skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why would you protest-vote for the party who supports even worse treatment?

It's all anecdotes - how many protest voted for Trump vs a 3rd party candidate or simply not vote at all (which I think was the ultimate factor)?

For the latter category: The same reason Arab Israelis often boycott their local elections. Playing a long game. Playing the short game means almost no real gains for Gaza (it hasn't, after all, in all these years).

They likely don't believe Republicans will ever see it their way, but have more influence with the Democrats. Had they voted for Harris, they felt it was a vote for the status quo. If Harris won, it would mean the Gaza policy would continue as the Democrats feel they'll get their votes anyway. If they voted Harris and Trump won anyway, then that's worse - they "sold out" to Harris, and they still ended up with Trump. Either way, they'd feel the genocide would continue.

If they voted 3rd party or no one else, and Trump won, the thought process would be:

"Yes, the bad treatment for Gaza will continue for another 4 years. Maybe it'll be worse, but it was intolerable with the Democrats anyway. Now the message has been sent to the Democrats and they may be willing to come to the table in the future".

Also, keep in mind that the impact to the voters is miniscule either way. It's not as if their livelihood is at stake with Trump.

I was not very sympathetic to them in the beginning, but as the election proceeded and when the pro-Gaza crowd actually made a lot of moves to appease the Democrats (lowering their demands, etc), and get pretty much nothing in return, it made total sense. For all practical purposes, the Party leaders were not willing to even come to the table, let alone negotiate. On the whole, exposing the Democratic Party for who they are was a notable achievement.

The whole flaw in all of this is: It's really not clear if Gaza impacted the election at all. I haven't seen a good study that indicated this factor would have been enough to bridge the gap between Harris and Trump.
The only people who will respond is those who want to claim some status by saying they drive a reliable old car or some rare version of Porsche or Saab.

Nobody who drives the most recent bme x3 or Audi a8 or Nissan kicks is gonna respond.

I drive a Hyundai Ioniq5
That's my wonder too.
I used the SocialFocus extension to remove those kinds of features from sites when I was still weaning off the sites.

Removing the official apps was an essential first step. Then I progressed to using mobile web sparingly with SocialFocus to trim the experience.
i bought a used 2018 model last year with ~80k miles for $~12k after discounts and rebates. for me, this reflected the best value car i could buy at the time, especially given that i have free charging available to me. i also appreciated that i didn't need to worry about many common failure modes on used ICE vehicles, however it does have the expected battery degradation.
This[1] article might shed some light.

[1] https://jacobin.com/2025/01/trump-executive-orders-project-2...
This reminded me of that whole "12-factor app" movement, which several of my former coworkers had really bought into. One of the "factors" is that apps should be configured by environment variables.

I always thought this was kinda foolish: your configuration method is a flat-namespace basked of stringly-typed values. The perils of getenv()/setenv()/environ are also, I think, a great argument against using env vars for configuration.

Sure, there aren't always great, well-supported options out there. I prefer using a configuration file (you can have templated config and a system that fills in different values for e.g. dev/stage/prod), and I'll usually use YAML, despite its faults and gotchas. There are probably better configuration file formats, but IMO YAML is still significantly better than using env vars.
Stratechery Updates, DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek Implications
Is it possible to skip libc completely or would this introduce too many portability concerns?
We ended up overriding and replacing with our own thread-safe version years ago when we also hit this.
Having worked from home for many years, I was surprised that I had never come across the acronym “WFH” before. It took me a moment to decipher its meaning, especially since the article introduced another acronym, “PWM” (pulse-width modulation), right at the start.
A while back I tried to apply this same principle to an iphone case that tazes you at random when you hold it for longer than 5 minutes.

I gave up on the idea for a number of reasons, primarily driving safety
I think that is an interesting framing and always posed as a truth, especially on reddit.

No, I dont think there is a transitive property of evil.
A Sustainable Approach for Enhanced Repairability and Reduced E-Waste
How many miles are on the SI? That's the coolest SI year the USA ever got (in my opinion.)

There's nothing wrong with being frugal and practical.

I would not call a car that gets 30+mpg impractical. I'm sure your insurance might be a bit higher depending on where you are because a lot of people rice them out and race/wreck them. I don't really think honda has sold an impractical car in the USA since the s2000.
Not according to the World Bank:

https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/d5f32ef28464d01f195827b...

Furthermore, they became #4 GDP PPP last year and and were reclassified as a high income country.

https://www.intellinews.com/russia-s-economy-is-booming-3289...

The poorer regions are actually benefiting from high contract salaries. How sustainable that is, guess we'll see.
Especially given the genesis of DHS, it would not be surprising if that agency vacuumed up a great deal of prior teams, groups, etc., in the name of national anti terrorism. Cabinet level agencies tend to expand over time as DC turf wars ebb and flow.

It could just as easily have been, for example, that back in 2002 someone realized USCG was involved in drug and weapons interdiction in the waters off Florida, swept them up into DHS under anti terror laws, and got the fishing boat thing as a freebie. It does not mean that USCG were not doing anything on the latter until DHS showed up.
Startup > trapt (archaic) us
(a) Like all great conspiracy theories, it would require too many people to keep their mouths shut; and (b) nobody in China would care about any secrecy rules laid down by the US government, any more than Sakharov's team in Russia cared about the US's intention to monopolize the hydrogen bomb.

The closest thing to this type of technology would be EUV hardware of the sort produced by ASML. We have now given China every incentive to put everything they've got into developing similar technology on their own soil. Despite slow progress to date, they will get there.

Another analogy might be the math behind encryption, effectively monopolized by NSA for decades... but nobody's trillion-dollar economy was blocked by those secrets.
BMW i4. I never thought I would buy a BMW, and I don't think I would have dared if it wasn't an EV (due to maintenance costs).
Its somewhat amusing to me that in 2025, you can still find comments equating React to hype. I've been using React professionally for 10 years. Can we at least agree its not a new, hyped technology?

IMHO there's exactly two factors when it comes to having success and efficiency with established tech like React or Rails. One is familiarity, the more experience you have, the more you know it, the more you like it, the better you are going to be with it. The other is restraint. The less custom EVERYTHING you make, the easier it will be to maintain and change. If you lack one or god forbid both, you are going to have a bad time. If you have both, probably anything that's not actually bleeding edge will work out well for you.
well done, thanks for documenting and congratulations on completing the project!
Most Pardons: Clinton & Reagan (4/month).
Fewest Pardons: Bush senior / Biden (1.5/month)

Since Reagan.
While the color temperature situation has improved, the actual spectral quality of most consumer LED lighting still leaves a lot to be desired. CRI makes an effort to measure this, although it's a low-granularity measurement.

I personally buy surplus cinema lighting equipment and use it to light my house. I have a bunch of fancy cinematic LEDs with high CRIs that produce decent light, although they still can't fully compete with tungsten bulbs (e.g. Arrilite series)

Ideally you want to be looking for something with a color temperature in the 3500K (mid-morning) to 6500K (clear blue noon day) range and a CRI of 95+. Also bug manufacturers to start using better color quality metrics like TM-30.
Very nice. Wish there were faster SOMs than the 3588 but maybe in a year or two.

Looks like an MIT admissions portfolio project. Don’t know if it fits the uniqueness category for it but I guess the quality of the end product makes it good enough.

Admittedly this isn’t fully open source like the Novena or the Reform but I doubt adcomms care. I just wish I was rich enough and skilled enough to be able to spend $4.5k on a neat project like this.
It's more of a pyramid, lots of different layers are interested in upholding the existing system because they all benefit
And to fix the problem, they added Prop 90 and 19, which now let you transfer the base value around! What an amusing shell game.

https://www.boe.ca.gov/prop19/#FAQs

But more efficiently shuffling existing supply doesn't create new supply.
Unfortunately it doesn't work for instances of, say, a bank accidentally depositing extra money in your account, or their ATMs accidentally dispensing too much cash.
I don't know much about MG because I'm in the USA but this thing looks cool.

Looks like a Hyundai kona and chevy trax had a baby.
𓁑 𓁒 𓁓 𓁔 𓁕 𓁖 𓁗

𓄒 𓄓 𓄔 𓄕 𓄖 𓄗 𓄘

𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀌

𓋥 𓋦 𓋧 𓋨 𓋩 𓋪 𓋫

𓉢 𓉣 𓉤 𓉥 𓉦 𓉧 𓉨
Yup, I feel that until someone has seen and understood the first graphic in this article, they really don't grok the situation:

https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low
> some of the most-used, most-purchased, and most-loved apps are web apps

Arguably despite being web apps, not because of. I'd really like to see a quotation for "most-loved". Personally, the only "web app" on my system I love is... Firefox.

> Operating System WebViews are more performant [...] I have not seen data that proves that built-in WebViews perform better than Chromium

Tell me you have never used a computer with less than 32 GB of RAM without telling me...

> The argument: End users prefer apps that are 5 MB over apps that are 200 MB. [...] Users, both in the consumer and business space, do not care.

Cool, are you paying for the inevitable $200 storage tier upgrade of my next iPhone/Mac?

Every time I see a 5 MB iOS app, I am delighted at how fast it installs. Every time I see a 0.5 - 1 GB monster that does next to nothing (most bank apps somehow seem to fall in that category), I sigh and wonder if I can find a way to actually live without the app. And whenever I run short on storage space, big apps are the first thing to go!
Awesome! Thanks for your work on this and everything else.

Once you add capture on macOS with something like dtrace, could you concievably capture a system call inside Docker on macOS and watch it trickle down through the linux hypervisor and then to the host darwin kernel and back?

How does it conceptually track the handoff of system calls between hypervisors/VMs/containers/etc?
I think this is probably right. But does that mean that cancer, cardivascular disease, ALS, Parkinson, etc etc human diseases are incredibly rare among animals?
there are many many problems with the EA movement, but they do generally support unconditional cash transfers.

cash transfers are seen as the "default" baseline. the bar for charity is that it must be better than cash transfers. they do find some such charities that they claim are even better than cash transfers, but they are totally comfortable with giving people unconditional cash.
Stop Pretending to Be Happy
I think it's quite likely that the locals legitimately were just not that desperate for food in this specific neck of the woods, which would simply mean that, unfortunately, well-intentioned efforts to help with that were misallocated.

But if they really were short of food: I'll side with smug vegans over choosing beggars.
Sick! Finally someone posting something that puts the “hacker” in HN.

Love the parts research you did.
Russia is a massive grain producer and exporter. One of their biggest health issues right now is obesity (from those cheap grains) with 60% of the adult population overweight, and growing. Furthermore, obesity has actually been an issue for their recruiting effort (there's a lot of running in war).
You'll probably die before the truck does
this truck is what the ford ranger wishes it was
The browser wars are over. Google won and now owns the web.
>> Does no one on HN believe in this anymore? Isn't this tech startup community meant to be the tip of the spear? We'll find out by 2030 either way.

I joined in 2012, and been reading since 2010 or so. The community definitely has changed since then, but the way I look at it is that it actually became more reasoned as the wide-eyed and naive teenagers/twenty-somethings of that era gained experience in life and work, learned how the world actually works, and perhaps even got burned a few times. As a result, today they approach these types of news with far more skepticism than their younger selves would. You might argue that the pendulum has swung too far towards the cynical end of the spectrum, but I think that's subjective.
Student loans are not dischargeable but they are not inheritable too.
Why argue more when they agree with you?
VERY impressive. the laptop looks great. wish you could manufacture and sell the thing, i'd consider one :)
This is just delusional. Not a single CEO thinks of RTO as a productivity boost, it's a layoff tactic.
Now, I do understand MIT would rather publish "research" to address """research""" than call out bs so not to render the article useless.
See, you are one of the people who feels about Luigi Mangione what some people felt about OJ Simpson. You’re getting it. You can read about how some people talked about OJ Simpson’s supposed innocence, it is exactly the same energy.
This is not unusual at all. Windows allowed it for years before Linux came along. It was also true of some other *nix systems - IIRC, Ultrix (DEC) allowed this, and so did Dynix (Sequent).

*BSD allows it too, or used as of 2022.

What is unusual about Linux is that it guarantees a syscall ABI, meaning that if you follow it, you can make a system call "portably" across "any" version of Linux.
Seems like rather crude benchmarking on MacOS only.

However, given how coupled Safari is with the OS it's unbelievable how close the other browsers are.
See the BBC programme Children's Hour from 1920s-60s. The presenters were Uncle or Auntie X.

I remember the usage for friends of the parents in the 1960s
Maybe go back and read what I said rather than make up nonsense. 'often fail' isn't 'always fail'. And many models fail the strawberry example, that's why it's famous. I even lay out some training samples that are of the type that enable current models to succeed at spelling 'games' in a fragile way.

Problematic and fragile at spelling games compared to using character or byte level 'tokenization' isn't a giant deal. These are largely "gotchas" that don't reduce the value of the product materially. Everyone in the field is aware. Hyperbole isn't required.

Someone linked you to one of the relevant papers above... and you still contort yourself into a pretzel. If you can't intuitively get the difficulty posed by current tokenization, and how character/byte level 'tokenization' would make those things trivial (albeit with a tradeoff that doesn't make it worth it) maybe you don't have the horsepower required for the field.
Good stuff. For an implementation of the FIPA standards in Java, see:

https://jade-project.gitlab.io/

Or if you prefer Github, I mirror the repo here:

https://github.com/mindcrime-forks/jade-agents

I'm doing some work now that involves taking natural language input, and then using an LLM to classify the input by FIPA performative, as well as part-of-speech-tagging to support downstream processing. It's early days, but hoping something interesting falls out of this.
O really? It seems people forgot about userdir.path (or similar). So user can expose whatever he wants via: https://emaildomain.com/~user/
Surely that is for people near your age not your parent's generation.
Changing Linux code could cut data center energy use by 30%, researchers claim
This should not have been so hard.
Looking for Agentops Hackers
I was mostly thinking that poorly paid agricultural workers or other people doing periodic manual labor may be getting paid in cash, and perhaps they are not paying taxes on the money, even if they are legally required to. The wait staff and bartenders I used to know did not pay tax on their cash tips.

So what I am talking about is not what the legal requirement is, but to what degree it is followed. But to the degree these people pay taxes while here they are not getting a completely free ride when they take advantage of our tax-supported services.

On a related note, I would be happy for illegal immigrants to get at least some medical support, such as vaccinations and treatment for communicable diseases, as that benefits everybody.
Deng Xiaoping was a great leader and massively grew china, but he was a dictator too. I can understand thinking Xi isn't great but i don't see how him being a dictator plays into it when looking at China's leaders
You can buy sugar at the grocery store which can ruin your life. What's your point? People can get addicted to anything.
> Here is a person who has the typical experience

This is bullshit: not seeing a bill is atypical in California. Parent is also bullshitting by saying it's easy to get a job with no-bills health insurance in CA, unless they are ignoring 98% of Californians.
If you haven't read them yet, Marie Kondo's books are definitely worth it.

You have to approach them with an open mind, a willingness to act, and a genuine intention to try what she's talking about.

She really helped me remove a lot of clutter and look at order from a new perspective. I can't thank her enough.

I'm sure there are many other books on the topic, but hers was enough for me.
Why do they need to drive a practical car? Some people have the $$$ to not worry about that and I'm not going to shit on them for that.

These are really cool and have more cargo room than they look like they have due to its long wheel base. Hyundai/kia went from diet coke civic to cool kid on the block. Was looking to buy one of these becuase im in the market for an EV but Im probably gonna get a used polestar 3 because I like volvo and they are a steal right now with low miles.
The former DHS head seems to think it’s a lot of people. Don’t know any other murderers who have 27% of the population having sympathy for them.

12% is not basically zero.

https://www.thewrap.com/luigi-mangione-discourse-alarms-home...
A function which sets global process state is not thread safe? Why, I'm shocked; shocked and chagrined.

But really, I don't understand why a sensitive security-related library would implicitly use an unsafe function like setenv().
Okay, I'll help him humble brag:

Bryan is in his last year of high school.

</end>

Keep building!
People expect liberals to align with the left because that's where they've been in recent times. But liberals align with globalists, police, and corporations. Leftists always predicted that when the time came, liberals would run to the fascists. And what do you know there they were: Biden, Obama, Bill, Hillary, Kamala sitting right next to Trump at the inauguration in unity. Message received.
Well I guess of the the US Supreme Court. They seem to get every case these days :(
I tend to believe we are nowhere near the point it makes sense to deploy LLMs at a scale where it makes sense to optimize code for them. They make far too many mistakes. You can always reorganize the code when you send it to them, which is what is happening anyway since it all goes into a flat context as part of the stream of input tokens.

Additionally

- a number of issues around how specific languages work will arise because they expect code to be organized a specific way

- the snippet assembly phase with LLMs will introduce non-determinism to the software building process, which in itself should give pause to reconsider the approach. Reproducibility and provenance are important to the software supply chain
Notepad was not cross platform
I made a glasses with the focus optimized for 1.5m. A lot easier on my eyes for working than my progressive lenses.
This made me smile, thank you for sharing!
You said it was "easy" to get a job with Kaiser upthread - what percentage if CA residents are on it?
California moves water the long way with aqueducts, pipes and pumps. It's an understood problem, but expensive.
I encourage you to go for a few voyages offshore on commercial vessels. Experience might influence your opinion. Your claims are inconsistent with my experience.
Whether you agree with the Affordable Healthcare Act or not, I feel like nobody remembers “lifetime maximums.” I have some relatively minor (but massively impactful) pre-existing conditions, and I would have exceeded my lifetime maximum by age 30 due to testing, procedures, hospital stays, etc. I have family members that would have exceeded theirs before age 1.
Thanks for your suggestions and criticism! Much appreciated. Which aspect of it (aside from the SoM, which I admittedly do not have the R&D to make in this timescale) isn't open-source? I'd love to hear your thoughts. The Novena and Reform are amazing pieces of engineering, but I believe they sacrifice the portability and looks for repairability which some people certainly prefer. I wanted to aim for something that a non-technical consumer might look and say "hmm, nice laptop!" and not think it came out of the matrix or built it myself.

In terms of college, still waiting :)
> You can only be given a sentence for the crime you have been convicted of, otherwise you could easily appeal.

If you're convicted of a crime, let's say selling drugs, that carries a penalty of up to life in prison even though most people get 5-10 years, and then you're sentenced to life in prison after the person doing the sentencing is prejudiced by these murder allegations you've never been convicted of, what's your basis for appeal?
The war over a private island in the San Francisco Bay
One of the major differences between X Window and the win32 GUI APIs is that the windows one builds in thread safety, and it cannot be removed. This means that you pay the price of mutexes and the like (what the windows world likes to call "critical sections"), even if you have a single threaded GUI. X Window, on the other hand, decided to do nothing about threads at all, leaving it up to the application.

30 years after these decisions were made, most sensible people do single threaded GUIs anyway (that is, all calls to the windowing API come from a single thread, and all redraws occur synchronously with respect to that thread; this does not block the use of threads functioning as workers on behalf of the GUI, but they are not allowed to make windowing API calls themselves).

Consequently, the overhead present in the win32 API is basically just dead-weight, there to make sure that "things are safe by default".

There's a design lesson here for everyone, though precisely what it is will likely still be argued about.
> about "civilization ending" events this kind of compute

Realistically though, we'd be extremely lucky to need the abacus, even.
Jade (Java Agent DEvelopment Framework) open source for peer-to-peer agents
Fair point, and you are right that in theory this pretty much fully preserves privacy.

On the other hand, I am old enough and grumpy enough to still believe the correct number of connections an OS should make to the internet that aren't explicitly requested by the user taking an action or enabling a job/setting is zero ;-)