MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sholain | 2025-11-03 08:00:45+00:00
The US President and his family's newfound crypto fortune, worth billions, managed by himself, his sons and 'Steve Witkoff' (his business partner who is 'negotiating' deals in the Middle East and Russia, and whereupon 100's of Millions of $ is coming unto World Liberty backed coins) is called 'World Liberty Financial' ...

... and is hosted by Binance which is the crypto platform owned by Zhao.

Zhao was found guilty of ignoring oversight regulations allowing nefarious actors (ISIS, Cartels, sex traffickers) to transact on his platform.

There's no way in high heaven that the President could be unaware of the fact that Zhao is the CEO who of the platform that hosts almost all of Trump's wealth.

Moreover, this man is convicted specifically for ignoring the lighter oversight regulations, with operations in parts of the world that are out of reach of US investigators and justice system.
by bgauryy | 2025-11-03 08:01:20+00:00
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by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-03 08:02:15+00:00
> So first as foundation, I see no reason to pretend that the law is always perfectly thought through and logical particularly when it comes to crime.

You will of course never reach perfection, but considering that when a law is applied, a lot of violence (police, jail, ...) gets involved, a politician who does not dedicate his life towards making the laws as perfect as humanly possible (with the ideal of finding an imperfection in the laws as big of a human breakthrough as the dicovery of quantum physics or general relativity) clearly does not deserve to be elected.
by teiferer | 2025-11-03 08:02:32+00:00
> always prepare a punch. People don't realize it but there's alcohol in this thing

Why is it that alcohol seems to be a necessary ingredient to people having a good time? Or at least everybody assumes this to be the case?

Why is nobody able to be themselves and relax and have fun without being intoxicated, mildly or more?

Serious question, I don't get it.
by beckford | 2025-11-03 08:02:46+00:00
> The first main disadvantage is that they require the kernel to support syscall tracing, which essentially means they only work on Linux. I have Ideas™ for how to get this working on macOS without disabling SIP, but they're still incomplete and not fully general; I may write a follow-up post about that. I don't yet have ideas for how this could work on Windows, but it seems possible.

On Windows, Linux, and also macOS with SIP disabled (as implied, disabling is a bad idea), the https://github.com/jacereda/fsatrace executable exists today and can trace filesystem access. It is used by the Shake build system.

In particular, https://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2020/05/file-tracing.html mentions that Shake copies system binaries to temporary folders to workaround the SIP protection. That blogpost also mentions other problems and solutions (like library preloading).
by righthand | 2025-11-03 08:03:34+00:00
Which type of applications? What I have found to be finicky is the desktop environments, however BSDs are pretty much tuned for web servers/applications. Bastille is designed for deploying web applications in jails securely and built on top of FreeBSD which is a pretty good default OS that gets out of your way already.

Normally you don't release an app for BSD specifically unless you want to offer a port. In which case software is usually built and if you need containerization you can put it in a jail.

It seems you would do well to install a FreeBSD vm/usb and give it a run. Their documentation is pretty good and their forums are helpful.
by arjie | 2025-11-03 08:04:28+00:00
I think, in general, it's possible to get a view of how an Executive Order is signed by looking at the example of the H-1B $100k fee signing (which we now understand to be far more constrained than it first appeared). Here's a video https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1969157504211808579 where President Trump's "we need more workers" is contrasted with his aides' statements.

It would appear the these things are less an act of the President as a fully informed person making decisions and more of the final rubber stamp on something that staff that he's picked have decided on.

Given that, I wouldn't expect him to personally know what he is signing. If, as I suspect, these pardons are pay-to-play deals, it's someone else managing the operation under his guidance and he's just the guy with the pen so to speak.
by zanellia | 2025-11-03 08:04:34+00:00
It’s worrying how much control platforms like Meta have over what people see. Their moderation and ranking systems often act as invisible filters—shadowbanning, or quietly removing reach without transparency.

This kind of centralization makes open discourse fragile. It’s why I think distributed and independent ways of sharing information are becoming essential—so no single company decides which voices are amplified or buried.
by easyprotech | 2025-11-03 08:05:56+00:00
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by rob74 | 2025-11-03 08:06:04+00:00
In other cases that might be true, but in this case, I seriously doubt that Trump really has no idea who the founder of the platform that is deeply involved in his cryptocurrency dealings is. So, either he's lying, or everyone (including his family) is doing everything behind his back. Or his dementia is worse than everyone thinks...

> On March 13th, it was reported that representatives of President Trump’s family were in talks to acquire a financial stake in Binance. Soon after, on March 25th, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company, World Liberty Financial (WLF), announced that it would launch a new stablecoin, USD1, and the former Binance CEO posted on X welcoming them to its platform.

(https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/forwarding-...)
by kqr | 2025-11-03 08:06:11+00:00
If it was, they would have mentioned it in their summary report, the way they justified other deliberate design decisions. I find it more likely they thought of 25 different ways this system could fail, fixed the ones that needed fixing (some of them hinted in the summary report), and then they forgot about that one way it was actually going to fail. Happens all the time.

I agree this article is very hindsight biased though. We do need a way to model the failure modes we can think of, but we also need a method that helps us think of what the failure modes are, in a systematic manner that doesn't suffer from "oops we forgot the one way it was actually going to fail".
by baxtr | 2025-11-03 08:07:30+00:00
What you are describing holds true only if the buyer values the higher quality, which is true for coffee.

But if you can send the cheap stuff and get the same price why not do that and keep the high quality items for the local market?

Southern Europeans export their tasteless tomatoes to Northern Europe because people there don’t value tasty tomatoes that much. So southern Europeans keep the good vegetables for themselves.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-03 08:07:54+00:00
Well, maybe look at how many people worked in the agricultural sector is 1900 and how many do so today.

Automation of field labour has decreased the worker count by a factor 20 or something.

Same for the mining sector.

It's not necessarily a bad thing as working in the fields or in coal mines wasn't pleasant, but pretending automation doesn't reduce employment is nonsense.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-03 08:10:19+00:00
If you can figure out how to install Arch, you're not exactly a mainstream gamer.

My 1080 also runs ~fine in Ubuntu (driver updates require a full reboot or GPU accelerated applications fail to launch). Guessing the right kernel parameters to make sleep work was a fun game that lasted a while, though. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting is that long for a reason.

Laptop GPUs are hit the worst, of course. No distro I've found can figure out how to keep the iGPU and Nvidia dGPU 1) running at the same time (so screens and HDMI work) and 2) run at more than 40fps. Nvidia forum posts go unanswered, laptop vendor forum posts are basically useless, and reported bugs/issues go stale and eventually get autoclosed.

Nvidia hardware either works fine out of the box, or you're going to lose many hours beating it into functioning form.
by BoredPositron | 2025-11-03 08:11:13+00:00
I got electructed when I was 19 while trying to kick a colleague who was fused to an industrial distribution cabinet away from it. I was dead for 7-8 minutes and had these flashbacks. They were fast and felt more like drifting from one dream to another. Can't recommend though got visual cortex hyperactivity with a bad case of visual snow syndrome and tinnitus ever since.
by sholain | 2025-11-03 08:11:27+00:00
To the contrary, this is possibly an extremely dangerous and corrupt action (I'm saying 'possible' here).

Zhao manages Binance upon which Trump's nefarious crypto operation - World Liberty Financial is hosted.

Zhao is guilty of wilfully ignoring a lot of very bad and illegal activity by all sorts of bad actors.

World Liberty Financial is receiving $100's of millions inbound, coincident with 'deals' made by US and Middle East actors etc..

WLF is co-managed by Steve Witkoff, the 'real estate magnate' who has been charged with Middle Easter nand Russia negotiations (who by the ay has absolutely no diplomatic background, historical context or understanding of this situations and is deeply unqualified) and who notably has been entering into negotiations and discussion with foreign parties without any US State Dept personnel. Sometimes not even translators.

Subsequent to those 'deals' with Qatar etc. which the Administration indicated there would be up to $1T invested in the US ... Qatar and other regimes have been flushing massive amounts of noney into WLF, hosted on Binance, overseen by Zhao.

The potentiality fore corruption is hard to overstate.
by hansenzhang | 2025-11-03 08:11:48+00:00
> That said, a lot of European bread is also trash.

Yes thank you for pointing this out. I've noticed even the bakeries around me (in Switzerland) aren't that great; for me the best are from the farmers markets and even still you have to be discerning for which are actually good. On the other side I've had some fantastic bread in the US from specialty bakeries.
by ethin | 2025-11-03 08:12:34+00:00
I know some blind people who tolerate it but yeah, I find it completely unusable at the moment. I haven't tried Gnome recently but last time I tried it I had apps like Bitwarden malfunctioning in some very, very weird ways that just... Never happened on Xorg. If I remember right, it was things like forms not being read properly or something, can't remember off the top of my head now. But it certainly didn't leave me with a good impression; it made me think this Wayland thing was just half-baked. Also, Orca modifiers were passed-through directly to the compositor and Orca wasn't allowed to intercept them either, which made just using my computer feel awkward since I'd always need to remember to turn off caps lock every time I wanted to do something even remotely complicated. I've heard that Gnome has solved this but as I said above, I think this may be a Gnome (and at most KDE) thing, and not something that everybody has decided to just do.
by fabian2k | 2025-11-03 08:13:34+00:00
All of the possible explanations for this are bad and arguably disqualifying for the presidency:

- Trump is lying so that he doesn't have to explain a quid-pro-quo pardon

- Trump is dement and already forgot about the pardon

- Trump wasn't the one actually pardoning him and his administration just did it

The last one would be particularly ironic given the obsession with Joe Biden's Autopen.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-03 08:14:23+00:00
> Sure, it's upsetting. IBM was upset about BIOS being cloned, Bell got upset about Unix being cloned, Oracle got upset about the JDK being cloned, etc.

This is not like that though; moving from a pro-user license to a pro-business license is the reason for being upset, not just losing control over the product.

With the move, any future improvements run the very real risk of being extended then closed off by tech companies.

It's simply hubris for an entire community of developers to look at an existing working product that got popular due to the goal of being pro-user, then say to themselves "we can replace it with this new thing I created, but in order for my new thing to gain traction it must be immediately favourable to big business to close off".

If you view it in that light, then, yeah, you can understand why the upset people are upset, even if you don't agree with them.

> Many of them were upset enough to engage in decade-long lawsuits. But we'd ultimately be in a much worse place if "avoiding making original creators upset" was the primary factor in development, over things like compatibility, bugs, performance, security etc.

Original creators did frequently get upset, but the difference between "some individual forked the code or cloned the product" is very different to "an entire community celebrating a gradual but persistent and constant effort by the same community to move the ecosystem away from a pro-user license".

I hope this gives you some insight into why people are upset, even if you don't agree with them. Most of them aren't articulating it like I did.

[EDIT: I'm thinking of this like an Overton-Window equivalent, shifting from pro-user to pro-business. It seems like an accurate analogy: some people don't want this shift to happen while others are actively pushing for it. This is obviously going to result in conflict.]
by r_singh | 2025-11-03 08:14:43+00:00
While the world does need it, the demand isn’t unavoidable yet. Most people aren’t motivated enough to act even for their own long-term good, let alone for an abstract ideal of decentralization. From a behavioral-economics view, the blocker is misaligned motivation: a decentralized photo app is a convenience for the few who care about autonomy, not a tangible benefit for the average user.

What might change this is a new class of tools—open-source or paid—built for power users who want to steer their own information environment. Think of them as “choose-your-own-reality” browsers that mix resource-fetching and synthetic-media recycling to create a more self-curated web. That seems a more plausible path than a mass migration to a decentralized Instagram clone.

We’ll also see the big platforms fragment as large sub-groups become dissatisfied and peel off. The result won’t look like a single decentralized network, more like many semi-centralized ones—small, durable ecosystems that eventually cross their own chasms. Investor optimism about infinite platform growth feels misplaced; we may have passed peak consolidation. The next decade should be interesting.
by sholain | 2025-11-03 08:15:33+00:00
Trump's personal, newfound multi-billion dollar crypto fortune is hosted by Zhao.

I don't mean to be breaking any etiquette her by re-indicating this, but it's I think it's unreasonable to suggest that Trump could not know who this person is.

This is Trump's new 'personal banker' , who doesn't have to play be the constrained rules of $USD denominated financial regulations.
by ehnto | 2025-11-03 08:16:03+00:00
He should know though shouldn't he, as acting president of the US he should aim to learn and know these things as part of his service to the country.

Like when he's unaware of certain bills or important procedings, maybe he legitimately doesn't know, but he should. It's part of his job to know.

Of course the ignorance could be a lie, which is worse, but neither option is good. So in some ways it doesn't really matter, it's already a bad outcome.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-03 08:16:08+00:00
Now THAT is blatantly false.

American power today stems from its power, military and fiscally (which is also backed militarily).

Most countries in the world today are allied to the US out of economic, trade and defense necessity and co-dependence, because all other alternatives are worse for them due to the immense asimetric power disparity.

This might shock you but most countries in the world don't like the US government and its policies, especially after their illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, but have no way to push back without negative repercussions to their economy, so they have to play along as allies whether they like it or not for their own good.

Feel free to down vote all you want, but I'm not revealing anything new or controversial here but it's the truth as all countries, kingdoms and empires throughout history have had alliances with others they didn't like, out of sheer necessity. Same how we in the liberal west have also been trading and having economic ties with the CCP, post-Crimean invasion Russia, Erdogan's Turkey and middle eastern countries that assassinate our journalists, as capitalism post-USSR collapse has prioritized monetary enrichment over fighting for upholding a western ideology.
by csomar | 2025-11-03 08:16:13+00:00
The dude is far from being behind Binance. He is behind many of the largest exchanges (ie: ByBit, Okx, Coinex, etc.). Maybe dozens (hundreds?) of them. If you used any of these exchanges, you'll notice they have roughly the same layout, front-end and probably back-end. They are all, also, run by Chinese. Some of them (like Coinex) require no KYC whatsoever and enable P2P trading.

Not that all of this matter, anyway, since trading now is moving to DEX where KYC is not really a thing. You still need to on/off-ramp crypto but it seems like the US is about to allow that no questions asked.
by Someone | 2025-11-03 08:17:17+00:00
FTA: “When is exactly the time when we die? We may have tapped the door open now to start a discussion about that exact time onset”

They must not have been paying attention during their studies. That discussion has certainly been going on ever since we managed to restart a human’s heartbeat. Philosophers likely have discussed it for centuries, if not millennia, before that.

Modern medicine definitely doesn’t use “has no heartbeat == is dead”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_death#Medical_declaratio... adds “irreversible” to the definition:

“Two categories of legal death are death determined by irreversible cessation of heartbeat (cardiopulmonary death), and death determined by irreversible cessation of functions of the brain (brain death)”

(And, of course, “irreversible” changes as science progresses)
by practal | 2025-11-03 08:18:05+00:00
The basic idea is: You run a program F on some input x, obtain r, and then you have some sort of justification why F x = r is a theorem. There are various levels of how you can do this, one is for example that "running the program" consists of applying a curated set of (proven) rewriting rules that take you from the theorem F x = F x to the theorem F x = r by applying them only to the right hand side. That is basically the same as "Proof by reflection" as used by Gonthier, where the Coq kernel acts as the (unverified) rewriting engine.

So this is not a matter of dependent or static typing or not, the idea is simple and the same (e.g., I've used it for my PhD thesis in Isabelle that is from 2008), it is just a matter of how practical this is to use in your theorem prover of choice.
by manapause | 2025-11-03 08:18:06+00:00
There is capital “A” Active Listening, which is in a family of behavior modification techniques in which the interviewer can follow the aforementioned scripts to increase engagement…

And lowercase active listening, IMHO is genuinely being interested in the experiences of the person talking that your line of questioning disarms the subject into sharing stories that add personal, “cultural” context to their choices which could be considered taboo.
by serf | 2025-11-03 08:18:46+00:00
'Americans worry about this one little thing, click here to find out.'

this negative-space begs-the-question story-telling that is popular lately feels weird.

"And you know what he said Tommy?"

If you want to tell us about public sentiment towards Americans then just do it -- don't pawn the social liability off on your Dutch friends.

But let me take a guess : they really liked us and were in-tune with social policies and hopeful for the future. ...Right?