MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjburgess | 2025-04-17 12:35:39+00:00
I guess for all my dislike of what liberalism has become, I was still to liberal in my thinking. Ie., that the presidency "by construction" is quite a powerless office, everything has to go through congress, the courts stop half of what any president wants to do.

If trump had been in this straightjacket I had expected, I would not mind that "on this go around" the american right, with its grievances, has them heard by american society.

The problem of american politics, over the last decade or two, has been the complete cultural maginalisation of the right (from centres of civil power). Something had to give. The universities, the corporate culture, the internet mass media -- had all been monpolised by a "consensus moralism" which was replusive to a lot of people.

I didnt feel able to continue to deny those people their representation. However, I hadn't seen how easily the straighjackets of the constituion were this easy to disregard if you only have enough people at the top to do it.
by haswell | 2025-04-17 12:35:44+00:00
> Are there people who weren't aware of how much people dislike him?

I don’t understand the framing of this question. People are protesting because of actions taking place now. Even many of his supporters have buyer’s remorse and didn’t expect many of the things we’ve seen from this 2nd iteration. Whether or not many people are already “aware” of the existence of dislike seems entirely irrelevant.

When the immune system reacts, it does so because of a present threat. The fact that the immune system has memory of some threats doesn’t make it less necessary to react. And I don’t think it’s fair to claim that the wrong target has been chosen. Most people are protesting against the symptom and the disease. And there’s a case to be made that the administration is both.
by randallsquared | 2025-04-17 12:35:44+00:00
I think https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-wars-project-ma... puts this in perspective. The period from 1815 to 1915 was a much more peaceful period measured by deaths in war than 1915 to 2015, though 1975 forward seems like a return to that level (but world population is so much larger now that it's even better than it seems).
by bgwalter | 2025-04-17 12:35:53+00:00
This link contains a map of the coalition of the willing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq...

You see Eastern European countries who were grateful for NATO expansion or wanted future NATO membership. You see the UK and Australia which always follow the US. There are a couple of wildcards line Spain, Denmark and Italy.

Germany and France are absent and there was huge criticism of the Iraq invasion at the time.

In general, the whole EU was much more critical of the US in the 2000s than it was in 2020-2024. The current criticism is mostly Trump related and not fundamental. To summarize, in the 2000s the EU had an independent foreign policy which is now completely gone. How that evolved exactly is interesting. Has the US played off the Eastern European countries against heretics like France and Germany to achieve this goal? Is it a symptom of the international elites moving in lockstep?
by runeks | 2025-04-17 12:35:58+00:00
I hate most things about Parallels. I spun up a Windows VM using Parallels for work purposes, and it decided to change from using native Chrome to open html files to using Edge in the Windows VM. So double-clicking a html file would first start the Windows VM, if it wasn't already started, and then open it in Edge inside the VM. WTF is wrong with you Parallels?
by ta1243 | 2025-04-17 12:36:00+00:00
If you can somehow make a ship capable of constant acceleration at 1G, and had enough shielding on it to protect it against the radiation, you can travel to any point in the observable universe, in a human lifetime.

If you just keep accelerating and left as a 20 year old, you'd be in your 50s when you saw the final stars born and die in 100 trillion (earth) years time.

That's how crazy relativity and torchships are
by astura | 2025-04-17 12:36:19+00:00
On one hand, students need to pay for food and rent, so it makes sense. I used loans, grants, scholarships, and financial aid to pay for these expenses myself when I was in school.

On the other hand, maybe the barrier to entry is just waaayyy too low for online community college classes for this to make any sense. Students should have some skin in the game. Maybe students should be required to take a couple in person classes before financial aid can be used for online classes?

I don't think the article was dancing around it though.
by blenderob | 2025-04-17 12:36:24+00:00
Did you not even click on the link before commenting?

Right on that page is -

> mIRC v7.81 has been released.

which links to https://www.mirc.com/news.html with info about the new release from April 9th 2025.

Granted it would have been better if this post linked to https://www.mirc.com/news.html

Can some change the link to https://www.mirc.com/news.html? Mods?
by Neywiny | 2025-04-17 12:36:49+00:00
Windows Server (not the capitalization of Server) is an operating system, not just installing desktop Windows on a server. From the first few paragraphs it says the license cost for that OS is a fraction of the retail price if you're on Azure. I would assume this extends to every VM, or if you can rent an entire machine and it's run bare metal, or any configuration I don't know about (I'm not an experienced cloud person).
by torginus | 2025-04-17 12:37:23+00:00
I know the difference between an OS and the kernel, still a lot of devices don't run on the Linux kernel. Windows isn't Linux, macOS/iOS is not Linux, PS5/Xbox/Nintendo don't run on Linux, Xiaomi and Huawei are transitioning away from Linux.

I stand by my point that Linux isn't particularly dominant in the consumer space, even if we include Android, whose Linux-ness and open source pedigree is questionable.
by agwa | 2025-04-17 12:38:30+00:00
> gTLDs just subject you to an additional layer of incompetence, namely from the company running it.

ccTLDs also have to be run by some organization, which is often a private company. Maybe the country's oversight over this organization is better than ICANN's oversight over gTLD operators. Maybe it's not. Historically, the worst technical incidents have occurred at ccTLDs.
by n4r9 | 2025-04-17 12:38:44+00:00
Yes, London house prices would likely be lower. But we'd also be poorer on average, since immigrants are a net benefit to the economy. Moreover the combination of a starkly aging population with higher costs of labour would cause a real strain on the public purse, like Japan is seeing. On balance I much prefer the current situation. Though I guess I would say that, having an immigrant parent.
by fleek | 2025-04-17 12:38:55+00:00
There is nothing wrong with diversity. The problem is quotas to prove you are trying to foster a diverse environment, that pushes everyone in the majority class down a peg to meet some moral goal.

Then there is living in a constant state of "walking on eggshells" at work, at school etc. employers hiring diverse applicants to use as show ponies for photo ops, the majority class employees being terrified of ever giving honest criticism for fear of being labeled a racist or sexist or whatever-ism that people want to throw around.

Being told subliminally in k-12 and then overtly in higher education that "white people" are the problem or white men are the root of all ills in society.

Seeing all the high school and college valedictorians being mostly female but then reviewing their work and seeing nothing original or meaningful come from it. Wonder what's going on there?

I am for a fair playing field, it if the landscape is such that your appearance gives you an unfair advantage in life then I am against it. And no, being white in America is not an unfair advantage, I am white and I feel like I have been passed over for everything in favor of someone who is presumed to have a harder life than I have. For the record I grew up in poverty and use a wheelchair daily yet I went to college and got a cs degree and took out the loans and put in the years of work. I overcame all my obstacles WITHOUT someone giving me a leg up because I WORKED HARD and bit the bullet. And I paid back the loans!

Seeing all these woke crybaby actors and special interest group people cry because they didn't get a golden escalator to the top as if it was their due is why this conservative revolution is happening.

There are too many softhearted fools who honestly believe the world owes them something for whatever happened to their ancestors generations ago, whether it was slavery, or the church, or the pilgrims/colonizers whatever. They fail to realize you don't get anything by whining. You take it, or you work/trade for it, but you will never get and keep power by crying for attention.

They took it for a while, but now we are taking it back. Damn the fucking rules.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-04-17 12:39:19+00:00
This only adds a small amount of friction. Some more effective options off the top of my head:

1. free classes but no aid 2. pay covered costs directly 3. tie aid to participation (not performance)

You could argue someone could still scam the system by attending the class and submiting AI-generated content or just copying others, but this is much more involved. Some of the blame has to land on the distance programs of the institutions. They've become overly relient on charging full tuition for much cheaper online delivery, and don't care too much about the "community" part of college anymore.
by cmbza | 2025-04-17 12:39:38+00:00
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by npodbielski | 2025-04-17 12:40:25+00:00
I do not know what you are listening to, but for my kind od music I have few webpages that I can visit for new and old releases. I can filter for example by genre and see few yt videos with to see if this is something I would like. Then you can download it or buy it. This is a lot od work but I would never discover few bands 'the spotify way'. Like i.e. Austrian Death Machine.
by diggan | 2025-04-17 12:40:27+00:00
As someone who grew up on Windows + mIRC + vBulletin forums (late 90s, early 00s), mIRC will always ignite fond memories :)

For those who still use IRC, but maybe on other platforms than Windows, HexChat could be considered a spiritual successor to mIRC, but it's also open source and available on a ton of platforms. Just a happy user here, not affiliated in any way.

Edit: Hm, seems it was some time ago I checked out the news/blog of HexChat, seems like last version was a year ago. I still use it without problems, but maybe people could share any active forks if they know about them?
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-17 12:40:43+00:00
> Well the tarrifs do very much show that Trump has no "default preference" for the capitalised class

His preference seems to be to favor those that suck up to him.

I mean, that is why all the top billionaires are all very cozy to him nowadays. They may be assholes, but they are smart assholes. Psychopathically smart.

> It's very unhelpful to reduce trump down to basic evil motivations

I didn't reduce him to evil motivations. I just said it was naive to think he would somehow benefit labor and not capital or wealth.
by rich_sasha | 2025-04-17 12:41:08+00:00
Reasonable question.

It depends, at top level, what the intention is. What the US government thinks it is buying. Is it buying global improvement in research? If so, surely you just hire smartest people out there. In fact it will probably be mostly non-Americans, because even if they come from a much-better-than-average educational system, still, they are something like 4% of global population.

Ok, so let's say not this. Perhaps US govt is strictly buying (indirect) improvement to US economy. Well, a lot of these students will stay in the US, find startups, or simply become good taxpayers. Most developed countries struggle to grow or keep their societies steady, US has this funnel of highly skilled workforce - universities. Even better, since these immigrants, if they stay, won't have generated primary education costs, and if they eventually leave, also will cost less in adult life than people who stay in the US all their life.

This is about undergrads, really. Postgraduate students are more like hard, underpaid jobs. People come and go, and perform the service of churning out research for an American University.

Finally, not sure how much the US govt is paying for these foreign undergrads. Rich undergrads will have to lay a good chunk of their own fees - perhaps all, either via cash or loans they have to repay.

I'm not in any way endorsing this kerfuffle, but it's always good to be clear why you are paying for things, as sooner or later someone will challenge it.
by karmakaze | 2025-04-17 12:41:38+00:00
The C64 definitely had better sprites and music, no contest. But there's a certain elegance to the way the Atari did their graphics in particular. It was so much more with simple building blocks where you could immediately see the power of it and take a long time extracting value from it.

The SIO of the Atari is also another standout design, which flies under the radar. It enabled a much cheaper diskette drive than the C64. The designer of the SIO, Joe Decuir went on to make USB and credits his work on SIO as the basis of USB[0].

Even the use of letters for devices was already ahead of DOS with D: being for diskette, but that was shorthand for D1:, with D2: being another and any other letter could be an installable device with numbered instances. Keyboard/screen I/O was addressable as E:.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SIO
by patwolf | 2025-04-17 12:41:56+00:00
Same. mIRC scripting was really what motivated me to learn to program. I had tinkered a little bit with BASIC before that, but mIRC was what kept me interested. It's one thing to write uninteresting "hello world" CLI apps, but mIRC scripting was something you and your friends could immediately interact with. I wonder if kids today have something similar...maybe Roblox scripting?
by monkeycantype | 2025-04-17 12:42:28+00:00
I had this same experience, but I have not continued to take the medication after a short experiment. I found I could get a similar outcome (subjective experience) through my food selection Today I’ve eaten around 2kg of vegetables today (zucchini, capsicum, eggplant, cauliflower, spinach) all of which was under 500 calories, and I’ve eaten fish. If I eat a massive amount of vegetables and get ~200g protein, I don’t feel I’m depriving myself and am satiated on under 2000 calories, previously I would typically eat over 3000 on a normal day.

As for people lacking willpower, the genetics of hunger mean all of us experience vastly different levels of hunger. You might be interested to read about the family in Pakistan who could not produce a relevant hormone leptin, and the toddlers driven to fighting by insatiable hunger to steal food from each other, and the dramatic change in their lives after medical intervention with leptin injections
by DannyBee | 2025-04-17 12:42:34+00:00
Sorry, maybe i was not specific enough. I meant when he pardons a meaningful us government official for violating a court order that he didn't give a shit about.

In this case Joe was pardoned for criminal contempt of a court order related to racial profiling.

While it involved immigrants, it's not like he was a member of the US government. He was a state official doing state things, that were, yes, in line with trump's policy objectives. That's fairly different.

It was also two months later.

Back then nobody also cared in the way they do now, and to be blunt, it's hard to get people to care about racial profiling crimes anyway.

The same way nobody cared when the precedent was originally sent.
by squeedles | 2025-04-17 12:42:38+00:00
Quite so, and I think he does address that, but those are all second level factors, along with activity level, exercise, and their effect on your caloric requirements. He puts together a bunch of excel spreadsheets for tracking many factors, but I have found the simple discipline of accounting for what I eat in a little txt file on my phone sufficient to align my choices with my desired outcome.
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-17 12:42:47+00:00
How do you handle students that are not capable of showing up on the first day in-person?

- Live far away

- Have a job they can't just not show up for

- Having children to take care of

- Health issues

There's tons of reasons for people not to be able to attend in person, and not all of them are "because I didn't want to". And, for a _lot_ of those people, improving their education can have a huge impact on their quality of life.
by treesknees | 2025-04-17 12:42:59+00:00
UTM is great when you’re using native ARM versions of Linux or Windows. Where it (or QEMU) is absolutely terrible is trying to emulate x86 for working on legacy apps or for retro computing.

For example, try installing a Windows 2000 vm. It won’t even get past the initial setup screen because it runs so slowly.

My saving grace has been that Windows 11 ARM also has its own x86 translation layer, so I can still run many (but not all) 32bit windows apps. But it’s been frustrating having such a powerful machine that can’t run an x86 vm.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-17 12:43:08+00:00
Why stop at plants?

Cockroach Milk: Nutrition and Benefits:

https://www.medicinenet.com/cockroach_milk_nutrition_and_ben...

>Ethical concerns

>There are concerns about whether it is ethical to produce cockroach milk in bulk because it requires killing almost 1,000 cockroaches to extract 100 mL of milk.

I've heard the same ethical concerns raised about eating MAGA brains!
by ksec | 2025-04-17 12:43:32+00:00
I wish and hope just because the current Framework are modular. Any design changes are not stagnated by these limitations. I actually wish for a thinner than MacBook Air Framework laptop, while remaining largely self assemble and repairable.

I also hope Framework gets enough investment to start working on Software. Framework OS that is based on OSS or Android. ( I dream they could do BSD but I know that is a tall order )
by motorest | 2025-04-17 12:44:18+00:00
> People were making a front and backend web app in half a day using Ruby on Rails way before LLMs were ever a thing, and their code quality was still much better than yours!

A few people were doing that.

With LLMs, anyone can do that. And more.

It's important to frame the scenario correctly. I repeat: I created everything in an afternoon just for giggles, and I challenged myself to write zero lines of code.

> So vibe coding, sure you can create some shitty thing which WORKS (...)

You're somehow blindly labelling a hypothetical output as "shitty", which only serves to show your bias. In the meantime, anyone who is able to churn out a half-functioning MVP in an afternoon is praised as a 10x developer. There's a contrast in there, where the same output is described as shitty or outstanding depending on who does it.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-17 12:44:27+00:00
This is the hard part of society. We want nice things but propose anything that can be gamed/scammed for free money and it's instantly shot-down before it even gets off the ground. That, or if by a miracle it launches, is constantly attacked and smeared by politicians using it to get votes from selfish assholes who dont want to share (I learned about sharing in preschool and kindergarten).

Until you solve the primitive animalistic problems of selfishness, greed, and energy conserving laziness, were not going to have nice things. Someone asshole is going to be mad they have to share. Some asshole is going to lie and scam to get as much free shit as they can.

Solving this is a very hard problem.
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by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 12:45:24+00:00
I've only personally seen it used to aggregate and summarize data-sets. Google search, Amazon questions about a product. It was decent for Google search but now they have cranked up their anti-bot detection and I am a bot to them so I have blocked all their domains.

For me personally big-data LLM on most sites are missing:

- debugging showing me where it found the data, how it arrived at an answer including what sites it scraped.

- ability to say "I don't know" or "no conclusive results" or "too many conflicting results"

- display of confidence level. "45% chance I am high or hallucinating a.k.a. guessing"
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-17 12:45:46+00:00
> Taking just one or two classes per term is an old tradition at community colleges.

Not for people fresh out of high school. You are usually trying to graduate with a Bachelor's in 4 years so you do full-time at community college for 2 years to get your AA-T and then transfer to a university for your last 2 years. California in particular has a program that lets you transfer get a guaranteed transfer to any state university or participating private university once you get your AA-T.
by Tade0 | 2025-04-17 12:46:11+00:00
I noticed that it also depends on the vendor of the autocorrect/dictionary you're using.

The project referenced in the post put me next to Brits on the similarity list and indeed I am using an English(UK) dictionary. Meanwhile this iteration aligns me with Americans despite the only change being the vendor (formerly Samsung, now Google).

I guess the Samsung keyboard corrects to proper Bri'ish.

I picked up the language as a child from a collection of people, half of whom weren't native speakers, so I don't speak any specific dialect.