastructure, and that there's latent risk whenever infrastructure becomes critical. I just think that risk is justified, and that LE in particular is no more or less of a SPOF with these policy changes.
by bink | 2025-12-15 22:29:38+00:00
> The price isn't right for small businesses. These trucks are quite expensive

They definitely aimed for the luxury market, like Rivian. Who knows how successful they would've been if they aimed for mid-range like Scout. That's the market they claimed to be entering when they started taking reservations. They also could've offered a fleet ready version without the luxury features, but must've decided not to.

> They're difficult to repair

How so? They are far simpler to maintain than a normal F-150. They're new so they do have parts issues for the electronic components, I'm sure, but I think that's a fair trade-off. In any case, I don't think offering a hybrid version makes the vehicles easier to maintain or repair. If anything it's the opposite.

> Parts availability is scarce, contrasted with a regular F-150 (even junkyards are full of spare parts, that aren't software constrained)

I thought one of the advantages of the F-150 was that most parts were shared with the standard F-150? The battery and motors, maybe not.
by sroussey | 2025-12-15 22:29:59+00:00
https://workglow.dev

It is a workflow graph automation site (drag and drop and connect nodes), but is a toy and only allows a local user and local models (both transformers.js and tensor-flow mediapipe), so costs me nothing. Mostly text stuff at the moment, but working on a slate of image stuff this week, may get to audio and video as well, we shall see.
by Animats | 2025-12-15 22:30:15+00:00
"Very unique" has its own problem.[1] It started appearing online around 2007, according to Google Trends. Sometimes in the description of NFTs. As an absolute adjective, "unique" should not be modified.[1] But now, "very unique" has joined the vocabulary of meaningless marketing phrases.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/very-unique-and-abso...
by ch4s3 | 2025-12-15 22:30:16+00:00
> Opposing one purchaser does not imply supporting another purchaser

Opposing the merger in this case necessarily meant embracing iRobot going out of business. Their financial position was clear, and no one else was in that business vertical but iRobot and Chinese companies. So either iRobot folds and the market is owned by Chiense companies, or iRobot folds and its IP is bought by Chinese companies.

> but I would guess the Chinese buyer does not have the same market power that Amazon does

In home robotics? They own the whole market.

> Warren is opposed to this purchase, too, but no longer has the influence to stop it.

Warren is too blindly ideological and frankly stupid to have pieced this together.
by benjiro | 2025-12-15 22:30:30+00:00
You know that the original idea was to drop it to 17 days?! And i think that is still on the books.

To be honest, the issue is not the time frame, you can literally have certs being made every day. And there are plenty of ways to automated this. The issue is the CT log providers are going to go ape!

Right now, we are at 24B certificates going back to around 2017 when they really started to grow. There are about 4.5B unique domains, if we reduce this to the amount of certs per domain, its about 2.3B domain certs we currently need.

Now do 2.3B, x 8 renewals ... This is only about 18,4B new certs in CT logs per year. Given how popular LE is, we can assume that the actual growth is maybe 10B per year (those that still use 1 year or multi year + the tons of LE generated ones).

Remember, i said the total going back to 2017 currently is now only 24B ... Yea, we are going to almost double the amount of certs in CT logs, every two years.

And that assumes LE does not move to 17 days, because then i am sure we are doubling the current amount, each year.

Good luck as a CT log provider... fyi, a typical certificate to store is about 4.5kb, we are talking 45TB of space needing per year, and 100TB+ if they really drop it down to 17 days. And we did not talk databases, traffic to the CT logs, etc...

Its broken Jim ... Now imagine for fun, a daily cert, ... 1700TB per year in CT log storage?

A new system will come from Google etc because its going to become unaffordable, even for those companies.
by yawpitch | 2025-12-15 22:30:57+00:00
> especially since there is a collection of powerful companies (Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, etc) that are being embedded into the government and into defense by the Trump administration.

Note this was all happening — and obvious — well before Kirk’s death; there’s been no shift, Musk and Thiel have been working on this, and not hiding it, since the start.
by scarmig | 2025-12-15 22:31:08+00:00
The dynamic seems to be identifying some phrasing as a secret neo-Nazi dogwhistle and haranguing people who use it. However, that doesn't effect any change, so a new word has to be identified as secretly neo-Nazi. Repeat ad infinitum, until the terminally online exist in such a rarefied universe that 99% of all humans are secret neo-Nazis.

This is bad, because it both 1) waters down actual neo-Naziism (which is fringe and rare) and worse 2) alienates people to the point where they support non-neo-Nazi but bad policy.

(For me personally, my take on "Western Civilization" is along the lines of Gandhi: I think it'd be a wonderful idea.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-15 22:31:10+00:00
I am 51 “late career” and there is no way in hell I would work for the federal government now.

Even if I didn’t care about the politics, I have made more than the posted salaries working full time for outside consulting companies contracting with the federal government over the last five years and I wasn’t working at the whims of the government