MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-05-06 08:58:10+00:00
>People really think there are, but every time we look we find practically no freeloaders.

I don't believe that is true. You didn't provide any support for your claim at all either. Let's just consider a single example:

>In the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the job, and new laws have banned workplace discrimination against the disabled. Every month, 14 million people now get a disability check from the government.

>...

>I talked to lots of people in Hale County who were on disability. Sometimes, the disability seemed unambiguous.

>...

>As far as the federal government is concerned, you're disabled if you have a medical condition that makes it impossible to work. In practice, it's a judgment call made in doctors' offices and courtrooms around the country. The health problems where there is most latitude for judgment -- back pain, mental illness -- are among the fastest growing causes of disability.

This is from NPR of all places: https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

Why are these health problems growing so fast? The obvious explanation is that the stigma against faking disability is evaporating in places like Hale County. That's how they got to the point where 1 in 4 working-age adults is on disability there.

Another example: mtnGoat stated that their father was perfectly capable of paying for lunch but did not do so. If there was a need-based lunch program, mtnGoat would presumably be a "freeloader".

Arguably, the real problem in mtnGoat's case is they had an abusive parent. The relevant state tool would be child-protective services, not a cafeteria lunch lady.

I'm in favor of free school lunches for kids. But I'm very annoyed with the strawmanning in this thread. For example, it seems like a strawman to say that people who are against free school lunches "want kids to go hungry". Maybe they just believe that parents should be responsible rather than the state.
by metalman | 2025-05-06 08:58:22+00:00
Fuck the euro's, they can find another place to mine.We dont need them for anything.Canada is booming and they need someone to pay for there wars and lifestyle. Austrailia and New Zealand are physicly too far away, and there is no mutual benifits to some kind of quasi beurocratic integration.The UK is a mess,and all they do is play money games, very successfuly it's clear, but in reality they are vulnerable and loosing relevance. The whole world is leveling up with technology, except that most of the non anglo countrys, have much larger and younger populations, and it is too those countrys that Canada ows itcs current prosperity, people from the carebiean and mexico working in forsetry, fishing and agriculture, specialits from india and china, workers of all types from africa, disguntled koreans and japanese, and who knows how many ukrainians doing anything to stay afloat and loose there accents as fast as possible, we dont need any more fucking beurocratic asses in chairs already, eh!
by neilv | 2025-05-06 08:58:25+00:00
> For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work correspondence. I do so to keep autonomy, control, and privacy over my email and so that no big company has copies of all of my personal email. [...] A few years ago, I was surprised to find out that my friend [...] a very privacy conscious person who is [...] at the EFF — used Gmail.

Almost the exact same situation here, except my friend was once at an EFF-related organization.

I think a lot of things, like the tech industry turning into '80s Wall Street bros, wore down some of his on-principle determination. And when life got too busy, he gave up, and moved to GMail. I was very surprised to learn.

Another friend, who in school was one of those MIT student Linux hackers who had serious OPSEC as ordinary practice, once he had kids, and had to think about continuity of all the things he ran if something should happen to him, ended up moving home stuff to popular Apple and Google services.
by Sinosteelpipe | 2025-05-06 08:59:13+00:00
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the European Union. From an initial trade volume of 2.4 billion($) to the current 780 billion($), China-EU bilateral trade has been continuously developing in a positive direction. According to customs statistics, in the first quarter of this year, China's import and export with the EU amounted to 1.3 trillion (RMB), a year-on-year increase of 1.4%, which means that there is more than 10 million (RMB) worth of trade exchanges every minute.
by alxjrvs | 2025-05-06 08:59:41+00:00
I disagree. Capitalism is a very specific, recent invention. You are living out the actual quote. I don't care if its nature - in my estimation, it fucking sucks!

Your argument works just as easily for Kings, Slavery, and every other horrible thing humans have done to one another. Capitalism is not in any way, shape, or form necessary to human existence. It would be like saying that Prime Time TV is "Nature" and worthy of almighty consideration. I pray I get to live to see the end of all of the above in my life time.

I've said my argument about as cleanly as I can! It's a complicated topic, and I encourage you to continue reading about it.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-06 09:00:46+00:00
I was telling my mother, in a little while or 500 years, there will be an opportunity/need to append a "I" to that inscription, as a future Pope choosing "Francis II" as a regnal name is a real possibility.

Perhaps they will revisit the entire design at that point, and quietly update it. Perhaps they will simply allow God to "write straight with crooked lines" until that decision point?
by enaaem | 2025-05-06 09:00:54+00:00
When a ruler does something that seems illogical, it's most often times meant to consolidate internal power. That being said, I often find Trump's moves to be bizarre even in that light. At least try to look good, but he seems to be do everything to look bad. Even MAGA fans have a hard time coping:

"It's just temporary pain"

"We need to consume less"

"I don't understand tariffs"
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-06 09:03:19+00:00
To expand, code is a means, the core "habits" that programmers develop (at least speaking for myself) is twofold; abstracting, trying to reduce things to simple stereotypes; codifying / decision-tree-ing interactions, things like that. And problem solving, when someone mentions an issue, the gut reaction is to try and fix it. And it takes a lot of internet wisdoms and/or therapy to learn that you are allowed to let people stew in their problems, or that unless you're asked for a solution you don't need to offer one.

Problem solving is easier than listening and empathy.
by throw_away_0613 | 2025-05-06 09:04:32+00:00
As I'm getting older, I want things to be as standardized as possible, and just don't worry about the details. I have learned from my mistakes

The script I made for deployment, because existing solutions didn't "feel" right, required a lot of work and maintenance when we later had to add features and bug fixes.

Another script I made for building and deploying Java applications, because I didn't like Maven and Puppet.

The micro service I rewrote because I wanted to use my own favourite programming language. I introduced a lot of bugs that were already fixed, missing features and another language for my co-workers to learn when they inherited the application when I left.
by panick21_ | 2025-05-06 09:05:06+00:00
I'm not excusing anything, rather trying to present a coherent picture, rather then presenting a view that seems to focus on making Switzerland look as possible.

Treatment of Paul Gruninger wasn't good, nobody is questioning that. But he was just fired, not shot or imprisoned. A reasonable punishment for what he did. And the people he let in were not evicted.

And that despite rejecting some, many Jews were accept into Switzerland and survived the war that somehow isn't talked about much. And of course the Swiss Jews survived the war unlike most other places in Europe.

Somehow Switzerland is made out to be a villain when in reality they did a lot and resisted more then many other states would have in the situation. Switzerland didn't do as much as they could have, but that's true for pretty much every nation. Given of how terrible and hopeless the Swiss situation seemed, I think overall their conduct in WW2 was pretty reasonable.

Literally every nation that traded with Germany, received gold stolen from Jews, Austria and Czechia. That includes the US and everybody else. But Switzerland is somehow uniquely singled out and is talked about in this context far more then anybody else.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-05-06 09:06:41+00:00
This is well-written. I think LLMs can help a bit here too - the other day I was watching a rare, old film with my wife and the subtitles kept de-syncing. I.e. the frame-rate was slightly different as well as a fixed offset.

So I explained it to Claude and made it write a Python script where I could manually set a few fixed times and it would adjust the SRT file, and it worked perfectly.

I literally paused the film and did that in under 5 minutes. It was amazing.

So fixing a lot of small things has become easier at least.
by dinfinity | 2025-05-06 09:08:01+00:00
Steelmanning this, there is one interpretation where the probability would indeed be 0.5, namely that every universe only ever simulates exactly one other universe. This would entail that there is always exactly one simulated universe that does not contain a simulated universe.

However, there is no reason why any universe would be limited to simulating one universe, so the interpretation doesn't make sense. The level of branching determines how many 'leaf' universes there are and thus the probability of being in a leaf universe or in the root universe.
by hnlmorg | 2025-05-06 09:08:23+00:00
There's some good examples on wikipedia as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

As someone with zero exposure to Kufic script before today, some of those images, and particular the circle ones in the original article, remind me of the London Underground "Labyrinth" mazes https://www.tubeopedia.co.uk/labyrinth-locations
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-06 09:09:02+00:00
Right. I know the name (though it took me longer than I want to admit to connect the term with situations outside programming!) - what I now seek to know is, how to minimize it in personal life.

Letting go is probably most people's answer - nothing bad will happen if I do all the dependent tasks (cleanup, restocking things that just run out) later in the day - but I have difficulty getting them out of my head, they keep distracting me until they're completed.
by eniac111 | 2025-05-06 09:10:23+00:00
From the GitHub README:

"If you use the VMOS Pro Android 5.1 ROM for internal use, commercial profit or uploading to the app market without authorization, we will collect evidence and report to the police (copyright infringement) or prosecute. Anyone who reports unauthorized or illegal use of VMOS Pro Android 5.1 ROM code to develop products will be rewarded upon verification. We will keep the identity of the whistleblower confidential!"
by Cyphase | 2025-05-06 09:11:25+00:00
When I was a kid we had a VHS recording of Sneakers, with the beginning of an episode of Letterman at the end. I remember my mom liking it. Fond memories. I need to watch it again.

A couple of scenes:

Carl: We've got customers. Martin: Shoes? Carl: Expensive. Martin: *fixes tie* Look busy, guys.

And another:

*after apparently inconveniencing Liz, the group is walking out* Cosmo: We'll call you a cab. Liz: "Thank you. This is my last computer date." *Cosmo stops walking, falling behind* Cosmo: "Wait." *the group stops and turns* Cosmo: "A computer matched her with him? I don't think so." *Liz's face falls as Cosmo's henchman start slowly walking up behind her.* *dramatic music as we cut and zoom in to Cosmo's face* Cosmo: "Marty." *Cosmo turns and runs toward his office*
by pchangr | 2025-05-06 09:12:16+00:00
Because science is not looking for the absolute truth. Science is one (of many) method of knowledge generation.. which stands upon logic .. given P and Q .. we conclude X. And that will be true even if one day discover that given P and Q and R.. we conclude Y. Science is not interested in asserting statements without constraints.. for that.. you’d be better off with philosophy. And then things can get weird really quickly. Take this conclusion as example “Only universes with very different physical properties can produce some version of this Universe as a simulation” so my take can might as well be .. “oh, so the simulator has different properties”… and someone else might think “oh, so we don’t live in a simulation” and there is no way to know which one is actually true. Because we are just limited to what we know and even more so.. what we can know. So we just affirm based on a certain knowledge that we already have.
by tremon | 2025-05-06 09:12:49+00:00
PSA: brushing your teeth directly after eating is actually detrimental, because the acids in food soften the enamel on your teeth. That layer needs to harden first (wait 20-30 minutes), otherwise your toothbrush will strip it away: https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/brushing-immediately-aft...
by Jipazgqmnm | 2025-05-06 09:13:17+00:00
They also have regular promotions that offer e.g. double the disk space.

There you get

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for 6 $ / m - traffic inclusive. You can choose between "6 vCore ARM64, 8 GB RAM" and "4 vCore x86, 8 GB ECC RAM" for the same price. And much more, of course.

https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps
by sophiechoi | 2025-05-06 09:13:45+00:00
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by Max-Ganz-II | 2025-05-06 09:15:11+00:00
She's on BlueSky, which is where I came to know of her.

She has been essential to keeping up to date with developments in the USA regarding Donald.

I subscribed to her newsletter last month.

It seems to me mainstream media doesn't really cut the mustard.

I get most of my information these days from specialist blogs, run by individuals.
by dyl000 | 2025-05-06 09:15:32+00:00
I don't understand... it's a vscode fork where they're earning $20/mo for customers that are regularly costing much more. They have no moat.

I've used all 500 of my fast requests this month with cursor, I've 100% cost them more money than they've made from me every month I've had it.

Whats the path to profitability with this? they're expecting models to cost almost nothing and users not to just jump to the next coding agent?
by pjmlp | 2025-05-06 09:17:22+00:00
Yes the usual T shape kind of approach.

Most HR hiring managers, and headhunters alike, have a real hard problem trying to see the point of generalists.

They want the easy way out, what to focus on.

As I usual say I tend to do whatever, so is the life of agencies, however when applying for positions sell the skills relevant for the position.

Not e.g. "I can do .NET and Java", rather "I can do .NET, proud of X, Y and Z projects in .NET, and by the way, I may do Java as well if needed, there was this project...", something like this.
by roryirvine | 2025-05-06 09:19:34+00:00
Ugh, that's a real mess - they've clearly just invented their own clauses and tacked them on to the end of the previous 3 clause BSD license.

Technically, they're allowed to do that - the BSD-3 license is itself public domain - but it's usually a pretty bad idea. Have the new clauses been written by a copyright lawyer, or at least been vetted by one?

The fact that this is Open WebUI's second license change this year should be a red flag for anyone considering contributing to or relying on their software.
by sph | 2025-05-06 09:20:38+00:00
Leaving Britain after 13 years and moving back to Italy. I thought it would be more traumatic than it has proved to be. I missed the sun, the Mediterranean foodstuffs and it is such a change of pace to have moved to a 50k city from the pandemonium that is London.

When I left 13 years ago I was younger, more excited at the prospect of career and UK felt like a step ahead. Now I grew up, grew to hate cities, corporate life and found Italy a healthier and happier country for the next chapter. Also, a very underrated thing not many expats talk about, I missed not feeling like a stranger, an immigrant, a fish out of water. That’s a background emotion that never goes away, however integrated and fluent in the local culture you are.
by jajko | 2025-05-06 09:20:49+00:00
More lies, I wonder where that fierce hate comes from, have you ever wondered about that?

If you would come up with facts in a reasonable way we can discuss them one by one, but you seem to lack that skill. There is some truth to them, and some are twisted half truths ignoring other facts, and rest are outright lies. Maybe next time.

Just one thing - Switzerland never shut any discussion, again a lie, its more free country than most western ones. Half the articles you posted are from Swiss webs, and if you ever followed their media, this is discussed consistently.
by pertymcpert | 2025-05-06 09:21:49+00:00
You know there are countless parents that abuse their kids, physically, emotionally, sexually. They rape their kids and strangle them until they pass out. They hit them in places where bruises aren't visible. They break bones and threaten the kids with death if they dare tell anyone or show their injury or pain.

Why do we suddenly need to especially think about the other side of this because tax money is involved? Now we need to care?
by WalterGR | 2025-05-06 09:21:53+00:00
“...in April 2025, @DreamChasnMike dropped a single post on X that sent the debate flying. It racked up over 200 million views, and suddenly everyone from TikTok creators to late‑night shows was giving their views on it.”

The rest is a Buzzfeed-esque article that just recounts Reddit comments in long form.
by sophiechoi | 2025-05-06 09:21:57+00:00
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by baq | 2025-05-06 09:24:11+00:00
> wrestle the compiler

This is quite literally a skill issue, no offense.

'wrestle the compiler' implies you think you know better; this is usually not the case and the compiler is here to tell you about it. It's annoying to be bad at tracking ownership and guess what: most people are. The ones who aren't have decades of experience in C/C++ and employ much the same techniques that Rust guides you towards. If you really know better, there are ways to get around the compiler. They're verbose and marked unsafe to 1) discourage you from doing that and 2) warn others to be extra careful here.

If this is all unnecessary for you - and I want to underscore I agree it should be in most software development work - stick to GC languages. With some elbow grease they can be made as performant as low level languages if you write the critical parts in a way you'd have to do it in Rust and will be free to write the rest in a way which doesn't require years of experience tracking ownership manually. (Note it won't hurt to be tracking ownership anyway, it's just much less of an issue if you have to put a weakref somewhere once a couple years vs be aware at all times of what owns what.)
by hudo | 2025-05-06 09:24:58+00:00
Reminds me to friends old but brilliant project, use Unicode to draw art on stack trace logs! Enough with boring stack traces in logs, lets make some art there and make life a bit easier for the poor soul thats on support and has to debug latest prod issue. https://medium.com/@ironcev/stack-trace-art-4b700a8817ea
by elaus | 2025-05-06 09:27:24+00:00
Do you have any recommendations for self-hosted, truly open-source, "ChatGPT"-style interfaces (e.g., a UI for chat, RAG, image generation, etc.)?

I use Open WebUI a lot, but it's lacking in a few aspects (UI, huge Docker images), and its focus on commercialization does not motivate me to contribute.
by burnaway | 2025-05-06 09:27:41+00:00
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