MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DFHippie | 2025-06-10 10:59:48+00:00
> And yet, they embrace incredibly unpopular parts of "extreme left". Being pro-illegal immigration is incredibly stupid and unpopular. DEI discrimination on the basis of race is also incredibly stupid and unpopular. I suppose i could also mention transitions for children. Need i mention free speech? It's a travesty that republicans have become the free speech party, but it's something the left has ceded.

You've swallowed a lot of right-wing propaganda about the Democratic Party. Do you really thing Democrats are "pro-illegal immigration"? The rest of these tendentious mischaracterizations take some tedious and likely fruitless effort to debunk, but just think about that phrase. Do you think any party is in favor of illegal immigration? How would that work anyway? Parties try to pass laws. The best you could find is that some party favors immigration policies you would prefer be illegal.

Democrats are against violating laws to deport people here legally or following the legal, prescribed process for adjudicating their status. Republicans are okay with breaking the law to chuck people out of the country. That produces a different result, but "illegal" is on the wrong side of the balance there for your argument.

You're not in a great position to tell Democrats what to say and do if you're clearly ignoring what they say and do and believing the lies other people feed you about them.
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-10 11:00:23+00:00
> Yes there are protests, largely peaceful and in a tremendously small part of Los Angeles.

Firey but mostly peaceful protests are happening all over again. No, burning down cities is not peaceful. After just a few days, at least five officers, several journalists, and we don't know how many rioters have been injured so far. We don't yet have estimates of property damage, but tens of millions would be conservative. Similar riots have resulted in hundreds of millions in damages.

When the right does this, we call it what it is: violent riots. We acknowledge it's wrong to attempt to prevent the government carrying out its the duties it was democratically elected to carry out. We should hold that standard to the left as well. These rioters are anti-democratic.
by anthk | 2025-06-10 11:01:43+00:00
I think of these with analogues with pixel rendering in order to understand integration and diferentiation on an intuitive way.

Once you 'see' how triangles/slopes are drawn on a GB/GBA, you begin to understand limits.

derivative of x^2 = 2x and a neglibile pixel/point that shouldn't be there but it 'exists' to show a changing factor.
by subsistence234 | 2025-06-10 11:02:28+00:00
> So was it only white boys interested?

Back then my field had plenty women and asians, I also knew a bunch of middle easterners (mostly iranians, but that's probably by accident). They got into the field because they were interested in it, so they were good at it!

Nowadays many people (including the despised white boys) enter the field because they think it's an easy way to make money, not because they're interested in it. But at least with the white boys, employers are still allowed to filter based on interest and ability. They can't filter out "oppressed identity havers" on the basis of interest or ability, who as a result are just as bad as nepotism hires -- some are good, most aren't.

What we should have focused on for the last 20 years was reducing nepotism, instead we created a new type of nepotism based on identity. In traditional nepotism you need an uncle who is friends with the boss, here you just need the skin color that is friends the boss of your (boss's)^n boss.

> I think we need diversity. Am I wrong?

There are definitely some circumstances where identity and cultural background can be very job-relevant -- for example for understanding your customers.

But that's pretty limited. Does your skin color or genitals have an effect on what kind of networking problems you can solve? The only reason we haven't proven the Riemann hypothesis yet is because we forgot to hire a Manchu-Bantu queer Muslim with ovotesticular syndrome and vitiligo? I don't think so.

Even if you believe that, this perceived need does not justify identity-based discrimination. Discrimination creates resentment.

Actual, legally enforced, culturally glorified discrimination (which corporate america currently has against white and asian men, unless they're nepotism hires) creates more resentment than does the ethereal, unfalsifiable, hypothetical discrimination that you assume to exist based on outcome disparities, even though companies are aggressively punished for any actual such discrimination (against anyone besides white and asian men).

The main unfairness in corporate America is nepotism. If you fight that, you'll automatically fight more white men than members of other identity groups. The main unfairness in America in general is poverty. If you fight poverty you'll automatically help more minorities. The main beneficiaries of DEI are "oppressed identity havers" from high income backgrounds. DEI reinforces/extends nepotism and income inequality instead of fighting it.
by smcin | 2025-06-10 11:02:50+00:00
To be clear, it's only time tracking for invoicing. Not for productivity measurement, or for recording specific tasks, or taskboards or bugs. I suggest you say that on your webpage. (Do you recommend or integrate with any time-tracker for the purposes I mention? If not can you recommend one you'll integrate with? Personally I like Todoist).

https://www.todoist.com/

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Todoist
by incomingpain | 2025-06-10 11:03:46+00:00
There's a single reason that's highly correlated better by a long shot and obviously causal. What's curious is that it's so tremendously controversial. But since this subject is so contentious we're looking at pets, carseats and other regulation, porn/sextoys and microplastics?

The "empowerment of women" has been hugely successful for society but has eroded if not destroyed the social balance of society.

There's a painful debate coming and if it doesnt happen, someone like Trump will get to choose.
by saubeidl | 2025-06-10 11:04:14+00:00
> Firstly, ASML's core EUV light source tech is licensed from the US who threatened to pull the plug if ASML sold EUV steppers to China. That's what actual leverage looks like.

That's not any leverage at all. The EU would instantly write a law invalidating those licenses on their territory. Paperwork like that is meaningless in geopolitical conflicts.
by darkwater | 2025-06-10 11:04:16+00:00
> 3. Wait a minute - if the AI can change the interface on its own - do we even need to have a single interface for everyone? Perhaps future software would only expose an API and a collection of customizable UI widgets (perhaps coupled with official example interfaces), which each user's "user agent AI" would then continuously adapt to that user's needs?

Nice, in theory. In practice it will be "Use our Premium Agent at 24.99$/month to get all the best features, or use the Basic Agent at 9.99$ that will be less effective, less customizable and inject ads".
by fzeroracer | 2025-06-10 11:04:18+00:00
Our economy absolutely would collapse. Our entire farming industry exists because of heavily abused immigrant labor, and is a job that Americans refuse to take. We've made multiple swings and attempts at getting Americans to do this work [1] but it's low pay, low benefits and grueling work. Farmers literally could not afford the actual salary needed to attract people to do said labor, and it would cause food prices across the US to skyrocket.

The only way this would stabilize is if the government came in and subsidized and socialized farm work heavily and that would also never happen.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/wh...
by pieds | 2025-06-10 11:04:27+00:00
They don't have the capacity. The opinion you present is actually part of the narrative you are seemingly against. That you can compete with big tech if you just want to.

And you "can" compete with big tech, but it isn't actually possible. Because the right pre-requisites, environment and priorities doesn't exist. Not in Europe, not in much of the US and not in much of the world.

The European companies the would (or could) prioritize having their own digital infrastructure (mostly research or more industrial companies) are also having lay-offs, or at least not growing close to more service oriented companies that are hooked into big tech.

For the same types of reasons the US also won't bring back manufacturing.

Edit: It also reminds me of a story from some time ago in Sweden. Because of the growing number of fashion designers the press were talking about the growing fashion industry as "the fashion wonder". The then CEO of H&M commented in an interview that most of these brands were making less revenue than just one of their stores. Many of these companies are now dead or irrelevant while H&M, Zara and Shein are still around and more relevant than ever.

If there actually was even more a shift to the web from desktop it would probably benefit Google with ChromeOS. Just like a shift from Windows for software development benefited Apple and their more closed ecosystem.
by ryanackley | 2025-06-10 11:04:33+00:00
I'm no Microsoft fanboy but LibreOffice is hideous and the compatibility has not kept up even after the MS Office formats moved to xml. Also, most of my interactions with Office Documents nowadays are through the online tools. I don't even have to install a binary on my computer anymore.

These enterprises should invest a fraction of what they used to spend on Microsoft Office into a development effort to modernize LibreOffice. Last time I tried to use it, it seemed like it was on life support in relation to Microsoft Office.
by croes | 2025-06-10 11:04:41+00:00
Amazon is one of the search engines TIOBE uses.

It seems like Amazon showed other unrelated things if search for Elixir Programming to bolster the search results.

So you got more result than books existed. Maybe 50,100 or even more results.

After a certain threshold Amazon stopped doing that, so you get less results.

Less results, lower TIOBE position
by dragochat | 2025-06-10 11:04:43+00:00
...could we just get Go's GREAT concurrency model and decent standard lib, but in a language that is less horrible than Go (like with decent type system, enums, expressions based grammar, pattern matching etc etc)?

pretty please :P

we all yearn for a good static language, and most of us would kill for "something like Rust (good type system, syntax, tools) but without ownership / linear-typing - just a good GC, all-on-the-heap and a dash of nice immutable datastructs"...
by vijucat | 2025-06-10 11:05:01+00:00
> One reason for flat design is because it was the lowest common denominator and easy for devs to implement.

The 3D buttons in Windows 98 (Start button, for example) must have be harder to develop due to the animation involved. Yet, that was perfectly fine on hardware much older than those on which flat UIs were developed. I think you are missing the main point, which is that designers maul designs every season exactly like in the fashion industry due to merely being employed to do so and feeling a need to produce something new all the time (, which is sub-optimal for the humans who have to bear the UX consequences, to say the least).

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98
by Tutanota | 2025-06-10 11:05:31+00:00
Hi, Tuta Team here, we came across this and wanted to jump in. The facts are correct - thanks for explaining it the way it actually was. We explain in more detail here why this case highlights the need for *end-to-end encryption* and why we recommend everybody using it whenever possible: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ntzn3w/comment/h0v...
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-10 11:05:34+00:00
The full quote:

"I think some of the live virus vaccines are probably averting more problems than they’re causing. There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective."

N.B. from a logic perspective there's no conflict between "I would like this tech to work well" and "I don't think it works well [enough]" as positions, they're not mutually exclusive. Additionally, words like "safe" are relative. It's possible for a vaccine to avert more problems than they cause, whilst still creating sufficient damage that a reasonable person would consider them to be unsafe.

He then goes on to talk about the history of US vaccine legislation, which states that vaccine manufacturers are given blanket immunity for vaccines when they are "unavoidably unsafe", and that every vaccine is treated as immune under this rule.

This is a common point of confusion in discussion of vaccines. Most people make an ambient unstated assumption that vaccines are medical products and must therefore be safe, because otherwise they wouldn't be licensed. In fact US law considers them to products that inevitably by design make some healthy people sick or permanently disabled, and exempts them from the usual product safety rules as a consequence.

That RFK believes these things doesn't mean he wants to eliminate vaccines. You could at best argue for this indirectly, by arguing that he wants safety standards raised (put back) to the level that other treatments are held to, which would have the effect in practice of making vaccines unsellable, and thus that by implication he wants this outcome. But that is a tricky argument to make.
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-10 11:06:11+00:00
> Bad as these things are, the Governor of California currently believes their own law enforcement can handle the situation without the National Guard. If he felt he needed support, he'd have requested it using the provided legal mechanisms.

My understanding is that the National Guard are being deployed because ICE is being impeded from carrying out their operations. If California were allowed to constructively block the Federal government from carrying out policy of democratically elected administrations, that would be effectively a declaration of secession. Hundreds of years of precedent has made it clear that states are subordinate to the Federal government.
by wickedsight | 2025-06-10 11:06:45+00:00
> Europe chose degrowth

Through regulation. Regulation is more than just regulation of software. We're also at a disadvantage because of regulation on employee rights, wages and payments in stock options. In the US it's way easier to pay with theoretical money (like options) than actual money. So the start-up scene is way more interesting for young people who work hard and hope to become part of a unicorn to hit it big.
by 0xTJ | 2025-06-10 11:06:56+00:00
I wish it was normalized and easier to contribute to open-source projects that you use. I have recurring donations for Thunderbird and KiCad, and I make occasional one-time donations to the likes of KDE. I don't see a clear way to donate specifically to the development of Firefox, and I also think that it would feel like it's just funding a machine to drive more Google traffic.

I also have a monthly donation to Internet Archive, which I highly recommend everyone do. It's a very important service; if you use it occasionally I'd recommend at least a one-time donation, and if you use it regularly, a recurring one is even better!

Ladybird should be interesting once it's ready; I'm happy to see a fully-new browser entering the space. That gene pool has gotten far too shallow.
by kreco | 2025-06-10 11:07:03+00:00
I don't fully disagree but this is not the root of the cause.

If I'm being employed to create bad product (bad UI) then I'm bad at my job.

Everything single decision should have a rational about it. You should fix what is broken, improve what can be improved and certainly not doing feng shui changes.

TL;DR: It's a management issue.
by piker | 2025-06-10 11:07:28+00:00
Somebody tell the Danish legal team that Tritium (https://tritium.legal) runs on Linux :).

Politics aside, Microsoft has such a strangle hold on so many industries it's insane. That reach is just extending with copilot + OpenAI and Azure. The next few years could be bleak if it plays the way MSFT is trying to push it. Good for Denmark.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-10 11:07:37+00:00
These might depend on some options chosen by whatever Linux distribution you have used.

As always, the behavior seen on some Linux distribution for some application may not match at all the experience on other distributions.

I always compile LibreOffice from sources (in Gentoo) and I have not noticed any performance problems, and most of my text documents or spreadsheets are quite large. It is true that currently I use it only on decent computers, but in the past I have used it even on several generations of Atom CPUs, from Pineview to Gemini Lake. Even on those there were no performance problems, at least not with Writer and Calc.
by bambax | 2025-06-10 11:08:31+00:00
Excellent blog post, excellent advice. This part in particular:

> When working with paid professionals, I think people tend to put them into one of two categories: doctors or general contractors.

> With doctors, if your oncologist says you have a lump that needs to come out, you pretty much do whatever they say. You’re the patient; they’re the expert leading the charge.

> With general contractors doing home renovations, most people intuitively know that’s not the right approach. You stay on top of them, give clear instructions, try to understand the issues yourself, and assume you need to provide lots of direction and monitoring to get what you want done.

> Most people—entrepreneurs included, certainly myself—put lawyers in the doctor category when they should really treat them more like general contractors.

Except... I think if one has enough time, it's better to treat everyone like general contractors. Doctors make mistakes, often. You can and should challenge them.
by miki123211 | 2025-06-10 11:08:42+00:00
I think we'll soon see "this doesn't look right, <inserts location tagged photo>, figure out who to report this to and do the things" as a service.

I'm not even talking about lawsuits, but all the situations where you can report things to the government, but it's so much hassle that most people won't even bother. Things like labor / safety violations, violations of data protection and anti-spam laws, improper parking, that sort of thing. If reporting those could be as easy as complaining and posting a photo on Facebook or Instagram, a lot more people would do it.
by rollcat | 2025-06-10 11:08:57+00:00
My take:

- The Mozilla Foundation should be publicly funded, with Firefox being considered a reference implementation for all web standards; Google should be considered a "gatekeeper", and fined for introducing de facto "standards" into mainline Chrome without going thru the W3C. Perhaps the W3C should be regulated as well.

- Efforts like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive should be considered public libraries, and publicly funded.

- Privately-owned platforms with vast libraries of knowledge - like Youtube - should be required to allow easy and on-demand export to the Internet Archive (subject to the copyright owner's chosen license).

The question is, who is the "public" in "publicly funded". The EU and the US could cover the majority, but considering that the entire world's population is reliant on those products/services, perhaps that's a matter worth raising with the UN.

Am I exaggerating here? Heck no, livelihoods of billions of people depend on these things. It takes one of the "top 5" corps to pull the rug and cause worldwide chaos.
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-10 11:10:05+00:00
Yeah, that's post the controversy. Initially the vendors were expected to provide the updates... who obviously couldn't be arsed, so they set it to something around 1-3 yrs, which frequently went to 0 because the devices weren't sold quickly enough. That's from back when ChromeOS was initially put on the market, something around 2012-2015

Google thankfully relented and took up the maintenance burden, which ended with this policy
by rafram | 2025-06-10 11:11:16+00:00
Swift isn't quite as fast, because reference counting is inherently slower at runtime than the allocations/deallocations generated by the Rust borrow checker.

On the other hand, Swift has (IMO) a much cleaner and less symbol-heavy syntax than Rust. Easier to read and write. Less of a culture of doing crazy metaprogramming/DSL definition with macros, and the builder DSL built into the language (which SwiftUI uses) is pretty nice and generates mostly understandable compile errors.

I actually like Apple's APIs, even the legacy ones. There's some weirdness, like how some file APIs want paths and some want URIs, but it's not that bad.
by corford | 2025-06-10 11:11:52+00:00
I think your concern on fertiliser imports is overblown. I find the argument that the EU shouldn't champion & invest in renewables while it also continues to use and import fossil fuels a false dichotomy. The same goes for fracking. I also don't accept the argument that pristine independence in one sector (energy) is a base requirement for overall sovereign independence. For sure, some home grown control over energy is a requirement but we live in an interconnected world and whatever the EU may lack in one area it has more than enough ways and means in other areas to assert its power and achieve its policy goals. It's also quite capable of and not afraid to invest on a large scale when/where it's needed.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-10 11:12:11+00:00
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transc...

>> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

People can say whatever they want. Only violent actions qualify as insurrection.
by noisem4ker | 2025-06-10 11:12:29+00:00
Source?

The following piece of documentation disagrees:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...

> Containers build on top of the host operating system's kernel (...), and contain only apps and some lightweight operating system APIs and services that run in user mode

> You can increase the security by using Hyper-V isolation mode to isolate each container in a lightweight VM
Show HN: Graphora – Turn text documents into graph databases
by ezhil | 2025-06-10 11:13:33+00:00
Hi HN,

Built this after manually creating graph databases took me a few months at my last company.

Graphora converts unstructured text (documents, emails, reports) into graph databases automatically:

- Upload text → LLM extracts entities & relationships

- Handles entity resolution (same person, different names)

- Interactive ontology designer

- Exports to Neo4j (for now)

Demo: https://demo.graphora.io

You'll need to provide:

- Gemini API key (your own)

- 2 Neo4j instances for staging & Prod. [You can sign up for Free Aura]

All credentials encrypted.

Looking for feedback from anyone who's wrestled with turning messy text into structured relationship data. Let us know!
by odyssey7 | 2025-06-10 11:14:29+00:00
There are choices at multiple levels.

Yes, today’s ML engineer has practically no choice but to use Python, in a variety of settings, if they want to be able to work with others, access the labor market without it being an uphill battle, and most especially if they want to study AI / ML at a university.

But there were also the choices to initially build out that ecosystem in Python and to always teach AI / ML in Python. They made sense logistically, since universities largely only teach Python, so it was a lowest-common-denominator language that allowed the universities to give AI / ML research opportunities to everyone, with absolutely no gatekeeping and with a steadfast spirit of friendly inclusion (sorry, couldn’t resist the sarcastic tangent). I can’t blame them for working with what they had.

But now that the techniques have grown up and graduated to form multibillion-dollar companies, I’m hopeful that industry will take up the mantle to develop an ecosystem that’s better suited for production and for modern software engineering.