MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zdragnar | 2025-09-11 03:04:21+00:00
> The only debatable facet of this is what specifically they meant by "militia."

There's not too much to debate there; many militias existed at the time. Every state had them! Further, every border was susceptible to foreign aggression, and the frontier borders were too vast to be policed or patrolled by soldiers to protect civilians from war or banditry. Civilians needed to be able to protect themselves, and the militias needed people who could shoot prior to enlisting, as the nation was constantly under threat.

> The founding fathers absolutely intended popular violence to be an integral part of the American political system

This is also not broadly true, barring some choice quotes intended to stir up support for the war. It was intended as a last resort against a tyrannical government. The assassinations of presidents have no legal foundation within the Constitution itself, despite it happening. Likewise, American gun culture doesn't promote assassinating politicians, but rather being prepared in case of the fall of the Constitution itself.

France would be a much better example of a country that embraces violence as a matter of course in politics.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-11 03:04:39+00:00
We're in an attentional crises that isn't because kids didn't go to school for two years.

It's destroying their ability to experience reality as paths, free navigation, vicarious trial and error, all of this is fundamental to memory consolidation: the brain's fundamental unit: action-syntax in memory, is built from non-screen topological integrations of landmark and allocentric experiences. Phones destroy this.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6059409/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20922-0

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brb3.70656

https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/15/6/98

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40255102/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00246-025-03862-0

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/12/4/503

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40172268/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40173157/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04024-x

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

“A growing body of evidence has found that children’s brains can structurally and functionally change due to prolonged media multitasking, such as diminished gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, where attentional control and complex decision making abilities reside, among other really important skills, like the development of empathy and understanding nonverbal social communication,”
by bb88 | 2025-09-11 03:05:20+00:00
To be fair, it wasn't just Uvalde.

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

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parkland-shooting-verdi...

We assume that the police will come to the rescue for all situations, but the fact is, they're human too.

This is typically different than the pro-gun mantra of "The best defense from a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

He was clearly a good guy. But he didn't want to die.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-11 03:05:59+00:00
> The training was optional. Seems not that crazy to offer?

Crazy or not, if someone starts giving training on how you, specifically can try to be less of a monster, it's reasonable to assume that someone doesn't like you very much.

> You should probably not cite an op-ed as a source

Here's another source, if the Wall Street Journal is too unreliable for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944203

> creating obviously discriminatory white-only towns

Oh, this doesn't count as "combating a specific problem"? Diversity is so great it must be mandatory?

Anyway sure you can keep trying to explain this obvious trend away with sophistry, but don't be surprised when others don't stick their heads in the sand with the same enthusiasm as you.
by cc101 | 2025-09-11 03:06:28+00:00
In 1968 all we had was McCracken's short book on FORTRAN and a large number of utterly inpenetrable IBM manuals. When IBM finally came out with "FORTRAN Programmers Guide", it was revolutionary. Asking other programmers was very useful.

None of this is useful for you other than discussing things with fellow programmers.
by sothatsit | 2025-09-11 03:07:53+00:00
Piracy is not nearly at the same scale as what would happen if copyright was scrapped. Piracy requires you to go to shady websites to get illegal copies of games/movies/tv series. That is enough of a disincentive for most people that just buying copies of the games is easier.

But if it were legal to distribute copies, these websites wouldn't need to operate in the shadows, switching domain names constantly to evade law enforcement. Instead, these websites could become as easy-to-use as Steam, but instead of paying the creators of the games they could just take 100% of the revenues for themself.

There would be an explosion in what we would call "piracy" today, but what would just be called downloading games if copyright were scrapped, because the barrier to entry for doing so could be made so much lower.

I am not a fan of intellectual property and copyright enforcement (at least the weaponisation of them). But scrapping IP and copyright entirely would be disastrous. I prefer the idea of reducing the amount of time someone can hold IP/copyright for, or additional punishment for patent trolls, or other measures to alleviate the concerns of IP/copyright without destroying R&D and digital work.
by gpm | 2025-09-11 03:07:54+00:00
There's definitely a dispute over whether at least some of the people detained were operating within the bounds of their visa's: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/lawyer-says...

It's also very noteworthy that these people are still being imprisoned in the US on Donald Trump's orders - Trump having personally prevented the repatriation of the Koreans to Korea today. There is absolutely no reason to believe that we have the full story, or that the Korean government, or the Korean's individual friends/families/represetnatives feel free to speak freely as America seemingly holds their citizens hostage. To say that lack of further public disputes is proof that there is not more to dispute seems false to me.
by DavidSJ | 2025-09-11 03:08:20+00:00
> I'm not sure what your point is?

I was just responding to this claim:

> An LLM was only every meant to be a linguistics model, not a brain or cognitive architecture.

Plenty of people did in fact see a language model as a potential path towards intelligence, whatever might be said about the beliefs of Mr. Uszkoreit specifically.

There's some ambiguity as to whether you're talking about the transformer specifically, or language models generally. The "recent history" of RNNs and LSTMs you refer to dates back to before the paper I linked. I won't speak to the motivations or views of the specific authors of Vaswani et al, but there's a long history, both distant and recent, of drawing connections between information theory, compression, prediction, and intelligence, including in the context of language modeling.
by aidenn0 | 2025-09-11 03:09:39+00:00
My son went to one of those chrombook-intensive public schools (though at least at the time they didn't start using them until 3rd grade; they start younger now).

Any time he had the chromebook out, he just played webgames. Not an exaggeration, he would go back on task when the teacher corrected then switch tabs the moment the teacher was not looking over his shoulder. I told the teacher to take the chromebook away if he did that and the teacher said "but then he can't do the assignment." The obvious reply was "he also can't do the assignment if he's playing games on the chromebook" but that somehow didn't compute.

We finally got him a plan under section 504 of the ADA that stated if he was off-task on the chromebook, then it must be removed. The teacher ignored this. We complained. The teacher still ignored it. We paid a lawyer to draft a scary sounding letter and the teacher finally complied. We sent his younger sibling to a private school.
by Cornbilly | 2025-09-11 03:10:49+00:00
They don’t care. Social media has convinced them that this leads to high paying jobs for every do-nothing jagoff despite it not longer being the 1960s and nearly every good job requires specialized training of some degree.

Our immigration system was nightmare before Trump and it’s only going to get worse because no one in this admin has any real intention of fixing it for everyone’s benefit.
by KPGv2 | 2025-09-11 03:11:00+00:00
I might just not be reading correctly, but on the off chance I parsed your comment correctly, I respond to:

> The Z in Nazi is for "sozialistische" === socialist

by pointing out the Nazis were not, in fact socialist. They executed socialists and communists, but called themselves socialist in the same way the DPRK and PROC call themselves republics.
by goku12 | 2025-09-11 03:11:56+00:00
No. You'd send 'patches' via email. Each patch roughly corresponds to a commit. These are diffs + commit metadata that are directly formatted as email messages. A single submission of multiple commits will be made of multiple threaded email messages. The maintainer then 'applies' the received patches to their repo to recreate the commits from the contributor. I know that this sounds complicated, but it's quite streamlined in git. You don't have to do all that manually.

There is one more way to contribute by email. And they are... surprise! Pull requests! You can send pull requests to the maintainer via email, as long as your own modified clone repo is hosted and accessible online somewhere. It doesn't have to be on the same server (unlike github forks). This is done using the `git request-pull` command.
by Amaury-El | 2025-09-11 03:13:00+00:00
I used to think it wasn't necessary to remember much, as long as I could look things up. But over time, I realized that without a personal mental framework, it's hard to judge whether what you find is actually valuable.

Some insights only emerge when knowledge has stayed in your mind long enough to collide and connect with other ideas. Tools can help, but it's the knowledge that has been internalized and shaped over time that holds the real power.
by abustamam | 2025-09-11 03:13:21+00:00
> The vast majority of us picture a deranged lunatic indiscriminately shooting innocent people

Just because we picture one thing when we hear a term doesn't change the agreed upon definition of the term.

If the definition of "mass shooting" were a single person, 600 is still way too many to have in a year.

Other developed countries have fewer than 600 gun-related deaths total per year. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/31/1209683...

The fact that upping the bar to 4 per incident and still gets us 600 is frankly shameful.

> it would be politically inconvenient to separate them

Why? No sane person in the United States "likes" gun violence. I don't think anyone would disagree with the statement "600 incidents of a firearm killing 4 or more people is too many incidents." The question that divides people is how we ought to control it.
by mbirth | 2025-09-11 03:14:05+00:00
Yep, as my old only-used-for-obscure-firmware-updates laptop’s Intel i5 CPU isn’t “supported” by Windows 11, I now went back to Windows 7 on that thing. And boy is that a performance boost over Win10! Using LegacyUpdate you can get it pretty much up to date and there’s even VxKext-NEXT to emulate the few API calls that Windows 10 added.

It’s not for everyday use, but if you need some Windows machine to run old software and won’t surf the Internet with it, it’s awesome.
by jfengel | 2025-09-11 03:14:56+00:00
It may not be smart or good business but it's great politics. It's easy to blame foreigners for any perceived wrong, especially if they're breaking the rules. Your constituents believe that you're setting things right.

It will undoubtedly have negative financial effect on those same constituents, but there's always someone else to arrest and take the blame. It's fantastic politics.
by viraptor | 2025-09-11 03:15:41+00:00
> It was a clear violation

Can you show us the proof?

> Most of the people had come on the wrong visa

Can you show us the proof?

> knowingly

Can you show us the proof?

You're very sure about it without all the details being known and people possibly still wanting to get out safely, without causing further conflicts by speaking out. I've done enough travel / border chats that if I ended up in their situation, I'd be keen to shut up and get out as soon as possible, regardless of my legal status.
by slater | 2025-09-11 03:15:47+00:00
> The Z in Nazi is for "sozialistische" === socialist

No, it's not. Emphatically, demonstrably not.

Ignoring your other stuff about attempting to make the tired "Nazis were socialists, it's in their name, see?" argument, which is just Wolfgang-Pauli-levels of "not even wrong", the "z" in Nazi comes from the German pronunciation of "National".
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-11 03:15:58+00:00
I can tell you that Australians travel for work to the USA on the ESTA visa wavier all the time. It specifically states on the form that it allows business travel. The idea that you can't do work trips to the US office on the visa waiver and that the only way to do this is with an extremely heavyweight working visa seems ridiculous.

It's not that the Koreans are the only one's doing this. It's that they were the first to hit by this very new interpretation of the law. Now that this interpretation is public i don't think anyone's going to the US for conferences/trade shows/general business trips for a few years.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-11 03:16:00+00:00
I guess I'm confused on what the difference between "being the most popular Linux DE" and "being the default DE of the most popular Linux distros" is. Other than "already being most popular", what was/is KDE's partnership with these distros lacking that GNOME wasn't/isn't? Since this all happened 10-20 years prior to either Neon or KDE Linux, and KDE has long had these kinds of partnerships, I'm assuming there is some other reason/thing KDE you think KDE should be looking at.

Adding on from this new comment: Given whatever differences you see for GNOME in the above, why do you think GNOME has maintained its own testing OS for the last 5 years despite this?
by _carbyau_ | 2025-09-11 03:16:04+00:00
From outside the US the view seems more like:

1. Democrats in power could never do anything because Republicans could always block by virtue of having majority somewhere.

2. Republicans blocked everything they could, simply because the Democrats were in power.

3. Democrats then get blamed for not doing anything.

4. the current administration is getting something done, yes. Some things are down the wrong path and shouldn't be done. Some things are debatable but perhaps the right path but doing them in a stupid manner.

PS: supreme court isn't helping.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-09-11 03:16:28+00:00
Ah, I did wonder how state level taxes were being accounted for, seems like the answer is they aren't. I guess I could have looked that up before posting. The values here[0] are markedly different. It shows Germany at 45%, France at 51.53%, US at 29.21% and Denmark at 50%. So I was way off the mark there, although I did think something seemed very off with those numbers. France is the 10th highest in the world, with many of the countries above it being tiny island countries or countries with vast oil reveres relative to their size like Norway and Kuwait. With this being the case, it does seem hard to imagine that more taxes will fix everything.

[0] Government revenue, percent of GDP - https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/rev@FPP/

Also relevant: Government expenditure, percent of GDP - https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/
by stayhydratedboy | 2025-09-11 03:17:23+00:00
I don't understand why Apple settled. You can set up a network proxy and verify for yourself that no traffic happens until you manually activate Siri. And what kind of valuable data do you get from "unintended activations" that's worth selling to a restaurant or store? Is $95 million just cheap enough that they don't want to fight it?
by Terr_ | 2025-09-11 03:17:26+00:00
Even if that were true (it isn't) that's like saying the D in DPRK stands for "Democratic", but using a word doesn't make it true. North Korea is not democratic.

Hell, even back in 1931, people knew the Nazi party was using false branding. You can see it with this anti-Hitler editorial cartoon [0], where Hitler is changing the emphasis of the party-name to schmooze up to different audiences.

Or remember that Night of the Long Knives [1] in 1934, where the Nazis murdered the "socialists."

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacobus_Belsen_-_Das...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
by neilv | 2025-09-11 03:17:33+00:00
I guess if you set up an `ntfy` server, and you also run the `ntfy` app on iOS, then the `ntfy` app can do a local notification on the iOS device (without going through Apple APN servers)?

Then it looks like you can probably just do the communication between server and app using HTTP(S), though the app either needs to keep a connection open or poll frequently (with entirely new TCP and possibly TLS connection negotiation each poll time):

https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/

https://docs.ntfy.sh/publish/

`ntfy` is impressive, but there's a lot of implementation to it that could have vulns, there's substantial server config to do, the app-side UX polish isn't great, and the connection method is inefficient. But it might not obviously leak to some centralized thing outside your control (unlike if you do iOS push notifications the normal way).
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-11 03:18:12+00:00
What's not to understand - it's precisely the argument theists have put forward for millenia

"We couldn't find anything to show it wasn't a god, so it must be a god"

Calling one group "smart" doesn't change the process or the outcome - the absence of data is not data, it's just that we couldn't yet find the full explanation.

One day we might, it might actually be life, but we don't have that right now, so, actual science demands that we withhold any wild speculation.
by refurb | 2025-09-11 03:18:40+00:00
If the US builds a plant in Korea, can it hire Americans hundreds to do the work?

https://www.immigration.go.kr/immigration_eng/1852/subview.d...

Doesn't look like it. Several restrictions on how many (max 5) dependent upon the construction budget.

If Korea selectively needs to bring over skilled workers, there are options. But hundreds?
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-11 03:19:45+00:00
>> MS needs to accept that user interface design mostly peaked about a decade or two ago

> The original Windows era had plenty of work put into accessibility and making it clear what was clickable.

It makes you wonder what would have happened if Microsoft had frozen Windows core UI features at 7 and instead invested the countless person-years of UI (re-)development elsewhere...
by theonething | 2025-09-11 03:19:59+00:00
Yes, Kirk had strong opinions and wasn't afraid to express them. And in his public tours, he always had an open mic to give anyone an opportunity to express opposing views.

The context of Kirk's words you are quoting are actually about a trans person winning an athletic event. More significantly, you misinterpret his words to fit your framing of him. He did not advocate for violence against LGBT people.

The Sacramento Bee also initially misinterpreted his words in the same slant you are and after careful reexamination, realized their mistake, retracted their accusation against him and apologized.

> An earlier version of this column included a statement that Charlie Kirk had “called for the lynching of trans people.” The basis for this accusation is a video clip in which Kirk was upset that a trans woman had won an NCAA swimming championship. In the clip, Kirk said that instead of letting the woman compete, “Someone should have took (sic) care of it the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s.” Some trans advocates on social media extrapolated from Kirk’s comments that he called for trans people to be lynched - an accusation The Bee repeated. But a review of the video shows that Kirk never advocated for trans people to be lynched. In fact, he strongly denies the accusation. These notes have been added to the column. The Bee regrets its comments and we apologize for any misunderstanding this earlier version may have caused.

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article273103235.html
by kerkeslager | 2025-09-11 03:20:07+00:00
Sure, it's okay to be wrong, but it gets significantly less okay when you just keep doubling down on being wrong and refuse to admit you are wrong.

Unless I've missed something, you still seem to be under the very wrong impression that you've come up with a secure shuffling algorithm. You simply have not come up with a secure shuffling algorithm. The minimum viable evidence of security for an algorithm is mathematical proof and you don't have that, and you don't get to sit a the security table until you do. Put bluntly: mathematical proof or GTFO.

Yes, I'm gatekeeping, and there's a very good reason for that: we know from tens of thousands of bad attempts at secure algorithms that if there isn't a proof of security it very likely is not secure, with disastrous effects. It is not a kindness to let this sort of wrong information spread, and it's not assholish to be clear that it is wrong.

EDIT: Even if you want to add "probably" or some other qualifying word to your claims, "This shuffling algorithm is probably secure" is still wrong. No, that shuffling algorithm is probably not secure. I am sorry to be a hardass here, but the idea that this is an effective approach to security needs to be deleted from your mind.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-11 03:20:40+00:00
It looks to me like they may have been in breach of their visa depending on the work they were doing:

A B-1 / B-2 visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows foreign nationals to travel to the United States temporarily for business (B-1), tourism (B-2), or a mix of both (B1/B2). https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/b-1-b-2-visi...

B1 Visa Subcategories and Special Cases

While the B-1 visa generally restricts employment and formal education, there are some exceptions under specific circumstances. These exceptions aren’t separate visa categories but annotations considered by the U.S. consular officers during the visitor visa application process.

Here’s a closer look at these special B-1 subcategories:

B-1 after-sales service visa: Companies selling equipment to the U.S. can leverage this visa to send assemblers for on-site service orders. Think of it as temporary technical support. These assemblers can perform tasks like installation, maintenance, and training, but the assembly work must be done by U.S. personnel.

B-1 in place of H-1B visa (temporary project visa): Some professionals might be eligible for a B-1 visa for temporary projects in specific scenarios. This option can be viable when an H-1B visa, typically used for specialty occupations, might be challenging to obtain.

B-1 instead of H-3 visa (short-term training): Under certain conditions, the B-1 category can be used for brief in-house training sessions or further employee education. It allows for skills development without needing a dedicated H-3 visa designed for trainee positions.

IMPORTANT! These B1 business visa exceptions have strict requirements. Working with an immigration service provider or lawyer is highly recommended to determine if a particular B-1 visa category fits your situation.

https://www.immigrationdirect.com/guides/b1-b2-visitor-visa/