MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Eridrus | 2025-09-13 04:24:24+00:00
This seems like an argument against the state in every form, you could say the same thing about the government collecting taxes, having a police department, courts etc.

Unless you are a committed anarchist though, you likely see a limit to the use of the precautionary principle as applied to state capacity in general.

Why is this argument sufficient to stop the state from monitoring financial transactions, but not sufficient to prevent the existence of a justice system?
by zaxioms | 2025-09-13 04:24:45+00:00
I'm surprised to hear this. Modern SAT solvers can easily handle many problems with hundreds of thousands of variables and clauses. Of course, there are adversarial problems where CDCL solvers fail, but I would be fascinated if you can find industrial (e.g. human written for a specific purpose) formulas with "dozens of variables" that a solver can't solve fairly quickly.
by ec109685 | 2025-09-13 04:25:45+00:00
In addition to condos next to transit, California should be fixing roads, so people can move further from their job.

I know it’s unpopular nimby opinion but hoping people in these homes won’t be driving cars is misguided. Give them parking, fix roads for further commute and let people live where they want.

Save money by reducing regulations on elevator size, allow for single egress buildings and ensure we aren’t kowtowing to labor too much.

Future Waymo like technology makes driving your own car even less stressful and furthers the gap between public transit and cars.

“ California Senate Bill (SB) 79 reduces or eliminates parking minimums for new residential developments located near Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) stops”
by fakedang | 2025-09-13 04:26:10+00:00
And what difference have North Korean sanctions made geopolitically? North and South Korea are nowhere near a peaceful resolution, and North Korea has advanced its nuclear arsenal significantly, with a repertoire that could even hit US coastal cities.

North Korean citizens have now normalized to poverty and destitution after generations of sanctions. There are quite a few of them working alongside the South Asian labour force in the Middle East, engaged in slavish labour that the Gulf nations are often criticized for.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-13 04:26:39+00:00
It is too little too late. The damage is already done. They should have not bundled it from the start. Unbundling it now, after they’ve already undermined competitors for years, and stolen market share from them, doesn’t mean anything. What SHOULD happen is a retroactive clawing back of gains along with interest, and personal fines/jail time for all decision makers and executives in that part of the company. But Microsoft needs to be unbundled to a much larger degree than just this. You cannot have ANY kind of fair or healthy free market competition with companies worth $4 trillion lurking around.
by mopsi | 2025-09-13 04:27:29+00:00
Germany might have built 3600 Leopard tanks since the 1970s, but as of 2025, it has only about 300 in service with the Bundeswehr, of which roughly 200 are combat-ready. France, the UK, and Italy each also have around 200 tanks in active service; Spain has fewer than 100.

Nor are there thousands of American tanks in Europe ready to fire at the Russians. The last permanently stationed US tanks were withdrawn from Europe in 2013. At any given time, about 100 to 200 US tanks in total are scattered across Europe on temporary rotations (exercises etc).

These figures pale in comparison with independently verified Ukrainian tank losses, which currently stand at 1267, with total losses estimated between 1500 and 1900. In early 2023, the Ukrainian high command requested 300-500 tanks from allies for the next counteroffensive. The US was unwilling to provide such support, and other countries could not supply anything comparable, even through a joint effort. Hence the stalemate.

If Europe had deep stockpiles to draw from without compromising its own military readiness, the picture would be completely different. During the Cold War, Europe maintained such stockpiles, but they were dismantled in the 1990s and early 2000s as a cost-cutting measure.
by lovich | 2025-09-13 04:28:48+00:00
> That would be too much - an alien having all the privileges of a citizen but no obligations is above a mere citizen. If you want to become a citizen there is an employment-based immigration, if you don't - you are going to be restricted in any developed country because normal countries do not put foreigners above citizens.

My point is that issuing h1bs are a service for corporations in the us, ostensibly under the reason that no one in the country is capable of the job.

I am saying that assuming that is true, and assuming that we value brain draining other countries of talent, then we allow for corporations to import workers, but they need to both pay for the cost of the worker and have no control over them afterwards.

I don’t know whether the cost to society that would cover importing a worker is 10 dollars or 10 billion, but whatever is decided on as the amount I am suggesting is paid up front.

Assuming the corporation paying for the import is correct that the immigrant has a unique skill, then we would want them to be generally available to our labor market instead of tied to a single company.

That is my reasoning at least. Again poke holes in this but I do want a system that prioritizes improvements to my society or people in my society. If the benefits for whatever we end up in are centralized primarily in any single private actor, single human or organization, then I am probably against that plan

> Nothing like this happens with temporary visa workers. All that company claims in such a case is that they want to hire a foreigner and are going to pay no less than the minimum wage determined for the position. This system is based entirely on the temporary nature of the employment so there is not much scrutiny as the legal fiction here says that the foreigner is going to leave in 6 years tops.

I don’t know how to respond to this section. I am either missing some part of the h1b visa rules or we are talking about different things. What you described to me sounds like an agricultural visa or an au pair like J2 visa
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-13 04:31:33+00:00
I don't think you should dismiss opposition to wind as mere NIMBYism

Windmills can be super loud and disruptive if they are built near you

Take a look around online and you can find people posting videos along the lines of "A windmill was built near my house, now every evening it's like a strobe light in here as the sun sets behind the windmill"

I wouldn't want to live anywhere near one myself
by roncesvalles | 2025-09-13 04:31:33+00:00
>a candidate’s willingness to invest time and effort

I guess it's a matter of opinion but my point is, this is probably the right metric. Arguably, the kind of people who shut up and play along with these stupid games because that's where the money is make better team players in large for-profit organizations than those who take a principled stance against ever touching Leetcode because their efforts wouldn't contribute anything to the art.
by bigiain | 2025-09-13 04:32:14+00:00
> but there should be a manual check involved.

I suspect there's a few email providers where the marketing and reputation management teams are hurriedly adding "check the user and the user's affiliated social media reach before suspending this account, and before responding to any support requests from the user."

My new elevator pitch: We proactively research all of our customer's users and new signups to assign them a social media reach score. We then automate escalating external account action requests or user support calls for highly ranked users to senior staff and providing details and evidence of their social reach and industry affiliations. While we generate revenue from these customers, our primary revenue stream is the aggregated data we acquire while doing this, and selling access to that data to law enforcement, the insurance industry, and Nation State intelligence organisations across the globe.
by cwstarblazer | 2025-09-13 04:32:25+00:00
Windows development (especially on 16-bit Windows) was weird and strange, but the VxD layer comprising the enhanced mode 386 components were even more arcane, originally written in assembly-only and virtually undocumented. While Windows 3.0 (and especially 3.1 and 95) had their VxD layers heavily documented by both Microsoft and third parties, the 386 components of Windows/386 are virtually undocumented outside of (ignoring modern research like my own work) sporadic references in DDKs for later versions of Windows (i.e. the Windows 3.0 Virtual Device Adaptation Guide that I mentioned) and the now-lost Windows/386 OEM binary adaptation kit.

Programming directly under the DOS environment certainly is a lot of fun, and there absolutely was a lot of cleverness in the DOS-based Windows family. People rag on it for being unstable and whatnot, but the truth is that it simply was the best compromise OS at the time. It was not as stable as NT, but it ran a lot faster on much slower hardware. It made compromises, but it made the right compromises for most people. By the time Windows XP came out, the market had changed such that the compromises were no longer necessary.
by epistasis | 2025-09-13 04:33:35+00:00
I can only guess what you mean here, but if you assume that people who don't own cars are poorer than those with cars, you are wrong and don't understand wealth.

Those who move to cities and can live without cars have far higher incomes than median, and because they are not burning the average of $700/month on a car, they accumulate wealth far faster.

If I have misunderstood your assumption, please correct me, but the "only poor people don't have cars" fallacy is the only way I can make sense of your comment, and the only people I have heard express it are deeply out of touch with the modern world.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-13 04:34:47+00:00
Voters generally seem willing to embrace authoritarian solutions when it is applied to the things they dislike. The political classes have multiple incentives to appeal to those voters. Outside of a few outliers, neither group generally concerns themselves with the underlying principles of civil liberties until their favored causes are attacked. Hypocrisy abounds. Reasoning from first principles is dismissed as ideological extremism.

From here it is easy to see how the incentives of a democratic-regulatory-state work against property rights, free speech, privacy rights and other civil liberties.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-09-13 04:34:55+00:00
From the Proton/X discussion in the Intercept article

"Big Tech CEOs are tripping over themselves to kiss the ring precisely because Trump represents an unprecedented challenge to their monopolistic dominance.”

They don't know how this is going, from what I see Trump threatens something not to change something, but to get something. If there is any anti-trust drive it's there to shake the tree, not to break up big tech. Trump loves big US corporations, like those in the 50s and 60s, those pre-Bell-breakup.
by acoustics | 2025-09-13 04:35:24+00:00
Permissively licensed software is intentionally designed to be used by anybody for any reason with essentially no restrictions beyond attribution. Advocates of permissive licenses explicitly reject the argument that commercial users ought to have any kind of obligation to the authors. "Thief" seems like a category error here.

For people who want to make money down the line, what is so hard about selling commercial licenses? Or better yet using GPL so that your software is still open source but the big commercial users will still want to pay you for a separate license?
by alextingle | 2025-09-13 04:36:17+00:00
If AWS or WPEngine release their sources, then they are upholding their end of the bargain. Why shouldn't they make money, if they can?

If they are not releasing their sources, because of inappropriate licences, then that's what licenses like AGPL are there for.

I've got much less of a problem with AWS making money than I do with Canonical replacing GPL code with knock offs designed to cut the community out of code sharing.
by upboundspiral | 2025-09-13 04:36:42+00:00
My mother is a teacher, and her school has gone through many different lawsuits from parents. In theory the staff are protected from liability, but if you think that going through a legal case is not stressful for the school from the principal to the teachers and counselors I don't know what to tell you. It only takes one parent out the hundreds to thousands of students at a school to make a mark. They can and often will go after the school for any little thing, from dress code to phones, to teachers being too easy to teachers being too hard. Anything that they perceive as giving a disadvantage to their children or that they don't like they will go after if they think they have a chance.
by Retric | 2025-09-13 04:37:07+00:00
Not a commercial reactor but US lost 3 people trying to hand operate a small reactor with minimal safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

“On Tuesday, January 3, 1961, SL-1 was being prepared for restart after a shutdown of 11 days over the holidays. Maintenance procedures required that rods be manually withdrawn a few inches to reconnect each one to its drive mechanism. At 9:01 pm MST, Rod 9 was suddenly withdrawn too far, causing SL-1 to go prompt critical instantly. In four milliseconds, the heat generated by the resulting enormous power excursion caused fuel inside the core to melt and to explosively vaporize.”

The industry didn’t just randomly get so risk averse there where a lot of meltdowns and other issues over time.
by phire | 2025-09-13 04:37:44+00:00
Nuclear power has a massive handicap that most R&D was abandoned back in the 80s because it was uneconomic. And another handicap that the R&D it did get was never that focused on economics, commercial nuclear power were always a side effect of the true goal (Small reactors for nuclear submarines and Breeder reactors for nuclear weapons). And to get the promised low costs, you really need to commit and take advantage of massive economics of scale.

I'm not arguing that when taking environmental damage into account, that nuclear is cheaper than current solar/wind/battery technology for any single power project. They have the advantage of massive R&D over the last 30 years.

What I am arguing is that focusing on solar/wind/battery might not be the best route to 100% carbon free power in the long term. Maybe it is? But we really shouldn't be jumping to that assumption.

And we shouldn't be disregarding Nuclear because of any argument that can be summed up in a hacker news comment.
by Frannky | 2025-09-13 04:38:19+00:00
Is it a good idea to generate more code faster to solve problems? Can I solve problems without generating code?

If code is a liability and the best part is no part, what about leveraging Markdown files only?

The last programs I created were just CLI agents with Markdown files and MCP servers(some code here but very little).

The feedback loop is much faster, allowing me to understand what I want after experiencing it, and self-correction is super fast. Plus, you don't get lost in the implementation noise.
by echelon | 2025-09-13 04:38:35+00:00
This open source purism only benefits the leeches.

This is the same defense I see repeated for Amazon and Google, and they're two of the biggest destroyers.

Honestly OSI and their definition of "open" has been a scourge. Google and Amazon encourage this thinking because it benefits them.

You can have non-commercial "fair source" for customers that prevents vultures from stealing your hard work. That's ethical, yet it gets dunked on by OSI purists.

You can demand that profiteers be required to open source their entire stack. But these licenses are discouraged and underutilized.

But when this keeps keeps happening again and again and continues to be met with victims blaming -- I'm disgusted by the open source community's failure to be pragmatic and sustainable.

You have to give away everything or you're the bad guy. And so what did they take and take and never give themselves?

Open source has a problem.
by moefh | 2025-09-13 04:38:45+00:00
UTF-16 is an abomination. It's only easy to parse because it's artificially limited to 1 or 2 code units. It's an ugly hack that requires reserving 2048 code points ("surrogates") from the Unicode table just for the encoding itself.

It's also the reason why Unicode has a limit of about 1.1 million code points: without UTF-16, we could have over 2 billion (which is the UTF-8 limit).
by wonger_ | 2025-09-13 04:40:13+00:00
IIRC: guy made a CMS, built a successful company and organization and trademarks around it, decided last year that another company was using it unfairly, created lots of drama, lost his marbles

One of his first posts on the topic: https://ma.tt/2024/09/wordpress-engine/

A collection of crazy quotes and events, biased towards the other perspective: https://mullenweg.wtf/

Edit: and HN commentary: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
by happosai | 2025-09-13 04:40:13+00:00
Even if LNT would under-predict it is still a rounding error in the big picture of the tsunami disaster.

And, let's put it straight: LNT is scaremongering fiction. People who live in Ramsay, Iran, are exposed to higher level of background radiation that n what is allowed for nuclear workers. Yet, there is no elevated levels of cancer or birth defects, not is there a shorter lifespan for people living there either.

The dose makes the poison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
by Terr_ | 2025-09-13 04:40:16+00:00
True, the wrap-up is rather unusually convenient, but I'd also point out that the author claims that portion occurred significantly later ("last fall"), meaning an older 15/16-year-old who may have some more maturity and time to reflect-on and describe their earlier years.

(Sure, at my age a 2-3 years doesn't seem like a lot, but everything's going faster now, dangit.)
by strcat | 2025-09-13 04:40:53+00:00
GrapheneOS is for people who want highly private and secure mobile devices. It has a very reasonable set of security requirements for hardware listed at https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices. Other devices meeting these standards do not currently allow using another OS or do not allow it to use the security features on this list. It is not the fault of GrapheneOS that other OEMs do not allow using it and do not provide comparable security.

The purpose of GrapheneOS is not an OS which people can install on as many devices as possible where substantial security sacrifices need to be made even compared to the stock OS and a reasonable level of privacy and security cannot be provided due to lack of firmware/driver updates. Without the hardware-based features we use as part of our work, it would also hardly actually be GrapheneOS.

Support for installing another OS on devices has been removed or is in the process of being removed by several OEMs. Providing an OS for most mobile devices isn't an option in the first place.

GrapheneOS is actively working with a major OEM since June 2025 on a small subset of their next generation devices meeting all of our official requirements and providing official GrapheneOS support. The initial phase of support may still require people to install it themselves, but it will be another option than Pixels and the plan is to do more than that. The OEM is very interested in GrapheneOS and there may be devices sold with it as an official option. We'll be able to start doing lower level hardening work on firmware rather than our work not going below the level of the hypervisor, kernel and kernel drivers beyond reporting vulnerabilities or making suggestions. We already do a large amount of low-level work specific to devices and will be doing much more of it in the future including at a lower level. We have a lot of improvements we want to make at the level of the boot chain and secure element.

GrapheneOS in the long term will be a hardware, firmware and software project working closely with one or more OEMs to make highly private and secure devices. We'll support the existing Pixel devices until end-of-life and will add support for new generations of Pixels as long as they continue meeting our requirements, but our focus will shift to devices made in partnership with OEMs.

The purpose of GrapheneOS is not something people can download for their existing device to make it less bad. That's not even generally possible due to lack of support for using another OS and crippling of devices when another OS is used, especially the security features. You're talking about doing something which has never been the project's purpose. The purpose requires using the best available devices and ideally working with an OEM to make better devices for it as we're working towards (the first generation will likely not be more secure than Pixels, but it will meet our official requirements and improve from there).
by gamblor956 | 2025-09-13 04:41:38+00:00
He literally blamed the transgendered community for all of the recent mass shootings seconds before he was shot...

Yes, 1 of them was a transgendered individual. The other 99% were all right wing extremists, including shooter in the other shooting (in Denver) the day Charlie was killed. (And based on reporting as of Friday, so was Charlie's killer.)
by pessimizer | 2025-09-13 04:41:50+00:00
When you get to the end, remember that's how many to most black people lived until very recently until they were expelled from the land with nothing, due to the rise of more efficient farming techniques. The very few who owned their own land were more slowly pushed out when they were denied farm loans. Black people owned about 15 million acres of land in 1910, now they own about 1 million.
by ____tom____ | 2025-09-13 04:42:16+00:00
What is this project's relationship with antlr? I see a different name on the copyright and the github page suggests this is not a part of the antler project, while claiming to be the next generation.

If that's the case, I think it's misleading. It's fine to fork a project, but you don't get to call yourself the next generation of someone else's project.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-13 04:42:47+00:00
As I explained in the previous post, it causes issues because it results in people who would otherwise fill jobs providing critical services to the community like teaching either moving to cheaper areas or switching careers entirely. This article mentions several of the cities impacted by SB 79:

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/teachers-str...

Are you arguing that large urban areas shouldn't have schools and vet offices? Because that's where we've been heading absent meaningful housing reform.

Normally, this situation would result in wages rising, but there's a few issues.

1) The scale of the shortage is so severe that demand far outstrips supply, which means price-based solutions simply result in high wage earners taking all of the available supply.

2) Prices are rising faster than wages.

3) These industries don't have the cost basis to compete with high wage earners. Are you happy with your local vet prices? Are you willing to triple or quadruple the education taxes you currently pay?

4) Even adjusted wages still cause fewer people to enter these industries from other parts of the US, or switch into more lucrative careers. That's socially problematic.