MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by surge | 2025-07-25 02:27:08+00:00
All the progressive solutions seem to only not work, but exacerbate the problem and expose the public to more risk. Not to mention all the sympathy and gentle parenting the problem under the masquerade of tolerance just keeps the homeless in their addictions and spirals while those that dictate policies can get away with doing nothing and live in their secure buildings and escorted by private cars and security so as to never look at the problem. The lack of authority on the matter leaves it to random citizens to deal with, sometimes with deadly or legal consequences when its mishandled instead of being handled appropriately by trained law enforcement or social workers. Sadly, the past solution was more humane than the current ones when you look purely at the end results.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-25 02:27:29+00:00
My town set up an apartment building specifically to house the "chronically" homeless. It cost a fortune to build (something like twice the cost per square foot as normal, or maybe more). The rationale was exactly that, give them stable housing so they can work on their addictions and life skills.

Fast forward five years, the place is a shithole. Roach-infested, apartments severely damaged and filthy, needles and garbage everywhere. Police, fire, and EMS spending a disproportonate amount of resources there.

People who are chronically homeless and addicted do not know how to live in houses. If you give them housing they will destroy it or they people they associate with will destroy it.

Sobriety has to come first. Some people won't accept that. At some point you have to stop accomodating their behavior and just say "no, that is not an acceptable way to live, and you can't do that here."
by Jstreetman | 2025-07-25 02:28:35+00:00
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by ImJamal | 2025-07-25 02:28:36+00:00
I know a guy who has down syndrome and he is the happiest guy I've ever met. Any time I see him, even if he doesn't see me, he is smiling and just looks like he loves life. When he sees me, or anybody else he knows, he gets the biggest grin on his face. When you talk to him, you can tell he is such a happy guy with no stress.

If that is not a benefit then I'm not sure what is.
by sub7 | 2025-07-25 02:29:51+00:00
I spend many months in India every year and I've been paying with RuPay and UPI for the past 5 years exclusively. It works, and India saved 1-2% of all digital payments going to some leechy foreign middlemen who do nothing.

V/M would love to "but fraud" us sadly the actual payment fraud % is much lower than claimed and easily dealt with by the issuing/receiving banks.
by smeej | 2025-07-25 02:29:54+00:00
I wonder how familiar you are with the reality of a life with DS today. Certainly some children with DS are dependent their entire lives, but others marry, have jobs, support themselves, teach others, etc. And on the whole, both individuals with DS and their family members report higher levels of happiness and satisfaction with their lives than others.

I can say with absolute sincerity that if I happen to conceive a child with DS, I will feel like I won the genetic lottery. Not saying you do or should have the same values, but dismissing the experience of the families who do have these children in them because you have a different set of values that would make it undesirable for you isn't fair either.
by spacephysics | 2025-07-25 02:30:06+00:00
A week or so ago the FBI report investigating an incident of unintentional discharge back in 2024 was released via FOIA. This particular case was a police officer who had the firearm in the holster, and by just normal movement it went off. Multiple layers of the striker fire system safety’s failed, and fired the chambered round.

What was particularly beneficial/unique is the P320 was kept in the holster when given to the FBI to investigate, and only removed after their forensic team X-rayed it, giving us pretty solid case study of how it happens

This guy does a great job going through the report: https://youtu.be/LfnhTYeVHHE
by stouset | 2025-07-25 02:30:12+00:00
Vested is not exercised.

Options vest, but you have to exercise them to purchase the underlying shares. This is nominally cheap, but from the IRS’ perspective you have just spent $1 to purchase a share worth $100, so that’s $99 of income. Multiply by a large number of options and you can easily have a real multimillion dollar tax bill even though you have no way to sell the shares to recoup their value.

Worse, if the company loses its value before you can sell, you’re still out those taxes with zero recourse. It’s an enormous risk.

If you leave a company with vested but unexercised shares, you generally forfeit them.
by robmensching | 2025-07-25 02:30:29+00:00
I have seen some other projects show interest and a few have adopted it. I've not checked in with any of them. The Open Source Maintenance Fee is pretty new, and I've not been promoting it for use by other Open Source projects (yet) because I want to resolve any "OSMF bugs" using my project (WiX Toolset).

After the bugs are worked out, then I'll recommend it more widely and we'll see if it catches on then. I've had a number of maintainers express interest and inquire about how it is going.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-25 02:31:19+00:00
It was always a bad deal. It was supported by urban legends of janitors and cafeteria workers getting seven-figure payouts because they negotiated a few shares of a company that went IPO and went "unicorn". But the reality was, most startup companies failed, and most shares became worthless. In 1995, 2005, 2015, etc. it was the same story.

The only thing that changed recently is the "unicorns" stopped happening altogether.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-07-25 02:31:31+00:00
Related:

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658908

Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473694

ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672521
by strcat | 2025-07-25 02:32:14+00:00
It sounds like you're in a region not supporting E911 but rather depending on Google's proprietary Emergency Location Service. We plan to make our own implementation of what that provides:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174

GrapheneOS supports E911 and has our own network location implementation you can enable which gets used by it. Unlike Google's implementation, our network location is based on location position estimation similarly to iOS. Unlike iOS, we'll be providing full offline support for it.
by konstantinua00 | 2025-07-25 02:32:20+00:00
> The other devices don't meet the criteria

you got it wrong way around

the CONSUMER criteria is "we want better independent security ON DEVICES WE ALREADY OWN"

complaints like in this thread are symptoms of unfullfilled demand - and they can't be solved by saying "oh gosh, what a stupid demand that doesn't agree with our supply"
by jhhh | 2025-07-25 02:32:38+00:00
The problem with this post is that the author is conflating two different things. Using a type system to capture the units of a measurement or metric is straightforwardly better than having them be implied. Stripping a numeric value and unit down to just a value involves an obvious loss of information. That situation is wholly different than just wrapping your UUID in some bespoke type which doesn't provide any extra information. They just look the same because you're mechanically doing something similar (ie. wrapping some primitive or standard type in something else). Not to mention unless you want to make your wrappers monads you're going to have to unwrap them at some point anyway at which point you can still transpose the actual type when you have to call any external library/function. I would love to know what the test suites of these 'many bugs in real systems' projects looked like. I suspect the test suite coverage wasn't very good.
by vtbassmatt | 2025-07-25 02:32:38+00:00
Why do you think that people with Down syndrome are “utterly dependent on [their parents] for their entire lives”? All children come with a severe “emotional and mental cost”, have you seen the world today??

We knew with (well beyond) reasonable certainty that our son would have Down syndrome and chose to continue the pregnancy. We’re not religious and not part of any pro-birth political cohort; it was absolutely an affirmative choice.
by joe_the_user | 2025-07-25 02:33:02+00:00
They've been doing the exact right thing for the shareholders: squeezing the living shit out of an asset (x86/64) for decades while cutting anything interesting or competitive to the bone to give shareholders more money.

I would quibble with the exact right thing phrases but otherwise agree. Intel indeed followed a formula which is intended to and often does produce massive return for some time frame. The formula is indeed "gutting the company" - squeeze every part of an enterprise and return the results as profits. Whether destroying the companies long term prospects is worth these short term profits is a complex calculation.

A managers' duty is to promote long term value and stability, actually, but return enough short term profits and you trump that long investment income.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-25 02:33:12+00:00
https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/CGB%20Files/Innovation%...

Coda (1979 Gordon Bell of House Intel):

In the U.S., in contrast, the role of the computer and robot is still debated, while our disgruntled work force grows impatient carrying out meaningless work on throw-away items. We must return to valuing the understanding of our technology, so that we stop being the slaves of Japanese enterprise.

Oncular advice for an underspecified "we"

How are the Fujianese building in Arizona going to do anything for the technical masses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlandia_(album)

In 1979, Deng Xiaoping might have already been thinking about rare earths. (1992 voiced, check when they started building rail to Inner Mongolia/Tibet vs Yunnan eg )
by donio | 2025-07-25 02:33:37+00:00
The Go toolchain is a nice illustration of this approach working in practice. It fully bootstraps in 90 seconds on my aging laptop and since it's fully self-hosted it doesn't even need a C compiler unless you want cgo support.

LLVM takes 2 hours to build on the same host and zig (with the LLVM backend) is another 20 minutes. It will be awesome if that can be brought down to 2 minutes or less.
by spacephysics | 2025-07-25 02:34:47+00:00
Their report outlined here and the police officer’s account of the unintentional discharge occurred without dropping and while securely in the holster without any items intruding in the holster (i say that because it was a prior excuse Sig made for the unintentional discharge reports)

https://youtu.be/LfnhTYeVHHE
by MinimalAction | 2025-07-25 02:34:52+00:00
India did great by introducing UPI and subsequently RuPay to face these duopoly behemoths. UPI replaced queues to ATMs in general since one could typically scan a QR code and have the amount transferred in seconds. This is far more modern than ACH equivalents US has. But the downside is that it is a debit transaction; if you're scammed, there is usually no way to retrieve it unless a court orders so.
by minimalist | 2025-07-25 02:34:52+00:00
Last I heard, Google discontinued publishing device trees and driver binaries for Pixel devices with their recent changes to their stewardship of the AOSP [0]. Was it something definitive or are they merely delayed? If the practice is being discontinued, what would be the reason why? Doesn't publishing these artifacts create a business case for customer demand for the Pixel devices? Or is there some cost that outweighs the benefits? Is it maintainer overhead?

I didn't bring this up when it was a news story last month because there was a lot of cynicism in the thread, but I am genuinely curious. I am really grateful for both GrapheneOS and Google for creating a phone platform that Just Works for the essential stuff and that I can reasonably recommend to non-technical people!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259921
by jonstewart | 2025-07-25 02:34:56+00:00
> Create self-sufficient loops > > Set up Claude to verify its own work by running builds, tests, and lints automatically.

I’ve got much better at using Claude.md and plan files, etc., but it still goes off the rails so quickly when I try to get it to follow a normal TDD test/edit/build/commit workflow. It will report success, and then the unit tests will fail or the working copy is dirty or there are build errors, etc. An LLM may be great for figuring out what code to write and what weird tool incantation to run to debug something, but I am fed up enough I want to write my own agent, because all I want is a switch-statement state machine to manage workflow.
by scribify | 2025-07-25 02:35:20+00:00
In today’s digital world, YouTube is our go-to hub for everything from learning to kicking back. Lots of folks want to save videos for offline viewing, and MP4’s killer compatibility and solid quality make it the top pick. But before you hit download, here are 8 key things to wrap your head around:

1.Is Downloading YouTube Videos Legal? Short answer: It’s murky. YouTube’s rules generally say no to downloading without permission, and laws vary by region—especially for copyrighted stuff. Do your homework to stay on the right side of the law.

2.What Tools Can Actually Do This? You’ve got options: online grabbers, desktop apps, and browser add-ons. Trusted names like 4K Video Downloader,scribify.ai/downloader/youtube-to-mp4, or ClipGrab get the job done. Stick with legit tools—sketchy ones aren’t worth the risk.

3.How Do I Pick the Right Video Quality? Higher res (like 1080p or 4K) means killer visuals but eats up storage. Lower res (480p) saves precious space. Match the quality to your device and how much room you’ve got to spare.

4.Why’s MP4 the Gold Standard? MP4’s the Swiss Army knife of video formats—great compression, plays nice with everything (phones, laptops, smart TVs). Plus, it keeps both video and audio crisp.

5.Will the Download Include Audio? Yep, usually! Most tools bundle audio automatically. Just double-check your pick handles both—nobody wants a silent movie.

6.How Do I Dodge Malware & Viruses? Only use reputable tools and sites. Steer clear of shady links or sketchy downloads. Running antivirus software? Keep it active—better safe than sorry.

7.How Big Will the File Be? Size depends on length, resolution, and encoding. A 10-min 1080p vid? Heftier than its 720p cousin. Tools often show estimates—peek before you download to avoid storage surprises.

8.What Can I Do With Downloaded MP4s? Play ’em anywhere: VLC, Windows Media Player, or QuickTime. Want to edit? Fire up Adobe Premiere or iMovie and get creative.

The Bottom Line Grabbing YouTube videos as MP4s is super handy—but play it smart. Know the rules, pick trustworthy tools, and keep your guard up. Nail these 8 points, and you’ll binge offline safely. Oh, and respect those copyrights—keep it on the up and up.
by esseph | 2025-07-25 02:35:46+00:00
"There are various situations in which brandishing a firearm may occur. For instance, pulling out a gun during an argument or altercation with another person could be considered brandishing. Additionally, waving or gesturing with a firearm in a manner that suggests aggression or hostility towards others may also constitute brandishing. It is crucial to understand that even if no shots are fired, and no physical harm is inflicted, the mere act of displaying a weapon in such circumstances can lead to serious legal consequences."

Source: https://www.dischleylaw.com/blog/2024/june/understanding-the...
by knome | 2025-07-25 02:35:52+00:00
monads were certainly a clever fix for the difficulties otherwise caused by passing around the world as a value.

I might argue that laziness makes haskell something different than purely applicative.

It's not just pure values being passed around. It's a language built atop suspended self-caching invocable thunks getting knotted up and then firing off in chain reaction.

main = do let hello = foo world world = bar hello putStrLn $ show hello putStrLn $ show world where foo v = [v] bar v = length v
by gosub100 | 2025-07-25 02:36:26+00:00
They are in a peculiar logical pickle: admit the gun is defective and lose all their current lawsuits plus many more that will dogpile on. Plus take a devastating hit to future sales.

Or deny it, saving face and relying on FUD that the discharges (several were caught on video ) were random or somehow the fault of the owners. Sig were even using some anti-anti-gun arguments (the same retorts that 2A people use against no-gun advocates) against their own customers! Saying they weren't being responsible or something along that line. It's a terrible situation for everyone involved.
by YoumuChan | 2025-07-25 02:36:39+00:00
I hate to say this but I don't foresee Graphene being "mainstream". Most users will stick to the stock ROM. The most "mainstream" custom ROM Lineage is only installed on 0.04% of Android devices as of 2023 [1]. Even if Graphene appears in some mainstream news, I highly doubt any ordinary person can recognize it when they see one.

If the threat model is hiding from random people, I think a hidden profile works very well.

Now let's talk about motivated adversary as you put it. Hidden profile and wiping are not either-or, they can coexist. If one is really targeted by a motivated adversary, it should be apparent in most cases, and the targeted person can choose to enter the wiping PIN instead of the secondary profile PIN.

Now if one is targeted by a really motivated and threatening adversary, I don't think wiping PIN is any better than secondary profile PIN. The moment one chooses to wipe the phone, the adversary could be triggered by the action and harm the victim anyway.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2023/11/20/lineageos-number-of-device...
by vtbassmatt | 2025-07-25 02:39:08+00:00
I think this point would be better made without using the word “extreme” so much. All children bring new challenges; kids with DS often bring more; my child with DS has never, ever been an “extreme” challenge (just like most of the other families with kids with DS we know). There are definitely outliers where the “extreme” applies, but it’s not a helpful way of thinking about DS in general.
by remich | 2025-07-25 02:39:25+00:00
As with all uses of current AI (meaning generative AI LLMs) context is everything. I say this as a person who is both a lawyer and a software engineer. It is not surprising that the general purpose models wouldn't be great at writing a legal brief -- the training data likely doesn't contain much of the relevant case law because while it is theoretically publicly available, practicing attorneys universally use proprietary databases like Lexis and WestLaw to surface it. The alternative is spelunking through public court websites that look like they were designed in the 90s or even having to pay for case records like on PACER.

At the same time, even if you have access to proper context like if your model can engage with Lexis or WestLaw via tool-use, surfacing appropriate matches from caselaw requires more than just word/token matching. LLMs are statistical models that tend to reduce down to the most likely answer. But, typically, in the context of a legal brief, a lawyer isn't attempting to find the most likely answer or even the objectively correct answer, they are trying to find relevant precedent with which they can make an argument that supports the position they are trying to advance. An LLM by its nature can't do that without help.

Where you're right, then, is that law and software engineering have a lot in common when it comes to how effective baseline LLM models are. Where you're wrong is in calling them glorified auto-complete.

In the hands of a novice they will, yes, generate plausible but mostly incorrect or technically correct but unusable in some way answers. Properly configured with access to appropriate context in the hands of an expert who understands how to communicate what they want the tool to give them? Oh that's quite a different matter.
by smeej | 2025-07-25 02:39:30+00:00
How long ago was this?

I ask because segregation like that was considered standard of care decades ago, but has not been in decades now too, so if it was recent, it's not following current best practices, and if it was long ago, it's worth noting that this is no longer the standard of care, indeed because it wasn't helpful and people would not choose it.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-25 02:39:37+00:00
I think it’s easy to spend _time_ when the reward is intangible or unlikely, like an evening writing toy applications to learn something new or prototyping some off-the-wall change in a service that might have an interesting performance impact. If development becomes metered in both time and to-the-penny dollars, I at least will have to fight the attitude that the rewards also need to be more concrete and probable.
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-25 02:39:57+00:00
> But: everybody understands that.

Everybody does not understand that otherwise there would be zero of these issues in shipping code.

This is the problem with the C++ crowd hoping to save their language. Maybe they'll finally figure out some --disallow-all-ub-and-be-memory-safe-and-thread-safe flag but at the moment it's still insanely trivial to make a mistake and return a reference to some value on the stack or any number of other issues.

The answer can not be "just write flawless code and you'll never have these issues" but at the moment that's all C++, and Go, from this article has.
by samplatt | 2025-07-25 02:40:38+00:00
The whole world (not just America) has polarising hateful propaganda aggressively pushed at them for... oh about 2-3 generations now.

There's a lot of people that have woken up to this and are loving and accepting, and sometimes it can feel like this is becoming the norm when you're able to surround yourself with that kind of person... but you're right. It isn't "the norm" it just normal enough for some lucky people.
by spike021 | 2025-07-25 02:40:49+00:00
a couple weekends ago i handed it the basic MLB api and asked it to create some widgets for MacOS to show me stuff like league/division/wildcard standings along with basic settings to pick which should be shown. it cranked out a working widget in like a half hour with minimal input.

i know some swift so i checked on what it was doing. for a quick hack project it did all the work and easily updated things i saw issues with.

for a one-off like that, not bad at all. not too dissimilar from your example.
by spacephysics | 2025-07-25 02:41:31+00:00
Check out this video, the FBI report got released a few weeks ago. This was a FOIA’d report from 2024 of a police officer who had the P320 holstered, doing normal movements (didnt drop the holstered firearm)

Unique case in that the FBI got the firearm still in the holster (it hadn’t been removed or the round cleared after the discharge)

This is what has led to the recent uptick in Sig scrutiny, then unfortunately the OP incident happened and it’s rightfully so made Sig’s situation much worse

https://youtu.be/LfnhTYeVHHE