MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runako | 2026-01-08 02:00:18+00:00
> Nor do I understand the negative reactions to new restrictions on SNAP - candy and sugary drinks are no longer eligible

My understanding is that it adds a complex layer of regulation where one did not previously exist. Large retailers and grocers have the systems that can accurately track this. (Essentially: does your POS have the ability to sync with the Federally Approved Foods For Poors list or not.)

Smaller convenience stores (more common in places where poor people live) are less likely to have the resources be able to comply. Rather than get sanctioned for accidentally selling a Gatorade on SNAP, they will simply pull out of SNAP altogether. This means that even the non-sugary foods they have will no longer be available to people on SNAP.

The net effect is expected to be to remove SNAP purchasing ability from entire geographies. I understand the effect is expected to be most pronounced in rural and dense urban areas.
by thayne | 2026-01-08 02:01:13+00:00
Javascript is a standard with many implementations. Any addition to the "standard library" (such as it is) has to go through a long process to get approved by a committee, then in turn implemented by at least the major implementations (v8, SpiderMonkey, JavascriptKit).

> Or at least first party libraries maintained by the JavaScript team?

There is no "JavaScript team".
by sedawkgrep | 2026-01-08 02:01:55+00:00
Look I get where you're going with this. I do. All things being equal, a device that routes packets will route packets whether or not a NAT is in place. That's not the issue at hand.

The situation is simply that except in the rarest of cases, you're not going to be able to manipulate routing to achieve getting a packet with a RFC1918 (let's be real here, this is what we're talking about 99.9% of the time) destination address to go anywhere, much less to the target. Or more broadly, getting a packet addressed for a target behind a NAT to route TO a NAT gateway. Not to mention that if somehow it did get through, return packets are almost guaranteed to end up NAT'd, preventing traffic flow. So there's that.

On the Internet, even if your ISP didn't drop your packets outright, the routers wouldn't have the faintest idea how to route your packets to your victim.

Not Internet? Ok, let's say you're on a corporate network. You're a user and not a network admin.

Your company has a VPN to a partner company, and you're both using various subnets in 10/8. The partner has provided 192.168.1.0/24 of 1:1 NAT addresses so your two companies can share data, etc.

But there is no route in the IGP to the partner company's 10/8 network, only a block of 192.168.1.x addresses, none of which you are able to use. A magic fairy tells you that partner's payroll server has admin/admin credentials at 10.5.5.5. How are you going to get across the VPN to that address?

You won't, because you can't. Because there's no route, and in the case of a VPN, the interesting traffic probably doesn't include that IP even if you got a packet that far.

It's all simply a question of routing. Whether your traffic is being dropped by a firewall or dropped by a router, it's still being dropped.

FWIW I was a network engineer and architect at a massive enterprise for almost 15 years, and my team had management over all our Internet circuits, NAT, our WAN, etc. At the time I left we probably had >200k 1:1 NAT addresses; mostly across B2B links for management access of our devices on customer premises. It was an enormous PITA.
by dajtxx | 2026-01-08 02:02:03+00:00
I agree but I think the problem will be if the consequences are that dire then entire classes of business will cease to exist OR the cost of doing things properly will be passed on to the consumer.

I struggle to see how data brokers, social media, etc are a net benefit to society so would be happy to see those sorts of businesses cease to exist, but I suspect I'm in the minority.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-08 02:03:09+00:00
Tyson foods and other meatpacking companies lobbied and funded RFK...

Here's industry reports

https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/doctors-group-applauds-comm...

https://www.wattagnet.com/business-markets/policy-legislatio...

And straight up lobbying groups

https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/new-dietary-guideline...

https://www.meatinstitute.org/press/recommend-prioritizing-p...

Lobbying groups, putting out press releases, claiming victory...

Here's some things you won't find in any of the documents, including the PDFs at the bottom: community gardens, local food, farmers markets, grass fed, free range... Interesting omissions for the 1,000 or so pages on this.

Just because you might like the results doesn't mean they aren't corrupt as hell
by ourmandave | 2026-01-08 02:03:13+00:00
I'm not the one who was down voted or didn't check links.

The last time I started to ask a question I was able to rubber duck the answer so didn't need to post it.

And if I saw -3 votes as a newbie and then watched it go to -4 and -5, that sure feels like a rebuke. You see that every time stackoverflow comes up. People always comment about how mean they are, intended or not.
by CharlieDigital | 2026-01-08 02:03:25+00:00
Visited Japan instead of Taiwan this year and I really missed Taiwan.

Somehow feels less crowded, easier access to nature because of its smaller size, and median food options are just a notch better IMO.

Many folks sleep on Taiwan and don't make it out of Taipei. Taipei is great, but Kaohsiung is very accessible and has a totally different vibe. East Coast is a whole other vibe.
by sqrt_1 | 2026-01-08 02:03:46+00:00
Current government has explicitly said that they will not lower hose prices:

"We're not trying to bring down house prices," Housing Minister Clare O'Neil declared on ABC's youth radio station triple j.

"That may be the view of young people, [but] it's not the view of our government."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-14/housing-minister-says...
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2026-01-08 02:03:59+00:00
There's no such thing as a "fix". Solutions don't exist in politics, only tradeoffs exist. This is a trade I'm quite happy to make.

If others don't want to make the trade, that's fine, I have no issue with that. But saying nothing will happen can't be true. If you remove demand from a market, that affects prices. There's no way I can take seriously a disagreement with tenets of Econ 101.
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 02:04:05+00:00
There is a zoomed in and slowed down video circulating that shows after the driver was told to exit the vehicle that they reversed the vehicle first and then placed the car into drive (when the LEO was directly in front of her car). The driver hit the accelerator hard enough that the tires spun before they finally gained traction and moved the vehicle forward towards the officer. The velocity in which the vehicle began moving before the shots were fired and ultimately slammed into the other vehicles seems to show that the accelerator was not gently pressed by the driver.

Did she panic? Was she given conflicting commands? That is unknown, but the actions of the vehicle itself are consistent with the driver pressing the accelerator to quickly move the vehicle forward when the LEO was directly in front of it.

The circumstances of the overall situation and the position of the vehicle before it was confronted and moved are consistent with someone attempting to block traffic on that street with their vehicle. The actions of the driver are consistent with someone attempting to evade.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-08 02:04:28+00:00
I used to play MUDs in my youth - first PaderMUD/Xyllomer, then GEAS. I could already feel that the genre was declining past 2000. With less time on my hand there was a point I'd have to retire anyway, but horrible code changes made by random hobbyists put in charge of both MUDs also contributed to the feeling I had to quit sooner rather than later. Both MUDs also tampered (aka nerfed/ruined/changed) the way how 'who' works (find out who else was currently playing; GEAS specifically first took away the ability to find out who was playing at all whatsoever at the same time, thanks to PO Allalltar becoming the new surrogate admin after the original admin-team was mostly gone, and then did a partial restoration after players complained but not a full restoration - but in fairness, if it would not have been that nerf it would have been any other game-breaking zero-discussed code change by whoever was suddenly the new head admin in town).

Nonetheless I encourage people to keep the genre alive. MUDs probably peaked in the 1990s.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-08 02:04:29+00:00
There is a third option: looking at the diets of your closest ancestors with the best longevity.

There may be a misconception that there is one single best diet for everyone, when in reality we people (over generations) evolve with our diets, and your best diet and my best diet may be completely different.

The problem with using science as a guide is that there are just too many variables and not enough time, data and money to isolate them all sufficiently.

However that is distinct from the idea that too much of something like refined sugar might be unhealthy for just about everyone. So science does have an important role to play, I just don't think it's advanced far enough to fully answer the question for everyone.
by lanfeust6 | 2026-01-08 02:05:10+00:00
They broadly probably didn't believe grocery prices would "go down", but they were also very angry about inflation. The polling reflected that economic issues topped voter motivations. Add to that the Biden administration hiding his dementia, and perceptions about illegal immigration and crime, and it wouldn't matter who the Republican candidate is.

This was part of a sweeping anti-incumbent sentiment that occurred globally. Kamala did ok with educated white voters, while black, hispanic and asian voters shifted right; do they all just hate brown people? I doubt it.
by throw__away7391 | 2026-01-08 02:05:13+00:00
People are always looking for an outside villain in this story. Over the years it's been "Chinese buyers", AirBnBs, private equity, or "the rich" generally, but the thing is that the system is working exactly as it is supposed to. Middle class homeowners demand that their homes go up in value every year and they get what they want. Homes are explicitly called investments my every mainstream organization with any stake in the game. The ones responsible are indeed your neighbors, but not just the ones with investment properties. Talk to these people and between complaints about the price of eggs going up a buck or two you'll hear them mention "property values" frequently in casual conversation and beam with pride as they show you their Zillow Zestimate. Your government is happy for the increase in tax revenue (even as they carve out exemptions for their voter base). The ever increasing prices are all going to be paid by future generations, so there is no need to worry.

If Black Rock is guilty of anything here above all else, it's taking advantage of a situation deliberately created for someone else. If government policy wasn't already going balls to the wall trying to constantly pump up property values, there'd be no investment returns to be had.

Give me the levers of federal, state, and local government and I promise you I can completely tank property values in 48 hours or less.
by esseph | 2026-01-08 02:05:59+00:00
So instead they voted for Trump?

That's like shooting your own foot off. He's always been this person. He was this person in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, etc. it's fucking crazy to me that anyone, ever, ever, votes for him. It's really opened my eyes to the realities of a lot of folks out there.
by renegade-otter | 2026-01-08 02:06:39+00:00
There is a way to be a cohesive society without being assholes to each other. The United States somehow managed that before - more or less. I would not blame "individualism" directly, but we ARE in a timeline where a lot of people strive to be the worst versions of themselves.

Sounds like a copout, but I do insist that many of modern ills can be traced directly to the cancer that is social media. Monetizing rage cannot end well.
by 6510 | 2026-01-08 02:06:46+00:00
You are right, what was I even thinking.. I just asked ChatGPT if eating fat will cause obesity and it went all in on counting calories. The standards are hilariously low. Lots of doctors use google and we both know google doesn't work. It will probably tell you humans are made from froot loops, chips, cola and quarter pounders - but do count those calories or it gets to big!

Maybe they can train it on Japanese text.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-08 02:06:55+00:00
> Switch to stores with stronger privacy policies: Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and Food Bazaar have not announced biometric scanning.

Just because they haven't announced it doesn't mean they're not using it.

Honestly, I would just assume every grocery store has security cameras doing facial recognition to cross-reference and catch repeat shoplifters.

All those security cameras are there for a reason.
by xphos | 2026-01-08 02:06:59+00:00
If you want to make fun of bartender who is strict their, a prude calling them a homosexual is just a non sequitur not an insult. Its not policing language its someone calling you out and saying your a fuckwit for being unable to inteligentlly insult someone or describe a sitution. That's way I don't like insulting people by calling them gay its just not saying what i want to convey maybe thats the "don't say gay kid" but i think its just indicitive that the people who say that didn't get the point of what was being said to begin with. Aka up your insult game there are ton of insults that are way weightier than calling someone a homosexual.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-08 02:07:03+00:00
Depends on the name. Imagine people would use insult-names in a roleplay MUD.

10 minutes sounds excessive though. Was the prompt not informing you that the name xyz can not be used and you'd have to pick another one? It also depends on the MUD of course - how many names did you try?

I never had a problem picking a proper name for one of my characters, but indeed I hated it when MUDs would want to make me wait for name-approval manually. Most MUDs allowed instant-creation and resume gameplay on the spot though. Weird that the name-choice barrier took you 10 minutes. What was the MUD?
by mdrcode | 2026-01-08 02:07:09+00:00
And be sure to check out MUME (Multi Users in Middle Earth) as well! It has a graphical map that shows your location while you navigate the world of Middle Earth and join the epic battle (PK) between the free peoples of Arda and Sauron's minions.

https://mume.org/

Here's a (dramatized) YouTube video of a few epic battles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Ax1MZlDoE

And here's a stream of us fighting one of the bigger bosses in the game (a huge spider in Mirkwood):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHnqKQdLzoc
by IncreasePosts | 2026-01-08 02:07:24+00:00
I'll share this here now that I only drive EVs, but I suppose cashiers and random people at King Soopers(major grocer in Colorado, associated with Kroger's) would enter 555-555-5555 as their phone number for their rewards, and every time I would pump gas at their stations I would get $1/gallon off.
by brightball | 2026-01-08 02:07:30+00:00
At scale, it limits the supply of available homes to buy which increases the prices.

When we constantly read stories about people not being able to afford homes today, it’s all driven by pure supply and demand. When a firehose of money gets aimed at any aspect of the economy everything gets more expensive.

This is from institutional investors. Sometimes it’s government when we are talking about the price of education or healthcare for example.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-08 02:07:54+00:00
Manipulating markets by controlling liquidity while not holding a large percentage of the overall stock is a thing. The fact that you could juice trading volume by doing something stupid for no reason doesn’t make it a useless statistic for evaluating what is going on in a market (unless you’re alleging that institutional investors would do this, and I can’t see the motive). This isn’t some shitcoin whose creators are faking trading volume to appear on the leaderboards - it’s houses with deeds.

To be clear, I don’t think institutional real state investment is a substantial part of the reason housing prices are so high. I’m just trying to push whatever argument they were thinking of toward something quantifiable.
by godelski | 2026-01-08 02:07:56+00:00
For my iPhone I made a dumb script using the Shortcuts app. It's a horrendous app that combines all the worst parts of a scripting language with all the worst parts of a visual language. But I'm not sure how else to do it besides learning swift (I'm not confident I made the right decision btw. It is that bad)

So I just press a button from my quick select and then it'll send my text followed by a carriage return (depending on which option I use).

On Android I did something very similar using termux but it only took 2 minutes to write and is much easier to understand and use
by jhallenworld | 2026-01-08 02:07:58+00:00
>V8 emits a near-jump for all forward jumps. If the target ends up too far away, the near-jump target is adjusted to a jump pool entry that contains a long-jump to the actual target

This sounds weird to me... Why not assume that all jumps need to be long to start with (so that the code is valid), then relax them to short jumps during an N-pass optimization stage- so that you get the smallest possible code?
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-08 02:08:10+00:00
4 days... we bake bread from different grains: it's barely edible after 24 hours. But that is how we do it: bake a loaf early morning, eat what we need, give the rest to the animals. Just like my grandparents did.

I don't get the cooking pain or dinner problem anyway nor do I know anyone irl who has that luckily. I hear it online sometimes and then I check their profile and it becomes clear why.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-08 02:08:16+00:00
> ground beef can be more things than a burger.

I was thinking more as a unit of measurement, but yeah, sorry that was poorly written on my part, sorry.

> every breakfast joint near me in California has some sort of variation on hamburg steak & eggs. Judging by the fact that it's on every menu, it must be popular to some degree.

Sure. The diners near me have that kind of stuff too, just, if I went to a diner every morning my heart would probably revolt after about a month.
by metaturso | 2026-01-08 02:08:41+00:00
I know you're being facetious, but perhaps you forgot, or are not aware, that Intel buys their photolithography machinery from ASML [1], a Dutch company. I'm unsure about AMD and nVidia at the moment, I'd need to have a look.

As for the lack of fabs based in Europe, you're not completely off. Fortunately, there are ongoing plans to build several across France, Germany, and Italy [2].

Push come to shove, we'll be happy to switch to using GNU/Linux on ARM ;)

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-keeping-wonderful-secr....

[2] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/milestone-stre...
by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve | 2026-01-08 02:08:49+00:00
> SMTP, the protocol for sending email, rarely enforces TLS (if it’s even supported at all)

FWIW that's being less and less true. Major players like apple now automatically trash mail (I don't remember if it was marked as spam or bounced) if you try to send them a mail without TLS. I recall gmail published something similar for workspace? And I'm sure others will follow/already have, so you can probably also turn that knob for your own servers too and refuse plain mails -- with a bit of luck that'll bounce off some spam..

(This doesn't change the fact that any admin over there can probably read anything you send to someone there, I don't know.)

EDIT: oh, according to this ( https://old.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1q4arv5/everything_... ) enabling TLS doesn't check the host name matches anything sane? So TLS doesn't actually bring in anything, wow...
by sitharus | 2026-01-08 02:08:52+00:00
As a consumer I used to use it all the time, though it matters a lot less these days. Two A4 pages at 50% zoom (A5) fit on one A4. You could cut your printing cost for drafts in half by doing that, back when we had to actually print to check the layout. Same went for posters etc, and since the aspect ratio was preserved it was really handy to preview at home on A4 sheet before taking it to the print shop.

I’m sure you can do that on other size systems, but ISO paper sizing gives you accurate scaling.

Same goes for photocopies, photocopiers can scale copies so two A4 sheets copy to one, if you don’t need the same size.
by whatisthiseven | 2026-01-08 02:09:05+00:00
Given the comparison was already made, what do you think of the Nuremberg laws, then? They were laws that, in as many words, made being a jew illegal in Germany and stripped them of their own citizenship status. That is just "the law being carried out", too, I guess.

ICE carried out it's mission without all the theatrics before, and deported more people in previous years. The theatrics, and the collateral damage to American citizens or those with actual temporary rights to be here, is the point with this current administration. A fair and apt comparison.
by freedomben | 2026-01-08 02:09:27+00:00
> No, I want to be able to @import "tailwindcss" without feeling guilty.

tailwindcss is and always has been free, so I don't understand why there would be any guilt with using it. Tailwind UI/Tailwind Plus is essentially pre-built components built using tailwindcss, plus some pre-built site templates.

> Well, meet https://basecoatui.com -- and there's more where that came from.

Thanks, that looks great and will be useful to me! However, unless I'm missing something basecoatui is a component library much like what Tailwind UI/Tailwind Plus provides (though organized differently and useful in a different way IMHO). The template sites are essentially complete websites that you just git clone and it's ready to run. Quite different. basecoatui would be very useful to me, whereas template sites rarely ever have been.

> So, ehhm, no, I'm not ignoring the salient part of your comment: you are ignoring the entire point of my post, which is that if Tailwind had a non-React monetization strategy, things maybe, possibly, might have worked out better.

Apologies if that came off harsh, I didn't mean to ascribe any malice to your reply. However, it seems like there's some confusion here about what the Tailwind "templates" are. They aren't a component library, the component library is different and is not React only.

So to summarize, there are two major parts that are different:

1. Templates (pre-built sites that you git clone). React only

2. Pre-built pieces/components that you copy/paste and modify into your existing app.
by hnewsenjoyer | 2026-01-08 02:10:03+00:00
Reminds me of something said about Pete Hegseth:

Sure he may be a meathead moron who can only advocate that the military should get jacked, but if the military really DOES need to get in better shape and his brainiac predecessors weren’t actually doing anything about that, he’s actually functionally smarter than them.

So to answer your question, if RFK is doing the thing that needs to be done, he should get the credit.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-08 02:10:20+00:00
You are right, it is completely absurd. And it's great! Anonymous companies and tax havens (domestic and international) are something completely contrary to how society at large is organized. And it is the best thing which has ever been invented. They are accessible to any person who has about a thousand dollars, no matter your race, sex, age, ethnicity, family name, political affiliation, or any other factors except that tiny sum. If you're not born into wealth or into a politically connected family, making an LLC is the only opportunity you have in life to not be a human battery in the Matrix. And it's easily accessible to anyone. Incredible.