MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-11 00:13:11+00:00
> Am I wrong in thinking this guy isn't/wasn't a very influential person, outside of Twitter and the people that stay on there 24/7?

Yes, you are wrong, he was the leader of the most powerful campus conservative movement group in the country, was an extremely prominent figure in right-wing media, to the point where he is a central figure in pop culture images of the right, and a central target for being too soft of organizing figures for even farthe-right groups.

> What change was the person who shot him hoping to elicit?

Motives for assassinations (attempted or actual) of politicial figures are often incoherent. Political assassins aren’t always (or even often) strategic actors with a clear, rationally designed programs.
by estearum | 2025-09-11 00:13:14+00:00
1. Seattle: The training was optional. Seems not that crazy to offer?

2. Pennsylvania: There are all sorts of programs designed to combat specific problems -- in this case the program was designed to counteract the fact that certain racial groups have been excluded from financial services for a long time. Would you characterize an aid program that only serves veterans to be discriminatory against non-veterans?

3. FAA: You should probably not cite an op-ed as a source, let me know if you'd like to provide another

4. See point (2)

5. Biden was citing the FBI itself, which at the time was led by Trump appointee Chris Wray [https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-12-05_-_...]

6. You're lamenting that people get legal threats for creating obviously discriminatory white-only towns? Welp, thanks for outing yourself.

Indeed, at some point you just have to believe them when they tell you who they are.
by jmpman | 2025-09-11 00:13:29+00:00
The town I’m in has grown 1000% in the last 20 years. The original residents were almost all from a very conservative religious group. That group had power over all politics back then, and have retained power today. They’re very aligned with removing the books, and there’s no communication to the 90% of parents in the district who, although conservative, aren’t from the previously dominant religious group. They do it quietly, don’t communicate what they’re doing or why, and they just get their way with nobody to object.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-11 00:13:51+00:00
> someone is going to say 'Hey fellow, are you okay?'

We might be thinking of different types of gatherings/meetings. Specifically, I was thinking of someone with a particular set of extremist ideals that get together for a monthly meeting with others with those same extremist ideals. Someone in that group would likely not say "are you okay" rather they'd say "hellzya brother!" or whatever they'd actually phrase it. These types of meetings are also known to have someone speak intentionally seeking to get a member to act as a lone wolf to actually carry out the comment you're hoping someone would tamper. Now, one doesn't need to go to meetings for that encouragement. They just open up whatever app/forum.
by neilv | 2025-09-11 00:14:16+00:00
I would love this.

In my US town, which I believe gets high walkability scores, they've shifted more pedestrian-hostile in the last few years (while incidentally also managing to tick off many drivers and brick&mortar small business owners).

For one thing, the "separated" bike lanes are hated by many drivers and business owners, and seem more dangerous for pedestrians than before. (Reduced visibility of cars, and now almost universal reckless freeway-like use by motorized e-bikes/scooters which more normal bikes are now mimicking.)

Also, during Covid, they let restaurants spread out onto the sidewalks and street parking of very busy streets, and now this is not only pretty unpleasant and unhealthy seating for customers (desperate for even the slightest hint of what human-friendly planning could be like), but tends to be an obstacle course for people who just want to walk on the already problematic sidewalks.

And in stretches of the sidewalk on major streets that don't have restaurants blocking them, at any moment, someone will come plowing through at full speed on one of those huge 'e-bikes' with the huge tires.

The one a few nights ago, through dense walkers on the sidewalk of the central business drag along a main street, at high speed... the rider of the 'e-bike' the size of a large motorcycle was clearly paying close attention, and his face looked like he was operating at near the edge of his ability to avoid hitting anyone (which would cripple or kill them), with the confidence and judgment that comes from being barely 20. Which confidence should gamble only his own life and limb, not those of others.

I think the bike rental stations on the sidewalks (now including e-bikes) also now lead to even sensible people being desensitized to riding the sidewalk, since you have to go some length of sidewalk with the bike just to access the station. Many people end up riding right up to it, and accustomed to that, even though it's illegal in at least some cases.

(The first thing I would do is temporarily outlaw all the motorized bikes/scooters, except for people with official medical reasons, it's gotten so bad. Until we can treat them as motor vehicles with sufficient regulations, and re-educate people not to be completely stupid bordering on psychotic. Then, after correcting for all the backsliding on safety and street life, we can resume thinking about the cars, which, even though 4-wheel drivers have long been called "Massholes", lately the 4-wheel car drivers been paragons of responsibility, compared to 2-wheel drivers in general.)
by mhh__ | 2025-09-11 00:14:23+00:00
In naive political terms he wasn't all that important but I think two points in response to that:

1. He was influential in a influential circle of people who roughly speaking drive what gets discussed and shown to a wider audience. In a favourite-band's favourite-band sense. His jubilee video just recently got 31 million views on youtube and probably a billion more on tiktok and reels.

2. If he wasn't killed by some nut who thought the flying spaghetti monster told him to do it then this is a really clear example of online politics and discourse jumping violently into the physical world. That's a real vibe shift if I have it right that it's basically the first assassination of that kind.

It wouldn't shock me at all if the driving topic here was actually gaza rather than domestic politics.
by jrtc27 | 2025-09-11 00:17:13+00:00
> Does that study include enabling intra object overflow protection, or not? > > When I say that this optional feature would force you to change a lot more code I’m comparing CHERI without intra object overflow protection to CHERI with intra object object overflow protection.

Sorry, I misinterpreted what you were saying. No, that's not with subobject bounds. If you want that then yes there is more incompatibility, because C does not have a good subobject memory model. That's not really because there's anything wrong with CHERI, it's just because the language itself is at odds in places with doing that kind of enforcement with any technology. But, if you're willing to incur that additional friction (as we do for our pure-capability kernel in CheriBSD), you can enable it, and it can protect against additional vulnerabilities that other security technologies fundamentally cannot. We even provide a sliding scale of subobject bounds enforcement, where each of the three levels restricts bounds in more cases at the expense of compatibility. The architecture gives you the flexibility to decide what software model you want to enforce with it.

> Finally, 6 million lines of code is not that impressive.

We have far more than that ported, that was just one case study done in a few months by one developer. FreeBSD alone is, by my very rough estimation cloc that excludes LLVM, about 14 million lines of C and C++ (yes, I'm not distinguishing architecture-specific code and all kinds of other considerations, but it's close enough and gives an order of magnitude for the purposes of this conversation), and we have FreeBSD ported. Not to mention our work on, say, Chromium and V8 (Chromium being another set of 10s of millions of lines of code, again tractable with the engineering effort of just a few members of our research group).

> Real OSes are measured in billions

Citation needed. The Linux kernel is only a bit over 40 million lines of code these days. Real systems may well approach the billions of lines of code running once you factor in all the libraries, daemons and applications running on top of it, but that is not all low-level OS code that needs the kind of porting an OS or runtime does. Even if it were a billion lines of code, though, extrapolating at 0.026% that would be 260 kLoC changed, which isn't that scary a number.

Even V8, which is about the worse case you could possibly have (highly-stylised code written in a way that uses types in CHERI-unfriendly ways; a language runtime full of pointers; many (about 6?) different highly-optimised just-in-time compilers that embed deep knowledge of the ISAs and ABIs they are targeting and like to play games with pointers in the name of performance) we see (last I checked) ~0.8% LoC changed, or about 16k out of 2 million. The porting cost is real, but the numbers have never suggested to us it's at all intractable for industry.
by maxlin | 2025-09-11 00:17:33+00:00
The guy was the embodiment of the "prove me wrong" meme.

His choice of getting in to the middle of people and answering anyone's questions in a situation where there's no re-takes, no edits, even if he might've felt overbearing, was quite a fire test of the commenter's arguments versus his counter-arguments.

His assassination really is a direct attack on debate itself.

There really isn't a world where the sick people cheering this have any real respect for democratic values of a free world full of all kinds of thinkers. Maybe for something more akin to that one dialog "choice" in Avowed. You know if you know.
by cyphar | 2025-09-11 00:17:40+00:00
If you do this, you need to have a very explicit policy for contributors to say they are contributing under both licenses, though this is something you need to have anyway if you are licensing under Apache 2.0 (a contributor could theoretically claim retroactively that their contributions were all MIT licensed and that they never gave you or any of your users a patent grant). (Most Rust projects do this.)

For other patent-shield licenses such a combination also removes most of the protections of the patent shield (a patent troll user can use the software under MIT and then sue for patent infrigement). However, the Apache 2.0 patent shield is comparatively weak (when compared to GPLv3 and MPLv2) because it only revokes the patent license rather than the entire license and so it actually acts like a permissive license even after you initiate patent litigation. This makes the above problem even worse -- if you don't actually have any patents in the software then a patent troll can contribute code under MIT then sue all of your users without losing access to the software even under just Apache 2.0 (I don't know if this has ever happened but it seems like a possibility).

IMHO, most people should really should just use MPLv2 if they want GPLv2 compatibility and patent grants. MPLv2 even includes a "you accept that your contributions to this project are under MPLv2" clause, avoiding the first problem entirely. It would be nice if there were an Apache 3.0 that had a stronger patent shield but still remained a permissive license (MPLv2 is a weak file-based copyleft), but I'm more of a copyleft guy so whatever.
by wtallis | 2025-09-11 00:17:58+00:00
You must be using odd definitions for "properly" and "recently". Intel started volume shipments of 10nm-family parts for laptops in 2019, servers in 2021, and desktops in 2022. They've since moved most of their products off of the 10nm family and onto EUV-based processes: two generations of laptop parts, one generation of desktop parts, and the CPU chiplets of last year's server parts (which still use "Intel 7" for the IO chiplets).

Additionally, the second and third round of desktop parts released on 10nm (aka "Intel 7") are now known to have pushed clocks and voltages somewhat beyond the limits of the process, leading to embarrassing reliability problems and microcode updates that hurt performance. Intel has squeezed everything they can out of their 10nm and have mostly put it behind them, so talking about it like they only recently ramped production is totally wrong about where they are in the lifecycle.
by avazhi | 2025-09-11 00:18:35+00:00
I wasn't overlooking mankind's potential to do amazing things. I'm reflecting on the fact that despite our ability and propensity to do amazing things, we are also at base more violent, far more violent, than I think we give ourselves credit for. I'm sure this sentiment isn't new. I can remember the opening page of Blood Meridian being a newspaper clipping from Arizona reporting on the fact that, essentially, we've been scalping (ie violently brutalising) one another for tens of thousands of years. Perhaps it's a sine qua non of being human.

Despite all our fancy gadgets and fancy thinking and fancy philosophies, we aren't really all that different from those who lived a thousand or ten thousand years ago.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-11 00:18:45+00:00
>Can you not speed, not read HN while eating a burger, not blow through traffic lights without looking? Of course you can.

Seems like a lot of people in here would do those things and then when it goes poorly blame the car. It's basically the "stick in spokes" meme.

>It would be like arguing against buses because a bus driver can wig out and drive through a cliffside guardrail and there's nothing you can do about it.

Now that you mention it I'm pretty sure a Peter Pan bus did exactly that around here a few years back (I'm gonna go google it, find out that it was in like 2003 and feel old). Driver got confused which overpass ramp he was on and full sent it thinking there was a merge at the top he needed to be up to speed for when instead there was a sharp curve. But yeah, that behavior is def not the norm.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-11 00:19:05+00:00
> remember, even in Japan somebody could make some kind of battery ignited home-made shotgun and kill Shinzo Abe.

Countries with strict gun control enjoy far lower rates of firearm accidents, suicides, and murders. IMO it's clearly worth the tradeoff. Very few of us live in a place where only guns can solve our problems.

The fact that occasionally someone goes to great lengths to kill doesn't mean we should make it easier for everyone.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-11 00:19:25+00:00
The article already talks about Neon and the pros/cons of running that kind of distro in more detail than pointed out here.

> GNOME doesn’t maintain Ubuntu or Fedora

What differentiates GNOME from KDE in that regard (other than it'd be Kubuntu and the Fedora KDE spin from the other perspective)?
by aseipp | 2025-09-11 00:19:38+00:00
What? Intel has been doing large scale production runs of their 10nm node for years now. If you're talking about Raptor Lake failures, that was one generation of products on that note, there has also never been any indication AFAIK that e.g. Emerald Rapids suffered the same oxidization/voltage failures the consumer line did despite being on the same process node. They're already moving on from all this, really.
by SL61 | 2025-09-11 00:19:57+00:00
I'm sure DoorDash doesn't allow it. But a lot of older people call for pizza the way they've always done for decades, so it's common enough that the pizza places (at least in my low-crime suburban area) have decided to keep allowing it.

They usually have some sort of system where your address is connected with your phone number after your first order, so they must be able to see that you've called X times and paid reliably in the past.
by mgh95 | 2025-09-11 00:20:06+00:00
With respect, I think you ignored the point I'm making for the sake of pushing an agenda. Suicides are deaths of despair. Whether someone ultimately kills themselves with a firearm or a needle is secondary to the policy goal: to attempt to make America better for people to not want to kill themselves (barring an inherent medical issue related to chemical imbalance causing depression).

To put it in perspective, California (a state with notoriously strict gun control) has experienced the highest rate of increase of opioid overdose deaths (see https://www.shadac.org/opioid-epidemic-united-states). More generally, deaths to firearm suicide and deaths of despair occur together in rural communities (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00224...).

Are those "suicides" in the classical sense? No. But they are deaths of despair, and from a public health and policy standpoint, must be approached in a manner similar to suicide.

I don't believe you have even attempted (or acknowledged) an opposing point exists on this topic. Your points amount to banal agenda pushing as opposed to seeking to understand the root causes of many challenges today. This is emblematic of (and partially why) there is such division in the USA today: a lack of willingness to study and understand societal problems, particularly those that are multifaceted and require broader reasoning about the topic.
by scubbo | 2025-09-11 00:20:29+00:00
> Do you live in Socal, like the person is implying?

Apologies, I saw "A West Coast software engineering career [...and...] a house from which you could reasonably commute to it" and assumed they meant San Francisco, which is accurate for me (I live in Berkeley, and my office is in the FiDi of SF). I had thought that the Bay Area was both more expensive and more tech-centric than SoCal, but I could be wrong there.

> You make >500k a year and still live in a pretty small house then

Just under 300k, but yeah - it's 3 bed 2 bath, so not huge but not tiny either. And I've saved enough over the ~5 years of living here to be looking at building a 3-4 room extension onto it into the yard next year.

> And if so, like basically no one in the united states?

Again, I didn't claim that my situation is a) typical, or b) ideal - housing in the Bay Area is far too expensive, and it's perfectly valid and reasonable to prefer living elsewhere for any number of reasons. I'm just pointing out that /u/closeparen's statement was a _wild_ exaggeration (if they did indeed mean Bay Area like I assumed and not SoCal. If they did, I have no data to contribute!)
by WASDAai | 2025-09-11 00:20:39+00:00
This paper formalizes XML prompting for LLMs as grammar-constrained interactions, leveraging fixed-point semantics and lattice theory. It proves least fixed points for stable protocols (via Knaster-Tarski) and convergence guarantees under a tree metric (Banach-style), ensuring structured, hallucination-free outputs. Includes practical templates like "plan → verify → revise" for human-AI loops, boosting reliability in applications needing parseable data.<grok:render card_id="2276bd" card_type="citation_card" type="render_inline_citation"> <argument name="citation_id">0</argument> </grok:render>
by jrtc27 | 2025-09-11 00:21:00+00:00
You may wish to read what the current pure-capability CHERI Linux user ABI specifies for mremap(), because we (primarily Arm, in conjunction with us) have thought about this, and the conclusion is not "the existence of mremap() makes CHERI undeployable". See https://git.morello-project.org/morello/kernel/linux/-/wikis...
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by wheybags | 2025-09-11 00:21:27+00:00
In my experience, conditional breakpoints are so unreliable, that I just dont bother trying to use them. When I need one I add code like

if (condition) print("");

Then add a breakpoint on the print. Calling print ensures the line with the breakpoint won't be optimised out (rarely matters as I'm normally debugging in... debug mode, but it's just a reflex at this point, and I need to put something in there)
by ourmandave | 2025-09-11 00:21:28+00:00
Charlie didn't debate so much as followed a script and steered you towards his gotcha questions to create content for his show.

He recently went to Cambridge Univ and debated a student who actual knew his routine. It didn't go well for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn0_2iACV-A
by reenorap | 2025-09-11 00:21:36+00:00
He doesn't support the stoning of gays and that's another outright lie. He's pointing out that she can't pick and choose Bible verses because the verse just before talks about stoning gays.

He's pointing out the hypocrisy of San Francisco letting out people on bail for everything, but if they attack a Pelosi, they can't get bail.

You are the one who is acting in bad faith. People like you are the reason why he's dead. You think that because you disagree with him, it's perfectly okay to lie about him and vilify him and hope he gets killed. It's sick and needs to stop.
by eigenform | 2025-09-11 00:21:47+00:00
That post[^1] linked by saagarjha above is talking about the case where the typed allocator (plus the layout of kernel memory, and whatever constraints on pointer arithmetic in the kernel) makes Spectre less useful. MTE itself isn't relevant to mitigating Spectre, but putting constraints on how the addresses of certain loads in the kernel are computed makes Spectre less useful.

Remember that Spectre V1 is about causing the kernel to [incorrectly and] speculatively perform a load, and then trying to leak the loaded value by measuring the state of the cache. You might reasonably want to try this since MTE tags are stored in kernel memory.

But if the set of all possible target addresses for relevant loads on a path subject to influence by userspace can be constrained to a particular memory region, you [presumably] cannot trivially use Spectre V1 to leak values from a different region.

Also, see this[^2] paper referenced in the article.

[^1]: https://mastodon.online/@ezhes_/115175838087995856

[^2]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=983...
by PufPufPuf | 2025-09-11 00:22:21+00:00
Fun fact about packaging Python tools: It turns out that there are Python packages that aren't compatible with Homebrew due to cycles in build dependencies. While this is no problem for pip, as it just downloads binary releases, Homebrew builds ALL of the dependencies from scratch. And yeah, that also means that modestly sized Python projects may take over an hour to build the "bottle".
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-11 00:22:26+00:00
> At least for the model 3 the front the door releases are more prominent than the actual buttons your supposed to use - newbies often use that the first time they exit.

I think this happened to me when my buddy gave me a ride. I used the handle to open the door, and he told me I shouldn't do that since it might damage the car.

On the one hand, it boggles the mind that they would fuck up intuitive functionality that badly, but on the other hand, I am glad that the instinctive action is what you're supposed to do in an emergency.

On the gripping hand, the default action should open the door both regularly, and in case of emergency.