MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2025-11-24 17:39:26+00:00
Please provide your evidence there is no causal association between marriage and fertility rates.

>I don’t want to encourage more children from people whose primary blocker was child support payments

A prime reason why I didn't have kids in my 20s was because I could afford the kids in marriage, but couldn't afford to spend 20% (more like 30% post tax) on child support, as I had calculated it out. And knowing divorce is always possible, not willing to risk that. The actual cost of my kid is like 10% of my income, but because I'm married I'm not forced to spend closer to 30% as a transfer payment with no check it actually goes to the child. Without poorly thought out child support laws I'd have had kids sooner, and possibly more, and the kids would likely have been better off because when I was younger I had more energy and better genetic material to produce them.

I would even assert the people thinking ahead of time about child support actually calculated in a way that achieves roughly enough to take kids out of poverty, rather than basically a % of income, are exactly the type of people that should be parents. Under the current system child support can be next to nil, or extremely high if you're high income, rather than revolving around ensuring it is actually a number and check and balance to ensure the payment and spending is to bring kids out of poverty. The current system has less child support for poverty-born children but higher for wealthy-born children, meaning the incentives are precisely backwards from incentivizing children born into higher income marriages and the CS incentives higher for higher-income families to divorce and fall back into the lower-fertility unmarried bucket.
by whimsicalism | 2025-11-24 17:39:42+00:00
As I said, I don’t know the UK context. In the US context, I went to a pretty destitute public schooling system and we provided breakfast, lunch, and (to a limited subset) dinner - plus there is SNAP/EBT.

> I know families with three kids to a room smaller than the one my youngest fills with books.

Housing is much more of an issue for the very poor, at least in the US. But I don’t agree that it has gotten relatively worse on a large timescale.
by anonym29 | 2025-11-24 17:40:15+00:00
Google and Apple were infamously official data providers[1] of the NSA's illegal and unconstitutional (as ruled by a federal judge[2]) warrant-less surveillance program (PRISM[3]) exposed by Edward Snowden.

It's safe to assume that software provided by every large, publicly-traded, for-profit technology company incorporated in the USA cooperates extensively with US intelligence agencies, and therefore by extension, the "Five Eyes" alliance, at a minimum if not also the "Nine Eyes" and "Fourteen Eyes" alliances [4].

[1] Slide 6: https://www.eff.org/files/2013/11/21/20131022-monde-prism_ap...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-court-mass...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
by hcal | 2025-11-24 17:40:15+00:00
"I think most people know by now..."

Sadly, I don't think that that's true. I've been shocked by the lack of understanding there in groups of technical people who should know better. It's even worse in groups of non technical people. I'm afraid this is an ongoing battle, and every time ideas like this come up from government it's going to be an effort to inform the public.
by aunty_helen | 2025-11-24 17:40:24+00:00
Opex vs capex budgets is the issue then. The finance people have too much power.

For the in-house experience, keeping a core focus is important for any business. “Are we a website company now?” isn’t something I want my government weather department asking. They’re always going to be worse than industry and one website company per gov department isn’t a slope I’d like to slip down.

Also, sometimes actually defining at the boundaries the problem helps to solve it ie when the internal team creates a spec doc for the ext dev team.

IMHO, the reason government projects end up like this is derisking, pearl clutching, being difficult pricks to deal with and then being uncompromising on process change.

All of the worst aspects you could hope to find in the enterprise at the same time, and then they have a monopoly on being the government.
by oakesm9 | 2025-11-24 17:40:27+00:00
Your status page isn't clear, but are all versions between the compromised and "safe to install" versions compromised or just the ones listed?

For example I installed `posthog-react-native` version `4.12.4` which is between the `4.11.1` version which is compromised and the safe to install version `4.13.0`. Is that version compromised or not?
by maelito | 2025-11-24 17:40:31+00:00
The linked article from Le Parisien (a big French billionaire-owned newspaper) is quite nuanced.

It gives the police's view on narco-trafic crime, but also Graphene's take :

"Criminals and traffickers also use knives." This organization, which is not a company but a foundation, emphasizes that its solution is used by ordinary people who dislike how apps and operating systems handle their data. It adds that if criminals use Google Pixel phones and GrapheneOS, it’s because these solutions work well. But that doesn’t make them accomplices, they assure. "Criminals and traffickers also use knives, fast cars, and cash—things that are also widely used by honest citizens," its representatives note.

And GrapheneOS adds that it protects users from hackers and intrusions by the secret services of totalitarian states. "We consider privacy a human right, and we are concerned about projects like Chat Control (a European bill aimed at detecting child sexual abuse material in messaging services, but which has faced significant criticism) that the French government supports. The invasion of privacy enabled by such legislation would have alarming implications under an authoritarian-leaning government," it argues.
by ForHackernews | 2025-11-24 17:41:02+00:00
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115589833471347871

> The FBI ran a sting operation in Europe where they created their own 'secure' phone and messaging platform. Their OS used portions of our code and was heavily marketed as being GrapheneOS or based on GrapheneOS.

So how do we know GrapheneOS itself isn't a honeypot? It's run by a mystery org and heavily marketed as being a secure platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG was a CIA front for 50 years.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-24 17:41:15+00:00
>and "lack of profit potential is" also generally not the main impedance to creating new housing in most locations either.

It somewhat is. Housing builders can only do so many projects per whatever cycle they run. They will optimize towards building fewer projects that are highly profitable rather than building tons of low income housing or starter homes that each have much lower profit.

Builders don't want to scale up, they want to make money. Building would also be abysmal to scale up anyway, because it's somewhat skilled labor that you pay peanuts for.

This is just one of the ways that wealth inequality results in market failures.

People with lots and lots of wealth value each individual dollar significantly less, and are therefore willing to part with significantly more dollars per unit of service or product. That means you always get a much higher profit margin targeting stupid rich people than anything else. So everything is built around bilking these dumb but wealthy people for everything you can, and nobody builds or sells much to the poorer people. This drives prices for things up in general, and starves the market of oxygen for meeting the needs of less wealthy people.

Ask any developer, big or small, who their target market is, and they will not say "poor people" and this has been true for decades, and the difference between "poor" and "not poor" has only continued to grow.
by munificent | 2025-11-24 17:41:23+00:00
First sentence of the Wikipedia article for Node.js:

> Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that can run on Windows, Linux, Unix, macOS, and more.

First sentence for the Wikipedia article Deno:

> Deno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that is based on the V8 JavaScript engine and the Rust programming language.

First line of hero text from Node.js's site:

> Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

First line of hero text from Deno's site:

> Deno is the open-source JavaScript runtime for the modern web.
by scottlamb | 2025-11-24 17:41:36+00:00
> The main benefit of parking lot is that it makes locks very small, which then encourages the use of fine grained locking. For example, in JavaScriptCore (ParkingLot’s first customer), we stuff a 2-bit lock into every object header - so if there is ever a need to do some locking for internal VM reasons on any object we can do that without increasing the size of the object

IMHO that's a very cool feature which is essentially wasted when using it as a `Mutex<InnerBlah>` because the mutex's size will get rounded up to the alignment of `InnerBlah`. And even when not doing that, afaict `parking_lot` doesn't expose a way to use the remaining six bits in `parking_lot::RawMutex`. I think the new std mutexes made the right choice to use a different design.

> I’m surprised that this only compared to std on one platform (Linux).

Can't speak for the author, but I suspect a lot of people really only care about performance under Linux. I write software that I often develop from a Mac but almost entirely deploy on Linux. (But speaking of Macs: std::mutex doesn't yet use futexes on macOS. Might happen soon. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/122408)
by tshaddox | 2025-11-24 17:41:43+00:00
I'm asking why we shouldn't expect what is considered "the basics" to increase over time, as technology, aggregate wealth, etc. increases? An example to make this obvious: we should probably consider residential indoor plumbing part of "the basics" now, but of course even the richest people wouldn't have had that 500 years ago. In my view, there's no privileged point in history after which we should stop increasing our expectations for quality of life.
by whimsicalism | 2025-11-24 17:41:48+00:00
I was not the person who changed the conversation from ‘relative poverty’ to hunger - the person who replied to me did and I just engaged in that on the merits.

My argument is that you should expect a similar ratio between famine and malnourishment across countries if you are measuring the same thing when you use the word ‘malnourishment.’
by pron | 2025-11-24 17:41:49+00:00
If 1 ∈ 2 is neither provable nor refutable, then you're not working with anything. The proposition literally has no meaning. It's not a syntax error, but you can't use its value for anything. Its value is undefined.

This actually comes in handy: While 1 ∈ 2 is undefined, `(2 > 1) ∨ (1 ∈ 2)` is true, and `(1 > 2) ∧ (1 ∈ 2)` is false, and this is useful because it means you can write:

x = 0 ∨ 1/x ≠ 0

which is a provable theorem despite the fact that the clause `1/x` is difficult to typecheck. This comes in even more handy once you apply substitutions. E.g. it is very useful to write:

y = 0 ∨ 1/x ≠ 0

and separately prove that y = x.

To make this convenient, typed theories will often define 1/0 = 0 or somesuch (but they don't complain about that). In untyped set theory, 1 ∈ 2 and 1/0 can remain valid yet undefined.

Of course a ZF set theory operates with different objects than Peano arithmetic - it's a different theory. But Peano arithmetic nevertheless applies to any encoding of the integers, even the ones where 1 ∈ 2 is undefined.
by iamleppert | 2025-11-24 17:42:33+00:00
At this point, does it not make sense that Israel just become an additional US State or Territory? At least that way they can be taxed, regulated and controlled like any other US territory. If we are committed to providing absolute protection for them like we would a state, they should just become part of the US. Their existing government structures should be absorbed into the US and all their citizens be made US citizens and subject to tax and rule of the law of the US.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-24 17:42:35+00:00
Yeah, it's the same story as always; "We need to charge a monthly fee since it requires ongoing maintenance and you paying ensures we stick around", then fast forward 2-3 years and the company gets bought and shut down. We've been through this so many times that I'm just averse to any sort of product that won't work after the company shuts down.

It's so horrible to find a product, it works and functions great, almost a life-saver even, and then Google buys the startup, the founders get a pay day, and they shut down whatever servers the product used and you sit there with some useless plastic that used to be great, but now isn't even a good paperweight.
by glitchc | 2025-11-24 17:42:45+00:00
> No, the argument is that the algorithm (as specified in the standard) is difficult to implement correctly, so we should tweak it/find another one.

This argument is without merit. ML-KEM/Kyber has already been ratified as the PQC KEM standard by NIST. What you are proposing is that the NIST process was fundamentally flawed. This is a claim that requires serious evidence as backup.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-11-24 17:43:05+00:00
Interestingly enough, the times when I've had scrum masters at work were coincidentally the times when I felt the most disrespected at work. Not from the scrum masters though, from the people who the scrum masters protected myself and my teammates from, the higher ups. The scrum masters were cool. Even on a personal level the higher ups were more or less cool. But damn, organizational and market pressures can really beat down on people.
by overrun11 | 2025-11-24 17:43:24+00:00
Twitter pays more for US impressions so slop accounts often target a US audience and the payments are relatively more attractive to people in less developed countries. Aside from the fact that Americans are only 4% of the world population. What about this is surprising?

There is no evidence presented that there is any state sponsored conspiracy going on. Nor would you need one to explain what we're seeing.

The author also presents no evidence that Pro-Trump accounts are disproportionately represented among accounts lying about their country of residence.

Ultimately, this is just evidence-free gesturing at some grand conspiracy. Cherrypicking the bits that are red meat to her (and apparently HN's) audience.
by gpm | 2025-11-24 17:43:26+00:00
> Where else have you seen this

Node.js is easily the most famous example. Also deno, bun, winterjs, and probably a bunch more.

Someone upthread just linked a bunch of other equivalent lua projects that also refer to themselves as runtimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036362

I've also seen discussions where wrapping the servo-browser-engine in a UI layer referred to the UI layer as a runtime, though I think that's a substantially less canonical use of the word than referring to the part of an implementation that takes requests from the interpreter and executes them in the surrounding environment as a runtime.
by kllrnohj | 2025-11-24 17:43:27+00:00
> With only 8 bits of precision, it really sucks for HDR, gainmap or no gainmap. You just get too much banding.

This is simply not true. In fact, you get less banding than you do with 10-bit bt2020 PQ.

> JXL otoh is completely immune to banding

Nonsense. It has a lossy mode (which is its primary mode so to speak), so of course it has banding. Only lossless codecs can plausibly be claimed to be "immune to banding".

> The JXL spec already has gainmaps...

Ah looks like they added that sometime last year but decided to call it "JHGM" and also made almost no mention of this in the issue tracker, and didn't bother updating the previous feature requests asking for this that are still open.
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-24 17:43:33+00:00
You don't even need to enshittify Yet Another Service, you just need package maintainers. Debian manages to do this, and I'm guessing they get paid nothing (although, yeah, Amazon and The Goog really ought to chip in a few bucks, considering their respective empires). Unfortunately, it means you can't just YOLO your code into other people's programs anymore.
by bootsmann | 2025-11-24 17:43:44+00:00
It does scale against this form of attack. This attack propagates by injecting itself into the packages you host. If you pull only 7d after release you are infected 7d later. If your customers then also only pull 7d later they are pulling 14d after the attack has launched, giving defenders a much longer window by slowing down the propagation of the worm.
by flail | 2025-11-24 17:44:27+00:00
I don't think FB was an outlier. I can't be sure, but I don't think there were many (any?) companies that took more than 10 years to profitability pre-2015.

I think Twitter took 11 years, and it was 2017.

Uber is actually a good counterexample for more reasons than just how long it took to reach profitability. It also raised a lot of money $13B+ (compared to Facebook's ~$2B and Twitter's ~$3.5B), and ~$8B from IPO (that's another interesting fact; IPO when bleeding money).

However, it would rather make Uber an outlier, not vice versa. I guess Tesla and SpaceX fall into the "Uber" bucket, too (SpaceX would actually be profitable pre-2015, right?). How many others can you list?

So yes, we have extending timelines, but pouring money into a leaky bucket for 10 years is still predominantly a losing bet. For each that eventually made it you would have Foursquare, We Work, Better Place, Jawbone, Theranos (!), Fisker Automotive, etc.

And for each of those, you would have dozens that are even more forgotten because investors pulled the plug after just a few years (anyone remember fab.com perchance?). I would put Groupons of this world in the same bucket.

But even if we treated Uber and Tesla as the norm, OpenAI has already beaten them all in terms of how much funding it raised (and Anthropic is on its way there, too). Both with no signs of profitability round the corner and an absurd burn rate that can't be carried by any single customer group (and I already think about their geography as global).

That's why corporate results are so important, as they can afford to pay a premium. ChatGPT users will not.

So even among the wildest outliers, AI companies are extreme outliers.
by liampulles | 2025-11-24 17:44:38+00:00
Ok, I think the verdict on the "JavaScript for everything" experiment is in. It was already resolved long ago (in my opinion), but this should convince any stragglers. Let's accept that the one thing JS is really great for is DOM patching, and move on.

Going forward, use WASM if you really want to make an SPA (and think about that choice), where the source language is not something that ties into the JS dependency ecosystem. Ban it and burn it with fire for anything on the backend, for christ.
by marcinzm | 2025-11-24 17:44:53+00:00
> There were many decades where phones didn't have back doors.

Your cell phone provider almost certainly will respond to a valid warrant and wire tap your non e2e encrypted phone call.

I'd be very surprised if the most common mode of remote communication in any time period was not subject to government interception in some format within a short time of becoming such. That includes physical mail, telegrams, landlines, cell phone calls, txt messages, emails, etc.

Referring to "how things used to be" is not in fact helping the case for privacy.
by inerte | 2025-11-24 17:45:35+00:00
I agree completely. Also it gives mental excuse to not fix bugs now and leave it for the upcoming bug fix week. Specially if there's any kind of celebration of what was achieved during bug fix week.

It's also patronizing to the devs. "Internal survey shows devs complain about software quality, let's give them a week every quarter and the other 11 we do whatever we want". What needs to change here is leadership being honest about business, as sometimes fixing bugs is simply not important. Sure sure it depends on the bug... I am talking about when devs complain about having a huge number of bugs in the backlog (most of them low impact) or whatever something that only affects a small percentage. Another strategy here would be to properly surface the impact of said bugs to users / customers... until you do this, nobody has a reason to care.
by ipaddr | 2025-11-24 17:45:53+00:00
Don't get trapped by right or left they are all owned by oligarchs trying to push or pull the public towards some agenda that benefits them, sometimes other oligarchs but rarely you.

The crime is down stat is a political stat that doesn't tell you are safer. It could mean police are not going after small crimes or people just stop reporting them or they are classified differently. It could say money spent on law enforcement is working and more is needed. On the other hand it could say community outreach and educational coapaigns are working. Many previous crimes reported thats changing with a more racially diverse force.

It tells you whatever you want to believe.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-11-24 17:45:54+00:00
I left because I couldn't stand the echo-chamber and hivemind attitudes. There's also way too many people arguing just for the sake of arguing, even though they agree with your overall comments. It was slightly more manageable when you just stuck to very niche sub-reddits like gardening, landscaping, cozyplaces, sub for tv-shows etc. Now it's nothing but bots and AI garbage. The platform is beyond saving.
by port11 | 2025-11-24 17:46:02+00:00
IIRC the Flemish bus system is profitable. So is the public train company, even if marginally so.

What I dislike about GP's comment is that it obfuscates that mostly it's the lower classes that ride the bus, and paying it with fares takes away from the potential to redistribute tax money that harmonises the way we all live together.

Like you've said: buses move people more efficiently, and once they're on the road they're better off being closer to full since that won't dramatically change the fuel they're burning. Plus less cars, etc.
by tristor | 2025-11-24 17:46:13+00:00
> That just sounds like you're saying the "average" person in all those professions are bad at personal finance. Maybe that's a reflection of society at large.

It is, but it's also a reflection of the business of professional sports in America and where most professional athletes come from. Most professional athletes don't come out of a positive financial environment, they mostly come from poor upbringings and neither through family or the education system are they taught basic financial literacy. Professional athletes in the US suffer the same exact problems as lottery winners, for pretty much exactly the same reason.
by numpad0 | 2025-11-24 17:47:23+00:00
That's just a scope. Comes right off and the gun reverts to a regular M4.

Most(though not all) other smart gun attempts work in a similar fashion; the host gun works exactly as it were, except an extraneous metal bit inhibits firing. If the bit was removed or held down, it reverts to the original host gun and fires normally. As such, the extra bit is literally extraneous, irrelevant to the gun's working.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-24 17:47:33+00:00
The largest effect is that X suddenly (out of nowhere?) started to mention this, publicly. Which, given mr. Musk's political stance (who himself has been the target of a campaign, likely from mr. Putin), wasn't intended to have this effect.

If you were to share this information publicly from the start, the troll/propagandist/agent would know this information is being shared as-is from the start, and they could adapt. Very likely they would adapt. Therefore, the effect would be much less severe.

It is also very obviously PII, which would hurt innocent people (likely a minority but I can imagine it happening).

My take: intelligence agencies were already interested in said information and mr. Musk was like "whatever, we'll just share this with everyone".