MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-06-26 11:50:28+00:00
The model of men work while women watch the kids was most of history. Of course is completely ignors 'womens work' which was very needed for survival and defined by things you could do while also watching kids. for the first few years kids eat from mom so she cannot get far from them (after that she is probably pregnaunt again thus restarting the cycle). Mens work was anything that needed to be done that could not be done when pregaunt or nursing a kid.

today men have the ability to watch kids thanks to formula (though it is better for the kids to eat from mom - this is rarely talked about because it is easy to go too far and starve a baby to death in the exceptions).
by Someone | 2025-06-26 11:50:59+00:00
Redirect: https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-the-android-workgroup/..., where a comment says:

“we are currently working on official CI jobs that will build Swift 6.2 and 6.3 Android SDK bundles for the AArch64, x86_64, and armv7 architectures and run them through most of the compiler validation suite. Once that is ready, we will distribute 6.2 and 6.3 snapshot Android SDK bundles that can be used with the official 6.2 and 6.3 snapshot toolchains.”

⇒ looks like this is a serious effort.
by comrade1234 | 2025-06-26 11:51:10+00:00
In my experience it works fine for a large geographically dispersed team.

There was a project that I was on that did get a little ridiculous. It was a major German airline and we were redoing their website (front and back). Team was in three countries including India. Maybe 25 developers? We had a spec document that we had to code to, including the front-end wireframes. If there was an obvious mistake in the spec, like a misspelling for a button, we still had to code to the spec along with the misspelling and then file a bug against the spec. They fix the misspelling in the spec and now there's a bug in the website...

So a bit more flexibility than that and the project would have been great.
by cs_throwaway | 2025-06-26 11:51:23+00:00
Funny this is here. Apptainer is Singularity, described here:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

If you ever use a shared cluster at a university or run by the government, Apptainer will be available, and Podman / Docker likely won't be.

In these environments, it is best not to use containers at all, and instead get to know your sysadmin and understand how he expects the cluster to be used.
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-26 11:51:36+00:00
It's very easy to make malloc return NULL:

% ulimit -v 80000 % cat test.c #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { char *p = malloc(100'000'000); printf("%p\n", p); } % cc test.c % ./a.out (nil)
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-06-26 11:52:08+00:00
>The term 'painkiller' is reserved for strong pain relief

Having claimed it was cultural. It have been helpful of you indicated which culture you felt this applied to.

In UK I'd say painkillers includes ibuprofen and paracetamol. I suppose with ibuprofen it's also referred to as an anti-inflammatory. Not sure how else one would refer to paracetamol other than with synonyms (analgesics) or euphemism (pain relief tablet).
by ck2 | 2025-06-26 11:53:17+00:00
While suzetrigine is fascinating and great to see development in that field

technically Low‐Dose-Naltrexone (aka LDN) is not an opioid and reduces pain

(however it does it by modulating opioid receptors so okay I guess it's opioid-related)

found more background here

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/the-radical-de...
by OJFord | 2025-06-26 11:53:41+00:00
I'm happy to take that correction - I have no training in any relevant field - I was just trying to follow the description in TFA, which links indirectly to my link above in the second paragraph or so as 'nociceptive pain'; from which I inferred that's all it's talking about and existing non-opioids must therefore not target that.

Perhaps non-inflammatory (or generically) nociceptive pain killing is the point. (Which is getting a bit specific for such a broad title isn't it. Does 'painkiller' ordinarily have such a narrow meaning in your experience?)
by jlawson | 2025-06-26 11:54:03+00:00
Can you expand on "that's just dumb"? I don't understand what argument this is trying to make.

All people have different brains; some are very low-intelligence and impulsive by nature and training, and this can apply at any age. The point of this punishment is not to apply a sort of cosmic morality according to the true culpability of a soul. Abstract principles about whether the person 'deserves' a punishment aren't actually relevant regardless of what shape their brain is. The point is the real-life consequence of their criminality on others, and how to stop them hurting people. We must stop them hurting people; let's figure out how.

This dedication to abstracted principles and cosmic morality over fixing the actual issue is really problematic; I see this more and more these days.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-06-26 11:54:24+00:00
Yup. And using it as the wonder drug it is, I.e women using it to get “beach bodies” should be celebrated and not stigmatized.

I want bodily autonomy and control. The right to experiment with weight loss drugs is analogous to the right to be trans or to not have your foreskin removed at birth.

It’s crazy that these drugs even have further benefits like anti addiction properties!
by varjag | 2025-06-26 11:54:50+00:00
$100 is a cost of a 60mm mortar shell. It is a hand grenade sized munition lobbed from a Pringles can sized weapon to the range of 1-2km. This is generally not the thing that comes to mind when you think of artillery strike.

A 155mm (dumb, unguided) shell would set you back 5-8K USD. That's before the propellant charge, fuse and amortization of the artillery piece and its 5 man crew.
by frumiousirc | 2025-06-26 11:54:54+00:00
I don't know what the student thinks but "[list of many problems]" are in some ways less "grand" as they are less about fundamentals of nature compared to the problems in quantum theory. But then Feynman puts "grander" in quotes to reduce its power and imply that "grandness" isn't all that - well - grand. He does this as his advice is that all problems for which you can find solutions are indeed grand problems. That's how I read it.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-26 11:55:14+00:00
> Was the vote against approval a move to "completely prevent a drug from entering the market and being used", or was it a desire to better understand it before saying "okay"?

Why do you present this as an either/or?

> Clicking "FDA" in the bit you quoted above takes you to a different page

Indeed, where I found that...

> That said, the article may not be fairly representing what happened in the first place, so...

...this is exactly what happened, i.e. I was successfully misled even before reaching your false dichotomy. Yay.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-06-26 11:55:17+00:00
I think you need to compare it to other man portable guided weapons like the FGM-148 Javelin. The Javelin is much much better in all respects, except perhaps range. But is about 100 - 200 times more expensive.

If you can afford* the Javelins and the TOW's of the world that's what you are going to use otherwise, you are stuck with FPVs.

Afford means not only fiscally, but production capacity wise as well.
by bheadmaster | 2025-06-26 11:55:31+00:00
It's a hyperbole.

Injuries generally cause brain to release endorphins, which in turn releases dopamine, causing addiction. For example, cutting is a common type of self-mutilation depressed people do. High-intensity exercise arguably also does the same thing - as your body is "microinjured" by strain, your brain releases endorphins to help with the pain, causing effects like "the runner's high".
by Insanity | 2025-06-26 11:55:32+00:00
During a period of depression it was insanely hard to focus on work because I would spend literal hours ruminating on the same things. And even while working the negative thoughts would never be far away.

So I can easily believe that this correlation exists. Always found it interesting when people said to separate “work and personal”. When I’m not doing well in my personal life, work won’t go well either.
by npteljes | 2025-06-26 11:55:49+00:00
One of Wiki's sources date it back as far as 1994, and that's a news article, so the thing must have been going on for a while.

Thinking about it, I think I understand why hard G makes sense for people. With GPU, we pronounce the the individual letters, as it's clearly an abbreviation - as no sane English word starts with "gp". With GIF though, even though it's an abbreviation, it looks a lot like a normal word, "gift", and English also has "give", another one with a hard G, so it feels familiar to say. Moreover, the US, where GIF comes from, has Jif already established as a peanut butter brand, so it makes sense to not pronounce a newly invented, differently written word the same as an already established thing. Well, at least to some it makes sense!
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-26 11:57:46+00:00
I went to Japan in 2019 and 2024 and didn't notice a significant difference except for things that are clearly for tourists. The biggest one being the Japan Rail Pass, which almost doubled.

An important thing to consider is that the yen is really cheap now, it means lots of tourists because life is cheaper and high prices for imported goods for the locals.
by tecleandor | 2025-06-26 11:57:49+00:00
That expensive? I've been checking prices this past weeks and I've seen prices around 8-10000 yen for regular hotels.

Got 5 nights in Asakusa for ¥43000 (in a hotel that's a bit more tourist oriented), and also got offered by Smar-EX a combo of Nozomi round ticket to Kyoto and three nights there in what looked like a business-hotel for a total of around ¥45000.

But of course, no doubt everything is getting expensive and crowded. I have "almost family" there, and I've been 4 times since 2007 (this next month is going to be my fifth) and the change on tourism was already very noticeable around 2018. And the numbers after COVID went crazy, and the low Yen is helping that too.

And it can be seen on the flight tickets too. Prices went down after the Tohoku tsunami (I remember paying around €470 for a round ticket in December 2012 or so), in August 2015 I paid €750, in August 2018 €780, and this year for July it's ~€1200 for economy and more than €2K for Economy plus (!). I guess that also having to avoid Russia helps raising prices.

I'm worried they're going the same path than here in Spain, where trying to find a room in Madrid or Barcelona for less than 70€ a night usually means having a shared bathroom, or even sleeping in bunk beds in a 8 to 12 person room. Not to talk about the rentals or general real state prices...

Edit: Ah, of course, as GuB-42 says, Rail Pass has doubled. But I guess that due to the low prices the trains were getting crowded and unavailable for locals... It's a bummer, but I'm not mad at all.
by Trenthug | 2025-06-26 11:58:06+00:00
This article presents an attempt at defining consciousness in a definite and objective manner by coherently trying to present it's aspects

The model might seem have similarities to karl friston's idea of brains a Bayesian inference machines,usage of metrics of measuring information in tononi's IIT theory and Wittgenstein's private language argument among other subtleties that are mentioned about the subject of consciousness in the paper itself
by ben_w | 2025-06-26 11:58:23+00:00
How can you tell which project is which?

I mean, sure, there's plenty of devs who refuse to use AI, but how many projects rather than individuals are in each category?

And is Microsoft "traditional"? I name them specifically because their CEO claims 20-30% of their new code is AI generated: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-3...
by throwawayffffas | 2025-06-26 11:58:56+00:00
As noted if you have the budget the end product is a FGM Javelin or a Spike NLOS or as the article mentions a switchblade.

These things are pretty much the same thing (a thing that can be carried by a man that accurately puts a warhead on a target) just better and more expensive.

edit: Actually the NLOS might not be man portable, but there are other smaller Spike missiles that are.
by nmdeadhead | 2025-06-26 12:00:37+00:00
In compatibility, it's MUCH worse than all the others, but there's also Executor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software) which you can use to run a Macintosh version of solitaire in your browser by having the browser emulate MS-DOS which then runs Executor/DOS: https://archive.org/details/executor

In addition to Executor/DOS, a non-released version ran on the Sun 3 workstations (they too had 680x0 processors) and Executor/NEXTSTEP ran on NeXT machines, both the 680x0 based ones and the x86 powered PCs that could run NEXTSTEP.

Executor was the least compatible because it used no intellectual property from Apple. The ROMs and system software substitutes were all written in a clean room--no disassembly of the Apple ROMs or System file.

Although Executor ostensibly has a Linux port, it's probably hard to build (I haven't tried in a couple decades) in part because to squeeze the maximum performance out of a 80386 processor, the synthetic CPU relied on gcc-specific extensions.

I know a fair amount about Executor, because I wrote the initial version of it, although all the super impressive parts (e.g., the synthetic 68k emulator and the color subsystem) were written by better programmers than I am.
by horsawlarway | 2025-06-26 12:00:39+00:00
I think this post is one of those "technically correct" but functionally wrong rants.

My experience with multiple monitors at different dpis hits nearly every case of failure he points out.

It's a lot more work to configure.

Apps fail to account for it.

Spanning two monitors results in terrible scaling problems.

Apps that do account for it at start up won't account for it during reposition, so they look fine if they open on the right monitor and terrible if moved to the other.

Getting solid workflows for flexible positioning requires hacks like mentioned at the end for xrandr.

Etc...

So sure, you can do it and it sucks.

That's not really the win I think the author seems to think it is.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-26 12:00:55+00:00
Very cool. I wonder if these get picked up and completed eventually by some enthusiastic coders.

I collected a pair of disk images of games of my own "that weren't". I should (maybe this Fall) gather sources to create volume 3 ("The Color Games"). (I was posting them chronologically, starting with the B&W games, and kind of ran out of steam when I got to the color games. Fall seems to the the time of the year when I pursue these indoor projects that look backward.)

I also received permission to post sources for a pair of games that I co-worked-on with a friend in the U.K. — games that also were not. I should get that together this Fall too and push to The 'Hub.

https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa...

https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa...
by raxxorraxor | 2025-06-26 12:01:12+00:00
Ironically it is often the socially concious union types that call Uber or Lyft.

Sure, in some regions there is what basically amounts to a taxi mafia. But aside from that Uber/Lyft offer the definition of a gig economy where people on both end believe to be winning. Depends on the country, but in most countries it isn't the price sensitive choice.
by TimReynolds | 2025-06-26 12:02:18+00:00
For production systems that need to scale and evolve over time, you’ll regret tightly coupling to Auth0 or Cognito. Don’t misunderstand me—the hosted versions of these services work well, and their hardened, managed interfaces make security testing straightforward. However, the moment you need even minor customization beyond their standard offerings, you’ll find yourself in a frustrating situation.
by jjulius | 2025-06-26 12:02:25+00:00
>Why do you present this as an either/or?

>... your false dichotomy.

I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to answer your first question before coming to the conclusion that I was using a false dichotomy.

I didn't intend to present it as an "either/or", though I can see how it can be read that way. I simply read you saying that they "completely prevent[ed]" something from coming to market when, perhaps, they're not "completely" doing anything and are open to doing it provided that they know more about it. That the "incomplete justification" you lamented may also have been how the FDA felt about the data provided to them.

It could also be for other reasons, absolutely! This is just one possibility that seems very obvious to me. There's no either/or from my end.
by nemo | 2025-06-26 12:02:45+00:00
>The term 'painkiller' is reserved for strong pain relief

Maybe there's some very specific, limited medical context where this is the case but in common parlance it's not at all the case, search for "painkiller" in an online shop like Amazon and you'll find a whole lot of Paracetamol/Tylenol, and various NSAIDs (aspirin/ibuprofen) and manufacturers of those drugs actually use that specific term.
by cschmidt | 2025-06-26 12:02:55+00:00
Math operations go right to left in the text, while we write them left to right. So if you see the digits 123... in an autoreressive manner, you don't know really anything, since it could be 12345 or 1234567. If you flipped 12345 as 543..., you know the place value of each. You know that the 5 you encounter first is in the ones place, the 4 is the tens place, etc. It gives the LLM a better chance of learning arithmetic.
by kashunstva | 2025-06-26 12:03:11+00:00
> eradicate cultures

Political movements that have sought to “eradicate cultures” have generally gone pretty poorly in history.

I read the clarifications downstream; and I gather that the intent here is not as malicious as it sounds. That said, I don’t see how the mindset of “I’m going to maximize my extraction from the system.” is substantively different from “I’m going to minimize my input into the system.” The net effect is similar. For example, the current U.S. president paid no taxes for years through various dodges, a fact about which he boasted and which he defended. But without a doubt he is extracting disproportionate benefits.

Undoubtedly corruption is rampant in the systems you refer to; but all of these things exist in democratic free-market economies as well.
by avoutos | 2025-06-26 12:03:14+00:00
Even if the technology improves and the economics of scale reduces the cost, I still don't buy the narrative that swarms of tiny kamikaze drones will radically change warfare.

Aside from radio jamming, I have not seen an actual defense against a strong EMP.

To defend against an EMP wiping out your drone swarm, you would have to invest in shielding etc which would remove them from the class of small cheap drones.

Idk if anyone can speak about this, but to me this doesn't seem like a problem that these types of drones can overcome.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-06-26 12:04:24+00:00
I'm not sure where all these "X11 is actually great" posts recently are common from but X11 does not have DPI solved. I encourage you to read this comment [1] to better understand what the actual situation is like.

[1]: https://lobste.rs/s/ceylzx/forbidden_secrets_ancient_x11_sca...
by Tepix | 2025-06-26 12:05:02+00:00
"Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent"

I hate this openwashing. It's a closed model, its weights are nowhere to be seen! (not to mention the training data, the real "source" of a LLM)

The fact that there is a small component that is open source that accesses this closed model doesn't change that at all.
by hansmayer | 2025-06-26 12:05:25+00:00
Exactly this. I think we lost so much because we allowed people who dont know how to reduce brightness on their monitor to "own" anything in the software dev process. Now they are teaching us that engineering leads should "negotiate" with POs about technical improvements, and how we can best frame it. Excuse me, but what the f? What we call POs now, used to be Business Analysts - valuable contributors for sure, but not "owning" anything. And we made it a big point if an element is 2px farther to the right than the designer foresaw. Not to mention that the agilistas have managed to create cohorts of bootcamp-type-coders whose main concern now is a "well written ticket". Never thinking or heaven forbid, caring about the whole project. I am generally critical towards the enthusiastic usage of LLM tools, but I do think they will have a positive effect of a lot of people not belonging to tech, leaving it.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-06-26 12:06:15+00:00
> How is your lack of geographical knowledge relevant to any of this?

It doesn't matter where the country is located on the map. If you happen to be a citizen of a developing country, your opportunities are extremely limited, and that is why I'm curious how he managed to get into the US and make a startup out of something that doesn't make sense to be one.
by ColinWright | 2025-06-26 12:06:18+00:00
Personally I find an announcement like the one linked more helpful and useful to create a context, rather than linking directly to the project.

Links to the actual project are in the submitted post, so you can get an overview before then being directed to the project itself.

As always YMMV, indeed, YMWV, but I like seeing the announcement giving the context rather than a bare pointer to the project.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-06-26 12:06:51+00:00
Islamism has eradicated basically every other culture in the middle east. Western market capitalism has supplanted a ton of cultures in east asia. If its toxic and dysfunctional it has to go, or your country deteriorates into another Zimbabwe or Russia.

PS: There are a ton of versions of working culture out there, that are not western. Pick one and run with it. But picking a repeatedly failing one is a sentence for decay and destruction.
by tnolet | 2025-06-26 12:07:13+00:00
Translation of first paragraph:

"The Consumers' Association is starting a mass claim against hotel reservation site Booking.com. Due to illegal agreements and unlawful practices, customers are said to have paid too much for overnight stays for years. According to the Consumers' Association, this amounts to a total of approximately one billion euros.

"For example, the platform uses fake discounts, incomplete prices and invented scarcity", explains director Sandra Molenaar of the Consumers' Association. "With these kinds of 'dark patterns', Booking.com influences the choices that consumers make. And that is not permitted under Dutch and European rules."

The European court already ruled last year that Booking.com violated the rules. The Spanish court also imposed a fine of 413 million euros on the originally Dutch company for these kinds of practices."
by Amuklelani | 2025-06-26 12:07:17+00:00
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