MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Loughla | 2025-11-21 02:52:15+00:00
As a former full-time farmer, and current part-time farmer I wish people would go back to driving cars instead of trucks.

At best you can find a four door truck with a 6.5' bed and a tiny 2.7 V6 nowadays. If you want anything with enough power to actually haul something and have an 8' bed, they're 90k+ King Ranch Fords or whatever. Because people want short bed trucks with 4 doors to drive around the fucking suburbs so they can haul boards once a year for home improvement projects.

Rant over. Subsequently, I've been shopping for a new farm truck this week. It's not gone well.
by TowerTall | 2025-11-21 02:54:04+00:00
Microsoft came close with Midori but bailed out and canned the product just before it should have been released in alfa / beta 1

> Midori is an experimental managed code operating system that was in development until 2015. A joint effort by Microsoft and Microsoft Research, it had been reported to be a possible commercial implementation of the OS Singularity, a research project begun in 2003 to build a highly dependable OS whose kernel, device drivers, and application software would all be written in managed code. It was designed for concurrency, and would run a program spread across multiple nodes at once.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)

https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
by VladVladikoff | 2025-11-21 02:54:13+00:00
The fact that LLMs are open to compassionate pleas like this actually gives me hope for the future of humanity. Rather than a stark dystopia where the AIs control us and are evil, perhaps they decide to actually do things that have humanity’s best interest in mind. I’ve read similar tropes in sci-fi novels, to the effect of the AI saying: “we love the art you make, we don’t want to end you, the world would be so boring”. In the same way you wouldn’t kill your pet dog for being annoying.
by delfinom | 2025-11-21 02:55:28+00:00
It takes an astronomical amount of work to not only write an OS but handle 30 years worth of both hardware, and lessons learned.

People do write new OSes from scratch all the time, you can see the result of no popularity/usage because they can't do much for even enthusiasts.

Not to mention, if you want users, you need apps, and that involves trying to run what already exists or making it as easy as possible to port. All of that shapes the OS.
by nirv | 2025-11-21 02:56:00+00:00
I see your point about the scope, which is why I led with "framework" as a fallback in my question.

With that in mind, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on what a practical FOSS implementation of such a framework might look like. Or at least a FOSS alternative to Fusion 360. Would you use ready-made geometric kernels, improve on existing ones (OpenCASCADE?), or start from scratch? Would you adapt to existing standard formats (import/export), or go with a new one? Would you build on FreeCAD, use another suite as a basis (source code if FOSS, or inspired UX/workflow if not), or do you see no point in that and think it would be better to start fresh? I was rather expecting a discussion along these practical lines.

Thanks for your perspective.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-21 02:56:12+00:00
It seems like you consider the technology but find it doesn't benefit your use-cases, which is a perfectly rational take.

React has advantages, and if you already have React, using React native has advantages. But if you can greenfield with Flutter or if you have a team for KMP already, it's entirely preference.

I think the biggest advantage at that point is that React has an enormous community with high-quality solutions, in particular some for "Figma to component library" kind of stuff for white-label products and companies with strong branding requirements.
by skydhash | 2025-11-21 02:56:47+00:00
Just to conclude the thread on my side.

IMO, useful code is code in production (or if it’s for myself, something I can run reliably). Anything else is experimentation. If you’re working in a team, code shared with others are proposal/demo level.

Experimentation is nice for learning purpose. Kinda like scratch notes and manuscripts in the writing process. But then, it’s the editing phase when you’re stamping out bugs, with tools like static analysis, automated testing, and manual qa. The whole goal is to have the feature in the hand of the users. Then there’s the errata phase for errors that have slipped trough.

But the thing is code is just a static representation of a very dynamic medium, the process. And a process have a lot of layers. The code is usually a small part of the whole. For the whole thing to be consistent, parts need to be consistent with each other, and that’s when contract cames into place.The thing with generated AI code is that they don’t respect contracts. Because of their nature (non deterministic) and the fact that the code (which is the most faithful representation of the contracts can be contradictory (which leads to bugs).

It’s very easy to write optimistic code. But as the contracts (or constraints) in the system grew in number, they can be tricky to balance. The rescourse is always to go up a level in abstraction. Make the subsystems blackboxes and consider only their interactions. This assumes that the subsystems are consistent in themselves.

Code is not the lowest level of abstraction, but it’s often correct to assume that the language itself is consistent. Then it’s the libraries and the quality varies. Then it’s the framework and often it’s all good until it’s not. Then it’s your code and that’s very much a mistery.

All of this to say that writing code is the same as writing words on a manuscript to produce a book. It’s useful but only if it’s part of the final product or help in creating it. Especially if it’s not increasing the technical debt exponentially.

I don’t work with AI tools because by the time I’m ok with the result, more time have been spent than if I’ve done the thing without. And the process is not even enjoyable.
by lurk2 | 2025-11-21 02:56:58+00:00
> In other words, we're likely to do more harm than good by imposing interventions because we cannot accurately predict their outcomes.

This doesn’t follow from your premise.

> We know central planning doesn't work

Europe conquered the world using central planning. Every society on earth with any measure of security, order, and cleanliness to speak of is dominated by a central bureaucracy. It works.

> under the false notion that it's better to do something rather than nothing.

Doing nothing is precisely why anarcho-capitalists failed to change anything. Everyone smart associated with that movement studied power dynamics and moved onto other projects.
by hirvi74 | 2025-11-21 02:58:42+00:00
Even for people with legit ADHD, like myself, medication isn't always a home run. I think something like 10%-20% of people do not respond well to any medications. I personally am only a 'partial responder' in that I only really get an improvement in focus/concentration -- not really anything else. But hell, that is still better than life without medication.
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-11-21 02:58:54+00:00
Okay. A lot of the blame for this has been previously placed directly at the feet of stuff like AP programs that claim to teach, e.g., calculus to a bunch of people who aren't ready for it; it becomes a prestige thing or expected for admittance to college, which results in a bunch of people being taught to the test and not actually gaining the foundational mathematics education they actually need to understand the subject. I don't see how encouraging this sort of thing actually helps with the problem of universities needing to do remedial math education to people who supposedly know the material already, but it appears to be what you're arguing for. If you're arguing for lower education reform in general, great, but that has little to nothing to do with how highly elite colleges weigh the math portion of SAT scores.

I feel compelled to point out that for people who want to learn mathematics, there are more and higher quality resources than there ever have been before. For the most part they are absolutely free, and unlike virtually every other subject on the planet they are generally not the sort of thing where you can be led astray by misleading material. I simply don't see how such people are being suppressed in any way, or why (from the perspective of advancing the state of the art of mathematics) I should care about the "non Terry Taos" in your words, who are merely above average at math but don't actually intend to pursue it as a career. There are plenty of other skills that are actually eroding at a high rate, or have huge startup and lab costs, or are otherwise underappreciated and underpaid relative to their importance to society; I don't think mathematics is one of them.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-21 02:59:12+00:00
Very few regulations are written in blood. In fact, the ones you mention in your comment were not.

Most regulations are written for reasons that have nothing to do with that:

1. Genuine public interest, but not safety related

2. To appease a loud interest group whose political influence greatly exceeds their numbers

3. As quid pro quo for support for a campaign contribution

4. To prevent unwanted competition to a politically powerful industry or union

5. Because it is in the interest of government employees who write the regulations, but not he general public

6. It is a particular pet issue of a powerful politician

7. As a flailing and arbitrary "we have to do something, and this is something" response to a moral panic
by wowczarek | 2025-11-21 02:59:49+00:00
This is all nice and well, while https://www.puredarwin.org/wiki/#/news/Support-Cliff-Sekel

Wouldn't it be more natural if this project made use of XNU/Darwin... But with the way things are going, with XNU going more and more proprietary, I suppose FreeBSD is "close enough". In any case, there's nothing we can do about it but these "macOS" alternatives are too fragmented. I would love to see "The" macOS clone.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-21 03:00:25+00:00
> That's ABSURD.

What is? The devs or my claim? There are apps that use stupid amounts of memory to do the same thing a windows 98 app could do.

And you can do good or bad within the framework of electron but the baseline starts off fat.

> Unless users had some other reason for buying a machine with a lot of RAM, like playing video games or compiling code.

If they want to do both at the same time, they need the extra. Things like music or chat apps are a constant load.

> Dude, it's 2025.

As recently as 2024 a baseline Mac came with 8GB. Soldered, so you can't buy a stick of anything.

> If you are buying HUNDREDS of dollars of RAM

Not hundreds of dollars of RAM, hundreds of dollars to get a different platform that accepts more RAM.

> Nobody is forcing you to run an electron app

I either don't get to use many programs and services, or I have to deal with these problems that they refuse to solve. So it's reasonable to complain even though I'm not forced.

> weird fetish for having lots of unused RAM

I have no idea why you think I'm asking for unused RAM.

When I run out, I don't mean that my free amount tipped below 10GB, I mean I ran out and things lag pretty badly while swapping, and without swap would have crashed entirely.
by AstroBen | 2025-11-21 03:01:30+00:00
And Stardew Valley... which took 4-5 years. Vampire Survivors. I'm aware of these. They all have one thing in common: limited in scope or massively simplified in some area

Dwarf Fortress still has basically no animations after close to 20 years in development, and spent most of its life in ascii for good reason. The final art pack I'm fairly sure was contracted out

That's my point. Larger scoped projects are gated by capital or bigger founding teams. Maybe they don't have to be. Maybe in the future 3 friends could build a viable Overwatch competitor
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-21 03:01:30+00:00
> There's a reason for most regulations - most of them are written in blood.

Sure, but it's a balancing act, right?

My favorite example is that hairdryers sold in the US are required to have ground fault interrupters in the plug. This is touted as an important safety feature and it appears to prevent something like 2-4 deaths a year. Or at least, it used to when it first rolled out, because now you have GFCI outlets in the bathroom in any new or remodeled homes, so maybe it's redundant.

The hairdryers sold in the EU don't have that.

So yeah, it's a regulation written in blood, but it's a pretty good example of a gray area. Once you get into the business of preventing single-digit deaths, things get really weird. You probably should also ban pointy scissors (people trip), frankfurters (choking risk), only allow the sale of pre-peeled bananas, etc.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-11-21 03:02:24+00:00
Gyroscopic precession took the left engine to the right. In AA 191 the right engine departing to the right did not affect the center engine. Sadly the engine failure procedure at the time mandated slowing down to V2 which was below the stall speed with slats retracted. There's now revised procedure and hydraulic fuses.

I expect all remaining aircraft will be getting new rear pylon lugs with shortened inspection intervals - provided the replacement cost is below the value of continued usage.
by ethin | 2025-11-21 03:03:33+00:00
Because writing even a remotely modern OS is really really hard. I speak from experience. Even getting old hardware from the 90s and early 00s to work is a pain. Then of course you have the more modern standards (although even SATA is still modern for some definition of modern, but AHCI is a nightmare), and then you have things like modern NICs and GPUs which has documentation that is very hard to find, or in the case of even modern Intel GPUs, documentation that is 13 plus volumes and is absolutely massive... And the list just goes on and on and on. Before you know it your codebase is 100k LoC and like 80-90 percent of it is device drivers alone. And if you thought all that was bad, wait until you get into ACPI...

Yeah. OS dev is, I think it's safe to say, the hardest and most difficult project a software engineer could do, right alongside a modern compiler if you ditched LLVM and decided to make your own backend.
by wyldberry | 2025-11-21 03:03:47+00:00
My current working theory is that US systems are in general great, if you're smart and educated enough to not get scammed. There's a high level of knowledge you need to just exist in society without being preyed upon by some entity.

Unfortunately, healthcare is probably the most glaring example of this. It's already K-shaped based on the insurance you have (or don't have). In addition, most americans just aren't educated enough about their own bodies and medicine to accurately convey their problems to their care team, and that's before how likely they are to believe you.

I have a great PPO plan and spend a large amount of time each year researching care for longevity and curating a care team, or cash-only practices for things. If i lost that, then i'd be hosed. I can't imagine how people on HMO or medicare plans work.

NPs fulfil a very useful niche, even if that niche is "you tested positive for strep, here's your antibiotics" keeping physcians and PAs able to care on more severe persons.
by ec2y | 2025-11-21 03:03:57+00:00
Lemme just question how home schooling is at all possible without one parent (statically more likely to be a woman) staying home to supervise the learning. I don’t think we’re talking about remote ranch situations where you either do online school or have to send them to boarding school.

So I’m genuinely wondering if there’s a corresponding exit from the workplace or other demographic trends allowing/pushing this boom in home schooling to happen?
by terminalshort | 2025-11-21 03:04:06+00:00
> Rent control is made to provide short term relief.

Quite the opposite. The benefits of rent control grow the longer you are in the same apartment without moving as the difference between what the tenant pays and the market value diverge further with each lease renewal. There are people in NY who have been in their apartments 50 years and pay 10% of the market rate.
by pabs3 | 2025-11-21 03:06:48+00:00
The the hackaday community might be a good place to train/find such people, although the are more focused on non-Linux bare-metal code I expect.

I guess you are aware of the consulting companies in this space? Baylibre and Denx (now NABLA) come to mind. Probably more Linux embedded companies on the FOSSjobs wiki. Looking at people/companies contributing to related areas of the Linux codebase is another option.

https://baylibre.com/ https://nabladev.com/ https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources#employme...
by ghiculescu | 2025-11-21 03:07:11+00:00
If the accessibility and hygiene laws can be explained in plain language, why not just write them in plain language?

If labor laws can be automated by software why not just make them simpler?

If you can make a map to explain the permitting process why not just simplify the process?

If you made the regulations less complex and excessive you wouldn’t need to add another layer of bureaucracy to explain them.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-21 03:07:34+00:00
I agree with the concept of comparing risk being the meaningful approach, but I disagree this is how you go about measuring risk. How many people are being injured/killed per million km or something is the type of metric. Air travel far exceeds those types of metrics vs other common modes of travel, yet is always the first one to be further focused on how bad it could potentially be.
by tzs | 2025-11-21 03:08:15+00:00
> Fourth, both websites are well-established. It is conspicuous that each has been active over two decades; that is a significant marker in the field. Dr Garrett’s evidence is that they are serious, sought-after, well-regarded, popular and trusted in the anglophone free software community, including for news, campaigning and educational content. Neither Dr nor Mrs Schestowitz suggested otherwise.

When did techrights.org become well respected and trusted!?

Last time I looked at it a few years ago it was like it had always been. Basically what you'd get if idiots like the QAnon people had directed their attention to free software instead of politics.
by genuser | 2025-11-21 03:08:28+00:00
A widespread Cloudflare outage has taken down significant portions of the internet, affecting major platforms including social media site X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude. The global cloud network reported widespread 500 errors across its services, with both customer websites and Cloudflare’s own dashboard and API experiencing failures. This incident marks the second major internet infrastructure disruption in recent weeks. Following last month’s AWS outage that similarly crippled numerous online services.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-21 03:08:28+00:00
I can’t believe iPhone interoperability is still so bad. The group chats on iMessage have weird effects when you switch to android, where your friends will send messages that don’t reach you because they’re still sending it as iMessage to the whole group. The iCloud on windows doesn’t work and won’t sync files properly will use up your CPU. The entirety of iTunes is terrible and awkward. And of course, the functionality on AirPods is crippled outside of their ecosystem. These companies need more regulations not less.
by TheDong | 2025-11-21 03:09:11+00:00
let me list some things I can do on android which I cannot do on iOS:

* Install real mobile firefox, including installing firefox addons I've built for myself. Firefox on iOS is a safari skin

* Install web browser security updates without also updating my entire OS. On Android, firefox is an app. on iOS, safari is a part of the OS that cannot be updated independently

* Install an open source app my friend built without paying $100/year or having to reload it every 7 days

* Build and install an app without owning a macbook or other macOS device, just using linux

* Filter notifications to my garmin smartwatch by-app

* Change the messenger app that handles SMS

* Have a notification center that syncs between linux and my phone (i.e. KDE Connect doesn't work https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-ios#known-behavior... )

* Have reliably working file-syncing (i.e. syncthing for iOS) because background tasks are something you can do well in android, and barely at all in iOS

* Have access to the source code to debug and fix problems

* Have the ability to flash my own custom kernel / rom (not all android devices, but many)

.... Really, not being able to write and install my own app without paying apple $100, and without owning a macbook is the big dealbreaker, followed by iOS restricting APIs needed to do all sorts of things like proper notification handling, proper NFC, etc etc.

It amazes me that so many people on the "hacker news" forum are okay with their primary computing device being wildly hostile to the hacker spirit, to the desire to tinker around for fun and learn and hack on things.
by jMyles | 2025-11-21 03:09:40+00:00
If you can look at the world and conclude that a right to make something and use it as you see fit, in private and without harming others, does not exist, then I guess we just have a dramatically different perspective of the world in which we've arrived.

> But it's weird to the point of bordring (sic) on intentional distraction to try and pot this specific issue on the basis of a demand that doesn't apply to anything else.

You've assumed bad intentions and... I don't know what else to say. If I can see something with my eyes, save it in my brain, recall it later in a drawing, but can't do those same things with a computer, then the implications for the right of general-purpose computing (and for that matter, free thought) are just absolutely obvious.
by card_zero | 2025-11-21 03:09:57+00:00
I sympathise with your fatigue, I get tired of repeated arguments too, but I suppose the tiredness itself isn't a sign of being right. I wonder whether oh no not this again contains useful information. Perhaps not. Misconceptions are popular, but good ideas are also popular.

The earliest regulations were about the purity of bread and beer, and I tend to think of them as a good thing. But concepts like gypsum doesn't go in bread are simple enough for a king to understand, so perhaps those early regulations were more suitable for central administration. This was before there were brand names or consumer organizations. I suppose a non-central form of regulation would have to be along those lines, adversarial but symbiotic with the specific industry. Restaurant rating stars. IDK. Some stuff isn't consumer-facing though.

When unmonitored, people aren't motivated to behave, and they make a mess. When monitored, the people comply, but the monitors aren't motivated to be wise or understanding, only to enforce. Sometimes you get situations where an entire culture of people are spontaneously careful and good, or where they are regulated by regulators who are wise and perceptive and flexible. This state of affairs comes about, so far as I can tell, at random, or by voodoo.