MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by shadowgovt | 2025-09-10 22:00:28+00:00
No, of course not. My point is that the South started a war because they believed they were so right that the only recourse was political violence. Their reward for it was to lose everything they feared they were going to lose... And more.

Americans have this unfortunate tendency towards exceptionalist self-image. They remember the Revolutionary War and forget the Civil War. They remember World War 2 and forget Vietnam. They believe when they wield violence it is because they are right and the cause is just, when history shows that, even for them, the victor in such conflicts tends to have very little to do with just cause and a lot more to do with dumb luck (or, if I'm being a bit more generous, "material and strategic reality divorced from the justness of the casus belli").
by cthalupa | 2025-09-10 22:00:48+00:00
It's not even a matter of calling people fascists or nazis - there's been plenty of violence towards the politicians on the opposite side of the aisle, too. Nancy Pelosi and her husband. Melissa Hortman, John and Yvette Hoffman earlier this year.

If it was just a matter of people internalizing that killing fascists is fine and thus that calling people fascists is dangerous, then we would not see the same sort of violence being perpetrated against other politicians not getting the same label.

Kirk himself suggested that a "real patriot who wanted to be a midterm hero" should bail out the man who nearly killed Pelosi's husband. The rhetoric around political violence in this country has been ratcheted up to an insane degree, with or without any accusations of fascism, and this will continue or get worse as long as that remains the case.
by comprev | 2025-09-10 22:01:16+00:00
This is pure speculation, but I think there's probably a large variation in salaries in the 90/10 split of senior/staff+. The majority have decades of employment with the same employer rising up from junior/graduate level, whereas the others joined to bring "modern tech" experience with them to help execute a revamp.

Most devs are probably in the top 20-30% band making tech a relatively "normal" (but good) salary in the local region.

I could be entirely wrong though :)
by davidgu | 2025-09-10 22:01:47+00:00
Just to clarify, we’re the infra layer that reliably captures and normalizes meeting data across platforms. The real value for users is what developers build on top: automated analysis, enrichment, and workflows (not the capture itself)

Modern LLMs can power sales coaching, medical scribing, legal review, support QA, and compliance reporting but they need consistent inputs to process. We handle capture/formatting/edge cases so developers can focus on models and UX
by pjc50 | 2025-09-10 22:02:06+00:00
More of a distinction without a difference. Once you get to that situation, you've legitimized murder; now we see what that looks like.

"Militia" action against "military"? Neither side will bother with the scruples of waiting for the enemy to put on a uniform and pick up a weapon. It will be death squads vs car bombs.
by Muromec | 2025-09-10 22:04:12+00:00
>Everybody loves public transit until they get panhandled for the jillionth time, or they witness (or experience) violence, or some other anti-social behavior sours the whole thing.

Haven't seen any of that in 30 years of using public transport in several countries. Are you ok in US?

The closest to anarchy I have been in public transport was withnessin a hobo refusing to pay for the ride to trigger the police response and be booked.
by chiefsearchaco | 2025-09-10 22:04:16+00:00
Well I can't respond to everyone - I am the one running the search engine. And yes, it did crash today from load. Usage increased 20x this week vs last and I was totally unprepared. I don't know if that counts as a good launch or a bad one. For some reason in my head I imagined usage would be some slow steady ramp.

Thank you for those who tried it, and I'm sorry if you were one of the people it didn't perform for. As far as load goes this was the first day it truly had a "trial by fire".
by stevenjgarner | 2025-09-10 22:04:32+00:00
> it was someone else's decision to give it the clickbait title here

Is it notable that the "someone else" is Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy referring to the publication with “After a year of review, they have come back and they said, listen, we can’t find another explanation, so this very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars"?
by rkomorn | 2025-09-10 22:05:47+00:00
I wonder if some of this is also a generational thing? I'm in my mid-late-40s and grew up in a world where electronics were pretty fragile (and water basically was a death sentence). Heck, even getting DOA hardware wasn't so uncommon as to be surprising when it happened.

The idea of letting my phone drop unprotected (or getting it wet like I see some people do) is horrible.

You did forget one big use case for cases: money laundering. There's no way all the physical stores and kiosks that only sell cases are actually making money...
by dgunay | 2025-09-10 22:06:04+00:00
We had the technology to push out a vaccine in less than a year. Modern medicine is of course smarter than it was a century ago.

What went poorly is our society's collective response. From the medical and governmental establishment, there was much hemming and hawing over what measures to take for way too long (masking, distancing, closing of public spaces, etc). Taking _any_ countermeasures against the spread of the virus also somehow became a culture war issue. I'm assuming GP meant "left or right" by "either side" so make of that what you will.
by mopenstein | 2025-09-10 22:06:48+00:00
I agree. If it only exists so that a select few can actually experience, it might as well not exist at all.

And don't kid yourself, those keepers and creators get full access as well as anyone they deem worthy enough. The rest of us will never be granted that access.

If it's privately funded, good. It affects me nil. But if they take public funds and lock up history or nature just so it can remain pristine for the wealthy or elite to enjoy, then I don't want to have to pay for it. Not that I have a choice in the matter either way.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-10 22:06:50+00:00
I was actually surprised much of the material still exists - though the links don't work. Microsoft performs so much needless self-vandalism and I know some things I care about are gone.

Which just reminded that yeah, all the links I'd made to Raymond Chen's "The poor man's way of identifying memory leaks" no longer work. The Rust implementation is less than four years old, but its link (which worked) now does not. -sigh-

Tempting to go reconstruct that performance improvement "fight" in Rust too. Maybe another day.
by ipython | 2025-09-10 22:07:09+00:00
I was just at a conference today where one of the presenters referenced the "Trust barometer": https://www.edelman.com/trust/2025/trust-barometer

According to that study, 23% approved of the statement "I approve hostile activism to drive change by threatening or committing violence". It's even higher if you only focus on 18-34 year olds.

Full report here: https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2025-0...
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-10 22:07:18+00:00
I'm a died-in-the-wool, responsive, readable, internationalizable, accessible, standards-based, enshyenist:

Instead of using an unbreakable em dash to rigidly and unbreakably connect two phrases by their last and first words, I prefer using an en dash, followed by a shy hyphen, and then another en dash, to elegantly hyphenate words connected by em dashes when they don't fit on the line. ;)

&ndash;&shy;&ndash;
by gs17 | 2025-09-10 22:07:31+00:00
> The problem is that most of the time people make cities less car-friendly, but don't improve public transport,

That's my complaint too. We've added plenty of things to make driving worse where I am, but there's no real alternative presented. I can walk a mile to a bus stop in the sun where the bus may or may not show up for an hour (they promise they will improve it eventually) and will then drop me off somewhere I still have to walk most of a mile from. They made the road to the bus stop a bit worse to walk on and I gave up.

I would love to not have to drive. But I'm not really given the option, I'm just given less parking so that there's a nice bike lane I can jump into when someone comes barrelling down the sidewalk.
by AngryData | 2025-09-10 22:07:39+00:00
Well we aren't sure that it did have a single origin. But also, anything primitive enough to generate randomly is going to be viable food itself for other already existing and more evolved lifeforms, and the conditions for life to start by itself might just be a smorgasbord of energy for existing life forms that could out compete more primitive forms or alter the environmental conditions enough to prevent more life from forming. It might just not be possible for new life forms to arise in a non-sterile environment.
by yndoendo | 2025-09-10 22:07:55+00:00
Adding to ...

A person does not have to be a _neither here no there_ to be a conduit by the wealthy and powerful. Single voter issues are another means.

_Rob Schenck_ [0] anti-abortion activism was a great tool for politicians to gain power. _The Dark Money Game_ [1] documentary goes it great length of highlight this feature of "democracy". His mind set at the time was that the wealthy are paying to end abortion and that is a good thing. Indirectly, he helped the speaker of the house, Larry Householder [2], gain enough power to launder money through bribery and force tax payers to bail to a corrupt power company's fail nuclear infrastructure [3].

Rob Schenck has since supported legalized abortion after sitting on the bed side of a women who slowly suffered to death from complications which an abortion would of kept her alive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Schenck [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Money_Game [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Householder [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal
by pton_xd | 2025-09-10 22:07:56+00:00
I actually agree, I think it's exciting technology and letting it loose is the best way to learn its limits.

My comment was really to point out the hypocrisy of OpenAI / Anthropic / et al in pushing for regulation. Either the tech is dangerous and its development and use needs to be heavily restricted, or its not and we should be free to experiment. You cant have it both ways. These companies seem like they're just taking the position of whichever stance benefits them the most on any given day. Or maybe I'm not smart enough to really see the bigger picture here.

Basically, I think these companies calling for regulation are full of BS. And their actions prove it.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-10 22:08:24+00:00
That's my wife's current medication. We just had our 6 month CT and her largest tumor was reduced to half it's original size.

10 years ago, this wasn't an option. 5 or so years ago it wasn't a treatment for her cancer (metastatic renal).

I'm so thankful this treatment is available and that the genetic testing lined up.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-10 22:08:30+00:00
I bang on a lot about not saying things like "this person is a threat to democracy" and other such apocalyptic statements. This right here is a perfect example of why: when you steep people in a culture that tells them someone is (or their ideas are) an existential threat, eventually someone is going to be the right level of scared + unstable that causes them to kill people to try to defend their way of life.

If you find this horrifying (and I hope you do, because there can be no moral justification for celebrating murder), then I encourage you to really think about whether we would not be better off without such extremist language poisoning people's minds. We have to try to stop escalating, or the cycle is going to destroy our society.
by cmiles74 | 2025-09-10 22:08:44+00:00
My dude, the article in the Washington Post starts out with…

“Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died Wednesday after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump said.”

He influenced the US President, that seems pretty influential to me. Anecdotally, my kid in high school surprised me by knowing quite a lot about them.
by nomel | 2025-09-10 22:09:10+00:00
> Most of us don't understand it either.

No, this is completely false, for the general population [1]:

> Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons?

> 2024 Oct 1-12: Yes: 20% No: 79% No opinion: 1%

Your next sentence

> The majority of citizens support some degree of gun control reform and yet congress refuses to act.

is somewhat true, at 56%. But, this question involves things like more restrictions for those with mental illness, criminal backgrounds, etc. Any conclusion about this question must understand how broad it is, and have the 79% support of gun ownership, above, in mind. See the rest of the results for a more wholistic perspective.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
by chiefsearchaco | 2025-09-10 22:09:43+00:00
I'm the creator of searcha.page and seek.ninja, those are the basis of my index. The biggest problem with ONLY using that is freshness. I've started my own crawling too, but for sure common crawl will backfill a TON of good pages. It's priceless and I would say common crawl should be any search engines starting point. I have 2 billion pages from common crawl! There were a lot more but I had to scrub them out due to resources. My native crawling is much more targeted and I'd be lucky to pull 100k but as long as my heuristics for choosing the right targets it will be very high value pulls.
by gretch | 2025-09-10 22:11:15+00:00
Ah I see, you're saying it was a bad decision for the South to start the war.

I agree history records fort sumter as the official start of the war, but I guess I was looking at it big picture that "a war was on it's way" regardless of the singular event that sparked full war.

My perspective on the civil war is "good thing it happened and the Union won, otherwise who knows how long black people would have been enslaved". It would have been nice to end slavery without the war, but Lincoln tried to negotiate to this end extensively and couldn't secure it.

Also, yes I agree the vietnam war is severely undertaught. And in the modern era, Afghanistan.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-10 22:11:16+00:00
The optimal amount of "teaching the students the actual subjects" you need to do to have them get good SAT scores is significantly higher than zero.

Sure, you can cram for SAT, and you can get gains on the metric from that. But you can't just cram all the answers into the students and have them get a perfect score via rote memorization. Students still have to learn things to be able to do well. Which is why SAT beats the "performance is based on lines of code" tier of shitty hilariously gameable metrics.
by surgical_fire | 2025-09-10 22:11:44+00:00
This is just another form of belief in US exceptionalism.

No, a political activist largely unknown outside of the US is not going to be the catalyst of a world war. I live across the pond and never even heard of this individual until an hour ago.

You might be afraid that this could inflame political tensions in the US, and not even that is a given. The US has a long story of political violence, this is unlikely to result in any major changes.

If I was a betting man, I would bet that in two months time most will not even remember this. Too much spectacle in the news all the time for any subject to stick for too long.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-10 22:12:27+00:00
PA has closed primaries though, so he likely would have fixed it if it was a mistake. In any case, if you're looking for nuance, there's not a lot of it in political violence in the US.

Ruby Ridge, Waco, Timothy McVeigh, Jim Adkisson, Dylan Roof, the Tree of Life shooting, J6, the 2022 Buffalo shooter, Jacksonville 2023, Allen, TX 2023, etc.

Nearly all political violence in the US is committed by people espousing right wing ideology, so if it walks and talks like a duck, is telling you it's a duck...
by announcer4614 | 2025-09-10 22:12:27+00:00
For the sake of answering the parent question with regard to Chezmoi specifically: Chezmoi is a very comprehensive dotfiles manager. It can do a lot of things. More than any other I'm aware of.

More does not necessarily equal better, though. I think that's a matter of personal preference. I tried Chezmoi for a while and ultimately decided it was just a lot more levers at my disposal than I really wanted to even think about.

Dotter, by contrast, is a lot more minimal. Dotter is little more than a symlink manager plus templating engine plus config files to declare what machines need what config.

Chezmoi is all that, and does a lot more: encryption/decryption (even has password manager integrations), automatic push/pull. It's also designed so that you can add or manage files regardless of what your current working directory is (via commands like `chezmoi edit/add`).

In my case, after deciding I wanted to go for the minimal end of things, I almost went for GNU Stow however, I wanted templating functionality and I liked dotter's "packages" system for defining what files a given computer needs.

And very much a personal bias here: I found the learning curve of Chezmoi templates not great. I'm also not a big fan of the fact that Chezmoi relies on you naming your source files in particular ways in order to determine what the target file permissions should be.
by ipython | 2025-09-10 22:12:30+00:00
TBH I think as a society we have become so desensitized to violence because the only exposure we have to it is glamorized in movies and TV.

If we saw death up close and personal, perhaps we could become a bit more empathetic. I seriously wonder if, for example, we published the horrific photos of the aftermath of a school shooting, that would result in more honest discourse in this country on gun control.
by oblio | 2025-09-10 22:12:59+00:00
> She explained that that were she lived (Boston) you just couldn't safely wave at just anybody you passed.

I was born and raised in urban environments.

Let me translate this for rural (or fake rural aka suburbia) minded folks:

In cities people don't wave except to people they actually know/have seen several times because...

It's gauche, awkward, weird.

There are just too many people in cities and nobody can pretend their city is just one big village. People just go on with their lives and don't wave 1 million times per day. Waving is reserved to actual acquaintances.

In this specific case, it was most likely a bad neighborhood or someone with a heightened sense of fear due to reasons that cannot be clarified without knowing the person directly.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-10 22:13:34+00:00
And get off your lawn?

I’ve been developing professionally since 1996 and started on Dec Vax and Stratus VOS mainframes in Fortran and C, led the build out of an on prem data center with raised floors etc to hold a SAN with a whopping 3TBs of storage along with other networking gear and server software.

Before I started developing professionally, I did assembly language on 65C02, 68K, PPC and x86 for 10 years.

In between then and now, I’ve programmed professionally in C, C++, VB6, Perl, Python, C#, and JavaScript.

Now all of my work is “cloud native” from development to infrastructure and take advantage of LLMs extensively.

It’s not a mark of honor to brag about you don’t use the latest tools.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-10 22:13:43+00:00
You can email hn@ycombinator.com to verify, but I'm willing to bet the charged comment mob flagged it before a mod had a chance to see the post and protect it. This jives with other posts, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44277177, being "allowed". The second may have met the same fate, or possibly have been considered a dupe by some users who had already seen the other postings of the same story active.

If you can catch posts you think are unfairly flagged as they happen you can also send them to hn@ycombinator.com. Even if it's a day late they can unflag it, second chance it, and/or watch the comments.

The mods hold a strong opinion that making the moderation log public in some way (so these kinds of things can be seen directly) would cause more problems and discontent than it would solve. I strongly disagree, but I respect that the mods have always delivered satisfactory answers for me when using the emailing process - which is their main counterpoint to the need for a public log.
by kiitos | 2025-09-10 22:13:55+00:00
huh?

the from: address in every email is an arbitrary and unverified text string that the sender provides, anyone can send an email to anyone else and specify a from: president@whitehouse.gov and that's how it will show up to the recipient

what do you mean by the URL scheme? a URL scheme is the http or https part of it? and for sure the host part of the URL was not the same as the real npm's host part of their URL?

i'm not sure what this comment is trying to accomplish, it parses as FUD
by strbean | 2025-09-10 22:14:29+00:00
Kirk supported the stoning to death of gays:

https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1800678317030564306

Fundamentalist? Check.

Kirk says some true patriot should bail out the guy who nearly murdered Paul Pelosi with a hammer:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-...

Respectful and in good faith? No check.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-10 22:15:01+00:00
Even complaining about Vista raises eyebrows. It had two huge issues: overactive UAC, and Microsoft handing "Vista Certified" to basically anybody who asked. (Frequently to machines that would barely run XP pre-SP1.)

Most of the complaints can be reduced to one of those.

Yes- I hand wave away a lot of other things: because they were required for a huge step towards a decently secure and stable OS.
by Propelloni | 2025-09-10 22:16:31+00:00
KDE seems to reinvent the wheel here and I wonder where they are going with that. There are pretty mature "immutable" distributions out there that could serve as a foundation and offer a lot of the same features that KDE Linux is supposed to support. For example, Aeon (of openSUSE MicroOS vintage) looks like all KDE Linux is aiming for, just with Gnome as DE.

But hey, more power to them.