MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yonran | 2025-09-11 06:47:41+00:00
I think there’s a kernel of truth in what he said, surrounded by some exaggeration. The rural parts of the country, where people get married under 25 years old and have a higher fertility rate, probably do place a higher value on having a family than the urban parts of the country where career is prioritized. Good politicians (like Barack Obama did in his prime) take pains to acknowledge truths from the other side.
by orwin | 2025-09-11 06:48:48+00:00
He could forma coalition with the Socialists, but they pushed for an agrarian reform that would have taken power away from landlords/landowners in east germany, which was the conservative base of power.

It was a choice: Socialists, Nazis or communist, and as always "Plutot Hitler que le Front Populaire", the extreme center choose fascism. The more thing changes, the more they stay the same.
by xj | 2025-09-11 06:49:06+00:00
Here’s what ChatGPT had to say. (yeah, AI slop, I know ).

Successful or lasting transitions:

1. Eastern Europe 1989 (Velvet Revolution): Student protests toppled communist regimes; quick move to democratic institutions blocked a return of the old guard.

2. South Korea 1987: Student-led movement forced constitutional reform; strong institutions cemented long-term democracy.

3. Tunisia 2011: Youth uprising ousted Ben Ali; fragile, but managed more reforms than its neighbors.

4. Bangladesh 1990: Student protests forced out Ershad and restored parliamentary democracy.

5. Indonesia 1998: Students ended Suharto’s 32-year rule; transition to democracy largely stuck.

Failed or reversed outcomes:

1. Egypt 2011: Mubarak fell, but the military quickly reasserted power.

2. Myanmar 1988 & 2021: Youth-led protests brutally crushed; no systemic change.

3. Hong Kong 2019: Mass mobilization, but Beijing tightened control further.

4. Bangladesh 2018 & 2024–25: Student protests (road safety, anti-corruption) drew support but faced crackdowns or stalled reforms.

5. Indonesia 2019–20: Youth protests against anti-corruption rollbacks failed to overcome entrenched elites.

Learnings & guidance:

1. Toppling is the easy part.* Building resilient, accountable systems is much harder and requires as much energy as the protests themselves.

2. Institutions matter. Wins lasted where protesters translated momentum into concrete legal and institutional reforms (Eastern Europe, South Korea, Indonesia 1998).

3. Beware the vacuum. Without credible alternatives, old networks (Egypt, Bangladesh, Myanmar) reassert control.

4. Broad coalitions win durability. Success is stronger when youth movements ally with labor, civil society, and reformist insiders — not just street mobilization.

5. International context counts. Where outside powers supported transitions (Eastern Europe), reforms stuck; where they didn’t (Myanmar, Egypt), regimes rebounded.

Takeaway: Gen-Z has shown it can bring a government down in days. The real test is whether it can also build structures that stop corruption and nepotism from creeping back in.
by dangus | 2025-09-11 06:51:14+00:00
I don’t mean this as a gotcha, but have you tried an immutable/atomic Linux distro?

Immutable/Atomic Linux doesn’t take away any ability to hack and configure it. It’s just a different approach to package and update management.

There really isn’t anything you fans do with it that you can do on other Linux distros.

I’m using Bazzite which is basically in the Fedora Atomic family and all it really changes is that if I want to rpm install something and there’s no flatpak or AppImage then I just need to decide on my preferred alternate method to install it.

I find Bazzite’s documentation on the subject quite helpful: https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/

At the very worst case I’m using rpm-ostree and installing the software “traditionally” and layering it in with the base OS image.

Now you might be thinking, what’s the benefit of going through all this? Well, I get extremely fast and reliable system updates that can be rolled back, and my system’s personalization and application environment is highly contained to my home directory.

I’m not an expert but I have to think that there are security benefits to being forced into application sandboxing as well. Applications can’t just arbitrarily access data from each other. This isn’t explicitly a feature of immutable/atomic Linux but being forced into installation methods that are not rpm is.
by entropyneur | 2025-09-11 06:51:36+00:00
This article seems to fall straight into the trap it aims to warn us about. All this talk about "true" understanding, embodiment, etc. is needless antropomorphizing.

A much better framework for thinking about intelligence is simply as the ability to make predictions about the world (including conditional ones like "what will happen if we take this action"). Whether it's achieved through "true understanding" (however you define it; I personally doubt you can) or "mimicking" bears no relevance for most of the questions about the impact of AI we are trying to answer.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-11 06:52:23+00:00
Yeah, I wouldn't even bother with Wayland on Ubuntu unless it works out of the box.

I'm on an unholy amalgamation of Arch/Cachy/Endeavour now, but I have been using screen sharing nearly everyday on calls via Firefox on Arch for about a year and it's worked without a problem.

I considered Debian testing, and it does work well on servers, but a true rolling release is more convenient. The software release and update loop is shorter, it's really nice to be able to pull fixes to packages in a reasonable amount of time after they're released.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-11 06:52:34+00:00
I didn't see anywhere in the article anything about israelis calling for more dead children. Even if that happened it's the actions of a fringe group, not idf policy. Food shipments are being restricted because it's not generally accepted that you have to feed your enemies while you're at war with them. In any case the GHF was set up to deal precisely with this problem and is doing a great job.

On the charges of genocide... Again what you say should be in harmony with reality. In truth all those sources have an anti israel bias. One can't help but think they started with a conclusion and found the evidence to fit in with it, which is the wrong way round. In any event other bodies like the UK government don't agree. Genocide requires intent and there is simply no intent for genocide from the Israeli government. One can also argue that if indeed genocide was the goal the war would have been much faster. anyway i hope that gives you a better perspective of Israels point of view and interpretation of events. Their stated goals in gaza are destroying hamas and ensuring gaza is no longer a security threat. Hamas is very large and quite well embedded in the civilian population and has a lot of infrastructure which means that even waging a war will lead to a lot of civilian casualties. Something that hamas exploits and people who claim genocide ignore.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-11 06:53:14+00:00
> Unfortunately, the major obsessed with getting rid of cars (which I am highly grateful) but forgot to provide reliable public transport to close-by villages (max 5km,i.e., Poio/Marin/Salcedo).

He can't! Mayors in Spain do not have the authority to establish public transportation outside their municipality, as is the case of the villages you mention. That would fall under the authority of the Xunta de Galicia, which as you surely know, has done a terrible job with that in all Galician cities, not just Pontevedra. (I'm from A Coruña).
by dgb23 | 2025-09-11 06:53:27+00:00
I remember when the tone started to shift. The onslaught of lies, hate and hyperbole. It only got worse since then, and things that are acceptable politically today were unthinkable then.

There have been no consequences, no corrections, no apologies for blatant lying and spreading hate. There’s not even a pretense of honesty anymore.

“Tone it down!” That’s rich!
by ThisNameIsTaken | 2025-09-11 06:54:11+00:00
I've been doing this for some time now and it indeed makes editing text in vim easy. Just `dd` and `p`. And as the article mentions, diffing is much cleaner.

There's a caveat however, if you comment a line (to keep the thought, but see how it would work without) some Markdown parsers will interpret it as an empty line, and thus create a new paragraph. It then becomes necessary to remove one of the semantic newlines, which looks rather messy.
by willvarfar | 2025-09-11 06:56:21+00:00
How do all the people involved, IRL, cope with the reputational impact of being part of such an event? Do people change name, move, cut off ties with their past etc? Or never tire of telling the story?

Edit to add: I was wondering about the emotional angle as well as the career angle.

For example there is the The Mizuho Securities "Fat-Finger" Error in 2025 that cost a Japanese bank $340M. According to management anecdotes the employee was kept by the bank and the bank chief said that they will never find a more careful and diligent employee in the future. However, quick ask of an AI says that the anecdote ending is probably a urban myth told to demonstrate a management principle, so we don't know what happened to the employee nor how they feel.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-09-11 06:57:16+00:00
We've seen the results over and over again. What will happen is that eventually an authoritarian government will replace the previous government. Look at, USSR, Iran, Nicaragua, China. They all had a corrupt government toppled where people thought anything was better than what they had. Unfortunately without a plan and without professionals at the top of the government the government begins to fail. The general population feels that they are in a desperate situation and someone comes along that says he/she will solve their problem. The people vote them in or somehow the government gets taken over. The new government will eventually rule by decree and a dictatorial government rules the country until the next revolution.

This is a regular pattern. They need to look at it and try to prevent it from happening again. They need to, at the very least, have a plan to make people feel better about the people's future under the new government.
by dangus | 2025-09-11 06:58:01+00:00
> But a potential military market in 10 years is not even close to "worth it" for any private investors or even the government to build out a domestic supply chain for that stuff.

I’m pretty sure the US already has military market has been doing exactly this for decades. The military budget is over twice the size of Apple’s revenue.

The CHIPS act is essentially doing the same kind of thing that helped Taiwan get so good at semiconductors in the first place. Whether it’s been as effective remains to be seen.
by japanuspus | 2025-09-11 06:58:04+00:00
> PSA: the "No Tax On Tips" provision expires...

My understanding is that this is true for all the Trump handouts: otherwise the ten-year economic outlooks would have cratered. The Economist had a couple of nice analyses on this.

Of course this means that the next administration will need to start with tax increases just to get to neutral, but maybe that is a feature?
by sandstrom | 2025-09-11 06:58:26+00:00
Does anyone working at Github know why 'semi-linear' merge isn't supported as a merge strategy in the merge queue (and regular PRs)?

I Gitlab and Azure DevOps (also owned by MS) supports it, and even talked to an employee now working at Github, that implemented this in Azure DevOps.

More background: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/14863

With a semi-linear merge strategy, you rebase (without --fast-forward) before merging, so the history ends up looking like this:

* c8be0c632 Merge pull request #1538 from my-org/api-error-logging |\ | * 80ecc4985 Fix security warning, bump nokogiri | * 750613638 Log and respond with more detailed validation errors in the API | * 0165d6812 Log code and details when rendering an API error response. | * 1d4daab48 Refactor email validation result to include a descriptive message | * 635214092 Move media_type logging into context_logging |/ * 1cccd4412 Merge pull request #1539 from my-org/profile-clarify |\ | * 87b342a32 Rename profile default to migration target | * 2515c1e59 Fix disallow removing last profile in company |/ * b8f3f1658 Merge pull request #1540 from my-org/customer |\ | * 064b31232 Add customer-specific taxed allowance reduction |/ * 3cf449f94 Merge pull request #1528 from my-org/console-logging |\ | * 99657f212 Don't log to rails console in production |/ * 8c72e7f19 Merge pull request #1527 from my-org/gemfile

It makes it easy to look at the Git history both at the 'PR level' kind of like a change log (`git log --merges --decorate --oneline`) or dig down into each PR to see all commits.
by k310 | 2025-09-11 06:58:58+00:00
The "problem with revolutions" is that the winners are people successful chiefly if not only, at winning revolutions.

I recall company founders being shown the door when their "founder" skills mismatched the ensuing needs. Sanders, Jobs, and so on.

Who follows? Ask the U.S., France, Russia, China, Cuba. Each was different. Didn't Mao advocate for "continuous revolution?"

My sense is that both visionary and practical leaders are needed, if those attributes can be blended, but not revolutionary. Maybe it's easier these days to write a living constitution, but change has accelerated, making that harder to do (to adapt and grow) without making it easier to hack or pollute.
by tossandthrow | 2025-09-11 07:00:02+00:00
Try for just one minute and don't think about this in terms of money, and you will see why your argument is completely failing.

It is clear that one rich person who leisurely spend their morning getting ready for a business meeting does not provide any care to any elderly.

Your comment is clear example of the type of misinformation that got us here.

In the end money is an institution. You can only get things done, I if someone are willing to take money for work. And that only works when there is a certain level og equality.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-11 07:00:16+00:00
I don't read most of my (work) emails either, but I think the most important part of AI generated meeting notes is that they're searchable / indexable, in the off chance that you do need to find or refer to something mentioned in an article.

But to be blunt / irreverent, it's the same with Git commit messages or technical documentation; nobody reads them unless they need them, and only the bits that are important to them at that point in time.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-09-11 07:00:36+00:00
Eh.

People already vastly underreport their tips. This just codifies it in to law. I’m not saying it’s right but I also doubt it’s hitting the IRS’s coffers especially hard.

Logically, it would make sense to me to make it dependent on how much of your income comes from tips. It doesn’t really make sense that wait staff shouldn’t pay taxes on their tips, as it’s basically just their income but paid by third parties. When I was doing wedding photography and someone gave me a tip on top of my normal fee, that feels more like a gift than my income. It was fairly rare and was nowhere near the majority of my income. That, logically, shouldn’t be tipped as long as other gifts aren’t.

But that would be complicated, so here we are.
by m-schuetz | 2025-09-11 07:01:39+00:00
Around here, people voluntarily move to the suburbs because they want a house and a garden or simply larger flats for a lower price. And then they demand that prople inside the city center cater to them and turn their city into a parking lot for those not living there. I'm glad this is now being slowly reversed, and that cities actually look after their citizens rather than commuters that moved away because they wanted large houses.
by indigo945 | 2025-09-11 07:01:51+00:00
I don't think I understand you. The RC4 encryption type is msDs-supportedEncryptionTypes 4 (i.e. 0b0100). DES_CBC_CRC is 1, DES_CBC_MD5 is 2. They do not "correlate".

And regarding the NT hash: the NT hash is named after NTLM, not Kerberos. NTLM is a completely different (and much less secure) authentication mechanism. And the NT hash is not DES at all, it's MD4. You may be confusing it with the LM hash, which is indeed DES, but does not support unicode and is not common anymore.

The LM hash is disabled on domains with an LmCompatibilityLevel of 4 or above. (It's accepted, but clients shouldn't send it, on the default LmCompatibilityLevel of 3, which, by the way, unless your domain has devices from the stone age, you can safely set to 5, disabling LM and NTLMv1.) Although, if you can, you should disable NTLM on the domain altogether, because it's a much more vulnerable protocol than Kerberos.
by kleiba | 2025-09-11 07:01:59+00:00
> so there's some argument for getting them involved with digital stuff at some point

And that's how the argument usually goes, but I don't buy it: every one of us who attended schools without devices learned to pick up that skill some other way. And usually without any problems.

In my opinion, the trade-off swings hard into the wrong direction: there's much more downsides to using devices in the classroom than upsides for the most part.
by empiko | 2025-09-11 07:02:05+00:00
I live in a pretty walkable Spanish city, and 70-year-olds are having a blast here. Even when they can no longer walk and they need to use various mobility devices, they can use the pedestrian infrastructure to move around the city and hang aroun the bars with their friends and families (and they do it basically every day, as far as I can tell). The same population in the US would be basically homebound.
by fgpzen | 2025-09-11 07:02:52+00:00
You’ve probably seen how Google’s Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is going viral for its image generation + editing.

ByteDance’s Seedream 4.0 offers similar-or-better capabilities (generation + editing, reference consistency, up to 4K) in a unified model.

I built a free demo site — [seedream.best] — where you can test Seedream 4.0 yourself. Welcome to try, compare, feedback!
by pezezin | 2025-09-11 07:03:32+00:00
I am Spanish, so I grew up with what you describe.

I now live in rural Japan, a country that outside of the big cities also suffers from awful American-style urban sprawl, and holy guacamole, how can people live like this? The area where I live is just big box stores and houses scattered everywhere, and you need a car to do anything. It has made me really appreciate my homeland...
by tossandthrow | 2025-09-11 07:03:51+00:00
As sibling commentors say, this is just not true.

As a society we have a capacity to work, and we divide that work using money.

Your observation thst rich people pay for services is indicative of an oligarchy. When rich people pay, then it is not a plethora or small businesses, a democratic chooses government, or a consortium of investors bundling together to do something great.

You are literally pointing out the failure of the west.
by watwut | 2025-09-11 07:04:11+00:00
My argument was not about those things being interesting or not. My point was that you are wrong about what the content it.

"Artist struggles" is not what art museums writeups are about. They are not even caricature, they are just something people who do not go to art museums imagine to be there. Mostly because the only thing they know about art is that some artists struggled.

Also "historical, thematic and philosophical aspects to art" dont have all that much to do with "artist struggles".
by d1sxeyes | 2025-09-11 07:04:56+00:00
I’m not aware of any rigorous modelling that supports what Goering argued though. It’s certainly possible but it’s also not a given by a long shot. FPTP in the UK is not based on the popular vote, it’s essentially the outcome of 650 mini-elections. If Nazi support was efficiently distributed, there’s a good chance they’d have won a strong majority, but if support was focused geographically, they might have ended up with fewer seats.

If you’re aware of any more accurate modelling, I’d be super interested though!
by chithanh | 2025-09-11 07:05:12+00:00
For the first years of school, it is actually very beneficial to pretend that calculators don't exist.

Students must be accustomed to do simple arithmetic without the help of a calculator, or else their mathematical abilities will be negatively impacted. Same for learning multiplication tables, recognizing the associations between the numbers is important.

Only when they begin to calculate things which exceed the number of mental tokens that they can handle, then they can start using a calculator with no ill effects.
by Zacharias030 | 2025-09-11 07:06:23+00:00
I agree mostly. They are all that you say, but if you think about the conditional distribution that you are learning, there is nothing preventing us in principle from mapping different contexts to the same responses. It is rather a practical limitation that we don’t have sufficient tools of shaping these distributions very soundly. All we can do is throw data at them and hope that they generalize to similar contexts.

We have observed situations where agentic LLM traces on verifiable problems with deterministic (greedy) decoding lead to either completely correct or completely wrong solutions depending on the minutes on the clock which are printed as coincidental output of some tool that the LLM used.

I think there may be some mild fixes to current models available , for example it is worrying that the attention mechanism can never fully disregard any token in the input, because the softmax will always assign a > 0 weight everywhere (and the NN has no way of setting a logit to -infinity). This directly causes that it is extremely difficult for the LLM to fully ignore any part of the context reliably.

However Yann LeCun actually offers some persuasive arguments that autoregressive decoding has some limitations and we may need something better.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-11 07:07:32+00:00
Yup, that's the other factor; unless these computers are completely bolted down or tightly monitored at all times, kids will be doing other stuff. It's just too easy to alt-tab to something else.

And the worst part is that this isn't new. Back when I went to elementary school (early 90's) this already happened in the computer lab. A few years later my mom volunteered in the computer classes; one had internet, so naturally as soon as she turned her back there was a gaggle of kids around it to look at nudes.

But they haven't learned. And they got a bag of money post-covid to help kids catch up on missed classes, which they spent on computers and IT, and some opt-in external homework help.

Kids's attention spans (and their parents, for that matter) are all over the place, giving them any screen will just trigger their dopamine hit seeking automatisms.

I mean yes, everyone needs to learn how to use a computer - a lot of these kids didn't know what a file is - but make it focused, make it supervised, and lock these systems down.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-11 07:10:00+00:00
> The current implementation adopts pseudo-spiking, where activations are approximated as spike-like signals at the tensor level, rather than true asynchronous event-driven spiking on neuromorphic hardware.

Well that seems pointless to me. Propagation of sparse events in the time domain is ~the entire point of spiking neurology.