MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by k310 | 2025-09-11 02:25:54+00:00
> Another example. One of the great joys of my life is having nerdy friends explain things to me. Now I can get explanations from AI with less friction, anytime, anywhere, with endless follow-up.

> Even if the AI explanations are “better”, there’s a social cost. I can try to mindfully nudge myself to still ask people questions, but now it requires more effort.

I’ve lived alone in the woods for longer than I care to think about. I hate the internet. I deliberately asked my friendly Duck about “Garfield”, wanting to know about the president whose name graced my 9th grade school. I got endless spew about a cartoon cat. The internet has degraded into a “lower than least common denominator” s—-storm. And this was without AI (up front, anyway).

Love people. Be a “real” engineer. Build machines and computers that do fun and socially beneficial things. Don’t give your life away to them.

Learn from my example. Joey, “A Mechanical Boy” [0] had an involuntary medical problem. Don’t go there on purpose.

[0] https://blogs.uoregon.edu/autismhistoryproject/archive/bruno...
by DetroitThrow | 2025-09-11 02:26:33+00:00
I understand if this is a sensitive time, that comparisons to the civil war may not be the most helpful.

However, if these are not helpful, I would hope we would not attempt to use these moments that we should be united in attempting to claim that slavery in the United States would have simply stopped. Historians today reject this, and historians like Eric Foner, Gavin Wright, James Oakes have all written books that provide evidence that slavery was expanding and evolving, and that a major cornerstone for nearly half of the country's economy was not going to disappear in 10, 20, or 100 years.

IRC was invented before the end of the South African apartheid - the United States was lucky to avoid such a terrible fate.

As an aside, it's not pleasant to see speculative conjecture about the inevitable end of slavery side-by-side with quotations from RFK, and feels counter to the goal of the pinned comment.

Thanks to the mod team for generally keeping this comment section civil.
by sterlind | 2025-09-11 02:26:37+00:00
> But despite all that, I can appreciate that he was a man who was willing to have a (mostly) civil conversation with all sides, something I wish more people would try to do.

could you give some examples of good, civil conversations he's had with people he strongly opposed? I'd like watch them. I think it's a skill we all need to cultivate.
by krapp | 2025-09-11 02:26:51+00:00
The second amendment literally defines a free state by its capacity for armed revolt, in other words, by violence.

Spend ten seconds around American gun culture. American gun owners absolutely believe the second amendment justifies violence, and Americans have believed as much for two centuries. Hell Thomas Jefferson thought any healthy democracy should have an uprising every 20 years or so.

That it happens to be illegal to shoot people under most circumstances is merely a formality. The founding fathers absolutely intended popular violence to be an integral part of the American political system, as a counterbalance to the potential violence of the state, because they inherently mistrusted the state. The only debatable facet of this is what specifically they meant by "militia."

Then again, the constitution was written when drawing and quartering was still practiced, along with slavery, and before the industrial revolution. Maybe the intent of the founding fathers as regards the second amendment no longer has a place in modern society. Unfortunately it can't be touched without triggering a full scale civil war so we're stuck with it and its consequences.
by zahlman | 2025-09-11 02:28:44+00:00
> I pretty much only talk about politics to people I've known for decades.

I'm guessing you don't know dotnet00 personally, but you still felt justified in replying with some ideological warring. My goal was not to "talk about politics" with you, but only to show that you are presenting a biased worldview that doesn't reflect a universal experience.
by kanbara | 2025-09-11 02:28:52+00:00
it's such an insane american belief that the answer to safety is not: reduce gun amounts, reduce what guns people can buy, improve mental health counseling, improve healthcare, improve quality of life through cheaper housing and well-paying jobs, but instead the copout which doesn't even work--adding armed police outside of every school.

uvalde called, it doesn't work. and the rest of the world looks on in shame at this exceptionally american and exceptionally cruel system.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-11 02:29:59+00:00
Using that list, let's look back at the last ~40 years: 1978-1995 : Unabomber - Not WS 1980-1985 : Jewish Defense League - Not WS 1995 : Oklahoma City Bombing - WS(Possibly Political and not WS but will count as linked) 1996 : Olympic Bombing - WS 2009 : Fort Hood shooting - Not WS(Radical Islam) 2012 : Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting - WS 2013 : Boston Marathon bombing - Not WS(Radical Islam) 2015 : Cartoon Drawing Contest shooting - Not WS(Radical Islam) 2015 : Charleston church shooting - WS 2015 : San Bernardino shooting - Not WS(Radical Islam) 2016 : Orlando nightclub shooting -Not WS(Radical Islam) 2017 : Congressional baseball shooting - Not WS(Political left) 2017 : Charlottesville car attack - WS 2018 : Pittsburgh synagogue shooting - WS 2019 : Escondido mosque fire and Poway synagogue shooting - WS 2019 : El Paso Walmart shooting - WS 2025 : New Orleans truck attack - Not WS

I would note; I know of at least one missing item, the attack on protesters in Denver. I also added back in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting which was linked to the page but also missing in the list.

Also possibly missing: DC Sniper attacks

However for sake of argument, I will only look at data prior to 2021:

8/16 attacks on that list are linked to White Supremacists(Counting OKC) ~50%

In the last 15 years, again about 50% are linked to White Supremacists and ~41% linked to Radical Islam.
by kgermino | 2025-09-11 02:31:10+00:00
It wouldn’t _have_ to, that’s a political decision not a mathematical requirement.

But, even if you did it would still help tremendously and possibly still be sufficient. There’s diminishing returns where lower income people get a higher percentage of their income as a social security benefit. As long as that policy is maintained the ultra high wage earners would be contributing far in excess of the benefit they get paid back out
by non_aligned | 2025-09-11 02:32:48+00:00
Isn't that just a comforting fantasy, though? Germans also embraced the myth of Hitler as a guy who just somehow hoodwinked everyone and made good people do terrible things.

There was a prominent component of political scheming to his rise to power, and it was a totalitarian state that murdered political opponents even before it got to genocide, but he was enthusiastically supported by a large portion of the German society.
by positron26 | 2025-09-11 02:33:28+00:00
On the DE, we just struggle with polish. This is paradoxically both an issue of not enough fruitful innovation and not enough maturity of good innovations that happen and take forever to be adopted.

As far as the actual OS, the new sheaves and barns thing in Linux is neat. We need innovation in RAM compression and swapping to handle bursty desktop memory needs better.

The main problem, and the one I'm trying to solve, is that as a software engineer, you have little incentive to make something that millions of people will use on the Linux desktop unless you have some other downstream monetization plan. You will have tons of users who have questions, not code contributions. To enable users to better organize into their own support structures and to make non-code contributions, I'm building PrizeForge.
by elcritch | 2025-09-11 02:34:01+00:00
Looking at that source I’m skeptical of the validity of graph.

Anecdotally in recent years I generally see far more casual references to violence from left leaning people both online and in person. After the attempted assignation of Trump, my Facebook feed was full of left leaning friends saying “shame he missed!”. It was gross. Similar comments abounded on a Washington Post article about Kirk’s shooting. Or the guy who murdered the UnitedHealth CEO, etc.

On the linked graph take the case of that attempted assassination of Trump in Pennsylvania where the shooter is listed as “conservative/right leaning”.

However no motivation for that shooting has been found and the shooters politics were mixed. Seems he registered to vote as a republican but that’s not uncommon in a rural state as otherwise you don’t get to vote in primaries. He also donated to a democratic cause. His Wikipedia page lists his political beliefs as unknown.

Other cases I’ve looked into in my local Idaho area were listed as “right wing” or “white supremacist” but were a couple of members of a gang trying to free another who was imprisoned for dealing drugs.

Most of those drug gangs aren’t left or right leaning, just thugs.
by braincat31415 | 2025-09-11 02:34:18+00:00
That same quick googling would have told you that it is enough to have a BA degree and to pass a fairly short teachers prep program. You are comparing apples and oranges.

$110,000 is the base salary. Add to this pension contributions almost completely funded (granted this is no longer the case for the new hires), a retirement on a full pension at 55, and a stable job. Good luck having all of this working as a software engineer for a private company. You can be made redundant at no notice, and risk always carries a premium.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-09-11 02:34:52+00:00
I went to college at this place (when it was Utah Valley State College [UVSC], before it was UVU). I spent a lot of time in that part of the campus over several years. How strange to see these events unfolding there. Kirk seems to be a person with whom I have scant philosophical agreement, but I prefer to converse with such people rather than watch them die. What an awful mess this all is.
by robbingtherob | 2025-09-11 02:36:50+00:00
The slow death of Europe by 1000s of cuts. Put migrant activity on top of that and bye bye.

There is a posibility between "muh America is car-centric, and btw i am bad at driving so i hate driving" and "you have to walk even in bad wrarher and when you are 70, think about the climate bruh".

HN are a special kind of nonsense crowd.
by loughnane | 2025-09-11 02:37:24+00:00
The sad irony is that he's at a college campus debating/arguing with people. At their best that's what college campuses are for. I know they haven't been living up to it lately but seeing him gunned down feels like a metaphor.

I know he liked to publicize the exchanges where he got the best of someone, and bury the others, and that he was a far, far cry from a public intellectual. Still, he talked to folks about ideas, and that's something that we should have more of.

That should be something that we strive for, but I fear we'll see it less and less. Who'se going to want to go around and argue with people now?
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-11 02:39:48+00:00
Members and leaders within the TPUSA chapter at my local university engaged in a year+ long harassment campaign against multiple professors, including a friend of mine. This included writing hate speech against trans people (my friend is trans) in coursework right up to legally protected boundaries. This was done in concert with an effort to get these professors fired for "discriminating against conservatives."

I am confident that this was done in an organized fashion with support. There is no chance that these random children knew precisely where to place their hatred in ways that which keep them from getting expelled and also ensure that their professors had to regularly read hate speech whenever they went to grade assignments.

Kirk has visited this university and celebrated the TPUSA organization there.

Kirk's twitter feed is also filled with egregious homophobia, transphobia, racism, and sexism.

Kirk attended organized debates and used soft words in those debates for the camera so that he could "own" college students. But if you expand to look at his public words they quickly stop being so soft. And if you expand to look at the output of his organization, things become much worse.
by andsoitis | 2025-09-11 02:41:06+00:00
> But the biggest change is the loss of serendipity. When you teleport, you decide in advance where you’re headed. You never run into an old friend on the street, or stop at a farmstand by the side of the road, or see a store you might want to stop into someday.

This is the same core argument of the RTO advocates. Serendipity which has social and business benefits, and is in intangible with positive effects that's hard to quantify. But it is undoubtedly a thing, which I think is very hard to argue against.

Coming back to the article, yes, lack of serendipity will not just mute wonder, but also opportunities because, like evolution by natural selection depends on variation, so too do successful human civilizations.
by galuggus | 2025-09-11 02:41:41+00:00
theres about 15-20 games

you can add your own!

I put it together quite quickly for @levelsio vibe coded games competition

https://x.com/levelsio/status/1915127796097290534

originally it had levels and bosses but The code got too messy. I'm thinking about coming back to it and adding some more games.

I don't use instagram or any social media actively so didn't know about double tap!

will add it to the todo list.
by sterlind | 2025-09-11 02:41:47+00:00
haven't seen it, so I shouldn't comment, but from the reviews they went out of their way to make the movie apolitical, or at least to obfuscate the setting's relation to our current zeitgeist. which resulted in a tortured, implausible scenario.

if that was their goal, it would have been better to never explain the conflict in the first place. just start in medias res, with asemic dialogue and references.

I wish they'd try again and do better.
by sandreas | 2025-09-11 02:41:52+00:00
> I mean, nothing stops you from building your image of KDE Linux (or any immutable distro) with a built-in restic config.

I hear you. The problem is, that basically nothing stops you from building anything yourself. The difference is, that there is no easy-to-use build-in solution (like time machine) and ease of use is what makes the difference. Especially a TIME difference. Of course there is software SIMILAR to time machine, but it seems to be hard to write something rock solid and easy-to-use.

In fact I also have built it myself: https://github.com/sandreas/zarch A script that installs Arch on ZFS with ZFSBootMenu and preconfigurable "profiles" which packages and aurs to use. Support for CachyOS Kernel with integrated ZFS is on my list.

I already thought putting together a Raspberry PI Image that uses SSH to PULL backups over the network from preconfigured hosts with preconfigured root public keys and is easily configurable via terminalUI, but I did not find the time yet :-) Maybe syncthing just is enough...
by mediaman | 2025-09-11 02:42:08+00:00
Meeting notes are useful in two ways, for me:

- I'm reviewing the last meeting of a regular meeting cadence to see what we need to discuss.

- I put it in a lookup (vector store, whatever) so I can do things like "what was the thing customer xyz said they needed to integrate against".

Those are pretty useful. But I don't usually read the whole meeting notes.

I think this is probably more broadly true too. AI can generate far more text than we can process, and text treatises on what an AI was prompted to say is pretty useless. But generating text not with the purpose of presenting it to the user but as a cold store of information that can be paired with good retrieval can be pretty useful.
by insurancesucks | 2025-09-11 02:42:43+00:00
"Of 267 incidents this year classified as mass shootings by the Gun Violence Archive, nearly all can be tied to gang beefs, neighborhood arguments, robberies or domestic incidents that spiraled out of control.

Indiscriminate slaughter by a lone gunman blasting away at a store, school or some other public place is rare, according to a Washington Times analysis of the archive’s data, accounting for less than 4% of the total."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/16/street-braw...

This is 2022. These numbers roughly replicate for any year though.
by kazinator | 2025-09-11 02:42:58+00:00
> Try mentally taking apart a car. Can you point to the component that supplies the transportation functionality?

Of course not. Transportation emerges from the interactions between air, fuel, cylinder, drive shaft, wheels, etc.

We can easily remove what does not contribute to Transportation.

Firstly, we take a shortcut: take the most economic car with the fewest features. That provides Transportation.

Then, start gutting things that obviously don't contribute to Transportation.

Let's assume that Transporation means getting from A to B in any weather, and any time of day or night. The roof is not removable even if the car is convertible because the roofless car doesn't function in any weather.

Thus, all fluff is gone. Power windows. Power steering. Remote door locks. Any sort of touchscreen nonsense. No stereo. Basic ventilation probably stays. Safety features like seatbelts should stay.

we are pretty much left with the chassis and cabin with doors and seats, belts and maybe air bags, steering wheel and pedals, speedometer and a few gauges, engine, transmission, wheels, brakes, suspension, headlights, turn signals, brake lights, and windshield wipers.

There are some tricky aspects. Suppose the car is internal combustion and we don't introduce an engine block heater. It then doesn't readily provide Transportation in areas where it is left parked outside overnight at seriously low temperatures below zero.There are geographically sensitive requirements under Transportation. Air conditioning is such. If the car is unbearably or even dangerously hot to be in, that interferes with its ability to provide Transportation.
by tolerance | 2025-09-11 02:43:35+00:00
WAPO, March 2007

> Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates last week put the number of foreigners now arriving in Iraq to join the AQI-led Sunni insurgency at "perhaps several dozen a month" from neighboring Syria, most of them volunteers for suicide-bombing missions.

> Little more than a year ago, AQI's back was against the wall, its efforts to recruit Iraqi Sunni nationalist and secular groups undermined by its violent tactics against civilians and the fundamentalist doctrine of its founder, Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Its attempt in January 2006 to draw other insurgent groups under the banner of a Shura, or consultative council, was largely unsuccessful.

> "When Zarqawi was killed in June," a senior intelligence official said, "a lot of us thought that was going to be a real milestone in our progress against the group." Instead, he said, "al-Masri has succeeded in establishing his own leadership, keeping the operational tempo up and propelling sectarian violence to higher levels." From the February 2006 bombing of the golden dome of a Shiite shrine in Samarra through the huge bombings in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad in November, AQI steadily "pushed the sectarian violence into a new era," the official said.

— https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/0...

Al-Zarqawi’s reputation preceded him. But al-Qaeda fared well enough into to al-Masri’s leadership and beyond.

> I'd argue there was a very symbolic benefit and even if there is/was a power vacuum.

This is what I mean by it being theatre.

Never heard of Savimbi or the Angolan conflict either. I found this: https://theafricancriminologyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/02/1...

Thanks for the pointer.

You know, I’m sorry. Can you introduce me to that geopolitics nerd friend you have? I wasn’t even aware of the full context of this thread. I just had the urge to nerd out and share resources and make points and do anything short of trying on only prove you wrong about one specific part of an argument that I don’t even agree with—that assassinations are universally bad.

I think whether it's viable preemptive measure depends on a lot. In the present context (Kirk’s), it’s doubtful.

I’m sorry for putting you through this, baby_souffle.

And did you mean to refer to Godwin or Goodhart’s law.
by samplatt | 2025-09-11 02:44:34+00:00
>a huge step towards a decently secure and stable OS

It absolutely was an important (and required) step towards a more secure and stable OS. What it was not, though, was a secure and stable OS.

Windows ME was the same. A required step on the path towards something better, and ALSO something that had the "Windows XX-ready" badge slapped on anything that asked. But no one is lining up to try Vista again apart from technical challenges.
by colechristensen | 2025-09-11 02:44:47+00:00
When the public institutions fail people seek authoritarianism to actually get things done.

While doing so in an awful manner, the current administration is definitely getting things done.

I primarily blame Democrats for the current situation for they have been doing just an awful job of getting anything done or standing up to opposition, they are ineffective cowards and invited the current situation with their incompetence.
by doom2 | 2025-09-11 02:45:24+00:00
Trump was golfing instead of attending the funeral of the Hortmans and used their death to insult Tim Walz. He didn't order flags flown at half mast like he's now done with Kirk. Notable conservative publications like National Review barely covered the Minnesota shooting. He also mocked the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband.

So I would say the reaction will be quite different, given that Kirk was a political ally and not a Democrat.
by dahart | 2025-09-11 02:46:19+00:00
It really depends. The VS debugger is excellent, and it is usually easier I agree there. But gdb is more easily scriptable and more powerful in certain situations, so I reach for gdb sometimes for the harder bugs even though I use VS more often. Of course, they don’t really compete with each other that much, since VS is mainly Windows and gdb is mainly Linux. Of course I know you can do either debugger on either OS, but in practice the debugger choice is primarily OS based.
by smt88 | 2025-09-11 02:47:26+00:00
I wish this hadn't happened, but let's not rewrite history with our eulogies.

> Many people didn't like what they heard, but it wasn't because it was mean or wrong

He was often wrong, as most people are, and he often doubled down on it. For example, he repeatedly lied about the 2020 election being stolen.

> He didn't provoke political division, he tried to reconcile it.

He paid for people to attack the capitol on January 6 and advocated for Joe Biden to be given the death penalty[1]. He repeatedly tried to frame "the left" for things they didn't do or didn't even happen, and said things like "prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people" (verbatim quote from his podcast).

He was extremely, intentionally divisive.

1. https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-has-h...