MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spockz | 2025-06-10 04:57:44+00:00
Cross posting in the right place instead of the other thread:

At first I thought this sounded like a blend of the virtualisation framework with a firecracker style lightweight kernel.

This project had its own kernel, but it also seems to be able to use the firecracker one. I wonder what the advantages are. Even smaller? Making use of some apple silicon properties?

Has anyone tried it already and is it fast? Compared to podman on Linux or Docker Desktop for Mac?
by andsoitis | 2025-06-10 04:59:18+00:00
In Germany, child allowance, also known as "Kindergeld," is a monthly payment provided by the German government to families with children. It is generally paid until the child turns 18, but can be extended in some circumstances, such as if the child is still in school, vocational training, or studying at university, until they turn 25. The Kindergeld is not income-dependent, meaning it is paid to all families with children regardless of their income
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-10 05:01:59+00:00
The problem with the Linux desktop isn't usability, it's the lack of corporate control software. Without corporate MDM and antivirus, you'll find it rather annoying to get a native Linux desktop in many companies.

For Windows and MacOS you can throw a few quick bucks over the wall and tick a whole bunch of ISO checkboxes. For Linux, you need more bespoke software customized to your specific needs, and that requires more work. Sure, the mindless checkboxes add nothing to whatever compliance you're actually trying to achieve, but in the end the auditor is coming over with a list of checkboxes that determine whether you pass or not.

I haven't had a Linux system collapse on me for years now thanks to Flatpak and all the other tools that remove the need for scarcely maintained external repositories in my package manager. I find Windows to be an incredible drag to install compared to any other operating system, though. Setup takes forever, updates take even longer, there's a pretty much mandatory cloud login now, and the desktop looks like a KDE distro tweaked to hell (in a bad way).

Gnome's "who needs a start button when there's one on the keyboard" approach may take some getting used to, but Valve's SteamOS shows that if you prevent users from mucking about with the system internals because gary0x136 on Arch Forums said you need to remove all editors but vi, you end up with a pretty stable system.
by written-beyond | 2025-06-10 05:03:06+00:00
Rust and Swift have done a fair bit of borrowing from each other "pun intended".

I've never got the chance to work with swift since their cross platform compatibility and "server-side swift" have been recent introductions.

In terms comparison, it really is the closest you can get to a rust that ARC BOX's everything (which has/ is planned to come down when lifetimes come in). You get a good runtime and good performance.
by mindslight | 2025-06-10 05:04:09+00:00
Go start a website for the tech scene in your country that presumably isn't in the process of being taken over by fascists? Us Americans need all the avenues to organize we can get.

And it's even topical here - this surveillance industry that grew out of many tech startups is itself at ground zero of this fascist takeover, both boosting extremist disinformation to drive "engagement" and also creating a crop of newly-minted elites with the audacity to kick over the whole apple cart of our American way of life.
by anovikov | 2025-06-10 05:04:40+00:00
Isn't this the case with any invention that greatly improves productivity? Ask early 1800s English textile workers. Their wages did not return back to late 1700s peak, inflation adjusted, till WWI. Does that mean that mechanisation of textile industry was a bad thing? It meant people no longer had to wear $5000 T-shirts (https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-... - I inflation-adjusted $3500 from 2013 to today).
by kalkin | 2025-06-10 05:05:08+00:00
I'm confused-do you support peaceful protest, or do you think that protests always descend into anarchy and require assault rifles to be brought out to kill some people?

What if police attack a peaceful protest--say trampling a lone person with horses (https://www.newsweek.com/la-protestor-stomped-police-horseba...) or shooting a reporter standing by herself (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reporter-los-angeles-protests-r...)? Is there an assault-rifle shaped solution to this kind of anarchy?
by chihuahua | 2025-06-10 05:05:35+00:00
Not just the formatting, but also - why does it start with this sentence:

> Don’t tell me you don’t know await is rogue too, jess christ.

What is that supposed to mean? "rogue"? "rogue too"? "await" is rogue, but something else is also rogue - what is that something else?

"Jess Christ" - why is the author (apparently?) exasperated at the very start of this page?

Why does someone write like this? Apparently not with the goal of being understood.
by antics | 2025-06-10 05:05:38+00:00
What is our goal here? I'm willing to continue this discussion but after answering these questions and seeing your responses elsewhere it does not seem like your understanding is improving (e.g., still misunderstanding that the algorithm does not take "arbitrary" time), so I'm not sure you're getting the value here... If you want to continue maybe we should try you asking specific questions instead.
by BugheadTorpeda6 | 2025-06-10 05:07:23+00:00
I think basically what they are trying to say is that the whole idea that men behave the way they do because of a "lack of education in emotional literacy" or whatever is incorrect. The emotions themselves that bubble to the top between both groups tend to be different and require different responses. A "heart to heart" like you might have with your wife is not necessarily gonna help with your teenage beef between a bunch of insecure young men.

They are saying that relationships between men are different from relationships between women or between men and women, and that they don't necessarily rely on things like emotional intimacy to the same extent, or perhaps that the emotional intimacy experienced doesn't have to be in the form of a very caring heart to heart conversation about feelings.

To be honest, they have a good point in some ways. I think it's true that male friendships are different from women's and it would be basically biologically and culturally impossible to get men to share their feelings as often and in as much detail as women (nor would that necessarily be desirable). But I think there is definitely something to be said for lack of connection between men, and that the original article is correctly identifying a number of very real problems. It's just the whole cliche "men need to cry it out with their bros more" thing that is misguided and not believable to plenty of mature and not frustrated / Andrew Tate watching guys.

I also suspect the whole Andrew Tate thing is really a phenomenon of pre-pubescent and pubescent boys and that it is not nearly as big a problem among, say, people in their 20s. I'd really like to see the statistics on who is watching because I suspect the demographics are like plenty of other "edgy" teenager type shows and that it precipitously drops off once people pass through puberty. My suspicions are mostly driven by the fact I've never heard a man in real life ever mention the guy once and I'm only 28 years old. Certainly, if he had some more broad appeal to men in general, I would have at least heard of it and maybe watched it at least once? I've certainly heard of Joe Rogan for instance, who certainly has a more broad appeal to men more generally.

Young men have always been into a lotta uncouth and kinda shitty stuff like that and I'm not sure they aren't going to grow out of it just like we did with our own "manly man" bullshit back in the day.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-10 05:07:37+00:00
I think the difficulty of this is how much Trump absolutely wants to escalate things, because it fits right into his narrative.

I've seen lots of pictures of protestors waving Mexican flags, and of the burning Waymos, etc. My guess is these are a very small percentage of protestors, but it makes for great TV, and Trump gets to say that he's "protecting America against violent foreign invaders". And I can imagine many people watching this and agreeing with him - I mean, I consider myself quite liberal, but waving a Mexican flag at these events just makes me think you can fuck right off with that bullshit.

It's a great example IMO of how Trump deliberately sows division and escalates whenever possible in order to use people's fear to consolidate power. It's basically Autocracy 101.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-10 05:08:04+00:00
Linux has already won, in the form of Android and to an extent ChromeOS. Many people just don't recognize it as such because most of the system isn't the X11/Wayland desktop stack the "normal" Linux distros use.

Hell, Samsung is delivering Linux to the masses in the form of Wayland + PulseAudio under the brand name "Tizen". Unlike desktop land, Tizen has been all-in on Wayland since 2013 and it's been doing fine.
by toast0 | 2025-06-10 05:09:19+00:00
I was under the impression that the intent of a protest vote was to make a statement that the voter does not like the options presented.

A voter should weigh the value of their statement vs the value of voting for the lesser evil. In a state like mine, where the results of the next three presidential elections could be predicted with accuracy today, a statement seems to have more value to me; if I lived in a battleground state, it would be different. I have often voted in presidential primaries where the candidate was already selected; again, I value my vote for the lesser evil much less than a statement.
by jpk | 2025-06-10 05:09:57+00:00
Just a drive-by thought, but: What you're describing sounds a lot like Temporal.io. I guess the difference is the "workflow" of an agent might take different paths depending on what it was asked to accomplish and the approach it ends up taking to get there, and that's what you're interested in persisting, replaying, etc. Whereas a Temporal workflow is typically a more rigid thing, akin to writing a state machine that models a business process -- but all the challenges around persistence, replay, etc, sound similar.

Edit: Heh, I noticed after writing this that some sibling comments also mention Temporal.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-06-10 05:10:17+00:00
>They can't, and often neither can the doctors. That is one of the major practical reasons why vaccinations should be voluntary

OK, so vaccines that improve the situation because of creating herd immunity should not be mandatory because a small number of the people taking the vaccine may think that medical problems they develop some time after vaccination was caused by the vaccination without any particular proof that the vaccination was the cause, thus allowing enough people to opt out of taking the vaccines destroying the benefits of herd immunity.

>but if the vaccine literally caused people to drop dead after 12 months for some weird reason they just couldn't have detected it because not enough time had passed.

is there a specific time period cut off for this scenario in your head? What if a vaccine caused people to drop dead after 50 years for some reason, we should wait 50 years then.
by b33j0r | 2025-06-10 05:11:05+00:00
Not saying this is the case, just maybe challenging your premise as an absolute.

Let’s say someone is genociding, and the election opponent says “I want to also genocide, but harder and smarter.” Your moral obligation is stronger against the incumbent?

Is it because the incumbent is already complicit and the other guy might not be as bad? I don’t understand the moral logic of the possible absolutism here.

Shouldn’t the imperative be to reduce suffering? How does getting the lesser evil out of office help the situation?
by seattle_spring | 2025-06-10 05:12:21+00:00
Also worth noting that "Dr" Pete McCullough had all of his board certifications revoked in 2021 for constantly spreading Covid misinformation.

It blows me away that there can be a consensus of hundreds/thousands of researchers on something, and one person (with a history of mis/disinformation) comes along with a counter narrative, and certain people will point at that one person as proof that everyone else is wrong or "on the take."
by baq | 2025-06-10 05:12:48+00:00
> Also, Cursor was exceptional at interrupting any kind of "flow" - who even wants their next cursor position predicted?

Me, I use this all the time. It’s actually predictable and saves lots of time when doing similar edits in a large file. It’s about as powerful as multi-line regex search and replace, except you don’t have to write the regex.
by kergonath | 2025-06-10 05:12:58+00:00
> That's how Konquerer users felt back when Apple didn't collaborate downstream, so turnabout is truly fair play.

You are rewriting history here. The main KHTML developers were hired by Apple and Konqueror got on with the new engine. There was no fuss and no drama.

The reason why it’s fair play is that the license allows it. Google is no white knight out to avenge the poor KHTML users from 2003.
by daft_pink | 2025-06-10 05:13:22+00:00
Honestly in 2020, I went to an open grocery store, a little bit outside the city center, the next day and I'm riding in the elevator to the grocery store and there is this black elderly man from the poor area of the city riding with me and we get out and it's closed, and he's like "Oh Man, they destroyed all the grocery stores in my neighborhood."

Was literally everything destroyed, no, but I've got photographs of small businesses boarded up with they already looted everything, please don't loot again. There was devastation throughout the city.

After everything happened, national guard trucks showed up and guarded the devastation. If you drive out to the wealthy burbs, it's like nothing happened. They devastated one of the most liberal parts of America. Congrats.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-10 05:14:03+00:00
It might fit your standards for evidence, but it doesn't hold up to reality. The activities of the Children’s Health Defense and RFK's involvement are well-documented.

https://apnews.com/article/robert-f-kennedy-vaccines-trump-r...

> “I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated,” Kennedy said.
by ETH_start | 2025-06-10 05:14:52+00:00
The prosecution record, where Trump and dozens of his allies were prosecuted, is the record of a banana republic.

Like I said there's hundreds of thousands of regulations which hold the potential for criminal sanction. They could have found her guilty of something when she deleted those emails. The SDNY DAG found a way to charge the developers of Tornado Cash with running an illegal money transmission service when they didn't even hold it in custody of any funds, they simply published code. They stretched the law to incredible lengths to get someone they wanted. And they couldn't find something to pin on Hillary Clinton? Ridiculous.

They didn't for political reasons and you're naive or dishonest for believing otherwise.
by geysersam | 2025-06-10 05:14:54+00:00
You can relax the constraints to bound the cost.

If I asked a someone gambling, does it matter if this coin is biased 0.0001%, they will probably say no. And just like that, the algorithm is now guaranteed to terminate.

It's a bit unfair to talk about the case (100% T) because in that case you don't have a source of randomness anymore, we've dropped the assumption that you have a source of randomness, and as expected you can't make one from nothing.
by kergonath | 2025-06-10 05:15:24+00:00
They gave up on CUPS, which was left in limbo for way too long. Now it’s been forked, but I don’t know how successful that fork is.

They took over LLVM by hiring Chris Lattner. It was still a significant investment and they keep pouring resources into it for a long while before it got really widespread adoption. And yes, that project is still going.
by tdeck | 2025-06-10 05:16:59+00:00
I think people greatly overestimate the importance of respectability and majority approval in mass protest movements. The protest has to be disruptive enough to affect the powerful, and approachable enough for sufficient people to join.

For all the work that MLK and his coalition did to practice nonviolence and to appear respectable, they were always disliked by the majority of the public. Being liked by the public is not a prerequisite to getting results. If you focus too much on respectibility, the impact of what you can do decreases until it hits YouGov petition levels.
by zzlk | 2025-06-10 05:17:16+00:00
The strip is depressing, but the actual city outside of the strip is pretty cool. It's rapidly growing with very affordable housing. The food scene is excellent because of a diverse population. The nature scene is excellent. Electricity is very cheap, no income tax, low property taxes. Extremely well maintained and overbuilt infrastructure, very little traffic. A very nice airport (my favorite in the US) that is very near the population center and also with reasonably priced parking.

Vegas has a lot to offer and the strip really dominates the perception of it which is unfortunate.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-10 05:19:02+00:00
For what it's worth, the brain worm story was relevant when he needed to get a better legal position during his divorce.

Maybe he did have a real parasite in his brain, but according to him the parasite left no permanent damage after it got cleaned up after the divorce ended in his favour.

I don't see why raw milk necessarily contains cow poop unless the udders aren't cleaned before milking (though I suppose you can't trust the diary industry to take care of that reliably) but I doubt he's consuming any of it beyond the public appearances set up for the raw milk grifters.

Why attribute to insanity that which could just as easily be attributed to corruption and lies.
by defrost | 2025-06-10 05:20:11+00:00
In some parts of the world clearing trees results in conditions that make it very hard to grow trees again for a considerable length of time.

Large established trees with deep roots draw up large volumes of water from deep down. Once those trees go the water table rises, bringing salts from deeper down up to near ground leavel, the increased salt near surface inhabits young tree growth.

eg: https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2024/march/even-far-from...
by blindriver | 2025-06-10 05:21:44+00:00
In the first year, you only get to deduct 20%. But in your second year, you get to deduct 40% (20% from the first year and 20% from the second year). In the 3rd and 4th year it's 60% and 80%. And so on until you get to steady state of 100%.

So, no, it is not "really bad" for you. You as the owner might not make as much money for the first year, but you will be at steady state in a few years, and you get to deduct the salary for years after they leave.
by landl0rd | 2025-06-10 05:21:56+00:00
I don't know of outstanding literature on it, but the easiest thing to cite on the eventual inefficacy of methylphenidate is this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17667478/ Take a glance at table 2, but the headline for the paper is that 2 in 3 of those children had no benefit from medication past 2 years.

It's hard to find data of this quality for amphetamines but the story is pretty similar over time: https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007...

You can make solid cases that this should be slower for XR or prodrug formulations like lisdexamfetamine, but the general trend is quite solid.

Amphetamines are TAAR1 agonists, and this is indeed a significant part of their activity, but not the largest. The point is that a higher dose of a selective agent might present a better treatment option. Interestingly methylphenidate, which shows better long-term potential, can block amphetamine's effects on dopamine efflux: https://jpet.aspetjournals.org/article/S0022-3565(24)33772-3...

Of course adjusted patients won't get a rush, but there are two ways this can go: some patients do seem to have ongoing benefits from those stimulants. A large group seem to see a more complete loss in efficacy rather than a loss of euphoria. I picked two studies that presented a more pessimistic view, but most of the literature finds that there is some gradient of the benefit patients retain, and that there's a significant proportion for whom an increased dose is required.

People have speculated on other mechanisms for bromantane's effects, sure, but sigmaergics and the underlying receptors are still not particularly well-understood. This means it's pretty hard to speculate as to whether it's a productive target, unless you're aware of some promising new characterization of its function or promising investigational literature for treating ADHD which I'm not (quite possible).

Noradrenergic drugs can help some types of ADHD, true. I am of the opinion that the tendency to "unify" conditions (also c.f. the conception of "autism spectrum disorder" for a massively heterogeneous and polygenic issue with a correspondingly-wide range of presentations) is a mistake. The fact that some people seem to derive a lot of benefit from atomoxetine while many others don't suggests that it's a colossal mistake to treat these as the same condition.

It's an interesting problem, but I'm convinced the more treatment-resistant/tolerance-prone type of attention deficit that's likely more strongly associated with the dopaminergic system is by no means a solved or easily-solvable problem. In this context, I brought it up because that's what most closely matches with the interest of the biohacker/nootropics bro crowd.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-10 05:22:08+00:00
I'd consider revisiting this. These days you can do studio level video production, graphics and pro audio on Linux using native commercial software from a bare install on modern distributions.

I do pro audio on Linux, my commercial DAWs, VSTs, etc are all Linux-native these days. I don't have to think about anything sound-wise because Pipewire handles it all automatically. IMO, Linux has arrived when it comes to this niche recently, five years ago I'd have to fuck around with JACK, install/compile a realtime kernel and wouldn't have as many DAWs & VSTs available.

Similarly, I have a friend in video production and VFX whose studio uses Linux everywhere. Blender, DaVinci Resolve, etc make that easy.

There is a lack of options when it comes to pro illustration and raster graphics. The Adobe suite reigns supreme there.
by mrandish | 2025-06-10 05:22:09+00:00
> "well it didn't really live up to the sphere thing"

I never thought it didn't live up to being a Sphere. The outside is definitely a big ass sphere of impressive proportions. To me, that impressive size (for whatever it's worth) never relied on the interior screen also being that size.

Having visited it, I found the exterior even more impressive when standing near it. Aerial photos don't really convey just how damn big the thing is due to the frame of reference being nearby Vegas casino buildings. Vegas casino towers tend to be larger than they look and farther apart than one might assume.

However, on watching their demo movie Postcards From Earth, I now think the Sphere is a poor venue for theatrical story-telling due to poor contrast, self-illumination and being too big and too wide. The size and edge-to-edge arc are so extreme they introduce challenges which significantly reduce the quality of any theatrical presentation. Basically they went overboard on maximizing the 'curb-appeal' first-impact of building. So much so, they basically fucked any chance of it ever being a high-quality venue for wide format movies. I'd much rather see a wide format movie on an Omnimax screen than the Sphere.