MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ok123456 | 2025-06-10 16:48:55+00:00
It's not 2001, when using OpenOffice and a Linux desktop meant crippling incompatibilities and an overall poor user experience.

The Linux Desktop may not be "great" by whatever standard of "great" you come up with, but the state of the Microsoft desktop is slow, inconsistent, frustrating, and tries to upsell you, while also attempting to steal your data.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-10 16:49:13+00:00
> I think if you wanted to run it on HW, instead of running adding drivers to it a cool strategy would be to build a Linux-based system that acts as a bootloader and then starts a minimal hypervisor. Then you could keep the "virtio is the platform" thing.

That's what I did with my last hackintosh attempt and it works pretty well. The downside: without real GPU events to respond to, you'd be stuck with whatever resolution Linux decided upon in whatever screen configuration Linux decided to boot.

If this thing can run as a UEFI executable rather than a real OS, you might be able to use the UEFI video drivers to get video working relatively easily without having virtio graphics, but I'm not sure if it's even possible to pull that off while doing real OS things.
by refurb | 2025-06-10 16:49:18+00:00
That's makes no sense at all.

You're ignoring the fact that the FDA approved them initially. They said "the risks are worth the benefits".

Then years later, after more data was collected, the FDA changed their determination and said "the risks ARE NOT worth the benefits".

So I ask you for a third time - "If I refused to take those vaccines for safety reasons when the FDA first approved them, would I be anti-science?"

It's seem's like I'd be "pro-science" since I came to the same conclusion the FDA did years later?
by jazzypants | 2025-06-10 16:50:18+00:00
Lol, people really believe in paid actors at protests? You need to work on your critical thinking if you think that is an actual problem.

Where are they finding these actors? Why aren't the job advertisements ever leaked to the public? Why hasn't an investigative journalist gone undercover to get paid to protest?

But, you're the smart guy, right? We're all imbeciles because we don't want a ruling class of billionaire grifters to normalize the concept of extrajudicial kidnappings. My bad.
by dwaite | 2025-06-10 16:50:28+00:00
The premise is containerization, not necessarily particular resource usage by the host running the containers.

For hosted services, you want to choose - is it worth running a single kernel with a lot of containers for the cost savings from shared resources, or isolate them by making them different VMs. There are certainly products for containers which lean towards the latter, at least by default.

For development it matters a lot less, as long as the sum resources of containers you are planning to run don't overload the system.
by hammyhavoc | 2025-06-10 16:50:30+00:00
Probably because most people likely to use this app aren't going to be using it for serious self-monitoring like someone with diabetes would. The reality is that most people will use an app like this for a while, fail at their attempt to lose weight or gain muscle, and lose interest. "Good enough" is the mantra of much of what is in the health/nutrition/fitness niche and it goes beyond anything AI-adjacent.
by RajT88 | 2025-06-10 16:50:38+00:00
The thing which stood out to me was the office suite incompatibility statement.

It's probably a legit complaint, but still potentially the fault of Microsoft. People learn how to use Excel, and the free alternative suites don't have all the same functionality (or if they do, it's not the same UI so you have to re-learn it).

And with as prolific as Office is, you're going to have to open office documents. If that doesn't work cleanly, that's a big issue.

I haven't looked into if whatever incompatibilities are a result of Microsoft pressure or technical shenanigans, or it just being a natural consequence of the free suites being less well funded in their development efforts.

I don't think it's impossible to run an enterprise with FOSS - but it is not easy.
by NickC25 | 2025-06-10 16:50:47+00:00
> the waspy country clubs are mostly staffed with townies and a lower representation of immigrants than comparable occupations for different employers in the same towns

I've played tennis and golf all over Westchester County, all over Fairfield County, and in Long Island. On the golf side, yeah, it's townies. Same goes for pro shop, tennis assistants, pool staff, and sometimes, kitchen/snack bar staff. But the folks who mow the lawns, clean the locker rooms and toilets, water the greens? Hell no those aren't locals.
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by bee_rider | 2025-06-10 16:51:05+00:00
Is this, uh… actually a good outcome? If games make most of their money in the first couple months anyway (I’m not sure about this claim but it seems intuitively possible, at least for AAA), then getting anti-piracy for that timeframe seems like a high priority.

Then, the subscription can be allowed to lapse… and the game can be preserved, at least to the extent to which it can run without servers. If we have any belief in the “games as art” idea, this seems like a good result for preserving art.
by steamrolled | 2025-06-10 16:51:15+00:00
The main reason system() exists is that people want to execute shell commands; some confused novice developers might mix it up with execl(), but this is not a major source of vulnerabilities. The major source of vulnerabilities is "oh yeah, I actually meant to execute shell".

So if you just take away the libcall, people will make their own version by just doing execl() of /bin/sh. If you want this to change, I think you have to ask why do people want to do this in the first place.

And the answer here is basically that because of the unix design philosophy, the shell is immensely useful. There are all these cool, small utilities and tricks you can use in lieu of writing a lot of extra code. On Windows, command-line conventions, filesystem quirks, and escaping gotchas are actually more numerous. It's just that there's almost nothing to call, so you get fewer bugs.

The most practical way to make this class of bugs go away is to make the unix shell less useful.
by twodave | 2025-06-10 16:51:17+00:00
I am not sure I understand how amortizing these expenses benefits the government at all, as it is. I won't speak to the methods the government is using to value software, because others have made those points better than I could.

First, I think the impact on large businesses has diminished greatly since 2022 anyway, so restoring the tax deduction would essentially give those businesses a 1-year "bump" in their deductions (since they'd be able to expense the previous 4 years of left-over deductions all at once, plus the current year in full). As far as I can tell, the expense isn't tied to individual workers, just the combined salary expense. So hiring/firing shouldn't be largely impacted. And, any benefit the government would have gotten from large corporations has (again, since 2022) now expired.

For small businesses and start-ups, there is of course a much greater impact. And, ironically, I think the government is actually collecting less from small businesses in the long term, because the businesses that needed the full deduction to survive can't be collected from, having gone out of business.

So the government isn't collecting any more taxes today than it used to. It is probably collecting less, depending on how much revenue has shifted from small (and now failing) businesses to large ones. And we're basically encouraging all of those more entrepreneurial technologists among us to go work for larger corporations instead of striking out on their own.

I guess my question then, is, who does this tax code even benefit?

Edit: looks like it was just a victim of the TCJA, meant to make TCJA look less expensive. I don't think it had its intended effect.
by mindslight | 2025-06-10 16:51:20+00:00
There are many directions to come at that from, discussing most of them will end up insanely political and polarized, and they have been discussed quite often in other threads. So it's a bit weird to be throwing that open-ended question out in the discussion of a specific alarming escalation - as if we have just been missing some simple answers that could have been done to pull up from this, or avoid it in the future.

I'd say we are at the point where the people who enabled the fascists just have to accept they were wrong and take their licks for the damage they've caused to our country. Similar to the bits of soul-searching that are going on amongst Democrats about the overbearing DEI groupthink. Will some small reconciliation grow into a trend and create a lasting deescalation, or do we have to continue working to actively reject the extremism? Let's worry about that when the mad king no longer has the reigns of power, lest good-faith attempts hold us back from getting to that state where any of this might matter.
by Breza | 2025-06-10 16:51:22+00:00
When I walk into a client's office for a meeting, I like to be able to plug into a projector and talk through my slides (which I export to PDF for simplicity). I don't want to have to ask for a guest Wifi password or anything else technical. As a result, I usually give presentations offline, unless the projector needs me to connect over the internet. Sure I could tether my laptop to my phone, but why add a dependency?
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by jamiewilson | 2025-06-10 16:51:36+00:00
I've tried so many Chrome reader mode extensions and couldn't find any that handled code well, or at all. So I ended up making my own. It's got a lot of options for customization but I'm thinking of adding more code theming options.

Would really appreciate you guys checking it out and letting me know how it works for you and if there are any features I should add.
by jandrese | 2025-06-10 16:52:37+00:00
From what I've seen the burned cars are Waymos, which have their own set of issues and the burning is probably more opportunistic than related to the protest in general. People have been protesting Waymo for years now, obstructing them with cones and other such vandalism. One big thing is that since Waymos are driverless the violence is not being perpetrated against people.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-10 16:52:47+00:00
I only took issue with ", sorry." The rest of it I was fine with. I definitely didn't need to match their energy so much though, I should have toned it down. Also, the No true Scotsman was about deep work, not being a programmer, but otherwise yeah. I didn't mean to be insulting but I could have done better :)
by wg0 | 2025-06-10 16:53:11+00:00
I'd disagree. Most of the government office work can be easily dealt with Libere office.

Same can be said about GNOME.

Yes where what can't be done very well is CAD. All the top notch CAD of any engineering discipline is on Windows. Or Mac maybe.

Second come the games. You don't have Read Dead Redemption or Microsoft Flying Simulator with same fluidity as they are on Windows.
by mrspuratic | 2025-06-10 16:53:12+00:00
A Long Time Ago I used to admin Apache httpd (back when "Apache" meant "httpd") before it could self-chroot. One of the issues when you did a manual chroot was piped logs (|rotatelogs) was invoked via "/bin/sh -c". I wrote a stub "sh" that allowed only "sh -c command ..." which it passed to execv(). Just primitive [ \t] argument splitting, no funny business, and ideally statically linked. Also worked well with PHP (e.g. SquirrelMail invoking, er, sendmail).
by RajT88 | 2025-06-10 16:53:20+00:00
Translated to English, but this is quite a quote:

> Funnily enough, during the conversation, he kept making new financial offers, including what Microsoft would add to the price, for the school department, for example. They continually became cheaper by a million, another million, another million, and later a dozen million. That's how important the symbol of the renegade state capital of Munich, internationally perceived as an IT stronghold, was to Microsoft.

This was Ballmer though, not gates. Maybe Gates had a separate visit.
by DougN7 | 2025-06-10 16:53:34+00:00
As a programmer I fully understand and even support what you suggest, but I’m not sure it will ever work. My mother, wife, good friend, etc - none of them can grok what a computer program is, or the file system. I’ve tried and tried for many years and it just doesn’t click. On the other hand, I’m realizing more and more how ‘blind’ I am when it comes to color, fashion, decorating, shapes, etc. My logical left-brain merges perfectly with computers, but not more squishy things. Many friends and family are the opposite. I don’t think teaching can overcome that basic wiring. We’re just different.
by esafak | 2025-06-10 16:53:42+00:00
Excel is powerful? Does it do forecasting, statistics or machine learning? Only in a rudimentary sense. Spreadsheets like Excel are low-code tools. Experts in those domains use a real programming language.

People use Excel because it is familiar, because it has distribution. They don't (care to) know any alternatives. If they'd never been familiar with Excel they wouldn't ask for it.
by bambax | 2025-06-10 16:54:09+00:00
Every expert will tend to miss the forest from the trees because it's their job, and mission, and billing criteria, to find every possible tree and categorize it. But you and I don't care about the trees, we only care about the forest.

There's this comedian who tells the story of his grandmother aged 97 who was diagnosed with cancer, and they offered her chemotherapy. She said: what's the point? Are you going to prolong my life for an hour? That makes people laugh, but it's the truth, and it's also, I think, the point of the post.

The point of defending a lawsuit is not to be right, and die. It's to survive it.
by bettercaust | 2025-06-10 16:54:47+00:00
This "miasmist approach" to public health starts from a belief, not a basis of fact or empiricism. There are certainly circumstances in which malnutrition makes someone more susceptible to infectious disease, but what evidence is there that this is a significant contributor to infectious disease in countries like the US? What evidence is there that an otherwise healthy immune system could be "boosted" with proper nutrition and elimination of environmental toxins to the point that it would have a meaningful impact on infectious disease?

No one's against nutritional public health measures or elimination of environmental toxins to improve public health. The fact is lifestyle interventions are ALWAYS first-line recommendations by medical doctors for things like obesity, but Americans are stressed out, overworked, inactive, eating garbage food, and have clamored for easy solutions like taking a pill for a long time rather than making lifestyle changes. There's been no neglect of "living a healthy life", it's just that Americans don't want to do it because it requires lifting a finger. There are many positive public health impacts HHS and the Trump admin could have, but they are talking out of both sides of their mouth when they claim "MAHA" while cutting food access entitlements, rolling back environmental regulations for clean air and water, and of course "drill baby drill". RFK Jr. made a deal with the devil to be HHS secretary.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-10 16:55:05+00:00
I should say that this question is 100% not a backhanded critique of the idea of this project, I’m genuinely curious what the workflow looks like.

Making CAD more accessible seems like a massive win, in the sense that it is really hard to get hands on experience making things nowadays—hobbyist methods and professional ones have diverged quite far! Easy web-based tool that bridge that gap without playing around in the shell could be really useful.
by wang_li | 2025-06-10 16:55:18+00:00
>Most machine learning, data science, and similar applications need data.

So. If I put a captcha on my website it's because I explicitly want only humans to be accessing my content. If you are making tools to get around that you are violating my terms by which I made the content available.

No one should need a captcha. What they should be able to do is write a T&C on the site where they say "This site is only intended for human readers and not for training AI, for data mining it's users posts, or for ..... and if you do use it for any of these you agree to pay me $100,000,000,000." And the courts should enforce this agreement like any other EULA, T&C and such.
by steamrolled | 2025-06-10 16:55:21+00:00
The original post asserted the article is nonsense; you're trying to justify that by saying you don't like the author's writing style. Two separate things...

The article is mostly correct, although it makes some weird claims (e.g., the Shellshock bug had nothing to do with the class of bugs the article is complaining about - it was a vulnerability in the shell itself). It definitely has a "newcomer hates things without understanding why they are the way they are" vibe, but you actually need that every now and then. The old-timers tend to say "it was originally done this way for a reason and if you're experienced enough, you know how to deal with it", but what made sense 30-40 years ago might not make much sense today.
by ArnoVW | 2025-06-10 16:55:52+00:00
CIO here

Can confirm that I will take Excel from the cold dead hands of our CFO (and the rest of his dept). Hell even macOS Excel is too much weirdness for them. And being user of both platforms I agree with them.

The rest of the company are very happy though on Google Worksheets, making lists and replying to RFP requests in .xlsx, on their Macbook.

We do a survey every year; 95% of staff is happy with the resources out at their disposition. Including those working on a platform that is not their native platform.

End users are more flexible than we think. Especially non technical ones.
by EMIRELADERO | 2025-06-10 16:55:58+00:00
Just to chime in: it's entirely possible and not at all contradictory to believe in human rights and other base ideals/"moral axioms" while being a secular materialist. The only difference is in where the belief is justified.

I consider myself a secular materialist in the way it's been talked about here, yet I still hold those views that you deem "idealistic". I just rationalize their origin in a different way.

I always cared about those ideals (human rights and such) since I can remember, yet I hadn't even heard of the concept of God before the age of eleven. I vividly remember thinking "Damn, they gave the creator of this Universe the same name as the word they use when venting in frustration!"
by alexey-salmin | 2025-06-10 16:56:57+00:00
That's the respond to your statement above:

> How many children my neighbor has impacts my social security payments or other retirement disbursements in no tangible way.

All the retirement savings you have, whether state-managed or private-managed, are just some coupons for your share in the economy of the future. If the economy of the future shrinks your coupons will be worthless.

The number of kids you and your neighbor have not only have an impact on your retirement, these kids are your retirement.
by doener | 2025-06-10 16:57:12+00:00
> The federal government is working on a website and API called “ai.gov” to “accelerate government innovation with AI” that is supposed to launch on July 4 and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI, according to an early version of the website and code posted by the General Services Administration on Github.

That might be the dumbest idea I've heard about AI so far.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 16:58:33+00:00
> the federal government actually enforcing federal law is a “coup” to you

The Marines aren’t enforcing squat. That’s on ICE and the LAPD, the only ones doing the arresting.

> he would declare the LA riots an insurrection and devote 40% of the FBI to identifying, rounding up, and imprisoning all of the protestors

If they broke into a federal building? Absolutely.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-06-10 16:58:53+00:00
They have already released Devstral, which is a tool-specific finetune of the same base model. That works pretty well with cline (even though it was specifically tuned for open-hands).

This would likely be a good model for the "plan" mode in various agentic tools (cline, aider, cursor/windsurf/void, etc). So you'd have a chat in plan mode, then use devstral to actually implement that plan.
by twodave | 2025-06-10 16:59:13+00:00
Yes, as far as I can tell, this change was made to help balance the cost of other provisions in the TCJA. On paper, it would have at least let them claim they'd take in 5 years of extra tax revenue in from tech businesses (most of it in year 1). I don't think it has any long-term benefit for anyone, even the government.
by 1propionyl | 2025-06-10 16:59:13+00:00
Yes, specifically when it comes to open-ended research or development, collocation is non-negotiable. There are greater than linear benefits in creativity of approach, agility in adapting to new intermediate discoveries, etc that you get by putting a number of talented people who get along in the same space who form a community of practice.

Remote work and flattening communication down to what digital media (Slack, Zoom, etc) afford strangle the beneficial network effects.
by ElectronCharge | 2025-06-10 16:59:16+00:00
> The date is entirely unimportant.

The date is exactly what was being discussed. I was responding to the mischaracterization of "a military parade for the president's birthday", which is factually inaccurate. Plus, the plan was made during Biden's term.

> I suppose it's just a coincidence that Trump is following project 2025, step by step, since day one

He's following Agenda 47, which was published on his campaign website. He stated he agreed with some of Project 2025, but not all of it.

It's unsurprising that some involved in writing Project 2025 are working for the Trump admin.
by xanderlewis | 2025-06-10 16:59:55+00:00
I agree mostly, but what exactly do you mean by privacy?

I think the real pressing issue is not ‘privacy’ or ‘tracking’ or whatever; it’s having one’s views slowly but surely warped by AI-enabled mass disinformation campaigns and having one’s eyeballs taken hostage by whichever company pays enough to keep you watching. Half the world seems to now be addicted to short-form video slop/brainrot now, and they don’t even enjoy it!

That’s really the hallmark of addiction — you’re consciously aware that it’s completely pointless and detrimental to your life and yet you can’t put it down.

Perhaps the same was said of TV when it was new, but, looking at what the BBC used to broadcast as recently as twenty years ago, I’m shocked how far we’ve fallen. If Apple really wants to save the world, they should find a solution to this. Since (fairly uniquely) their business isn’t dependent on selling attention to advertisers, they might just have a shot.