skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean if it's a good explanation, then it most definitely is the same as lack of hypocrisy.

I do see how you can squint and feel that there's something there, after all Rand imagined a capitalist utopia. But it's not at all a crazy argument to understand accepting the benefits as a recovery of resources that were rightfully yours to begin with. It's actually refreshingly coherent and responsive, and a huge contrast with how modern public figures don't even pretend to address instances of personal hypocrisy.

I might raise a little bit of an eyebrow but I don't see the knockdown gotcha, and if you do, well, you've gotta make the argument.
We grow corn in Kansas and not NYC's Central Park. (Roughly) the same regulatory regime; very different costs of living and available workforces.
A much more likely outcome is in the next election those who caused all the pain are denied power by those suffering the pain.
This is not how it works.

Did you ever use the streets in front of your house? Ever went to a public park? Ever relied on police to protect your property? Ever needed the help of public health services? Firefighters?

It's funny that you get money stole from you (while you certainly use a ton on infrastructure society provides), but never once considered leaving it behind and go live as a hunter gatherer in some remote place.

After all, you are posting here.
I too loved Occam. It was a real eye opener as to how you could structure things that more people should be exposed to.
Minimum wage is possibly the worst, most ham-fisted way of driving productivity gains. Minimum wage and similar regulations are why so many jobs have shifted overseas in the first place. The "productivity gains" have almost entirely consisted in improved logistics for mobilizing cheaper foreign labor, not actually making domestic workers any more productive.
Challenges in Assembling the Dated Tree of Life [pdf]
Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game
> there are some new capabilities that are big, but they are still fundamentally next-token predictors

Anthropic recently released research where they saw how when Claude attempted to compose poetry, it didn't simply predict token by token and "react" to when it thought it might need a rhyme and then looked at its context to think of something appropriate, but actually saw several tokens ahead and adjusted for where it'd likely end up, ahead of time.

Anthropic also says this adds to evidence seen elsewhere that language models seem to sometimes "plan ahead".

Please check out the section "Planning in poems" here; it's pretty interesting!

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...
No, because ⌘ is often mapped to the Windows key on a PC keyboard, and the physical position of those is swapped on the Mac layout. The key width is different too (Command being a wider key than Ctrl) on a traditional Mac layout.

If it were simply a visual thing I would agree; but it's a physical key placement issue.
You're engaging in a false dichotomy. The possibilities are not "Rand was a dum-dum" or "Rand was evil". There's also the (very likely) possibility that either she was wrong, or you are wrong (and yes, you could be wrong in your analysis even though I don't blame you for not thinking you are), through no fault of character. These sorts of big issues are hard to analyze and get right.
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IME the liberal philosophy is "today should be pretty much like yesterday was and tomorrow like today".
Buried down at the bottom:

> ...countries that have strong labor support policies (like strong social safety nets) are generally much better able to garner the benefit from international trade without suffering social and political costs from it.

The US was absolutely wealthier due to free trade, but the idea of equitably distributing that wealth, supporting those who were disadvantaged by free trade, is so abhorrent to the ruling class that it's not even considered as the obvious solution here.

Nope, we just have to throw free trade in the dumpster, surely that will solve our problem of the weak being systematically exploited by the strong.
You are downvoted and the article is flagged. Interesting.
Different use cases, probably.

I use Ansible personally when I'm dealing with a server or two. I use Puppet professionally when I am dealing with tens of thousands of servers and trying to keep them all in some kind of unity.
The garment industry is an interesting one to make a cost argument about.

It produces an immense amount of ecological damage and human suffering to support prices so low that even poor people have way more clothing than they need.

The garment industry in Southeast Asia has some of the worst working conditions in the world, comparable without cynicism to modern day slavery.

Of all the things that I would like to see taxed, the garment industry is absolutely one.

Yes, it would be worth it to pay more per item of clothing if it was created by someone with human rights. Super worth it. Please tax the likes of Vietnam and kill fast fashion brands like Shien. The world would be 100% better.

In general I think these tariffs are terrible but taking the side of fast fashion is pretty much always morally wrong.
Mainly because number crunching code tends to be very long-lived (hence why FORTRAN is still in use).
> it is called Metal Compute, and everyone using Apple devices has to use it.

Sounds like a submarket absolutely teeming with competition. Like, you have Metal Compute, and Apple Accelerate Framework and MLX all sitting there in the same spot! Apple is really outdoing themselves, albeit in a fairly literal sense.

> It is only relevant on GNU/Linux and Android

Hmm... someone ought to remind me of the first stage of grief, I've forgotten it suddenly.
Well the teams in Pokemon Go aren't quite as generic as Teamred: they are Team Instinct, Team Mystic, and Team Valor. Presumably Nintendo has trademarks on those phrases, and I’m sure all the big print on demand houses have an API for rights-holders to preemptively submit their trademarks for takedowns.

Nintendo is also famously protective of their IP: to give another anecdote, I just bought one of the emulator handhelds on Aliexpress that are all the rage these days, and while they don't advertise it they usually come preloaded with a buttload or ROMs. Mine did, including a number of Nintendo properties — but nary an Italian plumber to be found. The Nintendo fear runs deep.
The main reason they can't get housing though is that the government of California, which is dominated by Democrats, refuses to allow sufficient housing construction to make housing affordable.
I consider this article quite strong proof that generative AI is closer to copying than it is to creating a new derivative work.
Yes, there will still be specialization and trade in a balanced regulatory environment.
I love capitalism and am a former Rand fan.

But I don't think taxes are in and of themselves immoral.

A human being is a social animal, and each gets a lot of value from the people around us.

These are nice to have:

- clean streets

- police

- non-corrupt judges

- a stable legal framework

- living among educated people

- fire department that just shows up

- not getting bombed and invaded by a foreign army

- much more

These are "true expenses" in that if you didn't pay for them... you'd eventually pay the price for them when you're the victim of crime, fire, or exposure to the illiterate.

If you lived in Galt's Gulch or some gated community in an anarchic society, you'd pay a regular fee for these services, like voluntary taxes.

Taxes are infamously as inevitable as death because the expenses it's meant to pay for are also inevitable. We might as well set up a system.

Government waste is held up as an example of immorality, and some/most governments certainly should be leaner, but some waste & inertia would happen in any large organization, public or private. The only other time a government could be straight-up immoral is if it's persecuting innocent citizens or foreigners for no reason. Thinking through the implementation details of Galt's Gulch makes me think taxes aren't so bad after all.
UNIX: 1973

vi: 1976

BSD UNIX: 1978

x86 instruction set: 1978

UNIX System V R4.2 1983

Linux: 1991.

Kids these days.
Anyone who wants to demystify ML should read: The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning [0] By Josh Starmer.
To this day I haven't found a teacher who could express complex ideas as clearly and concisely as Starmer does. It's written in an almost children's book like format that is very easy to read and understand. He also just published a book on NN that is just as good. Highly recommend even if you are already an expert as it will give you great ways to teach and communicate complex ideas in ML.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75622146-the-statquest-i...
Yes that’s a pretty giant accusation, especially given they’re buying boatloads of GPUs and have previous versions as well (it’s not like they’re starting with 3).
At the risk of being That Guy, traffic on high-demand corridors is not caused by building too much or too little or the wrong things; it is caused by lack of congestion pricing. If you don't have that, then you'll have congestion anywhere people want to be, regardless of whether you build lots of roads or build lots of trains or don't build at all. Building roads or trains might (or might not) still be a good thing to do, in the sense of creating more economic value by increasing throughput and so making more marginal trips viable, but that induced demand means the roads will still be congested. Whereas if you have congestion pricing you can just decide how much congestion you want to tolerate and set it at whatever level achieves that.
In a company where the revenues are tens or hundreds of billions and the profits are billions, the CEO’s salary is 0.1% or less of the conversation. It’s rounding errors. Then you talk about 54% of revenues, it’s catastrophic multiples of profit (I.e., insolvency threatening losses).
Unaware and Uncertain: Open-Source Realities of Cyber Resilience Act Readiness
This could work if you have a rolodex you can monetize in a particular market. It could also work if you are amazing at sales and can identify which startups have PMF, so you work with just those. However, startups with PMF are rolling a stone down a hill, so generally wouldn't need the help you could provide.
Didn’t Raymond Kurzweil predict like 30 years ago that AGI would be achieved in 2028?
Yeah, I agree. The government appreciates, or should appreciate, the good uses its taxpayers' money is put towards. As to the other intractables above, appreciation and loyalty are very far from the same thing.
Mac keycaps and remapping (often even keyboard-side) are readily available so this is just an issue of small tweakage and probably explains why you're not finding dedicated Mac keyboards.
"He was a red head. Now, after the hair dye, he has black hair" is perfectly normal way of using past tense of someone while they are alive.
I have a fundamental issue with the concept of large platform social media. Companies like Meta love to complain about the impossibility of moderating such huge public spaces - and they aren't lying, it's an immense issue - if you ever moderated a small forum you're well aware of the pain that a troll or two can cause you.

But they chose to create such an unscalable line of business, it never existed before because everyone realized it wasn't possible. It might just be that some of the AI enabled businesses aren't realistic and profitable.
Tariffs only "work" if they make prices higher
You reminded me of one of my favorite piece of media in gaming (HZD). It feels especially relevant in the current times, with how war and AI is progressing in tandem with geopolitical unrest.

Its an old recording that the main character listens to in the end cutscene while visiting Elisabet's grave, and (spoilers) the main character was created as a clone of Elisabet. It's very hard hitting after the whole experience.

> GAIA: Query: What did she say?

Elisabet Sobeck: She said I had to care. She said, "Elisabet, being smart will count for nothing if you don't make the world better. You have to use your smarts to count for something, to serve life, not death."

GAIA: You often tell stories of your mother. But you are childless.

Elisabet Sobeck: I never had time. I guess it was for the best.

GAIA: If you had had a child, Elisabet, what would you have wished for him or her?

Elisabet Sobeck: I guess... I would have wanted her to be... curious. And willful - unstoppable, even... but with enough compassion to... heal the world... just a little bit.
Dehumanizing rhetoric is dangerous and something we must not engage in.
It's a British thing -- another example is that Brits would use e.g. "Apple have decided to.." instead of "Apple has decided to.." (for every group of people including "the government", not just businesses).

I like this language quirk a lot. It almost feels subversive, pointing out through grammar that group entities are just people, responsible for their choices like everyone else.
Well yeah, that's just some weird French place we bought and turned into a slave labor camp.

But memes about suicide nets aside, Chinese factory workers are there by their own choice, because it's better than their alternatives, and we've eliminated such choices by simply making it illegal to have the low cost of living it requires.

This was done to make the poor underclass go away (homeless people) but it also makes this type of working class (factory workers) go away. Luckily for us, we have a service economy with email jobs for them to work instead.
I think the inequality could be even higher because the rich can simply move the investments aboard while the working people have no real choice but “enjoy” the local economy.
SpaceX's Fram2 returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth's poles
Really? You don't think there is a middle ground? Are the cops watching this fight or hearing about or later?
US economy is about to collapse if continue with old liberal open way. That is why both forces agreed to allow Tump do to unpopular changes.
You can bring back real manufacture of high value products back to USA
OR left financial market as now to ruin the economics of money out of thin air to collapse the country.
You cannot have both - because saving financial market will not allow development of real product manufacturing.
Also prerequisites of real product manufacturing is to protect it with import taxes from foreign cheaper one.
What ever the Trump way is - it is the only hope for USA as nobody else dare to make any changes or to propose better ideas.
Seems like an unpleasant person.

I read on his Wikipedia page that he called Obama's re-election "the worst political event ever to occur in the history of this continent" and "worse than the Civil War".

An estimated 600,000 to one million people died in the war. And many more suffered life-long injuries, had to deal with the loss of their child, spouse, etc. Also seems to me the slave system in the US – where people were born in to slavery with no realistic hope of freedom – is the ultimate in state control and stripping of individual rights that people like him are supposed to be against.

You can dislike Obama, nothing wrong with that. But is having a president you dislike for 4 years really worse than up to a million dead people? And the institute of slavery?

Also denies property rights to Palestinians and native Americans. The notion that individual rights are paramount again goes out of window at the first sign of inconvenience.

So not just unpleasant on a personal level, also morally decrepit and intellectually vapid.
Almost a case of "right for the wrong reason".
> You're saying they advocated a policy that pre-emptively and specifically banned Anduril from posting

At(edit) this point I can not double check the post to see if I was reading it right since it is currently hidden after being flagged. Most of the stuff I see flagged to removal on HN is more extreme than what was said by the OP here.

At least advocating for gatekeeping like I mentioned before. They did not get into specifics from what I remember.

> There's no evidence that that's justified

I think we are on the same page about them not posting evidence for justification around Anduril.

> And it still wouldn't change that their swipe at corporate advertising was nonsense.

There is a wide amount of opinion on what is justifiable corporate advertising. I do not remember any specific policy that they advocated for that came off as nonsense. I would say it did not sound like an opinion held by the majority of this forum or my everyday life in the USA.

> Maybe they advocate for removing the job board entirely?

If they came back and said 'yes that is what I want' I would not be surprised, but all we have to go off of is:

> Good, private corporations should not be allowed to leverage a public utility like this as their advertisement soapbox.

So maybe as long as the private corporations do not "leverage a public utility" as an "advertisement soapbox" they could post on the forum.

> Instead they moved the goal posts.

I do not see the goal posts moving, maybe they were, in the OP's head, but I can not extract that from the text. Moving the goal posts in my mind would be if the OP set some criteria, then someone pointing out Anduril met that criteria, then the OP changing the criteria so Anduril did not qualify anymore. The only criteria given though was:

> private corporations should not be allowed to leverage a public utility like this as their advertisement soapbox

And the thread did not dig down on that, no one said Anduril met the criteria, and the criteria was not changed. Would have been a more interesting conversation if the thread had dug down on: What did Anduril do? Why does it disqualify them? What is the OP's standard? Is it consistent?
Considering that each year that passes, technology offer us new ways to destroy ourselves, and gives another chance for humanity to pick a black ball, it seems to me like the only way to save ourselves is to create a benevolent AI to supervise us and neutralize all threads.

There are obviously big risks with AI, as listed in the article, but the genie is out of the bottle anyway, even if all countries agreed to stop AI development, how long would that agreement last? 10 years? 20? 50? Eventually powerful AIs will be developed, if that is possible (which I believe it is, and I didn't think I'd see the current stunning development in my lifetime, I may not see AGI but I'm sure it'll get there eventually).
California to Negotiate Trade with Other Countries to Bypass Tariffs
Because it's a transcation and there are two parties to the transaction. And for these transaction to occur in a repeated fashion neither side should feel they are being taken advantage of.
It reminds me how I felt when I first saw the recursive GoL:

https://oimo.io/works/life/
>What happens is that one party blames their predecessor and wins the election and then next term things switch back again through exactly the same mechanism.

This is literally the United States for the last half century.
Mmm why US specifically? The most overuse of livestock antibiotics is in India (and India has a lot of drug factories).
> he apparently want to impose a new economic order on the world where every country basically becomes subservient to the US

This sounds like some kind of right-wing conspiracy theory attributing everything to George Soros for some reason.

The US dollar is the reserve currency of the world. America has been calling the shots for the entire post-WWII period. The American Empire extends across the globe collecting natural resources and cheap labour. US citizens have been reaping the benefits of this neo-imperialism. What MAGA people are advocating is basically US isolationism where the US surrenders all it's soft-power influence and becomes a sort of hermit oligarchy.
It absolutely is not. And your views are very concerning. Everyone residing in the US is entitled to the ammendments. That is exactly why Guantanamo bay was formed, as a matter of fact. What makes this so much worse is these individuals were not arrested for criticizing these United States, but for criticizing a hostile foreign nation, that just so happens to be the darling of billionaires of a certain faith, who constitute an overwhelming majority in the aristocracy of the US (and have been there since around the 70s). It can in fact be traced back to AZC, when JFK forced them to register as foreign agents.
America's 'Tree of Life' is nearing the end of its life
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I agree with the replies indicating emissions aren't trivial, but to answer to the more self-serving interests that are well represented on HN: have you experienced NEVER going to a gas station?

Seriously, that is a great feature of EVs...

Not to mention the massively reduced cost/mile. I expect my used Nissan Leaf to pay for itself in ~5years...

Not to mention the AMAZING acceleration of even a non-performance oriented EV...
So 70% - and this is a very atypical suburb.
I would personally recommend Javascript/Typescript over Python, but Python is a reasonable option. Especially now that we have uv so you don't have to crawl through the bush of thorns that Python's terrible tooling (pip, venv etc) surrounds you with.

I would just encourage you to move on from Python fairly quickly. It's like... a balance bike. Easy to learn and teach you how to balance but you don't want to actually use it to get around.
Yes, lets go back to how it was in the 20s and 30s in the United Sates... Said noone ever. I wish I had a time machine for these people.
JP Morgan are actually saying a 60% chance. So you can't really say they were right or wrong.
Hasn't this frequently been used as a go-to talking point of xenophobic nationalists pretty extensively in the past? I'm not accusing you of expressing either xenophobic or nationalist sentiment, but don't we have a social responsibility to avoid legitimizing these types of highly divisive talking points?

Also, isn't there room for a middle ground here? I'd love to sign up to opt out of receiving any social security or medicaid benefits permanently for the rest of my life in exchange for a small tax credit or deduction, smaller than the amount I'd expect to receive out of these programs. What's the downside there, if I'm still paying in grossly more than I'm receiving in benefits, and could be liberating taxpayers from a financial responsibility to me that they already can't afford, and which I don't need? I'd prefer to be part of the solution to the deficit, but me leaving the country only exacerbates the problem, given that I pay in close to an order of magnitude more than I get back in return.

I'm anti-war and not a fan of the defense industry, shouldn't I be allowed to stay and express policy preference for less defense spending, even though I benefit from it?

We also cannot assume that everyone is drawing from collective infrastructure investment just because we're all forced to pay into it. Some people use well water, have their own microgrid that is disconnected from the public one, and go out of their way to only utilize private toll roads, private medical services, etc for ethical reasons. Shouldn't we at least give people the freedom of choice to opt out of taking from the collective pool of resources if they do not need to, and in turn, because their utilization is lower, offer them some form of limited incentive to do so, as long as they are still paying in more than they're getting out of the system, ultimately?

Is it fair to give gifts to people who did not ask for them or want them, and then expect the same sacrifices in return from the recipients, regardless of whether not these public services are even utilized or necessary?