skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes taxes immoral? People want their government to provide certain services. Those need to be paid for. What services should be funded depends on who you ask. It's interesting how the Nordic people are fine with paying more for strong social safety nets. They see it as an investment in society.
> Protests are effective - no they're not, this is a myth because people believed they ended the Vietnam War. If you have power and a belief in doing something, why should you care if a random stranger doesn't like it?

MLK's civil rights movement was one of the most effective protests in history. If you said that they're not always effective I would agree, but to say that they're not ever effective? It doesn't hold up. Even in modern times they can continue to be effective — the BLM protests were a huge personal focus¹ of Trump's at the end of his second presidency; he hated that people were protesting and blaming him, and his advisers immediately recognized the protests as politically threatening to his reelection. BLM eventually lead to wide policing reforms in many cities and states.

¹ Source: Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
You're describing a scene that I have seen in a fairly un-affluent country (namy, Thailand back in the day) that looked fairly affluent (central Bangkok, the place was thriving). There were a lot of beggers, I grant you. But homelessness beggars are famously common in some of the most affluent places in the world, like San Francisco. It is probably more linked to outdoor min & max temperatures than anything else.

You can find relative class status of an area by the number of beggars, I grant you that. But you aren't going to get a bead on the actual affluence of the high-class people. Are they thousandairs or billionairs? All we really know is they aren't beggars.
I suspect you think that healthcare is helpful, and that if we could only buy poor people more healthcare then their lives would be improved. Healthcare regularly doesn't help that much. Even the richest often die young because healthcare regularly cannot FIX things (think chemotherapy then die).

There's some mental fallacy we buy into that health can be fixed - when the only healthy choice is preventative mitigation. The answer is to live a healthy life: especially regular exercise. But also sensible food choices and removing stress (remove stressors or maybe learn techniques to ignore stress), and avoiding drugs/alcohol/smoking.

Rich Americans are unhealthy too and for the majority how much they spend on medical interventions usually doesn't fix their quality-of-life or length-of-life.

The poor mostly have as much access to a healthy life as the wealthy: so why are both the poor and the rich unhealthy?

The hard question to answer is why we live unhealthy lifestyles ;; is it capitalist advertising ;; should we blame cultural mores ;; are we victims of our own poor choices...

Anecdotes (New Zealand specific):

1: a poorer friend with hip problems that needed replacements in 40s but was forced to live in excruciating conditions for years due to how New Zealand's socialised health budgetary constraints are implemented (via waiting lists). No money was saved by the government because the surgery was eventually paid for (background: surgery cost for both hips was approx equal one pretax year of minimum wages in NZ).

2: two friends with a poor backgrounds that got middle aged diabetes - my guess is caused by booze & maybe smoking. Both THEN started exercise and also changed their habits and lifestyle. One is well off and money didn't really help them. Both could have previously lived healthier lifestyles but only changed their habits after being faced with severe frightening outcomes. Drugs like metformin help (that drug is cheap, however ongoing regular monitoring by doctor is not cheap). Expensive surgical interventions caused by diabetes will never fix the problems caused by poor living.

How much we should blame people's "choices" for poor health outcomes is difficult to answer. If someone chooses to drink booze, how much should society pay for their choice? We have high sin taxes in New Zealand so people have often paid for their medical help however the taxes do not cover the overall societal cost. A better example is acquaintances that have destroyed their health through recreational drug usage (which definitely isn't sanctioned by larger society, and definitely is sanctioned by peer society). I'm a huge believer in personal choice - but I'm no fan of having to pay for the bad choices made by others.

That's the issue with New Zealand's socialism. I can carefully live a prudent life : however it galls to be taxed to pay for people that ignore the cost of their choices.

Aside: it really neeps my bibbles that doctors are seen as saving lives. Engineering, economics and science save most lives. Doctors don't help much. (Ofc "saving" lives is a nonsense term anyway)
As soon as the companies behind these systems stop marketing them as do-anything machines, I will stop judging them on their ability to do everything.

The ChatGPT input field still says ‘Ask anything’, and that is what I shall do.
Occams razor - he wants to do the bad stuff he has said, and he is an idiot that will implement it in slapstick fashion
Security breach at MCG raises questions about AI screening technology
> In the past few years, getting songs stuck in my head (earworms) has become so easy I pretty much don’t listen to music with vocals anymore.

Ditto the sibling comment about this happening to me for instrumental music. I have thousands of hooks floating around my head. I whistle and sing when I walk around if nobody is within earshot. 90% of the time I wake up with a melody in my head that won't go away. I kind of like it because it's developed my musical ability in a passive, cumulative way.
> Completely false. Windows was already a monopoly, and the US government successfully sued Microsoft for using their Windows monopoly to leverage sales for Office.

The government lawsuit was specifically about Internet Explorer, not Office. At no time were manufacturers forced to pay for Office licenses. Go ahead, look it up, I'll wait.

Where do you get your stuff and why are posting it? You do know that Office applications existed before Windows, right? Excel came out for Mac OS first.
Most of our potash comes from Canada, but surely the US is self-sufficient in nitrogen fertilizer (since it is made from natural gas, which is really cheap in the US) and ISTR it's being close to being self-sufficient in phosphate, too.
The GUI of Pure Data (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data) is written in Tcl/Tk. In the 90s this was a popular and sensible choice, but not so much in 2025 :) I still have hopes that one day we'll manage to replace it with something better.

(There are alternative implementations of Pd, such as PurrData or PlugData, that use different UI frameworks.)
This is one of the most acronym heavy discussions I've ever seen. I searched "AIMA/PRML/ESL" to find the books, and the first result is a Reddit thread with most upvoted comment "Can we use the names of the books instead of all acronyms, not everyone knows them lol".
yes, because in the example given -- LLMs can be fed patterns of nonsense -- the byte patterns purposefully lack meaning. Therefore the replies also lack real meaning, but they appear according to rules. That is not being "intelligent."
Oops. I got mixed up. I was thinking of the virus designed to cure cancer in "I Am Legend."
> When we eventually find time for hobbies and charities we find out we don’t think like everyone else, and often not in a good way. We have “missed out” on experiences others take for granted

Could you expand a bit on this statement for the young and inexperienced.
> We are going to see a lot more chaos and weird moves during the coming ~weeks~ YEARS

Fixed that for you. It’s horrifying isn’t it?
No. Respectfully, you don't understand how money works and the proposal of vaguely applied ten cent terms can't make up for that. Ironically, this means that you also don't understand socialism.

Capitalism is simply the innate nature and structure of the monetary system. The maintenance of the properties of money require capitalism. Otherwise, you will begin to not have money. No matter what word that you use for it. I'm not saying that this is a good thing. It's just a concrete thing.

The more socialism that you apply, especially in terms of shelf goods, the less actual money that you have. Due to how prices will react, what you begin to have is something akin to allotted credits or even just de facto allotted goods. The former which necessarily implies price controls. The only question then is how much food each person will be allotted.

Tell me which companies, ahem, I mean "socialist countries" aim to maximize free GDP allotment (in this case for food) to each individual citizen instead of minimize it to the lowest possible level? Consider a hypothetical wherein this socialist country has 300 million people.

The negatives of capitalism are not because of capitalism. They are because of the structural nature of money, which only maintains value roughly relative to the degree to which a large amount of people don't have it.

Smart countries attempt to maximize socialist benefits without affecting their currency value, in order to control and promote social stability to the best of their ability. But this generally excludes socialism for common goods, or else the characteristics of money begin to change.
yep! and we don't care if you clone capsul - that's why we open sourced it!

https://git.cyberia.club/cyberia/capsul-flask
thx :')
Ok, then I guess they should only go after the people who are supporting actually designated terrorist organizations.

Problem solved, right?
Who said anything about sweatshops? You pay the minimum wage expected by law. Apple has $180bn in profits. They could surely afford to pay US workers and lose some of that profit. But everything has been dominated by greed these days.
I've been putting a lot of my energy into side projects for the last five years, and while I've considered them all successful (i.e. they have filled a concrete need I had, and having addressed that need the workflow of my life has improved significantly), it's only this year that one of them has really started to take off financially.

I started selling commercial use licenses for one of my side projects in January, and in 3 months I've had more people sign up for license subscriptions than I've had people sign up to be sponsors on GitHub in 3 years.

I'm very cautiously optimistic that if I keep working at it, within a year or two I might be able to have enough license revenue to pick up part-time shift work somewhere that offers healthcare, and then spend the rest of my time in the blissful Zen of my good side project (will it still be a side project at that point??)
>A country can exist and be wealthy without diverse manufacturing base.

This theory has yet to be tested in a peer war.
The federal government does. It was signed into law in 1933[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_American_Act
The only reason those evergreen moral panics worked is the radio silence from the Biden and Harris campaigns on what concrete things they would do differently if given the chance at another term.

Instead, voters were told they were better off than ever, and there was some astroturfed panic about "Project 2025."
Well-researched piece! Do you think ASICs will replace Nvidia GPUs at hyperscalers?
Funny that Tcl was mentioned today. I've recently been hacking on jimtcl[1] (a small footprint implementation of Tcl) to make objects multi-threaded safe, as that's the core language that folk.computer[2] uses (the main authors are making the interpreter and reactive DB parallelizable rn, so I've been tinkering with how to reduce copying).

[1] https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
[2] https://folk.computer/
Yes, i guess you'd be a proud father of a Cultural Revolution participant ... right until they send you to reeducation.
> LLMs are a tool, still under development, still early in the curve…

I completely agree, they are a tool, and a decently useful tool. They are not early in the curve, they’re about flat at this point.
Without reading an entire novel's worth of text, do they explain why they picked these dates? They have a separate timeline post where the 90th percentile of superhuman coder is later than 2050. Did they just go for shock value and pick the scariest timeline?
Ask anyone who’s been on a strike. It sucks.

It also sucks to turn down scabbing when you could use the work, but… well, where are we?
I think that's more common in other parts of the world. (i.e. getting places that people actually live in).In Europe most/all of the apartments I've stayed in are basically business apartments (more or less).

You don't feel that someone lives there because nobody actually lives there. It's like a long term rental apartment that in best case scenario someone is using as a savings/investment vehicle but on short term. "Worst case" it's part of an apart-hotel.

When I travel as part of a large group(i.e. more than 3 people) a short term apartment is great because we need a big affordable space (i.e. someone may sleep on the couch and we don't want the hotel "greetings & house keeping" experience) but nevertheless I don't want or expect a dirty place in any way, shape or form be it in Cairo or somewhere else. I'm pretty sure there are people living in less than sanitary conditions all over the world including Western Europe and the U.S. That doesn't mean I have interest in experiencing that kind of "living/sleeping".

All that being said I've stopped using Airbnb years ago. It seems a broken system. For short term rentals/apartments Booking.com is the only sane choice(IMHO).
I’m sorry, are you saying that a decision is correct because it is popular?
Show HN: Tool to Visualize Your Financial Runway
This is a tool I made to calculate my financial runway before I made that leap to starting my own business. Hope it helps others who are thinking of doing the same thing!
Someone did a nice job of porting your revision control data. It would be fascinating to know what the previous systems were - probably svn or cvs, maybe both in chronological order, but before that?
Translating uppercase to lowercase adds 32.

Maybe it's not "thinking" in terms of "add 64", but rather "translate uppercase to lowercase, twice".
I think what explains it best is they're so allergic to admitting the outgroup is right that they would sooner burn the entire country to the ground.

It's not rational analysis or coherent reasoning. It's tribalism at its core.
I believe that a pretty high level of dependency will always remain but its in the hyperscaler's best interest to de-risk supply and also to use custom ASICS for their core core flows.
Surely emulating ARM on ARM would be faster / easier to JIT? Or at least it seems that way
In that world, Netscape might have also acquired Naviserver instead of AOL. Wasn't the plan at Netscape to make money on their server software?
It would be useful if you mentioned say a couple examples.

It would be even more useful if you were able to show that the effect of such student protests moving progress forward exceeded the effect of the student protests moving progress backward, like the Cultural or Iranian Revolutions. I think you'd not be able to show it.
> What would it take to change your mind on these tariffs?

If there was a positive outcome? US citizens financially better off in 4 years than they are today?

I don't think most MAGA voters would see it as a win if US was slightly less dependent on imports, but they personally are considerably worse off financially, which seems the likely outcome.
> This is about a meta analysis from 2018 and therefore misses that the biggest recent growth in the anti-porn movement has been among secular feminists.

Citation needed. Secular feminists have always been there. They don't seem any more dominant to me. But I'm prepared to be convinced. By actual evidence of some kind.

Also, you're completely missing the point. The article is about people who have issues with their own porn use. The secular feminists you're talking about aren't the people who (a) believe they're addicted to porn and (b) are having problems with feeling bad about it.
An amputee gets closure, we hope.
There was an old joke. University math class. Professor writes a huge formula on the board. Says, "and from this, it is obvious that," and writes another very different large formula on the board. He stands for a second, says "hm...", and walks out of the lecture hall. He returns 30 minutes later, throws a stack of papers freshly-covered in writing unto the desk, mutters "yeah, that indeed was obvious", and continues the lecture.
AI centric argument:

The policy indicates trade, traditional partnerships, and traditional financial metrics are less important for the administration. It is largely symbolic rather than analytically worked out - the direction is more important than the details.

This is consistent with the economy being radically altered by robotics and AI. Comparative advantage in labor costs is becoming irrelevant, so a large part of the justification for trade disappears.

Wealth is being further concentrated into those with existing assets, as the negotiating position of labor becomes weaker. It is less important to maintain partnerships when you can do everything yourself.

Recession becomes less important than pushing hard for leadership in AI. Deepseek’s model release had a huge impact on the values of leading US firms. With AI traditional measures of the economy become significantly less relevant.
ARC 2 is brand new, but neurosymbolic approaches have performed well on the original ARC, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02272
But it's the job, the obligation, of a democratic government to create a safety net so people who enter poverty can bounce out of it. No religious nut should be in charge of that, although I can see how that is very convenient to play politics.
Who is we in this regard? You and I do not decide on such matters (was there a survey or referendum?) I agree with your sentiment, but I reject that a select few (rich Jews like the Adelsons) get to decide who comes in by donating to a campaign and influencing intepretations for our ammendments. Let us apply this standard to everyone and block IDF soldiers alongside those individuals. Will this ever happen? I doubt it (Gal Gadot served in those armed forces for instance, and is a darling of Disney executives).
The problem I have with this issue, is it is being weaponized by one group to subjugate another. I am not sympathetic to either sides (although as of late, I am much more sympathetic to the Palestinian plight, given they are victims of an oppression at the hand of a much more powerful entity, backed by powerful states that are losing the propaganda edge they have mastered for so long). I have an issue with the weaponization of free speech to advocate on behalf of one group that holds a lot more power in the US. That is not something I accept. Ultimately, you and I can debate this, but no effect will result from this. The Adelsons made donations to Trump explicitly because of Columbia's protests, and what they asked for was crystal clear: everyone (including citizens) must be deported or blacklisted from jobs for protesting against darling Israel. The deans of Harvard and Columbia were sacked. You see this as a free market or a lawful interpretation of Immigration. I see it as foreign interference with a cooperation from American traitors (like the Adelsons) and treason to American values. It is an anti-American initiative that prioritizes the wellbeing of Israel at the expense of American free speech and the well-being of students that chose to come here.
Yep! It's called shimmering. The way it works is it has a string and internal representation. When the internal representation is modified it invalidates the string version. If the string version is needed later it'll regenerate the string representation. That way it can always be used as a string, but internally it is pretty efficient when it stays as the same type.
Unfortunately, you're probably right.
Harassment can be punished by the law. So that is the "now what".

No, freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can engage in serious harassment of people, their workplace, or their children or family.
Voters don't respond to long-term policy wins or economic data.

They respond to the perception of their material conditions, and the rise in inflation of the last few years has resulted in regime change all over the world.

Liberals are only just now beginning to realize this, but it remains to be seen if they'll learn at a scale that matters.
"Setting the building on fire was and in turn the entire blockthe only way to address the creaky floors". There's no Trump masterplan here (or anywhere else) than the sanewashing of his bs by his fanbois.
Good point and it affects far more than just Airbnb. I'm sure some companies internal ROI for app notifications is universally positive... but when you send me 10 app notifications a week for a product or service I only purchase occasionally, I'm uninstalling the app. Obviously I'm in the minority because the app still has millions of users but hopefully others have turned notifications off.
I've dabbled in microcontrollers and enjoy how the limitations force me to find creative solutions, but this is truly next level. I'm not great with a soldering iron but I'm seriously considering assembling one of these.
Actually, no, mips is an easier JIT target than arm as well. Source: I've written both ARM-to-thumb1 and MIPS-to-thumb1 JITs
Why would they pay better wages if they can choose not to? It’s simple supply and demand.
I tried my own test recently:

"Write a history of the Greek language but reverse it, so that one would need to read it from right to left and bottom to top."

ChatGPT wrote the history and showed absolutely no awareness, let alone, "understanding" of the second half of the prompt.
A pretty limited version of it was written there the only purpose of which was to get the contract. The majority of actual BASIC development happened afterwards. In any case it was commentary on the "pure breed hackers" question so I was trying to highlight the commercial aspect of it. The work in Bellevue was only to achieve this outcome.
Our lack of building is directly tied to dollar reserve currency policy. We export a lot of dollars; other countries export goods to the US and end up with dollars. The things they can invest their dollar in are dollar-based assets. That results in the massive consumer sector and bubble dynamics. Simultaneously, calls to "reinvest in America" fall on deaf ears, because this reserve currency model needs free trade, and free trade allows capital to uproot and leave a place, whether in a direct sense or through creative loopholes. So long as the balance sheet of the assets is prioritized, the country cannot invest in its people, because that will show up as a cost(in tax, benefits, or regulation). Balance-sheet efficiency means consolidating and centralizing profits while outsourcing costs, and what is actively supported by policy and investment is whatever the market is hyped for(dot coms, social media, crypto, AI), which results in technical development towards the ends of oligarchs. Nothing new can be built unless it's pitched in terms of profit and market share.

The current regime is the endgame: The distortions grew large enough to cause a flip to mercantalist policy-making and winner-loser dynamics. It has a short-term logic to it, but it is also incompatible with where we are. All the biggest businesses in modern America were built around dollar debt, consumerism and outsourcing, and all the workers were likewise tied to either the fortunes of these businesses or the government itself. All it'll do is produce a crisis, which can only resolve through a more holistic policy framework.
Oh absolutely, the real win is being able to play with a concept with no risk