MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-06-10 06:01:14+00:00
> you preserve your ideals by helping elect an autocrat from the other side

Harris was an authoritarian, but not an autocrat. People got sick of ever-growing bureaucratic authoritarianism, but made the mistake of thinking the problem was the bureaucracy rather than the authoritarianism. So now the bureaucracy has been smashed and we are left with autocratic authoritarianism.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 06:02:09+00:00
> One man was taken into custody for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at an officer and a motorcyclist was arrested for ramming a police skirmish line

So less violence towards law enforcement and insurrection than January 6th. Action the President endorsed in January by issuing pardons.

Honestly, if a Democrat were to match Trump's energy, they'd be promising pardons to protesters who damaged ICE property or torched a Trump property. They're not. In part because they're rudderless. But also because they're still gripped by the notion that we're not in the midst of a coup.
by onli | 2025-06-10 06:02:10+00:00
He does not have to care anymore. He realised he will not be prosecuted - the supreme court gave him king status after all, and all prosecution before failed to have consequences - so he can do whatever he wants. As you said, he checks if there is anyone who will stop him, which at this point would be an armed revolution or a coup d'État by the military.

The USA is a dictatorship now, the trump cult has won. Let's hope it crumbles fast.
by leptons | 2025-06-10 06:02:45+00:00
Every city in the US has illegal aliens, but how many ICE raids are making the news in places like St. Louis, or New Orleans, or Houston - no, they aren't sending ICE to red states like they are to California, they are focusing on Los Angeles for the purpose of fomenting unrest so they can enact martial law. That wouldn't be so cool for their supporters if red states had riots, but their supporters love seeing liberal California with a boot on its neck.
by wtcactus | 2025-06-10 06:03:05+00:00
Oh, so just like it happened during the Industrial Revolution, right? Where everyone was supposed to eventually go out of a job because machines would replace us…

I live in a country where we need unchecked immigration because “nationals don’t want to do the jobs they do” (never mind less than a 3rd of those immigrants are actually working). So, kind of hard to fit reality with your predictions when there’s clearly work to do (hard work for sure), but lot of people already prefer to live off the welfare state than to bother doing it.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-06-10 06:03:33+00:00
Most stacks now support some form of "plan" workflows. You'd want to first do this, and see if it improves your experience.

One workflow that works well for me, even with small local models, is to start a plan session with something like: "based on @file, and @docs and @examples, I'd like to _ in @path with the following requirements @module_requirements.md. Let's talk through this and make sure we have all the info before starting to code it."

Then go back and forth, make sure everything is mentioned, and when satisfied either put it into a .md file (so you can retry the coding flow later) or just say "ok do it", and go grab a cup of coffee or something.

You can also make this into a workflow with .rules files or .md files, have a snippets thing from your IDE drop this whenever you start a new task, and so on. The idea with all the advancements in LLMs is that they need lots of context if you want them to be anything other than what they were trained on. And you need to try different flows and see what works on your specific codebase. Something that works for projectA might not work for projectB ootb.
by shahabaz | 2025-06-10 06:03:56+00:00
I’ve been using Gistr, a tool my team and I are building. It helps me save links (articles, YouTube videos, etc.) and jot down key takeaways or generate AI summaries on top of them. Kind of a mix between bookmarking and active note-taking.

What I like most is that it makes the content I consume more “actionable” I can revisit important points easily or share the insights if needed. It’s still early, but it’s become part of my daily reading + research workflow.
by NalNezumi | 2025-06-10 06:04:36+00:00
>The Democratic politicians have painted themselves into a corner by trying to maintain far left support

>This is a deliberate strategy to put Newsom in an untenable position and paint him as an irredeemable liberal

What's fascinating with current US politics and media is how these two sentences can be constructed in same sentence in an attempt to come off as "see I'm smart and media literate, I can see the full picture!" while literally the first sentence of your comment shows that that's not the case.

The media repeating "Democrats are far left" long enough and it have penetrated your head. There's probably pandering to far left in democratic party I assume, but it have been magnified to a reality altering level by media so that's now believed as the core, while same thing happening on the far-right & Republican party.

Both side must be truly be thinking like you, I assume. "I see the full picture, I'm smart" while parroting a distortion only required to be repeated for years.

If everyone could put their phone down, touch some grass, take a road trip to the opposite political isle maybe this distortion could've been avoided.
by rock_artist | 2025-06-10 06:05:03+00:00
The interesting questions are:

- When will their toolset drop support for compiling for Intel / x86_64?

- When will they drop Rosetta2?

Compiling/delivering universal binaries is something that as a developer, especially for some markets, you’d like to keep. meaning we try to support older Macs as possible.

For Rosetta2, it might be less needed with all apps transitioned, but for developers using containers, it might be more important to have Intel based containers for a longer period.
by gamblor956 | 2025-06-10 06:05:12+00:00
I live there and very few of us are cheering the military. We get protests like this in LA all the time. TBH, these protests are nothing compared to what happens when the Lakers or Dodgers win a championship.

And the protestors aren't the problem; the problem are the looters using the protestors as cover. The looters mostly belong to the retail theft gangs that have been plaguing stores across the country (even in red states) since COVID.
by dlubarov | 2025-06-10 06:05:16+00:00
> The ICC specifically ordered Israel to introduce immediate measures to prevent genocide.

Can you quote the order you're referring to? That doesn't sound right, ICC would have no authority (under its own rules) to issue injunctive orders of that sort.

> Both the ICC and the ICJ came to the same conclusion ... that it is genocide.

ICJ made no such finding (so far) - the finding at this stage was that Palestinians had a "plausible right" to be protected from genocide, not that one is occurring.

This doesn't sound right for the ICC either, since it's at the pre-trial stage where they don't make such findings of fact.
by thephyber | 2025-06-10 06:05:26+00:00
> Why attribute to insanity that which could just as easily be attributed to corruption and lies.

Because his “insanity” is more than just a claimed brain worm:

The trauma from the men in his life being assassinated when he was an impressionable little boy. He now blames the CIA for both.

The heroin addiction.

The whale on the car incident.

The bear cub corpse in NYC.

The swimming in raw sewage.

There is no spy or health conspiracy too large for this guy. Everyone is corrupt/corruptable in his mind except him.

These are not the actions of a stable person. His solution to autism is to dictate that there is no significant genetic component, then give scientists 6 months to “find the cause” (after hijacking all of the medical data the US government can coerce).

Sure, there is corruption in that he is making referral money from some of his companies. I’m not sure he’s lying though — that requires Mens Rea. He might just have crazy ideas about reality. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t believe in _germ theory_ after his statements about HIV /AIDS.
by HdS84 | 2025-06-10 06:05:41+00:00
I studied political sciences twenty years ago - even then it was established consensus that presidential democracies are vulnerable to authoritarian takeover. The position has too much power, is easily abused and there are not enough checks on that position. The US escaped that problem for a long time due to strong cultural norms - but you abolished them (i.e. gatekeeping the presidential nominees and replacing that with a televised drama) and working checks (but again, now party in congress and president march in lockstep). FPTP and gerrymandering just exacerbate that problem and entrench a very unhealthy "the winner takes it all without need for compromise" culture.

You need electoral reform post haste - but I do not seed even a start to that discussion, so I think you are hosed. Might not be Dictator Trump, but maybe Vance or some other guy who succeeds in this game.

And all who cry "if the democrats win everything will be ok again!!!!" - not it won't. The democrats are too slow to recognize the problem and even if they eventually do, there are no majorities to change the system. And finally: Democracy needs at least two parties - democrats cannot be expected to keep branches of the government forever. You need a sane and democratic second party. Republicans ain't it - but the current system gives them success, so why change?!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 06:05:54+00:00
> no way Trump is turning into a dictator, for one thing he's too old. Is there any precedence to a 78 year old turning into a dictator for life

I agree that Trump is unlikely to turn into a dictator. But Caesar wasn't Rome's last dictator. And he wasn't the first to march on Rome.

Precedents are being set. Regardless of your views on illegal immigration, what's going on should be concerning because eventually someone with strong views you don't agree with will be in power, and if they can just arrest members of Congress, openly defy courts, ship ideological opponents to Guantanamo and send Marines into states they don't like, we're all going to be poorer for it. (If this shit stands, I'd argue the next Democrat in the White House should go FDR on the system.)
by joeguilmette | 2025-06-10 06:05:57+00:00
I’m old enough to remember iOS7. It was dog ugly and universally reviled.

This is new update is dog ugly and universally reviled. They’ll fix the most egregious stuff in beta, and then in a year or two dial it in.

This is a big, bold move. I’m happy to see them do something that takes some courage and also ship it.

Most of the really bad/unreadable screenshots I see are people customizing things so they look terrible. All the defaults look great.

I think it’s great we have deep customization options coming. That’s good. To people that say you shouldn’t be able to make it look bad… No. My desktop OS is infinitely configurable and I can absolutely break it. I’m happy to see at least the most surface level guard rails coming off of iOS.

This is good.
by cryptonector | 2025-06-10 06:06:21+00:00
Europe is heading towards less than half the replacement rate.

Japan is already there.

South Korea is at one third the replacement rate.

This is the story almost worldwide, and soon can be expected to be worldwide. In China and India there is also sex selection abortions and male preference to make things worse.

Exponential on the way up, and on the way down.

Reversing such steep declines isn't possible in one generation without a "Marshall plan" for fertility, which means that in one generation the next cohort of fertile females will be half the size of today's if today's fertility rate is half of replacement. If the situation persists then the next cohort will be one quarter of today's.

These declines are much sharper than past growth rates.

What if these fertility declines persist for three generations? How many generations can they persist for anyways?
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-06-10 06:06:21+00:00
> The irony is that one of the main rails upon which the MAGA train rides is States rights.

No it's not. They just like slavery. If it was about states rights they wouldn't support sending in the military.

What I find shocking about comments like yours is the reminder that propaganda works. Someone in the republican party decided "guys, advocating for slavery openly doesn't go over well, let's tell them it's actually about states rights", and loads of people actually believed it.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-06-10 06:06:42+00:00
Why? Why do we need more people for?

We have a society that lets people have all the children they want. But they don’t want more children.

I’d note fwiw replacement rate in the US is currently 2.08 children, and current fertility is around 1.6/couple.

On a comment about US policy - With immigration we have a growth in population, without it we will drop rapidly. I don’t think however people will be badgered into having kids by politicians, even with bribing. Most people I know that don’t have or have one kid, including myself, do so because they don’t want to have more kids. No amount of incentive changes that.
by Schiendelman | 2025-06-10 06:07:43+00:00
It's true in most rich countries at this point. Apple's been steadily launching more of their capabilities in new countries. I just used Apple Maps across eight countries in Europe. I did send a few problem reports, but they're better than Google now everywhere I went.

At this point if I lived somewhere they weren't great, I'd submit improvements for all the places I went
by kgwgk | 2025-06-10 06:08:17+00:00
> One could argue in the future, for example, that those who operate machines to produce tooling dies, should not have their labor treated as regular expenses, but instead as capital assets because their labor output is captured in assets,

In the future? That's how it works!

> just as Sec 174 treats the labor of software developers as assets.

[I was wrong about the following. I misread the text - and the submission title.] That's not what 174 does.
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by shahabaz | 2025-06-10 06:08:43+00:00
Hey HN, We (a small team of engineers and a designer) have been building Gistr to solve a personal pain point: we consume a lot of content daily—articles, videos, podcasts—and often struggle to retain or revisit the most meaningful parts. Most bookmarking tools felt too passive or generic.

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by sireat | 2025-06-10 06:09:21+00:00
Meaning someone paying $200 monthly is going to use it as much as possible to get their money's worth.

I slightly disagree.

My hypothesis would be that the distribution for $200 users would be bimodal.

That is there would be a one concentration of super heavy power users.

The second concentration would be of people who want the "best AI" but are not power users and feel that most expensive -> the best.

Their actual usage would be just like normal free tier of ChatGPT.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-10 06:09:32+00:00
The fertility rate has indeed been collapsing for the past few years. It will only cause a population shrinking in the short term though, but it's still very concerning because being surrounded by kids is a big source of motivation to have kids yourself, and the less kids in a society the harder it becomes to raise kids yourself.

The current trend implies that the human specie is collapsing at a similar as the rest of biodiversity, it's not a readjustment.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-10 06:09:52+00:00
In defense of MDM, those checkboxes aren’t even entirely useless. It’s so nice being able to demonstrate that every laptop in the company has an encrypted hard drive, which you should be doing anyway. It turns a lost or stolen laptop from a major situation to a minor financial loss and inconvenience.

Yes, a lot of MDM feature are just there to check ISOwhatever boxes. Some are legitimately great, though. And yes, even though I’m personally totally comfortable running a Linux laptop, come SOC2 audit time it’s way harder to prove that a bunch of Linux boxes meet required controls when you can’t just screenshot the Jamf admin page and call it good.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-10 06:10:21+00:00
Linux is great for users on the extreme ends of the spectrum, with grandma who only needs email on one end and tiling WM terminal juggler on the other. Where it gets muddy is for everybody in the middle.

That’s not to say it can’t or doesn’t work for some people in the middle, but for this group it’s much more likely that there’s some kind of fly in the soup that’s preventing them from switching.

It’s where I’m at. I keep secondary/tertiary Linux boxes around and stay roughly apprised of the state of the Linux desktop but I don’t think I could ever use it as my “daily driver” unless I wrote my own desktop environment because nothing out there checks all of the right boxes.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-06-10 06:11:14+00:00
Very effective? Really? Really?

It was very effective at first, until the virus adapted. Literally every single person I know that has been vaccinated (or not) has had COVID. Sure, they might have had reduced symptoms - but there's no other vaccine commonly used that has such an awful infection rate. You could possibly argue the flu vaccine, but when they actually nail the strain it's quite effective.

Sure, it's quite safe. But don't argue that it's effective. It's an awfully ineffective vaccine and there'd be more pressure for a better one if people stopped repeating that lie. We've figured out that mRNA vaccines targeting just a specific part of a virus are maybe great in an emergency but not great for long-term use. We need something better. People are still dying.
by pjerem | 2025-06-10 06:11:21+00:00
Interestingly, that’s exactly where this mantra is false.

Printing money for projects that benefit the greater good does not create any inflation and costs barely anything to anyone.

Print 100 for no reason and give it to the economy and for sure you create inflation. Print 100 and plant a tree, you just have a tree and a worker who get paid for doing real work.

But everyone gets a tree.

Printing money shouldn’t be seen as a crime in the context of climate change. But it must only be directed towards everyone benefit like public infrastructure projects that will stay public forever.

Bonus : great infrastructure reduces a lot of other costs and boosts the economy.
by cluckindan | 2025-06-10 06:11:30+00:00
Monoamine oxidase inhibitory activity of flavoured e-cigarette liquids https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01618...

Reinforcement and MAO-A inhibition in heated tobacco products: flavor and brand variations https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10....

Comparison of monoamine oxidase inhibition by cigarettes and modified risk tobacco products https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475001...

There is of course variance depending on the exact flavorants used. For example, menthol and mint flavors don’t inhibit MAO, their activity is towards kappa-opioid agonism (induction of dysphoria).
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-10 06:11:45+00:00
I know but it's not really a great way of running and developing apps, that's what I mean. The best tool for it is visual studio (full version) which doesn't run on Linux. And you have to run the bytecode interpreter. Whether it's mono or the official .net doesn't really matter.

I'd rather use something open like python, go etc. And most people do, there's few Linux apps that use .net. Microsoft didn't even use it for visual studio code.
by AngryData | 2025-06-10 06:12:00+00:00
I don't see how I can view this any other way than the culminating results of rampant capitalism. When everything is reduced to pure profit motives there is no room left for people to be people. Time off, dating, family, stability, and more, all take a back seat to increasing profits. And as business and corporations get bigger and bigger they only gained more power and control over peoples lives and push us farther down the self-destructive path of pure profit motivations and working endless hours.
by leoh | 2025-06-10 06:13:41+00:00
If they built as a kernel extension it would probably be okay with gpl.

There’s a huge opportunity for Apple to make kernel development for xnu way better.

Tooling right now is a disaster — very difficult to build a kernel and test it (eg in UTM, etc.).

If they made this better and took more of an OSS openness posture like Microsoft, a lot of incredible things could be built for macOS.

I’ll bet a lot of folks would even port massive parts of the kernel to rust for them for free.
by withinboredom | 2025-06-10 06:14:19+00:00
> The commercial offerings for "reasoning" models can easily run for 10 to 15 minutes before spitting out an answer. As to whether or not what it's doing counts as "thinking" ...

Tell me you don’t know how AI works without telling me you don’t know how AI works. After it sends you an output, the AI stops doing anything. Your conversation sits resident in ram for a bit, but there is no more processing happening.

It is waiting until you give it feedback... some might say it is a loop... a feedback loop ... that continues until the output has reached the desired state ... kinda sounds familiar ... like a PID loop where the human is the controller...

>To claim that an LLM is equivalent to a PID loop is utterly ridiculous.

Is it? It looks like one to me.

> By that logic a 747 is "basically a glorified lawn mower".

I don’t think a 747 can mow lawns, but I assume it has the horsepower to do it with some modifications.
by mym1990 | 2025-06-10 06:15:11+00:00
200 years ago the average life expectancy was 30, no one was having children to "future proof" their life. Quality of life today is much higher than it was 200 years ago as well. While the cost of having children is undoubtedly going up, there are more factors in play than just the doom and gloom of the world. Even in pronatalist regions like Scandanavia, birth rates are falling. Education and advancements in contraception play a huge part in these declines, and are on the more positive side of the equation.

I agree that economic policy needs to adapt to keep a population growing and healthy, but as of right now I am finding it hard to see any signs of this(in the US at least).
by mdeeks | 2025-06-10 06:15:39+00:00
Not sure why you are being downvoted. It's an interesting thought.

I will add that us having children completely erased the desire to get a dog. We almost got one just before our first born. Now we can't imagine. I think it's a combination of what you're suggesting, and also because a dog requires a lot of time we just don't have now.
by vesinisa | 2025-06-10 06:15:42+00:00
Interestingly, your phone number is actually not stored on the SIM card. It instead holds a globally unique ICCID number which your operator links to your account (phone number) on their systems.

This actually makes it possible to transfer your phone number between SIM cards or even operators, and means your cell phone is blissfully unaware of its own phone number.