MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-08 23:58:33+00:00
No they don't, that's a lie adults tell themselves. Many adult alcoholics started drinking as children. People who "respect it more" tend to also be alcoholics. Very few people who start drinking as children abstain as adults.

Keep in mind that alcohol is also a carcinogen. Similar to cigarettes, even one drink shouldn't be tolerated. Even if a certain amount will have no ill effects on average, impacts on individuals depends on individual factors, so one harmless drink for you might be one deadly drink for someone else. It is poison.

That said, I don't judge anyone who uses substances. But there is no tolerable threshold to giving children poison.
by _blk | 2025-11-08 23:58:52+00:00
Exactly and that's why the US should be called a Constitutional Republic. At state level it's often much more democratic but federally, the US is not a (direct) democracy and shouldn't be called so by the media in matra-like manner. Watching CNN or MSNBC with bourbon shots on "democracy" is a drinking game that typically won't last the evening.
by analog8374 | 2025-11-08 23:59:23+00:00
I perceive a river of sights, sounds, smells, vibes, thoughts and emotions. And that's just a narrow slice. There's also a whole vast continent of nameless stuff too.

Hallucinogens change my perspective of that river. Stuff I didn't notice I start noticing. My careful sample of the river, cultivated over a lifetime, gets jiggled and smeared all over and much that was invisible becomes visible.

That said, I prefer shikantaza meditation.
by tptacek | 2025-11-08 23:59:34+00:00
That attitude sounds like a really good way to be Brandon Johnson, the least popular mayor in the United States.

Pritzker can either solve the problem or he can't. It's fine if he can't. I couldn't solve it. Few could! But if he can't, he's not qualified to be President, a job that will send him harder problems than this. It's fine for him not to be President. Most people (waves at the Oval Office right now) shouldn't.
by krisoft | 2025-11-09 00:00:31+00:00
> It's a service provided to the public. Seems like a natural fit for being run by government.

I don't understand this part of your reasoning. It sounds like you are saying it is a service provided to the public therefore it is a natural fit for being run by the government. Do I understand your reasoning right?

Because if so: A lot of services are provided to the public. For example baking bread. Should every baker be a government employee?
by jwrallie | 2025-11-09 00:00:38+00:00
I like Gnome on my Surface Go, because the defaults make sense on a touch interface, but all my other computers are running Xfce.

I changed the panel to mimic OpenSuse (it’s already a preloaded template) and it is perfect for using with a keyboard and mouse with a familiar interface.

If anyone is looking for a desktop environment that does not get in your way, that is the one. Things evolve slowly on Xfce, it is for some of us a feature, not a bug.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-09 00:00:51+00:00
There is an NDA related company called ironclad as well. Beware the trademark/copyright terrorists.

That said, I am huge fan of works like this. But in practice, the security layer that betrays all of this tends to be the firmware layer.

My dream is to have something like the Framework computer use verifiably secure EFI firmware, as well as similarly verified and audited firmware for every hardware component.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-11-09 00:01:18+00:00
Elon Musk will step in to save the day and privatize air traffic control. The government will transform the nation into a fully decentralized economy owned and operated by oligarchs, with the role of the government shrinking to that of a mediator between the various oligarchs, and employed directly by the oligarchs. Kind of like how they describe it in the sci-fi show Alien Earth.
by anthk | 2025-11-09 00:01:53+00:00
Simh (now simh-classic) exists since the 90's. And every teen in the early 00's emulated 'expensive' systems from its era such as the PSX, the N64, SNES, NES (not everyone bought the Chinese clone), the Game Boy, MAME... and tons of them due to the love of retroemulation, either became a reverse engineer, programmer or at least got some sysadmin career because setting up some emulated systems requiered heavy knowledge, at least up to the levels of a vocational degree. If you understood tun/tap, networking under simh and you were able to set up NetBSD under it, you would earn a trade degree with ease.
by WillEngler | 2025-11-09 00:02:01+00:00
This is a common objection I hear raised, so I think it's good that you raised it here. Respectfully, I think there is a lot of rhetorical slippage in your argument.

First, I did not support the very loose amnesty policy, but I also don't support ICE teargassing the grocery store parking lot outside of my old apartment in Logan Square. In any case I don't think one's opinion on the first thing should disqualify them from having a take on deportation tactics.

Second, I think there is substantial ambiguity in what people voted for on deportation. There were lots of promises of deporting dangerous criminals (something that I agree would be a good idea). A subset of Trump voters in 2024 did want to round up migrant day laborers standing outside of Home Depots, and they are getting what they voted for. But I think another large subset believed that there was going to be a targeted deportation of "the worst of the worst". The administration claims to be doing this, but the worst of the worst are very unlikely to be looking for work outside of Home Depot.

Lastly, to your question, I think there are many many ways for the tactics to be more humane (and constitutional). To take just one example, I think the feds should resume allowing Catholic clergy into the Chicago-area processing facility at Broadview to administer the sacrament of the Eucharist.
by dbcurtis | 2025-11-09 00:02:04+00:00
Isn't there a moon bounce mode in WSJT (or one of those digital modes) that provides enough coding gain that 100W and a single large Yagi is enough? I seem to recall hearing something like that... but, yeah, on CW a monster antenna and the legal limit of 1500W seems to be the median system.

A long time ago I started collecting parts for a 432MHz EME system. Life got in the way and I never built it out. Good luck with your endeavor!
by rainsford | 2025-11-09 00:02:44+00:00
The problem is that it's existential for both Democrats and Republicans. Given the current makeup of the federal government, Republicans basically have all the power and have been able to leverage that into spending the last 10 months doing whatever they want. The exception to that power is the Democrats' ability to filibuster in the Senate and shut down the government by not agreeing to whatever the Republicans put forward.

The actual demands I think are essentially irrelevant. If Republicans give up anything to the Democrats, the spell of the last 10 months is broken and Republicans can no longer unilaterally control the direction of government. If Democrats don't get any concessions, they're essentially irrelevant for the next 14 months and that only changes if they win either the House or Senate in 2026. Given that, it's not obvious how this ends.
by atmavatar | 2025-11-09 00:03:00+00:00
Or, they live in one of the 40-something states where the election margins are large enough that it doesn't matter whether they vote.

My state hasn't voted Democrat since 1964. The only two elections with less than a 10-point spread since then were in 1976 (7.5% spread) and 1992 (5% spread due to Perot stealing votes from Bush Sr.).

I moved to this state in 1993.
by cwmma | 2025-11-09 00:03:39+00:00
Any time you have to divide up a range of things into distinct buckets you get weird corner cases. Many states tax restaurant meals different from groceries and thus must decide on where the exact difference between buying a single donut (this is obviously food for now and this treated like restaurant food) and a dozen donuts (this is food for later so obviously a grocery).

Comic books are much more "magazine like" then "book like" in practice so it's not surprising they are treated similarly.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-09 00:03:41+00:00
Interesting project. I'm curious about the limits of formal verification of worst case execution time. There are other formally verified kernels like seL4 and atmosphere, as well as layers you can stack on top to get a mostly compatible posix-ish layer like genode. You can also go out and find completely compatible kernels with enough maturity that (full) formal verification isn't a major value-add, like QNX or VxWorks.

I'm not aware of much that combines WCET + formal verification + POSIX compatibility though. The verification page here is mostly at stone level, which from my understanding of SPARK terminology just means it passes validation, but might have runtime errors where most of Ada's WCET nondeterminism comes from. I'm skeptical that this is actually production usable for the hard real-time use cases all over their documentation at the current stage, but nothing on the website gives any clue as to the actual maturity short of reading the code myself.
by reaperducer | 2025-11-09 00:03:51+00:00
I like the use of "go dark" when discussing police, considering so many American police agencies now use black patrol cars with black lettering on them so they can't be seen.

Meanwhile, in the UK, police cars are tarted up with fluorescent geometric patterns to make them as visible as possible.

It certainly shows a contrast in intent. One is "Here I am, come to me for help!" and the other is "I'm the secret police, show me your papers while I switch off my body camera."
by vitus | 2025-11-09 00:04:15+00:00
I get that it's satisfying to tell them to go away because they're being unreasonable. But what's the legal strategy here? Piss off the regulators such that they really won't drop this case, and give them fodder to be able to paint the lawyer and his client as uncooperative?

Is the strategy really just "get new federal laws passed so UK can't shove these regulations down our throats"? Is that going to happen on a timeline that makes sense for this specific case?
by Aurornis | 2025-11-09 00:04:16+00:00
One of my old friends got involved with a group drinking ayahuasca frequently.

In their case they were taking lower doses than are traditionally associated with the one-off stories you hear about people traveling for ceremonies. There is also a tolerance build up that lessens the overt effects.

However, it still resulted in some major mental health issues over time. He was outwardly happy and cheerful, but the longer you talked to him the more you realized he had developed impossible ideas about reality, distorted (and easily debunked with photos and other records) memories of past events, and a lot of mystical ideas about the world.

He had mostly learned to hide them from people who weren’t in his group. When you got a couple of them ayahuasca people together and they started talking about mysticism, telepathy, and dismissing “western science” it started to reveal how far he was down the rabbit hole.

He has since gone MIA, though we get signs that he’s still alive and active from time to time via social media. The way it changed him was scary, though.
by erikpukinskis | 2025-11-09 00:04:44+00:00
I mean, you’re technically correct. But you’re also not understanding the point.

What people mean when they say “React is just JavaScript” is…

1) JSX, more than any other templating system, is just HTML interleaved with JavaScript. It’s HTML, and anything between { and } is evaluated as JavaScript.

2) Inserting a React component’s “HTML tag” in your JSX is _actually_ the same as calling the JavaScript function. The HTML attributes are the function arguments. Yes, inside your function there can be state, and there can be contexts, and there are refs. But you get at all of those things by calling JavaScript functions.

Like,

<b><MyComponent attr=“yes” /></b>

is literally identical to:

<b>{MyComponent({ attr: “yes” })}</b>

It’s the tiniest bit of syntactic sugar.

I feel like too many people think “React is Just JavaScript” is some kind of lie people tell to make React sound cool.

It’s not a lie. There’s a _small_ amount of hand waving around the word “just” but the point is, it’s WAY smaller than what you need to explain the ways Svelte or Vue or Angular diverge from plain JavaScript.
by tankenmate | 2025-11-09 00:05:33+00:00
It's a pity that the section on exceptions didn't do a more detailed analysis on the criticism of exceptions; in my personal view I haven't liked exceptions, in a similar vein to how I'm not a huge fan of the implementation of POSIX signals or setjmp / longjmp.

Although I very much see the reason why it was developed, in effect it comes closer to a glorified form of "come from" (and people thought that goto was considered harmful).
by epolanski | 2025-11-09 00:05:40+00:00
I written lots of Vue/angular/react (like more than 3 major projects with each) and I'm a firm believer that:

1. Jsx is nicer to write but that's a non issue

2. vue's and angular's directives and bindings lend themselves to much saner and lighter rendering (performance does matter)

3. Vue is much easier to tame, it's reactivity model does not require a PhD in hooks or a deep understanding of React's internals. It just works out of the box as it should and is much easier to control the rendering lifecycle.

At the end of the day, after many years, my preference goes with Vue and Nuxt especially which is tremendously better than the monsters of Next or RR. That's what pays the bill the easiest and is eventually easier to maintain and optimize.
by digdugdirk | 2025-11-09 00:05:47+00:00
Curious about the random Kat Abu comment at the end there? I know nothing about her background, but it certainly seems like she's using her campaign to actively help her local community directly and immediately. And in times like these, we could certainly use more political candidates who are willing to be tossed around by DHS.

What negatives am I unaware of?
by fragmede | 2025-11-09 00:06:07+00:00
Okay, so you had a whole agenda. Could have just been more transparent if you came out and said that directly.

It's an LLM. The user can ask it anything they can think of! But then to to "only spammers could eke out anything from them".

What do users ask OpenAI about? My boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/mistress cheated on me, what should I do? My mom is... My dad is... My friends are.. I have this problem with this company and I want to sue them... I have this weird lump on my foot... More nefariously, I'm sure someone out there asking "how do I make cocaine" is seriously considering it, and not just testing the machine. I want to talk to somebody about 1994, the TV series from 2019. I want to write a fiction book about the near future but one where I won the lottery or I grew up rich or I was Harry Potter or a murder mystery or utopian sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi or an alt-history where there are still dinousaurs or or or.

I don't know if it's a failure of your imagination, or if mine is overactive, but making a venn diagram of all the world's humans broken down into spammers and not spammers, and then placing the circle users of local LLMs inside of spammers, and there's no one else, just seems a bit reductive.
by Hizonner | 2025-11-09 00:06:17+00:00
> no internet regulation can hold for any subject

No Internet regulation can hold extraterritorially. You leave out the obvious and most important case: the country where the Web site or whatever is located enforcing its own laws. Which is actually how all law has mostly worked from day one.

> Openly selling stolen personal credentials or botnet usage? Piracy? Reselling personal information without disclosure?

If you find a jurisdiction where those are all legal, then I guess you just have to block your citizens from reaching it, or punish them if they do. Not particularly tricky.
by rzwitserloot | 2025-11-09 00:07:23+00:00
Network effects says that is long-term immaterial; there just needs to be some event that breaks a self-reinforcing cycle.

The reason there is no linux version of Affinity is thus simple: Because there aren't enough linux users to warrant spending the relatively tiny cost it takes to do that. It won't cost much and it won't significantly change Affinity as a product to have a linux release. They just don't bother; not enough paying users.

And why aren't there enough linux users? Because Affinity, for one, doesn't run on it.

That is the self reinforcing cycle that so far kept Windows around as default choice.

But that cycle can be broken. If not through a sudden burst based on some serious hype, then perhaps simply with slow and steady change.
by floundy | 2025-11-09 00:07:34+00:00
“Alcoholism” is outdated and has been widely replaced by AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder).

I looked at Germany, according to Wikipedia the average consumption of pure ethanol per person per year in Germany as of 2019 was 12.2 liters. This was the 5th highest in the world, and equivalent to 686 standard 5% beers per year.

According to the WHO “moderate drinking” is 1 drink per day for women and 2 drinks per day for men, so the average German is already consuming above WHO guidelines.

It gets worse when you consider that about 1/4 of Germans don’t consume alcohol at all, and another 1/4 barely consume any, suggesting that the “average” isn’t really telling us much and the 70th, 80th, and 90th percentiles have very concerning consumption numbers. I assume most of those people consider themselves “social drinkers” but statistically they cannot be.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-09 00:07:46+00:00
HPPD is by definition a lasting effect of hallucinogens. The diagnostic criteria begins with the phrase “Following cessation of hallucinogen use”

If you’ve never tried hallucinogens, you wouldn’t really qualify as having HPPD. There are other terms for visual issues that people can experience that look similar, but HPPD is specifically a hallucinogen-triggered condition.

I do agree, though: If you’re already having visual issues it would be very wise to avoid hallucinogens.
by sn9 | 2025-11-09 00:07:55+00:00
Health guidelines take into account when screening/testing is a net harm or benefit for patients in general, and when they move from being a net harm to a net benefit conditional on specific factors like existing diseases, obesity, etc.

Any decent doctor should be at least following those, and you can pretty easily find them from the major disease-focused organizations.

Importantly, there are also recommendations for how often you see a doctor based on things like age and known disease risk. You might discover you have risk factors that are genetically resistant to lifestyle factors, and the earlier you find out, the more leverage you have to decrease your lifetime risk with appropriate medication.

I'd check out the Barbell Medicine podcast episode on the health priorities they recommend patients focus on: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...
by hibikir | 2025-11-09 00:07:55+00:00
There were a variety of things they didn't predict, including the fact that the executive branch would believe that they have the right to not spend the money congress appropriated to do things. This is the real crux of the shutdown: Negotiations where you demand some spending in exchange for votes are unlikely when the other side can refuse to spend the money, so ultimately there is no credible basis on which to even begin negotiating.
by wredcoll | 2025-11-09 00:08:07+00:00
Didn't apple stores recently lose a lawsuit for essentially the same thing?

I'm extremely on the side of workers being victims of wage theft, but according to the article the employee was paid an hourly rate of $46, if the rate had been negotiated to be like $42 but they paid the extra minutes spent booting the computer and the total pay worked out the same, would anything be meaningfully different?

I mean, part of the implication here is that people are working more than 8 hours a day, which doesn't seem great, but I'm not sure how I feel about whether or not people should be able to agree to employments that require more than 8 hours a day.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-09 00:08:49+00:00
You can argue for or against mass-deportation as a policy. Fine. But the tactics are a choice, and at every turn, the current administration is deliberately choosing cruelty, fear, intimidation, violence, opaqueness, and grief.

In an alternate world, they could have still chosen to do mass-deportation, but also: 1. sent uniformed officers with arrest warrants, 2. who identify themselves clearly as officers, 3. who show their faces and badges, 4. who respectfully but firmly conduct the arrest, 5. transparently transport them for processing in marked police vehicles, 6. ensure innocent family members and bystanders are treated with dignity, protected and offered support, and 7. throughout the process operate nonviolently, respectfully, and adhere to due process.

Instead, they are deliberately choosing the opposite of this at every turn. No matter how mad you are about how previous administrations dealt with immigration, it doesn't excuse these tactics.
by rafabulsing | 2025-11-09 00:09:42+00:00
One problem I have on the back of my mind to try solving sometime is this, from the perspective of the user.

I usually have quite a bit of flexibility when traveling. Exploring multiple options with current tools (at least the ones I'm familiar with) can be slow and annoying.

So what I think would be better is a constraint based system. Rather than simple departure and return dates, you'd input more abstract info like

- Trip must take place between October and November

- Trip must last between 10 and 15 days

- Trip must contain 2 full Tuesdays at the destination

And so on and so forth. Then come up with all possible flights that meet these criteria, and let me sort by price, or by least time spent on transfers, or any number of parameters.

From the small digging I've done, seems like the real hard part of this is getting the actual flight data. I wouldn't even want to necessarily book the flight through this service, just giving me the info about the flights would be enough. But airlines seem to be really stingy with that data. Which kinda makes sense, but damn, is it annoying.

Maybe scraping could be ok. I'd refrain from doing that in the past, but with the AI craze, I guess I'd barely affect the background noise levels of bot activity hitting their servers. Certainly if I built this for me only, and didn't release it, or just released the source for people to run it themselves.
by gishh | 2025-11-09 00:10:15+00:00
Hmm. Possibly.

I predict that California will “go blue” in the presidential elections for at least the rest of my lifetime. Someone who “votes red” in California can say that their vote doesn’t matter, and a reasonable person would understand why they feel that way.

You don’t seem like a reasonable person, or you’re also suffering from some nihilistic delusion, possibly.