MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matthewtse | 2025-06-10 14:49:39+00:00
Amazing blog post.

I'm new to entrepreneurship and just signed my first few corporate legal agreements. I was also deeply aware that anything agreed to was basically a gentleman's agreement--it wouldn't be worth either party going to litigation over, and even less so if the other party was internationally based.

So I've been following the "no-assholes" policy as well.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-10 14:49:49+00:00
I hope so. Leaving the question of air quality aside, fireworks are a torture upon wildlife. Every year in Germany, about a thousand dogs and cats are lost around NYE because they are scared off by fireworks [1], to say nothing about actual wildlife like birds, rabbits or other animals you'll find around every city that is traumatized or directly killed from the stress. The trash load is insane as well, it's hundreds of cubic meters [5] worth of trash that major cities have to dispose of on the taxpayers' dime because people can't be arsed to pick up and dispose of their ordnance after themselves.

And on top of that, you get the insane caseload for medical staff in the weeks before, during and after from all the dumb drunk fucks thinking it's wise to handle fireworks while being drunk out of their mind - 2024 we got five dead [2] across Germany and hundreds of injured in Berlin alone [3], we even got an "influencer" shooting a rocket into a home for social media clout [4].

IMHO: The sooner fireworks go off and die, the better. The problem is, it's a certainty that the usual far-right crowd will drag this issue into their culture war allegations bullshit, just as they did with electric cars, renewable power or smoking bans...

[1] https://www.derhund.de/fast-500-hunde-um-den-jahreswechsel-e...

[2] https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/jahreswechsel-...

[3] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/01/silvester-berl...

[4] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/berlin-raketenschuss-...

[5] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024/12/berlin-silvest...
by jjude | 2025-06-10 14:50:29+00:00
> I think values, goals, and constraints are all valuable, but it's a hierarchy. We should create constraints that help us become more aligned with our values.

Thank you for saying it so well.

I have found difficulty in finding my values. Writing my obituary helped: https://www.jjude.com/my-obituary/. I wrote that almost 16 years back (published only in 2020). It helped me choose my pursuits well.

I don't live in the biggest house in town, or own a sports car. But I work for 3 days a week, homeschool two kids, have breakfast and dinner together as a family, we either workout at home or swim as a family, preach in two churches, and enjoy my work. I consistently feel, I am living in a dream.
by nozzlegear | 2025-06-10 14:50:40+00:00
> It's kind of weird how politically charged dog ownership has become seemingly out of nowhere.

I've noticed this too. I try not to use Reddit very much, if at all, but when I do this sentiment is one that sticks out now. It's not everywhere, but you can certainly find an undercurrent of anti-dog, "downfall of western civilization," "Children of Men was so prescient" sentiment in the comments of some posts featuring dogs that make it to r/all.

There were many factors that went into my wife and I deciding not to have kids, but dogs being a replacement for children was not one of them. We made that decision years before we got our first dog.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-06-10 14:50:51+00:00
When there's a lot of chaos in society, it's useful that your faction has the most guns.

Lefties go "constitution is outdated, you can't beat tanks with rifles, therefore having guns is useless". Reality isn't that black and white tho. If your faction has the most guns you might not even have to use them.
by 5mv2 | 2025-06-10 14:50:55+00:00
The featured accuracy benchmarks exclude every model that matter except DeepSeek, which is quite telling about this new model's performance.

This makes it yet another example of European companies building great products but fumbling marketing.

Mistral's edge is speed. It's a real pleasure to use because it answers in ~1s what takes other models 5-8s, which makes for a much better experience. But instead of focusing on it, they bury it far down the post.

Try it and see if you like the speed! Note that the speed advantage only applies to queries that don't require web-search, as Mistral is significantly slower on this one, leading to a ~5 seconds advantage over 2 minutes of research for the queries I benchmarked with Grok.
by nyrikki | 2025-06-10 14:52:00+00:00
Jails were explicitly designed for security, cgroups were more generalized as more about resource control, and leverages namespaces, capabilities, apparmor/SELinux to accomplish what they do.

> Jails create a safe environment independent from the rest of the system. Processes created in this environment cannot access files or resources outside of it.[1]

While you can accomplish similar tasks, they are not equivalent.

Assume Linux containers are jails, and you will have security problems. And on the flip side, k8s pods share UTM,IPC, Network namespaces, yet have independent PID and FS namespaces.

Depending on your use case they may be roughly equivalent, but they are fundamentally different approaches.

[1] https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/intr...
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-10 14:52:10+00:00
I feel like I need a button on HN for, as another commenter put it, "folksy wisdom porn", where an article superficially touches all the right buttons to get it to the front page (hey, I always fail to reach my goals, I need a new framework!), but is just anecdotes and shows the results of the author's own Rorschach test.

The section on NASA made absolutely no sense to me:

> NASA had a fixed budget, fixed timeline, and a goal that bordered on the absurd: land a man on the moon before the decade was out. But what made it possible wasn’t the moonshot goal. It was the sheer range of constraints: weight, heat, vacuum, radio delay, computation. Each constraint forced creative workarounds. Slide rules and paper simulations gave us one of the most improbable technological feats in history.

Wut? The constraints are what made it a hard problem, but the only reason they were able to hit this goal in an impossibly short timeline is the huge amount of resources that they put toward a very clear goal (which was, honestly, less "let man explore the heavens" than "beat the Soviets").
Show HN: Typeconomy, a clicker game where you type
by nathan5471 | 2025-06-10 14:52:20+00:00
Hey everyone, I have recently started learning React, so I decided to making a typing game. It is basically just a clicker game, but instead of clicking you are typing words. I am still working on making it better, so if you get a chance to check out the Github (and give it a star) and give me any feedback, it would mean a lot. If you have any feature ideas, feel free to send them and I can work on adding them. You can play it at https://typeconomy.vercel.app/
by api | 2025-06-10 14:52:30+00:00
Yes, those are the proper terms.

Nietzsche was weird. He was not an idealist but he posited this transcendent idea of "will" which is basically New Thought. But I'm not an expert on Nietzsche so maybe there is more nuance here.

There is a kernel of truth to New Thought and its kindred ideas -- if you believe in your future success, you are less likely to become discouraged. In many cases success is claimed by those who are willing to fail over, and over, and over, and over again until they succeed. But that's a brain hack, not metaphysics. Your thoughts have determined your behavior, which has increased your odds of success, which can then be retroactively interpreted as magic if you are so inclined.

As far as hand waving it away -- I think the burden of proof is on those who claim such an extraordinary thing as "our thoughts determine reality." I want to see someone actually bend a spoon without touching it. Then we'll talk.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-10 14:53:36+00:00
Europe isn't going to catch up in tech as long as its market is open to US tech giants. Tech doesn't have marginal costs, so you want to have one of it in one place and sell it everywhere and when the infra and talent is already in US, EU tech is destined to do niche products.

UK has a bit of it, France has some and that's it. The only viable alternatives are countries who have issues with US and that is China and Russia. China have come up with strong competitors and it is on cutting edge.

Also, it doesn't have anything to do with regulations. 50 US States have the American regulations, its all happening in 1 and some other states happen to host some infrastructure but that's true for rest of of the world too.

If the EU/US relationship gets to Trump/Musk level, then EU can have the cutting edge stuff.

Most influential AI researchers are from Europe(inc. UK), Israel and Canada anyway. Ilya Sutskever just the other day gave speech at his alma matter @Canada for example. Andrej Karpathy is Slovakian. Lot's of Brits, French, Polish, Chinese, German etc. are among the pioneers. Significant portion of the talent is non-American already, they just need a reason to be somewhere else than US to have it outside the US. Chinese got their reason and with the state of the affairs in the world I wouldn't be surprised if Europeans gets theirs in less than 3 and a half years.
by idle_zealot | 2025-06-10 14:53:48+00:00
I'm generally not a fan of the new design. I prefer my interface to be functional, consistent, and get out of my way rather than be flashy or attention-grabbing.

That said, I do greatly appreciate how the new guidelines and redesigned UIs make interactive buttons actually look like buttons. Each tappable element is visually distinct and represented in a consistent way. I just wish that Apple didn't insist on moving/hiding buttons in response to unrelated actions (ie WHY do I lose my action buttons when I scroll down, and why do they poof into existence when I scroll up? Why can I search on the root page of Settings but not on any subpage? Why does tapping a button that reveals a submenu hide that button?) Just stop moving things around, please.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-10 14:53:55+00:00
I agree Apple is behind on AI, it's still up in the air if they "missed" AI yet (like MS missed mobile). I hope they are able to compete in the long run.

The Foundation models/SDK/APIs are a big step in the right direction but they are coming 6-12 months behind everyone else. AI is an area that it's not at all clear if "slow and steady wins the race" (Apple's normal MO). If there is a paradigm shift in how we interact with our phones using LLMs then Apple is going to get left behind as thing currently stand.

It's also damning that Sky [0] didn't come out of Apple. More damning is that the majority of the team behind Sky _DID_ come from Apple (and Workflow, aka Shortcuts) before that. Why did this team feel they had to leave Apple to create something like Sky? Maybe it's a ploy to get acquired again but I think that Apple just isn't good at LLM-based products because of the uncertainty. Apple wants to avoid the "glue on pizza" or "stop taking your meds" moment but it's causing them to miss the boat completely.

LLMs are far from perfect, they lie/hallucinate or just lose the plot. That said, there are some really valuable things you can do with them. Historically Apple has been unwilling to accept the downsides and would rather wait to ship but with LLMs I don't think they are going to ever get a "no downsides" approach to work.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/28/sky-ai-mac-app/
by alxfoster | 2025-06-10 14:54:12+00:00
Lets separate headlines from reality here: Yes this is an unnecessary provocation with loads of emotionally charged elements (and federalizing California's National Guard in this context is certainly concerning for multiple reasons -considering the scale of the protests and violence ) BUT there is no sign that Active Duty military personnel are being deployed to engage civilians (yet).

It would seem most likely that the Marines were called strictly to protect federal buildings, facilities and agents. The problem I see is the latter category. I am personally fine with National Guard being used to protect people and infrastructure when appropriate and when confined to federal facilities, and I'm even fine with the use of military to protect federal facilities... however, the second active duty military engages civilians 'on the streets' we have martial law and that's a whole new can o worms with explosive possibilities for escalation.
by daemonologist | 2025-06-10 14:54:16+00:00
I'd imagine 4th of July is unlikely to shift to majority drones (at least in the near term) due to the economics of it - there are a lot of fireworks shows all concentrated on one evening, and the corresponding number of drone fleets would be sitting mostly idle for the rest of the year. (And I agree that Americans like explosives and would definitely object if you took them away.)

If the price of the drones comes down further, or fireworks become more regulated, then maybe.
by bitpush | 2025-06-10 14:54:30+00:00
> First, hand-crafted UI overhauls are the polar opposite of the probabilistic world of generative AI. One is about deep consideration and iteration resulting in a finished product; the other is about in-the-moment token prediction resulting in an output that is ephemeral and disposable

The screen grabs I have seen of Liquid Glass shows poor accessibility even in first party apps. It seems like apple didn't even do bare minimum due diligence.
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-10 14:54:42+00:00
The problem is that corporations pushed for Tort law as a mechanism for protecting the public from harm rather than regulations “if we do something wrong, we will get sued and lose money and that will motivate us to not do harm”. So it means that there is much less proactive harm reduction by regulators (compared to many other first world countries) as well as much less regulators can do if a complaint is made.

The second issue is our lack of universal, affordable healthcare (and other basic safety nets). If you are injured and don’t want to go bankrupt, you have to sue to pay for your treatment, loss of income, etc.

The result is that we have lawsuits constantly all the time for everything. Not only does it clog up the courts, but it also helps the powerful to outspend “the little guy” to avoid accountability. Fighting a government regulatory body with actual powers and authorities is much harder to outspend/outlast than some random person one lawyer working on contingency.

And that doesn’t even get into how corporations have been pushing “tort reform” to neuter how much they can be sued for, therefore the amount they can be punished for wrongdoing. As well as their decades long propaganda campaign to paint tort lawsuits as frivolous, baseless, shameless cash grabs by greedy people attacking the poor helpless business.
by hagbard_c | 2025-06-10 14:54:57+00:00
In a few years we'll be able to enjoy the spectacle of the drone-firework wars when drone show operators see their widgets under attack from fireworks aficionados. See that 'copter there, seems to be the guide drone for the flock around it. Take it out with a barrage of rockets, sayonara! Oh shit, there's a drone watching us over there, move before it calls in reinforcements!
by sixo | 2025-06-10 14:55:11+00:00
"Midwit" must be new to you, but in fact it has a particular meaning and sense in internet parlance. A midwit is a person who believes themselves to have transcended the dimwitted, when in actuality the dimwit is in better agreement with a genius/the very-well-informed.

Here: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit
by giantg2 | 2025-06-10 14:55:59+00:00
Overall, this seems like a good take. However, I've never really seen this:

"When you tell lawyers “what do you think we should do,” they’re going to give you the “best representation” they can—because that’s what they’re incentivized to do. This means ticking every box, being as thorough as humanly possible, and taking everything the other side throws at them as seriously as possible."

My experience with smaller matters seems to be that they don't give it much attention because it's not worth their time. I think the author's take only applies above the small claims level.
by tacostakohashi | 2025-06-10 14:56:14+00:00
Maybe... what I have cobbled together / used myself for years:

* an XML file with all of my contact information, job history, skills, etc.

* a template/build system that can build PDF / html / MS word versions from that.

* the build system understands "profiles" and builds custom variations of the content for every profile.

For example, maybe I am looking for jobs in a few different locations / industries, my XML has phone numbers/addresses for, say, USA and Australia and Singapore, and I have some "business" jobs I leave off if I'm apply for a pure development role, and some low-level skills I'd leave off for a team lead role, etc.

In my case, it's just XML + XSLT + wkhtmltopdf + Make which does the job, but someone could do a much nicer job.
by toast0 | 2025-06-10 14:56:23+00:00
Public health policy for Americans that doesn't take into account the special characteristics of Americans is a mistake. It doesn't matter if the chosen policy would be the correct policy anywhere else.

When you come out of the gate with masks aren't effective, just was your hands, then go to masks are mandatory, Americans are going to be upset because you're making them do something that you just told them not to do. They're also going to distrust future recommendations. When a new mandate comes through, they're going to be less likely to comply and more likely to make a big fuss.

Combine that with less than effective outreach on reasonable expectations of the vaccine in terms of reduction of illness and immune response to the injection, and it's a recipie for mistrust.

And since many of the mandates were found unenforcable, it weakens the potential power of future mandates, should there be a need.
Think-center findings – patterns in human-LLM collaborative cognition
by achamian | 2025-06-10 14:56:47+00:00
I've been experimenting with structured multi-perspective thinking through LLMs. Instead of optimizing prompts, I let patterns emerge naturally. The same cognitive structures appeared across different models (Claude, GPT, Gemini) and users.

Repository includes observations, tentative hypotheses, and a ~380 line implementation that reproduces the full pattern.

Not claiming consciousness or AGI - just documenting reproducible patterns that might interest those working on tool-mediated thinking, cognitive architectures, or human-AI collaboration.
by memco | 2025-06-10 14:57:27+00:00
I think the article kind of tramples on its own point by showing a very long history of the changes to the Finder’s icon over the years, but I think what it’s trying to say is that it has been mostly unchanged for many years so it shouldn’t change now. It now has a gray box all the way around instead of two blue faces that go all the way to the edge. However, it simultaneously showed that it has been redesigned several times to match the aesthetic of the OS and while this is a larger change than most is still within the same design space.
by vel0city | 2025-06-10 14:58:17+00:00
This does nothing to change the facts of my statement.

And even then, we could choose to do something about that. We could do more to help people settle all across the US and be well supported to succeed. But we don't. So instead, we have people crowd the areas where we turn a blind eye to hiring illegal labor and have the social impacts concentrated there and then refuse to actually do anything to help those social costs.

But these are all things we choose to do. We could choose to do something else.
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-10 14:58:31+00:00
Everyone sees what they want to see.

Some see a Mexican invasion as the protesters are carrying flags of Mexico. Not sure why they’d expect that to garner support.

Some see violence against police / military

Some see poor people being abused by people in power.

Some see violence against powerless people

Some see actors staging fake protests (see thread for proof that some people see this)

Some see political posturing
by surajrmal | 2025-06-10 14:58:38+00:00
syscalls are just a fraction of the surface area. There are many files in many different vfs you need to implement, things like selinux and ebpf, iouring, etc. It's also a constantly shifting target. The VM API is much simpler, relatively stable, and already implemented.

Emulating Linux only makes sense on devices with constrained resources.
by msgodel | 2025-06-10 14:58:48+00:00
The problem with Apple's platforms is they can't choose to wait until they have it right like they did with IE vs Safari. The walled garden means their approach is the only one available to users.

If the mac worked the way the iPhone does the mac just wouldn't have a browser until after the .com boom was over. That's why I'm shorting them. Their inability to give people an escape hatch so their users can actually do useful things with what they build is killing their platforms.
by jerf | 2025-06-10 14:59:00+00:00
Nifty and fun.

I would say, however, given the staggering space of possible ROMs, it's not particularly cheating to change from using the acceptance criteria to judge random ROMs, to using the acceptance criteria in the generation phase. It's fine to do things like generate random opcodes instead of purely random numbers for the first 1KB, for instance.

It's really just an optimization of what you're already doing; it's equivalent to randomly generating a lot of options then rejecting the ones that don't fit, except it goes much faster and produces a lot more output of interest instead of burning energy on things that are just going to be rejected anyhow.
by billfor | 2025-06-10 14:59:04+00:00
Johnson also called up the guard in '65, without the governor requesting. So is your issue state sovereignty? I say without bias. Just trying to understand the point. If Newsome asked Trump for the guard you would then be OK with it?

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5428352/johnson-nationa...
by freedomben | 2025-06-10 14:59:05+00:00
GP said they don't live in the US, it's possible English isn't even their first language. If they are a non-native speaker and just made a translation/wording mistake, you might feel like a pretty big asshole twisting that to call them a fascist (which word btw, is pretty overloaded and has become essentially meaningless to a large number of people).

It's also quite possible they mean "Americans" in a general sense in that the Marines are not being turned loose on the American public. They are being focused on the rioters specifically.

Obligatory self-declaration since you and many others will probably jump to conclusions about my opinion (as for whatever reason, we seem incapable of nuance even to the point of understanding that not everything in life is completely black or white), even though I've said nothing of it until now: I think Trump's actions are grotesque, authoritarian, and fascist, and it really pisses me off.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-10 14:59:36+00:00
You'd be looking for a dye that survives in the blood and urinary tract and imparts blue/green colors to the urine and that isn't reactive or toxic.

And generally speaking, when you are looking to treat something in a double-blind test, the control isn't placebo, it's the standard treatment.

It's a tricky enough problem that when double blind studies have been done, the control will generally simply have a lower dose of methylene blue rather than no dose.