MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by samiv | 2025-06-29 21:37:47+00:00
I expect the "death of the middle class" musician to be part of the same phenomenon that is sweeping through all our western societies.

The hollowing out of the middle class, wealth distribution producing more unequal societies where few people amass wealth and more of the (previously just working class but now more and more of the middle class) are pushed out a lower rung of the income/wealth bracket and ultimately completely displaced.

Fundamentally in a healthy economy the money is the blood that circulates around. If you create an economy where most of the wealth is held up by few rich individuals who then use the wealth to buy more assets and produce more wealth it means that other less well off people will get displaced in the society and that means that they will also not be able to afford to participate in the society to buy goods and services simply because they have no financial means to do so.

And to those who immediately go "but the economy isn't zero sum game", yes that's correct. But when the real economy is growing at 1-2% rate and the musks and bezos and other wealthy individuals are growing their wealth at +20% per year that means it effectively is a zero sum game and some people's slice of the pie is ever growing at the cost of everyone else.

But then people say "but the rich people invest". Yes but how much of that is actually active investment in new businesses and how much of that is just investing in asset portfolios, property and other financial instruments?

Also to grow more businesses and start new businesses you need an individual who has financial means to take risk, has an idea, stomach for risk and determination and drive to start business. Many people do not have that.

For the economy to grow new businesses which one is better? 1 person with $1m and 9 with $0 or 10 ppl with 100k each? What are the chances and probabilities in each scenario that the person who has the qualities to start a new business is capable of doing so?

If you want to see the future (especially relevant for US and UK since they're furthest along the way) just look at the economy of Nigeria or India for example. Few rich people, tiny middle class and large swathes of people in poverty.
by hitekker | 2025-06-29 21:37:58+00:00
IIRC, Alex Gaynor was championing Memory Safety & Rust in the FTC. But then he left (or was ejected?) before the Trump Administration came in.

I have no clue who is carrying the torch now. Someone probably, given that OP's document references Rust 16 times and Java just 4. But we'll have to see how CISA shakes out after its funding gets cut due to alleged mission creep
by epolanski | 2025-06-29 21:38:05+00:00
That's what they are scaring everyone with:

> Europe's airline market is built on choice. Forcing a mandatory trolley bag strips passengers of that choice and obliges passengers to pay for services they may not want or need

In any case I'm for it, I'm sick of finding how much am I really paying after 10 minutes of form filling. Price comparators are absolutely useless since they don't include such basic fees like a small trolley.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-29 21:38:11+00:00
I'm working on getting all my supported iOS/MacOS/WatchOS/TVOS apps ready for Version 26 (Liquid Glass).

It introduces quite a few changes. In my shipping apps, I'll probably be simply telling the OS not to use Liquid Glass (for now), but for my various test harni, I will need to adapt. Looks like a fair bit of work.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-06-29 21:38:21+00:00
> the absolute living standards of all members of society, including the least well off, have never been better

that is completely wrong. purchasing power is at an all time low in real dollar terms

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0R

> we need to be careful that our obsession to obstruct the rich doesn't leave the masses worse off

we need to be careful that the obsession with being mega rich doesn't leave the masses worse off

you're not proposing anything. you don't even seem to think there's a problem. let me guess, the best thing to do is just keep things the way they are? what are you talking about?
by fzeroracer | 2025-06-29 21:38:31+00:00
You keep repeating things that are simply not historically true. We know factually that Israel was blockading and enforcing their will in Gaza as early as 1991.

I don't see a need to engage with you further, especially as you increasingly use dog whistles to tacitly support the actions of Israel while repeating clear propaganda. Your arguments are not helping as much as you think, and only increasingly turning people against Israel as their actions become more and more obvious.
by v5v3 | 2025-06-29 21:39:15+00:00
Not talking about Stanford or Tech as such, but regularly I come across research and think "someone actually funded that..." i.e. The strength of some researchers is their brilliance in filling in the grant application and making their proposal seem worthwhile.

And I have met PHD students who are never going to create anything innovative.

So a sensible but not crippling tightening up would be ok by me, as a lot of research is of course excellent and you wouldn't want to destroy that.

I expect to be downvoted. :-)
by Aachen | 2025-06-29 21:39:32+00:00
https://xkcd.com/1200/

It feels bad to post a link-only response but I really don't have anything to add to it. On a system used by multiple persons, sure, you help prevent that a compromise on sister's account immediately impacts mom's and dad's accounts, but that qualification isn't in the comment and probably most computers that HN readers use are single user. Or on a server, dropping privileges speaks for itself. But if you're on a desktop and you do online banking in your browser and also open email attachments on that computer... Not being admin would only help clean up the situation without needing to make a live boot (namely, you could theoretically trust the admin user and switch to that) but this isn't recommended practice anyway if you're not a malware specialist and can make sure it is fully gone. I cannot think of any situation where a single user desktop system benefits from admin privilege separation

So basically, what the comic conveys

> The best anti malware

Not being admin doesn't prevent malware from running and gaining persistence within your user account...
by SlowTao | 2025-06-29 21:39:58+00:00
> The great thing about AI, it is finally a killer feature that is enjoyed and useful by every user worldwide.

We must live in very different worlds. Most people I know absolutely hate it and are immediately put off by anything that tries to force it in.

I am not AI but it needs to be used purposefully rather than just another check box to the feature set.

Productivity gains for some, needless slop for others.
by Groxx | 2025-06-29 21:40:21+00:00
if you have multiple files that are read in a function, and they might lead to different error handling... then sometimes yeah, perhaps they should be different types so you are guaranteed to know that this is a possibility, and can choose to do something specific when X happens. or to be informed if the library adds another file to the mix.

it isn't always the case, of course, but it also isn't always NOT the case.
by pyromaker | 2025-06-29 21:41:09+00:00
I'm working on Fro (https://fro.app)

Haven't released properly yet - not sure if it's stable but oh well.

I don't like using my personal email to sign up for things. But there are definitely things that I do want to sign up for - newsletters, try out some services.

I know there are temporary email services, but I actually want to use these services. Of course there is Apple email that forwards to your real email.

But, I also don't want to flood my inbox.

Anyway, I wanted to receive these transactional emails in my personal Slack.

So, that's what Fro is for (https://fro.app)

- Sign up - get an email address - link to your Slack channel

And you can now catch up on those newsletters via Slack.
by zahlman | 2025-06-29 21:41:13+00:00
> If an admin elevation popup happens when you haven't triggered it then you probably know something is wrong. And most malware will not be able to install.

Malware can still do a lot without "installation". Running as an unprivileged user, it can still do anything to/with the filesystem that the user would be able to do, and will (on most normal setups) be able to make outbound Internet connections without limitation. In short, these kinds of privileges don't protect against data exfiltration, ransomware operating on the user's important data files, simple vandalism....
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-29 21:41:33+00:00
It depends what domain you're operating in. If you're only ever patching CVEs it shows up less, because if you've implemented that data race where the first and last lines are separate SQL queries, you're not going to get a CVE against the database software for it. Then it only even gets discovered if someone actually starts exploiting it or the race is so severe that it happens under normal use and then at the end of the quarter the accountants start asking why the numbers don't add up.
by sethops1 | 2025-06-29 21:41:53+00:00
I'm working on https://tickerfeed.net - a new kind of forum for stock market discussion.

After HashiCorp was acquired by IBM I decided to take time off from corporate life and build something for myself. For years I've also been a casual retail investor on the side.

Forums like /r/stocks and /r/wsb in the past have been useful resources for finding leads and interesting information. But meme-ification (among other factors) have substantially degraded sites like Reddit, to the point where interesting comments are much fewer and far in between. With TickerFeed I'm hoping to recapture what was lost - a platform where investors can discuss companies and all things stock market through meaningful long form content.

It's also a chance to build something with my dream stack - Go + HTMX + SQLite, and that's been fun :)
by rglullis | 2025-06-29 21:42:07+00:00
> It is hard to justify dealing with Linux desktop and PC hardware even at a price premium

There is only one justification that I need: Apple wants me in a golden cage, and I don't want to lose my freedom at any cost. No matter how much cheaper it can get, not matter how much "better" than the competition it is, it is not worth the price. I do not exchange my freedom for convenience, status or some materialistic joy. It's as simple as that.

All your arguments against Linux are at best circumstantial and at worst bogus. Of course it is not perfect. Of course it has limitations. But it's undeniable that the gap between FOSS and Windows/Apple is getting narrower and narrower, despite the FOSS side getting a minuscule fraction of the resources available to trillion dollar corporations.

And the really fucked up part is that You are the one claiming to "hate" Apple, yet you keep buying their products and making their market dominance ever stronger.

---

Just to address your "claims":

> we can spot a linux user by how long it takes him to unmute himself

Never had any issues of that sort, whether I was using Google Meet, Slack, Zoom or anything else.

> KDE plasma would get messed up very frequently. Gnome was more stable

I've been using XFCE since 2010 (When Ubuntu went with Unity). It is not fancy and does everything I need.

> issues with fractional scaling X11 apps on Wayland.

It has been working fine on my Desktop and my Framework laptop for some good 3 years, when I actually bothered to look. Before that, I'd just go by through customization of window zoom levels (browser) and font-size (emacs, terminal, GTK apps).

> My LG C4 cannot be used at 4k/120Hz because you cant get HDMI 2.1 on Linux/AMD

hum, too bad? How significantly was your quality of life affected by this? Curiously, I also use an LG monitor with AMD running at 4k/60Hz, and the fact that I am "missing out" on something here does not even cross my mind.

> Installing a DAW took days of reading audio routing docs

Did you get it working? Was the software FOSS? Can you share your findings back with the developers and help them improve their product, or are you going to keep rationalizing the abusive relationship you're in because "at least things just work, most of the time".
by majormajor | 2025-06-29 21:42:35+00:00
I assume the motivation is to rein in something seen as semi-deceitful advertising. If you're advertising a lower price because you're excluding the cost of something that much of the competition already has baked in, that you know a high percentage of your customers will end up paying for, who is that really benefiting?

A market isn't made more efficient by consumers having to do more research and homework around "what are the hidden fees that might surprise me?"

I haven't flow budget airlines in the EU but in the US the budget ones often end up more expensive for the average customer after re-adding all the fees. So it's not just "don't charge people who won't use it," it's "have leverage to charge more for it by making people only realize they have to pay for it later."

(Though to be completely honest, carry-on baggage has gone fairly nuts since airlines started charging for checked bags.)
by dheera | 2025-06-29 21:43:01+00:00
I'm against charging for bathrooms, water, or other such basic human needs while you are in the custody of the airline for the duration of travel. There should be a basic standard of human care that includes those things. Food should also be included for flights over 5-ish hours.

Carry-on fees are a whole another level of shittiness though. I, the customer, am the one carrying the bag, there should be no reason to charge for it.

It's like charging extra for wearing a red shirt or charging extra for wearing a hat.
by smeej | 2025-06-29 21:43:09+00:00
I guess a significant amount of my experience learning to deal with narcissists has involved learning not to treat them like I treat "(regular) people," in the sense that they process things so completely differently that they get their own whole set of expectations. But my approach is one I've been building ad hoc since infancy, so I readily acknowledge it's a long way from sophisticated.

As soon as someone sets off my narcissist detector, they get switched to a whole different interaction management protocol with its own set of rules and expectations. That's what I think people should apply to their dealings with LLMs, even though I do technically agree that narcissists are humans!
by arianvanp | 2025-06-29 21:43:45+00:00
Id say 90% of my flights I don't take carry on luggage. This is about things that have to go in overhead bin. Backpacks that fit under your seat have always been free.

You can easily carry 2 weeks of clothes in a backpack. I guess goodbye to 20 euro flight deals it is because they're just gonna raise all the prices by 50 bucks to compensate I guess
by sebtron | 2025-06-29 21:44:22+00:00
I would rather see them ban the dark patterns that nudge you to buy a "premium" ticket when you just want to add a luggage item and couldn't care less about priority boarding and whatnot. I am a fairly experienced traveller but I still get scammed by this from time to time. Now I'll instead have to pay for cabin luggage even when I want to travel with backpack only.
by photochemsyn | 2025-06-29 21:44:29+00:00
"A commercial lotion composed of aqua, glycerin, Brassica campestris seed oil, Butyrospermum parkii butter, ceteareth-12, ceteareth-20, cetearyl alcohol, ethylhexyl stearate, Simmondsia chinensis seed oil, tocopherol, caprylyl glycol, citric acid, sodium hydroxide, acrylates/C10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer, sodium gluconate, and phenoxyethanol was chosen for this experiment."

Personal health recommendation: You'd be better off rubbing down with olive oil or sunflower oil than with that concoction, most likely. The ancient Greeks got some things right.
by roughly | 2025-06-29 21:44:31+00:00
A conversation I’ve had with several people is: do you want to be right or do you want to get shit done? I dabbled in management for a bit, and spending time figuring out how different people communicated, how to hear and speak to them, and what their motivations were meant I could build a team out of anyone. Same here - yes, it’s all an ape dance, but we’re all apes, and if you know the dance moves, it’s a whole lot easier to move through the tribe.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-29 21:45:02+00:00
> I don't like this...I just take...and a small bag.

That's the thing they're charging for :)

> Why is this somewhere the government had to intervene?

I am skeptical of intervention generally, but #1) it got out of hand entirely, particularly RyanAir, #2) they're intervening because that's the law. They're finally getting around to enforcing it. This is where the They the People drew a line w/r/t opportunity to charge fees.

Most importantly, you didn't expect to get charged the fee for your small bag. That gives us a revealed preference, the most honest of all.
by qudat | 2025-06-29 21:45:05+00:00
We host a static site service where users can manage their sites via ssh (https://pgs.sh). Previously we used minio for object storage but have become frustrated by its perf issues on smaller VMs, don't need the distributed features, and wanted something a little lighter weight. We initially thought Garage could check most of our boxes but very quickly discovered perf issues there as well.

So we decided to build out our own filesystem adapter and recently deployed it. It's pretty exciting to have our own solution that does exactly what we need and appears significantly faster.

It makes us want to open source pgs.sh because it has fewer dependencies in order to deploy.
by SlowTao | 2025-06-29 21:45:05+00:00
Doom... 8 years ago...

Like seriously that they have just gone all in on higher end hardware for Doom Dark ages was kind of disappointing.

Doom 2016 runs at almost 60fps on a Pentium 4!

The one title that did impress me was ’Humanity’but that uses a heavily modifed Unreal 4 engine, but it all runs very smoothly on limited hardware because of some smart design choices.
by alganet | 2025-06-29 21:45:07+00:00
> users will need new devices as artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent

Some new hardware (crazy expensive, crazy features or quality or driven by semi-industrial requirements)

> exploring new interaction paradigms

> moving beyond traditional typing and screen-based interactions

Non-anthropomorphic AIs (it's the only paradigm shift road not travelled).

--

It seems like I've nailed 2/3 of my predictions from 6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492402

The other prediction was easy so I'm not counting (war continues, prices goes up).
by postalcoder | 2025-06-29 21:45:16+00:00
I'm still working on hcker.news, which first started as a more configurable hacker news frontpage, but has turned into a thing that I've found to be quite helpful at content discovery.

I recently by request[0] added a cohesive timeline view for hn's /bestcomments. The comments are grouped by story and presented in the order that they were added to the /bestcomments page. It's a great way to see popular comments on active topics. I'm going to add other frills like sorting and filtering, but this seems to be as good a time as any to get some of your thoughts!

You can check it out here: https://hcker.news/?view=bestcomments

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076987 (thx adrianwaj)
by dheera | 2025-06-29 21:45:33+00:00
> Some malware samples are known to do various checks to determine if they are running in a virtual machine.

Not just malware, but some apps are known to do this too, e.g. WeChat.

There needs to be a better virtual machine that tries to emulate everything, including random walks for GPS, IMU noise, barometric noise, temperature fluctuations etc.
by osigurdson | 2025-06-29 21:45:35+00:00
Perhaps instead of UBI we should be doing UBE (Universal Basic Expense). Most governments run deficits today so maybe we start with ending those. Here is how it could work:

At the end of ever taxation year, the government calculates its deficit for the year. Divide this by all income earners at their marginal tax rate. Then, at tax time, the tax payer can choose to either pay this or allow it to accumulate at the same rate that the government charges itself. Maybe once we can cover deficits we can start thinking about UBI.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-29 21:45:41+00:00
"Bounded 2-adic integers" would only make sense if you were bounding the 2-adic norm. Integers mod 2^n would be closer to "approximate fixed-point 2-adic integers".

(Alas, most languages don't expose a convenient multiplicative inverse for their integer types, and it's a PITA to write a good implementation of the extended Euclidean algorithm every time.)
by CharlesW | 2025-06-29 21:45:53+00:00
In the spirit of inclusiveness to non-technical folks who are flummoxed by CLIs but also have a religious objection to running closed software on their closed source OS, I'd recommend that they ask a more technically-inclined friend to set up the open source Tailscale client software with Cattail if they're on Windows, or an Automation that drives the CLI if they're on macOS.
by ogou | 2025-06-29 21:46:15+00:00
Most of the sources in the article are anonymous. Their descriptions of specific shootings are uncorroberated. I question the veracity of this article. It is clearly designed to elicit a pre-determined result and is conjecture and evocative narrative disguised as journalism. If these officers and soldiers are so morally outraged, let them say so on camera with their name underneath. If this is really happening and they are real soldiers who were actually there, then any concerns for their careers or safety should be secondary to revealing the truth in an open and verifiable way.
by gerdesj | 2025-06-29 21:46:23+00:00
"Everybody disables SELinux"

That implies you are probably using a RH jobbie. With no working whatsover, I assert that many more Linux desktops will be rocking apparmor or no kernel security module.

Oh and no I don't disable SELinux, except as a quick check to see if that is what is causing issues. Obviously I'm not everyone, but I am someone.
by virtualritz | 2025-06-29 21:46:31+00:00
What is "cabin bag measuring up to 100cm" in the article supposed to mean?

Are these the combined dimensions? I.e. W + D + H?

Edit: to answer my own question, that seems to indeed to be the meaning according to [1]. And it can weigh a max. of 7kg.

Most airlines in the EU currently allow 10kg for cabin baggage and people got used to that. So that's where they will probably have a (new) way to keep charging fees.

[1] https://ftnnews.com/travel-news/aviation/eu-plans-to-ban-car...
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-06-29 21:47:03+00:00
Well, that's precisely the point of these frameworks. They give direct access to the hardware in order to gain the speed advantages of ... directly accessing the hardware. The PCIe aspect of this is just (very high level description) a way to let the hardware know what VM is making the request.

You're now at the mercy of the hardware manufacturer on whether there's isolation between the different "partitions" or ... nothing at all. Your attack surface expands in a way that's difficult to imagine.
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 21:47:24+00:00
Octelium itself is designed to be a generic secure access platform that can operate in many environments (from a simple ngrok-tier remote access tool, remote access/corporate VPN up to a full-fledged scalable ZTNA/BeyondCorp platform among many other specific use cases such as API/AI/MCP gateways) at many levels (i.e. dev, startup, enterprise). Think of Kubernetes, you can use it to host a single website running on a single container, you can use it as an API gateway for a few microservices and you can use it as a fully-featured service mesh of hundreds if not thousands of microservices running on tens if not hundreds of nodes with enterprise-level tools such as SPIFFE, Istio, etc...