MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-09-23 05:16:36+00:00
At least in the US your race is stronger indicator for being incarcerated than your affluence levels. E.g. Black Americans are somewhere 10-30x more likely to be arrested for violent crimes than Asian Americans of similar poverty levels. Race here, similarly to economics, is again a confounding variable for something else that is actual causal to this. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353 . And again, the direction of causality here isn't obvious either.

Most likely it's a combination of genetics, cultural expectations, social support networks, and a litany of other elements that all come together to affect the ultimate outcome. Which aligns with your thesis around one's support network making a huge difference. But it's just important to point out that poverty by itself is not causal of crime, it simply makes it more likely given many other factors such as culture and community. It's mildly predictive, but up to a point.

Funnily enough, as a side-note, the stats show that most white-collar crime is committed by well-educated and affluent white men in their forties or older, causing a lot more financial harm than your everyday street crime added up.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-23 05:18:06+00:00
> That's his point of view. He became a victim of gun violence which he said is worth the cost.

You are lying again. He became a victim of a targeted political assassination. Such assassinations happen in every society, whether they have the 2nd amendment or not.

His opponents argued that restricting access to guns would reduce gun violence — as in school shootings, etc — and that might be true, at the cost of having no protection from the tyranny of the government. But such restrictions would not help prevent Kirk's own assassination, as evidenced by thousands of political assassinations everywhere around the world where access to guns is restricted, and this makes your statement a lie. This is nothing more than a rather distasteful attempt to score some political points.
by teo_zero | 2025-09-23 05:18:43+00:00
As usual, the title doesn't reflect the message of the article. While critical against learning tons of algorithms and structures by heart, the author advocates understanding what they do and why you would want to use them. This is what it means to master TSA.

The last part denounces that testing is not tought enough, and learning it may be beneficial for your career. It's never said that testing is better than TSA, just that we would need more.
by hakfoo | 2025-09-23 05:19:34+00:00
Is keeping up with "just security patches" on Chromium reasonable?

As sickening as thought as it is, the best hope there is Microsoft-- they can afford to hire the necessary army of developers, and their incentives are aligned just far enough away from Google's that they would have reasons to do it.

The problem is that they're also in the ad economy now, so their opportunity to play it for relevance is shot.

They had a window where they could have said "Edge: the Chromium-based browser that treats uBlock Origin as a first-class citizen" but instead they'd rather add weird popups to credit card fields asking if I want to use Klarna instead.
by mock-possum | 2025-09-23 05:20:55+00:00
Like a ‘bucking bronco,’ a horse kicking high and trying to throw off its rider - you ‘buck’ something to get it off of you, to get it off your back, to shake it off, to get out from under it. You might also see it in ‘bucking a trend.’

So it means “to act against” / “to escape from” the rules.
by neilv | 2025-09-23 05:21:47+00:00
They try to sell you replacement product in the same announcement:

> To help make this transition easier, we’re offering our steepest discounts ever on trusted smart lock replacements, available exclusively to Kevo users.

Are the executives confused by IoT, and it doesn't register that they are remotely disabling a product that they (the brand they bought) already sold?

Or do they know what they're doing, but they think a judge will be confused by IoT?.

(If only there were a mnemonic that would help everyone remember that ASSA ABLOY is to be avoided...)
by hakfoo | 2025-09-23 05:22:58+00:00
I wish Apple had some sort of "Geforce Now" style setup to run a Mac in a box. I know they'd never go for something like a legit image you could run in a VM, but surely they could come up with something.

My work sent over some old MacBook for when we need to test something unique to Safari, so it's not even the hardware aspect. It's the "I need to find another place to stash a machine, and then wire up KVM switches to use my highly opinionated I/O device choices, on a finite sized desk" factor.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-23 05:23:01+00:00
Big fan of Cap'n'Proto and this looks really interesting, if RPC is the thing that works for your use-case.

However, stumbled over this:

The fact is, RPC fits the programming model we're used to. Every programmer is trained to think in terms of APIs composed of function calls, not in terms of byte stream protocols nor even REST. Using RPC frees you from the need to constantly translate between mental models, allowing you to move faster.

The fact that this is, in fact, true is what I refer to as "The gentle tyranny of Call/Return"

We're used to it, doing something more appropriate to the problem space is too unfamiliar and so more or less arbitrary additional complexity is...Just Fine™.

https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media...

Maybe it shouldn't actually be true. Maybe we should start to expand our vocabulary and toolchest beyond just "composed function calls"? So composed function calls are one tool in our toolchest, to be used when they are the best tool, not used because we have no reasonable alternative.

https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/02/why-architecture-oriente...
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-23 05:23:09+00:00
> The problem with Rust people is that they are worming their way into projects

How frequently does that happen compared to existing maintainers choosing to incorporate Rust? Off the top of my head I think all of Linux, git, fish, librsvg, and Python's cryptography library involved existing maintainers choosing to use Rust as opposed to "Rust people" "worming their way" into projects. Did you have other projects in mind?
by jchw | 2025-09-23 05:26:15+00:00
The "Horizon" OS used on the Nintendo Switch is not FreeBSD-based, it merely contains some FreeBSD code, but is largely, as far as I am aware, a home-grown proprietary operating system not substantially based on any "free" system. The Sony PlayStation 4 (and probably PlayStation 5) actually are substantially based on FreeBSD, though.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-23 05:28:40+00:00
This may or may not apply to your situation, but at least some motherboards have an integrated bootloader. You need to register the options with it (via efibootmgr for example). Then pressing a key (check your manual) presents you with the options.

This has worked with both Linux and Widows on all my machines: handbuilt 3rd gen intel with an asus MB, 6th gen with some msi, 10th gen with a cheap Gigabyte, and an assorted bunch of HP Elite desks and books with intel and AMD.

I understand there’s even a way for them to auto detect the options, but since this has been a set it forget it type thing, I never bothered to look into it.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-23 05:30:01+00:00
>Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel

It couldn't happen to more deserving citizens.

Now this is real patriotism if the First Amendment can quickly prevail, over lesser isms and their anti-American proponents.

Right now, ABC only live-streams on the open web (no Disney+ or anything needed) the shows from their national studios and local affiliates that are produced in-house, mainly from the news departments. Once the news is over each time, on the internet you only get more live news from the web anchor's control room desk, or something like reruns of investigative stories.

Maybe it would have been quite an ordeal to obtain web rights for the entertainment shows (that's a lot), or perhaps they have been holding out to collect extra revenue from those advertisers before showing them online. A year or two ago there were not yet ads on the web during the broadcast news breaks, only a spinner on a splash screen until the ad was over. It wasn't really too bad like that. Now there are ads but I don't know if they are the same as the broadcast ones.

Regardless, this might be a good time to flush it out like it could have been already if they set their mind to it.

Get Kimmel and his advertisers, guests, and musicians to agree to go live on the web and on the air simultaneously so anybody on the web can watch it like they used to do in real-time regardless of whether their local affiliate carries it on the air or not.

Doesn't Walt Disney have an entertainment lawyer or two that could handle this if the right geek was supervising the sprint? Attorneys pulling their weight, with geeks doing the engineering full stop and it could be ready in a week.

This would also be a good time to make special deals with other entertainment powerhouses to get artists like Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen to appear who can help build popularity beyond the ability of the haters. And not stop until it's been accomplished.

Maybe a worldwide audience would compensate for a loss in local broadcast consumers.

Never know until you try.

If at all possible they need to throw a grassroots monkey wrench into any media merger plans for the foreseeable future too.
by tguvot | 2025-09-23 05:30:21+00:00
by that definition whatever uk, canada and australia recognized is not government either.

i am pretty sure that at end of 1944 you would have demanded allies to stop fighting and leave germany, because germany is pretty much finished, and whatever they are doing is extremely silly of not evil. battle of berlin was totally pointless, it only demolished 80% of city, killed 125k people in a couple of weeks and accomplished absolutely nothing. right ?
by Fezzik | 2025-09-23 05:30:31+00:00
Feels like the perfect thread to re-link to my favorite card-trick movie - Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants. Not only is he a deft card manipulator, but he is a great story teller with a vast knowledge of magic history.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z7InE1zXAY4&pp=ygUfcmlja3kgamF...
by bad_username | 2025-09-23 05:31:48+00:00
I push for markdown in git whenever I can. You can autogenerate markdown, you can parse it, you can test it. You can version it, you can branch and merge it (and so include in "done" criteria), you can diff it. You can use your coding AI agent to search it (and update it). It's just files.

You can in principle do it all with other approaches, but it is much harder or clunkier. And with tools like Obsidian the end user experience eith Markdown can be absolutely as friendly and nice (or nicer) as with Confluence or Notion.
by boston_clone | 2025-09-23 05:32:06+00:00
Plenty to pick apart about that research institute, but the author even acknowledges major analytical flaws before arriving at their shaky conclusion:

>This report treats immigrants as individuals in order to avoid treating households of married native-born and immigrant residents as half-immigrant and half-native [...] The economics literature is divided on this matter, partially because the U.S. tax unit is households, not individuals.

You should find better citations tbh.
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-23 05:32:16+00:00
The company could also go bankrupt and shutdown. Lifetime subscriptions are nice but notice that in other real-world transactions say a "lifetime warranty" on a stove or whatever is defined as the expected lifetime of the device. I agree that "lifetime" is deceptive marketing, but it's not unusual marketing. It is a bit unusual perhaps that there isn't a defined term for the life of the software or service.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-23 05:32:18+00:00
There’s also the fact that some laptops have laughably slow SSDs. I’m thinking my 2020 HP elitebook whose nvme drive is basically always slower than my 2012 sata drives… it takes forever to write the 32 GB of ram to it. It’s actually a better experience tu turn it completely off and on, unless there’s something I absolutely need to keep in its current state.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-23 05:36:08+00:00
I don’t think there’s much framework can do about this. The same happens with Windows on HP and Dell laptops, except windows tends to quickly enter hibernation (if it doesn’t somehow hang and burn up your bag).

We used to have better suspend before, when s3 was thing, on both Linux and windows. Maybe not as great as Macs, but way better than the current shitshow. Now I’m not saying pcs are great hardware, but I think this particular issue should be pinned on Microsoft, who tried to copy apple’s power nap, only doing it halfassedly as they usually do.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-09-23 05:36:58+00:00
> Trump has in many ways done less than previous administrations. He just makes it very public and brash.

Maybe. My point wasn't that one was better or worse, and I did try to add some "balance" to that by including both W and O examples of presidential immunity :) Presidential immunity I just used as one (of many) issues where there are basically irreconcilable differences between people who are otherwise quite intelligent, sane, rational.

There are equivalents going the other way too where conservatives think something is bad or wrong or extreme but it really isn't. I chose the example of this particular disconnect because of the context, it would not have worked going the other way. The assertion was that Trump / Trump cases are more extreme. And furthermore that may even be true, I do nothing to disprove that with my example, I just try to show show why as I see it, it is extremely difficult to judge something like that objectively or even for people to discuss it calmly and rationally.

> Which leaves me with mixed feelings. The idea that the President basically gets to do whatever he wants as long as congress won’t impeach him is scary for the rule of law.

All systems are flawed in some ways, but this seemed to make sense to me. Prosecutions are brought to courts by the executive branch, so having the executive prosecute itself has a fundamental problem. Having executive overseen by the legislature at least avoids that particular catch. Executive holds power to physically enforce anything of course so that's always a problem, but at least it's not hiding away behind "national security" or "prosecutorial discretion" or "ongoing investigation" or "lost the evidence", rather it makes the issue public and forces the executive to openly defy the representatives of the people and the states, and the people can then decide their next course of action much better informed. Which is about as best you can hope for I think, it's the people who are really the final arbiters of all this, so if they're kept informed then that's the best thing.

Having the executive prosecute itself in some ways could be worse than nothing because it kind of delegitimizes the congressional impeachment process. Let's say if Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election and took power, then his DOJ prosecuted and carefully and secretly sabotaged the trial and he was found innocent in court, then congress came along and tried to impeach for the same crime and convicted him, where would that leave things? The executive and judicial branches found him not guilty, so it could appear that congress is defying the other two branches.

That's all my own idle musings though, and way above my pay grade!
by dgl | 2025-09-23 05:38:36+00:00
This isn't really that different to GWT, which Google has been scaling for a long time. My knowledge is a little outdated, however more complex applications had a "UI" server component which talked to multiple "API" backend components, doing internal load balancing between them.

Architecturally I don't think it makes sense to support this in a load balancer, you instead want to pass back a "cost" or outright decisions to your load balancing layer.

Also note the "batch-pipelining" example is just a node.js client; this already supports not just browsers as clients, so you could always add another layer of abstraction (the "fundamental theorem of software engineering").
by Cu3PO42 | 2025-09-23 05:39:42+00:00
Anecdotally, I'm not. I always use Firefox (or Zen) and get almost no Captchas. Neither at home, nor at work. Not on Windows, not on Linux, not on macOS.

I'm not going to say that Cloadflare isn't doing anything fishy, but if they are, it's probably more complicated.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-23 05:41:44+00:00
> Control characters are invisible, using them means changing text editors to display them. They are also, outside the usual ones, hard to type. ASCII ones have Ctrl combos, but editors used those for other things.

Yes. Change of paradigm does require change of tooling. If some legacy tool doesn’t support new format, it’s not a good reason not to use new technology - either tool evolves or a replacement emerges and typing won’t be a problem. Classic formatting commands from rich text (Ctrl-B etc) can be repurposed, for example.

>Also, what is the difference between using some new character to start block and "{" or "\n"?

Any such delimiter has other use in text. Dual use means extra ceremony with escaping and extra complexity. Whitespace as a delimiter has especially bad UX, because most editors don’t understand the semantics and it is very to make mistakes.
by rzzzt | 2025-09-23 05:41:52+00:00
A long list of the books in the series can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fighting_Fantasy_gameb...

Some feature a branching storyline while in others the paragraphs are arranged in a 2D grid-like fashion and you can visit an earlier place multiple times.

(One thing that has stuck with me is a bad ending in one of them, where you are captured and the last choice you make is whether you want to sit in a small cage or stand in a tall and narrow cage for the rest of your life. I mean come on)
by turtleyacht | 2025-09-23 05:45:28+00:00
Thank-you, that looks pretty useful. Prior attempts involved `git blame' in projects' package.json per package. For example, to find when a project adopted React x+1 in which version, to determine the next minimum upgrade (to React ^x.y).

Consuming a package also means following its development alongside one's own. Multiplied by each dependency, it's a commitment to a particular constellation of dependencies. Migration guides and codemods help, but ultimately maintenance requires active participation.

That takes time--often more than what's available.
by karimf | 2025-09-23 05:45:40+00:00
This is just my assumption given that they listed a lot of different models here: https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/?spm=a3c0i.2876...

This is an older link, but they listed two different sections here, commercial and open source models: https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/?tab=doc#/doc/?...

For the realtime multimodal, I'm not seeing the open source models tab: https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/?tab=doc#/doc/?...
by TomK32 | 2025-09-23 05:45:48+00:00
Not sure why you got downvotes for sarcasm.

Russ Barkley did a video three weeks ago on I guess that study (or meta study) and it's not just the likely increased pain in mothers with ADHS but as soon as you take in a control group like siblings the correlation just vanishes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw
by arunkanth_ev | 2025-09-23 05:47:32+00:00
It will be interesting to see some real world network security protocols like IPSec and SSL/TLS offloaded on accelerator hardware while supporting a large number of IPSec tunnels and TLS sessions and perform the data encryption and decryption at line rate. These metrics will give amazing insights into how to scale up your compute resources in a data center.
by zzrrt | 2025-09-23 05:48:16+00:00
> Many people live in an area, but keep their voting registration in another.

I guess state laws vary a lot, but are you sure that’s legal? You probably are required to have your address updated, even if moving within the same precinct. If they then allow you a choice of locations, sounds fine, but your wording sounded like maybe you don’t tell them you moved, which is probably not legal.
by la_bruin | 2025-09-23 05:48:17+00:00
I bought my son "The Whole Enchilada", the pack of 100+ Edward Packard authored CYOA books. (No RA Montgomery titles)

He liked the Encyclopedia Brown books & Two Minute Mystery books I bought him so I thought he'd like the CYOA books as well since I cherished them as a kid but alas, he never got into them like I did.

I'm hoping he likes Infocom text adventures better when I introduce those to him later.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-09-23 05:49:25+00:00
Easy to say but have you ever read a paper and then a summary or breakdown of that paper by an actual person? Or compare a paper that you do understand very well with how you would explain it in a blog post.

The academic style of writing is almost purposefully as obtuse and dense and devoid of context as possible. Academia is trapped in all kinds of stupid norms.
by bibelo | 2025-09-23 05:50:11+00:00
How ironic is it that by pretending to promote freedom, some people actually do more harm than anything else, by having what is to me a racist view of people in other countries (ie all Iranian are the same and have the same political view as the head).

Do they not understand that, instead of helping these people connect to the outside world and improve their life and their country, they are actually increasing the poor conditions and helping the regimes they are fighting against?
by scuff3d | 2025-09-23 05:51:04+00:00
A while back I listlened to a podcast where Ted Bendixson talked about what a nightmare trying to build for IOS outside XCode was (he did a write up about it here https://tedbendixson.substack.com/p/the-horror-of-making-you...). At the time I assumed it was malicious on Apple's part, "we want you working in our ecosystem and if you won't we are going to make it absolutely miserable". After reading this maybe it really was just incompetence.
by codebolt | 2025-09-23 05:51:21+00:00
In certain situations I'd argue it's a calculated risk worth taking. Let's say I'm tasked with adding a much-needed feature to an older legacy application that is built using frameworks and libraries I'm not familiar with, possibly also with with weak docs. If Claude is able to produce a self-contained piece of code that looks correct when you read through it and behaves correctly during (thorough) testing, then it sure has saved me (and my company) a lot of time and effort, even though we are deploying code we may not fully understand.
by chii | 2025-09-23 05:53:31+00:00
Money spent on a prison is unproductive for society, so it might as well have just disappeared as far as tax payers are concerned.

It's the same as paying someone to dig a hole, then paying someone to fill it back up. The money might as well have disappeared, as there's nothing to show for it (for the taxpayers that is - the hole digger is happy to have been paid)
by boston_clone | 2025-09-23 05:53:58+00:00
Sorry, I think we may be misaligned - such a significant decrease in violence that is almost inherent to such a dark system is something worth noting.

I only highlighted that decrease as counter to the false dichotomy of the parent - clearly, an improvement in our prison practices can benefit not only incarcerated people, but the wellbeing of the staff and surrounding community.
by ammo1662 | 2025-09-23 05:54:07+00:00
> This "pay up for trade access" is similar to the tributary system of feudal China.

The two systems are fundamentally different. In the ancient Chinese tributary system, based on the principle of "厚往薄来" China's reciprocation had to exceed the value of the tribute, thereby providing tangible benefits to the tributary states. This practice even led to later restrictions on the frequency of tribute missions from certain countries