MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keeda | 2025-09-10 21:19:59+00:00
Good point. I think a couple things are possible here:

1. They can't outright tell employees "we just realized you were getting a better deal than we bargained for, so now we are re-negotiating." Kind of like they couldn't tell us "you had too much of a good run during Covid and ZIRP, so now sit down," and instead did the layoffs. So they have to couch it in other terms like collaboration and watercoolers. I suspect most RTO policies will have some flexible language to the effect of "existing remote employees can figure it out with their managers," and part of that would be a renegotiation.

This is not without precedence: a similar thing that happened during the height of post-Covid remote work was that employees moved to very low-cost locations, so most BigTech (and other) companies then instituted pay bands that depended on your location. To be fair, they were still very generous salaries for the locations in question, but the reasoning they used was "our pay is competitive relative to the market, and your market just changed." Those must have been some fun conversations for managers but they happened and most employees accepted.

BTW a common argument then was "how does my location matter as long as my output provides the same value." Employers interpreted that as "Hmm, location doesn't really matter, so why not pay somebody across the world who can provide the same value at a fraction of the cost."

2. They are not interested in direct renegotiations and the RTO wave is still part of a "silent" layoff, which also has the side-effect of depressing salaries. Those who remain will be less likely to ask for raises, or be more willing to renegotiate to get back their remote perks. Those looking for new jobs will naturally enter a negotiation phase if they get an offer.

There may be other mechanisms at play too.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-10 21:20:33+00:00
Cool! Mine passively extracts unlimited energy from the expansion of space.

Not scientifically perpetual. But definitely, relative to the finite future lifetime of the human race, operable for perpetuity.

And by extracting dark energy, we can not only turn the big rip around. But by pulling dark energy out of space in a linear direction ahead of a ship, we can power the ship to high speed, as we contract space in front of the ship. Like fusion, we can use extracted dark energy to extract more dark energy. Essentially smoothly teleporting forward. No more fundamental speed limits relative to observers at distance. Looking forward to exploring beyond the observable universe.

It isn't "free" though. There are unique risks.
by watwut | 2025-09-10 21:21:20+00:00
Most likely, there is no special backstory and the painting was simply commissioned. And most likely, there no super special composition in that portrait and the style is exactly the same as the style of surrounding paintings.

Most paintings dont have a cool backstories. They are just paintings. Art student can see technical details of how they were done, but those are not really interesting if you are not trying to learn to paint.
by dh2022 | 2025-09-10 21:21:29+00:00
How would this be an incentive for Microsoft to require RTO though? Even if Microsoft would receive tax breaks from the city because employees own property and pay property taxes - the city would get the same amount of property taxes if employees work from home. Microsoft would receive the same tax breaks.

AFAIK Microsoft mandated RTO only for employees that live within 50 miles of an office. So far Microsoft does not require employees to move to a city - and bolster the property taxes the city collects.

I still do not understand the logic behind RTO.
by snatekay | 2025-09-10 21:21:41+00:00
Some others from this year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Capital_Jewish_Museum_sho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Boulder_fire_attack

Additionally, I’ve seen a troubling amount of online sentiment positively in favor of the Trump assassination attempts, the murder of Brian Thompson. The sentiment in response to Charlie Kirk’s murder looks like it might be similarly troubling.
by jader201 | 2025-09-10 21:21:42+00:00
Fair points. I guess some level of uneasiness can be a good thing for some folks.

But I also recognize it can possibly trigger anxiety (overwhelming, in some cases) for some folks, even if you don't realize that it might (until it's too late).

Not suggesting we turn to censorship. But at the same time, I guess I'm mostly looking out for folks that may not be aware of the effects it could possibly have (e.g. naive and/or not taking warnings seriously enough).
by heyjamesknight | 2025-09-10 21:21:44+00:00
> and it's not even left from a European perspective.

This is a meme that needs to die. Its just not true.

The Democratic party in the US is right in line with Labor/Socialist/Whatever Mainstream Leftist Party you want to point at in Europe. It has members who end up on various sides of the left-wing spectrum. There are no "far left" parties in the US because we have a two party system.

There are obviously topics where this is not true. But that goes both ways: almost no country on Earth has the level of abortion access that the Democratic party in the US demands. And there are examples of European right wing parties who fight for zero abortion access, which is not the GOP platform currently.
by 0x457 | 2025-09-10 21:21:57+00:00
I'm convinced that "area" where screen breaks without a case, but doesn't break with a case is very narrow. In my mind, the main reasons to have a case: personalize, rugged cases for appropriate environment (car shops, construction sites), improve grip in certain "phone shape" + hand size combinations.

> I did do cosmetic damage to the non-screen parts of some phones while not using a case, though.

I don't care about those for various reasons.
by bdhe | 2025-09-10 21:22:09+00:00
> Political violence cannot be deterred with strict gun laws.

If a simplistic definition of political violence is targeted killings of political leaders, then this is trivially false. Look at Europe, Australia and other countries with comparable statistics to US and look at the number of events you'd classify as political violence. It is likely zero. The only person I can think of from recent memory is Shinzo Abe.

In the US alone, thanks to no gun control, we have attempts at Presidential candidates, and successful killings of state-level law makers, CEOs, and now, political influencers.
by 01100011 | 2025-09-10 21:22:14+00:00
Model Y. The battery perf was also terrible, requiring a lot of time spent at the supercharger for less than 150 miles of driving. That could have been due to battery abuse as it was a rental car.

I'm not saying the bolt out-accelerates a tesla. That's silly. I'm saying the bolt was fast and nimble.

Software on mine was fine. Battery charging sucked but that wasn't a problem for me having had subsidized charging at work. Battery fires caused my bolt to receive a free, brand new battery so also not a problem.
by Animats | 2025-09-10 21:22:15+00:00
> At the same time, YouTube videos are getting longer...

That may be a consequence of the monetization algorithm. It allows more time for ads.

The format of too many Youtube videos now is

- Useless intro

- Long recap of historical info to allow space for ads

- Actual new content

- Filler

- Conclusion

Those are the ones that aren't just some neckbeard with earphones and a big microphone.
by dijit | 2025-09-10 21:22:23+00:00
i think you’re both saying the same thing here.

Gun violence doesn’t just happen to other people, it happens randomly and to anyone, even those who choose not to own guns.

Pointing out the irony that he died because of gun violence despite stating that gun violence is an acceptable cost is mean spirited and insensitive in the moment, but not incorrect.

He advocated for circumstances for which this could happen, he probably just assumed it would never happen to him.
by rrmm | 2025-09-10 21:22:46+00:00
Does it seem that way? It happened at least once (but could have happened many times without "taking over"), and certainly one sort of life seemed to successfully out-compete all others. But none of that says single-origin to me.

Early on I would expect a whole lot of "horizontal gene transfer" sort of things to have taken place. So for example in addition to actual horizontal gene transfer, there are mechanisms like one organism enveloping another to eventually become organelles, co-opting products from each other, etc. All of which would act to homogenize life and make certain process ubiquitous.

Finally, there's an outside chance that "there's only one way to do it".
by thefunkychook | 2025-09-10 21:22:51+00:00
The events of October 7th were an atrocity. The illegal settlements and extrajudicial killing of Palestinians prior to October 7th was an atrocity. The launching of rockets into Israel were atrocities. Israeli citizens cheering and watching from deck chairs while white phosphorus was dropped onto Gaza was an atrocity. And this ongoing slaughter, starving of civilians, murder of people waiting for aid in designated humanitarian areas, targeting of doctors, journalists, aid workers, double tapping of hospitals, missile strikes on other sovereign states who are hosting negotiations... Those are atrocities. The whole history is riddled with atrocity on both sides.

The only way out of this, while retaining some shred of humanity is through diplomacy, upholding international law, and centring the role of civil society and the huge numbers on both sides who want a peaceful, just coexistence.

The whole thing is sickening. Also hard to see how this can possibly improve Israel's security in the long term.
by brucehoult | 2025-09-10 21:22:52+00:00
> I've never seen a compiler do it.

Oh I have. Often.

https://godbolt.org/z/PM9herj3P

Note: these could be tail-calls, and are if you use `-O2` or `-Os`, but that's not important. Make it `foo(n) + 13` and you still get the "don't make a stack frame unless needed" optimisation.

Oh, here's an interesting one. Arm proactively pushes everything, x86 and RISC-V only if `err()` will be called.

https://godbolt.org/z/93WEbc1q9

I also would expect the number of function executions which are dynamically leaf functions [1] to be greater than 50%. Except for the kind of perverse call chains you get in Java and perhaps some other OO code bases where there are huge numbers of layers of abstraction where each method simply calls one other lower level method.

[1] i.e. that don't call another function on that execution, though in other circumstances they could.
by benjiro | 2025-09-10 21:23:34+00:00
> There's nothing special about it

Wait when you need to manage a bunch of servers yourself. Unfortunately, the solutions available are complex, and not something where you can simply points something to a server, or VPS, and have a quick total controlled kernel level solution. K8, sure, but even that is not on the same level. And when you then need to manage DB's, your often placing those outside K8. Most scalable solutions like CRDB (10m pay, required yearly "free" license approval), Yugabyte(half broken), TiDB ... have their own issues and again, do not tie into a complete managed cloud experience.
by gamblor956 | 2025-09-10 21:23:35+00:00
I don't think you understand what propaganda is.

Propaganda wouldn't be a movie in which the villain is the government of the country that the main hero also belongs to, and remains with at the conclusion of the movie.

OTOH, the trope of the hero's government being the villain is very much a trope in the conspiracy thriller genre, which has been around for more than 50 years.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-10 21:23:35+00:00
I spent 7 months on a contract job last year like that... I'm in Phoenix (as well as half the employees involved) but the meetings were East Coast centered, so starting at 5am local. Roughly 38 hours of meetings a week, and in a position where I had to pay attention... It SUCKED so hard... I never got used to being up early and it just burned me up.

At least with actual people, in person there's more to the communication... I miss lunch with coworkers. I now pretty much have to work from home (vision decline, so I cannot drive), I wish it weren't the case.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-10 21:23:35+00:00
> Violence didn’t bring us the weekend.

Violence definitely happened in the US labor movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass

Ford hardly invented the weekend, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History

"The present-day concept of the relatively longer "week-end" first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century... In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, a predecessor of today’s AFL-CIO, called for all workers to have eight-hour days by May 1, 1886, playing a crucial role in the push for a five-day workweek."
by HaZeust | 2025-09-10 21:23:45+00:00
No, but he thought its presence was worth it:

>"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

https://www.29news.com/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-shot-universi...
by vkou | 2025-09-10 21:23:49+00:00
Cities only prosecute misdemeanors, and have no control over felony investigations or prosecutions. Police departments in all cities politically lean hard-right.

The state and the PD has far more influence over access to firearms and serious crime than a city's politics do. A city's authority is largely limited to handing out parking tickets and graffiti citations.

And republican supermajority states have never had any issue overriding any municipal legislature or policies that they don't like. It's as easy as drafting a piece of legislature for them. Municipalities don't enjoy even the illusion of sovereignty, or, really, any codified rights in the US.

----

And if you think it's the cities; fault, why is the homicide rate outside of cities in deep-Republican states so high? Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, the Carolinas... All have a horrible state-wide violent crime problem. How many more decades of Republican supermajorities will they need to bury the myth that Republican policies reduce crime?
by IshKebab | 2025-09-10 21:24:09+00:00
This is cool. I'm not a fan of TUIs at all (poor man's GUI if you ask me) but anything beats the Jira website trash.

I will definitely be curious to see how much of Jira's abysmal performance is due to the website design (got to be a fair bit given how badly things like drag and drop perform) and how much is due to the server.
by yonaguska | 2025-09-10 21:24:15+00:00
The motives in that case don't seem to immediately be as clear cut yet. I've been waiting for this trial or more information myself because that shooter has made some very bizarre claims. He admitted that he was a Trump supporter and pro-life, but that had nothing to do with why he did it. He then made the claim that Tim Waltz had hired him to carry out the execution. It's very odd- but I can't say why media orgs didn't cover it for very long at all.
by zakeria | 2025-09-10 21:24:24+00:00
Thanks for the comment. Just to clarify, the uGMM-NN isn't simply "Gaussian sampling along the parameters of nodes."

Each neuron is a univariate Gaussian mixture with learnable mean, variance, and mixture weights. This gives the network the ability to perform probabilistic inference natively inside its architecture, rather than approximating uncertainty after the fact.

The work isn’t framed as "replacing MLPs." The motivation is to bridge two research traditions:

- probabilistic graphical models and probabilistic circuits (relatively newer)

- deep learning architectures

That's why the Iris dataset (despite being simple) was included - not as a discriminative benchmark, but to show the model could be trained generatively in a way similar to PGMs, something a standard MLP cannot do. Hence, the other benefits of the approach mentioned in the paper.
by watwut | 2025-09-10 21:24:28+00:00
I do know republicans, I am from more of conservative environment. I still semi regularly read conservative journals. It is currently what it is. Trying to idealise that word serves no one.

They dont like science. They used to like cosplay liking science, when it felt more manly or when they thought it sticks it to feminists. That interest ends long before any real science starts and have nothing to do with it.

They dont think much of actual scientists.
by deevus | 2025-09-10 21:24:45+00:00
It will help with the editor experience, but not the porting itself.

Porting to build.zig can be a bit of work. It does have some capability to use cmake config, which can help make the process easier.

I ported wildmidi across and consumed their config (I think it was cmake). I have a PR open there:

https://github.com/Mindwerks/wildmidi/pull/260
by tolerance | 2025-09-10 21:24:52+00:00
> But in _recent_ memory, the one that comes to mind immediately is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi not too long after 9/11. His death disrupted Al Qaeda in Iraq which almost certainly was a net benefit.

Giving rise to ISIS.

> Bin laden himself also comes to mind but it's unclear how much more potential he had to inflict terror on the world at the time in his life when he was assassinated.

Political theater at best.
by ch4s3 | 2025-09-10 21:25:36+00:00
I'm looking at their blog[1] and yeah it looks like they're doing literally the exact same thing the other tools I named are doing but with a UI inspired by things like shader pipeline tools in game engines. It isn't clear how it's doing all of the things the grandparent is claiming.

[1]https://blog.comfy.org/p/nano-banana-via-comfyui-api-nodes
by photonthug | 2025-09-10 21:25:43+00:00
> There is a certain amount of regular work that I don't want to automate away, even though maybe I can. That regular work keeps me in the domain. It leads to epiphany's in regards to the hard problems. It adds time and something to do in between the hard problems.

Exactly, some kinds of refactors are like this for me. Pretty mindless, kind of relaxing, almost algebraic. It's a pleasant way to wander around the code base just cleaning and improving things while you walk down a data or control flow. If you're following a thread then you don't even make decisions really, but you also get better acquainted with parts you don't know, and subconsciously get the practice holding some kind of gestalt in your head.

This kind of almost dream-like "grooming" seems important and useful, because it preps you for working with design problems later. Definitely formatting and style type trivia should absolutely be automated, and real architecture/design work requires active engagement. But there's a sweet spot in the middle.

Even before LLMs maybe you could automate some of these refactors with tools for manipulating ASTs or CSTs, if your language of choice had those tools. But automating everything that can be automated won't necessarily pay off if you're losing fluency that you might need later.
by ivorcosta | 2025-09-10 21:25:48+00:00
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I'd love to hear your comments and feedback as I continue to refine the game!
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-10 21:25:51+00:00
> Political violence cannot be deterred with strict gun laws.

Definitely, considering what is happening in Nepal ATM. However, some kind of ban on gun supply (not just controlling them) definitely has an impact on your country's murder rate. You can't just expect 20 million guns produced in the USA for consumers not to get in the hands of people who want to do bad things with them. Really, I would be happy if they just lowered that number a lot (to say 1 million) without any other gun control laws, the murder rate across the whole continent would fall.
by ok1984 | 2025-09-10 21:26:03+00:00
Don’t you think that what is happening will lead to a generation that hates their neighbours even more?

If I were in charge, I would create the circumstances that prevent poverty, create work, and encourage cooperation between both nations hoping that time will heal the hate and anger that both sides accumulated over the years, this requires wisdom and patience from the political party that is smart enough to understand that neither party can redeem the whole land for themselves.

But as long as each party refuses to accept the other, regardless if they say it publicly or not the hate will never end.
by worik | 2025-09-10 21:26:21+00:00
This makes me so mad. 5he excuses from Microsoft are quite pathetic

Their ubiquitous systems have been notoriously insecure for decades.

They are one of the highest revenue firms on the planet.

It is going to take strict liability for software developers before we all pull up our socks and put an end to this nonsense. When it is a marketing advantage to produce insecure software, what else can fix our industry?

I despair
by Ethee | 2025-09-10 21:26:21+00:00
This is where I feel like we've solved a third-order problem. If you're sorting all PRs into those two buckets then you should probably take a step back and redefine what a PR is for your organization, as both 1 and 2 make the assumption that the PR is too big to review in a single sit down or that the author didn't put in enough effort to craft their PR. Both of these should just be rejected outright in favor of doing things in a smaller more manageable way, instead of having an AI sort through something that a human should have started with. Obviously this is more of an ideal situation and a lot of companies don't work on the ideal which is why I think your product will find good use because companies don't want to invest in slowing down, only going faster.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-10 21:26:26+00:00
another book (that i have admittedly been dragging my feet on finishing) that covers this idea is 'The Wretched of the Earth' by Frantz Fanon. i have never personally been directly exposed to the ill effects of state-imposed violence to the degree that others have. it's eye-opening to more-seriously consider the positions of those who have.