MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SirHumphrey | 2025-09-11 16:00:08+00:00
As for why graphene uses graphene uses pixels - their FAQ does a good job explaining. As for why google keeps the bootloader opened and maintains (until recently) good enough device-tree support- I would guess mostly historical reasons? Before becoming as mainstream as they are now nexus and pixel phones used to be in part android development devices and certain creature comforts stuck. This seems to be souring though, so some of the people there may be in talks with an OEM for a graphene os specific device[1].

[1]: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23886-partnership-between-g...
by vkou | 2025-09-11 16:00:12+00:00
> Better for it to be something you can enjoy and be proud of than not.

That is obviously true.

Which means that as a society, we utterly fail at this. By design, some asshole above you who is trying to optimize your franchise's or department's KPIs will inevitably take every bit of joy you might derive from work, and optimize it away.

If you are happy with your work, anytime the hiring market weakens, that's a great reason to squeeze more out of you/lower your relative pay. If you are passionate about doing something, that's a great reason to make you a worse offer than they would to someone who doesn't care. If you aren't hitting some indicator that's believed to be incredibly important by someone six corporate levels above you, and your line manager is just a powerless drone with no real agency of their own, prepare to get written up.

An individual can walk away from any particular bad situation there - but the overwhelming majority of jobs across the economy are not ones that will avoid all of this. By definition, most people working will not be able to 'enjoy their work'.

You can win a round of musical chairs, but the players as a whole can't.
by esskay | 2025-09-11 16:01:00+00:00
Yep my closest one (despite being on the edge of a major city) shows as 8 miles away, in the middle of a field. When I open it up on Google maps its a derelict barn in the middle of private land with no roads. Meanwhile I can literally see a public toilet from the front door of my house in an outdoor shopping area over the other side of the road, and that's not on the map despite it existing there for at least 50 years.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-11 16:01:15+00:00
Okay, and how much did insurers pay back in rebates to companies large enough to have their own pools? Assuredly that has also grown.

People in this thread ask why don’t businesses lobby for public health. Wrong: why doesn’t Apple lobby for public health? Follow the money. It’s so naive to think it’s solely about providers. Who anyways, when there is fraud, they are defrauding CMS, not UNH.
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by beezle | 2025-09-11 16:01:43+00:00
While Serber's book is good, if you really want to know the technical details about Manhattan/project Y, get a copy of Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years (1943-45) ISBN 978-0521541176 in paper (can't speak to quality, I have the hard cover). It is quite accessible.

spoiler:

probably the biggest engineering problem was the explosive lens
by Schmerika | 2025-09-11 16:01:48+00:00
YSK that people get banned here for calling Israel out.

It will be claimed that it's over something else, to maintain plausible deniability. Or that you were starting a flame war.

I'm just saying: this is one of HN's most protected third-rail topics, so I'd advise you to have a backup account and a VPN handy if you want to keep stating the obvious and standing up for the voiceless.
by Apreche | 2025-09-11 16:01:59+00:00
That culture also still exists. People just stopped reading it. The way I see it, that culture has improved.

You see, there are still more blogs than you can shake a stick at. What left isn’t the content, it’s the money. Blogs are for people who are intrinsically motivated. They are publishing on the web because they want to, and for no other reason. They don’t care how many readers there are, if any.

All the extrinsically motivated people who need likes, views, subscribes, dollars, fame, they are the ones who left. If you believe that the presence of those people determines what is alive and dead, then sure, blogs are dead.

My personal view is the opposite. People who have nostalgia for the old web. It’s not the aesthetic. It’s not the technology. It’s that extrinsic motivations hadn’t yet fully taken hold. People made a Geocities website just because they wanted to. That web still exists. You just have to go to it on purpose, and you have to ignore the very loud platforms full of those with extrinsic motivations.
by bri3d | 2025-09-11 16:02:00+00:00
Almost all of AOSP is under the Apache or BSD licenses, not the GPL. Very few GPL components remain (the kernel being the large and obvious one).

So, yes, making a GPL request will work for the very few components still under GPL, if a vendor releases a binary patch. But for most things outside of the kernel, patch diffing comes back into play, just like on every closed-source OS.
by goku12 | 2025-09-11 16:02:31+00:00
Yet it survives to this day because of one reason - it's dead simple to serve and consume it. Chrome may need an extension to handle it properly (I use one on Firefox).

The singular challenge it faces is discoverability, as you point out. The above mentioned extension solves that for me. But if it were to be brought back as a default feature on browsers, RSS would be an instant hit again. There's always the opportunity to resurrect it.
by antimoan | 2025-09-11 16:02:47+00:00
I think there is a confusion here between Coding and Programming. I think what is described here as "Async Programming" is just programming the way it should be which is different than coding. This is what Leslie Lamport pointed out a while back [1] and recently [2]. According to him programming has 3 stages:

1- Define what task the program should perform 2- Define how the program should do it 3- Writing the code that does it.

Most SWEs usually skip to step 3 instead of going through 1 and 2 without giving it much thought, and implement their code iteratively. I think Step 3 also includes testing, review, etc.

With AI developers are forced to think about the functionality and the specs of their code to pass it to AI to do the job and can no longer just jump to step 3. For delegating to other devs, the same process is required, senior engineers usually create design docs and pass it to junior engineers.

IMO automated verification and code reviews are already part of many developers workflows, so it's nothing new.

I get the point of the article though, that there are new requirements for programming and things are different in terms of how folks approach programming. So I do not agree that the method is new or should be called "async", it's the same method with brand new tools.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Yp3j_jk8Q [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyLy7Fu4FB4
by angelgonzales | 2025-09-11 16:02:59+00:00
I don’t think everyone in the entire world disagrees and I think many people in the world do agree with my point of view . I also think it would be more constructive for people who disagree to disagree respectfully rather than shake their head in disapproval - with the understanding that two rational actors can arrive at different and reasonable conclusions because they value parameters differently. I work with statistics and probability every day. It’s my understanding that certain assumptions and modeling were made in the statistics so that the probabilities may not apply to me in general. I also think that governments may not act generally tyrannically, but specifically tyrannically and target certain groups, and may even have the popular support of most people in the country like what’s happening with the Uyghurs in China right now. In this case a general strike wouldn’t be useful at all because the majority of people in the country would be happy and productive.
by everfrustrated | 2025-09-11 16:03:16+00:00
Good question. My gut is people over value the importance of free users. Especially so if there's good business or corporate sales for the product. Free users are not zero cost on either infra or product/dev/support time.

Perhaps this is Bending Spoons real business model - understand which customers bring you revenue and pivot to product development for them not the free loaders. Sounds obvious but there aren't too many software product companies actually do it. Takes a lot of discipline as an org - generally orgs listen to the loudest voices which are most likely the ones not bringing any revenue.

Companies like Microsoft show that you can coast on a successful product for many decades and still be incredibly financially successful. And the world is a lot bigger place than selling MS Word & Excel in the 2000s.
by an0malous | 2025-09-11 16:03:31+00:00
We need a true peer-to-peer Internet instead of the centralized, feudal system we currently have. CRDTs would allow for peers to own their data and collaborate without centralized servers owned by Big Tech, but even the network itself goes through a small number of pipes owned by telecom companies that can decide what gets through and when. Decentralization is the real big idea behind CRDTs.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-11 16:03:39+00:00
The industry has adopted entire, common UI elements that are hated by basically all people who aren't so used to computers that annoyances like this become invisible; I'm thinking especially of any kind of alert modal pop-up or announcement. The on-launch ones especially confuse the absolute hell out of "normie" users ("why's this here instead of the program I was trying to start? What's this about? How do I close it? 'Colorways'? WTF is that, do I need to do something with it, why did my browser icon open 'Colorways' instead of my browser and what the hell is it for? Is that what my browser is called now? Is that what my email (their usual default tab) is now?")

[EDIT] The core problem, in case the example didn't make it clear, is that these things interrupt a workflow they use often, and are accustomed to having always work the same way, and do so in service, usually, of showing them a bunch of stuff they don't give a fuck about and didn't really need to know. Even the ones that block interaction to highlight new features are really bad—OK, that's nice, but I'm trying to do the thing I always do with this and you're getting in my way, making my program temporarily behave and look weird and confusing, et c.
by crawfordcomeaux | 2025-09-11 16:03:47+00:00
Yes, businesses would be better off if they cared about wellbeing to such a degree. That doesn't mean control employees, though.

It means to actually care about the quality of food the employees have access to and the quality of culture surrounding them. It means caring about the environments people live in. It means recognizing people LEARN to make harming choices through harm (individual, familial, social, collective, cultural, systemic...etc) so recognizing repair is needed & pursuing that. This is what lobbying would be about without dehumanization.

Don't get lost in the fascist fantasies of what it means to care.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-11 16:04:01+00:00
The Internet community (and pre-Internet, even) has done a fine job of creating many standards without government instructions. No, that wouldn't be a good thing.

RSS is fine. The article stretches both in how well-known it suggests RSS was a decade ago (leaning hard on the word "might"), and in talking about its "demise" now. Some of its complaints are just silly, like when it agrees with the New York Times that "RSS" isn't a "particularly user-friendly" acronym. So they think if it had been named Bundling Up Feeds For You everyone would be using it now?

RSS never caught on with average users because the average user doesn't want to think that much about his use of the web. He wants to go to one or a few sites he's comfortable with, and read what they choose to show him. That's just how it is. For the minority who aren't satisfied with that, RSS is a useful tool. There's no problem, except for people who get frustrated that the average user isn't sophisticated enough.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-09-11 16:04:11+00:00
Want this to stop? Make GLP-1 available on every street corner and get the majority of Americans who are overweight or obese to start taking it en mass.

One of the few things I'm happy about republicans being in power for is the current grey market situation with GLP-1s. I have a feeling that a democratic FDA would try to come down hard on the current situation. Rich people and girls who are pissed at their body know how easy it is to get these drugs with no oversight. Thank god for it and may it never get harder to access these substances.
by franktankbank | 2025-09-11 16:04:26+00:00
The craziest thing to me is paying less even accounting for insurance for simple seasonal illnesses. Do I have strep? Go to hospital and pay $400 to find out yes/no and then get prescription covered by insurance at opaquely priced pharmacy of your choice. Go to private practice pay $25 and get yes/no and then you can freelance prescription.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-11 16:04:36+00:00
> Since the 1980s, we have been consistently taxing less.

In the US at least, that’s the perception because the tax cuts get a lot more publicity than the increases; everyone know that Reagan passed what was, to that time, the biggest (at least in aggregate nominal terms) tax cut in US history, fewer know that he followed it with the biggest increase.

But what has actually happened is a series of tax burden shifts (often, downward from the wealthiest, though some have been the other way or largely orthogonal to wealth.)
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-09-11 16:04:49+00:00
I got shunted into remedial reading in the 1st grade because I had a visible disability. I was there for about a week before the teacher noticed I was bored to tears. Bless her, she had me tested. Turns out I was reading at a 4th grade level, so I immediately got taken out of that class and put into the 'gifted' class.

That class was the best kind of unstructured. We had a new teacher with little experience, but she just turned us lose on the school library and let us read whatever and then talk about it in class. I *ADORED* that class. It was getting an hour a day to basically do what I wanted to be doing anyway.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-09-11 16:05:11+00:00
My installation is now 6 years old. Never had any point release distros that long. Stability is subjective to hardware for starters. And secondly, Arch is a DIY. Do not use it if you can't get it to work for your use cases. We have 300+ distros to choose from. I am just politely telling you that your expectation of you wanting Arch to take care of your installation was never a promise from the project.

It's software. It will work the way it is written. As simple as that.
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-09-11 16:05:24+00:00
Doctolib is a B2B model. Patients are not the customers; medical practices are the customers. Doctolib saves on the cost of a medical secretary, which is why it is so popular.

What's more, this is a sensitive and regulated field, where trust is essential. They can't afford to mess around if they don't want to quickly find themselves subject to moe restrictive regulations.

They were heavily criticised in France because they allowed charlatans and people with no medical training to register (particularly for Botox injections). As soon as this became known, they quickly rectified the situation.
by polygotdomain | 2025-09-11 16:05:47+00:00
I completely agree. While it's counter intuitive, many businesses want to maintain control of employee's healthcare. Some companies look at it as a way to compete by offering better benefits than their competitors. A lot of companies like controlling healthcare because it keeps employees tied to their employer. If you temporarily lose your insurance when you switch a job, all of the sudden switching doesn't look as good. When you get to really larger companies, then they have the ability to self-insure, which means they can control the costs a hell of a lot more.

Of course, since many companies prefer less regulation, the last thing they'd want to do is hand over the keys to what they do for the healthcare for their employees over to the government. With things how they are now, they can always cut or pair back their plans if they want to cut costs. That lever would be gone with single payer.

Like many things, the system is set up to benefit those in charge rather than those who it's meant to serve. You can look just about anywhere outside the US and see that universal healthcare is a much better system, but better for who? Not much of a benefit for those who make the decisions, so we keep the flawed system we have.
by notapenny | 2025-09-11 16:06:01+00:00
It think it says something that you'd be willing to jump to conclusions. You "learned" it was sanitised and make a point about people willing to alter the truth, then you personally attach some meaning to it. You made up your own reality, when the word "[people]" literally indicates that the OP did change the quote. Instead of assuming malice, you could have also just asked why they changed it, or looked up why words would be in brackets, or give the OP the benefit of the doubt.
by bko | 2025-09-11 16:07:43+00:00
If you think health insurance is expensive now, wait until it's free!

In all seriousness, if a private business with all the incentive in the world can't figure out how to lower healthcare costs, I don't see how punting to the government would somehow be better.

Everyone that proposes a single payer can't explain who makes less money. Will we save money by the doctors getting paid less? The drug companies? Where do these savings come from?

Even if you're able to do everything the health insurance company does and capture 100% of their margin with equal efficiency, you'll capture a profit margin of around 2-6%.

The only argument I hear is "other countries do it", which is just unpersuasive. It's not a serious argument. Propose something better
by glenstein | 2025-09-11 16:08:05+00:00
Before someone says "in mice", I think this highlights a philosophy nerd point that I'm interested in. The free will debates will never end, but I do think findings like this are important for the compatibilist approach. A major intuition that drives libertarian free will is that there's a "you" which is one thing, and then all those clicking and clacking billiard balls of physics which are a separate thing.

But if you can credit the physical system with real decision making, e.g. taking in sensory input, modeling the world, weighing alternative incentives, considering consequences, carrying out choices with signals sent out to the limbs, doing it according to your preferences and values, that's a "you" that's making real choices. You can shift the intuition and identify with that. The mental events you experience are you immersed in that process of informational canvassing and deliberating and decision making.

Super determinism treats that like it makes no difference to the ultimate question of determinism. But I think it's in meaningful contrast to characterizations that treat the choices like they're not you, and treat "you" like an epiphenomenon along for the ride. Which is a real distinction. If we can see and model actual deliberations (even if in mice), it seems like that counts in favor of the "you" being in there, in the physical stuff.
by nradov | 2025-09-11 16:08:17+00:00
Huh? What rebates do you mean? Most large employers like Apple are already self funded and the health plans merely act as third-party administrators, assembling networks and processing transactions. The ACA does include a minimum medical loss ratio so health plans that come in under the limit are forced to issue premium refunds to customers.

There is plenty of waste, fraud, and abuse committed by providers against all payers including Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial health plans. Most providers are honest and follow the rules in good faith but there are a few bad apples who attempt to exploit all payers.
by jlev | 2025-09-11 16:08:24+00:00
This change https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/baea52df7ac9c4b53857556f... was a huge pain in my ass in 2013.

I was working in Libya on voter registration tools with the UN and the High National Election Commission. The government decided to not implement a planned TZ change, and didn't inform the public until the day of. Not the hardest thing we dealt with, that was a full country internet shutoff by a mob outside our data centre (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25481794). Sometimes the politics of a project are more complicated than the technology...

We did implement an all-SMS voter registration system, which was pretty cool. Hasn't been used much since, but it's all open source. https://github.com/hnec-vr
by RationPhantoms | 2025-09-11 16:08:44+00:00
GLP-1 will help but not completely solve the current obesity epidemic. My source is me being more than 6 month long durations, at maximum dosage, of both semaglutide and tirzepatide. While it's resulted in a solid amount, there is a cap to what it can do where diet/exercise have to take over.