MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by astura | 2025-11-23 14:57:42+00:00
I also grew up with abusive parents (plural). Poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, violence. The whole nine. You can check my comment history, I talk about it openly on here. Here's one previous comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41400583

Others extend clearly bad people who do bad things more grace than they deserve if they are parents. You hear things like "I'm sure they love their children but are stressed and don't know how to express it. It's probably hard for them." (Ignoring how hard it is for the innocent CHILDREN!)

However, I know from experience there's no love there. No like. Only hate.

And there more to this story than a closeted gay man. The author made it clear he was also distant as a father and wasn't at all a caretaker to her either. All evidence from the post points to the fact the father was callous and uncaring to those around him. Using others for his own gain. The followup shows he was having affairs from his affair partner before he died. This is not someone who would have been a kind man if he was just allowed to come out.

The other thing that immediately stood out to me that nobody else is noticing - the father encouraged a man half his age to give up his entire life in China to come to Canada on a fucking student visa (which is inherently temporary) with the, most likely, promise (stated or unstated) that he'd marry him and sponsor him as a permanent resident and they'd build a new life together. All evidence points to deception here. He wasn't making moves to legally divorce his wife and was having affairs with other men on top of that. You can't legally work on a student visa, so the partner would have been entirely financially dependent on the father.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-23 14:58:39+00:00
The article is clearly written from a bit of a Marxian perspective and I think there's a lot assumed ... presuppositions about exploitation and value theory.

So yeah, even though on first skim I think I agree with the thrust of this article, I think you're right it's poorly defended, assuming it's at all for an audience outside of people who already think this way.
by ashton314 | 2025-11-23 14:58:59+00:00
I watched Typst from afar for many years. I finally took it out for a spin about a month ago after version 0.14 dropped.

In less than an hour I reproduced my résumé—complete with fancy functions to typeset employment entries on a grid system. In under 24 hours I was tinkering with the Typst source code.

Typst is amazing. Syntax is clean and consistent. The compiler is so so fast. Docs are excellent. And it is very close to TeX when it comes to typesetting quality. There are a few tiny rough edges that any \usepackage{microtype} enjoyer will miss, but stuff is improving rapidly.

(Also, XKCD disclaimer: this was not an LLM—I just use em-dashes a lot because TeX made them easy to type and I got used to having them.)
by neelc | 2025-11-23 14:59:17+00:00
At the present moment I live in a place in NYC without fiber. Manhattan row townhomes are notoriously hard for Verizon to install FiOS in. I chose 5G over DOCSIS simply because of upload speeds.

T-Mobile (both TMHI and Calyx Sprout SIM) has 40-75 Mbps uploads versus 20-35 on Spectrum.

It also helps that I use a L2TP VPN to a BGP VPS to get myself a public IPv4, otherwise I'd have Spectrum for no CGNAT.

Yes, I'd much rather have fiber with symmetrical speeds and low latency. Heck, if Spectrum had high split or even mid split I'd have that.

Cable hyped their "10G" upgrades but it's basically vaporware while non-cable ISPs actually showed up with fiber and/or 5G. Trump's tariffs are also punishing cable ISPs.
by Xylakant | 2025-11-23 14:59:34+00:00
So the problem you’re running into is the question of whether support for old architectures should indefinitely hold back the adoption of new features or languages in future kernel versions. Rust in the kernel was added as a way for developers to explore whether the tradeoff between not supporting all future capabilities and adopting a more modern programming language works out. Nothing in the kernel core uses and relies on Rust so far, and to the best of my knowledge, no adoption of Rust in any of these places is planned as of today. So the use of Rust is limited to places which are of zero interest to older architectures. And it’s also not like the old kernel versions are going away. It’s perfectly viable for maintainers of old hardware to remain on older versions of the kernel.

OTOH, there is a desire from a group of kernel developers to implement to implement the code they contribute to the project in Rust. The want new shit to be working, and write support for it in a language they consider suitable for implementing the support faster, more maintainable and safer than in C. Should those people be held back by architecture support for architectures that haven’t seen new hardware in decades? Would that imply that the kernel developers cannot decide to drop support for old architectures? What would any such requirement mean for the long term future of the Linux kernel?
by adrian_b | 2025-11-23 14:59:41+00:00
While there also were cheap motherboards with 80386SX and no cache memory, most motherboards for 80386DX had a write-through cache memory, typically either of 32 kB or of 64 kB.

By the time of 80486, motherboard cache sizes had increased to the range of 128 to 256 kB, while 80486 also had an internal cache of 8 kB (much later increased to 16 kB in 80486DX4, at a time when Pentium already existed).

So except for the lower-end MBs, a memory hierarchy already existed in the 80386-based computers, because the DRAM was already not fast enough.
by armchairhacker | 2025-11-23 14:59:43+00:00
I see his actions as immoral (not as much as most violence) but could seem justified to a person in his circumstances with reasonable moral judgement.

He grew up in a social environment where coming out as gay would make everyone around him sad and angry/ashamed at him. But he was gay, intrinsically. Eventually (possibly because of societal acceptance, possibly because he decided total suppression wasn’t worth it), he secretly broke his traditional relatives and friends’ trust by acting gay. Something most people today see as justified. But he also broke his lovers’ trust by having multiple affairs, something most people today see as unjustified.

A caveat is that he didn’t even confide in his daughter, who is gay; he didn’t file for or allow divorce, to make things easier for his wife; and perhaps he should’ve noticed that, in the changing times, being gay became acceptable but not cheating. Again, I don’t think he was right, and I can imagine a different person in his position handling the moral disconnect better for his family, who I believe he still cared about. But my understanding is that being gay is really taboo in some cultures, and has been in many more even a couple decades ago, so I can understand him being really suspicious and assuming those taboos held more strongly for more people.

In which case to him, doing anything gay was setting up emotional damage to many people, and every affair was just setting up damage to one more person.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-11-23 15:00:47+00:00
I've heard this argument before about casinos, but never lottery tickets. I'm not sure I personally buy that, but let's go with it.

If they're entertaining, then presumably it's from the thrill of maybe winning. Why would winning be thrilling? Why, because you get money- potentially a life-changing amount of it. If they made a lotto game with a maximum payout of a dollar I'm reasonably certain nobody would play it. Or hell, anyone could write down a series of heads/tails on a paper and then flip a coin to see if they're a winner! Yet, we don't see that, even though it's free and (I would argue) has the same entertainment value.

So yeah, I'm sure entertainment is the facade, but underneath it all, it's financially motivated for the vast majority.
by rurban | 2025-11-23 15:01:12+00:00
Not at all. I use to maintain myriad of packages with restructured text, asciidoc, XML, perl pod and tex, but markdown all supercede it.

I could easily represent the long word spec for the DWG format in markdown with gh tables, rendering it to pdf, and it's even better than the original word. Just to represent our diffs.

I could easily produce C++ technical reports in markdown, rendering to pdf and HTML, which was perfect.

The rST docs are much easier to maintain in markdown than in rST.
by KronisLV | 2025-11-23 15:01:17+00:00
I'd rather use Markdown for writing and even user submitted content whenever possible instead of gag HTML or some other overcomplicated markup language. Sure, there's various different flavors of Markdown, but on average it's better than overcomplicated attribute ridden XML or even XSS prone HTML (where nobody even knows what section is and everything ends up being a div).

Just give me a good enough baseline, that's it. Markdown is close enough to that for now. I don't need that much semantic meaning in the text. Something like mdbook (https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) is more than enough for my needs, compared to shipping docs in once again, gag DOCX files and PDFs.

Good that there are solutions for more advanced use cases, though, but be careful with that complexity where you don't need it.
by elAhmo | 2025-11-23 15:01:48+00:00
The vibe from the first video reminds me of Warcraft 3 and DotA.

DotA was effectively a simple map that changed online gaming, e-sports, and I am sure there are millions/billions of hours spent by players in a very simple looking landscape.

Compared to what we have today, on-demand, unique, and significantly better looking. It is amazing to see how relatively small these, objectively amazing, achievements seem, compared to a simple map we had 20 years ago.
by 6510 | 2025-11-23 15:02:27+00:00
This reads like either the author believes all the propaganda they read or they are willing participants in it.

> political willpower is not enough

That the economy is in terrible shape shouldn't get in the way of the rich getting richer. No one knows where all that money is coming from but people are also miraculously to poor to buy, build or rent a home. With all that nice scarcity in the market, whatever units are left make a lovely investment opportunity to put all that extra money into which again feeds into the scarcity. So much winning it's tiring!
by frankest | 2025-11-23 15:02:28+00:00
This seems like a throw back in time - as if one of the Communist propaganda arms of Eastern Europe wrote it. This article doesn’t understand tech or modern evil. It just spews worker vs equity owner arguments.

Any engineer today could start their own business. They could instantly become equity owners. Especially with AI. Many giants paid salaries and equity packages to the best, to keep them from starting competition.

En engineer can also leave a tech giant and in California, unlike NY, non-competes don’t apply. Tech work scales infinitely - so you can make a product for millions of users with your own two hands, unlike manual labor workers, who are limited by physics.

The evil not recognized is when the scalability of tech and AI is used to create and power up addictions that drain human brains, instead of giving them bycicles of the mind. Leaches on the brain. Industries where you can do well by the customers but you make a LOT more money if you do badly by them: Advertising (pumping ad impressions by refreshing pages, putting ads under common buttons to create unintended clicks that charge small businesses dollars per click, not delivering traffic or real audiences and making the small business pay even more thinking it’s their fault). Making gambling and games with horrible dark patter dynamics that wake users at night and expose them to chronic sleep depravation and wallet draining just to keep them addicted or with some status or in some league.

If you count human brain time and attention as the most valuable and sparse of resource - think about how much of it is killed by true evil. VC funding won’t be needed when AI is used to build things without the need for much funding anymore. What truly matters is not building evil things.
by haizhung | 2025-11-23 15:02:28+00:00
Obviously every nominal value is going to be higher YoY. That just immediately follows from inflation.

Almost every year in almost every country will have:

- record GDP

- record government spending

- record total wages

- record stock market prices

- record asset prices

- record government debt

You need to put these values in relation to something, otherwise they don’t mean anything.

For the UK, take for instance the public sector net wealth (Ie. Everything the UK public collectively owns). It collapsed drastically, from 220bn in 2006 to -900 bn in 2025.

Absolutely off the charts. As a result of this, the government can’t provide health care and basic support for its citizens anymore.

Question: who has all this wealth now, who is the UK indebted to?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-23 15:03:52+00:00
The person who coined the "Property is theft" quote (Proudhon if I recall) clearly made a distinction between capital-p Property and personal possession. And I think most regular people do, too.

I don't necessarily think of my stocks and bonds in my retirement funds in the same category as my toothbrush, suit jacket, or even my house or garden or whatever.

Classical liberalism and its descendants want to blur the distinction between the two. And you're welcome to adopt that view. But you shouldn't assume there aren't legitimate challenges to that point of view.

Proudhon himself wasn't terrible coherent. Marx I think clarified the distinction between dominance and control of capital and production vs personal private property better.

From a certain perspective, capitalism has been the process of enclosing things that were once common, or could be common, into "private" property. And despite the rhetoric of free exchange and liberty, it has mainly done this by force and coercion since the acts of enclosure and the age of colonialism until now.

My 6 acres of "private property" that my house sits on here was acquired mainly by force from its prior inhabitants two centuries ago. What does that do its status -- and to me -- now?
by superkuh | 2025-11-23 15:03:58+00:00
It wouldn't work with modern Ubuntu releases. They're all container based and Canonical has no control over Firefox and many other packages on those platforms. They've given up and that's upstream's job. So there would be extreme friction on modern Ubuntu container based releases over 15 years.

But not for 14.04. 14.04 was released before all this container nonsense and it is a coherent userspace canonical packages. I can tell you from person experience the last decade (using the free version) that it's worked flawlessly.
by exomonk | 2025-11-23 15:03:59+00:00
Actually I recall their were a number of anomalies with Griffin's contracts at NASA. It was widely reported he was chasing away the bigger companies from the COTS program he formed. Saying himself that he assigned the decision-making to Doc Horowitz... Mike Griffin, Doc Horowitz and Elon Musk were close friends and the most prominent founding members of the Mars Society other than Zubrin. In the end all the money went to Griffin's own small company Orbital and Musk's newfound SpaceX.

It was well known in those circles that Mars Society leadership was from Team B and Citizens' Advisory Council (which were the two groups that originally conceived Reagan's SDI, the Golden Dome predecessor). Max Hunter was the force behind reusable rockets with the DC-X. As mentioned, Griffin was effectively SpaceX's early chief engineer leading the guys he poached from the nearby McDonald Douglass Huntington Beach DC-X site (Chris Thompson, Tim Buzza, John Garvey, etc..) The other half of the DC-X team went to Blue Origin of course.

Funny how well the Mars mania took hold and people forget this basic history. It's the only way to make heads or tails of what's going on with Elon these days. He truly believes in SDI, but God help us all if he's in charge of it. It was recently reported he wanted to make Golden Dome a subscription service!
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-23 15:04:08+00:00
<< Two-factor authentication via TOTP and HOTP. I loathe SMS-based 2FA, and not every service supports Email-based 2FA. This has been so annoying I've considered jailbreaking it, learning Kotlin and Android development, and releasing an MIT-licensed application for the company to bundle with the phone.

Ngl, lately it feels like some of my projects are born out of sheer aggravation more than anything else. I get the impulse.

<< I've been less aware of state, national, and world news--which has been a huge boon to my mental health.

Can confirm; this approach helped me a lot too. There is so much I can't do so being aware of its minutiae does nothing for me except make it worse. I still keep up with local news, because it is far more likely to make immediate impact.
by epistasis | 2025-11-23 15:05:03+00:00
Considering "upgrading" to be "cleaning" is very odd. Same with "rotting".

Perhaps this is a side effect of dealing with software development ecosystems with huge dependency trees?

There's a lot of software not like that at all. No dependencies. No internet connection. No multi kilobyte lock files detailing long lists of continual software churn and bug fixes.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-11-23 15:05:28+00:00
Burnout in communal systems: a structural problem that no one has ever managed to fix.

If developers had spent a little more time studying sociology, history and government; they could recognize this problem with open source as being common to virtually ALL communal social systems.

The problem --- freeloaders --- aka human nature.

Communal systems typically lack incentive. People benefit whether they contribute or not. Over time, more and more people become content to allow the real zealots carry the load.

This has all been done before and no one has ever managed to sustain such a system over time. A last ditch effort to avoid collapse is often forced labor (aka slavery) --- which some are now proposing for open source.

All totally predictable and somewhat humorous --- but mostly just sad.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45890370
by dist-epoch | 2025-11-23 15:05:29+00:00
That was another mistake.

> The server running Silk Road was imaged and forensically examined in late July. This was done surreptitiously by the hosting provider at the request of the FBI via local authorities and the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty. They used the server’s ssh config to find the VPN server Ulbricht was logging in from and the VPN server’s last login record of IP addresses to locate a cafe near his home. The FBI was able to correlate the location based on Google’s records of the email account that was previously used to solicit users and help on the Bitcoin Talk forums, which he accessed from home the same day he logged into the VPN server.

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/staying-anonymo...
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-23 15:05:46+00:00
I think it is an interesting thought experiment to try to visualize 2025 without the internet ever existing because we take it completely for granted that the internet has made life better.

It seems pretty clear to me that culture, politics and relationships are all objectively worse.

Even remote work, I am not completely sure I am happier than when I use to go to the office. I know I am certainly not walking as much as I did when I would go to the office.

Amazon is vastly more efficient than any kind of shopping in the pre-internet days but I can remember shopping being far more fun. Going to a store and finding an item I didn't know I wanted because I didn't know it existed. That experience doesn't exist for me any longer.

Information retrieval has been made vastly more efficient so I instead of spending huge amounts of time at the library, I get that all back in free time. What I would have spent my free time doing though before the internet has largely disappeared.

I think we want to take the internet for granted because the idea that the internet is a long term, giant mistake is unthinkable to the point of almost having a blasphemous quality.

Childhood? Wealth inequality?

It is hard to see how AI as an extension of the internet makes any of this better.
by Aachen | 2025-11-23 15:06:12+00:00
> the em-dashes, the use of ± signs that nobody ever uses

It is a bit saddening that correct punctuation is now a sign of dishonesty. I use em dashes and keep seeing people say it's such a dead giveaway. Now it's also ± which I also use. Are multiplication signs instead of "x" next? Or degree symbols? What can I still use if I want people to not think I'm too dumb to write my own text

You mention more signs (semantics, choice of what to embolden) but they're not binary signs (present → it's generated) and basically guesswork
by westurner | 2025-11-23 15:06:31+00:00
LLVM docs > MemTagSanitizer > Heap Tagging: https://llvm.org/docs/MemTagSanitizer.html#heap-tagging :

> Heap Tagging: Note: this part is not implemented as of Oct 2019.

> MemTagSanitizer will use Scudo Hardened Allocator with additional code to update memory tags when

LLVM docs > Scudo Hardened Allocator: https://llvm.org/docs/ScudoHardenedAllocator.html :

> The Scudo Hardened Allocator is a user-mode allocator, originally based on LLVM Sanitizers’ CombinedAllocator. It aims at providing additional mitigation against heap based vulnerabilities, while maintaining good performance. Scudo is currently the default allocator in Fuchsia, and in Android since Android 11

compiler-rt/lib/scudo/standalone: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/compiler-rt/l...

hardened_malloc is an alternative to scudo.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-23 15:06:36+00:00
50 years from now our children's children will (hopefully) read about the inappropriate, irresponsible, and often abusive actions our government allowed corporations to commit upon society.

At this point It's fairly obvious knowledge the government is ripe with corruption and self service (we call it 'red tape' and 'partisan bickering'). And corporations write law.

Social services may save you, may ignore you, or may kill you.

It is impossible to live a basic life without a government ID and an internet connection.

Avoiding government taxes will get you longer in jail than harming a child.

Cars required for moving about unless you want to be robber or ran over and require a contract with a private company to couch for you.

Healthcare isn't obtainable without a private corporation to fund or facilitate the interaction.

A plant is a class 1 drug.

Whistleblowers regularly plea for help which never arrives from the supposed government meant to protect and represent them.
by lokar | 2025-11-23 15:06:47+00:00
> Ukraine's aggression

What?

And the argument for supporting Ukraine is not to punish anyone. It’s to avoid rewarding (and thus normalizing) aggression and the violation of territorial integrity, a core principle on which the UN is founded.

The main concept in 20th century post-ww2 international relations was the prohibition of aggression to take land. Ending 19th century concepts like “spheres of influence “ that grant “great powers” the right to change borders by force.