MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by techdmn | 2025-06-10 12:10:23+00:00
Just watched a vid of LAPD trampling a person with a horse, then shooting them with what looked like a baton round at a range of 5-10 feet. That is a life altering injury, administered with direct intent, while the protestor was trying to flee. Holding my breath for zero consequences for unnecessary force. Not to mention qualified immunity. LAPD doing LAPD things.

How can one argue that the police serve the people? They don't necessarily even serve local government. They get a lot of federal funding and equipment, and in riot-control mode their purpose is to brutalize protestors until people stop showing up.

I also find it rather grotesque to watch Newsom argue that state and local police are perfectly capable of handling (i.e. crippling) protestors by themselves and don't need any federal assistance to do so.
by kwamenum86 | 2025-06-10 12:10:59+00:00
To me, this sounds like a reframing of the classic advice “focus on your process”. Success is emergent - it can rarely be brute forced. What matters is the process you use for navigating life, any success you realize is a byproduct of your process. This snippet from the article illustrates what I mean:

“One person sets a goal: become a best-selling author. Another imposes a constraint: write every day, but never write what bores me. The first may spend years pitching, networking, contorting themselves into marketable shapes. The second may accidentally build a following simply because the work sustains itself.”
by lordnacho | 2025-06-10 12:11:33+00:00
I also think something fundamental is missing in the education of your average office worker.

The reason why people are scared to change software is that they can't actually use any software. They basically don't know how it works and are just cargo culting. They memorize some functions, and they think that is all they need to do their job, which they consider to be some higher level thing like being a bureaucrat.

But it's like literacy. You're not literate when you can only read one book. You're literate when you can read any book.

There are principles in how software works, below the level of the programmer, that everyone can learn. What is running on my machine, what is running on the server, why do I see the things on the screen that I see, what do common GUI elements do, and so on.
by vpianykh | 2025-06-10 12:11:38+00:00
> Chatbot sites like character.ai and Chai AI have been linked to user suicides, for understandable reasons: if you allow users near-unlimited control over chatbots, over time you’ll eventually end up with some chatbots who get into an “encouraging the user to self-harm” state.

I do not understand why one could commit suicide over something a computer told them. At the same time, I understand that people may be in an unstable state or undereducated to be in a "relationship" with an AI model. I think it's time for humanity to start developing mental health. Otherwise, we are doomed to be a strange hybrid with computer models.
by aredox | 2025-06-10 12:11:53+00:00
Flashback: For years, the Insurrection Act has loomed large in the minds of Trump and his conservative allies.

- In the summer of 2020, as Trump privately fumed over nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, White House aides drafted a proclamation to send thousands of active-duty U.S. troops into the streets.

- Trump ultimately was talked down by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, but he has publicly expressed regret over not acting more forcefully.

- Top Trump allies, including architects of the far-right roadmap "Project 2025," have at various points called for using the Insurrection Act to secure the border, preempt Inauguration Day protests, and even subvert the 2020 election.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/los-angeles-protests-trump-...
by incomingpain | 2025-06-10 12:12:17+00:00
Conflating a text generating website with transportation disasters seems rather disingenuous to me.

1 death of a kid who committed suicide, who also happened to be talking to AI is a far cry from AI being responsible.

How about the more reliable indirect diet related deaths caused by fast food? Obesity epidemic? This isn't even directly responsible but it's more direct than AI causing any deaths.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-10 12:13:02+00:00
Personally, I’ve gone from working with the AI to code to working on it to develop specifications. It’s also useful at troubleshooting issues.

I’m no longer a developer by trade and it’s more a hobby or specific problem solving scenario now. But I find using it to identify gaps in my thinking and edit English is ultimately better than getting random code — I love editing English text, but find editing code without consistent style a drag for my purposes.
by jmward01 | 2025-06-10 12:13:49+00:00
I'm just confused why Meta needed to do this. Isn't fingerprinting good enough to not risk building this? All I can think is they use something like this to prove out their other tracking tech is working (this is the test set effectively). It is obvious that they really have several of these types of tracking technologies so that if one gets found out/patched they can switch it off and say 'look we stopped' all while still tracking with impunity. It just seems dumb that they would keep something this blatant in use.
by Hilift | 2025-06-10 12:14:25+00:00
California has 25% of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the US. Last year, while Biden attempted to promote an immigration bill that did not pass, California made Medicaid available to unauthorized immigrants. 22% of California residents are on Medicaid, requiring $85 billion per year in matching federal assistance. Now the state has a $12 billion deficit projection for 2026. Los Angeles city recently issued bonds to fund a $1 billion budget gap for the current year. It didn't take long to speed run all that success into the ground with a few criminals that hijack protests and destroyed over $1 million in taxpayer funds in destroyed city vehicles. Half the people cheering this on will probably be unemployed in a few months.
by ozim | 2025-06-10 12:15:03+00:00
At the start of prompt before project requirements I copy paste paragraph about the code I want.

No emojis, no comments, no console log statements, no read me file, no error handling. Act as a senior developer working with other experienced developers.

Otherwise it happily generates bunch of trash that is unreadable. Error handling generated will most of the times just hide errors instead of actually dealing with them.
by spamjammer0 | 2025-06-10 12:16:17+00:00
You are right about him being a snake. I don't think anyone is dumb enough to offer secrets to Chinese for money, so doubt that would ever happen. Do you want to be triggered more? You are right about the trust issue and you will have more trust issues after watching some of this https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-arqxBG7bIl63KZ6VwKH... Read the source material though if you want to get any actual insights.
by kcplate | 2025-06-10 12:16:48+00:00
> The Covid vaccine was, and remains, very effective

What is your definition of “effective”?

The public’s definition was “I get the shot and won’t get covid or be able to spread Covid”. I posted a compilation of our leadership saying that very thing too on this thread. Then lo and behold…we find out that not only can you can still get it, the disease is not any milder than when an unvaccinated person gets covid, and you can still spread it.

I will repeat this again because people on HN can’t see the forest through the trees. I am not antivax. I got the vaccine. What I am suggesting is the government overselling the effectiveness contributed to a public shift towards antivax attitudes.

You can put your hand over your ears and pretend it didn’t happen. You can post how “you don’t care” and don’t want a response…but that will not stop the attitude shift.
by malthaus | 2025-06-10 12:16:52+00:00
same for me, i see it also as a mirror of people's approach to a happy life, ie. ticking the checkbox goals: marriage, kids, career, house, money for x, etc and finding (apparently?) satisfaction in that.

while i never would or could, i live a comfortable life with a lot of freedom but never felt like i've achieved a goal. i just look for the next interesting challenge or path to walk because we have only one life, and sitting with one person in a concrete box somewhere and just sit it out would be a waste of mine.

so i constantly change/challenge the constraints/rules of the game i'm playing to keep life interesting enough to participate without falling into the hedonistic treadmill trap
by dragochat | 2025-06-10 12:17:19+00:00
> The planned decline of America won't be like other countries

Maybe bc americans WON'T and SHOULDN'T settle for a decline - they should violently rebel against this mindset and claw they way UPWARDS - there's more room for more growth, even if you lose #1 status and have to settle for #2 for a while you can still catch up etc.

It's good that at least the US and China are NOT infected with this degrowth and "cyclical history" mindvirus that seems to be doing the rounds in Europe and elsewhere... keep being a bastion of endless progress brothers, fight the good fight! There's a whole light cone to eat/infect (if not for us the for the successors we'll build)! Whoop, whoop!

Jokes aside though, most of the open world we live in today owes its existence to ideas, mindsets, $$$ and tech exported from the US, and I'm sure there's way more cool stuff to come from you once you properly clean up the parasitic individuals and institutions that have infected your society. Purge on and keep growing, fight for a deservedly big chunk of the Dyson sphere and beyond!
by solarkraft | 2025-06-10 12:17:26+00:00
This is great for sovereignty.

It’s wonderful that they made the choice (likely exactly for sovereignty reasons).

But: IMO (as an infrequent user) LibreOffice is still far behind MS Office in usability. I hope the more big orgs depend on it, the more interest there will be to improve it. This will then hopefully make it easier for others to make the switch.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-10 12:17:30+00:00
As another response to your comment already covers, in the last few years, a fair bit of debate emerged questioning if the asteroid was just a contributing coup de grace after a prolonged period of vast, exinction-level climatic destruction.

This because the impactor arrived right around the same time in which the Deccan Traps (gigantic lava producing volcanic zones, like slow moving, continent-destroying lava flows basically) were apparently already in full swing, creating their own climatic havoc around the world.

Even now, enough evidence exists in favor of the Traps being at least a major cause of devastation at the time that it's hard to be sure.

Basically, it could be that the Traps were doing their thing and would have caused some high amount of species extinction all by themselves, but perhaps not as much extinction as did happen, or it could be that they could have caused a mass extinction by themselves but that the asteroid -even if the Traps had not been active- would have anyhow caused the mass extinction that happened at the time. Thus, though it's definitely known that the asteroid hit and caused global cataclysm, it's debated if this by itself would have been enough in the absence of the Deccan Traps.

Obviously, because the traps were already destroying ecosystems and species doesn't mean that the asteroid couldn't have caused mass extinction all by itself, and the speed at which species died off according to fossil strata does indicate the much more sudden asteroid effects as the main culprit, but the coincidence of both together does muddy the waters a bit, so to speak.
by qudat | 2025-06-10 12:17:53+00:00
FOSS OS dev is slow but is built on cross collaboration so the foundation is strong. Corporate OS has the means to tune to end user usage and can move very fast when business interests align with user experience.

When you are a DE that’s embedded in FOSS no one has an appetite to fund user experience the same way as corporate OS can.

We do have examples where this can work, like with the steam deck/steamOS but it’s almost counter to market incentives because of how slow dev can become.

I see the same problem with chat and protocol adoption. IRC as a protocol is too slow for companies who want to move fast and provide excellent UX, so they ditch cross collaboration in order to move fast.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-10 12:18:03+00:00
If you have the skills and the drive to successfully launch a good startup, then probably you won't be satisfied with keeping it a small time affair. Either you try to expand or you sell it and go make a new startup.

Businesses rarely remain stable, no matter if they're startups or not. Because that wouldn't make any sense. Either they shrink or they grow. You can call this the law of midrange businesses.

Consider a midrange hotel:

Either the owner cares about his business and continually improves the facilities and the experience for the guests. Soon the hotel will have a good reputation and will constantly be full. So the natural next step is for him to increase prices, because there is the demand and also he has higher operating costs. Repeat this process over the years and the midrange hotel is a high-end hotel.

Or the owner does not care about his business and continually lets things decay and become a worse experience for the guests. Maybe because he wants to save on operating and investment costs. Soon the hotel will have a bad reputation and the owner will decrease prices to attract guests, then further cut costs because cheaper guests don't demand much. Repeat this process over the years and the midrange hotel is now a low-end hotel.

And this happens in all businesses, because in the end they are run by people. If you'd love for companies to get profitable and remain small-ish, then you have to make such a company.
by ben_w | 2025-06-10 12:18:14+00:00
And some weird severe-but-short-term economic volatility.

Something along the lines of:

Now nobody is picking fruits, all the fruits die on the tree/vine, so there's none of that in the supermarket and those farms go bankrupt. Also, most of those who were paid to butcher the cattle are gone, but the cows are still there, costing the farmers money, so those farms go bankrupt. And then so do the feed suppliers for cattle farmers that don't ranch (or do but need extra feed besides the grass). But everyone still needs to eat, which means there's correspondingly more demand for the stuff which is heavily mechanised, so prices for that go way up, but because this is an instant supply shock the average person is still hungry no matter what the prices are, unless the humans start eating alfalfa en-masse.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-10 12:18:14+00:00
An interesting video from another time this came up on HN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdK4y6O-llE

> OODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney

From this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26466750

They also mention a video by Chet Richards and how it relates OODA to business context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDhznBtN24

The Q&A with both Chet Richards and Chuck Spinney is also worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWfbPoDuEwg
by _heimdall | 2025-06-10 12:18:38+00:00
> This [1] is the only definition the code actually give.

Like most of our tax code, its overly complicated by unclear or incomplete codes.

The IRS will give guidance with examples, but those examples are still incomplete.

Ultimately our tax code always comes down to the filer doing whatever they (a) think they can get away with or (b) are willing to defend if they get audited.
by rickdeckard | 2025-06-10 12:18:43+00:00
I'm curious how much of the Hackintosh community can even be upgraded to macOS 26.

With Apple reducing the supported models so drastically [0], the OS may also no longer support most of those older hardware-components anymore.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/macos-tahoe-compatible-...
by Xcelerate | 2025-06-10 12:19:26+00:00
> one of the most consequential decisions you can make in life is the city you choose to live in

This seems to have had the reverse effect on me. I always wanted to move to the Bay Area growing up because that’s where the tech industry was. When I finally did, I got distracted by all that California had to offer: nature, good food, an endless supply of places to go and interesting things to see. I moved there for tech but promptly lost interest in tech. I picked up a bunch of fun hobbies totally unrelated to my core motivations in life.

Now that I live somewhere boring again, I spend most of my free time learning about new areas of mathematics and computer science.

I’ve also observed the same paradoxical effect with having children. Prior to kids, I had tons of free time that I essentially wasted. But now that free time is scarce, I wake up at 4 AM to study, practice, or create something before the work day starts.

It’s almost like sub-optimal conditions trigger an instinct to fight against those constraints by producing value. If I actually get what I think I want (living somewhere interesting, having plenty of free time, etc.), it’s like I just lose focus and motivation. Go figure.
by protimewaster | 2025-06-10 12:19:49+00:00
It's known that Apple collects a decent amount of telemetry, including URLs associated with certain actions on iOS, even when telemetry is disabled and Apple account isn't used. Some of this is detailed in the 2021 paper "Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google".

They're definitely working to connect telemetry on at least some of your habits.
by tremon | 2025-06-10 12:20:14+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeothermy

> Homeothermy is one of the 3 types of thermoregulation in warm-blooded animal species

> Some homeotherms may maintain constant body temperatures through behavioral mechanisms alone, i.e., behavioral thermoregulation. Many reptiles use this strategy

And specifically with regards to dinosaurs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantothermy
by curtisblaine | 2025-06-10 12:20:28+00:00
If I'm not born American, I suppose the right way of handling that would be negotiating a date to voluntarily leave the country (I think it's called self-deportation), which leaves you a bit of levee to put your things in order. If I was born American and I only have American citizenship, that would be a strange situation to be in. I suppose a bunch of other countries would have offered me instant citizenship just to spite Trump. I'm not sure what does it have to do with people who entered the US illegally and were never citizens in the first place though.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-10 12:21:08+00:00
Something I find extremely interesting is life expectancy. If you look back to the upper classes of old their life expectancy was extremely similar to those of today. So for instance in modern history, of the 15 key Founding Fathers, 7 lived to at least 80 years old: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, John Jay. John Adams himself lived to 90.

The youngest to die were Hamilton who died in a duel, and John Hancock who died of gout of an undocumented cause - it can be caused by excessive alcohol consumption. All the others lived into their 60s and 70s. So their overall life expectancy was pretty much the same as we have today. And this was long before vaccines or even us knowing that surgeons washing their hands before surgery was a good thing to do. It's the same as you go back further into history. A study [1] of all men of renown in Ancient Greece was 71.3, and that was from thousands of years ago!

The most primitive medical technology, antibiotics in particular, could have likely expanded these lives well beyond current day. So the idea here is not to just add more regulations to medicine or have people go to the hospital even more for preventative care but to start living healthier lives in general. Less crap food, more time outdoors, more exercise, less obesity, and so on. And these are things that the government should have been pushing all along.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18359748/
by aboardRat4 | 2025-06-10 12:21:12+00:00
>During past fluctuations of CO2, the world had millions of years to adapt

We won't need to explicitly "adapt". The excess released carbon dioxide is going to make Sahara and Gobi greener, because it will be easier for the plants to grow with a higher concentration of CO2 in the air.

In other words, it's not going to stay in the atmosphere for a long time, it's going to become embodied in the trees and other plants.

Unless we diligently self-destruct by cutting literally all the trees living on the planet. (Possible, but unlikely.)

But even if we just keep doing what we are doing now at the same pace, it's going to be more or less enough. The excessive CO2 is _already_ making the planet greener.

(I guess it's a good idea to plant more trees anyway.)
by UncleEntity | 2025-06-10 12:21:25+00:00
I'm sure you can agree there is a difference between disaster relief and "suppressing a rebellion".

After the first Gulf War they sent us to Greensboro, NC to march in some parade and no one argued against that either because we weren't being used in any law enforcement capacity. Honestly, if we were there for 'riot control' I doubt they would have given us such a warm welcome.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-10 12:22:03+00:00
The key thing is, in urban areas you can get by without a car. The big cities obviously - I lived in Munich for well over a decade without a car or a driver's license, and the only point in time where I was happy that my wife has a license was when we had to put our cats to rest - hauling an alive cat in public transport is okay, but hauling a dead cat in public transport, no damn way.

But also the less urban areas... Landshut? Everything well accessible with a bike, get a trailer and you can move around pretty much everything including a Bierbank and a whole ass grill setup - just a day or two ago, someone legitimately posted a photo of themselves, a cargo bike and a full size fridge. During the day, public transit with buses covers even the tiny villages around Landshut, despite the LAVV actually being ranked among the worst public transit systems in Germany.

> Are you taking home your new cupboard, sofa, or fridge, on a train?

For these cases get them delivered and hauled by professionals. That's how my wife and I dealt with our new sofas, IKEA charged something around 100€, or Saturn 40€ for our new dryer - a bargain, compared to having to haul that shit on our own.
by Atreiden | 2025-06-10 12:22:36+00:00
The Democratic party needs internal reform, that much seems clear to me. But since then we've had just a single term of Biden, and his administrations focus was on COVID, Ukraine, and getting CHIPS+infra bills passed.

It takes time to undo damage codified into legislation. We're still dealing with the aftermath of Reagan. But we have to stop the bleeding and take Congress back, or the size of the hill we have to scale increases drastically.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-10 12:22:58+00:00
> Back in the early 2010s, they found a way to spy on HTTPS traffic on the iOS App Store to monitor which apps were getting popular.

They had people install a VPN app using enterprise certificate so it was never in the App Store and they monitored all the traffic that the VPN sent.

Unlike this case, it required users to jump through a number of hoops/scary iOS warnings. Many still did, for a gift card or less.