MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abtinf | 2025-06-09 04:33:21+00:00
> My TV is 18 years old … they all continue to work as well as they worked on the day I bought them.

This is unlikely to be true. The process is slow so you may not have noticed it, but the tv is probably much dimmer than when it was brand new.

You may have a reasonable point about device longevity, but comparing full blown, internet connected, general purpose computing devices to an A/V receiver is obviously intentionally obtuse.
by Xevion | 2025-06-09 04:34:00+00:00
No, the second paragraph contains the TL;DR (summary) being referenced.

The word TLDR appears in the third paragraph, but the summary it refers to is in the second paragraph, starting with the words "To summarize, ..."

https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html#:~...
by steamrolled | 2025-06-09 04:34:30+00:00
"Extremist" is just a pejorative variant of "radical". I assume they're using it tongue-in-cheek.

When it comes to speech, it's really not hard to imagine positions that would have been controversial at any point in the history of the US. That doesn't mean you can't hold them, but others don't need to agree, and that's how you end up with labels of this sort.
by const_cast | 2025-06-09 04:34:44+00:00
> I get $9K can be a hit, but is the expectation that tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical care is just free?

Largely, yes, it is free in most of the developed world. Or close to.

> Are you having a health crisis every 4 years where the NHS system would be more manageable financially?

Yes, the average US citizen pays about 12K dollars a year for healthcare. That's twelve. That's including health care costs, insurance, and taxes - because yes, we also burn tax dollars on healthcare.

That's the average. Are you noticing something? How is it so much more expensive?

It's because US healthcare is also socialized, just like the NHS, but it's done shitty. It's done in thousands of tiny little fiefdoms which produces one of the most inefficient medical systems imaginable.

And, what I think you and other's really need to understand, is that the US does not have good healthcare. We have consistently worse healthcare outcomes than other developed countries.

Not only are we paying sometimes an order of magnitude more per person, we don't get anything for that. It's not like we have high-quality healthcare.

> In some other countries, euthanasia is increasingly being positioned as an alternative to long-term care because of the challenges with bed-availability, which seems equally unpalatable to the public.

Yeah, we also do this in the US. Again, not only is our care very expensive, it's also very bad.
by intended | 2025-06-09 04:34:47+00:00
Nah, America was on this trajectory from watergate. The day the other party decided they wanted to give up on bipartisan efforts, and started primary-ing their own for bipartisan behavior, you took a step down this path.

With the advent of Murdoch’s papers and news efforts, the infinite money and credibility glitch allowed for these specific circumstances to occur.

The question is whether the information economy is downstream of the political economy, or vice versa.
by dcow | 2025-06-09 04:36:10+00:00
It may be an unfortunate relic of the carrier upgrade economics. Most people, in the US at least, on a subscription phone plan get essentially a new phone for free every 2 years. Things are changing a little lately and now it’s not quite a free phone but a heavily discounted one, but it’s still pretty reasonable to expect most of your uses won’t have phone much more than a few years old.

I guess that means if we want to see this change we need to stop trading up every other year. Which would mean carriers need to stop charging $70/mo for a phone line. Etc. I don’t upgrade my thermostat yearly, the economics are different, and so the product approach is too. My thermostat also doesn't come everywhere I go on a daily basis and doesn't run apps (it’s not a general purpose computing platform that needs to grow more powerful as software becomes more demanding.

Also I have to add: phones are a fashion statement. Old phones do work, they’re just not cool. Nobody cares about the AV receiver sitting in your tv console as long as it’s amplifying audio. The tech hasn’t changed in years. Well unless your receiver does video, in which case I am certain your 15 year old audio receiver is not capable of 4k 120 HDMI handling. Update that TV to a 4k panel and your receiver will need a bump too.
by erikerikson | 2025-06-09 04:37:33+00:00
A feature of extremists is that they tend to support one cause over all others. They see no room for compromise or balancing of concerns. A breathing extremist may prioritize breathing over eating food and drinking water which are also important for survival.

While, from an immediacy standpoint, breathing is the higher priority, if you prioritize breathing continuously to the exclusion of drinking and eating, you will have problems on the 3-5 day and 8-21 day horizons.
by ArtixFox | 2025-06-09 04:38:10+00:00
it doesnt catch temporal memory errors, but what it offers currently is still better than most of its competitors [defer, explicit allocators, custom allocators with integrated support for valgrind and friends,etc].

Due to how easy to parse and work with the language is, we might see a boom of static analyzers for zig. There are some quite interesting demos that can even go beyond basic borrow checking and straight into refinement types.

Zig's integrated build system will make it easy to add these tools into any project. Or maybe the zig compiler itself will integrate it.

the future is quite hopeful for zig but it is probably not one that is restricted to just borrow checking. I personally think it can go beyond and slowly become what C+FramaC or Ada is now for the critical systems world.
by lenkite | 2025-06-09 04:38:22+00:00
Well, illegals are busy throwing rocks, explosives and burning cars of federal agents. The LA police chief himself has said that the rioting and violence has gotten out of control. That the violence he has seen has been disgusting. That everyone doing the violence has masks on and are coming from several places.

He also said that "Federal officials have their mission...they have every right to do that"

So, it looks like the officials in charge don't share your extraordinary delusions.
by mindslight | 2025-06-09 04:38:29+00:00
Ideals don't have to rise to the level of "grand unifying theory" to be meaningful. In fact given how poorly "grand unifying theories" tend to work, the whole point is that ideals sit in a sweet spot of complexity between there and a novel judgement for every new development.

I had an argument to write here, but I'm having a hard time getting it down to something concise and without a lot of inbaked assumptions, so I am just going to turn it into a question. Like, I am really trying to understand the continued support for Trump. I was an unaligned libertarian. I read Moldbug as he was writing. I got it. I disagreed from a philosophic information theoretic perspective (complexity multiplies, Urbit is just another "write once run anywhere"), but I still get the desire.

Then Trump. I totally got 2016 Trump support. The system seemed so entrenched and immutable, at least this guy is shaking things up and talking about real problems. I was the one telling my breathless progressive friends that he was likely to win. "But he's soooo racist" "uh-huh".

But then just the total lack of performance when actually in office? All performance, no execution besides who can be hurt this week? The only commonality I see is "owning the libs" where "the libs" means anyone who doesn't support Dear Leader. It just seems like one big tautology, for a lack of a real constrictive political direction or values.

I really want see where I am wrong, because none of these policies add up to making sense to me. Tariffs that harm our country, phrased in terms as if needing physical goods is somehow a strength? And then not even followed through on ? Attacking our allies for "not paying their share" while they buy into our economic empire and prop up our currency?

I get the populist anger, yes. But anger on its own does not produce good outcomes - in fact, quite the opposite.

I guess my question boils down to - if there are values besides anger, spite, owning the libs, and autocracy, then what exactly are they these days ? I don't mean the old mantras that are brought up to make people frustrated they didn't pan out, and then sidestepped when discussing current policy (like you've done with the deficit here). But the actual values that can be appealed to critique the current path? Heck, phrase it in terms of what would make you see a different candidate as even better than Trump.

Because like, for example:

> I think it will be bad for society to encourage greater race and ethnic consciousness in a diverse society

I agree with this. I don't call it "reverse racism", I just call it "racism" - a focus on collectivism in terms of group identity. But what I see in Trumpism isn't a repudiation of that general racism, but rather continued escalation of the dynamic merely with the "other side" winning. But I feel like if I tried to flesh that argument out by appealing to what you threw out as a supposed value, then I'm just going to run into a different newly-conjured value that overrides the first - in other words, rationalizations rather than actual values.

But please point out where I am wrong.
by ehsanu1 | 2025-06-09 04:39:02+00:00
It's hard to attribute PR merge rate with higher tool quality here. Another likely reason is level of complexity of task. Just looking at the first PR I saw from the github search for codex PRs, it was this one-line change that any tool, even years ago, could have easily accomplished: https://github.com/maruyamamasaya/yasukaribike/pull/20/files
by maxglute | 2025-06-09 04:39:29+00:00
The joke/reputation of entry-level BYD in PRC a few years ago is that it's QA is almost as bad as Tesla from Shanghai, which has better QA than Tesla from other gigafactories. That was from when BYD was scaling up from 500k to 3million per year. High end BYD were always fine. Tesla's poor QA for premium brand is still running meme.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-09 04:40:15+00:00
Building anything for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy, tbh. If you want democracy to be healthy, you probably want to maximize the amount of wealth of the working class. People who have enough to care for themselves and their families and their communities a little will have enough time and education to meaningfully participate in democracy.

Whether you are building for US autocrats, gulf state autocrats, Russian autocrats, whatever... maybe it's better to not do that? (I know, easier said than done.)
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-09 04:41:47+00:00
Regardless of tiresome partisan hyperbole, I don't regard the substance of this administration's actions as any more authoritarian the previous or the status quo. In the specific instances where state power has been expanded, I regard it as part of the general trend of expansion. The trend is more indicative of the overall incentives and structure of governance, rather than specific political actors. Similarly, partisan recriminations fit with the same pattern.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-09 04:42:38+00:00
"Witness, too, how seamlessly Mark Zuckerberg went from selling the idea that Facebook would lead to a flourishing of human friendship to, now, selling the notion that Meta will provide you with AI friends to replace the human pals you have lost in our alienated social-media age."

Perhaps "AI" can replace people like Mark Zuckerberg. If BS can be fully automated.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-09 04:42:47+00:00
> Android's EthernetTracker service only acknowledges interfaces that are named ethX

If this is true, this is the stupidest goddamn thing I have ever heard of. We fixed this with linux distributions in the 2000s. It was obvious even back then that some device drivers just made up their own device name prefix, so you had to probe the system to find what kind of device it was. (I know the wifi stack has changed a lot over the years, but there's always been a way to detect if a device was wireless or not)

Because consistency is kind of useful, there are also multiple tools which can rename an interface, and I think most linux distros today use udev to make this automatic. Under the hood it's just calling the kernel's SIOCSIFNAME ioctl. Modern kernels even have a fancy feature so you can change the name to "wlan*" (actually "wlan%d") and it will just assign a new number after "wifi".
by intended | 2025-06-09 04:43:43+00:00
Oh heck no! This is the error in comparison that is allowing an unfair competition between the left + center vs the Right wing information economies.

The whole point of journalism and freedom of speech was to create a market place of ideas that allows for competition between ideas.

The right side of the information sphere insulates its viewers from the left and center. They do not get punished by their own for platforming inaccurate or fringe theories. Instead they compete on getting the more viral narrative platformed, while voices that counter the inaccuracies do not get platformed.

They are a demagoguery machine. The political party and news media are the same entity.

The left and center are largely stuck with the ideas of being relatively true to facts, getting punished by members for getting things wrong.

There are people on the left which are trying to recreate the success of the fringe right, which has become the core base on the right.

They are starting a decades long process, that began around watergate.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-09 04:44:13+00:00
The ones they build here in Norway has changed somewhat from 2010. For one, mainly EV chargers, with just a few, if any, pumps.

Mostly sells food and soft drinks, so hot dogs, fresh sandwiches, baked goods, with much more seating area so you can sit and eat while your car charges.

Has almost no car-related stuff, just one or two small sections of blinker fluid, wunder-baum and such.

And looking at the current trend, there will be far fewer of them, mainly located at strategic positions. The small, local gas stations will go away.
by foxglacier | 2025-06-09 04:44:56+00:00
Why are you worried about misinformation? Usually it just means ideas that conflict with your political beliefs. Are any of those sentences actually misinformation anyway? Wikipedia also says Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands don't have fluoride in their water, so I guess at least half of that one's true. Or is Wikipedia also jet fuel for spreading misinformation and you think we should only have access to centrally curated encyclopedias like Britannica?
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-09 04:44:57+00:00
> confined to their home during this part of the week

You say that like it is a bad thing

There is a related concept in Eastern Orthodoxy called oikonomia, or a relaxation of the laws. Roman Catholics or Episcopalians may know this as "dispensation". When the law becomes very complex and there is a concerted effort to get legalistic and eventually you end up with circumventions that are worthy of publishing news articles to the goyim, eventually you begin to think about dispensations or oikonomia from the leadership in order to relax the rules of Shabbat observance and the Day of Rest.

And undoubtedly that is the crux of whence originated Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism.

Judaism is more akin to Islam than Christianity in the particular aspect that it is not unified and not organized under one particular visible head, like the Pope or a Patriarch. Not since the Destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70. During the Second Tempe Period there was definitely a unification of Jews and a singular doctrinal authority.

But in today's synagogue system with rabbis interpreting Torah and Talmud, it is quite federated and decentralized, and in New York in particular there are congregations following individual rebbes and having unique beliefs inside the walls of their synagogue, but also councils/conferences of Jew leaders who team up to build this Eruv Wall and make America pay for it.
by userbinator | 2025-06-09 04:46:27+00:00
corrupt itself and need to be manually reinstalled

In my experience that's normally the fault of third-party software, and otherwise quite easy to determine and avoid/fix. Now OSes with more protections just hide those bugs, causing most software to regress to a barely-working state.

I ran 98SE as a daily driver from late 1999 until 2010, and it was reinstalled at most 3 times, not even coinciding with hardware upgrades.
Show HN: Nowa – No-signup event planning app for scheduling and bill splitting
by skyaa | 2025-06-09 04:47:52+00:00
Ever feel exhausted by the endless back-and-forth of "When should we meet?" and "How much does everyone owe?" when organizing events with friends or family? I've been there too, and found that existing tools were either too feature-heavy or required tedious account setup. That's why I built Nowa - an event management app focused on just the essentials that works by simply sharing a URL, no registration required. Key Features No-signup invitations - Just share a URL or QR code and anyone can join instantly. I prioritized simplicity so even grandparents can use it without confusion. Intuitive scheduling - Propose multiple date options at once, participants vote with simple checkmarks, and the best date becomes clear immediately. Automatic bill splitting - Someone covers the bill, enters the amount, and everyone's share is calculated automatically. No more "who owes what?" headaches. Mobile-first design - Built with Flutter for iOS/Android. Smooth operation even when you're coordinating on the train. Technical Details Built with Flutter and Firebase for real-time sync. The biggest challenge was ensuring smooth performance during simultaneous editing by multiple users - I had to redesign the data structure and Firebase security rules several times. The app maintains a 1MB size limit for efficiency, but easily handles ~200 participants in typical usage. Pricing Core features are completely free (up to 3 events, 50 participants each). Premium plan ($3.99/month) offers unlimited usage and ad-free experience. I prioritized "try first" - the free tier is genuinely useful for real-world scenarios. When I tested this with my friend group, someone said "this makes our previous LINE coordination look like chaos." If you've faced similar coordination pain points, I'd love for you to try it out! Feedback and "I wish it had..." suggestions are very welcome. Links:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.bitflap.no... iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nowa-smart-event-planner/id674... Website: https://nowa.one/en/features/
by yorwba | 2025-06-09 04:48:51+00:00
People who trauma-dump on me aren't typically looking for advice or help understanding other people, they just want to vent and have someone comfort them.

I think this is also related to chatbot "sycophancy." People who just want solutions are put off by it, but for people who're looking for emotional support, having a chatbot say something nice to them is the whole point.
by fakedang | 2025-06-09 04:49:48+00:00
Most of the declarations of that sort are usually just spin for their people by the government when they make plans to buy out some high-tech company. We saw this with Global Foundries, we're seeing this with Resilience, and we'll eventually see it with some other company down the line (likely OpenAI or Novo Nordisk). The government has to provide its native people the illusion of providing jobs, if not actually provide the jobs. Because not every Emirati can work in ADNOC in a high-paying air-conditioned office.
by throwanem | 2025-06-09 04:50:59+00:00
Show me the war where resources weren't important. But you fail to take my meaning, which is that of the two, bureaucracy is far more robust than aristocracy, because power held by aristocracy succeeds by lineage where that by bureaucracy does so by role - that is, in a fashion far less constrained by the available resource of satisfactory personnel.

Every billionaire in function constitutes an aristocracy of one. Meanwhile, states have armed forces. A billionaire, in relying on money for power, implicitly also depends on continued access to the global financial system which gives money meaning, in order to exercise that power. States are not obligated to allow such access, and may easily prevent it in the limiting case by ensuring such trade comes with a side of explosives delivered at speed, which broadly suffices to deter desirable counterparties.

Think what anyone may of such a thing, the fact is having an army or navy or air force means you can do it. Which billionaire has one of those?
by YZF | 2025-06-09 04:52:05+00:00
I'm pretty sure 99.999% of observant Jewish people would consider this work but there is a lot of room for interpretation in Judaism and in the end it's between you, your belief, and God. An interesting piece of trivia there is that in Yom Kippur you can atone for sins to god but you can not atone for sins to other people without getting reconciliation.
by khannover | 2025-06-09 04:52:36+00:00
"It doesn't" would have been a much more boring song, don't you think? But factually you are right, LLMs don't feel anything, its just T9 on steroids, isn't it? But maybe, in a not so distant future, this might change. But i can assure that no LLM has been hurt while creating this song. Actually it claimed to be happy and excited about the results ;-)
by foxglacier | 2025-06-09 04:53:18+00:00
I guess you weren't around in the 2000's when every kid in school was taught not to trust information from random internet sources. Even Wikipedia was often not allowed by teachers as a reference, and probably still isn't. Society faced this problem already with the internet in general. Were or are you opposed to the internet in general, and especially the freedom for random people to publish what they like?
by andsoitis | 2025-06-09 04:53:50+00:00
> although correct in his assessment of the overweening federal bureaucracy

Except he wasn’t. Did DOGE’s cuts exceed even $100B, when he at first estimated he’d cut $2T in a few months?

He thought the waste is because of fraud and errors, when instead there are more systematic / structural issues with the biggest bodies of expense: Medicaid, Medicare, the Pentagon. But making significant changes is unpopular with older voters.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-06-09 04:53:53+00:00
Five human dead in 125 years is a record to envy for most transit systems. (Light rail likes to run into pedestrians, almost as much as buses.) And it was a maintenance failure, not an operator or structural one.

Not to count the baby elephant that fell out of one car back in 1950.

Wuppertal is a wonderful ride for many thousands daily, millions for decades, and is a wonderful model of visual, sane, safe engineered public transport.
by 7402 | 2025-06-09 04:55:16+00:00
See article in today's New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/business/gas-station-expa...

Gas Stations Are Adding E.V. Chargers and Reasons to Wait Around

As gas stations prepare for more electric vehicles to be on the road, they’re getting bigger. That has created tension in some communities.
by 404Escalation | 2025-06-09 04:55:30+00:00
This is a fantastic debugging journey — love how it leads to a single overlooked regex bringing down a whole class of devices.

Oddly enough, I recently hit something structurally similar in a totally different context: OpenAI's alignment/escalation system. I tried triggering a formal routing escalation within GPT-4's recursive logic (SR-Route_Breach_1stOrder), with full documentation and logs, only to be met by structurally sound — but ultimately non-human — responses.

It felt like my escalation never matched the system's internal interface regex, so to speak.

I documented the whole case here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221458 Would love your thoughts if you're into structural boundaries and invisible interface contracts.