MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nosianu | 2025-08-02 15:47:08+00:00
Here in Germany, in Berlin, these "protests" included wrecking a lecture hall and seriously injuring a Jewish student.

- https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2025/04/berlin-humboldt... (April 2025)

- https://astafu.de/node/589 (February 2024)

(Both links are German language - that should not be a problem anymore these days I hope)

I don't see why you refuse to even consider that there is more than 1 and 0 absolutes.

The majority of protests does not create such headlines. We have had smaller and larger protests in many cities(here in Germany). People meet, walk, speak, and that is fine and nobody complains. But especially in 2024 that was not all that happened.

I read similar students about threatened Jewish students at US universities.

It is, as so often, caused by a violent and vocal minority. But if a hundred protesters are peaceful and only one hits you on the head you still have a very bad day as the victim.

- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/five-jewish-coll... (Oct 2024)

- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/04/antise... (June 2025)

Maybe it is getting better, this report says that in 2025 things have improved for both Muslim and Jewish students: "The biggest takeaways from Harvard’s task force reports on campus antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias" -- https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/29/us/harvard-reports-antise... (May 2025)
by throwaway18373 | 2025-08-02 15:47:19+00:00
You "write C++ every workday" and don't even know that moved-from objects are guaranteed to be valid?

> return references to local stack variables from functions

> use uninitiated variables

Any properly configured compiler will catch and warn about those errors.

> double-delete (or zero!)

Not a real issue if you're using smart pointers.

Sure, you can program with no compiler warnings and no smart pointers—but nothing is stopping you from wrapping your entire Rust program in "unsafe" and doing all those things there as well. Programming languages can only do so much to save people from their own incompetence.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-02 15:47:26+00:00
Possibly. It’s hugely expensive to order a completely custom screen, and I know Framework waited for a long time for a better 3:2 display to come onto the market after the initial one—the current better panel is actually a compromise that loses some pixels to rounded corners, which is fine but IMO not “pay $270+tax+shipping for the upgrade” fine. Looking at the specs of the screens, I’m almost sure that both the original 2256×1504 one and the rounded-corners 2880×1920 one are actually identical to the ones in the Microsoft Surface (changed to a matte finish), so it’s Microsoft footing the custom-screen bill in this case. (I’ve heard we’re not getting small phones for a similar reason: you would need to sell a lot of phones to justify a new screen, and all the small-phone people will still begrudgingly buy a large one if there are no small ones.)
by jeswin | 2025-08-02 15:47:33+00:00
> It’s as unstable as a SpaceX launch

Hate makes people blind. Starship is failing by design - that's just how they're choosing to develop it. The chopsticks video that we saw earlier was very nearly science fiction. And as far as regular launches go, SpaceX has done more successful launches than any company or nation ever.

But more generally, this idea of abandoning an app (or product) the moment you encounter people who disagree with you is disheartening.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-02 15:47:39+00:00
This idea of pretending that your only option is $15 cocktails really makes this argument look lame. Not to mention that the federal minimum wage is basically irrelevant in most places - where I live starting entry level pay at McDonald's is $17/hr.

Cocktails were expensive when I was young, too. We just hardly ever drank them. We went to the liquor store and bought the cheapest shit we could that probably had a 50/50 chance of making us go blind.
by _fat_santa | 2025-08-02 15:47:47+00:00
Usually I get why companies release their UI frameworks. I've strongly considered using Atlassian's and AWS's frameworks in the past to build web apps because if it's good enough for Jira/AWS, it's probably good enough for my B2B saas app.

But I personally don't know why anyone would reach for this framework. Maybe if you're building a Windows app and you want a very consistent look and for your app to feel "native", but aren't there better options out there for doing this already?
by amluto | 2025-08-02 15:48:03+00:00
When motorcycles are electric, my personal objections to many motorcycles will become moot: they will stop being obnoxiously loud and they will stop being highly polluting. (Yes, I realize that this isn’t all motorcycles, and I also realize that there are cars with exactly the same problem.)

Seriously, many motorcycles are louder and stinkier than an entire block full of cars.
by mortenjorck | 2025-08-02 15:48:06+00:00
I don’t think your point and the reply about dogs are in disagreement. If anything, the “anthropification” of dogs (putting them in strollers, having birthday parties for them) strongly suggests that AI is headed for that role, and if happiness surveys are anything to go by, neither the dogs nor the chat bots are going to have the desired effect, even as they trend toward ubiquity.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-02 15:49:12+00:00
Bad male behavior is generally a bit more threatening and unpleasant to be around. But, I’ve also lived with good male friends, and with male strangers that ended up being great.

I mean, we didn’t twerk together. But it was fun to have a guy to plop down on the couch and watch play videogames, talk about Romans with, or whatever other male-coded quirkiness you want to pull up.

We often say “normalize <whatever>” to the point where it has become a bit of a trite phrase. But, there’s a lot of social pressure for men to be isolated. We should normalize living with your bros. It shouldn’t just be the wall-punchers that live together. (I mean, it isn’t).
by jona777than | 2025-08-02 15:50:10+00:00
After 16 years of coding professionally, I can say Claude Code has made me considerably better at the things that I had to bang my head against the wall to learn. For things I need to learn that are novel to me, for productivity sake, it’s been “easy come; easy go” like any other learning experience.

My two cents are:

If your goal is learning fully, I would prioritize the slow & patient route (no matter how fast “things” are moving.)

If your goal is to learn quickly, Claude Code and other AI tooling can be helpful in that regard. I have found using “ask” modes more than “agent” modes (where available) can go a long way with that. I like to generate analogies, scenarios, and mnemonic devices to help grasp new concepts.

If you’re just interested in getting stuff done, get good at writing specs and letting the agents run with it, ensuring to add many tests along the way, of course.

I perceive there’s at least some value in all approaches, as long as we are building stuff.
by ipdashc | 2025-08-02 15:51:12+00:00
KiCAD might not be a great example, but you could with something like https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD (or roughly along those lines - I'm not a hardware person), no?

The parent's question still seems applicable. Is this basically down to a judge to decide the line at which a certain technology is too advanced to export? Would open sourcing an EDA tool be illegal if it was sufficiently capable?
by _fat_santa | 2025-08-02 15:51:23+00:00
The issue I see with Windows 11's UI is they seem to focus too much on pushing new apps / features and not enough focus on catching up some of the older tools within Windows. Take for example the Control Panel which is a reskinned version of the same one that shipped with Windows 7. And I'm sure there are tools buried within the OS that probably date back to the 2000/XP days.

Windows 11 looks great if you just look at the press photos and stay a "very happy path" while using it but as soon as you start digging deeper you realize it's like that meme of Homer Simpson with clips on his back.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-02 15:51:24+00:00
I can’t find any recent communications asking residents to cut back on showers. However, it is true in the sense that Abilene chronically suffers from low water supplies, as discussed at the Federal Reserve here: https://www.dallasfed.org/research/swe/2025/swe2506

There are some evergreen informational pages at abilenetx.gov talking about “How YOU can reduce our water consumption!” but it looks like those have been up for a long time and are very general in nature.

Abilene does have approximately permanent water restrictions in place regarding watering lawns, viewable here: https://abilenetx.gov/598/Save-Abilene-Water
by _Algernon_ | 2025-08-02 15:51:34+00:00
>But more generally, this idea of abandoning an app (or product) the moment you encounter people who disagree with you is disheartening.

It is a behavior Substack itself encourages by turing itself into a social media platform instead of simply a newsletter provider.

Yes, it is useful for building a moat of network effects, but it also forces views and opionions down people's throats that reflect badly on the platform.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 15:51:41+00:00
The talk about having roommates into your 30s, 40s, and 50s to be able to split the load, avoid loneliness, socialize more, find motivation to do things with others, and have interesting conversations with people in different life situations is all interesting and good. Certainly something a single person should at least consider.

But it also feels funny to read this as a someone with a family at home, because a healthy family home life checks all of these boxes and more. I’m sure someone will come along to comment that not all families are this good at being friendly and splitting the load of cooking and such, but I think you’d find that most roommate situations aren’t splitting the load of cooking and making meals together like this at a much higher rate.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-02 15:51:58+00:00
You are quoting law concepts. If there was proof enough for legal action then "cancellation" would be not necessary right? Just go to jail for rape.

Often problem behavior is not criminal enough OR there is no proof to make it criminal enough.

If you were the victim what proof do you imagine your will have in this case? There would be no incriminating text messages. Everything is fine until he gets your college ass drunk in the privacy of own airbnb. The cards are stacked. A mature perp picks situation when there is no proof and no witnesses. And it is statistics that 9 out of 10 times it is a man.

Maybe the only proof if any after this would be STDs. Do you want to announce to the world you have some incurable virus that you will spread to new partner who you would want to have kids with? etc

Yea it sucks that fixing this mess makes men uncomfortable. If you are scared about getting drive by cancelled, you know who to blame. Other men.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-02 15:52:15+00:00
Can you source the apple PR claiming they invented the mp3 player or the smartphone?

I recall marketing comparing iPhones to blackberries. They even had iTunes running on Motorola phone

https://www.makeuseof.com/itunes-phone-before-the-iphone-exp...

Nobody claimed Apple was the first at this. They were just the best, eventually. But it’s been 20 years
by willprice89 | 2025-08-02 15:52:23+00:00
> Wage growth has severely lagged compounded capital, causing ordinary people increasingly see their best shot at real upward mobility in negative EV jackpots. Online gambling, 0DTE options, retail meme stocks, sports betting, and crypto memecoins all testify to the phenomena of exponential wealth preference. Technology makes speculating effortless, while social media spreads the story each new overnight millionaire, luring the broader population into one giant losing bet like moths to a light.

I don't think exponential wealth preference is the cause. For many people doing nothing is already (or at least feels like) a losing bet. At least if you YOLO what you've got into a losing bet there is a chance you come out ahead.
by roywiggins | 2025-08-02 15:52:28+00:00
Maybe, but it's a bit like taking the output of a Magic 8-ball as evidence for panpsychism. "Maybe all matter is conscious! What do you think, Magic 8-ball?" "Signs point to yes"

that is, if you train an LLM on a bunch of text that is almost certainly going to include stuff about sentient robots, that it sometimes announces that it's a sentient robot is not evidence that it is one
by galangalalgol | 2025-08-02 15:52:41+00:00
While you are running or just in general? The former makes sense, but the latter is weird. Telling an obese person to run also makes orthopedic doctors cringe. Swimming or strength training are a lot safer for their joints. I personally find regular running makes me super hungry for anything and everything. Making sure what is at hand is healthy is critical for me.
by deaddodo | 2025-08-02 15:52:41+00:00
There are three UI frameworks in Windows, and only two actively used/developed.

All the other "countless" frameworks are iterations of one of two lines: Win32/Native (WinAPI, MFC, WinRT, WinUI3, etc) and WPF/Managed (Avalon, WinUI2-3, etc). WinUI3 exists to bridge the gap.
by p_ing | 2025-08-02 15:53:04+00:00
Office is a completely separate team divorced from Windows proper. Unless Office deemed it wise to rewrite their UI, they're not going to do so (and it's a frankenstein of a Win32 UI).

Office on Windows relies heavily on COM and other Win32-only libraries to function.

I can't think of a valid reason to rewrite Office to that extent. They already have Office for the web and Mac Office; while not identical in features, they're often good enough outside of BI scenarios or highly complex Excel work.

Outlook is the lone exception where that team decided to have Outlook for the web, Windows Outlook, and Mac Outlook be identical, so those are getting their rewrites with removal of Win32-specific features where applicable.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-02 15:53:30+00:00
My favourite weird ABI choice is: Who does what for a barrier? The barrier needs one party to do work for a full fence, but which party that should be doesn't matter... There can be an x86 FENCE over on the store side, or we can put the x86 FENCE on the load. We could do both but that's pointless, so don't do that. However if we do neither we haven't built a barrier and now there's probably a horrible bug.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-02 15:53:54+00:00
On the Apple side of things, AppKit and UIKit work as well as they always did, and they’ve been less pushy about SwiftUI lately probably because they realized that the old toolkits aren’t going away any time soon.

For Qt, the hard-coupling of C++ or Python for Widgets and Quick being JS-centric haven’t done it any favors. C++ and Python are fine, but not everybody wants to write either, and most people interested in writing JS are going to gravitate towards front end web stacks over anything else.

I think that for a cross platform desktop UI toolkit to see any degree of long term success, a high degree of bindability is non-optional even if it’s most capable when used with its native language. The toolkit needs to meet developers where they are, and that means being usable in the language of their choice.
by bluecalm | 2025-08-02 15:53:56+00:00
Idk man, I find it pretty easy to eat any amount of calories. I actually gained weight when burning around 1500kcal/day on a bike during one month - way more than running 10mi/day would burn. That you find it difficult to eat enough during marathon training means your body is at least decent at regulating itself. For some people it's very easy (my gf stays at her very lean weight even when injured and doing 0 sports and then still stays there when burning 1000kcal/day) while for some it's very hard without help (my experience above).
by dh2022 | 2025-08-02 15:54:20+00:00
In Romania during the 70s and 80s the only people who would go to specialization/training in the West had spouse and kids that stayed behind. The punishment for defecting was that the defector would not see their wife/husband/kids ever again (well, it seemed to be for ever. Nobody expected the regime to crumble). AFAIK there were no labor camps in Romania.

With this in mind-I am quite sure NK is selecting the people win a similar fashion. I would not be surprised if the punishment for defection is more sinuster than just not seeing their spouse/kids ever again.
by liveoneggs | 2025-08-02 15:54:51+00:00
I assume you are being obtuse or whatever but anyway -- I will attempt clarify a little more. Why did you add qualifiers like "underrepresented" in your reply?

I am not on the list. My brother is not. My son is not. Most men I know are not. That's the entire problem with making a list; you can't help but exclude.

Do democrats support me and my interests? Have I been voting against my own interests by supporting a party who excludes me from their stated in-group?

You can find many articles pointing out problems with that page, which is probably why they finally took it down.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 15:55:26+00:00
> It is truly a new level of human excellence. The Epicurean garden of our age.

> This has never worked without the WORK involved. People clean, people have a forum for regular discussion, people have responsibilities, and people come and go.

> If you want a better life sometimes you have to game up with a better self.

I think it’s funny to hear the concept of teaming up with other people, putting in the work, sharing responsibilities, and having discussions among the community unit is described as “a new level of human excellence”

Because this is just describing what it’s like to have a family and a household. Many people do this. A lot of this thread feels like single people reinventing the concept of family to fill a void. That’s fine, of course. The funny part is being it described as a new and novel form of human excellence
by acheong08 | 2025-08-02 15:55:49+00:00
I regret open sourcing my reverse engineering of Obsidian Sync. I did it mostly for personal use but thought it might be useful for others. After a bit of cat and mouse, they fixed all the "vulnerabilities" that let you change the sync and publish endpoints and now I'm still stuck using a very outdated version. I recently found another way to get it working on IOS again but definitely not publishing it.
by throwaway22032 | 2025-08-02 15:56:03+00:00
These editorials all have a common fault which is that they fail the sniff test of “would you actually do this”. I don’t know if you would call it classism, or an attempt at manipulation, or what, it’s just weird.

It’s like - okay, I’ll have a wife and kids, go fishing with the boys, a house with a garden, a car, will fly on holidays etc, but “we” (real meaning: you) should use all of these weird technological bad substitutes.

The literal embodiment of the “eat bugs and be happy” meme.
by wslh | 2025-08-02 15:56:49+00:00
Microsoft has a long history of releasing numerous UI frameworks: VB, MFC, WTL, Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, and others. Yet despite this abundance, many of the core components Microsoft used in its own applications were never available to developers. They rarely ate their own dog food, and desktop UI development relied on third party components. For the past two decades, native desktop UIs have steadily declined in favor of web-based components, so it's unclear what the real benefit of another native framework would be today.
by Calavar | 2025-08-02 15:56:51+00:00
It's not about lack of knowledge, it's greed. For doctors with flexible morals, garbage medicine is a shortcut to wealth.

Since non evidence based treatments aren't covered by health insurance, these practices are cash only. And cash only = $$$ because the doctor is getting the full payment and not just a fraction of it.

Dr. Oz is a good example. He was a CT surgeon at Columbia, which is considered the mecca for American CT surgery. But even if you are at the very top of your field as a doctor, there will be a cap on wealth, and you will never find fame. Oz gave up surgery, started hawking essential oils and is now very likely the only CT surgeon in the country with a net worth in the 9 figures.
by ryanscript01123 | 2025-08-02 15:56:54+00:00
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by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-02 15:57:23+00:00
> All of this factors into how the tariff deals are going; any diplomatic department anywhere in the world understands all of this.

NYTimes (I think it was) just had an article that talked about how these other countries made these outlandish commitments to buy way more gas from the US than they'd ever need, or make insane amounts of investments in the US that they would never need to do, but the agreements were "light on implementation details". That shit is never going to happen.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-08-02 15:57:32+00:00
>UAC is not a security boundary, so it is not relevant when talking about security.

That is there excuses but you don't seem to realize that this makes it only worse because that means there is no boundary at all.

>If they are setup and most Linux distros only limit individual apps. So a brand new app can still run wild.

new apps will be either installed from a trusted repository (often with a MAC profile) or sandboxed by default from flatpak/snap store. You don't seem to understand that the entire install process is different. You don't get your software from random sites found on Google between malware ads on Linux.

>This has been shown to be false in practice due to the xz backdoor

XZ has nothing to to with a lack of vetting and even if it was it would be an argument for it because it got caught in testing.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-02 15:57:34+00:00
I worked at McDonald's in the 1980s. Started at $3.25/hr never made more than about $5/hr before I moved on. Cocktails at a bar were about the same price relative to that as they are now. We drank the cheapest swill beer they had on draft. It was about being there with your friends, not drinking some froo-froo cocktails.