MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CaptArmchair | 2025-06-10 06:16:13+00:00
If a pension system is purely based on repartition: yes. But that's not the case in most countries. Pension plans mostly involve pension funds which are rooted in the financial markets. It's the individuals responsibility to max out their pension plan, and fiscal policies are used to incentivize this.

Ownership of assets, like home ownership, also contributes towards the totality of a pension.

In that sense, not owning a home, having to pay rent in old age, is a form of impoverishment. If that rent isn't offset by other sources of income like financial investments.
by katzenversteher | 2025-06-10 06:16:36+00:00
In general the whole industrial and SCADA world is pretty endangered from my experience. They are ususually very conservative which often means the SCADA stations are stuck to very old OS Versions (often Windows or even DOS).

One reason is OPC DA, a legacy communication protocol based on DCOM. Another is that at least some of the operator stations are often also used as engineering station, so they have to support the controller engineering software for the often also ancient PLCs.

As long as nothing is connected or exposed to the internet that's fine but nowadays companies try use edge computing and machine learning and so on to optimize running costs. Also predictive maintenance etc. is used to automatically trigger service when e.g. vibration sensors show patterns that indicate damage (e.g. bearing damage).
by cyberax | 2025-06-10 06:16:36+00:00
> You can also disable animations on iOS.

No, you can not. You can reduce _some_ animations, but most of them actually remain. Including the most annoying ones like the slowwwww screen switching, or the bottom sheet animation.

An amusing anecdote: I have animation turned off entirely on my Android phone, and I was demoing an app on it. People commented how amazingly fast it felt compared to iOS, simply because there were no animations.
by AngryData | 2025-06-10 06:16:48+00:00
Why do you say evidently not? I have multiple friends who would love to have children, but can't fathom managing to fulfill the monetary costs to do so. They don't make enough money to send them all to childcare all the time, but quitting their job to take care of the kids will cut their income in half and make saving any reasonable amount of money for retirement near impossible.
by billti | 2025-06-10 06:16:49+00:00
Yeah. On Windows some apps (the new Terminal) used to have the opacity set to 0.9 or something by default. First thing I did was set it to 1.0. Having the background bleed through is distracting for no real value.

I’m usually a big fan of Apple design and UX. Any change faces some initial resistance, but this is first real “Ugh, hard no” reaction I can recall after seeing some of those.
by Timwi | 2025-06-10 06:17:01+00:00
Here is how I might have handled it differently:

Instead of

> Meanwhile, plenty of us have found a way to enhance our productivity during deep work. No need for the patronization.

you could have written

> Personally, I found doing X does enhance my productivity during deep work.

Why it's better: 1) cuts out the confrontation (“you're being patronizing!”), 2) offers the information directly instead of merely implying that you've found it, and 3) speaks for yourself and avoids the generalization about “plenty of people”, which could be taken as a veiled insult (“you must be living as a hermit or something”).

Next:

> You can do better than a No true Scotsman fallacy.

Even if the comment were a No True Scotsman, I would not have made that fact the central thesis of this paragraph. Instead, I might have explained the error in the argument instead. Advantages: 1) you can come out clean in the case that you might be wrong about the fallacy, and 2) the commenter might appreciate the insight.

Reason you're wrong in this case: The commenter referred entirely to their own experience and made no “true programmer” assertions.

Next:

> Essentially, this is a skill issue [...] Dunning–Kruger curve [...] chose to assume that you knew better. [...]

I would have left out these entire two paragraphs. As best as I can tell, they contain only personal attacks. As a result, the reader comes away feeling like your only purpose here is to put others down. Instead, when you wrote

> You could have asked for tips

I personally would have just written out the tips. Advantage: the reader may find it useful in the best case, and even if not, at least appreciate your contribution.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-10 06:17:07+00:00
We escaped them because the tenth amendment and judiciary constrained federal powers in non war time to activity summing up to like 2% of the GDP and they needed an amendment to do anything outside of a little box. POTUS was fairly low stakes office in peace time, lower stakes to most than their governor and state legislators.

We tossed that all aside in the 1930s via threatening to pack the Supreme court. Federal powers are now everything because interstate commerce is now everything and without a functional 10A and with delegation to executive agencies POTUS approaches God level.
by morepedantic | 2025-06-10 06:18:27+00:00
Historically, the jump from 2 kids to 3 kids requires purchasing a new car. The new car is more expensive to buy, operate, and maintain.

Today there are many narrow car seat options on the market, so 3 across seating is possible in full size sedans, but not compact cars. A European company makes a 3-across and 4-across car seat, but it's illegal in the US by accident.
by ksec | 2025-06-10 06:18:33+00:00
At home, I am still on my Early 2015 MacBook Pro running latest macOS with OpenCore patcher. As long as you don't use Safari because Cloudflare think you are a bot it is mostly fine.

The problem with all MacBook after my generation is their keyboard sucks. They have some variant and tiny improvement every year but it still sucks. The 1.5mm key travel is about the minimum I could take. Both butterfly and new scissors, despite giving them time I never quite come to terms with it.

But I guess this is one more year of macOS and perhaps two more for Safari + security. 2028 will be the final deadline.
by camillomiller | 2025-06-10 06:18:42+00:00
I have answers ;)

• Rosetta will remain available as a general-purpose tool through macOS 27 to help developers migrate their Intel apps, with limited gaming-focused functionality continuing beyond that timeframe

• Intel-based Macs will continue receiving security updates for 3 years following macOS Tahoe

• After the general Rosetta support ends, Apple will maintain a subset of Rosetta functionality specifically for older unmaintained gaming titles that depend on Intel-based frameworks
by trymas | 2025-06-10 06:18:43+00:00
Not to mention, that in most of the videos I’ve seen about detention of “illegals” - “ICE agents” look like a bunch of thugs. Facemasks, no identification features, they never introduce themselves, etc.

It’s clear since the election - Trump administration will use violence without any due process. Sort of Catch-22.

If you resist the indiscriminate purge of what Trump considers “illegal immigrants”[0] - military will be called to suppress the protests with some sort of never ending “emergency situation” established giving him full dictatorial powers.

Or he will just do the purges without resistance and achieve same goals.

“Protest voters” and democratic leadership have a lot to think about right now.

[0] lets not forget that you can be a US citizen and you can still be purged
Ask HN: Practices for sandboxing LLM agent front ends and IDEs?
by jMyles | 2025-06-10 06:19:01+00:00
I've been using Cursor for a while, and I've increasingly had some unease about it having unfettered read access to my home directory. Contemporaneously, I'm starting another round of T&E with the various LLM options, starting with Claude Code. I gave it a quick whirl and I'm impressed with what it can do in my terminal.

But again... I'm not thrilled to give it terminal access as the same user that I use to operate my machine on the daily. It being able to slurp ~/.ssh and such is not thrilling to me.

So, my first inclination was simply to install Claude Code under a different user, and run it as that user, so that it had access only to a home directory which was used for that purpose and no other.

...but then, one runs into the problem of editor integration. For example, I want to run Claude Code inside of VSCode or PyCharm, but these don't seem to readily run when launched from a terminal when using su as another user.

xhost gets VSCode to launch, but nothing works; it crashes as soon as one attempts to open a file.

So what are the current best practices?
by haiku2077 | 2025-06-10 06:19:40+00:00
> Even if true, technical people can work around this by either spoofing a non-external drive or using `ln`, no?

IIRC Google Drive for Desktop won't sync the target of a symbolic link. It will sync the target of a hard link, but hard links can only target the same filesystem that the link is on, so you can't target an external drive on macOS AFAIK.

I can't speak for the other software you mentioned.
by pndy | 2025-06-10 06:19:42+00:00
Metro was terrific on mobile - especially for older people who had no issues reading information from tiles or navigating sharp interface. Once my mother's HTC 8S broke and she had to temporarily switch to iPhone she complained how the interface was small and barely readable. It's the desktop where it failed - you can't just force users into a mobile interface, at the same time remove the most recognisable element of your product (start button and menu) and believe people will adapt.

What I find wild is that there were internal W8 releases with a proper start menu but they abandon it at some point to fully embrace Metro.
by irrational | 2025-06-10 06:20:02+00:00
That there will be nobody to care for the great mass of old people, nobody to work jobs to make 401ks worth anything, nobody to prop up social security, nobody to buy old people’s houses so they can use that money to pay for nursing homes So… all the old people will suddenly find they can’t retire and are forced to work till death. They will consider it a crisis. The current retirees are probably the final retirees in our lifetime.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-10 06:22:11+00:00
On the server room yes, but only in the sense UNIX has won, and Linux is the cheapest way to acquire UNIX, with the BSDs sadly looking from their little corner.

However on embedded, and desktop, the market belongs to others, like Zehyr, NutXX, Arduino, VxWorks, INTEGRITY,... and naturally Apple, Google and Microsoft offerings.

Also Linux is an implementation detail on serverless/lambda deployments, only relevant to infrastructure teams.
by mym1990 | 2025-06-10 06:23:00+00:00
This just isn't true. How many children my neighbor has impacts my social security payments or other retirement disbursements in no tangible way. It certainly doesn't impact my 401k or other retirement savings unless you are linking population growth to the growth of the asset markets and the structural integrity of the social security system(I can see the point of view here, but I wouldn't call this a "subsidy").
by mordae | 2025-06-10 06:23:11+00:00
> She spends at least three hours a day commuting to her office and back. When she gets home she is exhausted but wants to spend time with her daughter. Her family doesn't get much sleep.

The single biggest predictor for birth rate is people caring about kids or helping out / number of kids. It's that simple.

3h commute cuts into this. Lack of grandparents and neighbourly relations cuts into this. Higher standards cut into this. And we are not allocating more care.

Commute should be minimal. Care should be flexible. In some EU countries, you won't get benefits if the care is provided by both parents equally (alternate every day for instance) or grandparents step in. You get peanuts when you take care of sick kids and risk your career. And so on.

When we build, we keep building huge ass office centres, huge ass shopping centres instead of 4-5 storey houses with mixed usage. The parents have to shuttle kids.

Plaza/garden/playground, kindergartens and small shops at the ground level, offices in upper floors. Next block same, but upper floors residential, good pulic transport, underground only parking. All designed to save the time spent doing logistics.

And finally, care must be stop being a financial trade-off. If your kid is sick, you have to take care of it and receive 100% of the pay. This must be factored into all prices, since we cannot afford not to take care of our kids. Period. Demand this from whomever your import from as well and absolutely do impose tariffs on anyone who doesn't guarantee this and tries to undercut you.
by hparadiz | 2025-06-10 06:24:04+00:00
Typically their presence alone is enough to stop anything new from happening. In theory they would only need to use enough violence to defend themselves. That's how we got Kent State but in general Kent State was also because the guards in that situation found themselves alone and isolated with little training. In a modern context 60 national guards standing around outside of a downtown highrise with a couple Humvees is unlikely to see any escalation.
by kefirlife | 2025-06-10 06:24:19+00:00
Lima makes this really straightforward and supports vz virtualization. I particularly like that you can run x86 containers through rosetta2 via those Linux VMs with nerdctl. If you want to implement it yourself of course you can, but I appreciate the work from this project so far and have used it for a couple of years.

https://lima-vm.io/
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-10 06:24:27+00:00
By this token, why not add particle systems and fancy explosions to every button click? Why stick to squares or rounded squares etc, when you can use voxel shading to generate complex n-gons with thousands of edges?

The problem with all this - and 'liquid glass' as well - is that far from adding anything to the experience, they take away from it. They muddy and visually complicate what should be a visually clear and simple interface, one that gets out of your way as much as possible while allowing you to reach what you really care about - the content in your apps.
by jmcgough | 2025-06-10 06:24:42+00:00
America has excellent healthcare if you have money. We've lead more medical advances than any other country and our doctors have the longest and most extensive education and training requirements.

I work in healthcare - most problems we see in the hospital are related to chronic illness caused by poverty and the gutting of social services. Many other countries spend more on social services than healthcare, but in the US it's flipped.
by Certhas | 2025-06-10 06:25:26+00:00
What an uncharitable reply. Not op, but you seem to miss the basic point of the article, I.e. you fail at your own criterion of making understanding your goal.

As someone not in this space I found the argument succinct and easy to follow. QF is optimal if you only have direct utility. To illustrate that this assumption is problematic, confront it with a hypothetical where direct utility is zero. Then you can clearly and immediately see that in this hypothetical it's not optimal.

Maybe the argument is hard to parse if you're not used to reading theoretical literature?
by Timwi | 2025-06-10 06:25:57+00:00
I would invite you to re-read some of the comments you perceived as judgement and condescension and keep an open mind. You might find that you took them as judgement and condescension unfairly.

Meanwhile, you have absolutely been judgemental and condescending yourself. If you really keep the open mind that you profess, you'll take a moment to reflect on this and not dismiss it out of hand. It does not do you any favors to blissfully assume everyone is wrong about you and obliviously continue to be judgmental and condescending.
by travisgriggs | 2025-06-10 06:28:33+00:00
> Allow users to pause the agent to ask a clarifying question or push back on its direction without derailing the entire activity or train of thought

I think I’ve seen Zed/Claude do kind of this. A couple times, I’ve hit return, and then see that I missed a clarifying statement based on the direction it starts going and I put it in fast, and it corrects.
by ndr42 | 2025-06-10 06:28:34+00:00
Do you really think Las Vegas is cash strapped so that they can't afford it? [1]

As a city that has a huge amount of tourism they have ways to do more.

I do not understand why the parent commentator should have to donate his time or capital to point out that this measure is inadequate.

[1] https://files.lasvegasnevada.gov/finance/2026_Fiscal_Year/CL...
by pndy | 2025-06-10 06:29:56+00:00
Maybe it's because I'm living in a country where we had to catch up with marketing and advertising after communism fell and I have some kind of "immunity" and cynical approach to such forms of product presentations... But this whole keynote video felt like it's on nearly same levels as car salesman, infomercials/teleshopping.

And I honestly felt sorry for woman who tries to sell me amazing emoji combining "technology". Who actually uses this beside the obvious die-hard fans on dedicated sites and forums.
by guybedo | 2025-06-10 06:30:01+00:00
here's a few options cited in this thread:

whisper based options:

whisper.cpp works well on Mac and runs locally, though fine-tuning vocabulary is desired

noScribe is a good FOSS option

MacWhisper is a highly effective macOS desktop app that processes local files and remote URLs, exporting to various formats

whisperfile is suitable for batch transcription and can run on an M4 mini with an HTTP API

carelesswhisper.app is a local, whisper.cpp wrapper that offers fast transcription for longer audio, noise profiling, and one-time payment, working well on M1

Faster-Whisper-XXL standalone on Windows offers fantastic accuracy due to vocal extraction preprocessing

VoiceInk is an open-source solution that runs a small local model with optional remote/local LLM enhancements

Vibe is an open-source alternative to SuperWhisper

Cloud options:

OpenAI speech-to-text and AssemblyAI are considered high quality, with AssemblyAI being cheap and having robust SDK support

TurboScribe offers a generous free tier for web-based transcription

Hosting OpenAI Whisper large v3 on Modal.com provides a fast, cheap solution with no rate limits

AssemblyAI's Universal ASR has impressive WER, future textual prompting, and PII redaction capabilities

borgcloud.org offers competitive pricing and fast real-time transcription

GCP's Chirp & chirp2 are used for large-scale meeting minute transcription

Microsoft Word 365 (online) Transcribe is a surprisingly effective out-of-the-box solution for English, offering labeled speakers and timestamps

Uploading audio to YouTube can be a 'cheap hack' for transcription

Full summary here: https://extraakt.com/extraakts/transcription-tools-and-workf...
by consumer451 | 2025-06-10 06:30:10+00:00
That I can agree with, but part of their job is panic control. Just like anytime you hear the gov talk about radiation.

On my part, I didn’t need anyone to tell me how various masks do or do not work. They all have certifications one can read on their own.

But, that mask messaging was bad. I suppose the alternative was, yes masks work, but we don’t enough have for you. Apparently we are not adult enough to hear that type of thing. And, I mean we’re not.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-06-10 06:32:33+00:00
It was some program between the federal programs in town and the school that provided for essentially internships. After mine was over I was offered a part time job. I had to go through a security clearance but being a kid I didn’t have much history to research. It’s not like I had a top secret clearance or anything, just enough for building access and basic non-prod development.
by EdwardDiego | 2025-06-10 06:33:44+00:00
Sure, but the GP is referring to the tactic wherein orgs making money hand over fist from polluting substances or industries like to frame it as an individual problem to solve, not a massively systemic problem that'll require conscious collective action to resolve.

E.g., BP used to advertise in my country with ways you could reduce your carbon footprint.

You know, have shorter showers, recycle, etc.

BP is a company profiting massively from fossil fuels,and for funsies, on whose behalf the British government asked the CIA to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran, and install the exiled Shah, who was much more business friendly.

So they pay clever people to try to refrain climate change as "if only you did some things, it'd go away, it's your fault, all of you."

Pay no attention to the corporation behind the curtain.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-06-10 06:34:29+00:00
Depends on the business case. LLM slowly creep into several workflows and here determinism becomes more important than the latest abilities in reasoning.

People start to let their LLM parse text content. Be that mails, chats or transcriptions, the models often need to formalize their output and switching models can become burdensome, while developers might switch models on a whim.

Doesn't mean you can capture a market by selling cheap though.
by mrj | 2025-06-10 06:34:31+00:00
Yeah. So.. a big chunk of the Marine Corps are hard-right Trump supporters but not nearly all. The Marines are different in that the leadership is steeped in the history and tradition of the Corps from the start of bootcamp. They will know they can be punished for following illegal orders, and they will already know about the last time Marines were called into LA.

In the end, it will come down to SNCOs and NCOs to make the decision because the Marines try to push down "battlefield" decisions to as close to the action as possible. Of any service, I expect your average Marine to be able to make independent decisions in the moment. That may or may not be a good thing.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-10 06:34:46+00:00
> George Bush called up the National Guard and the Marines in 1992 for the Rodney King riots.

Governor Wilson called up the National Guard, actually; subsequently, at Governor Wilson's request, and coordinating planning with both the Governor and Mayor Bradley of LA, President Bush invoked the Insurrection Act, federalized the Guard, and called up the Marines, and deployed the federal and federalized forces (including, also, federal law enforcement) in close cooperation and coordination with state and local law enforcement to restore order.

That is very different from the situation presently.
by tstrimple | 2025-06-10 06:35:05+00:00
Never mind help you out when you were old. Children were often put to work both inside and outside the houses at young ages. I'm sure plenty of parents with 10 children saw an ROI on them based off of their work. At some point the older children literally raise the younger children. Cram them all into one room... you get efficiencies of scale.
by stevoski | 2025-06-10 06:35:52+00:00
Your product is similar to one I own. I checked out your website. It’s good.

Unsolicited advice: you gotta charge more for this product. A lot more.

We charge up to $250/month or $3000/year. Some customers (companies you’ve most likely heard of) pay that, yearly in advance and have done for several years.
by refurb | 2025-06-10 06:36:41+00:00
I agree. When Fauci made comments about “get vaccinated and it’s unlikely you’ll transmit Covid” when the trials never tested viral transmission (1) was shameful.

Once it turned out not to be true public trust was seriously eroded.

(1) https://abc3340.com/news/local/those-fully-vaccinated-very-u...
by idk1 | 2025-06-10 06:37:24+00:00
There is, they outline it in this video. It looks like there are three ways to turn it off: high contrast, reduced motion, and frostier glass. So it looks like there's just a way to have a full basic icon with just the icon and the outline and a white background.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/219/