MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-15 21:31:30+00:00
> calling someone a "Nazi" are antithetical to free speech

This seams to be disagreement what free speech is. Here an insult is never free speech, it is simply an infraction on "the personal honor" of someone else (although nobody uses this old-fashioned term). It is however free speech, if the claim is actually true (same for defamation). This is why now courts are arguing whether some "insult" is justified.

I think this is a very good thing. Ultimately laws and judiciary exist to be a formalism for personal fights. This is intended to make violence unneeded, so that we can have trust in the society. This is why the police has a monopoly on violence: Not because they are special and to be trusted, but because less people being violent is always better. If someone is calling you a Nazi, you might be tempted to punch back. This will lead to violence on the streets. If how ever you have a way to settle this legally, then you are much more able to walk away proudly and have satisfaction in calling your lawyer.

> invocation of "Nazi" is always useful to quickly illustrate that you're arguing with an idiot

This is a bit more serious here (Germany), since being a Nazi is punishable, so you're accusing someone of a crime.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-15 21:31:33+00:00
Coinbase and Venmo offer debit cards that you can fund with crypto. Coinbase offers to auto-sell crypto assets you choose to fund it. That means you can hold money in crypto and sell it off when you want to buy something. Be cognizant of taxes, but if you're willing to hold your crypto for a year then LTCG kicks in and you're getting taxed at pretty reasonable rates.

Investment accounts on the other hand take a while for sales to settle before your funds are available as cash.
by ivraatiems | 2025-09-15 21:31:43+00:00
Reminder that if you have an old Mac, and you'd like to run more recent versions of macOS on it, you can do so with Dortania OpenCore (https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/).

They don't have Tahoe support yet, but almost certainly will in the coming months.

I highly recommend doing this instead of throwing away a 5 or 6 year old computer as ewaste!

(Windows and Linux also work on Intel Macs.)
by mitkebes | 2025-09-15 21:31:51+00:00
Paypal is good as a consumer. You can buy stuff without giving random sites your card details, and paypal is willing to refund purchases if you have a legitimate issue and the seller refuses to cooperate with you.

My wife placed a large clothing order some months back, but the package got ripped in transit and we only received about a quarter of it. The seller company refused a refund because the tracking data said "delivered", even though I was able to get confirmation from USPS that the package weight in transit lost most of it's weight between two shipping centers. The fact that we placed the order through paypal ended up saving us, we were able to bring them in as a mediator and they got us a refund.
by saghm | 2025-09-15 21:31:57+00:00
> We know that better living conditions (health, income, education etc) lead to lower fertility. In a world that you have both developed and developing countries, the stable equilibrium seems to be world suffering.

Alternately: in the past, dying was a lot easier, and society adapted to that by creating extra people, and we've reached a point where that isn't as necessary. That doesn't mean it wouldn't be awesome to improve things for the number of people we do have, or that those improvements are easy, but it's not obvious to me why the assumption would be that quality of life only changes if the population continues changing. In other words, it sounds like you're measuring two different things, noticing one of them slowing no longer increasing, and trying to make inferences about the other one without actually establishing how exactly that connection works.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-15 21:31:57+00:00
Actually growth patterns of animals vary wildly. There's a whole set of animals that get "unstable" growth - Cats are famous for this, for example. That means that cat numbers in specific areas actually grow to the point that cats die out in the next generation, destabilizing the entire food chain in the process (happened in Australia, for example)

The problem with this instability is that the numbers bounce around wildly. Up and down, by a lot, in as little as 2 or 3 generations. But there's a process that stops the bouncing: hitting zero.
by etblg | 2025-09-15 21:32:35+00:00
The points the article make come close to my gripe with ghost kitchens but don't quite cover it:

they feel like scams and when I've accidentally ordered from a ghost kitchen it was by design a terrible experience.

I'm talking like, you order a 15$ main that is called "creamy pasta with prosicutto" and when it shows up its buttered spaghetti with a couple stamp-sized bits of ham. Ordering from actual restaurants come with some of the downsides the article assigns to ghost kitchens, like cold food and weird presentation, but ghost kitchens never seemed to reach the bar of "food someone would actually order, even if it was teleported to them instantly".
by SLWW | 2025-09-15 21:32:42+00:00
I am a top 15% earner in my area, have been for 7 years, and I'll be able to afford a home maybe in another 5-10 years.

If you consider starting a family with no hope of ever getting out of renting, as landlords constantly raise monthlies, you might reconsider children.

On top of the issues with people working so often and so hard that they rarely have time to meet anyone outside of work; no wonder people aren't marrying.
by comte7092 | 2025-09-15 21:33:14+00:00
I see your concern, and taking what you’re asserting here as a given for the purposes of this conversation, I’d agree it needs to be addressed.

However, it should be addressed at the corporate level, not by targeting the individual workers. They are just doing their jobs under the direction of their employers. Any fraud committed here is by the Hyundai corporation first and foremost.

The treatment of these workers has been exceedingly cruel and should be considered out of bounds in this country, but sadly it has become normalized.
by lynndotpy | 2025-09-15 21:34:24+00:00
I try not to indulge in negativity and scorn, but I agree with these sentiments. This is resoundly a regression. Text overlapping on text, searchboxes that are broken and now just function as text boxes, increased latency throughout the operating system.

It's so bad that it's kind of fascinating. Unfortunately, even "Reduce Transparency" doesn't fix the LG update.
by mgh95 | 2025-09-15 21:34:25+00:00
Perhaps most telling in this entire report is Table 1. It shows that the non-work has grown 8x in 1 year, whereas work has only ~3.4x. Considering that non-work related usage of ChatGPT now makes up 73% of the requests, ChatGPT is very much in the consumer market, despite substantial marketing of LLM products in a professional context and even as much as compelled usage in some corporations.

Since many consumers are typically relatively tight-fisted in the b2c market, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term economics of the market. This may explain the relatively recent pivot to attempt to "discover" uses.

I don't think this ends happily.
by ProfessorLayton | 2025-09-15 21:34:26+00:00
Okay, but it's also possible to use high quality eggs and fancy chocolate in a box mix, so it's not necessarily a strict upgrade to go from scratch either?

Especially since there's differing levels of quality for boxed cakes too! My local chocolate maker in the SFBAY makes fancy chocolate and cake/brownie mixes, and honestly they're great. The brownie mix specifically comes out better than what I can get in a typical bakery in here in SF.
by GlickWick | 2025-09-15 21:34:36+00:00
Extremely against any kind of murder over difference of opinion, but this obsession with making it look like an evil coordinated group was behind this killing is legitimately one of the larger threats to US I've witnessed in my life.

Making this event into an excuse to crack down on any kind of group opens a door that nobody, left or right, should ever want open. JD and co. are playing a deadly game here.
by strcat | 2025-09-15 21:34:37+00:00
The people calling me insane, delusional, schizophrenic, etc. almost entirely don't believe what they're saying as there's no actual basis for it. All they can do is link to incredibly dishonest harassment content from Louis Rossmann and Henry Fisher where they engage in a monologue pushing fabricated stories. What they show as supposed evidence doesn't at all match their claims and instead they heavily misrepresent it.

Many people enjoy participating in harassment towards an open source developer when they have a disagreement with the project such as our requirements for accepting a pull request for automatic call recording. We've said we won't accept it without showing that it's active so that people are aware calls are being recorded when it's enabled. That's more than enough for some people to participate in harassment.

Hacker News shouldn't be permitting it over and over again.
by ipaddr | 2025-09-15 21:34:54+00:00
It won by marketing and the angularjs to Angular breaking change. If they kept going with angularjs or had an upgrade path react wouldn't be default in the enterprise stack. That's all on Google.

Meteor was node framework. jQuery is probably still more popular but it is only a lib. Vue had a Chinese language problem.

React won because a framework by Facebook felt safe.
by daviding | 2025-09-15 21:35:12+00:00
Not going to read all that.. ;)

> ChatGPT is widely used for practical guidance, information seeking, and writing, which together make up nearly 80% of usage. Non-work queries now dominate (70%). Writing is the main work task, mostly editing user text. Users are younger, increasingly female, global, and adoption is growing fastest in lower-income countries
by duffpkg | 2025-09-15 21:35:12+00:00
That is a much more complex topic driven by the regulations where you live. Where my house is, there is more or less no regulation and you can do as you please. In a purely technical sense there is not a lot of knowhow beyond basic electrical understanding, to setup these systems. Physically speaking these 280ah or larger battery setups are VERY heavy, hundreds of pounds per unit.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-09-15 21:35:12+00:00
Yeah, the "buttons that move as the page loads" is the single biggest thing I hate about the modern web. I go to click one, and in that instant, it's moved and replaced by a different one that I didn't want to click.

Then again, I'm hardly one to talk. The last time I wrote actual web code was JSPs in 2001. I did hack on some JS code to add dynamic table sorting to some html report pages I created later, but that's about it.. Never liked JS's idea of "we can be every programming language at once with the standards from none of them".. Sure, it's flexible, but so is a noodle..
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-15 21:36:41+00:00
Yeah I shouldn't be surprised this was allowed to launch today, but yet I am.

I ran the whole beta on all my devices. Every new beta I'd ask myself "Surely they fixed 'x' by now, right?" and we advanced, beta after beta, with the same bugs and performance regressions all the way up to launch.

The icons still need to redraw in the settings app and app library. It's overall sluggish. The drop shadows are huge in the finder and other apps top bar. If you turn on always show scrollbars they get cut off at a weird angle due to the excessive corner radius.

My iPhone 16 PM runs hot all the time, even on release now, vs. iOS 18.

I don't mind the transparency or glass effects. I actually like it in some areas. But man does it need some serious polish and bug fixing, and a lot of time and effort spent on consistency.

This should never have went live in this state. I consider .0 just another beta, really. Actual release will probably be .2 or .3
by metalman | 2025-09-15 21:36:47+00:00
the issue is pay, but it is hard to evaluate pay on a dairy, as the work occurs 365 days a year, with a few intense periods when haying and or planting and harvesting corn,calving, and then mostly 3~4 hrs a day, one very early in the morning, so there are only odd situations that make it worth while to anybody, and as pointed out, loosing labour can instantly change all of someones plans. I read the article diferently as my grand parents and uncles farmed in Penn state, one of them as a dairy farmer and those experiences with them fills in the blanks. It takes a lot of creativity and decisivness to survive in dairy and family farming, margins are small but often the equity is high, so the temptation to sell out to big business is always there.
by jsrcout | 2025-09-15 21:37:43+00:00
I'm pretty similar. It's my hope that programmers as such will remain in demand long enough for the majority of people currently doing it for a living to finish out their careers. Though I may be too optimistic about that. And I expect that people just coming into the field will have a much tougher time of it.

I really feel for the newer folks coming in. Writing software is pretty much all I've ever wanted to do, and I've been fortunate enough to make a decent career of it. But our jobs, like every other one, will be automated away sooner or later, and the astounding pace of progress in AI and robotics indicates rather "sooner".

The real question is what happens when there is just no more need for humans to work jobs. What are they going to do? Because tech trillionaires sure aren't going to provide a universal basic income for everyone out of the goodness of their hearts.
by latchkey | 2025-09-15 21:38:14+00:00
At least in my own experience, I tried building a relatively simple static SPA NextJS React app with their router, and wanted to host it on CloudFlare Pages.

It ran locally in dev mode just fine. Once I deployed it on CFP, the router broke. No errors in the console, it just didn't work.

If I'm forced to use Vercel to make a simple SPA work, which then forced me into paying for their service, that's the problem.
by arcticbull | 2025-09-15 21:38:33+00:00
> If you consider starting a family with no hope of ever getting out of renting, as landlords constantly raise monthlies, you might reconsider children.

Generally the less money you make the more kids you have. It's really a question of prioritization. People say they're holding off on kids for X or Y reason but I think this is more of an expressed vs revealed preferences situation. They would rather chase material wealth for themselves than have kids, and to be clear I'm not judging just observing. Through most of human history mud huts weren't a blocker to having kids.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
by foxyv | 2025-09-15 21:38:42+00:00
I was looking for this the other day. It's a bit of a disaster isn't it? Generally speaking though, what your are looking for is a "Splitter" like this one:

https://a.co/d/8OieM1k

They don't really call them USB-C "Hubs" like they do the old USB-A ones. Mostly I just use a big old USB-A dock and a ton of adapters now.
by jrm4 | 2025-09-15 21:38:47+00:00
I'm not sure exactly what the question is here, but I'm comfortable saying that the definition I gave isn't a "later" thing. It's the historical/factual origin story of the word. As with many cultural things, Black folks will often invent something, and then it gets appropriated because it's cool (for better or worse).

What you're saying, if sincere, is extremely late stage. I'm very comfortable with:

It was solely "our" thing for a while, I mean I can recall that usage even before the year 2000. Somewhere MUCH after that it gets a little bit more popular (e.g. either due to or more likely downstream of the Childish Gambino song Redbone?) and (perhaps likely to more white liberal folks using it) begins to "feel" more concrete than before, despite not actually much being so.

And perhaps more importantly, IMHO "the right" is always desperate to find codewords they can use to put down minority groups without obvious slurs. "Woke" fits the bill pretty well, especially since it evokes AAVE.
by w10-1 | 2025-09-15 21:38:52+00:00
Article could use a good summary.

Title is misleading: no company has made any deal with any union. This is legislation to reduce insurance coverage in exchange for limited rights to unionize.

This is per-sector negotiation, affecting all rideshare companies, with qualified unions (that seem to only include SEIU) over wages, leaves, dismissals, and health insurance but not fares, that reduces uninsured insurance coverage from $1M to 300K (thus shifting the burden to drivers and passsengers).

Uber sought the deal after recent court rulings showed prop 22 (costing $100M's) wasn't the complete bar they'd hoped against the unions. SEIU may have gotten the deal in exchange for supporting prop 50 (redistricting to counter Texas). Governor Newsom is eager to play middleman-advocate for both business and labor.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-15 21:39:35+00:00
Let's see what the MBAs are trying, what is sticking, and how long that takes:

On-prem to cloud -- took about 10 years. De-facto success.

Blockchain to new age of finance -- 12 years later, not much success overall (Instant regret on anyone dumb enough to buy junk crypto and NFTs)

Quantum computing -- 10ish years later, nothing major, but it might bear fruit long-term.

LLMs -- Let's average all the above and say 11 years from 2022. So 2033 is when you can say it was a bust.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-15 21:39:45+00:00
> it should be addressed at the corporate level

We've done this for over a decade with both Democrats and Republicans in power.

I agree that the treatment was horrendous, but Korean businesses and politicans aren't angry because of the treatment - they are angry because now they cannot use this practice any longer.

The same raid would have happened under the Harris administration, and the same political fallout would have happened.

Even South Korean police continue to use indefinite detention during immigration raids (despite the constitutional court ruling against them) and has notoriously horrid migrant labor rights, so it's very hypocritical when Korean workers arrested were given better conditions than Mongolian, Vietnamese, or Thai migrants caught in similar dragnets in Korea are provided, but there is no interest in Korea to leverage this to better Korea and American labor rights.

ICE has overreached, but then going back and defending Hyundai like a significant number of people are is deeply wrong. The UAw was right to both condemn Hyundai as well as ICE. Yet, a significant portion of people are saying Georgia should be thankful to get this kind of FDI (even though it was thanks to our tax dollars becuase of the IRA).
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-15 21:40:28+00:00
I find I no longer integrate new apps/technology flows into my life because they either won't be supported or will be enshitified/weaponized against me. The future kind of sucks. My smart home is barely hanging on to turning my lights on at dusk (something photo-sensors for lights just did without issue from the 90s on). Android just broke my phone, I can no longer just say 'hey android, play the news' and have it play headlines from real new organization that I specify. Instead it grabs news from I don't know where and gives me Google Gemini approved summaries (that Google states may or may not be accurate).
by daxfohl | 2025-09-15 21:40:29+00:00
In the AI age we'll probably see even more of a migration toward whatever frameworks have the most training data and are easiest for code-completion agents to work with. Putting much effort into alternative frameworks now seems like even more of a losing battle than previously.

In a way, that might be better though. If you need a framework that's optimized for lightning speed, then maybe you want to be hand-coding it anyway. Also, with fewer people using it, there's perhaps less chance of it becoming bloated over time. The framework no longer has to compete with React; it has its own reason for existence and can focus on the things that make it special, not the things that make it more like React.
by Marazan | 2025-09-15 21:41:19+00:00
I cannot upvote this comment enough.

I am so glad to be old and have lived through the transition from Angular to React. To understand why we have React. In fact I am so old I have lived through the transition from Adobe Flex to Javascript Frameworks first.

And the thing that is clear to me is that wave of Javascript Frameworks, of which Angular was one, looked at Flex and leanred all the wrong lessons (I'm looking at you two-way data binding) whilst React got second mover advantage and learnt all the right lessons.
by throw310822 | 2025-09-15 21:41:32+00:00
Disagree with this take. It's not the 80 years of being part of NATO and under American influence; it's something more subtle and insidious that grew in Europe in the past 20 years. For example the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was met with fierce opposition in Europe. For at least a decade after that the EU thought of itself as a more civilised alternative to the US, not as a vassal.

Then we completely missed the tech revolutions of the past 10-15 years; we let ourselves be recolonised by giant American companies spreading American culture; finally we let the US decide our international politics, from Eastern Europe and Russia, to the Middle East, Iran, and China.

This has been of course also enabled by extraordinarily weak leaders that probably have been supported by the US because of their weakness. And here we are: with a war on our doorstep that cripples our economy, paralysed in front of the Gaza genocide, and having renounced closer commercial ties with China. Completely incapable of upholding our values and even our laws.
by mauvehaus | 2025-09-15 21:41:35+00:00
The AMC White Mountain huts have been doing this for years. The croo don't tend to maintain the systems, so I've never gotten a sense for what their storage capacity, generating capacity, and loads look like, but from a visitor perspective, the system works well.

Reportedly, even the fairy stout wind turbines they use up there have short, brutal lives. I heard the story of a croo that had to lasso/tangle/jam the blades of theirs in a storm because it lost the ability to control its speed and the alternative was letting it overspeed and possibly tear itself apart. They aren't large in diameter, but at the speeds they turn even in normal conditions up there, catastrophic failure could be really bad.
by greyb | 2025-09-15 21:41:45+00:00
Anecdotal, but every small business owner I've talked to have said it's because of the 1% difference in fees, even with OptBlue.

I've only had 1 business owner ever say it was due to chargebacks, a small tea shop in a Chinatown in Canada. They also don't take Mastercard for the same reason.

This is also why American Express launched the Cobalt card in Canada, which had a 5x multiplier for eats, drinks and groceries, and pushed it so hard for years on social media and bus shelters, despite eventually starting to disincentivize it (it was a loss leader/upgrade feeder product for Amex). They wanted to win merchants back with a new generation of hip, social media savvy Amex customers.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-15 21:41:50+00:00
I’ve got a MacBook and Mac Mini stuck on Monterey (12), and an iMac stuck on Big Sur (11). I’m pretty much dead in the water when it comes to software compatibility, unless I want to put Linux on them. Even homebrew gives me a warning that they’ve stopped support and to expect everything to break. It’s a sad state of affairs.