MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexey-salmin | 2025-06-10 06:54:01+00:00
That's almost a "positive" scenario in my view, I would prefer people who are left to care about themselves and their kids rather than the elderly who screwed them up.

The alternative is, more and more resources will be allocated towards the elderly and by consequence less towards kids, making the problem worse with every generation. Not clear though how to break out of this spiral by democratic means if elderly are the majority.
by thinkingemote | 2025-06-10 06:54:40+00:00
They undergo intensive training for weeks before. Scripted, rehearsed, perfected, trained. I've witnessed it. There's not much space for natural expression in these talks. Everything is choreographed. Where to walk, look up, wave hand, smile etc all planned!

The stiffness is because the presenter is mainly a techie, developer or manager and not a natural performer. Their bodies are resisting the conformity by conforming to the letter but not the spirit.
by HdS84 | 2025-06-10 06:54:51+00:00
We introduced MDM for our Mac boxes early this year. Over half(!) had outdated mac versions and missed multiple major updates. Before that - it was always really obvious that you needed to run the newest version ASAP (asap=All dev tools run on the newest version, which was not a given, so a few weeks delay was ok). We have lots of linux boxes and I suspect their patch state is even worse - but how to check that? There are a dozen distros and a few self build systems...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-10 06:56:00+00:00
We say people, but broadly speaking, the global population ballooned because women were not educated and empowered. Now that they are, witness the rapid global total fertility rate decline (educated, empowered women delay childbirth, have less children, or no children). Socioeconomic systems have been freeloading off of uncompensated labor of women in the aggregate. How will they change? That remains to be seen.
by mordae | 2025-06-10 06:56:11+00:00
Sigh. Capitalism aligned with our needs (cheap goods) up until about 1990. Colonization of former USSR pushed it to 2010 or so, but now it just keep declining and won't stop. It needs growth in productivity that just isn't possible without replacing human labour at above inflation rate.

I did so by giving us fridges, dishwashers, supermarkets and other time savers, but robotic vacuum was the last one.

Self driving trucks and autonomous shops are being rolled out extremely slowly.

And with hollowing out middle class the outlook for 90% standard of living is pretty bleak, without having anything to offer to the 10% besides being cheap factory manipulators.

At some point we really will have to sit down, say the house is complete, hand out free beers and take a breather before getting to the smaller details of furnishing and gardening. Then we can maybe discuss the stars.
by bung33 | 2025-06-10 06:56:26+00:00
Exactly. The issue isn't whether capitalizing salaries is "humane" or "inhumane," as some comments suggest. It's about matching expenses to their corresponding revenue. When you develop software that contributes to revenue over a period, those expenses should be spread out. Capitalized items are simply deferred expenses. For example, when you construct a building, construction workers' salaries are capitalized and added to the building's book value, which is then depreciated over time.
by unstablediffusi | 2025-06-10 06:56:43+00:00
the deciding metric here is how old are they when they start wanting children. naturally, that factor is ignored, because it's politically incorrect to discuss it for a number of reasons.

a woman in her thirties has very slim chances to find a partner because men in their thirties have unlimited access to an unlimited number of women in their twenties. it's a harsh truth, but burying one's head in the sand doesn't really help.
by haneul | 2025-06-10 06:56:55+00:00
Hmm you can tweak fine these days without messing up context. But, I run in “ask mode” only, with opus in claude code and o3 max in cursor. I specifically avoid agent mode because, like in the post, I feel like I gain less over time.

I infrequently tab complete. I type out 80-90% of what is suggested, with some modifications. It does help I can maintain 170 wpm indefinitely on the low-medium end.

Keeping up with the output isn’t much an issue at the moment given the limited typing speed of opus and o3 max. Having gained more familiarity with the workflow, the reading feels easier. Felt too fast at first for sure.

My hot take is that if GitHub copilot is your window into llms, you’re getting the motel experience.
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-10 06:58:01+00:00
There was no mistake. In no other civilized society, requiring people to do something so small to actually care for each other would be considered a breach of civil rights. Americans are just special

Unfortunately, because of how special Americans are, the outcome of being stuck with this current administration was inevitable. It was going to happen sooner or later.

Im glad at least its happening sooner when Im still fairly young and have the flexibility to peace out if I need to.
by Qwertious | 2025-06-10 06:58:04+00:00
How is it being illegal relevant? Everything cops arrest people for is (theoretically) illegal.

If you're implying that employers of illegal immigration are hard to find, it's really not. Any farmer who receives subsidies (which is most of them) has to submit all sorts of paper trails, and if they have both no employees and no fancy farm-automation equipment, then it's pretty easy to check if they have illegal immigrants.

Hell, a single surveillance drone during harvest season could do 90% of your work. Work you're already doing if you're looking for illegal immigrants. "Gee I have no idea why a bunch of illegal immigrants harvested all my fruit for free", yeah pull the other one.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-06-10 06:58:43+00:00
I use web search quite a lot, but most of the time DDG works fine for me. A handful of times per week, I'm unsatisfied with the DDG results for some particular query where I think Kagi might be better. So I'd check Kagi on those occasions if I had access. But meh, I don't need it that much.
by foxglacier | 2025-06-10 06:58:49+00:00
This looks an awful lot like all the "contact us" forms that are mostly broken and give you no feedback as to whether the message got through or not. At least it's easy but you can bet half the sites that use it won't even be receiving the reports, let alone acting on them.

In my desktop app, I ask users to email me in a global exception handler. My thinking is that they'll recognize that I don't want to be inundated with reports for the same bug over and over so they're probably the first to find it and it's worth reporting. And I do fix them all otherwise I would be getting spammed by the same reports over and over again.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-10 06:58:52+00:00
It was the hyperbole and extremely visible coordination around the COVID vaccines that broke confidence. Here [1] is a montage of various highly influential public figures stating that if you get vaccinated you won't get COVID and you won't transmit COVID. Oh and the censorship. The reason I'm linking to X is because these exact montages, simply quoting public figures saying things, tend to get removed from YouTube.

There should be public debate around most of any issue. Tell people something as simple that getting some sunlight is good for them and some will even argue against it claiming that no it's not, you'll just get skin cancer. And that's fine, even those sort of views deserve their place in the public discourse. But when that discourse is completely absent - presumably to try to give the appearance of complete consensus, it doesn't inspire confidence, but destroys it.

[1] - https://x.com/ITGuy1959/status/1581034815700488192
by matwood | 2025-06-10 06:59:03+00:00
If minority rights are not maintained, then the first majority to win will change the rules/system so that the minority can never become the majority. In the extreme example, the 51% votes to eliminate the 49%. For a democracy to function minority rights and checks on the majority power are fundamental requirements.

Originally from the Dept. of State: https://www.principlesofdemocracy.org/majority
by forty | 2025-06-10 06:59:16+00:00
Gendarmerie are simply policemen with a military status which give them some duty (like I think they cannot strike) and some benefits (earlier retirement) but they are still really a police force in reality. I don't think it would look good to send actual army to fight citizens, and I don't think the army would appreciate it either (it might have been done already, no idea)
by kgwgk | 2025-06-10 06:59:45+00:00
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.263(a)-2

Example 4. Acquisition or production cost. D purchases and produces jigs, dies, molds, and patterns for use in the manufacture of D's products. Assume that each of these items is a unit of property as determined under § 1.263(a)-3(e) and is not a material and supply under § 1.162-3(c)(1). D is required to capitalize under paragraph (d)(1) of this section the amounts paid to acquire and produce the jigs, dies, molds, and patterns.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-06-10 07:00:11+00:00
> The planned decline of America won't be like other countries because of post-WW2 "super power" repositioning of country and it's critical role in global trade, communications and finance. All of humanity might suffer, at least that's my fear.

Yeah, the decline of the British Empire is starting to look sedate and well-managed compared to this.

I'm sure because the USA was there to pick up any slack that Britain dropped, in a way that China is not doing with the USA.
by RangerScience | 2025-06-10 07:00:21+00:00
Yes. AFAIK, this is exactly the (theoretical) cause for the "doomed to repeat it" effect of "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it" - the death of the last generation who remembers it from the previous iteration.

So - maybe not doomed to an 80 year cycle, as life expectancy changes, and/or as cultural memory changes due to more/better records.

But in broad strokes... yes.
by francislavoie | 2025-06-10 07:00:37+00:00
No, it's because TS adds information. Pure JS doesn't know what variable "foo" is (is it a potato? is it an array? can it be null?), but if you assign it a type like Map<string> then now it knows what kind of data it can hold, what you can do with it, etc. Now you know you can do foo.get() and your IDE will tell you as soon as you've typed `foo.`, but if you used pure JS, lol how is it supposed to have any idea what methods exist?

It lets you chain data from one task to another based on knowing what possible and available given the types. That information just straight up doesn't exist in JS code, unless you write JSDoc comments all over with that information as static analysis hints. But why not just embed that information in the language itself instead of tacking it at the top of every chunk of code, much more elegant and allows way more power.

Even if you used JSDoc, you still need that static analysis tool to exist, and hey, that's exactly what TypeScript is. It's both a language definition for augmenting JS with types, but it's also a transpiler which takes TS code and spits out JS code, _and_ it will tell you if there's problems with the types. But since that engine exists, you can plug it into LSP and so on.

Remember, LSP exists _because_ of TypeScript. VSCode exists because of TypeScript. The team that works on VSCode and came up with LSP did it because they wanted TypeScript to integrate with VSCode and they had the foresight to build something generalized that could be used for ANY language.
by xp84 | 2025-06-10 07:01:05+00:00
PSA: High Contrast mode on MacOS, incidentally, destroys theming on Microsoft Edge (I know, I’m a weirdo who uses Edge on Mac). I use theming to differentiate between several browser profiles. For months I thought Edge had decided they wanted the themes to be ultra lame and subtle, but it was my usage of that setting that broke it.

Besides that huge dealbreaker though, HC mode is amazing for people like me who think UIs should be clear, obvious, and functional first rather than “elegant” and pretty as the main priority.
by kimixa | 2025-06-10 07:01:54+00:00
But the estimated number of "illegal" workers is so much larger than the number of people whose identity is stolen on tax returns each year I'd suggest that the issue isn't so much with the tools already available, so much at people aren't using those tools.

Even if we had a perfect e-verify system that magically guaranteed the result was accurate, it probably wouldn't make a difference. Not while it's use is "optional" in states like Texas.
by intended | 2025-06-10 07:02:36+00:00
Yes, you also always have some superficially similar event to reassure people that this has happened before.

It’s usually too much for people to contemplate that things are going to end.

Or worse, it’s bad faith, and it’s shared to lull people into accepting the change.

One of the clear things is that the right side of the political sphere is no longer constrained to narratives that have accurate correspondence to reality.

Even if this blows over, there will be something else, and then something else - and some superficially plausible rationale that contradicts previous positions.

And people who’ve seen this before will point it out - but people in the hall of mirrors will be stuck dealing with whatever is being reflected around them.

It’s genuinely cognitively hard to reason past such things, especially if reasoning past them is done alone - because then you are now stuck feeling like you are outside of your group - worse, you might have to join the people you were angry with.

This is one reason it takes a long time (months, years) to travel this distance - you can’t mentally switch allegiances and world views in a moment. There’s too many interconnected beliefs, actions - neurons.

But for people who’ve seen this before, it’s pretty clear cut.
by jackdoe | 2025-06-10 07:02:42+00:00
Amazing article!

I hate DOES> I was implementing it well after 1am last night and I hate it, I have this feeling as something gets harder to implement it means its not right, but I know DOES> is right, so its me, I just couldn't implement it well. It was super frustrating. But now I feel better :)

I am new to Forth but it feels like `create does>` has to be replaced with some new construct, I just want word code to operate on its data, but I need to gain more experience to find out, for now `create does>` will do.
by koonsolo | 2025-06-10 07:02:53+00:00
This became very clear to me after the pandemic, visiting Slovakia.

Before the pandemic, I heard some weird things from older Slovaks, such as EU has decided that kids must name their parents "parent1" and "parent2", and if they don't they will take your kids away. Absolutely bonkers.

Then during the pandemic, all the typical anti-vax rhetoric really took hold there, like crazy.

Then after the pandemic, all those anti-vaxers all of a sudden got pro-Russia. Which makes no sense when you think about that, because both have nothing to do with each other. At that point, I realised Russia was doing their campaigns way before covid already, but it got an extra boost thanks to it.

And now Slovaks elected prime minister Fico attended the Russian military parade.

The ironic part is that these anti-vaxers like to call the rest of us "sheep", but in the end they are the sheep that are lead straight to the slaughter house.
by foxglacier | 2025-06-10 07:03:33+00:00
I don't know what you're trying to say. LLMs to tend to say true things even if you don't explicitly ask for that. But if you want false things, why use an LLM. Look "Fluoride in water causes cancer. Confirmed by the WHO." See? It's trivial to make up whatever nonsense you want. What does an LLM add to people just making things up?
by b33j0r | 2025-06-10 07:03:45+00:00
I worked for a company that verified I9’s and provided an eVerify integration for employers. I can’t explain what problem it solved.

It was a multi-million dollar if-statement that copied the expertise of the relevant law into a permanently legacy expert system.

Doing anything besides that would be illegal. But that also means there is no cross-referencing or vendor enforcement of fraud.

It did things like check if some tax-related status code was valid for the indicated home country of emigration. It didn’t do things like check against a national database for an SSN.

It basically punished people for filling out forms incorrectly or not being able to scan a document.

We didn’t get new regulations every quarter or ever. I dunno what the point was.

Edit: the everify step technically used personally identifiable information to contact a national database.

I guess my gripe is that I didn’t see how it could prevent fraud in any way a normal HR person wouldn’t have caught if it were to be caught. It’s a duplication of a process everyone was already doing.
by procaryote | 2025-06-10 07:04:13+00:00
Under these rules no. If the "machine" is software, payroll is considered a capital expense and an asset. If it's an actual machine, payroll for building it is fully deductible, like most other payroll.

Software used to work like other payroll until fairly recently. If you want to understand this figure out why that changed and what the actual motivation behind it was
by adrian_b | 2025-06-10 07:04:53+00:00
It is likely that most of the titanium deoxidized with yttrium would not be used as such, but it would be used for producing titanium alloys.

For each kind of titanium alloy, depending on its chemical composition and on its intended crystal structure, yttrium may happen to be harmful or beneficial. Yttrium atoms are significantly bigger than titanium atoms. This can influence the crystal structure and the mechanical properties of the alloys, even with only a small percentage of residual yttrium.

Almost pure non-alloyed titanium (which normally contains residual quantities of oxygen and iron) is used in applications where chemical resistance is more important than mechanical resistance, e.g. for medical implants, vessels and pipes exposed to various chemicals, spoons, metal parts that will be in contact with a human body, e.g. rings or bracelets etc.

Yttrium may diminish somewhat the chemical resistance of titanium for such applications, but the resistance might still be adequate for many of these applications.
by TheEdonian | 2025-06-10 07:05:04+00:00
Not a real fan of this approach. This is what's called emerging strategy where you react on what happening around you (not to be confused with agile where you look at what's happening around you and then deciding a course of action). Problem here is that you are never in control of where you are going to, and wasting a lot of energy and work switching over to the new strategy.
Show HN: Algo-Trading Software
by lukaszwojtow | 2025-06-10 07:05:15+00:00
Hi! I'm Łukasz Wojtów, a software developer and stock market trader from Poland. To help with my day-to-day trading, I created Alis Studio - a software to manage portfolios, research stock market ideas, and do algo-trading analytics. It's an MVP but perfectly usable. It has a number of features that I couldn't find anywhere else:

- Parameter optimization with a genetic algorithm - Fuzzy optimization: randomly remove trades or whole markets and see what happens - Data mining: find rules how to exit trades sooner for better profit - Compare strategy results to random trading - Check current drawdown for statistical significance

and standard stuff like backtesting, trading signals and so on...

Of course, it's open-source. A GitHub star is much appreciated. Thanks!
by mindslight | 2025-06-10 07:05:26+00:00
> They clearly value authority and order above all else

No, they do not even get to claim order any more. This situation is being escalated by Trump in order to have a raging crisis for him to attack and drive even more division. Just like he did to the 2A/BLM protests, just like he did with the election lies culminating in the J6 protests, just like he did with his appalling anti-leadership throughout Covid. Trump doesn't possess the skills to actually tackle problems. His only real skill is slithering away from blame after he creates chaos and destruction. The fascists' only real value is now naked autocratic "strong" man authoritarianism. And the only reason they're still clinging to caring about the law is to assuage their own egos that the suffering they're reveling in is somehow justified.
by adastra22 | 2025-06-10 07:06:11+00:00
That screenshot is utterly unreadable. It makes my eyes hurt. For the young people out there, I'm not exaggerating or being metaphorical. Literally pain in my eyes as they try (and fail) to focus on the appropriate UI elements.

I was going to upgrade to an iPhone 16 this week. I might be checking out Google or Samsung devices instead.
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-10 07:06:19+00:00
The statement "lies the government told during COVID - masks don’t work, then they work, vaccines stop transmission, then they don’t."

..is just simply not true. Nobody said masks didn't work. They said that cloth masks werent as effective as surgical masks. And it wasn't about protection of self, it was about not spreading the virus. Vaccine effectiveness was also something that was being guessed at first, and then corrected. Nothing wrong with either, as this was an unprecedented time.

This distrust of government sentiment would be valid if your camp a) had actual source of truth beyond Joe Rogan , and b) didn't overwhelmingly vote for Trump who lies WAY more about everything.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-10 07:06:34+00:00
While Apple may not sell your data if you opt out of tracking, it still knows your habits.

I've seen this stated many times but no one ever seems to follow through with the logic.

It takes time, effort and storage for Apple to "know your habits".

In other words, this costs them money. Why would they spend money collecting data if they don't intend to monetize it in some way?

It doesn't make sense does it? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
by noduerme | 2025-06-10 07:06:59+00:00
I'm surprised... what encouraged you to update MacOS? I'm on the first M1 Macbook from 2020 and have not allowed a single OS update. The first thing I do with a mac is use Little Snitch to block all apple IP addresses, and delete all their built in apps. I still have an Air from 2015 and one from 2009, a Titanium from 2004 and a chunky old Powerbook 3400 from the 1990s that all run fine. One or two a decade.

But I never update the OS because I don't want to deal with anything that might break my environment.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-10 07:07:33+00:00
> Linux is great for users on the extreme ends of the spectrum, with grandma who only needs email on one end and tiling WM terminal juggler on the other.

> That’s not to say it can’t or doesn’t work for some people in the middle, but for this group it’s much more likely that there’s some kind of fly in the soup that’s preventing them from switching.

Generally agree with these points with some caveats when it comes to "extremes".

I think for middle to power users, as long as their apps and workflows have a happy path on Linux, their needs are served. That happy path necessarily has to exist either by default or provisioned by employers/OEMs, and excludes anything that requires more than a button push like the terminal.

This is just based on my own experience, I know several people ranging from paralegals working on RHEL without even knowing they're running Linux, to people in VFX who are technically skilled in their niche, but certainly aren't sys admins or tiling window manager users.

Then there are the ~dozen casual gamers with Steam Decks who are served well by KDE on their handhelds, a couple moved over to Linux to play games seemingly without issue.