MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelnos | 2025-09-19 20:15:10+00:00
Yes, I think the bigger problem we have in the US is the lack of trust. The country was founded on the idea that you shouldn't trust your government at all. That concept is enshrined in our constitution with the 2nd amendment.

Not saying people should blindly trust their government, but we went for the other end of the spectrum instead, which is similarly unhealthy.
by hakunin | 2025-09-19 20:15:32+00:00
> - What Kimmel said was wrong (assuming you believe Utah state investigators) and deeply irresponsible and inflammatory.

I agree that we should be disavowing violence.

The problem is that for 10 years democratic lawmakers and media figures are disavowing violence on both sides, while republican lawmakers and media figures are doing the opposite: stoking the flames, promoting the idea of civil war, telling everyone that the country is stolen from them, that immigrants are out to get them, that democrats are out to get them, etc. According to this rhetoric, democrats are to blame for all of this. When something bad happens and it's not democrats who caused it, they come up with a conspiratorial explanation for how it's still democrats.

So when one side keeps constantly disavowing, and the other side keeps constantly attacking, at some point disavowing becomes literally the wrong thing to do. You can't lay down your weapon while the other person just keeps hitting, and expect the hitting to stop.

What we are being shown repeatedly by republicans is that violent, divisive rhetoric actually leads to electoral victories, and grants free license to become "president for one side only" and do whatever that side wants. If democrats continue to disavow and apologize, they will end up simply extinct. This is why some democrats stopped doing that.
by snake_doc | 2025-09-19 20:15:53+00:00
Mafia behavior continues… (not my observation, but the Texas senator’s Ted Cruz[1]).

$100k is a big pizzo (protection fee)!

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/ted-cruz-...

> “That’s right outta ‘Goodfellas,’ that’s right out of a mafioso going into a bar saying, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it,’” Cruz said, using the iconic New York accent associated with the Mafia.
by hiduck | 2025-09-19 20:15:59+00:00
When it comes to me, I'm not privileged enough to be creative or innovative: shipping fast (thing that mattered in my previous and does matter in my current work) requires me to do specific tasks and I simply cannot deviate from that or I will get fired. I read a lot about software and try to be creative, but at the end of the day, what matters the most is to make money so I can take care of my family, it saddens me that I can be looked down upon because more often than not, I treat my job as it is: a job.
by abeppu | 2025-09-19 20:16:26+00:00
> However, last month, he argued that the bankrupcy plan does not fully reflect the presidential pardon he received.

> The filing last month noted that “President Trump expressly decided here that Milton is factually innocent, the pardon did, contrary to the debtors’ assertions, wipe the slate clean.”

Ok so it's maybe not the very most important of the things that people have claimed the president has the power to do, but it sounds like this guy is saying not only does the pardon mean he's "innocent" but that he doesn't _owe money to people_? B/c the presidential pardon power is also an ability to declare what debts everyone does and doesn't have?
by tantalor | 2025-09-19 20:16:32+00:00
> Google has now covered its tracks better -- there’s nothing about “Google Product Abuse” in its current AdSense policies.

In other (less biased) words: These old rules were rescinded haven't been enforced since 2012 (last example cited). This article was written in 2025 and still complaining about something that isn't happening anymore.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-19 20:16:35+00:00
You don't have to conceded anything. You think conservatives can't point to examples of the government squeezing them, under the guise of COVID stuff, DEI requirements and the like? Or they don't think there was pressure from the government to shape the news?

I want to agree with you, I am just saying it doesn't matter what you and I agree on. Conservatives have clearly seen and felt the principles not applying to their benefits and they are over it. Whether you or I can agonize about a particular misapplication of a particular principle doesn't matter.
by varenc | 2025-09-19 20:16:45+00:00
You could have another script that immediately triggers the Lock Screen after boot...but agreed this comes with many compromises.

But if your Mac is physically secure, and has no keyboard or monitor on it anyway, I don't quite understand the risk? Remote login still requires the password after this of course. But if physical security is a concern it makes sense.

Also I suppose there's other risks from having a decryption key sitting in NVRAM.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-19 20:16:48+00:00
There are established alternatives.

eTix is good. The quoted price for a show was $20. I wound up paying $21.65 after fees. The fees were obvious at checkout. I didn't have to sign up for anything or download an app, either (which I don't like about Dice, but they are similarly good otherwise).

The problem is mostly vertical integration & abusing a monopoly over venues of a certain size. I understand I live in a place where there are more independent venues than other places and I'm glad I happen to be into the acts that play them...
by benjiro | 2025-09-19 20:17:53+00:00
> Outrage fatigue. The actions are so constant and outrageous that it's hard to keep up.

That is exactly the idea... By dumping non-stop the most nonsense things into the news cycle, the actual interesting events gets overshadowed.

Oooo, oooo, Trump said X ... lets all focus on X, ignoring corruption or people's rights slowly being dismantled... This was literally in that 2025 Plan.

And the issue is that people actually seem to have more and more comprehension issues.

A while ago i made a post regarding a specific hosting provider not releasing any new products in 2025, clearly talking and listing hardware releases from the previous years.

The first two comments pointed out that a interface change was a new product (its not) and a product launch from end 2024 (2024 != 2025). Point out that those comments are wrong. downvoted, ... again, and again.

Its like people seem to lose the ability to read, or critically think about what is written. Its one of the main reasons i do not like to post on most social media platforms anymore. Its like people want to argue, need to oppose what is written, be outraged by what they see. Like we all gotten dumber or maybe social media / forums etc only showed how we really are.

And all that news feeds into this. The people behind Trump understand that people have this lacking ability, and know that if they flood the news with nonsense, actual journalism simply dies. It also does not help that most news is owned by big corporations, with often dubious links, and the main motivation being profit!
by jnsie | 2025-09-19 20:17:57+00:00
> Now they'll slowly die or be replaced quickly by something better like an AI ticketing system.

I highly doubt it. The merger with LiveNation made them much more than a ticketing service. They now also handle artist management, concert promotion, and venue ownership. In fact "Live Nation-Ticketmaster maintains "monopoly control" over the top 100 amphitheaters and 100 arenas worldwide" [1]

[1] https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/new-report-ex...
by thrownawayohman | 2025-09-19 20:18:15+00:00
Man you are delusional. How many pols and their elk where clamoring for civil war because a YouTuber got shot that they _assumed_ was a leftist? How many of those same people said anything when a democratic state senator and their spouse was murdered, and another pair seriously wounded?

This is the type of nonsense that really bothers me with this site. It’s an attempt to “both sides” everything in a pathetic attempt at seeming logical.
by freedomben | 2025-09-19 20:18:39+00:00
> cracking the vacuum seal on the CRT was just so satisfying.

I've totally felt this before! As a teenager we were offered an old CRT for free if we would pick it up. We spent several days trying to fix it but ended up breaking it much worse than it already was, to the point where my friend's dad (who was a programmer but also did a lot of electronics repair) basically told us to take it to the dump. We did, but not until we took it deep into the mountains and shot the vacuum tube with a .22 long rifle :-D (we did get our asses reamed because we didn't know there was mercury in there, but even after that the consensus was still "it was worth it" though we never had the guts to tell parents that). We did at least have the foresight to put it on a big drop cloth so cleanup was pretty easy, though I later became mortified at our recklessness. The only thing better than shooting that was being able to shoot an old church bell that somebody dumped in the woods.
by estearum | 2025-09-19 20:19:12+00:00
+1 and IMO this is substantiated even if you ignore actual policy/political differences.

This SCOTUS has used the shadow docket to overturn (without actually ruling on) lower court decisions extremely frequently. These “decisions” (really delays in the administration’s favor) are increasingly offered without rationale and even without the majority Justices signing their names to the order.

IMO they know the administration is way afoul of the law (which is why so many lower courts are finding such in 50-150 page considerations) but they don’t want to have to decide on that. So instead they’re relying on the shadow docket and not providing any rationale or signatures to try to escape the shame they know history will bring upon them.
by ajross | 2025-09-19 20:19:38+00:00
> By "not nearly as bad as you think", what I mean is, the FCC has always policed content on broadcast television

For boring stuff like sex and profanity! When was the last time a show was pulled under threat of FCC action because of political speech? Has it ever happened before? And it's happening again, just days after it worked the first time.

Your cynicism, whether it's deliberate or not, is serving you very badly here.

> And, if you notice that it's not even clear the FCC took any action

Good grief. Brendan Carr literally made the threat on camera, in public. That's the way extortion works. You don't have to take the action because the target submits.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-19 20:19:48+00:00
> This was known 100 years ago and it is still true now, just not as publicized. I wonder why

Economics education in America sucks. (Along with civic, legal and other education. Not for cynical reasons, but because we treat schools as job centres and day care.)

The housing debate reflects a base inability to grasp supply and demand. The antitrust debate, market failures.

Economics takes a modicum of effort to grasp. In the TikTok world, it’s easier to justify laziness by spouting nonsense about economics assuming everyone is rational or whatnot. (This confers a massive advantage to those who know what they're talking about. And perhaps this is part of what's driving the elite disparity in American today. Renters will happily protest for their landlords against new developments.)
by mike-cardwell | 2025-09-19 20:20:23+00:00
I view the webpage source and search for the strings "rss", "atom" and "feed" until I find one. I currently have 145 feeds. I follow blogs, news, I get updates about local events, I follow youtube channels, I get notified about new releases from various github repos, follow updates on various status pages, follow various subreddits etc.
by shipman05 | 2025-09-19 20:20:49+00:00
There's an episode of Your Favorite Band Sucks that details a lot of how this works, and that's the picture they paint.

Unsure how accurate it is, but the guys who do the show have a lot of experience in the music industry.

You can find it on YouTube: Ticketmaster Sucks - Your Favorite Band Sucks Podcast
by buildfocus | 2025-09-19 20:21:18+00:00
That's not true - you can enable developer mode and install apps via ADB without affecting Play Integrity for other apps on your device. You can test this today.

Play Integrity is focused on checking the OS is original and the runtime environment of the app (your banking app in this case) isn't being messed with. Installing other apps as a developer isn't related to that. If you're not flashing a custom OS or modifying your bank's APK you'll be fine.

(You _should_ be able to use custom OSs and Play Integrity is awful, to be clear - but not because of anything directly relate to normal app development & sideloading)
by panick21_ | 2025-09-19 20:21:32+00:00
Well, often you cut 5% margin product because you should focus your people and your capability on growing your 50% products. Sure if the 5% products are well established keep selling them, but usually in tech, you need to continue to invest in the 5% product to keep t up to date.

Intel did this for memory in the 80s. Memory was still profitable, and could be more so again (see Micron), but it required much investment.

But Intel might not be in this position, and filling the fabs by itself can defiantly be worth it.

But if you don't have the capacity in the new fab, maybe that isn't an issue, so its hard to say from the outside.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-19 20:21:48+00:00
There's also a false equivalence, because when the government is on the same team as all the big tech and media companies, it doesn't have to threaten anyone into silencing speech the team doesn't like. It just happens, and then everyone pretends it's organic.

I'd be glad to have a free speech conversation about this with anyone who actually cares about free speech, but that doesn't include anyone who spent the last decade cheering every time someone they disagreed with got his livelihood taken away. One TV network dumping one "comedian" who was well past his sell-by date is a tiny, tiny counter-trend to what's been going on for years.
by whitehexagon | 2025-09-19 20:21:57+00:00
Pine64 announced recently that they drop the PinePhone Pro, but hope to continue with the PinePhone for 2 more years. To be honest there is not much of a community left when I last checked, and I dont remember when the PP was last in stock, only the convergence? package.

But there are a great series of tutorials from Lupyuen where he gets Apache Nuttx running on the PP. He fills in a lot of the missing documentation and magic smoke details.

For example: https://lupyuen.org/articles/dsi#initialise-lcd-controller

I'm currently following the same reverse engineering process, but using Zig. The A64 is quite fun to play with, but I think the hardware might be better suited as a feature phone vs full linux. I'll let you know in 10 years time hehe.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-19 20:22:03+00:00
Genetic variation from one generation to the next is incremental - not a matter of tearing it all up and try some something random, not brute force exploring our way through all combinations.

Evolution seems more like building a tree where mostly all you can do is ascend the tree and add finer detail, leaving the trunk and branches (our evolutionary history) in place. It seems unlikely that, say, vertebrates are in the future going to "undo" the major evolutionary developments of the past and lose their skeleton, body symmetry, number of limbs, lungs, alimentary canal, nervous system, brain, etc. We see things like these developing in the evolutionary tree and mostly staying in place once created. Sure some fins turned to limbs, some gills to ears, but once things like that happened they seem to stay in place.

I wonder what evolution would look like if we could see it sped up from the origin of life to billions of years into the future? A building up of complexity to begin with, but those major branches of the evolutionary tree remaining pretty stable it would seem. Continual ongoing change, but of smaller and smaller scope, perhaps - building on what came before.
by kelnos | 2025-09-19 20:22:48+00:00
> What Kimmel said was wrong (assuming you believe Utah state investigators) and deeply irresponsible and inflammatory.

What Kimmel said[0] was fairly innocuous and not all that big a deal. What he said was actually true, in general, about conservative discourse, regardless of what the shooter's politics are.

Carr directly threatened ABC's broadcast license over protected speech, even in the context of the FCC's mandate and the rules around broadcast licensing.

Kimmel's ratings are irrelevant. Murdering someone with terminal cancer is still murder.

[0] There still seems to be a bunch of confusion and misinformation about what Kimmel said, so: "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it." If you truly believe that's the kind of thing the FCC should be threatening a network's broadcast license over, I'm not sure it's possible to have a productive discussion with you about this.
by hinkley | 2025-09-19 20:23:05+00:00
From my own time in the trenches working on ridiculously complex and dense web UIs:

I’ve always found this a bit specious. And indeed there are any number of libraries out there that are 4x faster than React these days. The problem is not access it’s pipelining. When the DOM is relatively homogenous there are simple code transformations and idioms that increase the render throughput by 10-50x or more. It’s interlacing reads and writes in a sequence that’s murder. So when you get to a heterogenous DOM with many different people working on different parts, it gets awkward to prevent the interlacing.

The virtual DOM is one way to force the separation, but it’s not the only way and it adds a lot of overhead, both computationally and cognitively. I can’t wait for it to die in a fire.
by whirlwin | 2025-09-19 20:23:08+00:00
The socialists’ rallying cry has long been, “Finally, it’s ordinary people’s time.” But in reality, ordinary people have seen their wealth steadily decline, while the state has only grown fatter and richer. The slogan should be more honest: “It’s the state’s time now.”

Now the state has more employees and will continue growing to attain more power, and thereby more voters. Having worse public services than 10 years ago while the spending has increased drastically is a bad sign.

That being said, it'll have to get drastically worse before ordinary people realize where their money went, and then it might shift
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-19 20:23:28+00:00
What "hackers" don't understand is that at certain scale, social cohesion is extremely important. A huge army of socially cohesive morons will achieve greater things than a small group of dedicated geniuses. This means that for any entity that grows beyond certain scale, socially cohesive morons are actually preferable over dedicated geniuses. The fact that your coworkers are unmotivated lazy stupid fucks is not a bug, it's a feature. They're not there to be smart, they're there to be socially cohesive.
by lastofthemojito | 2025-09-19 20:23:43+00:00
The TACO president doesn't just back away from a bad idea without announcing he got something in return. He'll declare exemptions or delays for companies or industries that kowtow to him in some way - maybe he'll demand these companies make contributions to "non-woke" engineering universities or remove "DEI hires" from their boards, who knows.
by freedomben | 2025-09-19 20:23:57+00:00
The earlier VCRs definitely did. We had either a Sony or a Toshiba (can't remember exactly) and that thing lasted decades with heavy use. It even survived disassembly/reassembly by a horribly underqualified kid (me) after having a PB&J sandwich shoved in the front (which was not me). Taking that thing apart was absolutely fascinating!
by jcul | 2025-09-19 20:24:22+00:00
> It was very difficult, because in lab conditions, it’s nearly impossible to have males,” says co-author Jonathan Romiguier, an ecologist at the University of Montpellier in France, to New Scientist’s Tim Vernimmen. “We had something like 50 colonies and monitored them for two years without a single male being born. Then we got lucky.

This confuses me too.

Did the queen once mate with one of these males and save the sperm for two years? Or are the queens somehow born with a copy of the genetic material.

Or does the old queen produce one, which mates with the new queen, and then dies off. And the new queen is able to hold onto that sperm for years (forever?). And they only produce a handful of males for this purpose?

Also why is it so difficult to have males in lab conditions?
by yndoendo | 2025-09-19 20:24:22+00:00
Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine created echo chambers. [0] Equal air time to different point of views of a topic turned into 100% or 99% network pushed point of view. This removed a standard person from having quality engagement to content designed an manipulated for personal gain by the networks. It was a good bridge to living together versus living divided.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine
by taddgiles | 2025-09-19 20:25:14+00:00
WeUseElixir is a curated directory of apps, libraries and companies that use the Elixir programming language.

A few years ago I was introduced to Elixir. It was the first functional programming language I'd ever used. I became a huge fan of the language and the community.

I've now used Elixir in a variety of different projects both professional and personal. It's become my go-to language for building web applications. It is just fun to work with.

I created WeUseElixir as a way to increase awareness of the Elixir language and how it's being used. WeUseElixir provides a place for creators to share their projects and allows others to discover new and interesting projects.
by hinkley | 2025-09-19 20:26:00+00:00
It’s the interlacing that’s the cost. Read after write forces redraw.

My big win on my first AJAX app was splitting read and write into two phases to reduce a page load from 30s on IE6 down to about 2 seconds. I didn’t even have to rearchitect. It was one loop in one (maybe 2) functions. Just had to split it into 2 loops.

If React wins (which I don’t agree that it does, but don’t want to have that argument), it’s that it allows you to compose tricks like this across a whole page instead of one component type.
by rebolek | 2025-09-19 20:26:04+00:00
I don’t think it works that way for most people, maybe for some radicals but there are radicals on every side. Yesterday I overheard a conversation where a man was talking about a trip to our capital (in EU country) and how there were "strangepeople" (I wrote it together as it’s an insult as one word here and he meant it that way), wearing pink and rainbow and he was frightened and how’s he glad he returned to our small city in the middle of nowhere.

Did I thought he was a fascist and did I want to kill him? No, he seemed like a decent man who’s just afraid of things he’s not familiar with and who believe in stuff pushed by crazy radicals because he has no experience with people and situations unknown to him.

Did I want to punch him? No, I wanted to discuss with him, but I haven’t got time, as I needed to pick up my kid from the same art school he was bringing his kid in.

So tell me, why is he concerned about people who he saw on metro and who were not threatening him? Should he be afraid of me, because I probably could be described as woke as I think that you should let others be, if they don’t hurt you or others? I don’t care about online media, this is real life example.