MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tmaly | 2025-07-18 16:35:11+00:00
There are a lot of things that come to mind when I read this.

First, it use to be the case that companies provide jobs for life and they were more tuned to helping society rather than just looking at the bottom line. That has changed over the years.

Healthcare in the US has been on a steady decline. HMO middlemen and insurance companies with a deny claims profit model are only making it worse. Luigi event comes to mind. Hospitals in other countries offer same if not superior service for a fraction of your US copay. The ICE article on Medicaid data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605618 seems to has some ulterior motive to reduce the Medicaid usage by non-citizens.

The two tiered system of justice has always existed, we just have better ways to highlight it with mobile devices and social media. If we look at how the Arab Spring was enabled by Twitter, more of this is happening. But at the same time deepfakes are offering a new way to discredit truth tellers.

Large entrenched monopolies love new regulation as it builds a regulatory moat that prevents new, smaller competitors from entering the market. This will only drive people to markets outside of the US or to find ways to use AI to reduce the number of human jobs needed.

AI whether we reach AGI or not is already good enough to replace a good chunk of jobs. Larger companies that are not model companies move a little slower and it will take a year or two to catch up before people realize what happened. Education has not adapted slow enough, so there will be a large number of college grads in debt who will not be able to find jobs.

The US 35 trillion debt is not helping car loan rates and mortgage rates. There will be a whole generation of young people who will not be able to afford a house, part of the American dream. This will further push the divide between the Elite and boomers and the younger generations.
by kevingadd | 2025-07-18 16:35:30+00:00
On this note, even if LLMs or "AGI" make businesses more profitable by improving margins and allowing them to cut labor costs, you eventually have to balance it out somehow - all those people who've lost jobs are competing for a smaller number of available jobs, and the people who can't find jobs will either need to be supported by taxpayer dollars or die in poverty.

People talk about UBI as a solution for this but the money for UBI has to come from somewhere. Are corporations going to voluntarily pay a new tax to support UBI?
by aatd86 | 2025-07-18 16:35:41+00:00
highfalutin... I didn't know that word :D

I actually believe otherwise, AI risks fossilizing our programming languages expressiveness and developper experience, shunting any possibility of improvements that is not envoded in its data set.

I think that for tools made for human consumption, AI is always going to be limited (even AGI). A case of "for us by us" is necessary.

Unless humans completely delegate the machine coding to machines and we only remain with a few legacy systems, never inspecting new machine instruction corpus. Inthe future that is.
by fredthedeve | 2025-07-18 16:35:57+00:00
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Really appreciate you trying it out. For longer videos, transcription can definitely take a bit... I'm working on moving processing to more powerful servers (currently running off my home machine)

For a quick overview on how it works and to get past those initial steps, this demo video of ragsplain might help:

https://youtu.be/BwuA_e7Xn74
by no_wizard | 2025-07-18 16:35:58+00:00
How was Harris - who would have at the very least continued the sane economic policies of the Biden administration, a “terrible option” compared to Trump who repeatedly and with much enthusiasm, said he would pursue as much disruption as possible with tariffs, ice raids, and poor foreign trade policies?

How are these equivalent to each other? That’s such false statement I don’t know how anyone can give it a pass at this point
by pembrook | 2025-07-18 16:36:01+00:00
6: Make employees much harder to fire, make companies much less likely to hire

7: Continue speaking 48 different languages and teach english too late so you have fragmented markets that on average can barely talk with each other at a 1st grade level

8: Have wildly different regulatory, legal and tax schemes within each fragmented mini-market such that EU-wide expansion is difficult

9: Cement social welfare expectations based on economic and population-driven realities that no longer exist, making competitive taxation regimes impossible

10: Force almost all private capital into centralized government run pension systems that are massively underinvested in risk assets, starving the business/venture ecosystem of capital while not meeting the social welfare expectations.
by orwin | 2025-07-18 16:36:04+00:00
In my country, social security and universal healthcare administrative cost are 8-11% depending on the year.

Compare that to Swisslife, my previous private healthcare insurance: for every 100€ I gave them, 66-72€ were paid to insure in need while I had them. Of course the mandatory dividends were pretty high before COVID, and reinvestment/marketing/sales has to take a bite of that, so perhaps only half of the 30% they take from customers are admin costs, but still, I'd rather give more to my country national healthcare if I could.

Probably the variance you have could be caused by non-admin costs being counted as admin costs.
by saubeidl | 2025-07-18 16:36:05+00:00
May I familiarize you with the Madagascar Plan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

The Nazis were claiming they'd deport the Jews at first. It never goes directly to death camps, it's baby steps of normalization.

> "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

- Milton Meyer, They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933 - 1945
by axus | 2025-07-18 16:36:24+00:00
I'd say no, crushing / surpassing the competition is not a goal for non-commercial software and it doesn't have to be.

The thesis is that "GPL code becomes irrelevant", and they are probably right about GCC. It doesn't mean GCC goes away, just that it will become irrelevant to more people. Sun Studio and Borland C++ are even more irrelevant, not sure where that fits in the conversation. Is MS Visual Studio becoming irrelevant?
by deanmoriarty | 2025-07-18 16:36:25+00:00
For someone like me who is considering quitting their job for an extended period of time, and whose financial situation will not qualify for any subsidy on the ACA, how much is the cost expected to increase? The article doesn't seem to say, since it talks about "average" (i.e. heavily subsidized I assume).

Last estimates from a few weeks ago were ~$500/mo premiums for a bronze plan (+ deductible of course).
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 16:36:31+00:00
> you're doomed

You're making a big stretch here. Sure, you can be left in the dust behind their proprietary fork, that's true: https://hypercritical.co/2013/04/12/code-hard-or-go-home

But your habitual workflow isn't "doomed". You can always fork and keep using the same open version of the project that you've always used. If the project is popular enough, there's usually a community that keeps maintaining that fork.

That's the deal that you get. Free software was never about "free upgrades forever". It's about the freedom to fork.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-18 16:36:32+00:00
> So adding more responsibilities to police to now also get expert level training in determining causes of fires and finding clues in a fire incident.

In Germany, we have the same separation. We have solved the issue by having dedicated units for stuff like political crimes, online crimes, fire/arson investigators, organized crime, property crimes, violent crimes, drug units, you name it.

They're all policemen and -women, but at the very least they stay on the unit for many years and learn on the job, or they get additional education, or they get actual professionals (aka, the police officers do the police/bureaucracy side of things, the expert does the forensics).

> Let the fire department investigate fires and then pass on the information for the police to secure the suspect/s and follow the justice system.

Bad idea, there are lots of things to take care about when collecting and securing evidence.
by jtrn | 2025-07-18 16:36:40+00:00
I think I agree. But I come at it from a different angle. I only care if proposed therapies actually work, when people claim they do. I think the state has a horrendous track record of deciding what people are allowed to do with their own life. And I think drug enforcements are a waste of resources. I think almost all drugs are terrible and should never be taken. To me, all of these are simultaneously true.
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-18 16:37:01+00:00
You don't need to do a smurf naming convention if everything is modules (especially ESM). TS Namespaces are a hack from the time when everything was global scoped, but ESM has been around since ES2015, is supported out of the box in all major browsers today, and is supported in Node (I recommend "type": "module" in package.json) and preferred/native in Deno and Bun.
by tofof | 2025-07-18 16:37:01+00:00
Embarassingly, as I reread this 11 days later (wondering where I got a 20 point score bump from), I notice I once again said the exact opposite of cone and rod. I seem to be cursed to do this every time I mention them even though I am extremely well aware of the difference. The periphery and single-photon nature I was referring to are of course our low-light ROD cells, with color high-detail high-light-need cone cells at the fovea. So, for anyone in the future reading my comment, there's the first correction.

The second is that I didn't catch that my paste buffer dropped the same link in when I switch to talking about fusion flicker threshold during saccades. The specific paper I meant to link was this one, though there does not seem to be a fully public version available. Even so, discussions and citations of this paper and others are easy to find.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477153512436367

I'm surprised neither error got caught at the time.
by m4rtink | 2025-07-18 16:37:04+00:00
Didn't Sony gobble up a whole bunch of stuff from FReeBSD for the last few Playstation release without hardly contributing anything back at all ? IIRC the might have sent some patches to improve SMP or sponsored a conference.

Same with Microsoft and the Windows TCP stack lifted from BSD as well.

Compare with GPL licensed projects, like the Linux Kernel & its license making many projects possible, like the OpenWRT project for example.
by turtle_samurai | 2025-07-18 16:37:16+00:00
Hi Peter, when i went to Hacker news this morning and saw this post i thought, that's a bit unusual, an attorney??, so i think its cool that an immigration attorney visits channels like this. Anyways, me and my soon to be wife (we get married next Friday) have consulted an immigration lawyer regarding my status, i overstayed my tourist visa, so now im out of status, the lawyer mentioned that i have a pretty good chance to adjust my status since i came here legally and i don't have any felonies or anything bad on my record, however my concern is this, should we and my future wife wait a bit longer to apply for this change of status until we have more hard evidence? we live together and have a joint bank account, in which i deposit a certain amount each month so she can pay bills etc, thing is she is not regularly using the card, she just uses a big portion on the rent or she just transfers it to her personal, we will also get our phone and car insurance bills together, we have joint Costco membership too, what other evidence do you recommend we should work on or is there a resource online i can use as a guide to build an excellent case? thank you!!
by znort_ | 2025-07-18 16:37:20+00:00
> just because iOS didn’t support dynamic libraries (so we had to statically link it)

if you develop closed software for a walled garden then relying on gpl is still possible but a rather contradictory philosophy. i guess the alternative would have been developing all that from scratch, or getting it from elsewhere, likely paying for it, which would have made those costs even more prohibitive ... otoh i really don't understand those prohibitive costs because supplying the object code was all you needed. what were those? lawyers?
by Otek | 2025-07-18 16:37:37+00:00
I disagree with author here. I wish I didn’t, because that would mean that customers are much more aware than they really are. In reality I doubt that adding those features to existing models had any impact on sales at all. If Apple had data that people would buy headphones for those features, they would 100% made them exclusive. AirPods are just the best in its class, that’s why people are buying them.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-07-18 16:37:38+00:00
That's not true, and it's why clinics are panicking over the new requirement to demonstrate citizenship. The theory was Federal monies were always largely denied to undocumented migrants, but in fact there was significant admixture between state and Federal funding and clinics were reimbursed out of Federal accounts for undocumented migrant care (because California just didn't track who was a citizen and who wasn't).

With that threatened there's a lot of worry here in California, especially about ERs being overrun by undocumented migrants seeking care and claiming it's an emergent issue (because where else can they go?).
by proberts | 2025-07-18 16:37:40+00:00
There's no requirement that a green card holder spend 6 months in the U.S. during the year. You and your wife can and should travel freely. And you could live outside the U.S. for several years and still keep your green card. If you decide to move to Portugal for a period of time, for example, you should consult an attorney but the solution to protect your green card status (for at least 5 years) is to get a document called a reentry permit, which is easy to get.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-18 16:37:41+00:00
I know this is going to sound funny, but I'd almost rather them takeover NPR than remove it's funding. Or Better; create an NPR 2 MAGA Boogaloo or something.

As long as no one is forced to watch it. If you think there's a positive traditional family-oriented or otherwise conservative influence that is missing in the world, I dunno do a "Breitbart Street" for kids or something. Mr. Miller's Neighborhood. I hear all this talk about how the culture is too woke, but no attempt to actually promote an alternative positive message. Be the change you want to see in the world. (There's a lot of sarcasm in here, but I am serious about the underlying core)
by postalcoder | 2025-07-18 16:37:47+00:00
Normies in my life get significant utility from AirPods.

It may frustrate many that this continues to be brought up as the bar when discussing apple products, but getting the old folks onto wireless headphones was impossible prior to AirPods.

I have multiple 80+ year olds in my life and they just use them. Never asked me a thing about pairing. When things go awry they go to the apple story and pay $75 for the replacements.

Some may consider this a tax. For others, it’s a premium they’re willing to pay.
by kjellsbells | 2025-07-18 16:37:50+00:00
What would you recommend for foreign born US citizens worried about being approached by ICE? What are the basic ground rules for interacting?

For example, some of us here look very much like we didnt grow up in an Iowa cornfield and have genuine concern that one negative interaction is going to result in being roughed up by untrained ICE agents at best and tossed into jail or worse.

Do we just get used to the idea of carrying our passport at all times? Is an ICE agent authorized to demand it and take it from us "for checking", say?

Bar two pieces of fragile paper - a passport and a naturalization certificate - it's not obvious that a citizen is a citizen.
by cwbriscoe | 2025-07-18 16:37:56+00:00
I do other things besides COBOL but I maintain and occasionally enhance many COBOL applications:

- Item Database (SKU, UPC, attributes)

- Stock Status (Sales, Onhands, process sales transactions from POS systems)

- Replenishment (Create vendor and DC orders to stores)

- Reporting (Report sales and other performance data by stores, departments, classes, etc..)

- Pricing (make and maintain current and future price changes, send to store when needed).

- Many other applications (15+)

They have been saying they are going to get rid of these applications for over 20 years now. I am still waiting...
by cayley_graph | 2025-07-18 16:37:56+00:00
I did. I believe this sort of stuff to be, at least morally, a violation of the 4A. It's no secret that the anti-Israel protests have gotten an inordinate amount of attention from the law relative to any harm caused, and overstepping bounds like this even to catch actual criminals (as happened here) isn't worth the price paid in liberty.

My comment was targeted at the government/ICE's notorious targeting of anti-Israel protesters broadly. It's absolutely clear that we're giving up rights left and right for this total farce, the same way we did for 9/11. It is imperative to the survival of liberal democracy that this ceases.
by omnicognate | 2025-07-18 16:37:57+00:00
I agree with much of what you say, but this:

> An individual neuron doesn't "think" or "understand" anything. It's a biological cell that simply fires an electrochemical signal when its input threshold is met.

is a wildly oversimplified representation of what a neuron is and how it interacts with the rest of the brain. Even what we know is far beyond this description and there's a vast amount more that we don't know.

One of the assumptions that people make (with or without realising they are making it) is that the brain is a componentised information processing device, that you can break it down into units that effectively communicate in a digital way. This may be true, but it may not. It may not be possible to decompose a mind into parts communicating via digital signals without sacrificing conscious experience.

Personally, I think it's likely that it isn't possible to do that, but I don't know for sure. Others clearly think it's likely that it is possible, which is a perfectly valid opinion. Neither should pretend that science has yet given us an unambiguous answer on the question.
by florbnit | 2025-07-18 16:38:11+00:00
> EU's legal arm can't extent outside the boarders of the EU, without an outright military invasion

All the lawsuits from EU against tech companies outside the EU have been carried out without any military invasions required. You are delusional if you think USA is going to go “Google won’t pay the fines, invade us if you want the money”
by cwilby | 2025-07-18 16:38:14+00:00
When my pair of Airpods started hissing, I bought "cheap" headphones from Amazon for $40. No Siri integration or what have you, but mic & speakers work great and if I lose them I'm not out hundreds of dollars.

Also the bluetooth pairing / switching between devices is much saner for me.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FLNSYDZ
by nicoburns | 2025-07-18 16:38:21+00:00
Servo is MPL not GPL licensed.

And even even that's a bit of a problem for the Servo project, as it makes it hard to move code between Servo crates and other Rust ecosystem crates (which are typically MIT/Apache2.0), which means that Servo is it's own "island" somewhat disconnected from the rest of the Rust ecosystem.

(there's nothing inherently wrong with the MPL, but it being a different and incompatible license to the rest of the ecosystem does cause problems)
by js2 | 2025-07-18 16:38:41+00:00
My AirPods Pro (2nd gen) are just about 3 years old, still going strong, used daily for anywhere from 30-minutes to a few hours. I recently rented a U-Haul cargo van and had to drive it empty for a few hours. It would've been deafening without the AirPods. The noise cancellation works great for something like that.

My AirPods Pro first gen are nearly 6 years old, same use up till I gave them to my wife. She uses them less, but they are still going strong as well.

I just wish the tips fit my ears better. I'v resorted to having to make custom tips by placing memory foam under the large silicone tips. It's the only way I can get a decent seal. I've tried a few different third-party tips (including Comply) and none work for me.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-07-18 16:38:43+00:00
Only if it’s done in compliance. There was been little to show this administration follows the constitution, laws, or judicial orders let alone regulation. Especially when it comes to Stephen Miller there’s a significant “move fast and break the law” effort knowing judicial or legislative remedy can take a long time and is not assured given the penetration of captured justices and congressional independence. Especially in something like this where you have to establish standing, do discovery, etc, it’s an uphill battle to ensure compliance and the out of compliance stuff happens behind closed doors. With most of the federal government oversight functions either gutted or entirely captured by politically partisan sycophants, I would not hold my breath expecting any boundaries or relief.

This is what a real deep state looks like. “He who smelt it dealt it” seems to be a natural law.
by burningChrome | 2025-07-18 16:38:45+00:00
Maybe this is the reality he was trying to point out?

California’s $6 Billion Band-Aid: The Cost of Covering Illegal Immigrants

Last week it was announced that Governor Gavin Newsom is seeking a $3.44 billion loan from California’s general fund, as well as an immediate additional $2.8 billion in funding, to cover over-budget expenses incurred by our state’s Medi-Cal program.[1] Why is the program over budget and underfunded? There are a few factors that have gone into it, but the main reason comes down to the fact that the state expanded Medi-Cal to include coverage for illegal immigrants, and they underestimated how many of these participants would sign up to the program.[2]

https://www.thecaliforniaconversation.com/articles/californi...
by dzaima | 2025-07-18 16:38:57+00:00
Git - jj[1] uses gitoxide for its git interop/backend (git being the backend of jj you're expected to use), both Apache/MIT; it functioned so cleanly I assumed it was invoking git directly, but apparently it's all custom!

For new things I'd guess PostgreSQL vs MySQL is probably on the same order as llvm vs gcc; probably with PostgreSQL being better off than llvm even.

[1]: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/ (started by a Googler as a hobby project, now their full-time job at Google, so kinda fits into the "big orgs will replace things with permissive-licensed versions" narrative)