MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BirAdam | 2025-05-19 21:46:34+00:00
The effects of inflation are felt. For example, the deterioration in product quality, packaging, and even product size are attempts of companies to prevent raising product prices. Where people absolutely see it are in those things usually funded by debt: houses, cars, university education. There are myriad reasons for rising product prices and decreasing product quality, but one of those reasons is monetary inflation.

As noted, however, these is zero political will to reduce spending, and I therefore believe the USA will suffer a monetary crisis in the mid-2030s. I hope to be incorrect, but I just don't see it happening. Raise taxes? Lose votes. Reduce spending? Lose votes.

Edit: Ah wait, rereading you're 100% correct. It's more difficult to see all of the cases I mentioned as being due to monetary inflation. So, while felt, people don't immediately attribute it as such.
by d_watt | 2025-05-19 21:46:43+00:00
Aider is definitely in the same camp. Last time I checked, they weren't optimizing for the full "agent infinitely looping until completion" usecase, and didn't have MCP support.

But it's 100% the same class of tool and the awesome part of the unixy model is hopefully agents can be substituted in for each other in your pipeline for whichever one is better for the usecase, just like models are interoperable.
by troupo | 2025-05-19 21:47:02+00:00
So a "better than anything" still needs "a better more robust install" and you still use homebrew for "packages that are packaged better like ... the extremely popular and often installed ffmpeg"

;)

> And homebrew isn't free of issues at all.

No one advertises brew as "the best", "better than everything else" etc.

BTW, looked at Determinate Nix. It's a custom distribution and a custom daemon, and its own fork of documentation
by rdtsc | 2025-05-19 21:47:33+00:00
> Companies will only fight back on things that impact their short-term bottom line.

The speed with which they all dropped DEI programs was shocking. Especially after years of saying how it's critical, it makes them more vibrant, stronger, etc. I guess they never believed any of that.

It seems Stripe CEO is the only one left wondering what the heck happened: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/05/16/john-collison... ( https://archive.ph/5PFgq )

> “I am baffled by all the companies doing an about-face on their social initiatives right now. Did you not actually mean it in the first place? Either don’t do it, or do it and stay doing it, but don’t do this ‘DEI is cancelled now’,” he says. “It’s very odd to me.”
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-05-19 21:47:50+00:00
> If you believe burning carbon fuels is a big negative externality, then solar users are subsidizing everyone else.

If the energy company is paying you $0.12 to sell electricity for $0.09 - they're losing money. Not to mention, they aren't covering any of the costs of maintaining their network (which is a large chunk of the overall cost).

If they're forced to buy rooftop solar from homeowners at a loss - they are FORCED to transfer that loss onto other costumers - which means the other customers are subsidizing that.

There isn't anything tricky about who is subsidizing whom.

Your issues with "dirty" energy are entirely separate.
by bawolff | 2025-05-19 21:48:30+00:00
> Palestine is an ICC signatory; the genocide is happening on Palestine land. ICC has jurisdiction.

While the ICC has juridsiction over criminal acts of genocide comitted on the territory of member states, so far they have not accused anyone of comitting genocide in Palestine.

Its always possible they might add more charges later, but so far they have only accused Israeli leaders of lesser crimes.
by nickjj | 2025-05-19 21:48:40+00:00
The delay is related to starting WSL 2, not starting a systemd service btw.

Maybe it's specific to Windows 10 Pro, who knows. I'm using the latest WSL 2 from the MS app store.

I just know when I installed Docker directly into WSL 2, when I launched a terminal I could not run `docker info` and connect to the Docker daemon for 2 minutes. The culprit was the Docker service was not available. I was able to reproduce this on Arch and Ubuntu distros.

Separate to that systemd also delayed a terminal from opening for ~15 seconds (unrelated to Docker).

After ~10 minutes of the terminal being closed, both issues happened. They went away as soon as I disabled systemd.
by greenavocado | 2025-05-19 21:49:20+00:00
Replying to things I saw at the top of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25188457

It is ridiculous to dismiss the gold standard thing like it’s some fringe conspiracy, saying "mainstream economists" prefer blaming oil shocks or regulations. The 1971 move to fiat money wasn't just about ditching gold. It let the Fed print like crazy, inflating assets (stocks, real estate) while wages flatlined. Even guys like Krugman admit loose money screws workers. The charts don’t lie. Divergence started right in '71, not '73 when OPEC flexed. And if oil was the problem, why did Germany and Japan handle it without wrecking their middle class?

Then there's the "women flooded the workforce" excuse. Sure, more workers can lower wages, but productivity kept climbing but wages did NOT. That’s not supply and demand, that's corporations grabbing more power (thanks, dead unions). And "household income" rose? Only because families were grinding two jobs just to stay afloat. Not exactly winning.

China? Lol. In '71, China was still a backwater. Their real economic boom didn’t hit till the 1990s. And offshoring only worked because the fiat dollar let the U.S. run endless trade deficits without consequences. Try that on a gold standard. It would collapse in a WEEK.

Oh, and the EPA? Pollution regs saved lives, and the '80s proved deregulation didn’t fix wages it just let Wall Street go wild. The real issue? Money got fake, capital divorced from labor, and the 1% hoarded the gains.

Bottom line: The so called "rebuttals" from HN commenters are a mess of half-baked excuses. If oil, women, or China were the culprits, why did everything flip exactly post 1971? The gold standard's end is the smoking gun. And the "mainstream economists" pushing these weak takes? Same geniuses who missed 2008. Maybe time to stop trusting their playbook.
by HillRat | 2025-05-19 21:49:23+00:00
Still to this day the largest single line item I’ve ever signed off on; I have an old varsity jacket in the back of my closet that was their sales swag for the E10K. Still not convinced that it was that much more cost-effective than a bunch of E6500s for our (embarrassingly parallel) workload, but it was an impressive bit of kit!
by BirAdam | 2025-05-19 21:49:53+00:00
My wife and I were perfectly capable of paying for her transplant operation after some fund raising, and both the hospital and the insurance company knew this as for her to qualify for transplant they examined our finances. We also make more than enough to pay for the anti-rejection medication. We had zero need for Medicare. This didn't matter. As soon as she entered renal failure, she was forced onto Medicare. There are absolutely people receiving assistance who do not need it and in some cases do not want it.
by detourdog | 2025-05-19 21:50:59+00:00
The problem I see with this question is that people currently claiming the conservative mantle in the US don't demonstrate conservative values.

How conservative was DOGE's effort to save money. The story was conservative but the actions were radical.

I wouldn't equate conservatism with the flat earth crowd. I would equate the current majority closer to flat earthers than Columbus.
by huqedato | 2025-05-19 21:51:08+00:00
You are perfectly right!

I would just add this, from my experience with Horizon 2020: we were working on an R&D project at the time. Applied for grant. We got €16,000, peanuts. (We needed a few hundred thousand....) My point is that this type of EC/EU financing is distributed in a somewhat "social-democratic" manner, under the principle of "everyone should get something". Not mentioning the bureaucratic hell we went through to apply and get the funding.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-05-19 21:51:48+00:00
This reminds me of AliExpress that constantly corrupt its language (but not country) preference by randomly serving me a foreign language not in my Accept-Language list.

Language determination should be, by decreasing order of preference:

1. URL param (temporary override)

2. Cookie (optional, set by a flag image list drop-down conflating country with language)

3. Accept-Language (prefix) (optional)

4. GeoIP (guessing at conflating language with country by demographics as a starting point)

Country, by decreasing order of preference (for pricing, shipping, legal, regional content):

1. URL param (temporary override)

2. Cookie (optional, set by a shipping address or preferred region preference)

3. Location (optional)

4. Accept-Language (suffix) (optional)

5. GeoIP (guessing at current location as the desired country of interest)

Note: It's important to make a default guess at the statistically most likely possibility to reduce the burden on the most users, but not prevent users in the US from using the site's French i18n.
by wongarsu | 2025-05-19 21:52:05+00:00
If you speak multiple languages (or are willing to read machine translation) you can often get a much richer understanding of a topic by reading wikipedia in multiple languages. Wikipedia strives to be unbiased, but obviously that's a goal, not a reality. But different languages are biased in different directions. Even on articles of comparable length the articles often emphasize very different parts, and deem different facts relevant.

And sometimes there are facts that are just less relevant in certain languages. The English article on the model railway scale HO spends the majority of its introduction on a lengthy explanation that HO stands for "Half O", and the O scale is actually part of the set of 0, 1, 2 and 3 scale, but English speakers still use the letter O. Which is important to note in an English article, but completely irrelevant in the majority of languages that don't share this very British quirk and call it H0 instead.

Cultural diversity is a big strength of wikipedia. Turning everything into one smooshed together thing would be a travesty. Making the various different versions more accessible to readers would be helpful, but it would also dilute the diversity as it would certainly bring more editors of one language into other language versions of the same article, leading to more homogenized viewpoints and a view that's even more dominated by the most active wikipedians (presumably Americans and Germans)
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-05-19 21:52:29+00:00
Generally its universities that are getting the money directly. Its mostly for big ticket items, especially buildings, and especially where they can attach their name to it. Like at Stanford its the "Gates Computer Science" building.

Other than that there are foundations that issue grants to individual researchers, e.g. Gates also has a foundation. There are others such as Burroughs-Wellcome, Clayton Foundation, etc.

The private foundations are generally very stingy with "Facilities and Administration" fees, which was in the news recently as the fight over NIH/NSF funding which can go in the 50-60% range. Private generally doesn't go over 15%, frequently its much less.
by ldunn | 2025-05-19 21:52:38+00:00
The diagram on the Wikipedia page for Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates[1] does the job. There you see the trajectory of some infalling observer along with some future light cones[2] of points along that trajectory and the event horizon marked as the dashed line. The usual Schwarzschild r and t coordinates are also shown as the pale hyperbolas.

Say the trajectory that's drawn on the diagram is the trajectory of your feet. Now consider a second trajectory which begins slightly displaced "outwards" (that is, rightwards at t=0 on the diagram) from this first one - that's your head. Hopefully you agree that the head-trajectory would have to do something pretty strange to avoid crossing through the future lightcone of your feet, even behind the horizon. This doesn't require signals from your feet to travel "outward" - it's just that your head is travelling "inward".

K-S coordinates make it pretty clear that nothing drastic happens to the structure of spacetime at the event horizon - everything is perfectly regular. It's just that once you cross the horizon, the singularity (the thick hyperbola at the top of the diagram) is inevitably in your future: there is no trajectory within any future lightcone behind the horizon that doesn't run into the singularity. You're doomed to run into it in finite time, and all your future lightcones lie entirely behind the horizon.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%E2%80%93Szekeres_coord...

[2]: A useful feature of K-S coordinates is that lightcones are always at +-45 degrees
by lxgr | 2025-05-19 21:52:40+00:00
It does happen, but it's pretty rare compared to Windows in my experience, where inconvenience is essentially guaranteed.

Firefox on Linux did not really enjoy being updated while running, as far as I remember; Chrome was fine with it, but only since it does some extra work to bypass the problem via its "zygote process": https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...
by lambdaba | 2025-05-19 21:52:46+00:00
I don't use Determinate Nix but I've heard it recommended. As I've said I've had 1 or 2 issues with my Nix install on Mac over several years.

Re: ffmpeg, it's just something do to with default codecs or something I don't remember, I'm not even sure I really needed it but I saw it on my packages list and since I use nix-darwin it doesn't matter that much where the package comes from. I have hundreds of packages from nixpkgs, many shared with Linux, and quite a few Mac specific ones.

Again, I'm not part of a Nix cult, I just genuinely have had an overall great experience with Nix and I find the criticism overblown. I guess since a subset of users are very enthusiastic and vocal about it it attracts this.
by conradev | 2025-05-19 21:52:50+00:00
I don't like a lot of the things you mentioned, but I do like some of them.

I like that you have to be Live Scanned to be an EMT or work with children. You aren't forced to do those jobs and they do require a higher level of trust. The FBI opened its fingerprint database a century ago now, and it's been used for a lot of good and I'm sure some bad. But more good?
by bawolff | 2025-05-19 21:53:01+00:00
> Is Israel actually supposed to supply food for the independent state of Palestine whose controlling government in Gaza (Hamas) has initiated said war, while the war is ongoing, and where the food is transferred to areas that are not even controlled by Israeli forces? I don't think that's very common in warfare between states

Under the geneva convention Israel (or any state engaged in war) is expected to do 2 things:

- not unduly hinder aid shipments provided by relief organizations (there are a bunch of details here im glossing over) - anywhere where they are occupying they are expected to ensure that the civilian population has the neccesities of survival. Providing it themselves if neccesary.

It doesn't matter who started the war, who is right, who is wrong. The rules are for the protection of non combatants, not for the people involved in the war.
by okanat | 2025-05-19 21:53:18+00:00
Of course that depends on the component and the access level. RAM chip broken? Tough luck. A deep kernel driver accessing random memory like CrowdStrike; you'll still crash. One needs an almost microkernel-like separation for preventing such issues.

However, there are certain APIs like WDDM timeout detection and recovery: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d... . It is like a watchdog that'll restart the driver without BSOD'ing. You'll get a crash dump out of it too.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-05-19 21:53:22+00:00
This is something I've noticed as well with different AIs. They seem to disproportionately trust data read from the web. For example, I asked to check if some obvious phishing pages were scams and multiple times I got just a summary of the content as if it was authoritative. Several times I've gotten some random chinese repo with 2 stars presented as if it was the industry standard solution, since that's what it said in the README.

On an unrelated note, it also suggested I use the "Strobe" protocol for encryption and sent me to https://strobe.cool which is ironic considering that page is all about making one hallucinate.
by 9283409232 | 2025-05-19 21:53:28+00:00
> Decoupling all systems is expensive, it cheaper to wait 4 years.

People who say this haven't internalized how much shit the US is in. In the absolute best case scenario where there is a fair election and the Democrats retake the federal government, the decisions made over the next 4 years will have harrowing effects throughout the world that will take decades to recover from.

In the most likely case scenario, Republicans will continue trying to expand their fascist power and suppress the judiciary and their stranglehold on Congress so they can effectively remain in power indefinitely.
by dakiol | 2025-05-19 21:53:38+00:00
No. The "golden" end state of coding agents is free and open source coding agents running on my machine (or in whatever machine I want). Can you imagine paying for every command you run in your terminal? For every `ls`, `ps`, `kill`? No sense, right? Well, same for LLMs.

I'm not saying "ban propietary LLMs", I'm saying: hackers (the ones that used to read sites like this) should have as their main tools free and open source ones.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-05-19 21:53:42+00:00
I really want to like Windows 11, and I enjoy using WSL, but Microsoft treats me too much like an adversary for me to tolerate it as a daily driver. Only a complete scumbag of a product manager would think pushing Candy Crush ads is a good idea.

I’ve got an airgapped Toughbook that I use for the few Windows apps I really need to talk to strange hardware.
by kouru225 | 2025-05-19 21:54:47+00:00
This is the argument the student makes:

> “I’m just a kid in college, if I can do this, can you imagine the scale and power of the tools that may be used by rogue actors?” Sairaj Balaji, a computer science student at SRMIST Chennai, India, told 404 Media in an online chat.

We all need to collectively accept that we're dealing with the most effective propaganda tool ever created, and have been dealing with it since before we even knew it was possible to create
by thorum | 2025-05-19 21:55:37+00:00
Google’s ability to offer inference for free is a massive competitive advantage vs everyone else:

> Is Jules free of charge?

> Yes, for now, Jules is free of charge. Jules is in beta and available without payment while we learn from usage. In the future, we expect to introduce pricing, but our focus right now is improving the developer experience.

https://jules-documentation.web.app/faq
by mcv | 2025-05-19 21:56:13+00:00
Why such a crippling policy? Like you said, many successful entrepreneurs are university dropouts. For research grants, sure, go to PhDs. But if you want a tech industry, you need to cast a much wider net than that.

Although there's also NLNet that hands out open source subsidies from the EU. That might be more accessible, although I also get the impression that the money is a lot less. I don't have any experience with it, though.
by XorNot | 2025-05-19 21:56:26+00:00
But the other side of this is that there's a contract violation going on: []byte can be mutated, but io.Reader cannot.

When I pass io.Reader I don't expect anything underneath it to be changed except the position. When I pass []byte it might be mutated.

So really solving the requires a whole new type - []constbyte or something (in general Go really needs stronger immutability guarantees - I've taken to putting Copy methods on all my struts just so I can get guaranteed independent copies, but I have to do it manually).
by thih9 | 2025-05-19 21:56:54+00:00
The article addresses some of these points:

> EIB President Nadia Calviño emphasizes the bank's willingness to take more risks, notably speeding up the venture capital financing process, which could be pivotal for startups in a fast-moving market

> The bank aims to process startup financing applications within six months, significantly improving from the current 18-month timespan.
by luckylion | 2025-05-19 21:57:13+00:00
They are bureaucratic and risk averse.

You could go on unemployment and cost them for a year or two, and they instead subsidize you starting a business for 6-12 months to the same amount. Worst case, you fail, and they spent the same amount they would have nevertheless.

Low-interest loans you won't get without taking on personal liability for your business loan. It's low-cost capital, but it's also low risk.

Tax-delays/exemptions for small companies isn't a big bet, it's risking a fraction of a fraction of a percent.

Venture investments by the government is rare (for good reasons, it'd be a huge opportunity for corruption).
by dismalaf | 2025-05-19 21:57:35+00:00
Google "Dell suspend issues". It's just their computers, it doesn't work any better on Windows. My wife has had 2 Dell laptops now, neither suspended properly ever (and she only runs Windows). According to the internet, this is a Dell problem. One of her laptops also had the Wifi card break within 4 hours of use, brand new. But she likes the "design" and is stubborn.
by SllX | 2025-05-19 21:57:55+00:00
It does matter, even excluding America, Russia and the PRC, none of which are signatories, as well as the other non-members: the world is a big place. The ICC has many signatories across the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. An international institution doesn’t automatically become a European one when America leaves the room.

> Nothing screams "complicit in genocide" like attacking and cripling the institution investigating such crimes.

The law you cited is clear. Don’t touch American service members and American service members won’t touch the court. Reasonable enough given we aren’t party to the court and will not be held subject to its jurisdiction.
by bawolff | 2025-05-19 21:58:26+00:00
> What's legally questionable, is for ICC to claim jurisdiction over Israel - a nation that never signed to or ratified the ICC statue.

They do not claim that.

What they claim: - palestine is a state (probably the most controversial claim)

- states have the right to punish crimes that happen in their borders regardless of who commits them

- states can delegate that right to other parties

- Palestine delegated that right to the ICC.

Additionally from an international law perspective, there is the idea that some things are preemptorary norms which apply to all states. This includes things like parts of the geneva convention or the genocide convention that define certain crimes. Based on the precedent at nuremburg, an international body can setup a tribunal to punish those crimes even against the will of the state in question. The ICC doesnt use this but its fairly well established doctribe in intl law.
by aorloff | 2025-05-19 21:58:29+00:00
Ok great, and what ?

I spent 25 years in the industry and a dozen as a manager and I can tell you that straight up racism against black and latino people has been coddled and tolerated for a long time.

The solution isn't to say: we won't hire white people, but it is to say, we have to create teams that are heterogeneous (and doing what that takes).

Your personal anecdotes are not what makes up racism, writ large. And the fact that this has to be explained is, you know, the thing.