MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IAmGraydon | 2025-06-19 22:53:16+00:00
I had this conversation with a group of people today and literally not one of them knew its true origin and the word never propelled them to look into it further. They just assumed (correctly) that someone came up with the name because it’s in June and the nineTEENTH day, but they didn’t realize the term was actually used long ago.

So take from that anecdote what you will, but I’ll admit the name kind of has a modern sound and I don’t think it spurs the kind of curiosity that you hope it does.

Also, FWIW, the name “Emancipation Day” is also a commonly used name for the holiday, though not as common as Juneteenth.
by tofof | 2025-06-19 22:53:46+00:00
Women (here I mean XX individuals) have two different alleles present for each of the green (OPN1MW, also the OPN1MW2 duplication) and red cones (OPN1LW), since these are found on the x chromosome. X-inactivation means that only one gets expressed in a particular cell, but this means individual photoreceptor cells can express either allele. The individual proteins and gene encodings of the cones can differ, and small variations shift the spectral sensitivity to slightly shorter or slightly longer wavelengths. It's possible, then, for a woman to express as many as five unique-ish cones in theory -- though there's only been one 'true' tetrachromat found so far. Still, having red and green cone variants that respond with a peak preference shifted 10-20 nm in addition to another unshifted cone (or, better, shifted the opposite direction) provides a biological basis to expect women (again, specifically XX individuals) to have finer color differentiation. This explanation, however, could not occur following a hormone replacement.
by srinivgp | 2025-06-19 22:54:46+00:00
Some people certainly can simply enjoy spending time with people not of their assumed cluster of traits. But that's not what's going on with trans women. They aren't doing some sort of "going overboard when you'd be perfectly happy with less" or whatever you're asking. Is it really so hard to believe trans women? Brains do _all sorts_ of things that seem weird if your own brain doesn't do it. Aphantasia, synesthesia, plurality, autism all come to mind immediately.
by herval | 2025-06-19 22:55:40+00:00
> Mostly extreme-right and pro-terror names are on that list.

A terrorist is a that's a far, far cry from a _journalist_ covering an _event_ at a university. I don't think anyone is against protecting their borders from _actual terrorists_.

It's hilarious that the other examples are essentially military dictatorships. And it's now totally fine to have the US in that list...
by const_cast | 2025-06-19 22:56:11+00:00
Most Linux users would, that's a very atypical way to install things. 99% of your software is in the official repos.

As for `curl ... | bash` that's a developer only thing. No user space normal applications are installed that way. I've never seen it.

Is this method good? No. Is it used exclusively by power users who presumably know what they're installing and from where? Yes.

The difference here is ALL software on Windows is installed this way. There's basically no exceptions. And don't even try bringing up the Windows store.
by foxmoder | 2025-06-19 22:56:16+00:00
Anecdotal, but I found that my sense of smell improved significantly after a long time taking estrogen, and I've heard many similar one-off stories from other people who've done so too. It certainly does change your physical perception of the world in a few ways, as well as the general feeling of existing in one's body.

One recurring theme I've heard from people going from majority testosterone to majority estrogen is a feeling like a continuous 'buzzing' sensation in their head had finally stopped; this is something I personally experience, and there's a certain degree of relaxed serenity that comes with it for me. (This said, experiences vary a lot, and many who have had both primary hormones prefer the feeling of testosterone.)

I personally think that it's a beautiful opportunity to get to experience life through both sets of hormones; it's offered a lot of interesting perspective on my personal notions of 'self', and allowed me to develop empathy for different experiences others experience in their bodies.
by NaOH | 2025-06-19 22:57:55+00:00
Related:

Texas Lottery Director Resigns Amid Scrutiny of Rigged 2023 Draw - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787172 - April 2025 (3 comments)

Texas Officials Invited the Rigging of the State Lottery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743053 - April 2025 (18 comment)

A Secretive Gambler Called 'The Joker' Took Down the Texas Lottery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670402 - April 2025 (12 comments)

There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43269846 - Mar 2025 (273 comments)

Did someone win a $95M Texas Lottery jackpot by stacking the odds? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135732 - April 2024 (3 comments)
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-19 22:57:58+00:00
Modern Germany has its fair share of problems with how the state can define permitted speech and use it to censor selectively. Since the legacy of the Nazi era is still there, along with the legacy of the Stasi era, German society and government are generally careful to not go overboard on certain things, but this would apply either way. Does anyone really think that the only thing stopping the resurgence of Nazism is a law prohibiting swastikas and certain kinds of speech? No, it's a general social tendency towards avoiding strong authoritarian trends, based on some of the worst historical experience possible.

In essence, these laws don't really "help" anyhow in terms of stopping any serious movement toward extremism, while on the other hand sometimes selectively being used to censor in completely nonsensical ways.

Also worth noting, historically, it was exactly a fear of letting deeply hated ideological enemies of the country's conservative elements that caused the Weimar conservatives to make justifications for censoring ideologically opposed viewpoints and "protecting the nation" against their definition of treason through laws that created loopholes for authoritarian control. This very same perceived need led them to an alliance with the Nazis and the formation of the Hitler cabinet of 1933, after which the much more extreme Hitler used the same legal loopholes -so easily exploitable by serious authoritarians- to completely destroy the Weimar Republic and all of its existing political, social and individual freedoms.

The so-called paradox of tolerance is bullshit. It was specifically intolerance and legal mechanisms for its expression against supposedly extreme viewpoints, that destroyed Weimar Germany and led to Nazi Germany. I have yet to see a country where too much free expression leads to more repression. The exact opposite is the case everywhere you look. Politicians and ideologues establish "reasonable" limits on extremist speech and later expand those ever more censoriously as they redefine extremism or treason to include anything that supposedly divides the nation, ie: goes against their views of a unified political system.
by mct | 2025-06-19 22:58:35+00:00
I love that the networking stack uses SLIP and slattach(1)!

I was playing with a toy TCP/IP stack, and decided using SLIP over a pty on Linux was a great way to interface with the kernel. Unfortunately it looks like macOS previously shipped with slattach(1) a very long time ago, but no longer does.

I'm curios if other people have used SLIP on macOS to get a dead-simple, cross-platform API to the networking stack?

The alternative would be to use tun/tap on Linux and utun on macOS, but SLIP would be so much nicer.
by TJSomething | 2025-06-19 22:58:39+00:00
Florida and Missouri have been working on it, to some success. Florida's laws have decreased access by requiring in-person appointments with doctors instead of telehealth or nurse practitioners, which has eliminated access for 80% of transgender adults [1]. Missouri has banned Medicaid funding for transgender care for adults. [2]

At the national level, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act as passed by the House cuts all federal funding for transgender care for adults via Medicaid [3], though that's still pending what the Senate does.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/florida-transgender-health-care-a...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/missouri-governor-signs-...

[3] https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jun/02/medicaid-bill...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-19 22:58:51+00:00
> for calling you out on this ridiculous whatabout-ism

This is not why your comment was flagged.

> accept you have a problem

Don’t write like this and you will receive fewer downvotes/flags.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> strange moderation

The actions are not from site moderators; other users thought your comment violated one or more the guidelines so they flagged it.
by FatalLogic | 2025-06-19 22:58:55+00:00
I guess (I really do mean 'guess') that they experience a disorienting sense of disassociation which is comparable, though much more shocking, to the situation of other people who realize, late in life, that their difficulties in relating and connecting to other people are not imaginary.

Most commonly, this is comparable to people who realize that they have been having problems, for years, because they are "on the spectrum" or have Asperger's or autism-adjacent conditions or, perhaps, some ADHD/ADD challenges. I'm sure that there are many people in the HN community who have been surprised to discover this about themselves.

For example, this man, who has been successful in very many ways: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57045770

For people who discover challenges related to gender identity and dysphoria though, the great difference is that they're not only realizing that they have the "wrong" mind, but they even have the "wrong" physical body, too! [In that sentence, my opinion is that the definition of "wrong" is based more on the traditional viewpoints of conventional culture, and not so much on reality].
by dwattttt | 2025-06-19 23:00:03+00:00
> You claim it is fine-tuned, but it has happened in the real world.

Sure, but it seems like his comment is still responsive; if DNSSEC is deployed, they perform a BGP hijack & can impersonate everyone, and they just impersonate the server after the DNS step?

If that's the threat model you want to mitigate, it seems like DNSSEC won't address it.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-19 23:00:48+00:00
> I bet I'm older than you (the reader). I never heard of this till Biden brought it up.

I'm in my mid-50s, maybe you are older than me. It's something I had heard about in the 2015-2020 timeframe. I'm white as fuck, but being online meant I saw tweet threads or short explainers about it for a few years. I didn't meet folks who celebrated it, but when I asked around to Black folks I knew they were like, "Yeah, it's a thing."

So I suspect that the holiday gained momentum among Black Americans and spread out from Texas sometime prior to me hearing about it, perhaps with the rise of social media, and then us folks who are out of the loop started hearing about it later. (Either through our own social media intake or through the declaration of a federal holiday.)

> This holiday is beyond stupid when you consider that the guy who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln, doesn't have a Federal holiday where one gets the day off.

Don't see why we can't have both.
by jwatte | 2025-06-19 23:01:10+00:00
There's a second side of this story, that nobody ever really talks about, because the cost is so diffuse. There are real, legit, uses for fingerprinting. One of the more common ones is anti-fraud for payments, as well as anti-abuse for social sites. I'm sure you've been to forums or other social sites where ban evading trolls, astroturfers, card checkers, and the like cause constant pain for both legitimate users and site operators. When I ran a large site with social interactions and payments/credits, I got deep insights into all the abusers who try to bilk the system for whatever they can. Because fingerprinting is so hard, bad users have an easy time to return with a zillion sock puppet accounts. As a normal user, my estimation is that I suffer more from the actions of those bad users who poison the well, than I would suffer from an internet that made everyone non-anonymous.
by marcellus23 | 2025-06-19 23:01:35+00:00
> many who have had both primary hormones prefer the feeling of testosterone.

This is super interesting! Do you know what they prefer about testosterone?

> One recurring theme I've heard from people going from majority testosterone to majority estrogen is a feeling like a continuous 'buzzing' sensation in their head had finally stopped

This is also fascinating. As a cis man is there a buzzing constantly that I don’t even notice, that none of the women in my life have?
by weinzierl | 2025-06-19 23:01:51+00:00
Exactly and ä is never just a, ö never just o and ü never just u. Words like "Uber" just feel wrong from a German perspective.

Also, ß is ss and since words don't start with Ss there is no need for an uppercase ß. When whole words are capitalized ß turns into SS.

Of course there is a little edge case where capitalization isn't reversible. For example, is the capitalized version of the name MASSMANN to be converted to Maßmann or Massmann? That is in my opinion the only reason the uppercase ß was added to Unicode. To resolve this ambiguity. It has no place in proper German typography.
by alganet | 2025-06-19 23:02:02+00:00
Ideally, you want more than one bootstrapped platform. Platforms eventually die, and you don't want to rely on an emulator for bootstrapping.

Some time from now x86_64 will fade away, and there's a large chance rust will still be around. I know that this will probably take a long time, but it's better and easier to do it now than later.
by const_cast | 2025-06-19 23:02:17+00:00
> Linux has a culture of people running random commands off the internet which is also an easy vector to get people to install malware.

It's really not and the culture is not that big.

In Windows, ALL software is installed through suspicious means. In Linux world, MOST software is not. That's the difference.

If some dumbass wants to curl a random URL into a shell that's their problem. That's a very rare occurrence.

> You can do the same thing but with a Linux binary of "photoshop."

Yes, but it seems to me you are choosing to be dense on purpose and it's irritating me.

Please read what I am actually saying. I'm not saying it's impossible to make malware for Linux systems. I'm saying the CULTURE of Linux users is not to download random executables. So if I do that, it wouldn't be very effective. If I upload a random ELF executable to download.com, close to nobody is going to download it. On Windows, this is not the case.

> This is due to more consumers using Windows than Linux.

Again, I've already addressed this. It seems you cut off the quote too early.

This is PART of the reason, but we have to acknowledge how much easier it is to actually distribute malware on Windows.

The "popularity" argument is also just a bad argument. Linux is absolutely not unpopular - almost all the servers worldwide run some Linux distro. Those servers, lots of them, contain valuable data. They are absolutely a target for malware authors. There's probably more servers running Debian alone than Windows Server and it's not even close. Even still, there's a lot more malware that runs on Windows Server than Debian.

> Linux Distros...

There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here.

What you are proposing is a change to the Linux kernel which allows it to not be modified in some way. That's not something that is a distribution concern - that's a kernel API concern. Which will never be implemented in the kernel for the reasons already specified.
by onre | 2025-06-19 23:02:30+00:00
I would most likely end up with something like this:

CAT CATalogue - output the contents of current directory RM to Raster Memory - load contents of named file in framebuffer MV Make Virtual - map the file into memory and output the address LS Load System - attempt to reboot using the named file as the kernel CD Create Directory - self-explanatory SH System Halt - immediately stop all processing

...and so on.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-06-19 23:03:20+00:00
I don't read HN or LW all that often, but FWIW I actually learned about SlimeMoldTimeMold's "A Chemical Hunger" series from HN and then read its most famous takedown from LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7iAABhWpcGeP5e6SB/it-s-proba... (I don't remember any detailed takedowns of SlimeMoldTimeMold coming before that article, but maybe there are).

I think that SlimeMoldTimeMold's rise and fall was actually a pretty big point in favor of the "rationalist community".
by foldr | 2025-06-19 23:03:46+00:00
There's more to the group identity than just applying logic and rationality, yes. But surely 'rationalists' of all people wouldn't want to take the position that some of their key ideas don't result primarily from applying rational thought processes. Any part of their worldview that doesn't follow immediately from foundational principles of logic and reason is presumably subject to revision based on evidence and argument.
by bena | 2025-06-19 23:03:56+00:00
I think it's essentially a grift. An excuse to do nothing while looking like you care and reaping rewards.

If they wanted to help, they should be focused on the now. Global poverty, climate change, despotic world leaders. They should be aligning themselves against such things.

But instead what we see is essentially not that. Effective altruism is a lot like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a bit of a misnomer.
by achierius | 2025-06-19 23:04:57+00:00
I think the group that most reliably and effectively funds global health -- at least in terms of total $ -- would be the United Nations, or perhaps the Catholic Church, or otherwise one national government or another.

If you exclude "nations" then it does look to be the Church: "The Church operates more than 140,000 schools, 10,000 orphanages, 5,000 hospitals and some 16,000 other health clinics". Caritas, the relevant charitable umbrella organization, gives $2-4b per year on its own, and that's not including the many, many operations run by religious orders not under that umbrella, or by the hundreds of thousands of parishes around the world (most of which operate charitable operations of their own).

And yet, rationalists are totally happy criticizing the Catholic Church -- not that I'm complaining, but it seems a bit hypocritical.
by iscoelho | 2025-06-19 23:05:30+00:00
> and they just impersonate the server after the DNS step?

Yes, there are different mitigations to prevent BGP hijacking the webserver itself. Preventing a rogue TLS certificate from being issued is the most important factor. CAA DNS records can help a bit with this. DNS itself however is easiest solved by DNSSEC.

There are a lot of mitigations to prevent BGP hijacks that I won't get too much into. None are 100%, but they are good enough to ensure multi-perspective validation refuses to issue a TLS certificate. The problem is that if those same mitigations are not deployed on your DNS servers (or you outsource DNS and they have not deployed these mitigations) it is a weak link.
by swat535 | 2025-06-19 23:06:24+00:00
If you examine history, from the Bible you get Judaism. And from Judaism, Christianity as Christ said "Do not think that I am come to break the Law or the Prophets. I am not come to break: but to fulfill." [Matth. v. 17]

The Catholic Church follows the Melchisedec order (Heb v. ; vi. ; vii). The term Catholic (καθολικη) was used as early as the first century; it is an adjective which describes Christianity.

The oldest record that we have to this day is the Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans Chapter 8 where St. Ignatius writes "ωσπερ οπου αν η Χριστος Ιησους, εκει η καθολικη εκκλησια". (just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.):

https://greekdoc.com/DOCUMENTS/early/i-smyrnaeans.html

The protestors in the 16th c. called themselves Protestants, so that's what everyone calls them. English heretic-schismatics didn't want to share the opprobrium so they called themselves English, hence Anglican. In USA they weren't governed congregationally like the Congregationalists, or by presbyters like the Presbyterians, but by bishops, so they called themselves Bishop-ruled, or Episcopalians. (In fact, Katharine Jefferts-Schori changed the name of the denomination from The Protestant Episcopal Church to The Episcopal Church recently.)

The orthodox catholics called themselves Orthodox to distance themselves from the unorthodox of which there were plenty, spawning themselves off in the wake of practically every ecumenical council.

Lutherans in the USA name themselves after Father Martin Luther, some Augustinian priest from Saxony who protested against the Church's hypocritical corruption at the time, and the controversy eventually got out of hand and precipitated a schism/heretical revolution, back in the 1500s, but Lutherans back in Germany and Scandinavia call themselves Gospel churches, hence Evangelical. Some USA denominations that go back to Germany and who came over to USA brought that name with them.

Pentecostals name themselves after the incident in Acts where the Holy Spirit set fire to the world (cf. Acts 2) on the occasion of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, q.v., which in Greek was called Fiftieth Day After Passover, hence Pentecosti. What distinguishes Pentecostals is their emphasis on what they call "speaking in tongues", which in my opin...be charitable, kempff...which they see as a continuance of the Holy Spirit's work in the world and in the lives of believers.
by _mlbt | 2025-06-19 23:07:22+00:00
Obviously it depends on the task you’re trying to accomplish, but for my needs, Linux and Windows 11 have very good performance under UTM on my M3 Pro MacBook Pro. It should be even better with a maxed out M4 Max.

Also, depending upon your needs, a lot of software that you would typically run on Linux has a native port to macOS.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-19 23:08:49+00:00
This is really not a convincing argument. Plenty of people put social information in their profile on this forum; there is clearly some social aspect to commenting and I’d argue the social aspect is the reason to comment and read comments. There are comments that are automatically more interesting to read because of the name in front of it.

> demonstrably false

Surely not “demonstrably” false. How would you demonstrate it? You may believe that it’s not social media but there’s no reason for you to think I should not believe it is social media.
by throw234234234 | 2025-06-19 23:08:55+00:00
I've found myself personally thinking English is OK when I'm happy with a "lossy expansion" and don't need every single detail defined (i.e. the tedious boilerplate, or templating kind of code). After all to me an LLM can be seen as a lossy compression of actual detailed examples of working code - why not "uncompress it" and let it assume the gaps. As an example I want a UI to render some data but I'm not as fussed about the details of it, I don't want to specify exact co-ordinates of each button, etc

However when I want detailed changes I find it more troublesome at present than just typing in the code myself. i.e. I know exactly what I want and I can express it just as easily (sometimes easier) in code.

I find AI in some ways a generic DSL personally. The more I have to define, the more specific I have to be the more I start to evaluate code or DSL's as potentially more appropriate tools especially when the details DO matter for quality/acceptance.