MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-22 06:53:56+00:00
That 46 million could be spent on education, transportation, aid for low-income families, the homeless, jobs programs, small business tax breaks, infrastructure renewal, public works, etc. According to the report, not only are they largely not used for anything productive, there's potential harms to both people and the environment. And as many have pointed out, the same work can be done with drones.
by runeks | 2025-11-22 06:54:09+00:00
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012710 (from 2024)

> hbm chips are now emerging as another bottleneck in the development of those models. Both sk Hynix and Micron, an American chipmaker, have already pre-sold most of their hbm production for next year. Both are pouring billions of dollars into expanding capacity, but that will take time. Meanwhile Samsung, which manufactures 35% of the world’s hbm chips, has been plagued by production issues and reportedly plans to cut its output of the chips next year by a tenth.
by nradov | 2025-11-22 06:55:47+00:00
Perfect how? The license plate scanner can only tell that a particular plate number was in a particular place at a particular time. It doesn't know if the plate was fake or stolen, or who was driving the vehicle, or if there was contraband in the vehicle. Stopping fleeing vehicles is one of the most effective ways to catch people with outstanding arrest warrants and get illegal weapons off the streets.
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-22 06:55:56+00:00
SSRIs are definitely not commonly recommended or normally used for treating bipolar disorder - especially not for people who are showing signs of a manic episode.

Unfortunately, this is one of the major limitations of our diagnosing abilities with mental illness: when someone presents with severe depressive symptoms and no other known history of mental illness, we have no real way of telling whether it should be classed as Major Depression, or whether it may be Bipolar disorder.

So, sadly, yours is a common story where people with bipolar disorder that initially manifests with a depressive episode get treated with SSRIs that then push them into their first manic episode. I've had a good friend go through something very similar (though, thankfully, less severe in terms of intensity of the manic episode).

If you were given SSRIs to handle the start of your manic episode, that to me seems like a gross mistake by your physician.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-22 06:57:14+00:00
> who bears the costs of this suit?

The goal is to not have it happen, because the company is going to see that they're only slightly below the threshold and voluntarily split themselves into smaller pieces and buy themselves a safety margin because if they don't everybody knows the lawsuits are going to vaporize them once they exceed the threshold.

> And who determines what makes for a good market share size to be the threshold?

Anything in the vicinity of 5%-15% would be fine.

> And by having such a rule, an industry that would have higher efficiency to when consolidated would not be able to (but you wouldn't know).

This is extremely rare and the circumstances where it happens aren't a mystery. It's when entering the market has extremely high fixed costs but then the unit cost of usage is negligible, e.g. it costs a huge amount of money to install water and sewer but then the incremental cost of someone washing their hands is insignificant.

For those things you either have the government do them, or if it's a private company then it's a regulated utility which is completely banned from anything that even vaguely resembles vertical integration as the price of being allowed to have more than the threshold amount of market share.

> A better way would be for gov't to increase competition by adding supply, or demand, whichever one is the bottleneck to competition.

The problem is generally caused by the incumbents capturing the government and then enacting rules that inhibit rather than increase competition. That's why you need anyone to be able to initiate the lawsuit, so they can't capture the government department which is supposed to be thwarting them because then it's the entire public.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 06:57:18+00:00
I hope you can understand that this and other comments about needing to find meaning and needing to sit with inner feelings... It feels patronizing. I have spent tremendous amounts of time and energy analyzing my feelings and looking for meaningful experiences. I've sought relief in meditation, religion, therapy, yoga, travel, art, etc. Most people probably have in one way or another. It's not rocket science to know those activities may be beneficial. They undoubtedly do help some people overcome feeling depressed. But feeling depressed is different from having depression.
by RestartKernel | 2025-11-22 06:58:03+00:00
On that note, is there any good window management paradigm on MacOS? Tiling just doesn't seem to work well tacked on compared to full-fledged i3, and MacOS' seperation of applications from their windows makes multi-tasking a giant pain. Windows is miles ahead in this regard, and Linux of course offers options for every paradigm imaginable, so it leaves MacOS feeling particularly mediocre.
by jrflowers | 2025-11-22 06:59:09+00:00
> If you found children buying condoms, lubes, or intimate apparel at unusually high rates, that would be very alarming. But, normally, they are purchasing these products for very lazy adults.

“Children buying condoms or lube at unusually high rates” is a funny phrase because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a child buy either of those things. What is the threshold between usual and unusual for these purchases in hard terms?
by knallfrosch | 2025-11-22 06:59:51+00:00
Most people just have a very limited economic understanding. They can't comprehend anything more complicated than "product sucks, merchant is evil."

Psychologically, they also never admit they're at fault themselves.

People love swiping, but hate being swiped upon. Renters love complaining about prices they are willing to pay – and so on. How many consumers factor in customer support when choosing a carrier? None. They choose on price and then complain when the support sucks.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-22 06:59:56+00:00
My job is to build systems that work. Code is a liability sometimes needed to accomplish that. I don't want more of it unless there's some reason to believe the benefits outweigh the liability. Based on what I'm able to get from LLMs and especially what I'm seeing produced by others I know are using them, that's not often the case with agents.
by inejge | 2025-11-22 07:00:33+00:00
> The "more to the secret sauce" is the structure of the company. Valve is flat.

I'm too lazy to dig up references, but there have been semi-exposés over the years by ex-employees stating that Valve's flatness was anything but. Namely, in the absence of formal hierarchy an informal one will inevitably arise, and can be equally constraining and pathological, without the benefit of having known avenues for redress. To be sure, formal procedures can also be window-dressing: it's a balancing act, and not an easy one. I'm just skeptical of ascribing too much benefit to lack of structure.
by mostertoaster | 2025-11-22 07:02:51+00:00
Be curious how they got their numbers. Because I had to fill out intent to homeschool forms for my 4 kids that are over 10, but they’re all at a classical Christian school, but there is one home day a week so it technically is considered homeschool by the state. So if they pull from those types of forms it could be there are a lot of kids who are at schools but look like they’re homeschooling from the numbers.
by muixoozie | 2025-11-22 07:02:56+00:00
small feedback for the readme: I think demo should be above the explanation on the differences in the port. Perhaps it doesn't matter as this might just be a thing people find after they know what they're looking for. I didn't really get what it is until seeing the demo and still had to lookup what a webring is on Wikipedia because I was curious why it's called that. Anyway cool looking project. I might even use it if I ever stop procrastinating and blog again.

BTW your blog is probably the most pleasant looking website I've seen in a month at least to my eyes on mobile.
by hapless | 2025-11-22 07:03:08+00:00
You've never seen a kid buy condoms because mom and dad are lazy?

I aspire to your lifestyle ;)

kids buy condoms for the same reasons kids used to buy cigarettes or beer. It would be super weird to see the same neighborhood kid buy condoms every week, but it's not particularly alarming on a one-time basis.

Maybe I am just very old, and I should be alarmed by a one-time purchase. I am relating the basic guidelines from my own youth.

It is plainly a bad idea by any standard to provide an application for teenagers to keep diaries of their sexual abuse.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-11-22 07:03:13+00:00
Repair is just continuous retrying some reconciliation operation, where “reconciliation” means taking the desired state and the current state and diffing the two to figure out what actions need to be performed. In my case I needed to look up what the definition of a “workspace” was (from a database or similar) in terms of what infrastructure should exist and then query the cloud provider APIs to figure out what infrastructure did exist and then create any missing infrastructure, delete any infrastructure that ought not exist, and update any infrastructure whose state is not how it ought to be.

> I've written service tree management tools that do that sort of thing on a single host but not any kind of distributed system.

That’s essentially what Kubernetes is—a distributed process manager (assuming process management is what you are describing by “service tree”).
by technofiend | 2025-11-22 07:03:31+00:00
So you don't think Plaid sells customer data? And by extension charging for customer data requests by Plaid and other aggregators isn't in fact charging for it?

Plaid does in fact sell your data, but they ask for permission first. So does JPMC, for that matter: https://media.chase.com/news/chase-launches-chase-media-solu...
by Scottn1 | 2025-11-22 07:04:31+00:00
It really is sad! Truly

I've been a Microsoft user since DOS days and diehard Windows fan since it first came out. All through the years I've installed, ran, broke, reinstalled, tinkered and administered countless Windows PC's for myself and clients. Was even on track to be MCSE NT certified through my employer until the Internet bubble burst and got laid off. Played with so many others like Linux, BSD, Solaris, BeOS, etc as well but always at end the day just wanted my Windows and get stuff done. I was known as the "PC Guy" in my circles.

Where Microsoft is now and what Windows 11 has slowly become, I have really started to think their Windows division is just a nuisance for them and they don't care. Every month I seem to be reading another anti-user friendly decision and ANOTHER switch I have to find to turn off at every install or visiting family. A default install of Windows 11 is an assault of Constant locked-down install, forced account adding or worse grabbing it from Edge or where it can, ad-based data slurp with so much stuff running in the background and other enshittification of the OS. WHAT IS GOING ON??

Even the Pro version MEANT for business and domain PC's has Xbox stuff on it and game bar running by default, now CoPilot on as well by default, screen snapshots. Instead of a nice light install for business and hardcore users that you then ADD to to make your desired setup, it is the opposite of having it all installed and you spend an hour removing everything.

I am ready to jump ship for first time in my life.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-22 07:06:41+00:00
“ we have been open-source long before it was fashionable.”

That is a weird, weird claim for a firm that was founded off the back of a project that started in 2005.

It’s, what, over five years after the VA Linux IPO, two years after Microsoft arguably used Caldera as a weapon in a proxy war against IBM, seven years after one of the most famous software products of all time, Netscape Navigator, went open source.

Just a strange, facially implausible bit of appeal to tradition.
by mdip | 2025-11-22 07:06:44+00:00
> As a parent/carer you probably are much more motivated

No question. No teacher cares more about my child's education than I do.

Really, though, the biggest factor is just being their parent. When they're young, the vast majority of the time you can basically read their mind. When you're teaching your child, you almost instinctively know how well they're understanding things. I was never deliberate about it, I didn't look for things, I never had to. I was able to pace my delivery very tightly with their ability to consume and it was the most natural thing imaginable.

That, and having a class size of two, meant Home Schooling was "30-45 minutes Monday-Friday September to mid-April with generous vacations." And that's not "30-45 minutes but we also went to a museum, the library, co-ops (we did, briefly), and all kinds of other learning activities" (I'm sure I lied and said I did those things), that was 30-45 minutes, do some chores (we don't live on a farm, it's the same stuff most kids do), and play video games.

Parenting-wise, the only elements we were more strict with was we limited "watching a TV show or video content" to an hour (two, on occasion, for movies) a day ... and we were quite rigorous with that. But they could play pretty much any video game they wanted (within reason, but probably far less restrictive than most parents outside of Hacker News). And they didn't get mobile devices until 13 and 15. There was no reason. They had/have computers.

My goal was simply "to teach them at home better than they could get at school and to make them self-learners along the way." I wasn't looking for genius spelling bee winners.

They've been in Public School (since the start of HS for my son, 7th grade for my daughter) for four years. Those 30-45 minute sessions that -- not once -- involved taking a test resulted in them being straight-A students. The first test they took, a placement test, resulted in them landing in advanced classes.

They finish their home work at school (my son works way ahead because he's bored). They study for nothing outside of midterms and finals (and they only do that out of paranoia, it's not really needed).

The majority of the time they were Home Schooled, Mom and I were divorced (and it wasn't "amicable" for the majority of that, it was ... ugly). And while that was hard, actually home schooling the children was not. It was awesome. I'd have been a lot less stressed in the earlier years if I'd have known how easy it was.

It was "get good curriculum, follow it, don't move on until they understand it to what a teacher would grade an 'A'". You do the latter because you have to; anything else is debt and the only one who pays that debt is the you. Your kids will just sob through it. Outside of budgeting because you're likely down to one income, the rest was all upside.
by chii | 2025-11-22 07:09:30+00:00
> so they can't capture the government department

so why not solve this issue directly? Transparency, auditing and public awareness etc are needed to prevent regulatory capture. Public apathy are the reason why it is currently "easy" to do capture regulators.

The fact is even if a law suit is possible from anyone in the public, no one is going to pay to do a law suit (which has costs), when the result doesn't net them more profit. So unless the law suit enables the accuser to wholesale take a piece of that company as private property from the owners - which no law currently would allow nor have precedents for - why would anyone expend private money for a public good?

And in any case, i don't the apathy going away, even if the law suit was free. Because currently, the same apathy is allowing regulatory capture in the first place. So solving public apathy first, and foremost, is the solution.
by mostertoaster | 2025-11-22 07:09:57+00:00
Or just because math is awesome and knowing more is just great knowledge to obtain.

For some reason people think having an education is only valuable if it is traded for money. For example I think an educated wife and a mom who never earns a single dollar from an employer is incredibly value to her family.

I hope my daughters get a robust liberal arts education and then just get married young and have kids and be homemakers.
Amex Architecture
by nemsj | 2025-11-22 07:11:20+00:00
I was readin about AMEX architecture (some blogs, LLM's discussion...) and was wondering if AMEX still uses z/TPF or not. I am not able to find any clear info about this online, the most I got is from a decade year old discussion. So if anyone can help me around this it would be great!!
by hexagonal-sun | 2025-11-22 07:11:59+00:00
Hello!

For the past 8 months, or so, I've been working on a project to create a Linux-compatible kernel in nothing but Rust and assembly. I finally feel as though I have enough written that I'd like to share it with the community!

I'm currently targeting the ARM64 arch, as that's what I know best. It runs on qemu as well as various dev boards that I've got lying around (pi4, jetson nano, AMD Kria, imx8, etc). It has enough implemented to run most BusyBox commands on the console.

Major things that are missing at the moment: decent FS driver (only fat32 RO at the moment), and no networking support.

More info is on the github readme.

https://github.com/hexagonal-sun/moss

Comments & contributions welcome!
by zenethian | 2025-11-22 07:12:56+00:00
Your behavior feels wildly more intolerable than theirs. They want to provide a measure of safety to the place. You don’t have to go. There are plenty of places that will take a lonely person like you. But some people will prefer to frequent an establishment specifically for this, so going that they go out of business just because you don’t like it is an awful position to hold.
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-22 07:13:42+00:00
That is because of both of your biases (which is understandable) and me, not specifying why I am asking.

"it would be astonishing if they _didn't_ sell my data."

If the "who" was answered with "... to Kim Jong Un, glorious leader of the DPRK" you might raise a brow. That is probably not what they meant.

Maybe the author meant "... to the legal buyer of the new company, as part of the content of the company"? Maybe they meant "... to anyone willing to pay a price, legally or illegally"?

I wondered what scenario the author had in mind. It's a reasonable question. To me, the implications are quite different. You might of course disagree.
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-22 07:14:08+00:00
This is true overall, but it only works for a limited set of patients. It's pretty likely that what we're calling depression is a different set of diseases that manifest with common symptoms, and SSRIs + therapy work wonders for some variants, but not others.

In fact, we actually do know this to be the case already: bipolar disorder also manifests with the same symptoms as depression for some time, and SSRIs + therapy are definitely not enough to treat bipolar disorder. Most likely there are other similar diseases that present with depressive symptoms that we have yet to identify distinctly and don't know how to treat effectively.
by bbminner | 2025-11-22 07:15:31+00:00
I am surprised by how many people seemingly independently come up with a completely indescriptive "bad day" label - for the lack of a better one.

Good that things are working out for you.

Recently found that, on top of meds (that started wearing off - after taking them for a couple years now following a challenging life situation), going to social latin dance classes for a couple hours almost every day after work helps quite a bit.
by aceofspades19 | 2025-11-22 07:16:32+00:00
This study doesn't prove what you said though. It just says that non-EU immigrants contribute less than EU immigrants on average. It also says that both EU and non-EU immigrants make a net contribution to the UK public finances on average. Non-EU immigrants It also clearly says that Non-EEA migrants are from any country outside of the EU which could include US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc.
by iced_beverage | 2025-11-22 07:18:50+00:00
For how they could tell it was from the first run, it says in the article you referenced:

> For decades, Allen says, nobody knew of a way to distinguish which copies came from that initial run. Then a grader noticed a key difference in a small in-house promotional spot advertising the upcoming Action Comics No. 14. In the first run, those ads included text reading “On sale June 2nd.” Subsequent print runs had updated it to “Now on sale.”
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-22 07:20:07+00:00
Homeschooling makes zero sense unless one or both parents are independently wealthy and already excellent academic communicators and there are firm, minimum subject milestones set by the state that must be achieved and reported on. Instead, it's being widely abused much like the anti-vaxx movement to opt out of society, norms, and replace education and healthcare with religion. And then it begs credulity why they are so many kids dying and losing their immune systems (IA because measles attacks the immune system) from an entirely preventable disease that has a safe and effective vaccine that was previously mandatory for everyone. And then it follow: what good is there in allowing some parents to selectively opt their kids out of society, a fundamental right of passage, and an essential public good to ensure socialization and universal education. Division of labor, specialization of trade for most means sending kids to properly funded, staffed, and sensible curricula public schools so the parents are freed up to earn more and make the family's life better.

There are some parents who might be Yale law grads who might not be rich who opt for some homeschooling given the right situation, but these are the outliers and I'm okay with these, while most aren't.
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-22 07:20:33+00:00
> Chip fabs used to be like book publishers;

I can still make a book like that in my basement. People do this as a hobby now. You can still build chips like that in your garage. People do this as a hobby now.

These things DO NOT SCALE... you cant have 10,000 people running printing presses in their basement to crank out the NYT every day. A modern chip fab has more in common with the printer for the NYT than it does with what you can crank out in your garage.

Let's look at TSMC's plant in AZ. They went and asked intel "hey where are you sourcing your sulfuric acid from. When they looked at the American vendors TSMC asked intel "how are you working with this". Intels response was that it was the best they could get.

It was not.

TSMC now imports sulfuric acid from Taiwan, because it needs to be outrageously pure. Intel is doing the same.

Every single part, component, step and setup in the chain is like that. There is so much arcane knowledge that loss of workers represents a serious set back. There are people in the production chain, with PHD's, who are literally training their successors because thats sort of the only option.

Do you know who has been trying the approach you are proposing? China. It has not worked.

https://www.youtube.com/asianometry probably the best rough and ready education you can get on the industry.