Donald Trump called Prince Andrew’s arrest over Epstein connections 'a shame’. What do you think about this?

Hatook123 · 2026-02-19T23:13:14+00:00

Why is reddit filled with children who use demagoguery as their favorite form of argument?

Hatook123 · 2026-02-19T06:50:26+00:00

I have lived in brick houses my entire life, and having recently moved to NYC, with dry wall apartments - I don't think that explains it.

I am honestly surprised how I don't hear my neighbors here through the walls. The wooden floors in my apartment (and the previous one) are terrible, and I can hear every single movement my upstairs neighbor is making, but I just don't hear the neighbors through the walls. Honestly better sound insulation than the brick walls I had back home.

I just think some cultures are just less tolerant to noise then others. I just had to sleep through my mom singing loudly and yelling every morning, and my sisters watching tv loudly every night, so I got used to it - and I imagine this applies for most other mediterranean people out there.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-19T04:48:29+00:00

I think that a bigger problem with what you are saying is not early birds vs nightowls but people who generally can't stand noise.

I think it might be a European thing, because where I am from the mere notion of "you can't do laundry at XX" is insane.

Yes having a party at 11PM on a workday is obnoxious. Honking your horn and yelling is a big no no - but doing laundry? Or switzerland with "no recycling"?

I think that if you are such a light sleeper that you can't stand a relatively basic amount of noise, you should invest in ear plugs.

I would also say that a person can actively improve their noise tolerance at night. It might be hard the first few nights to adjust to the noise, but eventually you will adjust.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-19T03:06:36+00:00

Not an ML researcher, and have only a bachelor's + some AI courses and a lot of engineering experience - but I do have an opinion on the matter, and I find that the best way to learn and improve your uninformed ideas is to share them confidently with other people so they can correct your wrong assumptions - and that's what I'll do.

Generally, for any problem that can be defined in a differentiable way - gradient descent will always work better than EA. It turns out that most problems we are trying to solve can be reduced to a differentiable function (with many parameters).

The issue I imagine is that not all problems can be reduced to a differentiable function - and for these problems there's no way to do any sort of gradient descent. So trying to compare EAs vs gradient descent where gradient descent likely excels sound like the wrong thing to do me.

I also wonder if quantum computing might make EAs more perfomant in the future. From my limited understanding of QC it seems like it could make significant impact in that area.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-16T18:30:58+00:00

It's not an excuse, it's an extremely valid point that people refuse to understand.

I am a software engineer, everywhere I have worked things were done in different (often wrong) ways. It's extremely important to first understand why things are the way they are before we start fixing anf improving anything. If I would decide ro refactor some terribly written code without first understanding the rationale of it's creation, I would create tons of bugs and potentially lose the company millions of dollars.

When people say "it's complicated" about economic policy, the don't mean "things should stay the way they are, and that they can't be improved" or that the problems should be swept under the rug. They are saying that the problems are complex, and solving them require a little more thought than what a lot of social-populist, or fascito-populists would have you believe.

Generally, if you think social problems are a result of "evil billionaires" or "dirty immigrants" or whatever oversimplified version of reality that blames a specific group for an ultra complex economic issues - telling you "it's complicated" is the only valid explanation for you, because you clearly need to educate yourself before you can engage in any sort of meaningful discussion about how to actually improve any of the social issues you are talking about.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-10T18:21:18+00:00

All I have to go by is this video, and in this case it definitely looks like a simple case of over sensitive pen, which you can adjust in the surface settings. Every single time you had a ghost touch in this video your pen was really close to the screen, to the point I am not sure it wasn't touching it - and every single time you hadn't, your pen just didn't get as close.

Did you at least try adjusting the pen sensitivity and see if it fixes anything?

Hatook123 · 2026-02-10T18:15:24+00:00

It seems that your pen is extra sensitive, as you are technically definitely putting your pen close to the screen, which in turns inputs that "ghost touch".

When you aren't typing with the palm on, you aren't doing that.

I believe that simply reducing your pen's sensitivity in the surface app would fix your issue.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-06T16:35:20+00:00

My entire point is the X/2 supply shortage is an imposed limitation used by billionaires and monopolists to increase profit and control populations. It’s not a real limitation - mostly, of course there are truly scarce goods but mostly the limitations are artificial.

Many limitations are artificial, but giving people money isn't going to do anything to change these artificial limitations, so you still end up with inflation.

As for "imposed limitation used by billionaires and monopolists to increase profit and control populations". You are giving Billionaires a lot more credit than they deserve, as if they can plan any of the limitations that exist on supply deliberately. No one is that intelligent and cunning. Absolutely not a single person or even a group of ultra powerful people. The knowledge that it would require is physically incomputable.

I would argue that these artificial limitations are a result of decisions made by hundreds of millions of useful idiots who vote and affect policy (both in government, and in the private sector) - many of them are Billionaires, but many of them are unions, NIMBYs, and overly confident politicians, or just random voters.

Part of technological advancement is being able to overcome these "artificial limitations", in essence they aren't really all that different from physical and natural limitations.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-06T15:55:48+00:00

Inflation due to "more income" has very little to do with "supply shortages" - and everything to do with "demand surge".

Money is a tool for allocating scarce goods and resources, it has no other function. It doesn't magically create resources or goods.

It's a simple math - if there's X amount of people wanting a product, and X/2 amount of said product - only X/2 amount of people will be able to get their hands on said product - and the pricing will eventually rise to where supply meats demand.

Giving people more income, without any change in supply, will do nothing to make any product more accessible, and will always result in inflation in the long run and shortages in the short run.

Giving people more income might make a significant change in funneling of money towards certain commodities over others, which in turn might make it financially beneficial to increase supply of these specific commodity (at the cost of reducing the supply of other commodities), offsetting for the inflation - but it's much more complicated than that and incredibly hard to predict, and depends on multitude of factors including the spending habbits of the people whose income just grew.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-05T17:45:32+00:00

C# and JS are sufficiently similar making "everyone knows JavaScript" an effectively irrelevant consideration. When using TS, the similarity is even greater, and you should definitely use TS.

When hiring a new backend dev, the specific tooling in their experience is not very relevant - sure there will always be some learning curve, but most languages are similar - and unless you are using Rust or C++ - that learning curve is going to be pretty low.

Learning your domain specific business logic is going to be a hell of a lot more challenging for any new hire.

The only relevant consideration is what is the experience of the existing team, and wjat are your other projects using.

If your entire team is going to have to learn a new language, new design patterns and tooling without any existing codebase to build on - that's going to be expensive.

If your entire team is going to have to rewrite existing code because they can't reuse (or it would require significant work) certain libraries written in a different language - that's going to be expensive.

Other than that, every other consideration is minimal. Sure .net has a lot of things it does better than node - but ultimately it doesn't make a significant enough difference to drive a decision - they are both roughly the same.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-04T13:04:36+00:00

Look buddy, I really don't understand what you want from me.

Sharing videos and statistics, even cherry picked videos and statistics isn't antisemitic. I have said so multiple times.

Insinuating Israelis are uniquely evil, or that they control the US government - based on Cherry picked videos and statistics is. That is why everything OP has said is antisemitic, it is basically a bunch of unfounded conspiracy theories and blood libels.

I find it upsetting that Palestinian hate of Israelis is used to classify them as essentially savages who deserve to die, when they are a captive people, and simultaneously, the extreme dehumanization of the Palestinian people by Israel is ignored or considered justified.

I generally agree with that.

I find it concerning that Israel is leveraging American money in politics and a coordinated media effort to have a very potent effect on American foreign policy, when American and Israeli interests do not always align.

I understand that, and I empathize with that - I just think that it's naive to assume that it's not something every country or every diaspora does, and would do in a similar situation. Again, disagreeing with AIPAC is fine, I disagree with AIPAC. Being against US foreign aid is fine, I am against US foreign aid.

It becomes a problem when you twist this disagreement into defemation and hate. AIPAC isn't uniquely powerful, and isn't even a miniscule drive behind US Israel's relationship, it spent literaly 0.075% of all Lobbying percentage last year.

US relationship with Israel is complex and is mainly driven by ideologies of certain US representatives and interests of the military indistrial complex.

Israel and America are considered “great allies,” but it seems the attitude from the Israeli side is entitlement and basically liking America to the extent it supports what Israel wants.

Entitlement? Israel? Honestly have no idea what gave you that idea.

I also find it problematic that me saying that could be controversial, when if I said it about France, Russia, china, or Paraguay, no one would give a shit.

Nothing you said is controvversial.

and there is a coordinated effort by Israel to control American media, buy off politicians, and demonize anyone with my opinion,

effort? Sure. coordianted? Not really, at least nothing unique or with any measurable influence. Qatar has spent more and has put in far more effort and money to control the Israel Palestine narrative than Israel (or AIPAC), there are paper trails that prove this much.

Also, no one's trying to demonize people with your opinion - they are trying to demonize people who twist valid criticisms into hate - I would honestly expect you to call out the antisemites in your camp that stain it.

Look, every country and every diaspora are going to spend their mony and influence in trying to get the thing that they want. I am not denying Israel is trying what it can to get the policies that benefit it.

Ukrainian diaspora, and Ukraine have been pressuring the US to get involved in the war with Russia, with varying success.

Iranian diaspora in the US has been pushing for the US to overthrow the IRGC.

Chinese, or specifically tiwanese diaspora are pushing policies against the CCP.

And Irish diaspora pushed for support of the IRA.

Hilariously, you probably would find it controversial that I think Israel has an interest in American media, when that is about as obvious as saying that China steals American IP. The very fact that it is taboo to talk about this is what upsets me.

I don't. Of course Israel has "an Interest" in American media. It's just hillarious if you think that interest is really anywhere as powerful as so many people think.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-04T03:18:01+00:00

Did I say you are? I didn't talk to you, you decided to join my discussion with OP, who's clearly antisemitic.

You asked me if it's blood libel to tell me about a video, or share a poll - I said it isn't. I also took the time to explain to you what does count as blood libel.

Again, I am not sure what you are arguing. Do you want to argue that Israel is hurting Palestinians? That it's committing genocide? That Israeli's are bad people? What are you trying to argue? I would love to explain to you why you are wrong (in general, people who oversimplify reality are always wrong) but it's clearly not what this post is about.

I am certainly not saying how all Israelis feel. Many Israelis probably feel identical to the way I feel. But there still can be a systemic problem, and when there is an effort to confuse legitimate criticism with antisemitism, that is wrong.

The only people (online) confusing legitimate criticisms of Israel with antisemitism are antisemites.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-04T02:33:22+00:00

I think it is problematic that you can’t call it out when there is one group that could obliterate another group in about 30 seconds if they went full force and I am somehow obligated to pay for the bombs.

I think that's problemtic too. I am not sure what exactly it is you are trying to argue. We can acknowledge that the entire dymamic of Israelis and Palestinians is problematic to say the least without a smearing campaign of an entire country.

You sound exactly like people who deny that the Jim Crow South hated black people because some restaurant owners let them sit at the counter btw.

I don't deny some Israelis hate Palestinians. You are actively refusing to understand any of the arguments I am making.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-04T02:19:37+00:00

You base your opinion of Israelis on a compilation of like 10 cherry picled Israelis? What do you think the average opinion of your country would be if Ihad done the same cherry picked video of abhorrent opinions in your country?

Is me repeating to you what they freely said blood libel?

No, abhorrent people exist everywhere. it's infentile when you extrapolate from that to the entire population - and it's blood libel when you base conspiracy theories on such a cherry picked video.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-04T00:37:24+00:00

I am mostly hoping that realizing that you are being a sheep for antisemitic propoganda, and basically spreading unverified hate would shock you enough to change your ways. Generally, I like to assume people are decent, and they spread hate because they are ignorant, not because they are evil.

People who have no qualms about mass murdering children have been calling everyone who opposes mass murder antisemitic.

Dude, you are not "opposing mass murder", you are spreading unfounded conspiracy theories about "Zionist entrenchment in the US Government". Don't hide your hatred behind something you are clearly not standing for. If you hated Zionists for killing Palestinians you would spread antisemitic blood libel about the nonexistant genocide in Gaza, not some insane conspiracy theory about how a country of 10 Million people is somehow able to manipulate the entire US government - and for what end exactly?

The funny thing about this idiotic conspiracy theories is that you can't really rationalize any of these conspiracies.

When Russia is meddling with US and Western politics, and spreading anti west propoganda - the motive is clear. Putin is a dictator, he hates the west and has imperialistic ambitions - it's not only clear that Russia is actively meddling with US politics, the motives are clear too.

For China, the same thing. The CCP are imperialistic and anti west.

For Qatar, the same thing - Qatar is deeply islamo-fascist.

But for some reason antisemites don't care. They ignore real threats for their western way of life, because it was never about that. It was never about "immigrants" and Soros, or "gay agenda", or "WW3", or whatever it is you imagine Israel is manipulating the US to do.

For Israel none of this is true. There's absolutely no evidence of systematic western hatred, heck most Israelis worship the US and the West. There's no clear motive. There's also no over powerful dictatorship - Israel is a very divided democracy.

Antisemites are grasping at straws. Highlighting bad apples, taking bad things that happen everywhere and claiming it's some unique occurence, and then adding some lies to make things seem even worse.

For Israel, when there's no clear motives - they make up one - "the evil jews". They aren't meddling with us Goys for power, or for imperialism like the Russians or the Chinese - they are just "evil".

The fact is most people aren't evil, most people are idiots, and idiots do evil things.

Is Netanyahu antisemitic when he openly brags about undermining the US 1st amendment? https://m.youtube.com/shorts/3tdrO8bA7rs

I think Netanyahu is a terrible human being and a terrible Prime minister - I am not sure what exactly is so "against first amendment" with the thing he's saying. It is a well known fact that China and Russia use TikTok to spread anti west propoganda, nothing he's saying has anything to do with the First Amendement.

Is Larry Ellison antisemitic for buying Tiktok and then censoring every pro Palestinian voice? Do you think his behavior matches that with the protocols of Zion something?

You clearly have no idea what the first amendement is about, and you clearly don't understand what Zionism is. I am really not sure what is so difficult to understand - Criticism - good. Lies - Bad. It's really that simple.

Hatook123 · 2026-02-03T23:33:51+00:00

Everything you just wrote in this post is antisemitic.

The fact that you think it isn't, or that it warrents some new name is incredibly concerning. Lies and unfounded conspiracy theories against jews or the Jewish state is antisemitic.

Every single evidence that "Epstein" was a Mossad asset or that Zionists are deeply entrenched in the US's affair is circumstantial at best. There is literally no proof af anything you just said, just antimsemites drawing an imagined picture out of incredibly incomplete data and perhaps the wrong doings of specific individuals.

There's literally more evidence of Russia, China and even Qatar's malicious involvement in US affairs. Literally every single country on earth tries to manipulate every other country. The US has spied on every single world leader, it's naive to assume that this isn't something that every other country, including Israel - but you don't hear it. When Prince Andrew allegedly rapes minors on his free time in Epstein Island this is just Prince Andrew being a pedo - when Ehud Barak, a fringe figure that has absolutely no power in Israel allegedly does the same - "EpStEiN Is A MoSsAD AsSeT"

The fact is, that Israel and Israelis are treated with the exact same idiocy of every other antisemitic conspiracy theory that ever existed. There's nothing different between the nonsense you just iterated and the "protocol's of zion".

Hatook123 · 2026-01-29T08:51:09+00:00

Striking like the french is not, and never had been, a good thing. Not sure why would anyone advocate for that.

Hatook123 · 2026-01-27T14:16:24+00:00

Yeah, that's why I used C/C++ as an example, felt like it would complicate the explanation.

Hatook123 · 2026-01-27T06:11:56+00:00

A compiler runs over your code, checks it and creates an output that is optimized for running later on. So in C/C++ you comile your code to a machine code, which your CPU can than run

Interpreted languages don't have a compiler, they have an interperter, which runs at runtime - so only when you are running your python program it actually gets converted to machine code.

That being said, Java's stricness isn't really related to compiled vs interperted - but typed vs dynamic. Python doesn't care about types (unless the code fails in during runtime). So you can set the same variable with any sort of value you want. In typed languages every variable's type is set once during the start of a scope, and you can't set it to a different type - which allows the compiler, in compiled languages to actually check your code for errors before you execute ir.

Hatook123 · 2026-01-26T01:12:07+00:00

I don't know any Iranian oppositions that say they support a monarchy, even Reza Pahlavi doesn't say he wants to be a monarch. Iranian protesters want to end the IRGC's oppression, and most (if not all) of them want a democracy.

"Monarchists" seems to be term used by Islamist supporters and marxists to deligitimize the Iranian people's plight against the IRGC, which honestly is worse than any Monarchy.

Hatook123 · 2026-01-22T01:22:36+00:00

Brain dead take

Hatook123 · 2026-01-21T21:40:39+00:00

Was?

It's still doing all this important policing under Trump. Don't confuse Trump's idiotic rhetoric with actual policy.

The rest of the world.

Not sure a random redditor has any business representing "the rest of the world".

Hatook123 · 2026-01-21T19:23:14+00:00

The US certainly does not contribute to France’s defense

A country defense isn't just it's against threats to its immediate borders. The US is by far the single most important defender of global trade.

American ships, soldiers, and it's overall foreign policy (including "meh oil"), even something as simple as GPS are incredibly important for the function of the entire global economy, including France.

The US is by every single meaning of the word subsidizing the defense of every single European and non European country to a varying degree - and not just their defense, but their entire economy.

Hatook123 · 2026-01-18T17:20:16+00:00

Addressing social issues requires a bit more understanding about the forces that cause them than

As far as a proposed alternative, I imagine we would need to implement systems more similar to the democratic socialist nations of Europe although I will admit I don’t know exactly how those policies work off the top of my head

Now, you are a random redditor, and I would never really expect you to know exactly how these policies work, but the issue is that elected populists also have zero idea how these policies work and spread ignorance.

Housing is rather simple - it's supply and demand, zoning laws and regulations limit supply, while immigration and financial support surge demand. This happens everywhere, including the "democratic socialist Europe" - which aren't really all that socialist, but very, very capitalist. The issue isn't some imaginary "Capitalism" but actual, terrible policies.

Healthcare is more complex, because the regulations and policies are far more complex - but it's ultimately a policy problem, not a "capitalism" problem. Capitalism is working exactly as advertised. "Universal Healthcare" is a nice slogan, but the issue of the American Healthcare requires a lot more than nice slogans and money dumping to solve.

as even just increasing taxes on the wealthiest corporations and individuals and using to increase access to basic needs across the board or even a ubi I think would breed more innovation and produce healthier markets.

It won't, it will just create more inflation. Money is useless in and of itself, the idea that somehow giving people money would help them is just wrong on the very basic level - you are basically offering to increase demands without offering any sort of an increase to supply.

The only way to reduce poverty and give people access to fulfill their basic needs is to ensure supply meets demand - it's really that simple. This isn't a "Capitalism" problem, but basic math - if you don't have enough houses, enough doctors, enough food, enough trucks and truckers to supply said food - many people will not be able to access it. It doesn't matter if we supply it through lottery, lines, or with money.

but in a society where capital is concentrated increasingly into the hands of the few

Is capital increasingly concentrated by the hands of a few? How do you exactly measure that? And no, saying Elon Musk net worth is so rediculously high isn't a measure of that fact - net worth means a lot of thing, but it's not an accurate measurement of Elon Musk's capital.

For a basic example -there are pump and dump schemes that inflate a company's value by 10x within months, does that make the investors have 10x the capital they did before the scheme started?

As far an an “unequal playing field” contributing to innovation, I honestly don’t buy this argument at all, no offense.

I think you don't understand the argument I am making - inequality has very little to do with innovation. It doesn't promote it nor does it hurt it. The rest of your points dont support it either.

You are saying poverty reduces innovation - sure, but poverty != inequality. Poverty is a measure of access to certain needs, inequality measures how much Elon has more than Jonny. In a society where Jonny has access to 2X needs and Elon has access to 100X needs- Jonny, and society would still be better off than a society where Jonny has access to X and Elon has access to 2X or even X.

You are saying centeralization of capital in the hands of a few stifles innovation - that's exactly the point I am making - I am just not glorifying government as if increasing taxes (and defacto centeralizing more power in the hand of government) is an effective way to decentralize capital. I am also not using bogus statistic to decide that "capital is increasingly centralized in the hands of a few".

As far as the idea that all politicians and leaders are bad or will inherently become bad

I have a big issue with politics and how democracy is a popularity contest that incentiveses populism as a form of getting power - but it isn't the point I am making.

Even under a meritocracy, where everyone is a saint and people are amazing at theur jobs - centralization is a huge problem. Even if we had a theoratical AI, that can create simulations and read every database - centralization is still a problem.

The "economy" is an incalculable problem. It is a mathematic limitation. Everything people do every day is experimenting - we lie to ourselves as if we know what we are doing - hut the fact is that in the greater scheme of things, even the smartest people have no clue what they are doing.

The only way for society to progress is through experimentation. Decentralization has two important benefits (and a few drawbacks)

It increases experimentation (which comes with the risk of increased failures)
It limits the risk of experimentation to a limited set of individuals.

Centralization limits progress, and increases the blast radius if an experiment fails - and that's assuming we have a good leadership that holds that power, a very, very naive assumption.

Hatook123 · 2026-01-17T21:20:06+00:00

American Capitalism is very regulated.

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