MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101c | 2025-06-24 12:59:09+00:00
> I think this is pretty consistent with the old school 1950s views of the current administration. Companies can prioritize profits over people again.

This is not from the 1950s, but from the 1970s, most famously (though others piled on after Friedman's (in)famous NYT letter):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

In the mid-twentieth century corporate management's focus was more broad:

> This view was shared not only by scholars but, surprisingly, by many corporate executives. In 1949 General Foods’ president Clarence Francis told Congress that he had a “three-way responsibility to the American consumer, to our associates in this business, and to the 68,000 [stockholders in General Foods]. We . . . would serve (the company’s) interests badly by shifting the fruits of the enterprise too heavily toward any one of those groups.” Two years later, the president of Standard Oil of New Jersey claimed that managers needed “to conduct the affairs of the enterprise in such a way as to maintain an equitable and working balance among the claims of the various directly interested groups—stockholders, employees, customers, and the public at large.” So widespread were such views that, in 1959, one writer in the Harvard Business Review complained that it was no longer “fashionable for the corporation to take gleeful pride in making money.” Instead, he complained, it was typical “for the corporation to show that it is a great innovator; more specifically, a great public benefactor; and, very particularly, that it exists ‘to serve the public’.”

> Even the law bent, at least a bit, toward this “social” view of corporate purpose. When the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld corporate charitable donations in its 1956 A.P. Smith Manufacturing Co. decision, it rested its judgment less on any benefit that would accrue to the company than on the belief that corporations had responsibilities beyond those owed to shareholders; corporations needed, the court held, to “acknowledge and discharge social as well as private responsibilities as members of the communities within which they operate.”

* https://www2.law.temple.edu/10q/purpose-corporation-brief-hi...

The fact that people do not know this history, and think that corporation and capitalism was 'always' about only making money, limits the options under discussions for fixing some of the social ills we are experiencing currently. Yes: corporations need to (at least) break even to survive, and ideally have some sort of return, but there are degrees to which they have to push to accomplish this.

* https://beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/beyond-pro...

Some of the highest levels of economic growth (and its distribution to all) was done during times when shareholder primacy was not the main goal—though there were other factors, which may or may not be replicable, that helped with that growth:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_American_...
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-24 12:59:14+00:00
> Housing prices are constantly rising

Housing prices typically appreciate up with inflation over the long run, although local markets don't always follow the same pattern. (IE, Silicon Valley is a case where real estate appreciated faster than inflation.)

Remember, it's over the long run. There can be periods where a house will appreciate faster than inflation, and other periods where the real value of a house doesn't keep up. If you understand this dynamic, you can make a lot of money. (IE, flipping and then becoming a landlord when the market turns.)
by SirHumphrey | 2025-06-24 12:59:20+00:00
> Right, just like w/b are "close enough" outside the home row completely

Yes, they are close enough, and w/b are executed often.

> How does it make the defaults good to support your faulty conclusion that you need to learn them first?

You need to at least study them because assuming a priori that they are either good or "universally bad" is a faulty conclusion - and some stuff doesn't become obvious until you use them for some time.

When you start learning VIM, you will be faster with arrow keys, because you are used to them from other programs. When you get enough muscle memory, you may discover that there is some value in having somewhere near where your fingers rest on the keyboard - or maybe you will still find that you are faster with arrow keys - whatever the conclusion, it can not be made objectively before you have enough proficiency with both.
by pjerem | 2025-06-24 12:59:25+00:00
> running Linux is fucking hard

Changing your habits is hard. But that's also true for Windows > Mac.

Linux (Mint) in itself isn't hard. You need to understand what's different. If you have no hardware issue, the biggest different lies in "how do I install [software]" ? But now most distros (incl. Linux Mint) are hidding the package managers (including flatpack which provides a lot of software) behind nice "App Store" like GUIs.

How do I know that ? After years on Linux & Mac, I had to work on Windows in my previous job. Guess what ? It was hard. Especially Windows 10 & 11. It's complex, it's a mess, nothing is coherent. I started my journey into computing with Windows 95. It used to be somehow simple, with coherent ergonomics. It's long gone. Any big Linx DE is more coherent than recent Windows nowadays.
by easyThrowaway | 2025-06-24 13:00:22+00:00
As my boss at the time eloquently said: LVMH is not gonna take "sorry but our ToS" for an answer after they spend millions in their latest ad campaign because if you squint hard enough you can see Lea Seydoux's nipples. And meta knows that extremely well, so there never was any doubts about them restoring any accounts no matter what the ToS says.
by 9rx | 2025-06-24 13:00:37+00:00
Normally there is an implied understanding of relatedness. A medical doctor with a medical degree might reasonably suggest that their degree was required, but a medical doctor with an art history degree wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Clearly anyone can become a doctor under that scenario.

Granted, the work of a programmer is derived from computer science, like the work of a janitor is derived from chemistry, but it is a stretch to think those jobs are related. Someone who applies the work of scientists is not doing the same work as the scientist. Perhaps they would be right to say that programmers and janitors do require a degree, but it wouldn't be a CS/chemistry degree. And, well, a business manager has absolutely nothing to do with CS. That one is well and truly like a medical doctor with an art history degree situation.

So, strictly speaking, those jobs would be considered underemployed when done so under a CS degree in any reasonable context. But you do rightfully highlight the bigger problem, which is to say that it is self-reported. Perhaps your key point here is that CS graduates are more likely than art history majors to be out to lunch? Given the stereotypes, that may be a fair assertion.
by IAmBroom | 2025-06-24 13:00:50+00:00
Perfect in a single-body universe, perhaps, but the gravity field of a particle is perturbed by other nearby particles - where "nearby" is relative to precision desired - and therefore never a perfect sphere.

Or, to put it another way, so-called "perfect circles" exist in a real, 4-D, wibbly-wobbly gravity-distorted space, and are no longer perfect Cartesian circles.

They still only exist theoretically; not in practice.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-24 13:00:56+00:00
It's not Fear, Uncertainty or Doubt. Nobody serious is saying that TPMs are a bad idea. They are saying they are not required and they are fucking correct to say it, and especially when folks are already suffering under a cost of living hike like few we've seen, plus Trump's stupid tariffs, it's horseshit to effectively hold people's security hostage to them buying an entire new fucking computer.

You can disable the requirements for these features in Windows setup with Microsoft approved group policies. They are the definition of not required. My workbench PC is a shitty old XPS from 2014 and it runs 11 just fine.

Like, would people be more secure with TPMs? Absolutely, but I've been using computers in my home since fucking 2004 that did not have these features. Surely we can let it go a little longer without throwing folks to the digital wolves for the crime of not having a few hundred around for another new goddamn gadget?
by bayindirh | 2025-06-24 13:01:06+00:00
When starting to work on something, I generally do a sanity check to see that the fundamentals are there and correct versions, then throw that part of the context out of mind, knowing that I stand on firm ground.

I found out that with this verify-and-forget step, I work much more efficiently.

As a result, my workflow becomes independent of the machine I work on, because I become the tool, not my setup. After that point, only having a "$" at the beginning of the line is enough.

Of course everyone have their own choices, and YMMV.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-06-24 13:01:30+00:00
Oh gee, I don't know, maybe because hormone exposure during gestation has been proven to influence the annogenital distance, a key sex indicator ?

Because plasticisers are endocrine disruptors ?

I don't understand why studying the causes of something has to invalidate the identity of a group of people. Clearly something causes people to be transgender. The same way something causes people to be albino. Is it offending to them if we study it ? No. Why should that be different ?
by bluecalm | 2025-06-24 13:01:57+00:00
It has nothing to do with credit. The whole buy-now-pay-later, 0% rates or pay-day loans industry came much later here. The same goes for predatory marketing industry.

When I went to elementary school everyone was poor as it was a year after communism collapsed. People were still spending their last money on shiny things back then even if those shiny things weren't as shiny as they are today.

>>Getting rich may be extremely unlikely if not outright impossible

Again, in communist and then post communist countries no one thought we could be rich. The things we thought about back then was being able to buy enough food and trying to educate ourselves as education was valued in itself in some families. Even back then a lot of people spent their last money on pointless shiny things.

I feel Americans and some Western Europeans look for ways to justify dumb behavior and come up with all those theories that have nothing to do with human nature. If you grow up in a country where everyone is the same race, everyone is poor (at least for a few years), the police is not out there to get you and healthcare is free even if terrible and you still witness people making the same stupid decisions you realize it has nothing to do with those theories and everything to do with education, values and ability to make sensible decisions.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-24 13:02:39+00:00
It remains underexplored, but there's many papers released and many studies being done to try and confirm. A big one is hormonal; BPA is a xenoestrogen, emulating the effects of estrogen on human bodies, with studies showing links between it and reduced fertility. There's been ~19000 studies on it so far, most since the 2000s (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=bisphenol+a).

Jump-off points:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics_and_human_health...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Human_safety
by kevincox | 2025-06-24 13:02:51+00:00
Why not both?

Let's also stick an extra USB-C port on the side of the phone so that you can charge from whichever port is more convenient at the time. Or use an accessory like wired headphones and charge at the same time without carrying around a USB hub. Or if one breaks (charging ports are one of the most common things to fail on the phone) you can continue using the other one (either temporarily until the other is repaired or indefinitely).
by christophilus | 2025-06-24 13:03:10+00:00
My 2cents: use Fedora. Or, if you're technically savvy, Arch. I slightly prefer Arch simply because:

- Firefox is up to date (Fedora is often 2 weeks late on security patches)

- No upgrade cycle. Just `pacman -Syu` on a regular cadence, or whatever you're comfy with.

When you go with the vanilla install of a major distro, I find you simply run into fewer shenanigans.
by drcongo | 2025-06-24 13:03:18+00:00
I love Starship. Having built a decent enough powerline prompt for zsh in the past, and really hating PS1, I've found Starship to be incredibly useful for building the exact prompt I want, with full colour, and never ever wigging out at anything. One simple toml file on every machine I ever ssh into and everything I need to know about the session is there at a glance.
by guestbest | 2025-06-24 13:03:32+00:00
I seem to recall that early versions of Linux wouldn’t run on a cheap 386sx until the kernel started to incorporate embedded applications from widespread use in the late 90s. Also I remember the minimum ram was 4 meg but could go down to 2 meg if networking wasn’t installed even though it was built in to the kernel. Until the dot com boom, I don’t recall Linux being a partially flexible operating system. I think this is what kept windows 3.1 and ms-dos going until the late 90s
by marcusb | 2025-06-24 13:04:26+00:00
> Microsoft has a long history of playing fast-and-loose with the truth. And that’s again the case with Windows 10 coming to its supposed “end of life” this fall.

I can’t take an article seriously, whatever merits it might have, if this is the opening gambit.

“End of life” is a fairly common term of art amongst software and hardware OEMs. Windows 10 is going to be end of life. No scare quotes needed.
by neutronicus | 2025-06-24 13:04:35+00:00
If they've seen Paw Patrol they've been exposed to ads. I don't mean "commercials" I mean that the entertainment itself is the ad - generating excitement for branded merchandise, but also normalizing the idea of kids accomplishing things and learning life lessons in 20-minute increments with the aid of a tremendous amount of stuff that they just have.

Maybe they haven't but the idea extends to most kids' entertainment.
by api | 2025-06-24 13:04:45+00:00
There was so much interesting research on distributed systems back then that was wholly abandoned.

There was also Mosix, OpenMosix, Beowulf, etc. All those are worth a look. It's a path that was not taken, and IMHO could have been better, but "worse is better" won once again.

Had we taken this path, you might be able to create a distributed instance of an OS and just throw hardware at it -- boxes or VMs -- and tasks would run on it like a single OS with little or no modification. It'd be like having an infinite giant box.

Of course as soon as you started trying to do anything like geo-distributed or even multi-DC/multi-AZ work loads you'd be back to orchestration and the like. You'd also run into problems if you want to rev the hardware in any big way, since these systems generally depended on all the boxes being at least nearly the same. So if you threw in, say, some new boxes with AVX512 ISNs, you would not be able to use AVX512 until you'd rotated out all boxes without it. Bigger architectural shifts would require what amounts to a "reboot" of the big virtual OS instance. Mixing boxes with different performance characteristics or RAM amounts was also problematic. Making that work well would be hard to get right.

Under the hood these distributed OSes were orchestrators like K8S, just hidden from you for the most part behind a Posix emulation layer that made it look like one box.

Ultimately I think the type of architecture you see with "serverless" where everything is a "function" with no side effects that can talk to one or more shared global databases is the better architecture. Do away with the entire concept of a "box" in favor of a sea of functions that call each other, event queues, schedulers, etc. We do kind of have that, but only in the form of proprietary serverless platforms.

The amount of complexity we inflict on ourselves by dragging along the concept of unmanaged / unbounded global state, static state, and side effects is mind boggling. A function should only operate on what you give it.
by bitmasher9 | 2025-06-24 13:06:16+00:00
Personally borrow and invest over shorter periods of time (less than 10 years) has too high of a risk portfolio for me, especially with a depreciating asset.

What if there is a market downturn, and you’re out not only the decrease in value of your assets but also the interest in your loan. I admit this is down to personal preference and risk tolerance.
by kevincox | 2025-06-24 13:06:34+00:00
I loved older phones where you could just pop or slide off the back and replace the battery. So many people carry around portable battery packs to recharge which is large, heavy and clunky (you need to hold these two devices while the phone charges). I used to just carry a spare battery and could do a swap for an instant full charge in about the same amount of time it takes most people to get out and plug in their battery pack.
Show HN: Mindfuse – A voice-only app for anonymous 1-on-1 conversations
by Letstalk123 | 2025-06-24 13:06:41+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Mindfuse because I missed having real conversations online.

It’s a simple concept: You press a button and get matched with someone, anonymously, for a voice-only conversation. No usernames, no profiles, no feeds. Just two people talking.

The goal is to create quiet, meaningful spaces in a noisy, performative internet.

It’s live on iOS now. Still early — small user base, no monetization, just people talking.

Happy to answer any questions or feedback. I’d especially love to hear from anyone building in the audio/social space or interested in digital minimalism, mindful tech, or mental health.

Thanks for reading.
by dtagames | 2025-06-24 13:07:20+00:00
I think there are two reasons. First, Bluesky the company isn't in the business of making apps using the AT protocol. They're just trying to keep the protocol servers themselves alive so that other people can write apps.

Your idea of a conversion app is a good one, and there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from writing one right now. The issues are technical ones and perhaps TOS ones. It may be more difficult than it appears to write a client program that can extract your timeline and convert to AT posts. You might run afoul of X's terms of service trying to do so. And the result you could post to Bluesky would only be new posts as the protocol isn't going to let you post something in the "past."
by JeremyNT | 2025-06-24 13:08:50+00:00
Ironically, some devices (Pixel 9 at least) have now added a tiny little touch sensor exactly where the fingerprint reader used to be - it doesn't read the fingerprint, but you can regain this functionality by mapping taps to actions.

I can't even imagine why they decided to keep the fingerprint sensor on the front but add a whole separate sensor on the back.
by simoncion | 2025-06-24 13:09:24+00:00
In addition to that, if this is an old building, then I'd bet that the reason for the water shutoff is to fix a leak. If there's a leak, it's likely that the leak is leaking into the structure somewhere.

Might be that five days of leakage are much, much more water wasted [0] than if everyone in the building stocks several gallons of water for use during the shutoff period.

[0] And in this case, actually wasted because they'll not make it to a drain to get to a water treatment plant.
by Defletter | 2025-06-24 13:09:28+00:00
> To be able to enter into new long term agreements, we must respect existing agreements.

That is a matter of trust, it's not an obligation for the state. We are a society of people, and for us to perpetuate civil society, wrongs must be corrected, yes? Why is the respect for debt more important than the respect for humanity?

> There is no need for me to consider the actions of others I had no control over in order to act morally.

What does this have to do with anything? Slavery is not a matter of "if you don't like it, don't do it", it was a positive right protected and enforced through the state's monopoly on violence. That's what law is. Likewise with the legacies of slavery. It's not mere morality, it's existential to civil society.

If the state passes legislation to fund reparations based on past harm, that is no different to any other appropriations spending. And yes, the choice to pass such legislation is largely based on morality since there was no prior legal obligation to do so... but so was not absolving themselves of that slave-owner debt. The UK Parliament is sovereign, it could have willed away that debt with a simple majority, but it chose not to for 200 years. That too is a decision based on morality, and a telling one: that humanity is less important than debts being paid.

> Nations are not individuals.

Nations are not literally individuals, but state personhood is a thing, akin to corporate personhood. I'm not entirely sure what your point is here.

> Similarly, individuals do not inherit debt.

You're doing the whole "don't therefore can't" thing again. I have a vague recollection of debt inheritance in history's past. 'We don't do that because we don't do that' is not an argument.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-24 13:09:29+00:00
> Only in USA, the rest of the world doesn't see lawyers flock to politics.

Some data that suggests otherwise:

> On the question of what to study, there’s also a clear answer: nearly a third of both the officials and MEPs hold a law degree at undergraduate or postgraduate level. Non-science subjects such as business, humanities, political science and humanities are all prominent in the data with just 5 percent of MEPs and 2 percent of officials having a medical or health sciences qualification (Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is one of the few exceptions, having trained as a medical doctor and taken a master’s degree in public health.)

* https://www.politico.eu/article/what-to-study-to-join-the-eu...

Would be interested in a global survey on this: does it differ any (if at all) for various regions/countries/cultures around the world.
by kevincox | 2025-06-24 13:09:53+00:00
I'm generally a fan of wired-everything but headphones are the one thing that I love to have wireless. Not only is it not a tangle with the cord but I can go grab a glass of water without any interruption even still listening to a meeting while I do.

The biggest downside is worrying about the battery level. But they last so long on a single charge that it isn't even an issue if you forget to plug them in many days in a row and the battery charges fast even on a slow charger.
by ben_w | 2025-06-24 13:10:05+00:00
> There is no reason why we should assume a silicon machine must have the same capabilities as a carbon machine

Then make your computer out of carbon.

While the broader principle, that we don't know what we're doing and AI as it currently exists is a bit cargo-culty, this is a critique of the SOTA and is insufficient to be generalised: we can reasonably say "we probably have not", we can't say "we definitely cannot ever".

Who knows, perhaps our brains do somehow manage to do whacky quantum stuff despite seeming to be far too warm and messy for that. But even that is just an implementation detail.
by colordrops | 2025-06-24 13:10:16+00:00
Love it, leaving for Beijing in two more days. We are vegan so our dining options are limited, and my wife and kids haven't been before so we are doing the typical tourist things. My friend is a Buddhist monk that lives here and we have been visiting his sangha the last couple days.

Did you have a recommendation or two for less visited but unique areas we could walk around? Thank you!