MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adastra22 | 2025-11-21 01:41:41+00:00
This description really resonates with me, so I guess I’m a potential user.

I’ve been running macOS most of my life. In college I ran Linux on my laptops, but I switched back to macOS as the user experience was better - I could spend far less time messing with things and instead rely on system defaults and first party apps.

Year by year though I feel more like I don’t own my computer. I’ve tried switching back to Linux, but I always give up because despite the freedom, it starts feeling like a chore. Even Asahi Linux on macOS hardware I couldn’t get into.

The rayvnOS vision is something I could get behind. A fully packaged, macOS-like user experience, where the default settings are good and things work out of the box. I’d LOVE to have that as on option.

Linux compatibility or even macOS binary compatibility matters less to me than, say, an out of the box Time Machine like backup tool based on ZFS snapshots. So FreeBSD makes sense from that perspective.
by cornstalks | 2025-11-21 01:42:26+00:00
That story doesn’t work for people with depression who otherwise have very good lives.

I grew up in a stable household with a loving family and both parents present and supportive. I’ve never had financial hardship, either as a kid depending on my parents to provide or as an adult providing for myself and family. I did very well in school, had plenty of friends, never had enemies, never got bullied or even talked bad about in social circles (so far as I know…). I have no traumatic memories.

I could go on and on, but despite having a virtually perfect life on paper, I have always struggled with depression and suicidal ideation. It wasn’t until my wife sat down and forced me to talk to a psychiatrist and start medication that those problems actually largely went away.

In other words, I don’t think there’s a metaphorical “cow” that could have helped me. It’s annoying we don’t understand what causes depression or how antidepressants help, and their side effects suck. But for some of us, it’s literally life saving in a way nothing else has ever been.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-11-21 01:42:40+00:00
I don't know. I've read of this alleged nightmare scenario in hundreds of forum posts, mailing lists and threads and it's not something that's actually being followed up on in any capacity. The opposite is the case in that law enforcement doesn't have the resources to get as many perpetrators as they would like to. They're not going to raid your home because you idled in a channel that got spammed or because you received and email or because some service you hosted briefly cached a csam jpg on disk. If you've made political enemies and are under observation already than perhaps this might work as a way in but even then it would be easier to just do something illegal and construct the evidence to point to another cause.

I mean, when does this actually end up with consequences for anyone? Even on managed and surveilled company devices I'm not expecting this to cause any harm to anyone involved. IT staff at previous employers and clients had other things to worry about.

Maybe I'm just not familiar with some legal jurisdictions or cases where this was a cause of concern. Let me know.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-21 01:42:56+00:00
Again, I don't think this is about doing better. This is like arguing that a Casio watch is better than Patek Philippe.

Wealth buys you is access and that's what it's often used for. Personal trainer, personal banker, personal tutor, personal doctor instead of waiting in urgent care. It doesn't matter that YouTube yoga is great, it's still less dignified. It's what poor people do.
by kragen | 2025-11-21 01:43:19+00:00
The professions are traditionally divinity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity_(academic_discipline)), medicine, and law, so I don't see how you could remove divinity from the list. When you argue for including nursing as a "professional degree", what you're arguing is that it belongs to the category exemplified by those three instances.

Edit: please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession for the current undestanding of that category.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-21 01:44:28+00:00
> regulations are essential, but the current process is generating huge public harms by slowing down tech whose whole purpose is to reduce pollution.

I hear this with a call to action of "we need to deregulate to help reduce pollution". And not the real call to action in that "these regulations need an overhaul". The title of "over-regulations" and the general tone seems to place the issue as an obstacle to be eliminated, not a system to be corrected.

That's my big problem with the article.
by somat | 2025-11-21 01:45:41+00:00
And it was bad at other use cases, having used both (3270 and vt) you can do 3270 workloads on a vt(granted less efficiently) but vt style asynchronous updates were very hard on a 3270.

If I had to pick one I would pick the vt.

And footnote, while technically I have worked with 3270's, my experience was using rexx on vse/cms. That is to say my use of the 3270 was hampered by about 5 levels of application framework, perhaps if I used them more directly I would be more charitable.
by wtallis | 2025-11-21 01:46:33+00:00
You're pretty far off the mark about SSD caching. A majority of consumer SSDs are now DRAMless, and still can exceed PCIe 4.0 x4 bandwidth for sequential transfers. Only a seriously outdated SSD would still be using DDR3; good ones should be using LPDDR4 or maybe DDR4. And when a SSD does have DRAM, it isn't there for the sake of caching your data, it's for caching the driver's internal metadata that tracks the mapping of logical block addresses to physical NAND flash pages.
by ehnto | 2025-11-21 01:48:32+00:00
Presumably they have so many families to serve their customers well. If they were to consolidate their engine families in such a way to avoid paying as much money to regulatory processes, that seems like a bit of a perverse incentive and outcome.

In my view though the goal of the regulation isn't bad, but the cost of the process is prohibitive. Why is it so expensive to measure engine emissions?
by protocolture | 2025-11-21 01:48:38+00:00
>There's a reason for most regulations - most of them are written in blood.

Excellent thought terminating cliche. There might be a reason (cause) but there's rarely an available justification.

Regulations dont exist on a spectrum between Hard (good) and Easy (COMPANIES ARE CHEATING NOW). Regulations compel specific actions and block specific actions. Its impossible to fit every regulation into your head to form an opinion on all of them. Taking a stand at "All regulations are good" or "all regulations are bad" is just signalling that you have never dealt with them.

Having worked with multiple companies in multiple legal jurisdictions I can tell you that I have a vast VAST preference for Canada. They talk a big game, but in my honest opinion they have a lower regulatory overhead in certain areas (the ones that affect me) than Australia or the USA.

Heres an excerpt from a canadian government website regarding building a telco tower.

"The Government of Canada is not involved in the specifics of tower installations, but we do set the law; it's called the Radiocommunication Act. Providing technical requirements are met, we only get involved when there is an impasse between the municipality and the company. In these rare cases, we look at the facts and provide a decision."

A Tower build that costs 5 - 10k in rural canada, can cost 100k+ in Australia.

So rural canadian internet providers build more, and service more people. Cause : Effect.

The last time I looked at a tower build for a customer in Australia, we lost interest trying to get a quote for the environmental impact statement required by the state it was to be built in.

Towers, are not 10x more destructive or dangerous in australia than canada. Actually with snow season knocking so many down, the reverse is true. But providers and local governments have the flexibility to make arrangements to service customers.

You need to drop this weird, reflexive defense of regulations, and consider that regulations prevent services, and regulations really do require justification. The Regulator owes you a justification. You are probably poorer for some regulations and those regulations may not be justified.

Another semi relevant example. Gold Coast cops have unlimited search and seizure powers. The "Cause" they display on posters everywhere. A child got stabbed, the parents pushed to change the law to invade everyones privacy on their deceased childs behalf. They tell you the blood cause of the law, but there's no justification for the invasion of privacy or ongoing justification in lives supposedly saved. Just police getting the ability to ruin more peoples lives.
by Dusseldorf | 2025-11-21 01:49:55+00:00
Just wanted to chip in with a positive comment among the hail of negativity here. Thank you for what you and your team are doing. I've been getting tons of great use daily out of the search and news features, as well as occasionally using the assistant. It can definitely be hard to find decent paid alternatives to the freeware crap model so prevalent on the web, seeing your philosophy here is a huge breath of fresh air.
by elcritch | 2025-11-21 01:50:49+00:00
IMHO the real key of message passing is localized decision making on a specific instance of data.

Similarly message passing allows an actor to decide how to respond to an event, to forward a message, to ignore it, etc. That's possible but more difficult to achieve with Java/C++ "straightjacket" style OOP. Important patterns for GUIs like the Observer pattern are just simpler with a message passing paradigm.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-21 01:51:19+00:00
I think we're agreeing but our frequencies are mixed. I was just saying "you can't stop people from using their eyes in public".photography and recording laws are very different.

for more context, the chain started with this:

>People have the right to take in what is in public, but maybe cameras should not?

and then the direct reply disagreed with this notion. I just wanted to distinguish between "taking in" and cameras, because it appears that user made a similar mistake.
by triceratops | 2025-11-21 01:51:59+00:00
> empty carbs

Pretty sure it was whole grains. Not what the base of the pyramid ought to be (it should really be vegetables) but hardly "empty" calories.

Japanese eat lots of rice, white rice even, and stay thin. The food pyramid wasn't the problem. Putting sugar in everything, eating cereal and other processed foods, and dropping home economics cooking classes from school was the culprit.
by pseudalopex | 2025-11-21 01:52:07+00:00
> The point is: the difference is a legal fiction

The point was it was not.

> If I can capture photons with my eyes, but then I try to do it with a machine, and you say, "hey, you can't use a machine for that!" then you are telling me that I can't engage in general purpose computing.

Observing, recording, and processing are different words with different meanings. Repeating your assertion they are the same did not make it more persuasive.

> Yes, I don't think copyright laws are a legitimate role for state power in the information age. And if the argument is, "well, look copyright laws require prohibitions on collecting or copying data or any other general purpose computing process", then that only makes the case stronger, not weaker.

Copyright laws regulated copying always.

There are arguments for copyright abolition worth considering. It is impossible to separate activities almost everyone but you can separate and separates is not.
by isaachinman | 2025-11-21 01:52:12+00:00
> The only thing I'm missing is on iOS. Email on my phone is a literal joke.

I hear you on that. I'd even go a step further and say Apple Mail on desktop is a joke too.

That led me to build Marco, an IMAP‑primitive, offline‑first, cross‑platform email client for web, iOS, and macOS:

https://marcoapp.io
by pempem | 2025-11-21 01:52:43+00:00
The claim is too absolute. Software amplifies value, but inference cost and capability still shape what’s possible. Users aren’t demanding obfuscation; they just want predictable pricing and clear ROI. Does anyone want hidden math in their pricing?

In many markets, transparency wins. Think of Carfax or banking fees or airbnb pricing for example, when regulators or competitors force clarity, buyers benefit and trust grows.In a functioning government that serves the people (regardless of party) we would see this

People believe they “need” these AI products partly because they’re saturated in both earned and paid media. In '23 there were nearly 400k articles covering AI. I think we can all safely assume its more now, and when we include financial reporting, quite inescapable.
by Nevermark | 2025-11-21 01:53:13+00:00
I iterated on adventure games from junior high into high school, starting with a TRS-80 Model III.

I created parser recursion in BASIC (without a stack or a then non-existent GOSUB), using a string as the stack, including a character as a return destination (i.e. a flag for conditional GOTOs).

I was so proud of my parser!

A wrote many great unfinished games. I was more interested in better coding than completion, but the games still had a lot of color.

One Easter egg was if you typed “sh*t” the response was: “YOU HAVE DROPPED THE DUNG”.” You could do that anywhere, so a great way to detect you had walked in a circle in a maze or forest.

Later I used strings as a heap to define very simple 3D vector geometry.

(In early MATLAB, I prototyped some code with tree data structures implemented with an array, before they introduced their structures. The latter code shipped.)
by kragen | 2025-11-21 01:53:30+00:00
Right, the great advantage of the 3270-style block-mode model was that your 0.5-MIPS mainframe didn't have to handle an interrupt for every keystroke, so it could serve, I don't know, 100 terminals. Same as HTML <form> and half-duplex line-mode terminals with local echo.

An in-between version is how csh and vi would set eol2 (I think?) to ^[ so that most user interaction could be done in "cooked mode" until you hit ESC or ^D. This still required an interrupt for every keystroke on your 1-MIPS PDP-11, but at least it didn't require a context switch to the shell or editor process in order to echo normal printing characters. The kernel would handle echoing characters back to the terminal, deleting characters with ^? or ^H, and deleting words with ^W.

(As I understand it. I used csh and vi, but never on a PDP-11.)
by paranoidrobot | 2025-11-21 01:53:50+00:00
If you're someone who's bought into the Apple ecosystem over multiple devices, or ave a partner or children who are also using devices in the Apple ecosystem, then your Apple ID is something that is very definitely tied to you and probably difficult to change/give up when you replace your phone.

I don't think it would be at all surprising to find that the vast majority of people use their legal name or something closely associated with their identity, and that it persists over multiple devices.
by ehnto | 2025-11-21 01:56:14+00:00
The testing is solely about emissions, it's an electric powertrain dolly and they want it to be proven it doesn't increase emissions rather than decrease them. It has nothing to do with safety as far as on road safety is concerned.

The weird thing is they want to test it against all the different trucks it can be towed behind, which doesn't make any sense. If it works it works, doesn't matter which specific truck it's behind so long as the already verified specifications of the truck engine and electric dolly align.

They should verify the electric dolly does what it says it does, compare that to the configurations of trucks they already have on file. Do the math. Does that cost $100,000 per configuration?
by musicale | 2025-11-21 01:56:20+00:00
Original MDL version: https://github.com/MITDDC/zork

DECUS fortran version: https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/dungeon-3....

f77 version for Unix: https://github.com/videogamepreservation/zork-fortran

(GNU fortran port: https://github.com/GOFAI/dungeon)

f2c translation (basis of many versions): https://github.com/devshane/zork

(See README for history of this version)
by jmathai | 2025-11-21 01:56:21+00:00
I do think Covid forced people to ask questions they hadn’t before.

We have sent our kids to private, poor quality and top rated schools.

We saw a stark difference between the poor quality and higher cost options. No surprise.

But the reason we are considering home schooling our younger kids was surprising. It says something about a system dedicated to teaching children when parents think they can do as well or better.

That’s just education. The social situation in schools is ludicrous. Phones, social media, etc. what a terrible environment we adults have created for kids to learn both educationally and socially.

Home schooling has answers for ALL of that.
by Jensson | 2025-11-21 01:58:30+00:00
> I like the car analogy for IQ. Having an engine with 50% or more horsepower above the people around you is only useful if you know how to handle it, how to steer, etc.

And its not useful at all in a typical traffic situation, you are still limited to the speed of the one in front of you. Intelligence is only useful in environments that allows it to be, but most places are designed for typical people.
by RyanOD | 2025-11-21 02:00:15+00:00
When I was around six years old, my older brothers convinced me computer games were written in paragraph form. I wrote a lot of games! Asteroids went something like this, "You fly around in a ship that is a triangle. When you shoot asteroids they break up into smaller asteroids."

My brothers got a lot of laughs out of those "programs".

Fast-forward 45 years and whose laughing now?! :)
by wyldberry | 2025-11-21 02:00:43+00:00
This applying to graduate degrees really does seem like the result of AMA lobbying to keep Nurse Practitioner numbers down. It is state and program dependent, but in some states NPs have prescribing authority, which cuts into the domain of MD/DO practice in the US. There are of course merits to the argument about NP training vs MD/DO training in Pharmacology, but overall this limits patient access in America to prescribed medicine.

Congress, at the behest of AMA lobbying, had kept the number of Medicare funded residency slots capped at the same number since 1997 until the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 which added 1000 new residence slots[0]. Starting in FY 2023 (October 1 2022) no more than 200 new positions would be added each FY meaning the full 1000 could be created no sooner than FY 2028 (October 1 2027). Given the medical school timeline of 7-10 years training (school, residency, fellowship) we won't see any meaningful impact from that until the mid 2030s.

The US already has a much lower physician to patient ratio than Nordic countries (as a comparison between wealthy, western countries). The us has 2.97 active physicians per 1000 population, of which 2.52 are actual direct patient care physicians[2]. For comparison Sweden is ~5 per 1,000, Norway 4.5 per 1,000, Denmark 4.45 per 1,000, and Finland at 3.8 per 1000. Extra Bonus (Russian Federation reports 4.0 per 1,000)[3]. Note these numbers are as of 2020.

In America, most people interface with doctors in order to get tests run and medicine prescribed. Reducing the incentive for RNs to move into NP by removing it's professional degree status will likely lower the amount of prescribing individuals a patient can interface with, increasing bottleneck and time to care.

[0] - https://www.sgu.edu/news-and-events/new-residency-slots-appr... [1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8370355/ [2] - https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/data/2023-key-findings-and... [3] - https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-...
by jsheard | 2025-11-21 02:00:48+00:00
Looks like they do expensive conservative TSO emulation by default, but they're able to piggyback on compiler work that Microsoft did to make newer Windows x86 binaries easier to emulate. Since MSVC 2019 they annotate the executable with metadata that informs an emulator of when TSO is or isn't needed for correctness.

https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2510/

FEX also has settings which weaken or disable TSO altogether, favoring performance over correctness. You wouldn't want to rely on those for anything important but a game possibly crashing isn't the end of the world.
by jemmyw | 2025-11-21 02:01:12+00:00
Here you're just comparing proprietary closed source development to open source development. In the proprietary version the goal is to improve a product. The OSS goals are much harder to pin down and can be different person to person, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to have a goal of "make it so that other devs can make their own compositors easily" and therefore you're describing an obvious success.

Short term this might be a far slower and worse approach. It's not clear that's the case long term though, making things easier to try out different ideas and then finding a winning compositor project could be better than being stuck with one.
by c0ndu17 | 2025-11-21 02:01:29+00:00
"hey," is a project I've been developing over the past several years, exploring a question that feels increasingly important for distributed systems:

Can identity, topology, and communication emerge directly from information itself — without configuration, without fixed IDs, without ports, without keys, and without a discovery service?

In "hey,", every node starts from the same initial bytes (ROOT) and evolves a recursively defined structure by folding in every event it experiences: - success or failure when binding a port - messages received - local input - the state projections of other nodes

This evolving structure is not metadata. It is the node’s identity, its history, and its behaviour model.

From that single structure, nodes deterministically derive: - their network port - their next fallback port - how they interpret peer messages - how they respond - and how they integrate into the mesh

There is no configuration. No bootstrap server. No membership protocol. No global routing.

Yet nodes still discover each other, stabilise into a mesh, form communication channels, and maintain a shared symbolic dataspace — what I think of as a “symbol economy,” where meaning emerges naturally from entropy and interaction.

The system is minimal, but the implications are larger: it hints at distributed systems driven by number theory and information flow rather than named identities or predesigned roles.

This could form the basis for: - self-assembling P2P networks - identity models rooted in informational history - new forms of symbolic deduplication or superposition - topology that emerges mathematically rather than being configured - communication layers defined by entropic deltas instead of message schemas

The project is still early, but the underlying idea feels promising, and the current implementation already shows coherent (and sometimes surprising) emergent behaviour.

If nothing else, I hope it gets the noggin turnin

Repo: https://github.com/c0ndu17/hey