MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by intended | 2025-06-10 07:25:24+00:00
There’s a million ways to skin a cat. The process you choose informs everyone of the problem you are prioritizing.

For example, you are deporting labor. Ostensibly Because of fairness and justice - they are in the country illegally. Ergo they should go.

No one should be above the law.

This has zip to do with gangs and criminality though.

But why this process ? Why not punish people who are employing them ?

This is more efficient and even more just. People are employing workers they know are here illegally and undercutting minimum wage.

Or why not raise minimum wage so more people will be willing to work those jobs ?

People act on incentives - and america is a country with a concentration of some of the hardest working and smartest people in the world.

It has a tradition of valuing this and converting those strengths into its own.

Now I have enough of a background in econ, business and politics to see through the narratives.

I also know you can’t sell all those interventions, not the least because none of these address the issue of gangs and criminality and eating pets.

Which brings us to the issue that your rationale, the ones which are debated online - are downstream from whatever controversy and theory that’s going to show up as soon as a new distraction is needed.

I mean, just Take a look at your original question,

“Leave the hardest working and deport the lazy ones ?”

America is built on immigration of the hardest working, most driven people from across the globe.

America is a machine for hardworking people to move ahead. That’s its promise.

And this is the question its citizens are unironically asking.
by worldsayshi | 2025-06-10 07:25:54+00:00
I've been wanting to use Aider but I want to use Copilot as a provider (to stay compliant with the wishes of my employer). Haven't gone down that road yet because Aider copilot support seems a bit tentative. I see they have some docs about it up now though: https://aider.chat/docs/llms/github.html

"The easiest path is to sign in to Copilot from any JetBrains IDE"

Somebody must've made a standalone login script by now right? I wonder if `gh auth login` can be used to get a token?
by mordae | 2025-06-10 07:26:00+00:00
It did help make the time saving devices widely available and thus boosted our productive capacity. It e.g. allowed many women to enter the workforce since they no longer had to spend all their time washing, cleaning, cooking, shopping etc..

It no longer does that, though. Now it just seeks rent, sells luxuries to rich and manipulates masses into overconsumption.
by fenomas | 2025-06-10 07:26:28+00:00
Recent anecdote from Popehat, about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles:

> /4 So “cover me” to the LAPD means “if someone pops up with a gun and shoots at me, shoot at them.” Apparently to the Marines it means “lay down a curtain of suppressive fire using your rifles.” Hilarity ensued.

https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3lr2w7wo3...
by 8note | 2025-06-10 07:27:12+00:00
you could compare to that time right wing extremists took over a some park in Oregon.

they shot a bunch of people, and the feds took it pretty hands off. if anything, the protestors arent being nearly violent enough to get soft hands from the government. if they were out there with automatic weapons and actively shooting at the cops and guard, theyd be left right alone, and the road would be shut down for a couple months
by lnsru | 2025-06-10 07:27:34+00:00
Dog as child replacement fits too well for many western couples. There is very light care aspect included. Even bad illnesses happen and one must go to vet. With a dog you don’t need to do homework for two hours after hard workday. Nor plan children birthdays or vacations. Nor read primitive children books for hours on weekend. It’s perfect substitute without much effort.

Children are long term gain, first decade is rather hard. Teaching and training every day, hour, minute. If one wants to do it right.

On other hand dog might be better that a child hooked to a smartphone from an age of 2 years.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-10 07:27:47+00:00
2/7 is an infantry battalion. They have no training or experience policing.

I was a member of an infantry battalion once tasked with doing policing in a foreign country. Let me just say that the outcome was exactly what you’d expect. We were very effective at responding with overwhelming force to attacks by an insurgency but pretty ineffective at keeping the peace.
by kennywinker | 2025-06-10 07:28:39+00:00
1. No more security updates means using it is deeply risky 2. A closed ecosystem and App store bitrot combine to make installing anything new on it next to impossible. So, while it may be still useful as a pdf reader, it’s no longer useful as a general purpose computing device - but it COULD be if it was supported.

Make no mistake - most of these devices won’t be used as pdf readers - they will end up in the landfill. This is part of the business model, and we + the environment pay for it.
by maxrimue | 2025-06-10 07:28:46+00:00
To your second point: For me, the major difference between goals and constraints would be that I can clearly achieve a good goal, but a constraint is something that will never be fulfilled. A good goal is to run and complete a 10k marathon, it's easy to tell when you're done, or if you failed, potentially even measuring how far off you were. But a constraint would accompany you until you choose to disregard it. You can respect a constraint, but you can never complete it, only in the context of a finite project.

To me, a lot of this post sounds like goals vs habits, caring more about what you do today than what you may achieve sometime in the future, only that the habits are constraints here, so not doing something. In short, "leave everyone better than you found them" is something you can adhere to constantly (like a habit), but for it to be a good goal you would have to know when you're done finding people I guess.

Ultimately, what I read from this post is that constraints are used to provide identity, to help you guide yourself everyday. And maybe that's what you need more than goals if a lack of identity (in your work) is what's troubling you.
by MrJagil | 2025-06-10 07:29:16+00:00
I watched this clip recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJU-4fYejiw being turned onto it by super dave being a guest on Norm Mcdonalds show.

It's an interesting time capsule. Peter Marshall using a racial slur on live television, Sly being stoned out of his mind.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-10 07:30:51+00:00
>But in the context of this thread, where a company was threatening to do this in a developed democratic country, that is not an issue, is it?

Along with some other parts of your comment, I can only ask, are you really that naive? Governments can change, laws can change, societies can become more sinister, along with their governing institutions. Look no further than the United States right now for something of a haphazard example, but many others from history and the modern world abound.

It's not about a given context not being risky, it's about a fundamental right to have one's own private business respected firmly, so long as it doesn't materially or physically harm others, being entrenched enough that it's hard to remove even when the state and society go bad.

The same goes for your last comment: Defending one's privacy on nothing more than how supposedly unlikely it is that others would be interested in your personal habits is a downright stupidly bad idea, and yes, it can easily turn into a big deal if something changes.
Ask HN: Best Neuromusic to Focus To?
by keepamovin | 2025-06-10 07:31:18+00:00
I enjoy a variety of neuromusics when working. Sometimes it's just white noise (or variants, brown, blue, or more natural things like rainstorms, waterfalls, etc).

Recently I discovered the work of the channel Mind Amend and their Techno focus tracks with isochronic tones. Super cool stuff! Upbeat, positive and good quality. Wide variety of styles, and effective.

Pure tones are also good, but today I'm trying some "hemi-sync style stuff" which feels okay, and different to the rest.

There's a huge variety out there. What works for you? What do you enjoy?
by replete | 2025-06-10 07:31:58+00:00
There are some horrific looking UI on the screenshots, e.g. Acorns floating toolbar with integrated traffic lights - it looks awful and with a bevel emboss - remember that? Yes, the ugly Photoshop effect option that only looked cool in the early 2000s. Some of this looks very cheap and amateur Photoshop like.

It''s not terrible, but I will avoid it for a while. My biggest issue is the system resources this will require. I just don't care for the pretty, as much as I care for fast UI. Thinks Windows 11 delayed right click context menu.

Unifying their operating system design language makes sense, but ugh do we really need yearly operating system revisions like this. It is obvious that the engineers struggle with the marketing led pace judging by how many issues there are every major release of macOS. I don't upgrade to a new major until a .3 usually because of this.
I roast your product idea before you waste 6 months building it
by kogekar | 2025-06-10 07:32:33+00:00
Launched a simple service: submit your product or idea, and I’ll give brutally honest feedback.

What to fix, what to scrap, what to double down on. Based on what I’ve seen work (and fail) with hundreds of early-stage founders.

See: zerotostartups.com - feedback, MVP builds, go-to-market support. Pretty much everything you need.

You can post your idea here too, and I’ll reply with thoughts.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-06-10 07:32:57+00:00
It's a disconnect because we have this vision that language (as commonly spoken, not legalese) is perfectly clear and precise. But the reality is that even two live people who seem to speak the same language will misunderstand each other, including for "basic" things. So how should a computer be able to read your mind, when it most likely doesn't even have the context of where you're from?

Regarding the "notify" vs "timer", I had a very similar experience with a friend. I went to a bakery, and she asked me to get her some kind of pastry. To me, she meant some kind of bread. Queue confused faces on both sides when she asked where her stuff was. Sure, it's still in the broad "baked goods" category, just like a reminder and a timer. This was in France, both living in major cities 200 km apart. It's not like some extreme variation of English from the other side of the world.
by piva00 | 2025-06-10 07:33:18+00:00
To anyone who watched or lived through the ascension of Orbán and Erdogan in the 2000s it was very eerie how similar the playbook was for Trump.

The same steps, in the same direction, the competitive authoritarian[0] playbook was clearly in full play, during the first term Trump started to openly attack the free press, subjugate some democratic institutions, etc. but guardrails were still holding, some GOP Congress people could pushback, the VP wasn't entirely in the cult, the cabinet had some level-headed people.

Now in the second term there is nothing holding back, not the Congress nor Senate, not the Judiciary, not the cabinet, not the elites, not the press, and seemingly the people aren't able at all to comprehend and pushback on how authoritarian it all is.

The plan trudges along, crisis will keep being fabricated so Trump's grip on power increases, this one in LA is definitely going to be used to salami slice more and more power into the Executive, under the veil of "homeland security".

You're entering a new phase of Trump's authoritarianism, Americans, and there doesn't seem to have any power actually powerful enough to fight back.

[0] https://muse.jhu.edu/article/745953
by senko | 2025-06-10 07:34:43+00:00
What’s “real open source” to you? I have a niche project useful to a small audience (grocery prices crawler for Croatian stores), 70ish stars, 10 or so forks, a few contributors, AGPL licensed.

I used AI a lot (vibe coding for spikes and throwaway tools, AI-assisted coding for prod code, chatgpt sessions to optimize db schema and queries, etc). I’d say some 80% or more of the code was written by Claude and reviewed by me.

It has not only sped up the development, but as a side project, I would never even have finished it (deployed to prod with enough features to be useful) without AI.

Now you can say that doesn’t count because it’s a side project, or because I’m bullish on AI (I am, without jumping on the hype train), or because it’s too small, or because I haven’t blogged about it, or because anecdotes are not data, and I will readily admit I’m not a true Scotsman.
by designerarvid | 2025-06-10 07:35:38+00:00
As a user centered designer I naturally agree with most criticism shared here. Not the direction I would have wished for.

Trying to understand where this is coming from, I guess two sources:

1. It's a fashion update to give GenZ and younger something they haven't seen before. They are too young to remember Windows Vista, and are the most important future target group that spends 12+ hrs / day on their iPhone. Also it is an audience that heavily customizes their UI, and care more for visually communicating cool-ness, than to get work done with efficient UX. Similar to using rainmeter on a desktop PC. Unsurprising, this look a lot like a rainmeter skin.

2. This is a way to communicate unmatched quality. Similar to what AirBnB are doing. When everyone can use icon- and component libraries like material and shadcn to build UI:s, this is a visual language that communicates premium quality is through an interface and iconography that is different and too expensive for others to recreate. Many companies don't have the skill nor the time and money to do custom icons in 3D software, or create elaborate translucent effects. Let's see what multi-plattform apps will look like with this new UI, perhaps the goal is to make them stand out as "outdated"
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 07:35:42+00:00
> It was passed in 1878 because of the backlash against Reconstruction, shortly after federal troops were withdrawn from the South in 1877, and was intended to prevent Reconstruction from happening again

You're right. Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest it was a product of Reconstruction. It was absolutely part of the process of post-civil war renormalisation.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-10 07:35:47+00:00
His decisions are not arbitrary. He lays out his logic, rationale, and evidence, but people seemingly are either unaware or uninterested in such, instead preferring to create strawmen to fight against. For instance another post here claims he doesn't "believe" in germ theory. That should immediately be a red flag of something taken out of context or misrepresented, and indeed it was.

Here [1] is a blog which is highly critical of RFK's view on germ theory yet, unlike most media sources, it also lays out what he said in a vaguely reasonable way. He obviously does not reject germ theory in the least, but believes that having an overall healthier lifestyle and avoiding environmental toxins is a more effective means of ensuring your body can fight off infection than by focusing solely on specific germs. The article offers a quote that seems reasonable: "When a starving African child succumbs to measles, the miasmist attributes the death to malnutrition; germ theory proponents (a.k.a. virologists) blame the virus. The miasmist approach to public health is to boost individual immune response."

Of course one can engage with modern medicine and live a healthy life, but I think his entire schtick is that the whole live a healthy life aspect of healthcare has been largely neglected over the past half century. Just reducing the obesity rate, for instance, would probably have a dramatically greater impact on health outcomes than any new medical discovery over the next 50 years - as we seem to have entered well into the domain of diminishing returns. But yet there will be many trillions of dollars pumped into those discoveries, with little to no meaningful effort made to curb obesity, unless it can be done with a drug - because that's where the $$$ is.

[1] - https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-a...
by CMay | 2025-06-10 07:36:56+00:00
Everything is a constitutional crisis now, because nobody really knows what a constitutional crisis is. We're just numbing people down and normalizing the words until they mean nothing, because we aren't using them when they really matter. The details of this do not seem like they warrant calling it a constitutional crisis. When we actually face one, there won't be words we can use to describe it anymore, because we've wasted them.
by jph | 2025-06-10 07:39:08+00:00
"When John Boyd, the brilliant / irascible military strategist, developed the OODA loop, he worked within the limits of jet fighter dogfights."

Boyd is a superb recommendation for startup programmers to read. Boyd and the OODA loop can completely transform teams who aim to build software quickly.

My OODA loop notes for tech teams are here: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ooda-loop
by SunlitCat | 2025-06-10 07:39:50+00:00
The opposite would be something like the bug reporting system in Second Life by Linden Labs (an online world where you can be with a virtual avatar, doing stuff) (at least way back, i dunno if they still have that open).

They had a public facing jira open, where people could file bugs and what not about the viewer (the client) and the world (the server).

You didn't need some special account or something like that, just your normal Second Life account was enough to get access to that one.

Drawback was, you were able to see what happens when filing bugs is easy. Of course, many people used it to file real bugs but also complained about stuff not working like they expected (or how it should work according to them, which brought other people up against them and so on...in the end you were able to read the latest drama here and there, right in the jira entries).

Although, to be honest, i thought it was an awesome idea, but you when you open up an easy way for people to report bugs, you need an easy way to explain what bugs are and what not. :)
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-10 07:40:28+00:00
I’m willing to defer to mods on this one, but Aussie slang is full of warm put downs for ‘mericans, but I would hesitate to call the comment in question derogatory in nature.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Seppo

tl;dr: it’s rhyming slang, Yank (USA person who may/may not also be one of the two Australian stereotypes of Americans, the other one being Texans) rhymes with (septic) tank, shortened to the euphemism used by OP
by beeman | 2025-06-10 07:40:33+00:00
I've recently switched to Orbstack as a drop-in replacement for Docker on my MacBook and it’s faster and more efficient.

The main reason it works well for me is that I don't have to change anything about my workflow, commands like 'docker run' and 'docker compose up' still work, just faster and more efficient.

If Apple's container works the same they might 'sherlock' Docker and Orbstack.
by BrenBarn | 2025-06-10 07:40:46+00:00
I went out for a walk to sit down by the Nile,

and fish a little bit and just kick back a while.

But the foreman comes and says the boss has won the bid

on the contract to construct the pharaoh's pyramid.

So now I gotta spend my days out working for the man,

pushing giant blocks of stone across the burning hot sand.

I don't see why us peasants got to go and do this

just to help some bigshot's stupid heart impress Anubis.
by jdougan | 2025-06-10 07:40:46+00:00
Programming a Space Shooter in Squeak/Smalltalk (Also has links to Squeak By Example) : https://scottgibson.site/ShooterGame/

A gentle introduction to Pharo Smalltalk (From the Glamorous Toolkit) https://book.gtoolkit.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-pharo-sma...

Prof Stef (In Amber ST on JS): https://amber-lang.net/learn.html

Immersive Object Programming course videos from INRIA: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2okA_2qDJ-kCHVcNXdO5...

Pharo related books (links to Pharo By Example, etc.): https://books.pharo.org/

Free Smalltalk Books: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-06-10 07:40:59+00:00
And also SpaceX, of course. And the Tesla model X (as part of a series so he could have the models S, E, and X). And his son X. Well, X Æ A-12, but X for short.

I hope that if I ever go crazy, there's someone who loves me that I trust that's around me to tell me when something I thing is cool is actually incredibly stupid.
by pixelpoet | 2025-06-10 07:41:13+00:00
I thought you'd made a typo with "Majesties" but no, it's really spelt that way. "Accompany'd", too. Time to go read up on that, apparently playing the Ultima games wasn't enough to learn this aspect of Old English...

And yeah, wild that this is the Hooke of Hooke's law!
Ask HN: Founders, how do you keep your startup journey organized and connected?
by SebHDLawson | 2025-06-10 07:41:28+00:00
Hey HN community,

Starting and scaling a company feels like juggling a hundred different critical functions simultaneously. From the initial spark of an idea, validating customer problems, crafting a business plan, building financial models, designing an MVP, to executing a go-to-market strategy, and finally, managing growth metrics – it's a whirlwind.

Many of us end up using a mix of tools: Notion for docs, Excel for financials, Trello for tasks, a CRM for sales, dedicated research platforms, and various communication apps. While each tool excels at its specific purpose, the challenge often lies in connecting the dots.

How do you ensure that insights from customer interviews seamlessly inform your problem statements, which then shape your product requirements, and feed directly into your business plan and go-to-market strategy? Do you have a "single source of truth" that keeps all your core business strategies, financials, and launch plans unified and constantly updated as your venture evolves?

We're genuinely curious about your systems and workflows.

What specific tools, methodologies, or mental models do you rely on to manage this complexity? How do you prevent critical information and context from getting siloed between different stages or team members? What's your biggest pain point when it comes to keeping everything connected and preventing data/context loss across the lifecycle of your startup? Do you use any custom solutions or integrations to bridge the gaps? Looking forward to learning from your experiences and insights!
by jimbohn | 2025-06-10 07:43:05+00:00
To me, it's every day more apparent that democracies are transitioning into mediocracies. Everything is performative, real results do not matter. It's not a coincidence that this administration has a bunch of TV personalities in it, including the president. Influencers are the new ruling class because the opinion of every m**n permanently glued to their phone is valid (i.e. a vote)
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-10 07:43:53+00:00
Note that they didn't "do it" for WSL1, they started doing it, realized it is far too much work to cover eveything, and abandoned the approach in favor of VMs. It's not like WSL1 was a fully functioning Linux emulator on top of Windows, it was still very far from it, even though it could do many common tasks.
by Y_Y | 2025-06-10 07:43:58+00:00
What you say is true, but I'd add that Gendarms/Guardia Civil/Carabinieri etc.; tend to hang around carrying big guns, are responsible to the country as a whole (rather than the local community), are under the relevant defence ministry (while also reporting to the interior ministry).

In my experience they don't act at all like normal cops, and sometimes can be in conflict with them. The only interactions I ever hear of with citizens is if they beat the shit out of someone. You're not going to be going to them for a lost phone or a cat in a tree.