MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-06-10 11:28:58+00:00
But if your fixed costs are much lower (housing etc) then it makes more financial sense to have kids as there's less of a hit from the loss of lots of income (plus expenses, kids are not cheap).

Like, we have two kids and a top 10% (bottom of the top though) salary, and we have no discretionary income or ability to save (very much) after paying for the costs associated with kids and housing. I can completely understand why people don't want to do that, particularly given that 90% of households in my country earn less than us.
by UncleMeat | 2025-06-10 11:29:13+00:00
From a purely logical perspective, sure. But the rhetorical effect of this statement is clear. Especially, when it contains a lie about the medical data.

"I support safe vaccines, it just so happens that I don't believe that any vaccine is safe and I am not willing to trust the medical system to evaluate vaccines for safety and will continue to insist that all vaccines are unsafe" has the net effect of not supporting vaccination at all.
by mmooss | 2025-06-10 11:30:03+00:00
The issues in this situation are always,

1. How much is compatibility with outside users and past documents necessary? No office application can successfully, reliably convert anything but relatively simple documents (have LLMs done better somehow?). Each conversion reduces fidelity and often integrity; send a few revisions back and forth and it can become a problem. Simply adding a small headache every time an outsider emails your users' a document - or vice verssa - becomes a big issue. Regarding past documents, some users create complex applications in Excel, for example. How much of a problem is that for these users? How will those problems be solved?

2. What is the system management story? Essential to IT beyond even 30 users is a way to deploy, administer (including configuring settings), and upgrade/patch applications en masse. Microsoft provides those tools and Office, of course, integrates well with them. There are third party tools, but they need to do much better than exist; they need to function efficiently and reliably - imagine the deployment bug implemented en masse. Are there such tools for Linux and LibreOffice?
by p_l | 2025-06-10 11:30:09+00:00
Vista was dogged by issues caused by migrating display drivers from NTDDM to WDDM 1.0, something that was only finished by 7 (which dropped NTDDM fully and introduced WDDM 1.1) and 8 (which afaik had mandated WDDM 1.1 only).

Unlike previous GDI acceleration, DWM.EXE could composite alpha channel quickly with the GPU, and generally achieved much higher fill rates on the same hw - if the drivers worked properly.
by cyanmagenta | 2025-06-10 11:30:38+00:00
Lawyer here. There isn’t attorney-client privilege with AI itself because AI is neither your attorney nor your client. However, there is something called the work product doctrine that shields things like your activities with legal research tools, document review tools, etc. so long as they are used in anticipation of litigation. So, despite what the other commenters are saying here, there is pretty much no chance that any of this would be discoverable, barring very strange circumstances.
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-10 11:30:51+00:00
> Do you really thing Democrats are "pro-illegal immigration"?

I do. Demonstrably so. The Biden administration admitted between 8-20 million illegal immigrants into the country, depending on the estimate used. Even at the low end, this is the highest ever in the history of the country. More than any other administration. They made all kinds of excuses. They claimed they needed new laws. Trump solved it almost overnight. [https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-enc...] The Democrats lied. They didn't need more laws. They wanted things the way they were. They chose to permit the situation and allow it to devolve like that.

Now almost every Democrat representative is resolutely opposed to deporting illegal immigrants. There is simply no other way to interpret this than they are in fact pro illegal immigration.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-06-10 11:30:57+00:00
> 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.

This is utter nonsense. I met my now wife at 31, and can assure you that I had little to no interest in 20 somethings at that point (having made those mistakes in the past).

Clearly you live in a very different world from me, or you're just trolling (more likely given the green account name).
by Krssst | 2025-06-10 11:31:30+00:00
Current interfaces are not aimed at being optimally useful. Padding everywhere as of today means more time scrolling and wasted screen space. Animations everywhere means a lot of wasted time watching pixels moving instead of the computer/phone giving us control immediately after it did the thing we (maybe) asked for. Hiding scrollbars is a nightmare in general in desktop OSes but is the default (once lost half an hour setting up a proxy because the "save" button was hidden behind a scrollbar).

Usability feels it has only been down since Windows 7. (on another hand, Windows has plenty of accessibility features that help a lot in restoring usability)
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-10 11:32:02+00:00
> finding your niche

Exactly. It used to be that way in AI a decade ago. Different subfields used bespoke methods you could specialize in and could take a fairly undisturbed 3-5 years to work on it without constant worries of being scooped and therefore having to rush to publish something half baked to plant flags. Nowadays methods are converging, it's comparatively less useful to be an expert in some narrow application area, since the standard ML methods work quite well for such a broad range of uses (see the bitter lesson). This also means that a broader range of publications are relevant to everyone, you're supposed to be aware of the NLP frontier even if you are a vision researcher etc., you should know about RL developments etc. Due to more streamlined github and huggingface releases, research results are also more available for others to build on, so publishing an incremental iteration on top of a popular method is much easier today than 15 years ago when you first had to implement the paper yourself and needed expertise to avoid traps not mentioned in any paper and is assumed common knowledge.

It may not be a big problem for overall progress, but it makes people much more anxious. I see it on PhD students, many are quite scared of opening arxiv and academic social media, fearing that someone was faster and scooped them.

Lots of labs are working on very similar things, and the labs are less focused on narrow areas, everyone tries to claim broad areas. Meanwhile people have less and less energy to peer review this flood of papers and there's less incentive to do a good job there instead of working on the next paper.

This definitely can't go on forever and there will be a massive reality check in academia (of AI/ML).
by intended | 2025-06-10 11:32:10+00:00
You want to ditch history for what America should do now, and what America wants to do now, based on an exact reading of your words, is to "enforce its laws on illegal immigrants". And you implied you want to reduce immigration as well.

As I said, many ways to skin a cat.

People follow incentives, so why not punish people who are paying for the labor? Arrests for employing them?

Its an economic system, theres 2 way incentives.

The process used, depends on what problem you are solving.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-10 11:32:31+00:00
While LibreOffice has a ton of things that should be improved, I hope that it will never suffer a "modernization" that will make it more similar to the recent versions of MS Office.

In my opinion, MS Office has been improved steadily during the decade ending in 2003/2004, then it has stagnated, then it has been degraded continuously until today.

The UI of LibreOffice is ugly, but it is easy to do with it what you need. The UI of MS Office has become extremely convoluted for any of the more sophisticated tasks.
by munksbeer | 2025-06-10 11:32:38+00:00
You should read "What's Expected Of Us" by Ted Chiang. Or perhaps you already have. It explores exactly this concept.

For what it's worth, I don't believe we have what people would call free will. Our brains operate either in an entirely deterministic universe, in which case everything was decided and your choices are not in any sense free, or we're in a universe with intrinsic randomness, and randomness doesn't make free will either.

I'm aware of the philosophy of Compatibilism, but this is just a sleight of hand to keep believing in some undefinable concept of free will.
by lenkite | 2025-06-10 11:32:54+00:00
Are you seriously asking this in good faith ? There are dozens of cases of people who were arrested. Please do your own research. It will barely take you ~10 mins.

East Harlem - poor district - no health officials only harsh police enforcement, >20 people arrested.

Lots of arrests in Manhattan for social distancing. Even taking video of the arrests got you arrested

https://abc30.com/nypd-violent-arrest-east-village-caught-on...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/08/social-dista...

Famous report of Texas woman arrested for not wearing mask to Bank AFTER Abbott rolled back the federal mask mandate.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/13/us/galveston-arrest-bank-...

No mask - no vote https://marylandmatters.org/2020/10/28/gop-lawmaker-takes-le...

Famous case of Mom arrested and taken to the ground for not wearing mask correctly, lol. https://ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/coronavirus-blog/2020/05/15/mot...

We can go on and on...but seriously do people have such terrible short term memory that all the arrests, business closures and police abuse are already forgotten ?
by dr_dshiv | 2025-06-10 11:33:09+00:00
Hooke was a somewhat lower class than the other gentlemen in the Royal Society. He was put in charge of actually producing the demonstrations for the society as “Chief Curator.” His lower class status was useful because he could engage with builders/craftsmen and be present in the pubs and meeting houses to pick up information that was otherwise unavailable to the upper class gentlemen.

It was for this reason that he could introduce things like cannabis (“the account of the plant”) to the royal society. Yet, we was also very much into esoteric philosophy and occult wisdom — much of which came from his upper class access with Boyle (an alchemist)

He also assisted sir Christopher Wren as chief surveyor in rebuilding London after the great fire.

An astonishing career. Total polymath.
Rust password hashing functions: Argon2, scrypt, PBKDF2
by jph | 2025-06-10 11:33:54+00:00
I'm evaluating Rust password hashing functions, specifically Argon2, scrypt, PBKDF2. I'm using the RustCrypto open source implementations. I have three simple demos in case you want to try these yourself:

* https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/demo-rust-argon2

* https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/demo-rust-scrypt

* https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/demo-rust-pbkdf2

I'm seeking advice please, such as pros and cons. The context is medical software where hashing is on generally modern machines. I'm aware of the OWASP recommendations which seem broadly helpful. Thanks!
by acatton | 2025-06-10 11:34:53+00:00
I expect Lobste.rs's outage to be totally unrelated to Heroku's, just pure timing coincidence.

From the last archived version of lobste.rs/about: https://web.archive.org/web/20250601002505/https://lobste.rs...

"Lobsters is hosted on three VPSs at DigitalOcean: a s-4vcpu-8gb for the web server, a s-4vcpu-8gb for the mariadb server, and a s-1vcpu-1gb for the IRC bot. DNS is hosted at DNSimple and we use restic for backups to b2. (Setup details are available in our ansible repo.) Lobsters is cheap to run, so we don't take donations."
by fleshmonad | 2025-06-10 11:35:41+00:00
What is it with Microsoft shills everywhere? Everytime some subject like this headline comes up, people fetch some kind of dubious arguments like "muh deployment". This is actually trivial in linux, and even if not, the effort to implement a solution will be of use to future parties switching to FOSS. Why is it that people always want change to make something better, but screach when they actually have to improve something. It's really curious. But I guess shills are gonna shill, or maybe I am just ignorant and or too stupid to see the grave mistake Denmark is committing right now, because they don't use Microsoft® PowerDeploy™ Copilot enabled Decentralized Update Solutions™
by anovikov | 2025-06-10 11:35:45+00:00
For CITIZENS, all of them do. Naturally in UAE there are few citizens. I have no idea why temporary, non immigrant foreigners should be entitled to free anything. There is no naturalization in UAE, you can't ever get citizenship regardless of years of residence or being born in the country - only way to it is direct male line from 1915 (something i think more countries should practice). So why fund someone who's outsider and who, will, and his descendants, always remain outsiders on temporary visas?
by zac23or | 2025-06-10 11:36:00+00:00
For those who complain that the old interfaces were better and the current ones are horrible, including this one (I tried using some glass interfaces, transparencies, etc. in the past. It's horrible to use) you're right, and that's not going to change. It's a question of the market.

When nobody used computers, it was necessary to attract people. How? With the bestter interfaces, usability. A graphical operating system running on a CPU of 20 MHz or less was something. It's not fast, but it's the best possible for the time!

And after 2000, everyone is using computers. The market is not expanding as companies expected. It's no longer important to attract people, everything can be done without worrying about the user, he's no longer important. Now, the Android keyboard is bigger than the Windows 95 installation, and my computer crashes from time to time with CPUs operating at GHz.

No, the interfaces of the past were not perfect, but they were made to try to fool people.

Remember Netflix? It used to recommend sharing passwords, now it tries to charge for each different IP. Is the same thing, the stream market is stable now...

The good UI is lost, it's a thing of the past.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-10 11:37:01+00:00
> But the kicker is that the president has an effective Carte Blanche to determine what is an official act.

I think this is where the interpretation of the ruling is wrong: common reading is that it gave the president more power.

Textually, whether it does or doesn't entirely turns on the definition of an "official act" which the Supreme Court very notably left for lower courts to determine on a case by case basis.

>> The immunity [for official acts] the Court has recognized therefore extends to the “outer perimeter” of the President’s official responsibilities, covering actions so long as they are “not manifestly or palpably beyond [his] authority.” Blassingame v. Trump, 87 F. 4th 1, 13 (CADC).

Including in Trump v United States, which was still ongoing at the time Trump won reelection.

>> On Trump’s view, the alleged conduct [of contacting state and other election officials] qualifies as official because it was undertaken to ensure the integrity and proper administration of the federal election. As the Government sees it, however, Trump can point to no plausible source of authority enabling the President to take such actions. Determining whose characterization may be correct, and with respect to which conduct, requires a fact-specific analysis of the indictment’s extensive and interrelated allegations. The Court accordingly remands to the District Court to determine in the first instance whether Trump’s conduct in this area qualifies as official or unofficial.

>> Whether the communications alleged in the indictment involve official conduct may depend on the content and context of each. This necessarily factbound analysis is best performed initially by the District Court. The Court therefore remands to the District Court to determine in the first instance whether this alleged conduct is official or unofficial. [...] Unlike Trump’s alleged interactions with the Justice Department, this alleged conduct cannot be neatly categorized as falling within a particular Presidential function. The necessary analysis is instead fact specific, requiring assessment of numerous alleged interactions with a wide variety of state officials and private persons.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf p5+, p24

Since it was dismissed without prejudice, it's entirely possible a subsequent Department of Justice reopens it and proceeds with the District Court fact finding the Supreme Court directed.
by glimshe | 2025-06-10 11:37:08+00:00
I had plenty of time and leisure activities throughout my US career. Plenty of money for hobbies, toys and a house.

I had the deportation risk while waiting for the Greencard. But I'd happily go back to my birth country with a ton of money if I was deported vs my friends who tried Europe and went back home (due to low Software wages and underemployment in Europe) with nothing to show for it.

The vast majority of my US-born and foreign friends in the software field are doing great financially. A few got laid off but had good savings and were eventually hired elsewhere. Even the ones in the West Coast. They had to buy small houses (like the ones in Europe) but they got to do it anyway.

I have a few friends who came from the richer parts of Europe. A handful went back, but not most. The ones from the poorer parts of Europe are certainly not going back.

Europe is great for the rich, though. Thus a good place to retire if you can afford it. But the same can be said about many parts of the US, so ultimately it's a matter of taste.
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-10 11:37:31+00:00
The competition racket and inflation keeps turning. It used to be publications. Then it was top conference publications. Now it's going viral on social media, being popularized by big AI aggregators like AK.

It's crazy, most Master's students applying for a PhD position already come with multiple top conference papers, which a few years ago would get you like 2/3 of the way to the PhD, and now it just gets you a foot in the door in applying to start a PhD. And then already Bachelor students are expected to publish to get a good spot in a lab to do their Master thesis or internship. And NeurIPS has a track for high school students to write papers, which - I assume - will boost their applications to start university. This type of hustle has been common in many East Asian countries and is getting globalized.
by rorylaitila | 2025-06-10 11:38:39+00:00
Constraints in one dimension can allow unconstrained movement in another dimension. I use this all of the time in my revenue consulting. A classic example: given fixed costs, if you constrain margin, price must be unconstrained and be free to move up or down. If you constrain price, then margin must be free to fluctuate.

The error is when the client has goal like "We need to sell at $X to keep up with competitors and our margin needs to be Y" while costs are unable to change.

That is two competing mutually exclusive goals. I use the financial reality of these constraints to help get at the bottom of their true goals.
by jstimpfle | 2025-06-10 11:41:04+00:00
I don't enjoy stating the obvious, but driving cars is still relatively safe and trains are not a replacement.

Where I live (south germany), for many trips that we can agree are kind of necessary (e.g. daily commute to work), trains can take 4-5x more time. There are other places where it's probably much worse.

There are other reasons why trains are not a replacement, for example cargo. Are you taking home your new cupboard, sofa, or fridge, on a train?
by xioxox | 2025-06-10 11:41:21+00:00
Unfortunately the LibreOffice Impress is pretty bad. PowerPoint is what keeps me using Office. LibreOffice formatting looks bad on the screen (it resizes bitmaps to make the fuzzy) and the user interface for constructing slides is both clunky, slow and buggy. I don't understand how the UI can be this slow in 2025 on a fast PC. Basic functionality, like resizing an equation, just doesn't work.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-06-10 11:42:41+00:00
Hint: This has nothing to do with a zero y-axis, why would one need to have a zero value to have the y-axis start at zero?

The reason to have a non-zero y-axis for time series is to amplify changes, e.g. the changes might be to small to see with a zeroed y-axis. Or you have ups and downs and want to compare them, with a zeroed y-axis again the changes might be too small to compare.

Whenever you want to show growth, a non-zero y-axis is usually a sign that the aim is to overstate growth, because we as humans estimate growth by the steepness of the graph, not by the numbers. A non-zero y-axis creates a much steeper graph and thus growth is perceived much higher than it is.
by sgt | 2025-06-10 11:43:27+00:00
It's a great way for Denmark to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft for the next round of licenses. No way they will stick with Linux.

It's just too fiddly, requiring way more "IT people" running around configuring Samba shares and printer drivers.

And LibreOffice is many many years behind MS Office, and it'll continue to be that way.

Sorry for the pessimism but this was true in 2005, in 2015, and in 2025.
by EZ-E | 2025-06-10 11:43:42+00:00
> If they sit around 8 hours a day, they end up changing something or the other to justify their existence

I've seen this - it's not limited to designers, I've also business stakeholders with limited scope pushing for meaningless changes and revamps. The incentives to absolutely find something to do are too great. No one in higher management ever wants to hear that everything is fine and that we should do nothing. You'll be instantly booted saying that for lacking ambition and vision even if you're right. There should always be the next thing. As part of the tech industry earning a salary you always need to sell "something" internally.
by jchw | 2025-06-10 11:45:26+00:00
Yeah. I've done this a few times with plain old hydrogen peroxide. However, I also really do wonder if the hydrogen peroxide is even needed... it seems to help, but it's unclear. It's frustrating how unscientific retrobrighting is; it clearly works but it's so weirdly spotty that it's hard to conclude anything, with effort it usually works to some degree but when it does and doesn't work is a mystery (and people often mistake accidentally bleaching the parts for success, which muddies things even worse.)
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-06-10 11:45:51+00:00
Because the internet has deformed our fucking brains. Basically everyone is walking around in a state of chronic narcolepsy and we repeat everything we fucking hear online. We are being psyop'd by big tech into being angrier, and therefore easier to control.

Delete all social media, and, if you can, choose to have absolutely no dealings with the big tech industry
by uselesswords | 2025-06-10 11:45:59+00:00
I think you are misunderstanding a couple of things. The label for Cedarcure doesn’t have timed dosing, just says take it during the day. Furthermore this research article would actually indicate it’s better to take it in the afternoon for your particular drug, if there really is any connection. Which is still a crazy connection to make because you are complaining about a specific immumotherapy regimen finding not being applied to an allergy-style medication. Why not apply this logic to every drug that interacts with the immune system (which is all of them)? Furthermore as other comments pointed out, you’re mad your doctor didn’t know about a brand-new study that didn’t exist when they made a recommendation?

Doctor’s have a wide discretion and often get things wrong. But in your case, that’s not what happened. If anything your doctor actually got it right either by chance or intuition.