MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benator | 2025-06-10 11:14:39+00:00
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by Gravityloss | 2025-06-10 11:14:53+00:00
One theory about developing countries was that if oil is found, it's naturally easier for a dictator to control, since it's a concentrated source of revenue. Just a small amount of mercenaries is enough. So there will be a series of dictators.

If there's no concentrated source of revenue, the people need to be involved and thus a more democratic path is likely.

With the internet and software, especially with platforms, you see this concentration of power effect. That then easily leads to certain kind of power dynamics. Ie just as a hypothetical example, if there's only a few closed conversation platforms, government can control them relatively easily.
by goosedragons | 2025-06-10 11:14:55+00:00
Until you use the command line and realize Apple is still shipping some crusty ancient GPL2 version of a tool from 2006.*

I found Apple's aggressive change as a user also frustrating. I don't WANT to constantly be rebuying apps and hunting down alternatives to abandoned programs to keep doing what I was doing yesterday.

*Yes, I know why. I don't care.
by motbus3 | 2025-06-10 11:14:56+00:00
I have mixed feelings about this situation. I have committed myself to learning how to use it as effectively as possible and to utilising it extensively for at least one month. Through my company, I have access to multiple products, so I am trying them all.

I can say that I am more productive in terms of the number of lines written. However, I cannot claim to be more productive overall.

For every task it completes, it often performs some inexplicable actions that undo or disrupt other elements, sometimes unrelated ones. The tests it generates initially appear impressive, but upon examining other metrics, such as coverage, it becomes evident that its performance is lacking. The amount of time required to guide it to the correct outcome makes it feel as though I am taking many steps backwards before making any significant progress forward—and not in a beneficial way. On one occasion, it added 50,000 unnecessary import lines into a module that it should not have been altering.

On another occasion, one of the agents completely dismantled the object-oriented programming hierarchy, opting instead to use if/else statements throughout, despite the rules I had set.

The issue is that you can never be certain of its performance. Sometimes, for the same task, it operates flawlessly, while at other times, it either breaks everything or behaves unpredictably.

I have tried various techniques to specify what needs to be done and how to accomplish it, yet often, for similar tasks, its behaviour varies so significantly between runs that I find myself needing to review every change it makes each time. Frustratingly, even if the code is nearly correct and you request an update to just one part, it may still behave erratically.

My experience thus far suggests that it is quite effective for small support tools, but when dealing with a medium-sized codebase, one cannot expect it to function reliably every time.
by grafmax | 2025-06-10 11:14:58+00:00
These are merely correlational studies. Religion often makes people’s lives worse as well: sexual repression, homophobia, religious intolerance, fear of eternal damnation, misplaced guilt/shame, hours wasted on prayer/services/rituals, sheltered upbringings..

I think the underlying issue is whether a person views the objective appraisal of reality as a positive thing or not. For someone who doesn’t, self-deception may seem the better choice.
by rbultje | 2025-06-10 11:16:00+00:00
It didn't become law (no 60 votes in senate), after Schumer sat on it for 6 (!) months. And there were earlier attempts to fix this, for example at the end of 2022 using budget/reconciliation - like what the Reps are doing here; but that was blocked by progressives because of "bad optics".
by rickdeckard | 2025-06-10 11:16:55+00:00
> This data is clear: Tesla is facing a demand collapse in China. The company sat on its lead for too long and bet everything on autonomous driving.

IMO the majority of Teslas lead was based on introducing the "just ship" SW-Dev methodology in the "don't rush anything" car-dev industry.

They were never the best in "just ship", and particularly weak due to their lack of general experience in mass-production (and their general hubris that everything done so far must be wrong).

Most western startups adopting the same style were struggling to secure enough cash to really ramp-up the competition, legacy car-vendors were too slow to move from a cautious quality-first methology to a similar "just ship" style.

But Tesla was always vulnerable for another (external) player to enter the space with a more-aggressive "just ship" mentality, but based on strong mass-production experience.

Now they are facing exactly that competition from China, but most of all IN China, from local suppliers...
by emadda | 2025-06-10 11:17:39+00:00
> The thing macOS really painfully lacks is not ergonomic ways to run Linux VMs, but actual, native containers-- macOS containers

Linux container processes run on the host kernel with extra sandboxing. The container image is an easily sharable and runnable bundle.

macOS .app bundles are kind of like container images.

You can sign them to ensure they are not modified, and put them into the “registry” (App Store).

The Swift ABI ensures it will likely run against future macOS versions, like the Linux system APIs.

There is a sandbox system to restrict file and network access. Any started processes inherit the sandbox, like containers.

One thing missing is fine grained network rules though - I think the sandbox can just define “allow outbound/inbound”.

Obviously “.app”s are not exactly like container images , but they do cover many of the same features.
by jorams | 2025-06-10 11:18:00+00:00
That article, and its many versions in other outlets, is a weird (successful) attempt at changing the narrative. The news that triggered all of it was that Microsoft cut off the ICC chief prosecutor's access to his email. Microsoft comes out saying "we did not cut services to the ICC, just its chief prosecutor". The media widely announces "Microsoft did not cut services to the ICC". That's not news, that's just marketing for Microsoft.

The original news, and the claims by Tuta, are still correct: Microsoft cut off the ICC chief prosecutor's access to his email due to US sanctions.
by sneak | 2025-06-10 11:18:11+00:00
I’m very sad that Apple lost their main “no” guy.

It doesn’t seem like they have anyone who can say “we’re not shipping/announcing that” with ultimate authority.

The AVP never should have shipped in its current state. Then there was/is the Siri 2/AI debacle. Now macOS, too.

This is to say nothing of the butterfly keyboard.
by p_l | 2025-06-10 11:19:28+00:00
> Sola scriptura was primarily a rejection of all Catholic theology outside of the Bible.

From my understanding, at the time, there was no real segregation of "theology" and "description of reality" - and there was considerable conflict over catholics "permitting" different description than ones in Genesis because such a thing was seen as turning away from the perfect word of God, or something like that.

Don't want to bog down in pointless (because I don't know everything nor do I actually want to do religious advocacy :D) catholic vs protestant stuff, but over time I did find out that a lot of "big bad inquisition" and "anti-science church" was propaganda or mixing different groups together. There's quite a lot of difference with how modern groups are, and even there you have non-trivial sectarian .... locally (sorry, old polish in-joke about how our local area catholic church operates)
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-10 11:20:42+00:00
Yep, i'm pretty sure every kind of patient, from a cancer patient to someone with an ingrown toenail has googled their condition, looked for alternatives (especially if the proposed treatment was subjectively bad for the patient, even if it was objectively good).

People tend to skip the googling and verification process only if the problem is something simple or if the treatment is simple... eg. broken outlet, for legal reasons can't replace yoursefl, call contractor, outlet replaced... or in case of doctors, fever, infection, blood test, it's bacterial, antibiotics, two pills per day for 10 days, done.
by wegfawefgawefg | 2025-06-10 11:20:50+00:00
not false dilema. i only argued against his position by showing that his assertion, even in the extreme worst case such as somebody broadcasting "kill ur bb" would not result in everybody killing ther bb. therefore somebody broadcasting "get rid of browns" does not therefore mean that listeners are brainless zombies who do what they are told will go get rid of browns.

the broadcaster doesnt control my body. i can listen to a broadcast, respect the persons right to assert that we should "get rid of browns", and then simply disagree and think that person is at best ignorant and at worst evil. my capacity to do so is a fundamental requirement for humans to be sentient and participate in a democracy.

if listeners really are the brainless zombies some of the people here advocate for 'protecting' weve got a bigger problem.

if someone broadcasts "kill ur bb" then we should punish those went and killed a bb. the broadcaster has not damaged property or person.

my freedom of speech, whether serious or satire, should not be limited just because there are evil people in the world.
by gcau | 2025-06-10 11:20:51+00:00
If you're just eating a burger, you're not personally slaughtering the cow. Secondly, the relationship of humans and dogs is far different than humans and cows, dogs have evolved alongside us as companions, and cows are food.

If you had to choose between a family member dying or a totally random person dying, even though objectively they're both just humans, you're going to kill the random person, because you have feelings and emotions, and they are part of the equation. For the same reason you'd kill the random person, people would kill the cow, and want to save the dog.
by reaperducer | 2025-06-10 11:21:17+00:00
My wife has a 2015 MacBook that she uses for occasional email and web surfing. It's somewhat slow to startup, but once it's going, it's fine for most ordinary tasks.

Like billions of other people, her phone is her computer. But she occasionally runs into a web site for work, or from a government agency, that requires a real computer.
by chii | 2025-06-10 11:21:19+00:00
goals imply that achieving the goal will give you the success that the goal is meant to be a proxy of. That's why people go high into debt to obtain that degree - it's a goal, and the proxy for successful job/career. And yet, it seems to not be the case when they discover that this degree isnt the the golden ticket.

it's true that goals in games work - because it was designed to work that way. People setting goals in real life like they might be in a game (such as obtaining some sort of achievement, beating a "level" like passing school etc) might find that these goals don't actually reward them unless they're after intrinsic rewards.
by forinti | 2025-06-10 11:21:27+00:00
There is currently a very strong reason to migrate to Open Source: the big tech corps are pushing people into their clouds and this leads to new constraints on your planning because now you are subject to the software company's product lifecycle.

So, if before you could run your old version of Oracle or whatever for as long as you wanted (if you could live without the support), now you have no choice. When the support for a product is dropped on the cloud, you have to upgrade whether you are ready for it or not.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-10 11:21:29+00:00
I always find it difficult to understand how the press sometimes misunderstands cause and effect. While this military intervention is being implemented now, it's not like there weren't protests before, or in other cities (including Trump's native New York).

What happened immediately before Trump started sending in armed groups to the streets of Los Angeles was Trump getting credibly accused by Elon Musk of associating with Jeffrey Epstein.

So the correct title here is "Marines deployed to LA in response to Trump's association with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein being widely discussed on Twitter".

This allows people to correctly infer cause and effect, and most importantly, intent.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-06-10 11:22:09+00:00
> What we, the humanity, need, is a free-as-in-freedom open source set of web applications that work like Google Docs / Spreadsheets / Slides, but can be self-hosted and would natively use OpenDocument file format.

There's an effort called numerique, out of fr and de governments. It seems to have docs, spreadsheet and meet now, and more on the way.

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-10 11:22:52+00:00
You're mixing things up:

What's desirable is not population expansion but neither is population collapse, it's population stability.

This also has nothing to do with Capitalism being built for perpetual growth: of course it is deemed to fail at some point in a finite world, but that's irrelevant to the topic of demography. If anything, the system will see the population decline as an opportunity, as it means fewer people to share the resources with.
by maaaaattttt | 2025-06-10 11:23:08+00:00
The Fountainhead has many flaws (IMO) but a scene I remember very well that I recall often, is the one where Peter Keating finally reaches the top of the firm, sits in his office, and starts crying. To me, and I guess to the author, it represents this aspect of having externally defined goals (as opposed to personnaly/intrinsic defined) and how unfulfilled you feel if/when you achieve them.

People (me included) often get confused and think that their goal of climbing the career ladder or being able to afford the nice <anything> is goal set by themselves only, when in fact it is a goal most likely induced by society and/or to reach a given social status. If you pause for a second and think honestly about your current goals you can probably identify the ones that are truly yours and the ones that are expected by society.

In the book "The subtle art of not giving a fuck" there is in addition to that the notion of open ended goals as a rule of thumb of good goals to have. And this to me is probably the equivalent of "constraints" in this essay. Make sure the goals you follow are set by you and not expectations of society and try to make and formulate them as open ended goals.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-10 11:23:36+00:00
Mozilla and Elon Musk are learning the hard lesson. Elon will weather this storm; he's well beyond cancelling.

Mozilla's marketshare has rather dwindled and i dont see them recovering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeikdFrx78k

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/platforms-pro...

Mozilla is doubling down on their mistake.
by Iulioh | 2025-06-10 11:24:41+00:00
Man, I hate how excel behave a lot of times but I thank God everyday that it exists.

On the backend while writing macros you discover a lot of...interesting choices

Like how sometimes my macros failed because it does not interface with the regional formatting of the system (had to take 0.34 and convert it to 0,34 by converting it to string). The reverse is not necessary.

How value and value2 exists as property of a cell (I will bet whatever you want that it was a temporary name) and how the "value" behavior is dogshit.

How stuff is hyper advanced but stuff that SHOULD work does not....

It's an interesting look at it.
by nabla9 | 2025-06-10 11:25:24+00:00
>Although a value-added tax (VAT) taxes goods and services at every stage of production and sale, the net economic burden is like that of a retail sales tax

1. all goods and services taxation is regressive.

2. VAT is better than alternative goods and services taxation methods.

Argument for removing goods and services taxation is one thing.

Argument for compensating good and services taxation to the poorest (as is common) is another.

None of these are arguments against VAT itself. VAT is harder to avoid and brings more money and allows lower tax rate all things considered.

In the source you provided look up the:

>Why is the VAT administratively superior to a retail sales tax?
by leereeves | 2025-06-10 11:25:33+00:00
That's from June 7th, before the deployment of Marines. It only justifies the federalization of the National Guard, but as far as that goes, it appears to be a very reasonable interpretation of the law:

Whenever...the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States; the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to ... execute those laws.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12406
Social startups focused on real world connection always fail – AI fixes that
by tuvenscom | 2025-06-10 11:25:38+00:00
The Cold Start Problem in Event Discovery

Thousands of "meetup alternative" and "travel planner" and "meet people who share your interests" startups have failed due to the cold start problem. Unlike geo-mapping with Open Street Map, there's no open event dataset for the real world. Generative AI now makes this possible by parsing unstructured event data from various sources and formats.

Events are scattered across platforms, and manual curation is impractical. Companies like Songkick and IRL.com have burned through billions attempting to solve event discovery, facing consistent challenges:

1. Cold Start Problem: New platforms can't attract organizers and attendees without critical mass 2. Data Silos: Proprietary datasets prevent comprehensive coverage 3. Curation Overhead: Manual curation doesn't scale 4. Network Effects Favor Incumbents: Users go where events already exist

ActivityPub has failed to penetrate because organizers post where their audience is. Event organizers want an open dataset where any social app can tap into based on relevance filters.

Why Previous Attempts Failed

The critical limitation was always the extraction bottleneck:

Technical Barriers: - Unstructured Data: Most event information exists in formats traditional software can't parse - Format Diversity: Dates written in various formats or embedded in images - Visual Information: Details in posters and images that OCR couldn't extract - Context Dependency: Understanding phrases like "doors at 7, show at 8" requires contextual reasoning

Compounding Problems: - Temporal Complexity: Events have complex lifecycles requiring real-time updates - Verification Challenges: Event details change frequently - Commercial Conflicts: Event data enables revenue, creating incentives against sharing - Quality Control: Platforms must handle spam and rapidly-changing details at scale

- The paradigm shift: LLMs eliminate the extraction bottleneck, making comprehensive event discovery economically viable.

The AI-First Opportunity

LLMs and generative AI enable:

- Automated Data Extraction: AI can process any format and extract structured event data with human-level accuracy - Contextual Understanding: LLMs comprehend contextual references and can match locations to maps - Quality Assessment: AI can evaluate legitimacy and consistency of event information - Multilingual Adaptability: Modern LLMs handle international formats without custom programming - Cost Effectiveness: Processing costs fractions of a penny per event

Core Architecture

A federated network of AI-powered nodes that:

1. Discovers events through AI scouts monitoring web sources 2. Curates data through automated extraction with human verification 3. Shares information between nodes through token-based exchanges 4. Maintains quality through distributed reputation systems

This could reshape how people find real-world activities, reduce screen addiction, and solve many downstream negative effects of our current social media paradigm.
Ask HN: What's the State of Linux Laptops?
by bovermyer | 2025-06-10 11:26:16+00:00
With MacOS Tahoe being the last iteration for Intel Macs, I find myself at an inflection point. I can either replace my 2019 Macbook Pro with a Mac, or I can switch to Linux.

However, it has been many years since I paid attention to Linux on laptops. How do things stand there now? What are the best options for developers?
by landosaari | 2025-06-10 11:26:28+00:00
In South Korea pet strollers outsold child ones [0].

DINKWAD (Dual income, no kids, with a dog) is rising [1]. Hospitality is changing to accommodate this [2].

[0] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/trends/20231226/sales...

[1] https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/dinkwad-meaning-origin-u...

[2] https://rochsociety.com/rise-of-the-dinkwads/
by dgrin91 | 2025-06-10 11:27:33+00:00
If you can get a discussion going with the maintainer, which is not a guarantee (cant speak to libre maintainers, but I know other projects like this), then you have to convince them that your change is both valuable and reasonable for them to maintain. The latter part there is key - they are _maintain_ers. You write the code once and then run off. If you write some new UI in some fancy framework then they have to live with it forever and learn a new framework to support it. Its a big cost for them, so on smaller projects maintainers can get defensive/grumpy
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-10 11:27:37+00:00
Yes, and not only for electricity and the cloud. Also for 5G networks:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/

Bert Hubert is good at identifying problems like this, but his proposed approach is always to demand the EU pass new laws even when the problem is Europeans asking people in foreign jurisdictions to run everything for them because they can do it better, partly due to not being under EU control. The cause of the problem is presented as the solution.

The internet has a compressive effect on markets. Most markets can only sustain about 3-5 competitors before the number of choices becomes overwhelming and customers can no longer easily differentiate between them. If you offer your services over the internet, that means 3-5 competitors globally, and in turn that means hacking one of them can give you control over a huge chunk of the market. It also means it's easy to end up with all of those competitors being outside your jurisdiction if you aren't highly competitive.
by theshrike79 | 2025-06-10 11:28:02+00:00
The trick is to have rules specific to the project and your programming style & preferences.

Think of the AI like an outsourced consultant who will never say no. It'll always do everything it can to solve the problem you've given it. If it doesn't know how, it'll write a thousand lines when a single additional dependency and 2 lines of code would've done it.