MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrkramer | 2025-06-29 11:41:38+00:00
Perhaps but I would argue that the most likely reason is genetics plus traumatic childhood. Manson had traumatic childhood; living on the streets, committing crime and spending half of his life in prison and in state institutions. When you add drugs and hippie flower power music scene to that you get Manson.

Bundy also had traumatic childhood not knowing who his real father is and believing his mother is his older sister while being raised by his grandparents. He was violent sex addict always craving for more and more. Imo his genetics played the key part in his deviant violent behavior.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-29 11:42:04+00:00
"they all know each other"

Stop right there. In this industry, a clique of people who all know each other attest each other superhuman abilities? Unheard of!

Shouldn't "AI" write itself by now and make them redundant?

This WSJ article is like a Cisco article in 1999. Beware of the crash.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-06-29 11:42:05+00:00
To be blunt, the numbers show that the main problem is the listener. Most just do not care to choose so they consume what they're told is cool. If you think you care but consistently listen to artists present in Spotify's top 100 by choice, sorry, you're part of the problem too. Most being passive consumers has always been the case, but the system perfects itself with time and less and less attention trickles down.

Notice, how I used "attention" and not "money" or even "listens". Just look at the first and the main goalpost independent artist set for themselves. It's no longer "buy our music" or "come to our show", by now they strive to convince the audience to attempt to listen to their songs.

By this time I consider an artist that's only present in streaming services and lacks a visible way of direct distribution of their music (which includes such services as Bandcamp, for now) either an utterly mismanaged one or, again, a part of the problem†.

The only way for the artist to feel appreciated is building their loyal fan base, but if you don't want to wear the "entertainer" hat (which now equals becoming a circus monkey for the trending social media) this becomes harder and harder for a bunch of reasons:

1. Music is just not as culturally important as it was 50 years ago. 2. Live shows are in decline and dominated by cover/tribute acts. 3. As correctly mentioned in TFA, you're fighting with everything else plus everything that came before you. 4. The world is closing. Visas have always been a curse‡, but nowadays even if I jump through a myriad of hoops and get one, I can't even cross the border to the countries we usually started the tours from in a previous life. 5. The internet feels like a collapsing space too, though it's probably the most controversial opinion of mine.

There's also a problem of NNGC. At least the previous boom (blockchain) promised to make things better in some way (and it did, but underdelivered tenfold), but the current one ("AI") doesn't even do that — there's not even a positive scenario how the life of a common artist becomes better, unless "post-scarcity" truly happens (it won't).

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†: To clarify, this is about modern artists, things are a bit different when we speak about "legacy" acts that jump started their careers in a different era.

‡: Even though in case of EU most artists entering didn't care and used their tourist visas because they did not make any money anyway.
by eru | 2025-06-29 11:42:15+00:00
I was describing a simpler system for implementing UBI. You are right that I left out how to transition to that system.

For example, you could do more or less the same thing that the UK did to abolish slavery: buy out all the existing land owners / lease holders.

I suggested 20 years as a reasonable time frame for leases. In principle, 100 years might would also work. 999 years is probably far too long.

Now, instead of auctioning off the leases, you can also have individuals officially owning the land, but instead you tax them a certain fraction of the market value of the land every year. Economically that's equivalent.

A 999 year lease is basically economically the same as owning the land. So you should more or less treat it the same.
by jmsdnns | 2025-06-29 11:42:29+00:00
he was vocal about his opposition to intrusive ads in particular. he'd say "You’re either the customer or you’re the product." he believed users paid a premium for apple products and that they should not be subjected to compromises with advertising.

iAd was something that happened right at the end of his life because devs were putting ads in apple apps anyway and he wanted to control how that was done.

this is meant to add context to what bluedevilzn said, btw. it is not a refutation.
by yieldcrv | 2025-06-29 11:44:33+00:00
I saw a court case where a mom testified against her adult child and said she drank while she was pregnant, resulting in undermining all of the child defendants decision making process resulting in the defendant’s conviction

To be honest this felt like one of those “too poor for appeal’s court” things

But a ridiculous way of treating a defendant

Imagine if we could tell someone had a mental alteration
by eru | 2025-06-29 11:44:56+00:00
> Answer to both those questions, simplifying massively: the most prosperous period of capitalism in the past 200 years was also that where there was the smallest levels of inequality.

You mean today? Today is the most prosperous period of all of world history. Or what period are you talking about?

Global inequality is also near all-time lows, thanks to China, India and the rest of Asia mostly catching up to the rich western countries. Alas, Africa is still quite poor, but they are working on it.

> The point of view that you must only look at the overall floor is terribly short-sighted (and even then, the lower and middle classes have become WORSE off in the past 40 years!).

In what sense?

> The massive increases in wealth have been going overwhelmingly to the pockets of the very rich; this is bad in itself, irrespective of the overall GDP growth or whatever.

Why?

> Read Pikkety's books and you will understand.

See eg https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/th...
by xienze | 2025-06-29 11:45:46+00:00
> That's why poor people pay the highest percentage of their income

The key word here is income. “Wealth” and “income” tend to be conflated by ostensibly intelligent people who should know better. If I’m granted a million dollars in stock but draw a $20K salary, I’m “wealthy” but not “paying my fair share” because I’ve hardly earned any income for the year.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-29 11:46:51+00:00
Physical activity is the clear winner just from an overall impact perspective, but you don't need much to reap the benefits, so there's plenty of time for other stuff.

Beyond that, I'd say learning an instrument is probably a better investment than learning a language unless you need to learn the second language to live somewhere. This is because:

- language learning takes a LOT of time investment to show utility compared to using a translate app, while a lot of instruments are fun to play stuff on even when you suck

- Music is also a language, but it's a language of tonal relationships and how they map to emotion, and the emotional phrases they can form, which is more distinct than another spoken language.

- Learning an instrument also forces heavy bidirectional communication between brain hemispheres. Normally humans are very "one half brain then the other" so this encourages more plasticity.

Puzzles have been shown to be poor for cognitive development unless they closely model the cognitive task being measured, so don't bother unless you just really like puzzles.
by holowoodman | 2025-06-29 11:47:04+00:00
Mostly weapons and weapons components. E.g. Israel operates a number of German-built and partially gifted submarines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin-class_submarine

Also, Israel is a trade partner, which is important because the non-western countries are hesitant to trade with them. Israel is culturally integrated into certain European institutions, in part due to German support (soccer, Eurovision, other sports).
by lproven | 2025-06-29 11:47:43+00:00
AIUI: you need an existing compositor to run Xwayland.

An X server is a display server: it can run on its own, and apps can output to it, with nothing else running. When one program runs early on and provides windows furniture, that's a window manager.

If that program (or associated ones with a uniform look and feel) also provides UI functionality so you don't need to use a command prompt, such as tools to launch apps, see and manage files, edit text files, mount and unmount media, and maybe things like see the time, adjust system settings, do calculations, etc. then that is called a desktop environment.

Wayland is not like this. Wayland is a protocol. There are no separate display servers. What under X is called a "window manager" usually talks Wayland and so other apps talk directly to the WM over Wayland in order to display stuff.

There's no bottom layer program, no server. The WM is the display server. Without a WM you can't run anything.

That means you need a Wayland compositor to run anything else, such as XWayland.

This means that you can't use an X WM to be the compositor, because the layer needed to run the WM is not there until another different app provides the Wayland environment, and then it's the WM and your X WM can't take over. Remove the compositor, there's no GUI.

This is not a question of whipping out the tablecloth from under a fully-laid table. It's removing the table.

So what this project looks like is a compositor that isn't a WM and so enables Xwayland to run full-screen as the root window, letting you use an X WM as your desktop with no Wayland WM.

It sounds of great interest to me because whereas there are about half a dozen X desktops and environments I like, some I've been using for decades now, there is not a single Wayland environment I would be willing to use.
by exiguus | 2025-06-29 11:47:49+00:00
Thx for the hint. I found a introduction to Design Thinking Process Guide by the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford [1].

I worked before with the IBM Design Thinking Field Guide [2]. That offers some hands-on examples to work with users and stakeholders. Now, when i think about this, you may use Design Thinking to solve social-problems. With all the benefits and issues (like feature creep) you have in software engineering.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~mshanks/MichaelShanks/files/509554...

[2] https://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/spring18/cs130/hw/IBM-Design...
by skissane | 2025-06-29 11:48:01+00:00
> Nanometer-scale nodes wear out much more quickly. Modern GPUs have a rated lifespan in the 3-7 year range, depending on usage.

I recently bought a new MacBook, my previous one having lasted me for over 10 years. The big thing that pushed me to finally upgrade wasn’t hardware (which as far as I could tell had no major issues), it was the fact that it couldn’t run latest macOS, and software support for the old version it could run was increasingly going away.

The battery and keyboard had been replaced, but (AFAIK) the logic board was still the original
by Drakim | 2025-06-29 11:48:37+00:00
> In this case I'm siding with Oracle.

Only because you don't understand Trademarks. They are not copyrights.

Trademarks exists to protect consumers, so they don't mix together companies and products that have too similar name or branding. So somebody can't release a product called iPhona for $600 in the hopes that somebody will overlook the typo and order it instead of an iPhone for $600.

If a company is not offering a product based on a trademark, that trademark should actively be removed. Oracle is not using the JavaScript trademark.
by eru | 2025-06-29 11:49:39+00:00
> Where is the "wealth created for the least well off" going to come from?

Well, mostly where everyone's wealth is coming from: from the fruits of their own labour.

> You mainly seem to be against some kind of hypothetical robinhoodesque style redistribution because you worry it's unfair to the rich.

No, I haven't started worrying about fairness, yet. No, I'm afraid that a tax system designed by what sounds good instead of what works will leave the poor even worse off.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence for an example: who you officially levy the taxes on isn't necessarily the person shouldering the economic burden.
by kimixa | 2025-06-29 11:50:21+00:00
There's still plenty of opportunity for playing games with the specific job categorization and level - the definitions are wooly enough and work opaque enough there's functionally no oversight possible.

And because the lottery is purely random and not based on category/level, there's little advantage to the sponsoring company to try for anything but the lowest salaried bucket that kinda fits. At least until it gets to the level where the employee is willing to torpedo their own petition by bringing it up.

Anyone working on software in the USA should check the local prevailing wage for a level 1 "computer programmer", or even "software developer", and ask themselves of they would be interested in applying for their current position at that salary.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-29 11:51:12+00:00
> I've come to the perhaps grim conclusion that the world doesn't value music enough.

What do you mean by not valuing music? Should we allocate more of our paycheck to music? Or should we talk more about how great music is?

> It seems to me that most artists are making music because they love to do it themselves.

I mean, art is ultimately an expression of emotions. If you don't love creating the art you create, unless you have another deep emotional reason to create it, it's going to affect the result quite significantly.

> The current world we live in doesn't care enough about creativity.

This is just human nature though I think. Most people want the fuzzy feeling of something familiar. And then you have those who go to large events for the shared experience of going, rather than what's actually performed.

Personally I love going to smaller venues (<300 people) where the cost of admission is such that I feel I can take the risk of something unknown and outside my comfort zone. But I also realize I'm weird that way.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-29 11:52:10+00:00
>I’ve also read translated classics from my mother tongues and I know how woefully inadequate they feel.

This is an interesting point where our experiences totally differ. I have myself read a few classics in both original and translation, between the English-Latin-Spanish triumvirate, such as Cien Años de Soledad as you mentioned. I percieved little if any drop in quality between Marquez and the translation - indeed I often thought the translated work was superior to the original. It's not a classic in the same vein, but I similarly found the modern Latin translations of Harry Potter were much more fun than the original English prose, which even as a kid felt very workaday and even uninspired at times to me.

So I see this more as evidence that you put a very high aesthetic value on linguistic purism than anything else. You don't just want the thing, you like working really hard to get the original thing. You like pushing the boulder up that hill. To be clear, I consider that an extremely commendable character trait, I just also think it means you're living on another planet compared to most of the population. Which isn't a bad thing, it's nice here.

>I don’t need to sacrifice anything that way.

It may be a sacrifice you're happy to make, but you are absolutely making some kind of large tradeoff every time you invest 500-1500 hours into learning a new language to C1 level, man. Like come on. That's like the economic definition of an opportunity cost.
by skybrian | 2025-06-29 11:53:31+00:00
I think that’s true as far as it goes, but there are further reasons why Haskell is more difficult. Here is one:

In Haskell, the lack of parentheses for function calls plus currying means that to read a function call, you need to already know how many arguments the function takes, which I feel adds a new level of difficulty over languages where you can often guess what a function does based on its name, without looking it up.

As a result, often Haskell reads more like math, where without knowing each symbol’s definition, you’re lost.

I’ve seen cryptic JavaScript too, but less often.
by xienze | 2025-06-29 11:54:21+00:00
This is what everyone forgets when they label anyone against a wealth tax as “temporarily embarrassed billionaires.” Even if the government could convert 100% of a billionaire’s wealth into cash (they can’t) and confiscated it all, great, what are you going to do for revenue next year?

Taxes always START by targeting the wealthy but have this funny habit of applying to more and more people as time goes on. The US income tax was a whopping 1% percent until you made the equivalent of $400K. How’d that work out?
by em500 | 2025-06-29 11:54:26+00:00
Apple Wallet is in the App store, and the F1 ad debacle directly violates App Store guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/)

> 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used to send sensitive personal or confidential information. Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages. Abuse of these services may result in revocation of your privileges.
by klausa | 2025-06-29 11:55:42+00:00
It’s not, you can get a Japanese driving license without living here ; but the government is making some noises to cut back on that (some recent semi-notable accidents caused by foreigners).

It’s apparently been a loophole for Chinese and Vietnamese tourists to get a license that is more recognized abroad then their own.

I think restricting this to residents makes sense; I’m more wary of making it more complex or difficult in other ways, but I also have that quest behind me so I don’t really care to be fair.

As to exam - that depends entirely as to where your “original” driving license is from.

Some countries just need a sufficient amount of paperwork (which sometimes is more difficult than the exam), some require just a theory exam, some require both theory and practical exam. In case of the US, it also differs state by state, because of course it does; why would anything ever make sense.
by giantg2 | 2025-06-29 11:56:23+00:00
Of course there's a downside. It's a tale as old as time. Some new miracle cure comes on the scene and people promote it without relaying the risks. You see this with mushrooms, pot, etc going back to snake oil and silphium. I've never looked into it, but I would bet that there are no medications that exist that don't have some sort of side effect or increase in risk of some negative outcome. So if someone is pushing a cure/medicine its best to assume there is risk, even if we don't yet know the risk.
by FooBarBizBazz | 2025-06-29 11:56:23+00:00
The economy is not a static thing in which the same goods and services are offered independent of the wealth distribution. The same work is not done.

When wealth is concentrated, prices cease to aggregate information and preferences from across the whole society. Instead they represent whatever stupid whim some clique of investors has developed. As a result you get massive malinvestments in speculative bullshit while basic things decay. It's the Politburo but dumber.

This determines the physical environment you live in, the services offered on your street, and the stuff you do at your job.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-29 11:56:28+00:00
If anyone wants to try / use IPv6, but their ISP does not provide it, Hurricane Electric (HE) has offered a tunnel service for many years now:

* https://tunnelbroker.net

* https://ipv6.he.net

There are scrips available to bring up a tun device on your system (or router) and route traffic over it:

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/IPv6_tunnel_via_Hurricane_Ele...

* https://brandonrozek.com/blog/obtaining-ipv6-address-hurrica...

* https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6_setup_Hurricane_...

* https://forum.mikrotik.com/t/auto-update-script-for-hurrican...

* https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/network/hurricane_electri...
by 1718627440 | 2025-06-29 11:56:40+00:00
Aren't auto-replies set up by your users voluntarily? Would really annoy me if the server admin is working against his users.

A spammer still knows whether an address exist, because otherwise the mail would bounce. Unless you also block those? Would that even be an RFC-conformant server? So if I send a mail to your server and have I typo in the address, I wouldn't even know? That sucks, even more so, since a lot of communication is nowadays forced into email and it is silently assumed that every message has arrived by laymans.

Also do you think a spammer cares if your address actually exists? I would expect them to send millions of messages regardless. Curating the addresses would mean that they need to actually spend resources. Given the already low conversion rate, non-existing addresses are just noise. Unless you think about targeted phishing? In this case they probably know your address already.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-29 11:56:49+00:00
When my IPv4 died last time, I noticed it mostly because Github didn't work anymore. These days, most consumer websites just work on IPv6. That said, people whose routers were only provisioned IPv4 DNS servers did have a full outage.

If Microsoft would get off their incompetent assets already, my biggest concern would've been remembering the mDNS hostname I've assigned to my router so I could log in and see if IPv4 is back already.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-29 11:57:59+00:00
> So if Apple really cares about privacy

This is a complete misunderstanding of what I was saying. I wasn’t arguing that Apple “really cares” about privacy; quite the opposite – I was arguing that it doesn’t matter if Apple “really cares”, what matters is that they are financially and strategically incentivised to be pro-privacy.

Linux is not Apple’s competitor. Apple only have to be better at privacy than their competitors.
by graemep | 2025-06-29 11:58:12+00:00
I think advances in IT were a strong net positive for a long time. Certainly until into this century. The way much of it has developed in the last decade or so has been net negative (social media, surveillance, etc.).

> We can access a world of information, but most of it is corrupted by (m|d)isinformation. In fact, most mainstream media is corrupted by it.

We have more sources and can check. Any new medium needs time for people to learn to deal with it. No one doubts that printing has been a net positive, but it was used to spread misinformation - one of the first really influential printed works was Malleus Maleficarum.

> We can communicate with family and loved ones around the world, at the expense of our data being exploited.

Well, they have metadata, but a lot of chat is E2E. Email can be E2E encrypted too but people do not know about it and big companies do not want to support it.

> We can buy and consume easier than ever before, but have to navigate a sea of poor quality products and scams

I think that also reflects the way the wider economy has developed (concentration of production power in big businesses) and culture (people do longer feel a duty to do a good job for customers).

> We have miraculous drugs, most of which are only accessible to the wealthy

The poor have far better access to drugs too. Almost all drugs are available to people in developed countries, and even in poor countries availability has improved a lot.