MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by acjohnson55 | 2025-09-11 02:01:30+00:00
When I lived in Baltimore, mass shootings were a regular occurrence. And that was just one medium sized city.

The vast majority of mass shootings don't make national news, because they happen in high poverty areas. It's not just the inner city, there are parts of rural America that are also quite violent.

It makes the news when someone who "shouldn't be killed" gets killed.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-11 02:04:08+00:00
This is the way.

I used to "hate" Wayland, but that was because I was stuck on an ancient kwin_wayland implementation that didn't get updated for years on Ubuntu.

When it comes to big changes like Wayland and Pipewire, you really want the latest versions you can get. Like the OP, I only use rolling releases on my machines for that reason.
by dfghjkl1 | 2025-09-11 02:04:18+00:00
I think when it becomes normal for 10% or more of the citizens of a country to say they wouldn’t be upset if some member of the opposing political party were to die or when it becomes normal for that portion of the people to make fun or celebrate the death of someone from an opposing party or their murderer, everyone needs to take a step back regardless of which side you’re on and say “Why?” Because these people are not murderers or accomplices, and they are generally good people. These aren’t people that would lynch anyone or burn a cross in someone’s yard.

It’s awful that anyone dies.

Let’s not escalate this on either side. We don’t need another Hitler, and we don’t need a French Revolution either. We just need people that stop trying to outdo each other.
by lynndotpy | 2025-09-11 02:04:24+00:00
This is a non-sequitur, why would that make it slip my mind? Those aren't even details I readily remembered, and searching them up, it looks like those details aren't even factual. Searching it up, it seems thirteen people were arrested. The defense claimed three and a half years ago that there were twelve FBI informants.

I think it slipped my mind because there were already too many examples of far-right and conservative terrorist violence, and I was not intending to write an exhaustive comment in the first place.
by eightysixfour | 2025-09-11 02:04:48+00:00
I don't understand this critique at all.

- We know this can happen through process A.

- Really smart people have thought a lot about it and don't see other ways that it reasonably happened in this scenario.

- This is pointing us to the conclusion that it happened through process A.

Is a perfectly reasonable logic chain for a scientific paper and their conclusion literally says "we need more data."

> compelling them to gather more data before reaching a conclusion as to the presence or absence of life”.
by thephyber | 2025-09-11 02:05:07+00:00
First of all, the current calendar year never gets stats. It usually takes the FBI 1-2 years to release data because it’s mostly collected by 10,000s of local police agencies, then collated and normalized by the FBI. Even then, there were problems with the data because some police departments lied when filling out the forms (notably one department in Louisiana). But I also heard that the FBI stopped collecting it as part of the DOGE / DEI policy changes (because some of the fields / dimensions of analysis are racial).

That said, the next challenge is to agree on what constitutes the left-right political spectrum in the US. I would argue it’s too vague to exist. It’s important to realize when a data point is describing gun violence or any source of violence, and whether it is violence against civilians or violence against the government as well.
by sltkr | 2025-09-11 02:05:18+00:00
I've been using Arch Linux for over a decade and have literally never once consulted release logs, and never got into any serious trouble.

I do subscribe to the arch-announce mailing list which warns of breaking changes, but that receives around 10 messages per year, and the vast majority aren't actually all that important.

I've also gone multiple months between updates and didn't have any problems there either.

The idea that Arch Linux breaks all the time is just complete nonsense.
by petertodd | 2025-09-11 02:05:31+00:00
That was probably a sound legal strategy. Selling location data without consent is obviously unethical behavior that should be illegal. A jury is more likely to rule on the basis of that; with a judge maybe there's a chance that a technicality in the law leads to a ruling in their favor.

Anyway, this practice should be criminalized with companies and their employees receiving criminal penalties like jail time.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-11 02:05:45+00:00
Your mention of "normies" and "npcs" reminds me of an unfortunate change I saw happen in autistic communities a few years ago.

Those spaces used to be great places for people to ask questions, share interests, and find relief in a community that understood them. But over just a year or two, the whole atmosphere flipped. The focus turned from mutual support to a shared antagonism toward neurotypical people, who were often dehumanized.

It was heartbreaking to watch. Long-time members, people who were just grateful to finally have a place to belong, were suddenly told they weren't welcome anymore if they weren't angry enough. That anger became a tool to police the community, and many of the original, supportive spaces were lost.
by LelouBil | 2025-09-11 02:05:46+00:00
I mean, nothing stops you from building your image of KDE Linux (or any immutable distro) with a built-in restic config.

This is more about preventing the user from messing up their computer than it is about data safety.

I've been using Bazzite for 2 years now (an immutable distro based on Fedora Silver blue) and I just love the fact that I can "unlock" the immutability to try something that could mess up my systemd or desktop environment, and I can just reboot to erase it all away.

I also have a github action to build my custom image with the packages I want, and the configuration I want.

And this makes adding a backup setup even easier, it can be baked-in the distro easily with a custom image ! Your grandparents don't have to do anything, it will auto update and auto apply (and even rollback to the n-1 build if it fails to boot)
by zamadatix | 2025-09-11 02:06:54+00:00
I'd agree there are aspects of how we say things which can reinforce how to react about it, but I don't think that's a good primary way to teach how to engage with polarizing content and certainly not via the way of avoidance of the types of statements bigstrat2003 laid out. I.e. there are very reasonable, particularly historical, examples of belief of potential threats to democracy which turned out to be true, so I don't inherently have a problem with that kind of discussion. I actually think calling that kind of statement as the problem would actually drive more extremism.

At the same time, I do believe there are ways to share such statements while also reinforcing healthy ways to react at the same time. kryogen1c's example ending in "he should be assassinated" crosses the line from bigstrat2003's talk of apocalyptic claims to direct calls to violence about them - the latter of which I agree is bad teaching (but I'd still rather people be encouraged to openly talk about those kinds of statements too, rather than be directly pressured to internalize or echo chamber them).

This is why the first question posed about the statement from kryogen1c was "Who/what is defining assassination as a reasonable response to that threat". The follow on questions were only added to help highlight there is no reasonable answer to that question because it's the call to assassination which is inherently problematic, not the claim someone is a threat to the democracy here. The latter (talking about perceived threats) is good, if not best, to talk about directly and openly. It's the former (calling for assassination about it) which is inherently incompatible with a stable society.
by avazhi | 2025-09-11 02:07:16+00:00
You've got some issues with reading comprehension. I was (quite obviously) not referring to you there - I was pointing out that those are two different things (in reference to what Mr Kirk said, not you).

I also never denied that the quote was accurate. I drew a distinction between his quote, on the one hand, and actively advocating violence on the other. The only part of this discussion that involved you was related to your apparent inability to understand that distinction.

Getting the vibe this isn't going to be fruitful. Good day.
by ryan_lane | 2025-09-11 02:07:56+00:00
The 2nd amendment specifies "well regulated militias", but somehow this part is always left out by gun enthusiasts. The idea was to ensure states can have militias, and that those militias would be allowed to have guns. Somehow this has been stretched by the gun lobby to "everyone should be able to have a gun with absolutely no restrictions", when that's absolutely not what is stated in the 2nd amendment.
by zahlman | 2025-09-11 02:08:50+00:00
> I've never even met someone I would consider an extreme leftist, but I've definitely met people that parrot far right talking points all day long and they're increasing in numbers.

Again, my experience is very nearly the opposite. I have to seek out rightist views if I want to hear them (I have them in carefully curated feeds so that I can make sure I understand their logic); I can scarcely avoid being exposed to leftist ones (before the Musk takeover, even opening Twitter logged out and in an incognito tab would do this; now I can still have that experience on Bluesky and on most Mastodon instances).

> Almost everyone I know would be center-left or center-right except the ones that have shifted far to the right from watching influencers.

I have been in communities full of people who were commonly accused of having "shifted far to the right from watching influencers", and consistently noticed that no such thing had actually happened if I listened to their actual views.
by tomrod | 2025-09-11 02:09:36+00:00
First off, not extremist. Let's give you the benefit of the doubt there, perhaps you simply didn't recognize you undercut your credibility in a discussion when you dismiss people having a different view of history by assigning them to an extremist bucket -- nowhere left to learn or discuss when you start there. Further, mild whataboutism doesn't support your case either.

Second, the Scottish enlightenment wad wonderful! Not unique to America, so recognizing that the darkest parts of our history are decidedly not representive of the Enlightenment, my classical liberal ideals, and I suspect yours too, does nothing to the case that America did a good job adopting some of the ideals of the Enlightenment in the constitution. We could have gone the French route with the horrors of Robspierre, but we didnt, whether due to lack of population density, aristocracy, or any number of factors.

We agree completely that cultural differences, known as diversity, have outsized benefits.

I'll review the science idea.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. We really aren't far apart. I simply see slavery, genocide, and other horrors of the American past as necessary to recognize in order to set context, and in no way does that diminish the astonishing success of our American experiment. Indeed, in spite of these stains on our history, we remain a nation that does the right thing, as Churchill puts it, after exhausting all other options. And that's a uniqur thing to history.

In my view, if we can't acknowledge our past deficits, in no way can we comprehend the present flaws sufficiently to motivate action and collaboration.
by enobrev | 2025-09-11 02:11:09+00:00
In theory, I'm a fan of it. I think getting a working mock-up as a demonstration of an idea is far better than building something from a few napkin sketches and then iterating while we close in on the original vision.

As for my own work, I just spent a couple hours this afternoon in a back and forth discussion with claude code, asking it to mock up a UI for me before "we" start building it tomorrow. It was just a mock-up, so I didn't require precision, but I was impressed with some tidbits that came along for the ride.

Some things it did without me asking

* Mock data for the lists and pages in json format, so I could easily add records to it for different scenarios

* Working navigation between pages, including modals

* Working progress bars and timers

* Working list sorts and filters

* Toasts for functionality that was beyond the scope of the mock-up ("sending email to author of post" or "banning user")

* Not-half-bad animations and transitions between pages, screens, modals, etc

* A responsive layout that worked better than expected on mobile and desktop

* Some ideas I hadn't considered, that we then expanded upon

I would have mocked this up for a client, but not for myself. It's quite nice to have a working html / javascript / css mockup to play with while I flesh out my own ideas - with a benefit that I actually fully understand the output and can tweak it myself as needed.
by grier | 2025-09-11 02:11:33+00:00
I live in the US. I don't hold much hope in gun control changing after recent years. Recent federal and state policy is trending towards less regulation and removal of the previous administrations regulations.

In 2024, estimated 16,576 deaths in the US from guns (excluding suicide, which is a very large addition on top of that), and 499 mass shootings.
by crackrook | 2025-09-11 02:11:56+00:00
> the correct scenario is wide declassification

It sounds to me like you and I see the same expansive hole where the evidence should be. My preference would be to say "show me a claim without a hole or stop wasting my time," you appear to assume that the evidence exists - because someone "credible" said it's so - and demand that the hole be filled immediately.

To claim there exists a grand conspiracy and web of well-kept secrets, ironically, is to try to explain away the first substanceless claim with a new one.
by bb88 | 2025-09-11 02:12:48+00:00
He doesn't say that. You're editorializing on his behalf.

Here's the full quote. He's fully aware of violence cause by mental illness and domestic terrorism.

>> You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am, I, I — 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 to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.

>> So then, how do you reduce? Very simple. People say, oh, Charlie, how do you stop school shootings? I don't know. How did we stop shootings at baseball games? Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games. That's why. How did we stop all the shootings at airports? We have armed guards outside of airports. How do we stop all the shootings at banks? We have armed guards outside of banks. How did we stop all the shootings at gun shows? Notice there's not a lot of mass shootings at gun shows, there's all these guns. Because everyone's armed. If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don't our children?
by tomrod | 2025-09-11 02:15:07+00:00
Identitarianism is bad. We agree.

Why was the first thing you reached for a claim that Democrats are bad because you hadn't yet heard any sympathies from Democratic politicians (alleged creators of the term stochastic terrorism)? That seems extraordinarily unreasonable.

As a former Republican, it makes me sad to see people supporting a party that claims to have values be extraordinarily unfair to their fellow countrymen. Toss aside all the other nonsense in the political arena for the moment. Democrats have been advocating for gun control for years. Years! Why would an attack about someone being killed by the very thing they warned about even enter the brain of a reasonable person, if not for the poison of propaganda?
by petertodd | 2025-09-11 02:16:17+00:00
Don't confuse NFT gambling with Bitcoin. The former is a dying craze as the gamblers move onto something else. The latter is at all-time-highs, for the obvious reason that a digital replacement for gold is clearly useful, and Bitcoin is the obvious leader in that market category.

Indeed, for certain use-cases Bitcoin is competing with Christies too: a lot of the fine art market is actually about storing and moving value. Not about the art.
by LelouBil | 2025-09-11 02:18:08+00:00
I find that I really like using an immutable distro with a custom image (built with github actions).

So I can really separate the system-level changes (in the image, version-controlled) from my user changes.

It's a nixos-like experience without using nix at all.

There have been a couple of things to have in mind, with my Bazzite installation, for creating users or adding groups for example, this pointed me to use systemd-sysusers but it was simple.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-11 02:19:14+00:00
> Clearly, this operation requires specialized soldering skills and access to appropriate high-end tools. [...] The technician also uploaded a leaked, modified firmware onto the GeForce RTX 4090 48GB. It is important to note that each graphics card possesses a unique GPU device ID, which contains all pertinent information. During the system initialization process, the firmware verifies whether the GPU device ID corresponds with the one embedded within the chip. Hacked firmware has been present for some time.

So, an interesting YouTube video, but the $142 is not the whole story here, both in terms of materials and way no in terms of wall clock time required

I appreciate that they did call out the total cost later in the article, along with re-mentioning the specialized tools and experience, but the headline here deserved extra "clickbait alert" call out
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 02:19:43+00:00
> You can read about the 1918 'Spanish' Flu, but you think "we're smarter now". etc.

Do you know what Harding's famous "Return to Normalcy" stump speech in the 1920 campaign was about? I bet you don't; few do. My U.S. history textbook in high school mentioned it, but did not explain what it was about.
by Glyptodon | 2025-09-11 02:21:37+00:00
I think you're basically ignoring my point - that increasing numbers of targeted assassinations are not really a gun control issue (today's was seemingly a single shot, so things being discussed in this thread seem pretty not related), but a sign of major societal problems that need to be addressed.

Your response seems very off topic in focusing on "mass shootings" which are at best an ill-defined marketing term created to lump family annihilation suicides with more public mass casualty events like the pulse nightclub shooting in order to launder dubious policies.

But my whole original comment said nothing about mass shootings to begin with.
by TinkersW | 2025-09-11 02:22:36+00:00
Yes the two extremes feed off each other, and make everything worse for the rest of us.

Personally I think there needs be laws regarding social media, perhaps limiting the number of followers/viewers for anyone engaged in social or political commentary, and/or making promotion of political content illegal if it is false or misleading. Something akin to the fairness doctrine that used to exist for television prior to 1987.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 02:22:46+00:00
> It's bizarre that there should be "sides" for how to deal with a public health issue.

It's a political issue no matter how you look at it, and it was a very political issue at that, considering what the state (throughout the Western world and elsewhere too) proposed doing.

To paint it as merely a "public health issue" is doing people who don't agree a tremendous disservice, and it is very much part of the othering that has led us here. Please stop it.
by smcin | 2025-09-11 02:23:23+00:00
For rapid transits, 5'6" (broad gauge) is pretty eccentric [0] and was so back in 1964 when it was chosen; almost all other US rapid transits use 1,435mm/4'8.5". 5'6" is also doubly weird choice since tunnel diameter was one factor/excuse nominally used to object to tunnelling north to Marin County. Also it means the maintenance and carriage work can't easily be moved elsewhere.

(It is the widest gauge in use of heavy-duty mainline railways in the world, but that's a separate thing).

For comparison to other US rapid transit systems (almost all others use 1,435mm/4'8.5"), see table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_transit_track_gauge and scroll down to "United States". Or else https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_rapid_tr... which does not list gauges.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge_in_the_United_Stat...
by Terr_ | 2025-09-11 02:23:31+00:00
If we (charitably) take kevinventullo at their word, then your reply doesn't make much sense to me.

It makes it sound as if kevinventullo ought to mourn Kirk's death much more than Kirk would be mourning kevinventullo's death, and it's likely kevinventullo also has a family who would miss them.

I'm guessing the intent is more like: "While your comment is logically neutral, the subtext or tone is callous."
by donmcronald | 2025-09-11 02:23:44+00:00
> I have to seek out rightist views if I want to hear them (I have them in carefully curated feeds so that I can make sure I understand their logic).

I don't watch anything political on platforms with recommendation algorithms. If I want to understand something like a proposed law I go skim the legislation. I might read opinion articles from leaders in a field.

I pretty much only talk about politics to people I've known for decades. We should probably talk about something else. Do you like technology?
by crackrook | 2025-09-11 02:23:52+00:00
The person you're replying to wasn't the one who invoked what you call "partisan thought short circuiting," (which, I have to say, reads a lot like parody). It was me. Occam's razor is not at all about "what I prefer" and is entirely about preferring theories with evidence over those that are lacking (instead of inventing new theories to explain away the lack of evidence).
by Quarrelsome | 2025-09-11 02:24:02+00:00
Perhaps you are unclear on the devestation in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin is responsible for, and continues to be responsible for while he lives.

Could you say the same if he murdered your friends, family, children? All for what? That man has no respect for human life, civilization or diplomacy.

While within a civilization we can afford each other grace, it remains important for the very security of our civilization that we retain our malice and use it sparingly on those who seek to destroy it. Otherwise i fear that we only believe in it because its convenient or makes us feel morally superior. Do really believe in it if you're not willing to get your hands bloody to defend it? If you were capable of defending it, would you not celebrate the victory?

Putin being murdered tomorrow would create a significant opportunity for peace in the region and spare many, many lives. Such an event would be worthy of cheer.
by laverya | 2025-09-11 02:24:32+00:00
Australia and the UK are commonly used in the US gun control debate as places where gun confiscation worked, and CA/HI are the states with the most restrictive gun control policies.

My response was meant to illustrate that this was essentially not a "preventable gun death", or at least not preventable by any level of gun control ever implemented in a Western country. Similarly, the assassination of Shinzo Abe using a homemade pistol/blunderbuss was not a preventable gun death.
by Retric | 2025-09-11 02:24:50+00:00
Society can be shockingly resilient to personal violence especially if it’s primarily people at the top in terms of status, wealth, or political power are regularly getting assassinated. Recently gangs have been shockingly stable despite relentless violence but historically duals between gentlemen etc where quite common.

By historical standards we’re living is a near paradise of non violence and that’s worth persevering at significant cost.