MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-10 21:08:31+00:00
> We made a big mistake with this whole "incivility is cool" thing in public discourse

I remain a fan of bringing back the Athenian institution of ostracism. If more than a certain fraction of voters in an election write down the same person’s name, they’re banned from running for office or have to leave the country for N years. (And if they can’t or won’t do the latter, are placed under house arrest.)
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-10 21:08:35+00:00
> I would think addressing the reasons people commit suicide leads to a better society.

Sure. But one of those reasons is "I feel very bad and I have access to a gun".

"The rate of non-firearm suicides is relatively stable across all groups, ranging from a low rate of 6.5 in states with the most firearm laws to a high of 6.9 in states with the lowest number of firearm laws. The absolute difference of 0.4 is statistically significant, but small. Non-firearm suicides remain relatively stable across groups, suggesting that other types of suicides are not more likely in areas where guns are harder to get."
by mmastrac | 2025-09-10 21:08:47+00:00
Things are not healthy in the USA, and have not been for a long time. It's all about scoring points now, owning the other side, getting soundbites, etc. It's sad that it's progressed to this.

From an outsider, it really feels like there's no middle ground in American politics. You either commit yourself to the full slate of beliefs for one side, or you're the "enemy".

I hope that Americans on both side start to see that either they need to tone down the rhetoric, work together and reach across the aisle, or just take the tough step of a national divorce due to irreconcilable differences.

Part of that is to stop giving a voice to the insane rhetoric, and stop electing *waving vaguely*.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-10 21:08:53+00:00
I use the AddService() method to inject a things on occasion but its not used heavily. For lightweight apps I'll spin up things like a shared SQLiteConnection and inject it for all resources to use.

The DI pattern is simple & clean at this scale. In my top-level program I define my routes like:

app.Map("/", Home.HandleRequest); app.Map("/login", Login.HandleRequest); app.Map("/account/new", NewAccount.HandleRequest); app.Map("/{owner}", OwnerHome.HandleRequest);

And then I have HandleRequest implementations like:

static async Task HandleRequest(HttpContext context, SQLiteConnection sql) static async Task HandleRequest(HttpContext context, SQLiteConnection sql, string owner) etc...

The actual HandleRequest() method can do anything, including concerns like directly accepting and handling web socket connections.
by techcode | 2025-09-10 21:09:37+00:00
I think that salaried devs (and related tech folks) are in the top x% locally - basically everywhere.

There could be a big spread from smaller tech companies, and governments/police/military/etc that pay low even for tech positions.

So actually I would be really curious to meet/talk to someone that took a tech job in say police/military or such.
by cbeach | 2025-09-10 21:09:46+00:00
If Gaza were rid of the Islamist terrorists that lead then then it would be better for Israel and also much better for the innocent youth of Gaza.

Unfortunately there is no way for the innocent youth of Gaza to rid themselves of Hamas. In fact Hamas actively endoctrinates the youth.

The only way for Gazan youth to be saved from a cycle of terrorist-led hatred is for Israel (or another developed power) to remove the terrorists.
by jamnicabpbnik | 2025-09-10 21:09:54+00:00
I recently finished reading Hidden Satoshi Gold Book, and it offered some fascinating insights into both cryptocurrency and AI.

The book is structured in two parts:

Part 1 – Mind: Focuses on the philosophy, mindset, and strategies behind understanding crypto and AI. It challenges you to think critically about the future of digital finance and technology.

Part 2 – Hands: Moves from theory to practice, offering actionable techniques and real-world steps to implement the concepts from Part 1. It’s all about bridging knowledge and execution.

What I found particularly interesting is how the book combines a strong conceptual framework with hands-on strategies. It’s rare to see a book that balances mindset and practical action so effectively.

I’d love to hear from the community: How do you see these ideas impacting the future of crypto and AI? Have you read Hidden Satoshi Gold Book, and if so, what insights stood out to you?
by turtletontine | 2025-09-10 21:10:15+00:00
This is a silly comparison. The article itself does not contain any phrase like "Clearest Sign Yet of Ancient Life on Mars", it was someone else's decision to give it the clickbait title here.

I'm not an expert on the topic here, but at arm's length this sure seems like responsible scientists doing their best to rigorously study something with some crazy implications. They're not saying "OMG guys there was life on mars!!!!", they're saying from what we can tell with Perseverance's little portable lab these rocks sure seem consistent with a biosignature. Their conclusion is that gee it would be great to have samples brought back to earth for better analysis, which... maybe one day, who knows? Here's what they actually say:

Ultimately, we conclude that analysis of the core sample collected from this unit using high-sensitivity instrumentation on Earth will enable the measurements required to determine the origin of the minerals, organics and textures it contains.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-10 21:10:38+00:00
> Criminals by definition don't need to follow the law and they don't need the 2nd amendment

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. " - The US Constitution

Neither do private citizens.

What part of "well regulated militia" is unclear? Maybe all of it if you have a political slant, but no literate person who didn't set out with an agenda actually takes the second amendment to mean "any lunatic with $100 and an axe to grind should be allowed to own weapons of mass destruction without even proving they're sober and sane."

It means what it says, not what some gun owners like to pretend it says and the simple truth is that making them harder to get does actually reduce crime every single time it's been tried.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 21:11:00+00:00
Well, as I said:

> If your screen-sharing software does not have these features, urge your company to switch to one that does (or just switch to one that does, if your company policies permit).

Should you choose to embark on it, I sincerely wish you the best of luck in your quest to get collaboration software that's not crippled by platform limitations.

Having said that...

> I think it's impossible to do it on the web because there's no screen sharing web API...

Weirdly, this isn't true. Discord claims to be able to share your screen even in the web browser version. From the "How To Stream In A Discord Channel" section of [0]:

> Info: Currently audio can only be captured by the Windows desktop, MacOS desktop, Chrome browser, and mobile clients. Unfortunately, audio sharing is unavailable on Linux.

I notice a conspicuous absence of "this doesn't work in a web browser" caveats for any of the other screen-sharing things that Discord does. The only caveats I notice are for audio capture on Firefox and on Linux in general.

And yes, while the Info box at the top of the article says that it covers how to do this in the Desktop Client, I tested screen sharing a moment ago in the latest version of Firefox on Linux. It works just fine. When I choose to share my screen in Discord, the web browser pops up a dialog asking me if I'd like to share my screen, and -if so- would I select which window (or the entire screen) to share?

> ...and no overlay drawing API either...

I don't know how one would handle the "permit others to draw on top of the shared window" mechanism, but there's little doubt in my mind that something can be cooked up that's clever and not too offputting to use... assuming that there's not something already available to be used that neither of us are aware of.

[0] <https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040816151-G...>
by tracker1 | 2025-09-10 21:11:04+00:00
I don't think it's really senility. I'm sure you've probably read an article by a news author about a technical subject that you know very well that just gets a lot of basic details/pov wrong as a whole. I'm pretty sure it's that, but with someone who has to take in 10x the amount of information on a daily basis. Combine that with an outsized, fragile ego and you get what you get from Trump. A vague understanding of things observed/read/viewed in passing combined with everything else.
by kfrzcode | 2025-09-10 21:11:09+00:00
Yes, you're wrong. He was very influential and a leader of the youthful conservative movement in our country. TPUSA is extremely popular. This was an abhorrent, horrifyingly public assassination of a very popular figure -- one who has been honestly quite milquetoast in terms of conservative ideology compared to other well-known figures. He wasn't even running for political office, he simply encouraged political participation, open debate, and the free exchange of ideas in a public forum. He grew TPUSA into a bastion of grassroots revitalization in community-first politics. Truly truly sickening.
by jngiam1 | 2025-09-10 21:11:09+00:00
I do think there's more infra coming that will help with these challenges - for example, the MCP gateway we're building at MintMCP [1] gives you full control over the tool names/descriptions and informs you if those ever update.

We also recently rolled out STDIO server support, so instead of running it locally, you can run it in the gateway instead [2].

Still not perfect yet - tool outputs could be risky, and we're still working on ways to help defend there. But, one way to safeguard around that is to only enable trusted tools and have the AI Ops/DevEx teams do that in the gateway, rather than having end users decide what to use.

[1] https://mintmcp.com [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j9CA5pCr5c
by freehorse | 2025-09-10 21:11:12+00:00
Twitter did this already for the text form. In depth analysis articles and blogposts got replaced with whatever could fit in 40 characters and what mattered more than anything was the impression. It changed how politics is done, so I would say it had an even bigger impact to society.

It is all depressing. As if the spectacle has devoured the whole reality and there is now nothing but it.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-09-10 21:11:40+00:00
This seems to boil down to them keeping two repositories - presenting one to the logged in dev, and one to the public.

That might work for a while if dev isn't active. He would, for example have to not notice there was a new release, with an incremented version number that triggers updates. Even that doesn't work forever. Down stream dev's often look at the changes - for example a Debian maintainer usually runs his eye over the changes.

But if the dev is active this is going to be noticed pretty quickly. The branches will diverge, commit messages, feature announcements, bug reports, line numbers not matching up. It would require a skilled operator to keep them loosely in sync, and that's the best they could do.

Either way, sooner or later Microsoft's subterfuge would be discovered, and that is the death knell for this scenario. The outrage here and elsewhere would boil over. Open source would leave github en masse, Microsoft's reputation would be destroyed, they would lose top engineers. I don't have a high opinion of Microsoft's technical skills and leadership as they have been consistently demonstrated themselves to be inconsistent and unreliable. But the company too large and too successful to be psychotic. The shareholders, customers, and lawyers would have someones guts for garters if they pulled a stunt like that.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-09-10 21:12:32+00:00
Heh. You know. I don't want to be too flippant, but I will respond to this, because it raises an interesting point.

I would like to hope that you recognize that registration of political affiliation is just one data point. Spring it does not make. You know how I got registered as a republican? I got incorrectly registered as one during judge election volunteering.

I am not saying it means nothing. What I am saying is: some nuance is helpful in conversations like this.
by AngryData | 2025-09-10 21:12:46+00:00
Really any kind of deer hunting rifle will do that. Any .30 cal or larger rifle is going to cause catastrophic damage to almost everything within atleast an inch of the bullets path, and massive bruising to 4 inches out around it, and that wound area only goes up as you go up through .30 cal bullet sizes. You have to go down into medium and lower handgun calibers for bullet wounds to start becoming mostly localized to the hole itself

Ironically the prevalence of AR-15s has made people underestimate the amount of power and damage that most deer hunting rifles possess. 5.56 is like the bare minimum you can get away with to reliably disable or mortally wound a human or similarly sized animal, which is why the military used it because it saves weight so soldiers can carry more of it even if they have to hike 20 miles to their objective. Most hunting rifles are serious overkill for killing their target because hunters want instant take downs, not an animal that is able to stand up and get an adrenaline boost and sprint away if even for just 15 seconds into the brush because the shot was a half inch to the left. .30_06, a common deer round and used in the M1 Garand of WWII, is just under twice the muzzle energy of 5.56.
by umanwizard | 2025-09-10 21:13:28+00:00
Economic development matters. We can't say Thailand is better than the US in every way that matters when it's a much poorer country than the US.

Of course, maybe Thailand is better than the US in some or even a lot of the ways that matter, but not all of them.

GDP per capita (PPP):

Thailand: 26323, USA: 89105

GDP per capita (nominal):

Thailand: 7767, USA: 89105

Human Development Index:

Thailand: 0.798, USA: 0.938
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-10 21:14:01+00:00
> US customs are now _worse_ than they were a month after 9/11

You mean that time when millions of American citizens were placed on the No Fly List with no recourse essentially at random? You can't be serious. After 9/11 was far worse.

I've been in and out of the US several times this year through several ports of entry and it has been hassle-free so far. They don't even ask me questions, they just wave me through.
by withinboredom | 2025-09-10 21:14:05+00:00
That doesn’t mean much. If it is actually common and the great filter is passing technological adolescence, then at least one civilisation would need to be around at least a hundred thousand years ago to be detected by us. Then, they would need to survive the great filter. We’ve only been broadcasting for 80 years or so, and any modern technology is probably indistinguishable from noise...

In other words, even if the average technological civilisation lasts 1000 years, the odds of those civilisations overlapping are nearly zero if the great filter is ahead of us. Unless civilisations manage to last much, much longer than 1,000 years (millions of years), the chance that two blips overlap in time and space closely enough to detect each other is basically negligible.

That is why the “life on Mars” point feels ominous:

- If abiogenesis is easy, the filter isn’t there.

- If the filter is later (like surviving technological adolescence), then most civilisations blink out quickly.

Which means overlapping, detectable civilisations would be vanishingly rare, explaining the silence, but also suggesting our future may be short.
by quitspamming | 2025-09-10 21:14:12+00:00
I don't know how a country filled with guns can survive the normalization of calling people you disagree with Nazi, Fascist, etc. We've all been taught since grade school it was a good thing to kill Nazis, even in small percentages there are mentally unstable people who will hear you call someone a Fascist and take the logical step from "it's good to kill nazis" to "they're a nazi so I should kill them". I am both very pro freedom of speech and right to bear arms, and I think where Canada and the UK have gone with hate speech laws are too far, but I don't know how you solve this.
by nickthegreek | 2025-09-10 21:14:14+00:00
Yes. People should have the choice to watch and understand what political violence. This is a powerful video and one that I don’t recommend everyone watch (that is a personal choice). If you are a person who has chosen to cheer on political violence, then I do suggest you watch. It’s is important to have a clear understanding of what that entails and the realities of that choice.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-10 21:15:05+00:00
You should also consider property taxes from where the employees live. In MS's case, plenty of the employees own or rent in the same town, or nearby. At least as a calculation/consideration of tax breaks. I can say that if it weren't for Intel, Wells Fargo and others deciding to build/employ in Chandler, AZ the town wouldn't be half that size in terms of residential population. I'm sure the same is true even for bigger cities relative to business size.
by mmulet | 2025-09-10 21:15:56+00:00
1. Yes, but it depends on your compositor because your compositor needs to be able to run as a nested Wayland client. I think there is support for this in wlroots based Wayland compositors, but I'm not sure if hyperland supports it.

2. I think it will work, but I haven't tried. I redraw the terminal window every time the "termed" window updates. So, if you are playing a video for example and you dynamically resize the window, it should update the size automatically. If you are viewing a static window it might not.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-10 21:16:13+00:00
It's pretty unlikely that life emerged independently on two planets in adjoining orbits.

The much more reasonable explanation is that life emerged on one planet and transferred over. Earth and Mars aren't particularly close, but they're close enough for material to transfer between them, particularly early in the solar system when there were far more asteroid impacts kicking rocks and dust out into space.
by CM30 | 2025-09-10 21:16:38+00:00
Fortunately, a video does need to have a vertical screen resolution to be counted as a short. So landscape/widescreen videos don't seem to be affected there.

But this can definitely trip people up, especially now the maximum length of a YouTube short is 3 minutes instead of 1. If you recorded a 3 minute video on a phone (or other random vertical screen device like a Game Boy/DS/3DS), YouTube will classify it as a short and there's basically nothing you can do about it.
by hackerb9 | 2025-09-10 21:17:47+00:00
As of today, all plain HTML searches fail. Text mode browsers like `w3m`, `links`, and `lynx` now show a page that says, "Update your browser". Command line tools like `curl` and `wget` redirect to a page which say, "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching". Hopefully this is just a temporary glitch or security measure as Google hasn't announced anything yet.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-10 21:18:17+00:00
Maybe its time...we consider separating? We seem to be evenly divided, with neither side making any ground in more unifying the American people. Trump leans into division (he has never been a unifier, and screws up any chance he has to call for unity rather than going after his enemies), the Democrats seem to either have moribund leadership or leadership that are taking lessons directly from Trump and won't be unifiers either. Both sides are getting more angry, maybe we just shouldn't be one country?
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-10 21:18:20+00:00
Suggest changing title to something along lines of "Tell HN: Accessing google in lynx now shows unsupported"

Maybe, like in 2019 when a similar submission got traction, you'll be able to get it restored.

(I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626995)
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-09-10 21:18:35+00:00
<< A reason that the left has been less violent is that there's a general ideological belief in taking on systems instead of people.

I think you are mistaken in thinking that 'left' ( quotation, because while I want to keep the identifier for clarity's sake, I think it does not properly reflect US political spectrum ) is not violent or that somehow their violence is lower in percentage.

The reason I am hesitatant to go for that discussion is because it has a good chance of derailing the conversation.

Can we just agree this is a bad thing for now instead?
by cdesai | 2025-09-10 21:18:57+00:00
Google is usually pretty quick to upload source code to AOSP after release on Pixel.

Android 16 has been highly unusual though, with the only source code release done 3 months ago in June, when it was initially released.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+r... - only two "16.0.0" hits here, both from June 10.
by yostrovs | 2025-09-10 21:19:16+00:00
There are international arbitration courts and other methods to claim non compliance. Instead Hyundai chose to break the law. Understandably, the law wasn't being enforced, so practically it made sense to do as they did. But then the public voted to elect someone who promised to enforce that very law. So Hyundai played the wrong cards, unlike American companies working in South Korea that hired locally or obtained visas.
by ACS_Solver | 2025-09-10 21:19:34+00:00
Because it ignores diacritics. Searching for ā will find a, searching for š will highlight s. This may make sense for some languages where diacritics are used sparingly to indicate an aspect of pronunciation, but in my language and many others diacritics are used for entirely different letters. The letter ā is not a. Treating them as equivalent makes as little sense as treating e and o as equivalent would in English.

If I'm trying to find kāzas (wedding) in a page, I will get hits for kazas (goats). If I'm looking for šauš, a letter sequence that words about shooting begin with, I will also get hits in šausmas (horror) or sauss (dry). It's nonsense. Windows 3.1 notepad.exe could find the actual word I entered in a text file (though the input required setup), the dominant browser in 2025 cannot do that and finds entirely unrelated words because an English speaker has decided they're visually similar.
by sethpurcell | 2025-09-10 21:19:43+00:00
THANK YOU for fighting this fight. I hope the responses here might add some empirical weight to your arguments — some people apparently do care about this.

And I believe you on how hard the reliability/durability challenges must be in engineering these things — I've seen what the kids do to them.

BTW, I think the mechanisms themselves are no small part of the interest; kids don't just get to see whatever phenomenon is being demonstrated by the device, they get to poke at the thing that does it and try to figure out how it works, and that's a lot of fun for a curious kid; there are layers there.
by xnx | 2025-09-10 21:19:44+00:00
I don't want to watch it, and I'm glad I haven't seen anything more than a still yet.

I always wonder if media hiding gore allows people to not get more upset about violence. The lynching of Emmett Till would not have had the same impact without his mother having an open casket funeral. Would things have gone differently if more people had been exposed to images from Sandy Hook?