MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jbm | 2025-09-10 22:28:25+00:00
It isn't the sentiment, but rather the omnipresence of the most extreme version of the sentiment, that makes it seem artificial. It's not as if states like Iowa voting for a conservative figure is a surprise. (They voted against FDR during WW2)

I've never heard a liberal American IRL express more than mild distaste for farmers and their subsidies. I've certainly not seen enough IRL vitrol for people to engage in page after page of Reddit / Herman Cain award style comments on news comment sections on Youtube.

I can imagine the farmer handout being seen as offensive when conservative activists opposed bailing out student loans, but other countries do very similar things (Canada certainly does). It's just not political to give money to farmers, even when they are millionaires. Additional consolidation of farms will just lead to more egg price hikes when bird flu spreads to mega flocks on mega farms.

The other reason this doesn't seem real is that normally you'd have an angle behind this other than "Ha, you guys are fucked". Instead it just seems to be comments geared at arousing maximum anger, which seems like something I would do if I wanted acceleration vs. change.

I've also seen similar comments before, like the "Ha ha you didn't vote for Kamala and Gaza is in flames because of you".

It might be people terminally online, but it strikes me as being inorganic, not real.
by tomrod | 2025-09-10 22:29:57+00:00
I don't understand this comment.

This happened a few hours ago while the decedent was commenting on 5/5700 mass shootings being performed by trans people being enough to take rights, which the decedent normally argues should not be abrogated, away, and that most shootings were gang violence. This is after a few years long history of promoting inaction on guns despite clear Constitutionality and clear need.

Ironically it was at a school, making it a school shooting. Unironically, there was a school shooting in Colorado occurring at the same time.

Guns are the problem. Everyone knows this. Some try to justify it anyway, Mr. Kirk among them.

Like I said, I simply don't understand why someone's response mere hours after a deadly shooting is "I blame my political enemies who are wholly uninvolved and tried to help prevent these types of occurrences."

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Here are two quotes from, as you said, your political enemies:

> JOE BIDEN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT: "There is no place in our country for this kind of violence. It must end now. Jill and I are praying for Charlie Kirk’s family and loved ones."

> BARACK OBAMA, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT: "We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy."

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/reactions-fatal-shooting-us...
by afc | 2025-09-10 22:30:08+00:00
I actually I'm somewhat torn on this.

In my blog, I do this in my poems, such as: https://alejo.ch/39l — I don't expect this to be controversial, makes sense for poems, right?

However, I'm also experimenting with rendering my prose with the same type of breaks, like https://alejo.ch/3gb or https://alejo.ch/3g9

My guess, reading this thread, is that most people would tell me that they find the breaks annoying and would rather read my prose without the breaks? Hmm. Would love to hear some feedback.
by tastyfreeze | 2025-09-10 22:30:21+00:00
I used to try practicing no tips. I live in a state with no different tipping wage. To me that makes the argument of "they get paid nothing" impotent. But, culturally, people will perceive you as a prick for not tipping at restaurants. It's not fair and I don't like it but, that is the culture that has spread from tipping wage states.

Now that I have given up on that battle I do scale my tip for how good the service is.
by Tade0 | 2025-09-10 22:30:26+00:00
> I no longer really accept any changes to status quo.

How about, at the very least, making it mandatory to report firearm theft? IIRC currently only 15 states actually have such a requirement.

I'm not American and for a long time I could not understand why American fiction, be it books or movies, assumes guns are available even in a zombie apocalypse. That is until I learned the above fact.

The fact that one can steal a gun and have no one report that makes firearms essentially a natural resource in the US.
by Lerc | 2025-09-10 22:31:04+00:00
The argument against using violence to achieve you ends is that if everyone does it, it is bad for everyone. If those who do it do not face repercussions then they will gain undue advantage, motivating everyone to match their actions, which again, is bad for everyone. The solution is the social contract and the rule of law. If enough people agree that anyone taking that path should face repercussions sufficient to not grant a net advantage, then enforcement of the law prevents others from taking the path of violence to reach parity with the violent

When the rule of law is eroded, which it has been, in the US and worldwide. Then it does indeed become more rational to use violence to restore the rule of law. Unfortunately it also increases the motivation towards violence for personal gain, that makes the task of restoring the rule of law all that more difficult. Countries have spent years trying to recover that stability once it is lost.
by siliconc0w | 2025-09-10 22:31:08+00:00
It can be both simultaneously true that the current administration and its supporters are genuinely dangerous to our democracy and that political violence is not an acceptable way to effect social change.

Yes, it's true that lunatics on both sides may use their side's rhetoric as a call to action but often this isn't even the case and they're just hopelessly confused and mentally ill people. It'd be nice if we lived in a society where those people couldn't get guns or could get mental health treatment and it'd be nice if one side of this debate didn't weaponize these common sense ideas into identity politics but here we are.
by sdallagasperina | 2025-09-10 22:31:08+00:00
Exactly! With MCP, we’ve started to imagine a workflow where instead of digging through logs, you just ask “why isn’t the robot responding?” and get guided through the diagnostics. No need to memorize every ROS command.

This isn’t just a bridge between LLMs and robots, it can also be a bridge between non-developer operators and the ROS ecosystem.
by metalman | 2025-09-10 22:32:34+00:00
maybe, this time, unless a distraction is needed,

the Koreans know how to play ball, they have golf clubs where you get offered to fill out an application for membership and that costs whatever millions, now, flat on the barrel just to see if you get accepted and get to pay the actual membership fee, so presumably the whole 10.9 billion car plant that they were paying for was, cleared up on the back 9, years ago, something is seriously off the rails here, cause one miniut the US is selling them stacks of F35's, and then pulling some kind of street punk move
by 0x457 | 2025-09-10 22:32:46+00:00
It really matters what kind of cycling is being done with no other party involved. I injured myself only when I was doing "leisure cycling". I did get almost ran over by a dumb college student once during a commute ride, though.

I'm a huge supporter of public transit, but cyclists are a common enemy for everyone: cars, pedestrians, public transit-takers, other cyclists.
by petsfed | 2025-09-10 22:33:03+00:00
Reports are that the single shot came from ~200 yards/meters away, which is basically the worst case scenario for good-guy-with-a-gun. In an active shooter situation, an armed bystander could in principle stop an attacker from continuing, but the only way that an armed bystander could hope to stop an assassination is if they were walking around looking for trouble.

Regardless of where you stand on the subject of concealed carry, I don't think its controversial to say we shouldn't be encouraging untrained/unvetted folks to go seek out would-be assassins before they have demonstrated themselves to be a danger. That's exactly how "armed security" shot and killed an actual bystander at the Salt Lake City 50501 demonstration earlier this year.
by sdallagasperina | 2025-09-10 22:33:16+00:00
Thanks for the comment! We see the future of human–robot collaboration as being closely tied to how LLMs can translate verbal instructions into higher-level, longer-horizon commands. The goal here isn’t to “code faster,” but to make things like diagnostics and behavior tree design more intuitive and accessible — both for developers and for operators who don’t want to dive deep into ROS internals.
by roenxi | 2025-09-10 22:34:43+00:00
I'd say the appropriate read there is to slip the word "unjustified" into a few key slots. The view is nearly impossible to avoid in context. How do you see society surviving if the prevailing view is that anyone with a different belief is trying to bring on the end times? To the point where assassinating political opponents is justified?

It would bring on the end of a society. It might well happen in the US case, they've been heading in a pretty dangerous direction rhetorically. If we take the Soviet Union as a benchmark they probably have a long way to go but that sort of journey seems unnecessary and stupid.
by anthk | 2025-09-10 22:34:56+00:00
With a small framebuffer font aatv was almost watchable over a distance, but OFC fbtv made it obsolete, and ditto with mplayer -vo aalib as movies worked in the framebuffer just as fine as X.

But I remember the BB demo and I still remember these catchy s3m modules...

https://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/

And, well, not AA, but I still play today tons of text adventures and roguelikes (and BSDgames and such), and my main X environment it's CLI/TUI based except for CWM (Window manager), MPV/MuPDF/NSxiv (images) and djview4 for DJVU files..
by avazhi | 2025-09-10 22:35:18+00:00
Never really followed this guy and only knew of him because he'd randomly be mentioned in news stories.

Regardless of your political bent, this sort of shit is sickening and genuinely disturbing, particularly when it occurs at (as this did) at a university whose ostensible raison d'etre is to ventilate different ideas, offensive or not. I realise this event wasn't a 'debate' per se but nevertheless it's the ethos and optics that matter.

There's also the incredibly myopic immaturity inherent in using violence for the sole or primary purpose of silencing the speaker and signalling to others that violence is somehow an acceptable form of dialogue. The myopic absurdity of this is of course that it is a cycle that can never end if all participants share that view, ensuring that it is inevitably self-defeating. Violence can make sense under certain circumstances - coups, revolutions, wars - but in the context of mere rhetoric it's abhorrent to witness.

Just a grotesque reflection in a long list of them that we as a species, or very many of us - perhaps more than we want to admit - are extremely violent and brutal.

Sickening and sobering, and again you could plug in any speaker/polemicist from whichever part of the political spectrum in here and it would be no less true.
by rsyring | 2025-09-10 22:37:32+00:00
Seriously. If you are considering Tarsnap, or use it but have never tested a restore, don't hand wave this comment away.

You might be tempted to think: it's a popular service, it can't be that bad.

But, it really can be, and if you've not tried it yourself, you'll only find out when you need it. Which could be way too late.
by quasse | 2025-09-10 22:38:02+00:00
> Something or someone really, really wants you to be comfortable with violence.

Instagram started serving me violent content out of the blue recently. My reels feed went from mostly hiking and skiing videos to POV videos from Ukrainian and Russian grenade drones and accelerationist "joke" videos normalizing the idea of war with China.

It was like a switch had flipped with how suddenly the app was like "let's warp this guy's sense of normalcy".
by kybernetikos | 2025-09-10 22:38:41+00:00
I used exponential golomb coding, so the rank 0 logit is encoded with a single bit, ranks 1 and 2 are encoded with three bits, ranks 3-6 are encoded with 5 bits, etc.

In terms of performance, I've not done any serious testing, but e.g. the wikipedia article on volcanos compresses to about 20% using GPT2. I've seen other strings compress even further.

The big issue is that while encoding is not unreasonable, decoding any significant amount of data is incredibly slow, since I'm doing a model run for every token in the output. It's bad enough that the scheme is probably unworkable as it is. I'm thinking about changing my code so that it streams out the tokens as it decodes them, so you're not just left there waiting for ages.
by sdallagasperina | 2025-09-10 22:39:26+00:00
Great point, I believe safety has to be layered. The real challenge is deciding which agent is responsible for judging whether a command is safe to execute. For instance, MCP could enforce permissions, rate limits, and safe defaults, while the ROS stack could add motion constraints, watchdogs, and velocity/force caps, all backed by physical interlocks as the final safeguard.
by yibg | 2025-09-10 22:39:29+00:00
I understand the thrust of your comment, but why is "this person is a threat to democracy" an apocalyptic statement, but "... or the cycle is going to destroy our society" not? Seems like you're being rather selective in what's considered apocalyptic statements and what's not.

There is no inherent threat of violence in saying "this person is a threat to democracy". This is why the US has strong protections for speech, so that we don't get arbitrary determinations of what's acceptable and what's not.
by neilv | 2025-09-10 22:39:31+00:00
This is definitely a problem to solve. I could even see harassment being the most likely initial use case, until you manage to reach people with the problem seeking a solution. (People are more likely to want to eat pizza themselves than to harass with it. But people who just heard of this door-knocking service, without seeking it out, are more likely to want to harass someone than to want to be woken up themselves.)

A lot of tech businesses try to ToS away liability, but you can't do that in this case, since the harmed party isn't the customer/user. (You can try to ToS away the liability of your door-knocker flaking on you, or the customer thinking they did, and missing an important meeting. But not the harassment of a non-customer/user.)

I don't think zero-knowledge proofs of residence are ready.

If you could find a way to do it in a smooth-UX way, such as by signin-with-Google (or confirmed email) and match that up with physical address using a creepy data-broker service, that might work well. But I'd guess would be a big percentage of your engineering effort, and you'd have ongoing costs, and possibly some upfront commitment to the broker to bother with you at a viable cost rate.

Other ideas that come to mind seem like they'd have significant numbers of rejected legitimate, and accepted illegitimate.

Random idea: One of the times people most want wakeup help is when they're traveling (with disrupted schedules, unfamiliar settings, risk of phone alarm accidentally in DND/mute or out of battery, etc.). Hotels have it covered. Maybe you could integrate with AirBnb, in a way that lets you sufficiently authenticate that the person at the address at that time wants to be woken then. And you can give AirBnb a big cut, for the integration and for advertising your service. Or maybe AirBnb wants to build and own the UI and billing, and you're only a middleperson who supplies and pays the contractor door-knockers (and provides a brand, and lets AirBnb keep a bit arms-length on that and the contractors). (Or "hosts" could provide an unusually good alarm clock on the nightstand. Or there could be an unusually good alarm clock that the people who want it can buy.)
by wrp | 2025-09-10 22:39:37+00:00
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in the 1970s had a real submarine periscope you could use, a manned space capsule you could look into, a DC-3 airplane you could go into, and a variety of whirring/buzzing physical things to interact with. In the late 90s, I escorted a school group there and it was all screens. It had gone from being a destination worth driving across the state for to being an experience less interesting than a decent web site.
by hinkley | 2025-09-10 22:41:22+00:00
When I was in college a kid used a computer in a lab to send a death thread against Bill Clinton to whotehouse.gov. I recall this in part because it was the lab I did most of my hours in both as an employee and because it was near my friend’s appt so we would study there. Dude sent it from a computer two rows back from where I usually sat.

Someone got up to use the bathroom and didn’t lock the machine. Dude thought he was being funny. But of course since he logged on to the adjacent machine he put himself on the suspect list and got caught. And in a hell of lot of trouble as I recall. I think he got expelled, too.

That was for a prank, not an assassination.

The thing some crime dramas don’t get right is that while circumstantial and tainted evidence cannot get you a conviction, it is absolutely possible for it to be used to prioritize manpower used to narrow you down to the top of the list.

There’s a thing in law enforcement called Parallel Construction. It can be used to protect confidential informants such as in undercover operations, but it can also be used to replace evidence that was found illegally, such as illegal recording or theft by a neighbor.

They just need to find something that follows process front to back. They don’t need to do that in order to figure out it was you in the first place.

Statistics say the spouse or partner almost always committed the murder. Even lacking any evidence they look really really hard at these people. It’s not illegal or unfair to do so. It’s triage. If I’m looking at Mrs Fredrickson’s murder, I’m not looking at any cold cases or spending effort on many other active cases. It’s unfortunately a numbers game.
by wpm | 2025-09-10 22:41:27+00:00
That's not what I'm asking. Any teleconferencing app lets you do that.

Specifically, in Zoom, I can share from a second camera. This could be a USB Webcam, or a USB/PCIe HDMI Capture Card, or OBS' Virtual Camera plugin. I prefer the latter as it gives me lots of flexibility, can present full screen Keynote/Powerpoints while keeping my desktop/windows arranged how I like, with presenter notes up, and switch to a USB HDMI capture card with the click of a button in OBS, with custom text, transitions, etc.

Last I checked, Teams assumed any camera input was for the "Camera", not for the screen share.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-09-10 22:41:34+00:00
He was also very good at superficially solid rebuttals and responses that were hard to counter without providing a short course on the history and context of the issue at hand. I never thought of him as a "good" debater and I vehemently disagree with his public views, but he was very effective in the media and event situations he operated in.
by kelnos | 2025-09-10 22:41:53+00:00
Well, this year I suppose it will be $1,583.33. That's just the gift tax exclusion ($19k this year) at work. I don't really see a problem with it. People should be able to give money to family members without penalty.

> End tips and raise wages, and the taxes cease to be confusing or controversial.

Some businesses have tried this, but often it doesn't work out. To make this financially feasible, it would require action at the federal and state levels to 1) eliminate different tipped vs. regular tax rates (some places have done this already), 2) and modify how payroll taxes work to even things out a bit. It sounds like "oh, no problem we'll just raise prices by 20% to cover the extra salaries". But no, that doesn't work, because businesses and individuals are responsible for payroll tax on non-tipped salaries.

And there's a collective action problem at play: take two identical restaurants. One follows the now-standard model of accepting tips, and ~20% is customary. Their identical competitor won't accept tips, pays their staff better, and charges 20% more for their food. Fun outcome: people get sticker shock at the second place and go to the first place instead, even though in the end they pay exactly the same amount. Human psychology is dumb, and restaurants know this, so they won't do this unless all their competitors are also required to do it. (This is also why in the US prices are advertised tax-excluded; pricing that includes tax is viewed as more expensive, even if the final charge is the same.)
by o11c | 2025-09-10 22:42:11+00:00
That hints that you might be doing one of three things wrong. Either:

* You're using to doing things the Windows way, where debug and release are completely different profiles rather than orthogonal flags. Or,

* You're compiling using Clang, which gives up and limits debuggability to simple backtraces when optimization is on. Or,

* Your project is hopelessly bloated and linking with debuginfo is slow, but you haven't figured out external debuginfo.

With GCC, `-g -O2` is a reasonable thing to use for all builds and provides a pretty good debugging experience with only minor competence required to find equivalences for any <optimized out>s.
by all2 | 2025-09-10 22:42:22+00:00
We are an excellent example of what happens when the Hegelian Dialectic is applied successfully by the small minority.

We are also an example when a people becomes completely divorced from their cultural and religious heritage. Without a moral anchor, we are a people cast adrift, lost in confusion, calling evil good and good evil, all trying to do our own thing and benefit ourselves, consumed by greed, by self-interest.

Freedom of speech, or lack there-of, plays no role in what is happening in the United States. This country and its founding charters were written for a moral people. That the country is byzantine, crumbling, has more to do with a people who have lost their way than it has to do with this-or-that law that the government no longer heeds.
by joecool1029 | 2025-09-10 22:42:25+00:00
> I imagine that "I support assassination to drive change" would be even less popular.

Except for in Japan? I noticed in all those reports Japan was at or near the bottom of countries measured for trust in their government. I was never able to find polling with regard to sentiment on Shinzo Abe's assassination but the majority of the country opposed the state funeral for him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe#Re...
by threemux | 2025-09-10 22:42:33+00:00
I just use a git repo and GNU Stow similar to the approach in this post (I'm not the author of the post):

https://tamerlan.dev/how-i-manage-my-dotfiles-using-gnu-stow...

Stow is usually trivially installable using the package manager while I'm installing git. Not nearly as full featured as chezmoi but gets the job done for me.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-09-10 22:42:41+00:00
This week in Nepal, before all the other news hit the fan, GenZ did exactly that, and overthrew the current leadership. 30 lives were lost along the way.

The military took over for security purposes, and asked the leadership of the movement whom they wanted for an interim government. It was not the happy, peaceful democracy we all long for. It was a costly victory. But I feel happy the legitimate grievances the protestors held will lead to change. I hope they can find some candidates who will stand for them and reduce corruption, and do the best they can to help with the economy.
by SheepSlapper | 2025-09-10 22:42:44+00:00
If the reporting is correct, the shot was at 200 yards. Anyone who hunts with a rifle is (or should be) capable of making that shot, it's not exceedingly far (and like you said, if your rifle isn't junk and you're shooting 1 MOA, that's only a 2" difference @ 200 yards).

No serious training or equipment would be required for this close of a shot. I've taken deer over 200 yards away with my $500 rifle, no training other than shooting on and off since I was a kid.