MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vkou | 2025-09-10 22:56:24+00:00
> Your assumptions are incorrect: felony prosecution is not outside local control, and police politics are irrelevant.

Felony prosecution is done by DAs, which are subservient to the state.

Police politics is completely relevant, because they prioritize enforcement and have incredible leeway in its execution.

> The real drivers are prosecutorial policies driven by political priorities.

Those policies are ultimately set at the state level, because that's who DAs are accountable to.

> And we all know that who sides with criminals most of the time are the Democrats.

Is that why the Republican party has elected a convicted felon to lead it?
by mintplant | 2025-09-10 22:56:24+00:00
Note that it's not necessarily an "Arch distribution" in the sense you might expect:

> KDE Linux is an immutable distribution that uses Arch Linux packages as its base, but Graham notes that it is "definitely not an 'Arch-based distro!'" Pacman is not included, and Arch is used only for the base operating system. Everything else, he said, is either compiled from source using KDE Builder or installed using Flatpak.
by w0de0 | 2025-09-10 22:56:40+00:00
“…and I am therefore justified in demanding the surrender of the city of Savannah, and its dependent forts, and shall wait a reasonable time for your answer, before opening with heavy ordnance.

“Should you entertain the proposition, I am prepared to grant liberal terms to the inhabitants and garrison; but should I be forced to resort to assault, or the slower and surer process of starvation, I shall then feel justified in resorting to the harshest measures, and shall make little effort to restrain my army—burning to avenge the national wrong which they attach to Savannah…”

- W. Tecumseh Sherman’s ultimatum to the garrison of this city, December 1864

Sherman’s March to the Sea was an apotheosis of political violence. It deliberately targeted non-military infrastructure.

How long would American slavery have persisted without the march (the war to which it belongs)?

How could non-violence have triumphed in the same crusade?
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-09-10 22:57:14+00:00
> reboot the house […] flip the […] breaker

My gran's power company doesn't like this. When I flipped the main breaker, they saw the load drop and scheduled a crew to investigate and repair[1]. We found out when they called to tell us off after they saw the load restored in few minutes.

[1] It's an old house and hard to tell which outlets and lights are on which circuits, and which of the multiply-rewritten labels in the breaker panel are true, so the main breaker seemed the easiest way…
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-10 22:57:22+00:00
Well, we don’t need to speak nicely about anything or anyone. We do have the First.

But we should be civil. Which is different than being nice, but is far more important. Many generals in war are not terribly nice to their enemies. They are, however, civil.

We lost more than ordered discourse in our abrogation of the societal pact with civility.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-10 22:58:03+00:00
In contrast, tariffs and the government taking stakes in private companies reminds me of fascist Italy under Mussolini: https://www.historyfromonestudenttoanother.com/a-level/a-lev...

> Charter of Labour, 1927

> He recognised private enterprises as the most efficient, gaining him support from rich industrialists.

> The charter also stated that the state could take control of, manage or encourage enterprises that were considered inefficient.
by mind-blight | 2025-09-10 22:58:38+00:00
Yeah, huge props here. There's a contingent on HN that seems to assume that almost any action by a company is done in bad faith. I dislike all of the shady stuff that happens, but that's why we should celebrate when companies are doing awesome things.

This is all positive. Super appreciate what you folks have done. It's clearly hard, well intentioned, and thoughtfully executed.
by fragmede | 2025-09-10 22:58:42+00:00
> Eventually I gave in and bought a car, not because it was necessary but rather to leave the city on weekends and get closer to nature.

How much does parking for that cost the rest of the week? How much is your car payment + insurance + fuel? Presumably you did the math and it's cheaper to have bought one, including a nominal amount for your time to rent one on Friday and return it Sunday night. So I'm just curious.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-09-10 22:58:44+00:00
Events like this have often been used as trigger to implement measures that were already planned. The nazis did that a lot (Reichstagsbrand, Kristallnacht), You could argue that Israel used the October 7 attacks to accelerate efforts to get rid of the Palestinians. Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld used 9/11 to invade Iraq which they had wanted to do long before.

I am definitely worried what Trump and republicans will do as a response.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-10 22:58:50+00:00
I think "most" are fixed. I use quotes because I've seen people say they have issues that I have never run into myself.

I'm currently stuck on Windows for some old school .NET work, but otherwise have been running Wayland on either arch or fedora for 8 or so years, no real problems specific to Wayland. With that said, I've also always had X to fall back to for the odd program that absolutely only worked in an X session. At this point, though, I don't even recall what they were (probably something that didn't like running under Swaywm because wlroots), so even that might not be an issue.
by panarky | 2025-09-10 22:59:39+00:00
HN has thousands of comments debating the justification for killing tens of thousands of non-combatants in Palestine.

More posts debating the justification for killing 11 people in a boat in the Caribbean who did not pose an imminent threat.

HN rules do not prevent any of these discussions.

But here we have a individual who advocated those killings.

Here we have an individual who publicly justified school massacres by saying those senseless deaths are a worthwhile price to pay for gun rights in the US.

On HN it's perfectly fine to justify all this violence, to argue that the violence is regrettable but necessary, but any equivalent discussion about this one individual is somehow beyond the pale.
by kryogen1c | 2025-09-10 22:59:51+00:00
> My conclusion is that you don't mind making apocalyptic statements about actions you think are dangerous to society, which sits uncomfortably with your asking other people not to.

This is a nonsense argument. It is possible that constantly making apocalyptic statements can result in an apocalypse, and saying that people should stop doing that is not contradictory.

The words you use matter. If trump is an existential threat to democracy, he should be assassinated. If you're not advocating for murderous escalation, then stop using those words (for example).
by danudey | 2025-09-10 23:00:12+00:00
> Unlike Fedora's image-based Atomic Desktops, KDE Linux does not supply a way for users to add packages to the base system. So, for example, users have no way to add packages with additional kernel modules.

But then, since / is rw and only /usr is read-only, it should be possible to install additional kernel modules, just not ones that live in /usr - unless /lib is symlinked to /usr/lib, as happens in a lot of distros these days.

Well, as long as they're either updating frequently or you're not using nvidia drivers (which are notoriously unpleasant with Wayland) I guess it's fine for a lot of people.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-10 23:00:15+00:00
Ambiguity: The request/prompt leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Many qualitatively different answers may be correct, relative to the prompt. Different or non-deterministic models will return highly variance results.

Determinism: If a model is given the exact same request/prompt twice, its two responses will also be identical. Whether or not the consistent response qualifies as correct.

The two concepts are very different.

(Ambiguous vs. precise prompt) x (Deterministic vs. Non-deterministic model) = 4 different scenarios.

A model itself can be non-deterministic without being ambiguous. If you know exactly how it functions, why it is non-deterministic (batch sensitive for instance), that is not an ambiguous model. Its operation is completely characterized. But it is non-deterministic.

An ambiguous model would simply be model whose operation was not characterized. A black box model for instance. A black box model can be deterministic and yet ambiguous.
by martin-t | 2025-09-10 23:00:40+00:00
As long as the student doesn't record him saying something that could be understood as a sexual remark out of context and/or claim he patted her on the buttocks and a friend who never likes the teacher because of bad grades backs it up.

You might think it's fat fetched but I recall a case where several teenagers conspired to accuse a youtuber of grooming them.

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Now, you're right about one thing. I overstated the effectiveness of victimhood in the original post. The principal currency of power is always violence because it overrides all other currencies if you have enough of it available to you.

But for more pedestrian use-cases, other currencies are better. And victimhood is a very effective way to use other people's violence for your goals. It never gives true top-level power but it allows directing the levels of power above you against people on the same level as you.

EDIT: And TBH, it works well to direct those on your level against those on your level too. For example, on the nation-state level, every action Ukraine takes in its fight against Russia has to be weighted against the possibility of being seen as too aggressive and not just purely defending itself.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-10 23:01:04+00:00
I guess that largely depends on how one qualifies "politically motivated". By some definitions it's easy to include any of what you listed as also part of a politically motivated attack, by a narrower definition one could just as easily choose to exclude them. E.g. whether an attacker is paranoid is orthogonal to whether the attack involved the victim's political views/activity in some way.

At the root I agree in principal though. It's, for example, still possible he picked a bad fight with an unstable individual in a bar last night (over something not politically related) and they followed him to the event he was speaking at to shoot him. I'm not as convinced I've seen that kind of thing happen "a lot", but it's true we don't have post validation yet.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-10 23:01:06+00:00
unlikely.

A more likely explanation is that pro-violence propaganda began swamping social media in 2016, which is 9 years ago. 18 year olds have been exposed to it nonstop since they were 9 and 34 year olds since they were 25.

The people who are disposed to anger and violence move along the radicalization sales funnel relatively slowly. But already once you've shown interest, you start seeing increasingly angry content and only angry content. There is a lot of rhetoric specifically telling people they should be angry, should not try to help things, and should resort to violence, and actively get others to promote violence.

Being surrounded socially by that day in and day out is a challenge to anyone, and if you're predisposed to anger it can become intoxicating.

A lot of people want to say marketing doesn't work or that filter bubbles don't matter. But the bare facts are that we've had nearly a decade of multiple military intelligence agencies running nonstop campaigns promoting violent ideology in the US. And it would be naive to think that didn't make a difference.

The same sort of campaigns were run at a smaller scale during the Cold War and have been successful in provoking hot wars.
by perihelions | 2025-09-10 23:01:06+00:00
"Not peaceful" is an understatement. They burned innocents alive.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/former... ("Former Nepal PM Jhala Nath Khanal’s wife Rajyalaxmi Chitrakar burnt alive as protesters set his house on fire")

IMO it's far too early for anyone to declare any kind of victory, in that unresolved, chaotic power vacuum. No one can guess where that will go.
by roncesvalles | 2025-09-10 23:01:08+00:00
I think single origin event is highly likely because, for example, it's wholly conceivable that a slightly different variant of AUCG (or just one of the molecules) could've emerged and it would have similar characteristics, but not differentiated enough that one would have a very strong selective advantage over the other.

Diversity could exist in harmony and the lack of any diversity is a pretty strong signal that the only extant version is either very rare or the only to ever emerge.

Everything in nature is diverse except RNA/DNA and this fact alone is a sort of evidence.
by d4mi3n | 2025-09-10 23:01:37+00:00
Not an expert, but I've been told RAG in combination with a database of facts is one way to get more consistency here. Using one of the previous examples, you might have a knowledge store (usually a vector database of some kind) that contains a mapping of countries to capitols and the LLM would query it whenever it had to come up with an answer rather than relying on whatever was baked into the base model.
by diabllicseagull | 2025-09-10 23:01:47+00:00
this bit is a no-go for me. they've decided what goes in the immutable base os and allowed a set of kde apps citing subpar experience flatpak versions. I'm guessing they haven't tested all flatpak apps as they tested their apps.

"Well, we’re kind of cheating a bit here. A couple KDE apps are shipped as Flatpaks, and the rest you download using Discover will be Flatpack’d as well, but we do ship Dolphin, Konsole, Ark, Spectacle, Discover, Info Center, System Settings, and some other System-level apps on the base image, rather than as Flatpaks.

The truth is, Flatpak is currently a pretty poor technology for system-level apps that want deep integration with the base system. We tried Dolphin and Konsole as Flatpaks for a while, but the user experience was just terrible."

https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-r...
by tomrod | 2025-09-10 23:01:49+00:00
Because the other comment was flagged by people acting in anger, I want to make sure you knew that several folks are speaking up from both sides of the aisle. Here are two quotes from people whom you consider your political enemies:

> JOE BIDEN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT: "There is no place in our country for this kind of violence. It must end now. Jill and I are praying for Charlie Kirk’s family and loved ones."

> BARACK OBAMA, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT: "We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy."

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/reactions-fatal-shooting-us...
by w10-1 | 2025-09-10 23:02:47+00:00
> we inherited the practice from PayPal

Paypal got it from eBay, which in 2000's was rolling out 20M LOC worldwide every week or two on "release trains". There, a small team of kernel engineers rotated doing the merging -- two weeks of clearcase hell when it was your turn.

And, since eBay wrote their own developer tools, you'd have to deploy different tooling depending on the branch you were on. But because of their custom tooling, if there was a problem in the UI, in debug mode you could select an element in the browser UI and navigate to the java class in a particular component and branch that produced that element.
by ok1984 | 2025-09-10 23:03:32+00:00
Extremist groups in Israel existed since 1940s (before its establishment) or even before …

And the actions of Israel in the past 30 years, and affirmations from its leaders don’t seem to be moving toward the OSLO accords, otherwise why building all those settlements in the west-bank? It just doesn’t make sense.

anyway who cares about the past I am more interested in the future:

1) In your opinion how all this crisis could be solved?

2) If you had the misfortune of being born in Gaza, and obviously you cannot leave it, what would you do?
by kd913 | 2025-09-10 23:03:32+00:00
The cpu is what a 9950x whilst paired with one of the cheapest asus motherboards with underpowered VRMs according to games nexus, hardware unboxed.

The cooler was under the rated tdp of the platform. That and it lasted 6 months and so far seemed the only case of it falling over like it did.

Yea am leaning on it being user error.
by patrakov | 2025-09-10 23:03:46+00:00
No. It only proves that TOTP, as implemented by mobile apps, is useless against phishing.

The extension from https://authenticator.cc, with smart domain match enabled, would have caught this by showing all other TOTP codes besides the one intended by NPM.

On a Mac, Keychain would also have caught this by not autofilling: https://support.apple.com/en-ph/guide/passwords/mchl873a6e72...
by vicfei | 2025-09-10 23:03:47+00:00
Blockchain now is officially way faster than Postgres. Sopmnia Network is the first time a blockchain has ever clocked one million TPS. Indexing services are the backbone of blockchain applications, and if they can’t keep up, users are left with stale data, financial risk, and sluggish interfaces.

In short, even the fastest chain will feel slow if its indexing and data infrastructure can’t keep up...
by j1elo | 2025-09-10 23:04:03+00:00
> [everything is] installed using Flatpak.

How's Flatpak doing in terms of health of the tech and the project maintenance?

Merely 4 months ago things didn't look too bright... [1]

> work on the Flatpak project itself had stagnated, and that there were too few developers able to review and merge code beyond basic maintenance.

> "you will notice that it's not being actively developed anymore". There are people who maintain the code base and fix security issues, for example, but "bigger changes are not really happening anymore".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068400
by petsfed | 2025-09-10 23:04:20+00:00
I misunderstood you then. I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Even so, most folks who carry prefer concealed carry for tactical reasons, one of which being that unless you have your rifle in a ready position, its not very useful in a self-defense situation, and simply marks you as "shoot this one first". And it turns out that walking around with a rifle in a ready position is generally perceived as aggressive, regardless of actual intent, even by those comfortable with firearms (consider a police officer approaching with a holstered weapon vs one in their hand).

So in the context of this shot, it ought to be relatively easy to pick out the shooter in the moment, the problem is that a ~200m radius around the tent where Kirk was speaking covers a lot of territory, and that's a lot of ground to cover effectively without obviously interfering with students' free movement about their college campus.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-10 23:04:30+00:00
I think ultimately very few people really care about simplifying the tax code. The cost of a complex tax code is the $19.95-$200 cost of preparing your taxes, which everyone would gladly eat if it meant they could take advantage of tax deductions on pages 1,455, 19,210 and 245,908 of the tax code totaling > the cost of tax prep.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-10 23:04:35+00:00
Nathan (who is a QA person with user-visible breakage ever-present on his mind) is talking about the alpha and the present-day situation, which naturally isn't set in stone. KDE is a Flatpak contributor. One of the little skunkworks projects within KDE Linux is even exploring further evolution of Flatpak that would allow putting Plasma itself into one, etc. This is an ongoing story, you shouldn't assume dogma.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-10 23:04:56+00:00
"Essentially a motte-and-bailey"

A M&B is a medieval castle layout. Those bloody Norsemen immigrants who duffed up those bloody Saxon immigrants, wot duffed up the native Britons, built quite a few of those things. Something, something, Frisians, Romans and other foreigners. Everyone is a foreigner or immigrant in Britain apart from us locals, who have been here since the big bang.

Anyway, please explain the analogy.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle)
by mind-blight | 2025-09-10 23:05:03+00:00
This comment makes no sense. They're actively open sourcing the patent and trying to get it upstream into Postgres. They purchased another company to get this patent, and they're spending a lot of money on lawyers to figure out how to release it to the community.

Call out shady shit when companies do shady things, but the sentiment behind this comment seems to be looking for reasons to bee outraged instead of at what's actually being done.

If companies get evicerated every time they try to engage with the community they'll stop engaging. We should be celebrating when they do something positive, even if there are a few critiques (e.g. the license change call out is a good one). Instead, half the comments seem like they're quick reactions meant to stoke outage.

Please have some perspective - this action is a win for the community.
by muzani | 2025-09-10 23:05:55+00:00
Survivorship bias. Every Palestinian faction that advocated for peace or a two state solution no longer exists.

What happened to them? I don't know, but their land is now claimed as a part of Israel. I don't believe they gave it up willingly. Back when people were debating genocide, one of the arguments was that there's more Palestinians than ever before. It used to be ~1 mil over the various states of Palestine, now it's ~5 mil in West Bank and Gaza, and many more all over the world.

The only ones left are the militants because everyone who tried everything else were killed or displaced.
by nickjj | 2025-09-10 23:05:57+00:00
I use my dotfiles repo for this.

For example in my dotfiles repo I'll have `etc/pacman.d/01-options.conf` and the dotfiles install script will symlink that to `/etc/pacman.d/01-options.conf`. This way the source of truth is always in a single dotfiles repo.

This strategy has worked well for dotfiles I use on Arch, Debian, Ubuntu and macOS. It includes support for WSL 2 too. The install script has been working with this set up for years to run 1 single command and have everything work where work in this case is installing and configuring a bunch of tools I use. An example is here https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles.
by pixelready | 2025-09-10 23:05:59+00:00
I don’t think it’s infantilizing to acknowledge that people are strongly influenced by social forces and are products of their environment, including being vulnerable to propaganda. History proves this out many times over.

But I get it, I really do. I’m mad too. I’m just trying to find a peaceful path forward, and I understand that is an increasingly naive tact, but I truly don’t believe that over half the (voting population of) the country are irredeemable monsters. Yes, they are denying the evidence in front of them, but who among us hasn’t in some case big or small when confronted with an inconvenient truth? Especially when your acceptance by your tribe depends on towing the party line? We make movies about people that zig when everyone else zags precisely because they are exceptional.

What I hope to see is a reawakening of peaceful collective action rather than a turn towards violent revolution. Even if power structures are corrupt and deserve to be overturned, revolutions ain’t fun to live through, and they tend not to just hurt the “bad guys”.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-10 23:06:26+00:00
I'm only just wading in, after years of intent. I don't feel like Ceph is particularly demanding. It does want a decent amount of ram. 1GB each for monitor, manager, and metadata, up to 16GB total for larger clusters, according to docs. But then each disk's OSD defaults to 4gb, which can add up fast!! And some users can use more. 10Gbe is recommended and more is better here but that seems not unique to ceph: syncing storage will want bandwidth. https://docs.ceph.com/en/octopus/start/hardware-recommendati...