MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rayiner | 2025-09-11 11:19:39+00:00
Finnish people in Finland and Japanese people in Japan also have “white privilege” in the way you’re talking about—they don’t suffer from whatever disadvantages are associated with being black in America. White Americans have the ordinary range of privileges and disadvantages of people in any country (some are richer, some are poorer, etc). If you trying to evaluate American educational culture and schools in general, it makes sense to compare white people in the U.S. with Finnish people in Finland or Japanese people in Japan or non-immigrant French people in France. To the extent we have this data, Americans perform very well in such comparisons.

If what you say about racism, etc., is true, that is actually an argument against the cultural explanation. That would mean that educational underperformance compared to other countries is caused by internal racism in the U.S., not some anti-educational trend across American culture as a whole. If you somehow erased racism and brought everyone up to the scores of white Americans, then the U.S. would be right behind Japan in educational outcomes—even though the Americans care more about football than reading.

Also, only about 5 states have significantly more funding for white students once you consider federal funds. About twice as many have significantly more funding for black students: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/Measuring%... (see page 22).
by aredox | 2025-09-11 11:20:30+00:00
I won't "debate" with someone with so much bad faith he would say with a straight face "1 mass shooting is too many" when there are hundreds every year.

Why don't you say the actual number? Why didn't Kirk say the actual number? Because it would make their argument -that trans people are such a menace to society they must be barred from their right to bear arms (for starters, because his hate of trans people was deeper than that)- ridiculous.

It was a smear. Point.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
by jebarker | 2025-09-11 11:21:06+00:00
It's not. "The people" is a collective term, so this unambiguously says that collectively the people have the right to keep and bear arms, i.e. as a group. For example, maybe this guarantees that a well regulated militia of the people has the right keep and bear arms. An example of a less ambiguous statement would be: "the right of all individual people to keep and bear arms".
by kephasp | 2025-09-11 11:21:59+00:00
Resumable code is extremely helpful and I'm pretty sure you're describing a chicken and egg issue: if resumable code was readily available in general, people would use it a lot more and it would look like a very normal tool that is often the best.

But when it's only a feature available in niche languages or many languages make it unsafe or unreliable, then very few people will get to the point where it naturally pops up in their mind as a solution to their problem.
by minznerjosh | 2025-09-11 11:22:25+00:00
Yup. ChatGPT did not have proper MCP support until now. They only supported MCP for connecting Deep Research to additional data sources, and for that, your MCP server had to implement two specific tools that Deep Research is able to call.

What’s being released here is really just proper MCP support in ChatGPT (like Claude has had for ages now) though their instructions regarding needing to specific about which tools to use make me wonder how effective it will be compared to Claude. I assume it’s hidden behind “Developer Mode” to discourage the average ChatGPT user from using it given the risks around giving an LLM read/write access to potentially sensitive data.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-11 11:22:44+00:00
You can disregard most of it though, between bots, edgy 14 years old and foreign agitators you can probably remove 75% of these inflammatory comments.

People should never go on these platforms (twitter, reddit, &c.), it's full or radicalised deranged terminally online people discussing their radical political ideas 24 hours a day to the point of being completely disassociated from reality. Go to a local café, pub or other public place, talk to people, the extreme vast majority of them are still sensible and capable of discussing hot topics.

Going to reddit to get political opinions is like going to a circus to get medical assistance
by epolanski | 2025-09-11 11:22:50+00:00
In recent years Japan's immigrant population increased by 500 to 1000 people *every single day*.

Many of them end up in hospitality, especially in touristic places, due to different reasons, but very importantly, immigrants from south Asia generally speak English fluently, something Japanese people rarely do.

I've seen plenty of "japanese" restaurants in Shinjuku where not a single member of the staff was japanese.

Another place where you're gonna see plenty of immigrants are all convenience stores.
by depressedpanda | 2025-09-11 11:22:59+00:00
Nifty.

I've long wanted a scrollable/zoomable desktop, with a minimap that shows the overall layout. Think the UI of an RTS game, where instead of units you move around and resize windows. This seems like something in that direction, at least.

How does Karousel work with full screen applications, e.g., games?
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-11 11:23:01+00:00
Aren't "immutable" distributions really just glorified "live CD's"? Not really seeing the point of them, tbh. It means that users will have to build a custom system image or fiddle with FS overlays just to do system management tasks that are straightforward on all other systems. The single interesting promise of "seamless" A/B updates is a vacuous one, that you could address more effectively on traditional systems by saving a temporary FS snapshot; this would even deduplicate shared data among the two installs, which is very hard to do with these self-contained images.
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-09-11 11:23:24+00:00
We're doing research on some new way of handling things, like why always "Everything is a file?" "The Philosophy on Unix" and other approach can be taken with optimization on mind. Figuring out the best possible ways to avoid extra memory allocation and resource allocation without degrading performance. Though we're at the early stage of this Philosophy but we're working on that. So that modern OS comes up some modern approach with optimization on mind.

We intend to plain a clearer picture with proven results of what we're doing in the coming few weeks and months. Stay tuned!
by tmountain | 2025-09-11 11:23:59+00:00
Musk was using the government as a playground and a platform to build his personal brand. Nothing he did was “serious”. If they wanted to reduce the deficit, they’d close the carried interest loophole for hedge funds instead of running around on stage with chainsaws. That’d save around 1.3B per year which is far more than all the DOGE cuts combined. And, it wouldn’t cost a bunch of jobs.
by epolanski | 2025-09-11 11:25:54+00:00
Nonsense.

What you're referring to as "tip", is the coperto. It's a minimal, fixed, optional fee that includes service, bread and table setting.

Not every place makes you pay it, it's more common in more expensive restaurants, but still, it ranges from 0 to an average 2 euros per person.

Comparing it to %-based mandatory tips in US is nonsense.
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-09-11 11:26:15+00:00
Targeting everything has indeed been a workload but we're trying to do the best we can! The project was initially just on x86 and we ported it to ARM in the last 3-4 months. The time it took us to port it on ARM was a fraction of what it took for us to build it on x86. Similarly, we look forward to port our OS to RISC-V even quicker and thus be ready to serve any and every use case and take up any opportunity that might present itself!
by jvanderbot | 2025-09-11 11:27:58+00:00
Tangential: I feel that CLI is in vogue again. Does anyone else sense that pendulum swinging again? Is it just me?

I've sensed for years from colleagues or blog posts etc a drive to go deeper and lower in the stack. I attributed this to the huge amount of front end devs who feel detached from the "real" stuff because of layers of frameworks. Not derisively, I think it's great. Even coworkers will express this to me.

This is what I suspect helped Rust skyrocket in the zeitgeist, too. It's got a lot of modern conveniences but it targets the more difficult areas like embedded, drivers, kernel, or performance critical code. And you can justifiably rewrite things (debatable but whatever). A way in!

I wonder if this is related?

Could be wrong on all this, of course.
by rbehrends | 2025-09-11 11:28:09+00:00
> The EU does not so as time passes the EU's power keeps creeping up.

Actually, the EU has the same concept of enumerated powers (called "competences" in the case of the EU). They are listed in articles 2-6 TFEU [1]. You may argue over whether the EU has too many competences or (in some areas) too little, but it's the same principle. The EU cannot legislate outside areas where power has been expressly conferred to it by the treaties.

This is in fact one point of contention over the "chat control" legislation. It is supposed to be enacted under the "internal market" competence, but similar to the US commerce clause, there is a legal debate over whether that competence is actually sufficient to enable such legislation or whether it is legal cover for encroachment on competences reserved to the member states.

This would of course be up to the ECJ to decide, just as the US Suprement Court would have to decide if any given US federal legislation is covered by the commerce clause.

In addition, there is the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the ECJ could also strike down EU legislation (as it has done before) if it violates the rights protected by the Charter.

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Consolidated_version_of_the_T...
Ask HN: How far is too far?
by kryogen1c | 2025-09-11 11:29:01+00:00
My wife accidentally watched a man get shot in the neck to death yesterday, and then accidentally watched a woman get stabbed on a subway. This morning our local Facebook groups are full of warnings about prepping your 5 year olds on how to deal with witnessing violent murder.

This is a bright line, crossed. Are we really ok with social media pressing this hard on the scales of our collective unconscious?
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-09-11 11:29:04+00:00
Instead of playing defense, I think we need to take positive steps.

Secrecy of Correspondence[1] is something that desperately needs to be extended fully to mobile devices.

Compare how many letters you get vs how many chat messages you send.

Secrecy of (mobile) communications should be recognized as a (natural?) right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

(edit: unbreak formatting)
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-11 11:29:36+00:00
Ultraviolet light is ionizing. Things oxidize and often whiten in sun because the UV light (the part of the UV spectrum as you go below ~315nm) ionizes and causes chemical reactions, in most cases by splitting O2 which is then charged O atoms that want to react with things.

445nm light isn't ionizing at any brightness, and shouldn't be catalyzing oxidation. Didn't look at it in detail but what is their claim on mechanism?
by KayEss | 2025-09-11 11:30:09+00:00
This of course plays into the fear US gun advocates have of any attempt to remove their gun rights. If it were to happen though, then maybe as a prepper type with a house and lands in the woods you'd stand a chance against an armed mob that came for you, but certainly not the government. If you're defending your sub-urban house (or even worse flat), I suspect that the gun you have for self defense would make very little difference to the final outcome, but might make you feel a bit better about it.
by api | 2025-09-11 11:30:40+00:00
Straw men made in echo chambers.

I know a good number of conservatives and some MAGA people. I know zero people who believe those things.

Meanwhile here are some of the things right leaning people I know think about liberals and leftists:

They hate Christians and would outlaw religious faith if they could. They believe that humans are a cancer upon the Earth and therefore are anti-natal and anti-family and want us to die out. They hate the actual working class and want to import tons of immigrants to depress working class wages. They want to be able to give hormones and do gender surgeries on minors without parents permission. The “LGBTQ movement” wants to add “minor attracted persons” and legitimize pedophilia. Etc etc.

I know a lot of liberals and leftists and I know zero people who believe any of those things either.

This is all straw man bullshit.

People are refusing to honestly engage with each other, so we are devolving to violence. This ends with riots, civil wars, pogroms, or dictatorship, or maybe all of the above.
by jtickle | 2025-09-11 11:31:01+00:00
All of the "btrfs eats your data" bugs have been fixed and the people who constantly repeat them are people who relied on an experimental filesystem for files they cared not to lose. FUD all around. I have a btrfs on my home file server that's been running just fine for almost 10 years now and has survived the initial underlying hard drives mechanical death. Since then I have used it in plenty of production environments.

Don't do RAID 5. Just don't. That's not just a btrfs shortcoming. I lost a hardware RAID 5 due to "puncture" which would have been fascinating to learn about if it hadn't happened to a production database. It's an academically interesting concept but it is too dangerous especially with how large drives are now, if you're buying three, buy four instead. RAID 10 is much safer especially for software RAID.

Stop parroting lies about btrfs. Since it became marked stable, it has been a reliable, trustworthy, performant filesystem.

But as much as I trust it I also have backups because if you love your data, it's your own fault if you don't back it up and regularly verify the backups.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-11 11:31:07+00:00
Look at the damage that the tanker did in terms of hole size and compartments breaches. It's on the order of a hit from an anti-ship missile.

The frigate was in a peacetime "basically in my home harbor" configuration so it's not like the ship was all buttoned up in preparation to take battle damage nor was the crew on any sort of alert.

Had they been in a more "normal for situations where you might get shot at" state of alertness they wouldn't have blundered into hitting a tanker and if they did it wouldn't have sunk them.

There's a reason these accidents happen in friendly waters and not the area of the world where you have both oil tankers and unfriendly forces.
by LelouBil | 2025-09-11 11:32:06+00:00
It seems like KDE linux uses a different way to provide a system image than ostree on Fedora Silverblue, so I have no idea how easy it is to make changes on top of.

But for Bazzite (and other universal blue distros) you better use BlueBuild

https://blue-build.org/

In the end it's an OCI container image, so you could technically just have a Dockerfile with "FROM bazzite:whatever" at the top, but bluebuild automates the small stuff that you need to do on top of it, and allows you to split your config in files.

You can have a look at my repository to see how easy it is !

https://github.com/LelouBil/Leloublue
by loughnane | 2025-09-11 11:32:13+00:00
I agree with that. As I said elsewhere it's a shame that we don't get better.

If you compare it with the more sober, reflectful sort (eg russell vs copleston on the existence of God [0]) you can see how far we've fallen.

Nevertheless, his killing I think will make us slide even further.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpADrtr85iM&pp=ygUlYmVydHJhb...
by gtsop | 2025-09-11 11:33:02+00:00
When you do MCP-style applications, an LLM is more like RegEx on steroids, and since you expect your regex to return the same matches on the same input, it is a very desirable attribute for LLMs as well. I would say it is more than desirable, it is necessary.

If i want to covert "how do I x" to `api.howTo("x")` it is very important that i get the exact same result every time.
by Guestmodinfo | 2025-09-11 11:33:16+00:00
I'm not a chemist but my two cents because I studied a course of Industrial Inorganic Chemistry in my college. My professor of that course used to say Hydrogen Peroxide is a very strong carcinogen. So I hate every Tom Dick n Harry that yaps about the goodness of Hydrogen Peroxide on YouTube or elsewhere without mentioning that it will give you cancer even in small amounts. And yes UV disintegrates the fibres so the more you keep your clothes in the sun or in UV then they will look old. Source: I live in India with too much UV andif I keep anything under the sun for a couple of days then it looks old or atleast no more new to be worn fashionably.
by phire | 2025-09-11 11:33:37+00:00
Btrfs claims to be stable. IMO, it's not.

It's generally fine if you stay on the happy path. It will work for 99% of people. But if you fall off that happy path, bad things might happen and nobody is surprised. In my personal experience, nobody associated with the project seems to trust a btrfs filesystem that fell off the happy path, and they strongly recommend you delete it and start from scratch. I was horrified to discover that they don't trust fsck to actually fix a btrfs filesystem into a canonical state.

BCacheFS had the massive advantage that it knew it was experimental and embraced it. It took measures to keep data integrity despite the chaos, generally seems to be a better design and has a more trustworthy fsck.

It's not that I'd trust BCacheFS, it's still not quite there (even ignoring project management issues). But my trust for Btrfs is just so much lower.
by nunobrito | 2025-09-11 11:33:51+00:00
Hey, thanks. I've installed and tried out. The opening menu explained the key settings and it was just Edit from MSDOS. Very good, they even improved to exit the editor using ^Q.

I really don't know why so many people are against having a bar with menus and using the arrows to navigate. It is intuitive and easy, that editor really hit the spot. Thank you for the tip.
by tux3 | 2025-09-11 11:34:34+00:00
If there's one archetype that haunts math forums, it has to be the Retired Engineer that took a look at the Collatz conjecture or the Reimann Zeta zeroes and just came up with a theory.

This also happens in physics, but physics crackpots can come from anywhere. Especially now, having been reassured that they've hit the key insight, and you're absolutely right, it's not just a theory of everything — it's a revolutionary new foundation for physics! Would you like me to help you write a convincing paper delving more into these ideas?
by mxkopy | 2025-09-11 11:35:07+00:00
Check my edit. It’s not a straw man because the poor uneducated south never left their attitudes towards slavery behind (or otherwise rediscovered/were reintroduced to them for political benefit). Believe it or not, people actually have extreme nationalistic and ethnocentric beliefs - if things were so rosy in the world as they are in your bubble, people wouldn’t be getting shot
by dcuthbertson | 2025-09-11 11:35:50+00:00
> His position seemed fairly reasonable that women were happier with the get married and have kids model then the focus on you career one.

Broad statements like that are just plain wrong and aren't reasonable. Saying women were happier with the get married and have kids model denies the fact that all humans have different aspirations. Some want to be doctors, nurses, chefs, electricians, plumbers, or artists. Saying that women should get married and raise lots of children denies those aspirations, and says to me that those who ascribe to that model have no consideration for women as human beings. Let women pursue their own definition of happiness rather than prescribing one for them.
by t51923712 | 2025-09-11 11:35:58+00:00
Why would the "behave" comment mean anything different in Czech than in English?

The revised version, "Once the bcachefs maintainer conforms to the agreed process and the code is maintained upstream again" is still lecturing and piling on, as the LWN comments say:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037496/

It is the classic case of CoC people and their inner circle denouncing someone, and subsequently the entire Internet keeps piling on the target.
by reval | 2025-09-11 11:36:01+00:00
This is on the engineers. Asking for time to refactor is like a painter asking for time to prime. It’s part of the job so just do it. When brought out in discussion, it sounds as if it is optional and its value dubious. That’s where the feeling of “wasting time” comes from.

Additionally, a lot of refactoring is about predicting the future rather than adapting the code to present expectations while keeping things easy to change. The only metric that your future self cares about is time to feedback. Refactor to adapt to present expectations while keeping the code easy to change in the future, and don’t ask for permission to do this- it is your job.
by pas | 2025-09-11 11:36:07+00:00
yes, the obvious problem is that Apple paid people so in turn they worked to make these meetings happen, HN doesn't pay random people (yet!?) to knock on doors in various EU cities.

the "obvious" solution seems to be to make these meetings open, sure industry wants to push their thing, put it on the calendar, and let civil society delegate someone, and industry pays for that too.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-11 11:36:16+00:00
One key tool of power creep are those very treaties. Let's do one more treaty and had things in the small prints. Of course the member states drafted and agreed to those and that's why pressure should be on governments to stop hand over the keys to Brussels.

That's in addition to the constant Commission push for more power and they often overstep their role... We're seeing clearly on issues like Ukraine and, lately Israel.
by broast | 2025-09-11 11:36:21+00:00
I've had a flip 3 and flip 5 which both had screen and hinge problems within a year. I love the form factor but just don't take it to the beach.

My flip 5 inner screen is currently unusable so I'm stuck using the small square cover screen which I'm enjoying quite a bit too. I don't know if my next phone should be a flip phone or a small phone, but nothing gets as small or as good hardware as the front cover of these flip phones, vs other small phones
Show HN: FSP2 Tested on excerpt "Romeo and Juliet" impressive compresion results
by Forgret | 2025-09-11 11:36:23+00:00
Hi HN, I want to share my updated FSP (Find Similar Patterns) v2 text compression algorithm. I tested it on a non-trivial excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, and it achieved impressive results: original size 437 bytes, compressed size 358 bytes, compression ratio 1.22. Unlike traditional methods like LZMA or Huffman, FSP v2 searches for repeating 3–5 character patterns, storing references (REF) alongside literal characters (LITERAL). This allows it to compress real-world text, maintain lossless decompression, and achieve compressed sizes smaller than the original. The algorithm works on any byte stream or text and can scale to larger files, potentially outperforming classical compression on texts with repetitive or near-repetitive patterns. Code and implementation details are available upon request.

GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/fsp

Website(more info): https://ferki-git-creator.github.io/fsp/

If I made a mistake somewhere, please tell me.
by danaris | 2025-09-11 11:36:24+00:00
Except that this time, Trump's starting out by also wrecking the readiness of our military in a number of ways.

Make no mistake: This is not grand strategy. It's grandstanding. It's not part of some 5D chess plan. It's just Trump and his ilk being petty, racist bullies, trying desperately to show that they're "more manly" than anyone else.