MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giraffe_lady | 2025-06-24 13:19:09+00:00
It's really not. Being a member of the working class, that is having to sell your labor to survive, constrains your freedom in certain ways. The specific ways, and to what degree, are variable based on your circumstances and to some extent your choices.

But if you need to work for money there is no absolute freedom, you will have some constraints. You can decide the consequences of violating the constraints are worth it in some cases, as you have in this one. But that may circumscribe your ability to work for money at all in the future, as people are saying here.

People making this choice one way or the other may be more or less moral depending on the specifics, sometimes the circumstances do require our blood. For example someone working for ICE just for the paycheck right now is choosing evil. But it is a fundamentally different choice than "letting the terrorists win" or whatever.

"Sociopathic organizations" exist, you can't just write them out of your reasoning like this. A little marxism goes a long way in understanding what is happening here and how to engage with it.
by firesteelrain | 2025-06-24 13:19:10+00:00
> Balances were almost all zero and credit score was excellent

Not the same.

> hundred small loans that were all paid off on time over the last decade is extremely helpful getting you a mortgage

Again, not the same.

Affirm can be worse than credit cards because credit cards are a single line of credit of X size. The people using it don’t realize that a bunch of tiny lines of credit add up to a larger one ultimately and they can find themselves overleveraged.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-24 13:19:26+00:00
> Alienate your workforce by setting high standards, like a bar exam to become a lawyer ...

This would work if the world was willing to pay for software. So at the very least you'd have to outlaw the ad-based business model, or do what lawyers do: things that are absolutely critical for software development (think "program needs to be approved or it won't execute", that deep) that normal people aren't allowed ... and unable ... to do.
by h2zizzle | 2025-06-24 13:20:12+00:00
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that Capitalism is about "How much can I spend?", and not, "How much do I own (and how can I leverage it)?". Property like media outlets, where you can do things like manufacture consent (e.g., convincing black voters that the man who railroaded Anita Hill, and who called the most virulent segregationist of his generation a dear friend, cared about black folks' interests). Like your party's national committee, where you threaten members and candidates with persona non grata-status for campaigning or endorsing against your whims. Like the candidate himself, who initially did not want to run in the first place.

All of these things represent influence - influence that, like other methods used to induce fear and panic, can undermine both individual's rational decision-making process and their capacity to express their raw feelings.

Let's be clear: there was zero broad enthusiasm for Biden's policies (partly because he refused to detail them). But leveraging influence can allow you to take an electorate that, by all measures, wanted Bernie Sanders' platform - with M4A and the GND in particular being wildly popular - and turn it into one that checks the box next to Biden's name instead. What you get is not an expression of the electorate's will or desire, but of their terror.

So, actually, the influence of Capitalism (through the means I spoke of earlier - in a word, corruption) readily explains Biden's win in 2020. He was not a good candidate, he was not a good president, and people did not want to vote for him, but felt forced to, because an overwhelming amount of capital was leveraged to that end. People, in fact, did choose Bernie, until coerced not to. And that was simply a matter of people with wealth getting what they wanted. It may very well be that you only get to stand up to that force once in a lifetime, and Millennials had already elected Obama.
by reylas | 2025-06-24 13:20:46+00:00
Agree. The First Amendment, which I totally will fight for, comes with good and bad doesn't it. I personally feel (means a lot doesn't it :) that there should be a way to punish "commercial press" for spreading misinfo, but I also see the slippery slope come into play.

It has its warts, but the first amendment needs to be protected.
by marcusb | 2025-06-24 13:20:58+00:00
No. If a vendor says “we aren’t going to support this product after X date - don’t call, don’t write”, that’s EoL.

Doesn’t matter if they do one off fixes because they decide that’s the right thing to do - product is still EoL. You won’t get support if, say, Word crashes due to a core library bug. You can’t rely on them doing regular testing. EoL.

Doesn’t matter if the DoD comes to some ridiculously expensive bespoke support arrangement - still EoL. You could probably offer them enough money to provide a support contract for MSDOS 1.0, but that’s still EoL for everyone else and in general.
by nodesocket | 2025-06-24 13:21:04+00:00
Is there no apt repo to install uv? My Docker builds using pip take around 2 minutes, not sure the juice is worth the squeeze upgrading to uv.

Current Dockerfile pip is as simple as:

COPY --chown=python:python requirements.txt . RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \ pip install --no-cache-dir --compile -r requirements.txt COPY --chown=python:python . . RUN python -m compileall -f .
by ncruces | 2025-06-24 13:21:14+00:00
Partly the neighboring country. Between Spain and Portugal there's 10 GW (~20% or peak load) and 100 GWh of storage (enough for a day's worth of consumption).

But that takes time and requires some rebalancing, because much of that capacity is not closest to the producers. It also requires water, which becomes scarcer in the autumn (not the case here).

So the price can and does become negative for a window. “High frequency trading” the spot prices probably contributed to the problem.
by earnestinger | 2025-06-24 13:22:39+00:00
Link was used to establish that this concept is usually called “gender”. (I felt there was a dispute on that; might be my projection)

Regarding anecdotes:

In my native language all objects have grammatical gender (feminine and masculine).

If I would write a children book natively, about objects that come to life, I would automatically assign their social gender based on grammatical gender.

Because language hints it that way. Pronouns, adjectives, participles, all must be adjusted based on objects gender (exactly like it would be done when talking about a person).
by gschizas | 2025-06-24 13:23:39+00:00
rye is also written in Rust and it's being replaced by uv.

From its homepage: https://rye.astral.sh/

> If you're getting started with Rye, consider uv, the successor project from the same maintainers.

> While Rye is actively maintained, uv offers a more stable and feature-complete experience, and is the recommended choice for new projects.

> Having trouble migrating? Let us know what's missing.
by masklinn | 2025-06-24 13:23:42+00:00
Because they did more than just support 3.13:

> I'm sure some of the changes are going too far. We are open to revert them if there's an interest from maintainers to merge this PR :)

Notably they bumped the bindings (“O3”) for better architecture coverage, and that required some renaming as 0.23 completed an API migration.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-24 13:23:48+00:00
Yes, my account is. It's doing the decoding, not the pipewire account. It's not a cross-account attack that I need to defend from.

Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm saying exactly one account has meaningful exposure to the outside world, and it's the only one with valuable files. Not none, but also not multiple. It's effectively single user from a security perspective.
by dathinab | 2025-06-24 13:24:23+00:00
> Or shoot him, the law won, and he is dead.

if a iron fist rule you shoot them, but sooner or later you will end up with situations where their brother will shoot you, or there is a uprising and they lynch the police chef etc. no one wins

in country with strict rules but no iron fist rule the police person who tries to shoot someone who doesn't pose danger for other just because they try to avoid arrest by running away will lose their job

> involve killing people in the end

this is such a misleading dumb fatalistic argument, yes people will get killed, but there is a huge difference between the context.

> You can't enforce laws without the threat of killing people if they refuse all other punishments.

Except pretty much all of the EU operates _exactly_ that way with minor differences. And it works.

Sure there are edge cases where you threaten shooting at someone, and sometimes police will have to shoot. But only if there is risk to live. And most crimes don't go that far.
by AstroBen | 2025-06-24 13:24:29+00:00
> it should increase opportunities by lowering the cost of iteration and scaling our impact

This is very much up for debate and the weakest point of the argument I think. If developers are now 2-3x (remains to be seen..) as productive what will happen to the job market?

I suppose it depends on how much potential software is there that's not currently viable due to cost? How much would scope be increased on current products?
by zikduruqe | 2025-06-24 13:24:52+00:00
For me the AWS integration is nice. That way I know what account I'm on, and what region among my dozens of windows.

For example:

…/.config master on AWS_Prod (use2)

starship.toml:

[aws] format = 'on [($profile )(\($region\) )]($style)' style = 'bold #B23D2F' symbol = " " <- cloud symbol [aws.region_aliases] us-east-1 = 'use1' us-east-2 = 'use2'
by eldaisfish | 2025-06-24 13:24:59+00:00
grid operators can and do communicate with smaller systems - UK Power Networks is one example. If the number of devices is too large, the solution is a market, with aggregators taking on the challenge of quantity.

This is all very much possible and the tech to do it is relatively basic. Grid operators do not because the market rules were written by larger generators to favour those larger generators.
by sgarland | 2025-06-24 13:25:19+00:00
Python is my favorite language, but I have fully embraced uv. It’s so easy, and so fast, that there is nothing else remotely close.

Need modern Python on an ancient server running with EOL’d distro that no one will touch for fear of breaking everything? uv.

Need a dependency or two for a small script, and don’t want to hassle with packaging to share it? uv.

That said, I do somewhat agree with your take on extensions. I have a side project I’ve been working on for some years, which started as pure Python. I used it as a way to teach myself Python’s slow spots, and how to work around them. Then I started writing the more intensive parts in C, and used ctypes to interface. Then I rewrote them using the Python API. I eventually wrote so much of it in C that I asked myself why I didn’t just write all of it in C, to which my answer was “because I’m not good enough at C to trust myself to not blow it up,” so now I’m slowly rewriting it in Rust, mostly to learn Rust. That was a long-winded way to say that I think if your external library functions start eclipsing the core Python code, that’s probably a sign you should write the entire thing in the other language.
by j_seigh | 2025-06-24 13:25:43+00:00
ChromeOS flex. It will run on hardware that even Linux complains about. I've even installed it on a Chromebook that stopped getting updates. Though, you have to replace the firmware, which entails some risk of bricking, so you can do a UEFI boot.

Also you can upgrade windows 10 to windows 11 even on hardware that Microsoft says is unsupported. Google for the workarounds. You only need to download the win11 iso from Microsoft and make a bootable USB stick using Rufus. Don't download anything from anywhere else. I wouldn't trust it.
by discoutdynamite | 2025-06-24 13:25:47+00:00
One critical factor that has gone unreported: hazmat material use. for example microwave magnetrons used to use beryllium, now domestic models rarely do. cadmium contact microswitches, platinum plated thermostats, etc. almost all gone.

I also feel that the numbers on average lifespan are getting cooked by the foreign manufacturers. they already figured out how to game the review system....
by acomjean | 2025-06-24 13:25:55+00:00
We live in an older house in the US. We got a note in the mail from the city that pipe from the main to the house might be lead. They looked at building plans/ permits. The length is (15ft) so the impact is minimal if it’s actually lead. The piping inside is copper and pvc for drains. But we had the water tested anyway. Lead isn’t good for you.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/health/2024-11-19/thousands-of-mas...
by jamil7 | 2025-06-24 13:25:58+00:00
Serious question, have you tried to launch and sustain a consumer mobile business in the last 5 years? I have and the paid up front model is very difficult to make work. As much as users say they want to pay once, what they actually want is to pay once and receive a steady stream of features, improvements, updates for new iOS versions etc. The idea that there are no server-side expenses doesn't make a project like this static, iOS itself is a moving target for developers before you factor in user expectations from modern software.
by komali2 | 2025-06-24 13:26:26+00:00
I would pay $2000 without a second of hesitation, if that's what it took, for an Android phone with

* headphone jack

* usbc port

* removable, large battery

* under 5 inch screen (with phone body size to match)

* dual sim

* sd card slot

* cameras just good enough to take pictures of license plates on illegally parked cars

* 5g antenna

I don't care if it needs to be hella thick to accomplish this, I don't care if the screen is OLED or has a >60hz refresh rate, I don't care about telescopic cameras or faceid or anything like that. I just want a small fat phone that I can plug my IEMs into and use as a wifi tether for my laptop without the battery dying in a couple hours.
by nchmy | 2025-06-24 13:26:26+00:00
How many people are digging into and contributing to any python tooling? How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust? Plenty of people (yet also a significant minority overall) write each of them.

> Is there anything being done in uv that couldn't be done in Python?

Speed, at the very least.

You could just ignore uv and use whatever you want...
by peanutz454 | 2025-06-24 13:26:47+00:00
Old lead pipes had hard untreated water flowing through them. The lead pipes would internally (normally) be coated with salts, and the lead did not (normally) leach into water. But soft water does not have calcium or magnesium in high enough quantities. Also, even with hard water, pressure changes could loosen the scale deposits.

Microplastic risk is not anywhere close to lead, we should not even be discussing these two things in the same paragraph.

Lead is bad because it mimics calcium and iron in our body, binding to proteins, sneaking into bones, causes anemia, disrupts brain function...

Plastic is inert, it is made of long chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. These long chains do not break down easily. Microplastic, while it does not pass through the body, and can accumulate in organs, its impact is still under study. We aren't ingesting high doses.

BUT, bad pipes may leach other stuff. Some additives in certain plastics seem to mimic hormones and potentially disrupt them. Some additives are carcinogenic. (but only in high doses I guess). Certified modern pipes are safer.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-24 13:26:50+00:00
It is not easy to forgive someone when they have killed someone you know, or even someone you know of. All sides have such people.

But until all sides find the strength to forgive, the cycles of hatred, vengeance, and killing will continue.

The most hopeful recent sign I have seen is actually Iran's "attack" on a US base, which was almost purely symbolic.
by reisse | 2025-06-24 13:27:15+00:00
I'd wish there were movement for the privacy-conscious services to escape any regulation, not just choose the currently-politically-correct one. Like piracy sites did in 00-10s (abuse-proof hosting in Ecuador, shady domain registrar from SEA, zero search indexing) or crypto companies now (net of shell companies where not a single one is responsible for anything).

My point is, if you trust the company you're using, also trust it to use any means necessary to protect you from bad actors, don't rely on the laws here. Both the corporate and the state ones. If you don't trust it, don't give it anything you cannot afford to leak or lose.

Specifically, EU data protection laws are good to protect regular customers from the big corporations, but they offer little protection against the EU (and the member states) themselves. And if the risk you're hedging against is "yourself turning to big corp and abusing customers" moving to EU is okay, but not in any other case.
by Twirrim | 2025-06-24 13:27:24+00:00
Yes, but there are no guarantees. In fact, they do quite routinely remove drivers for old hardware, if there is no one willing to maintain them. They removed support for several pieces of hardware in the last release, in fact, including some particular drivers for an IBM Cell system, and for IBM CAPI flash drives (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...) and so on
by mightybyte | 2025-06-24 13:27:34+00:00
As a professional haskeller, I feel it necessary to point out for people in this thread who are less exposed to Haskell and who may be Haskell-curious...this is not what real-world commercial Haskell code looks like. To use a C analogy, I'd say it's closer to IOCCC entries than Linux kernel code.
by pathartl | 2025-06-24 13:27:44+00:00
Let's be real for a second, we're in an era where people are less likely to buy a new computer. Part of it is due to the performance plateau of new hardware, part of it is people just don't use PCs as much. This is the same demographic of people that ran XP until they bought a new PC that just happened to run 7. Or 7 -> 10.

I think about my mom. She's not tech literate, but needs a PC to do business. She cannot seem to remember Ctrl C, Ctrl V. She doesn't know what a file explorer is or how to pair a Bluetooth device. There is no way in hell she would know how to update to 11, nor would she even comprehend any of the differences between the two. She's the type of person that would buy a new computer if her charger stopped working. She represents millions of people that own a computer.

We're going to see a lot of 10 stragglers not due to protest, but incompetence. For any of us that actually care about updating, it is incredibly simple to bypass any checks. For anyone that would attempt to run Linux, it would be easier to bypass the requirement checks. This whole thing is blown completely out of proportion because people are still trying to push the year of the Linux desktop.

It might convert some people, but stop pushing (imo) misleading narratives like planned obsolescence when we're living in an era of a Windows that is more secure than ever, has the largest catalog of runnable software, and probably the largest step in the history of the platform.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-06-24 13:28:06+00:00
So a scientist was dishonest and/or made a mistake. What's your point, that journalists aren't dishonest and dont make mistakes? I have no idea what you're arguing for.

I can tell you what my point is: an expert will know more than a journalist. I have no idea how this can be controversial. If it wasn't the case, the journalist would be the expert and it would become true by definition.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-06-24 13:28:14+00:00
I think about this a lot actually. I grew up with glass milk bottles and paper meat packaging.

Even being able to estimate this is incredibly far outside of my expertise or knowledge, but I suspect for most products plastic is only cheaper because the externalities are not factored into the price. It seems totally possible to me that for a lot of things glass packaging would be cheaper than plastic if plastic were priced appropriately.

Other things I'm not sure. We could probably approach it differently, using different plastics and requiring re-use. It would be interesting to hear a genuine packaging expert's opinion on the balance point here, I doubt it's truly zero plastic for food. But maybe.

FWIW I think any non-glass non-plastic food packaging is also actually plastic. Paperboard and aluminum & steel cans all have plastic linings at least. I think almost exactly everything does these days. Glass being the one exception still.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-24 13:29:21+00:00
>but from what I heard startups are moving away from Europe

pretty much the other way around. Europe's startup base is still smaller than the US but has been growing faster. It's now 20% or so of global VC capital compared to about 5% a decade ago, and has produced unicorns at faster rates. Just misses the mega-sized companies at the tail end (https://tech.eu/2023/07/05/europes-best-decade-in-tech-reach...)

You can just look at an investor like, ironically enough, Thiel who has been pumping a lot of money into European tech. Defense startups in Germany for example.
by bloomingeek | 2025-06-24 13:29:27+00:00
Here, here! It's time for an operating system revolution, nothing too radical, just enough to secure up company info. I realize this would be really difficult, but don't businesses see that MS wants even more control over their computers? How can any company trust their secret communications about an innovation that could be a boon for profits and expansion ever trust MS not to be spying on them? (Surely MS doesn't collaborate with the feds, which could possibly use this info to sabotage a company they don't like?!?)
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-24 13:29:36+00:00
How many licensure boards are there in the US? Roughly 60.

How many allow their doctors to relay verifiably false medical information with their patients? Roughly zero.

Is this because there's some big conspiracy of all 60 licensure boards getting together to suppress information, or is it because each of them has independently reached the self-evident conclusion that licensees spreading false information destroys the credibility of the profession?

Emergent phenomena, amigo.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-24 13:29:52+00:00
Take a closer look at BOTH videos. Not just the first one. He literally says the words “don’t” and “understand” in reference to LLMs.

I watch a lot of video interviews on hinton I can assure you that “not understanding” is 100 percent his opinion both from the perspective of the actual events that occurred and as someone who knows his general stance from watching tons of interviews and videos about him.

So let me be frank with you. There are people smarter than you and more eminent than you who think you are utterly and completely wrong. Hinton is one of those people. Hopefully that can kick start the way you think into actually holding a more nuanced world view such that you realize that nobody really understands LLMs.

Half the claims on HN are borderline religious. Made up by people who unconsciously scaffold evidence to support the most convenient view.

If we understood AI completely and utterly we would be able to set those weights in a neural net into values that give us complete and total control over how the neural net behaves. This is literally our objective as human beings who created the neural net. We want to do this and we absolutely know that their exists a configuration of weights in reality that can help us achieve this goal that we want so much.

Why haven’t we just reached this goal? Because we literally don’t understand how to reach this goal even though we know it exists. We. Don’t. Understand. It is literally the only conclusion that follows given our limited ability to control LLMs. Any other conclusion is ludicrous and a sign that your logical thought process is not crystal clear.