MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivape | 2025-04-28 17:00:45+00:00
GWB didn't strike me as someone who could come up with the idea of prolonged Mideast conflict on his own. The think tanks that infiltrated his mind like the movie Inception is not unlike what is being described in the article. It's tough to accept how impressionable we are regardless of age. Just in tech companies we know salesman get into the ears of leadership and sell them on all sorts of ideas.

Even though Gen Z is under constant assault by Influencers, I think they are probably sharper about spotting it similar to how GenX/Millennials were to crude marketing. They are the generation that can combat this, but at the same time they are also the generation that most likely will perpetuate it.

During the Roman republic the thing that made something like a Ceasar was a standing army. If you had a standing army you had power. Some of these powerful people have standing armies on social media and thus have power over the narrative. It's a few times removed from having men with guns, but it is the same abstraction.
by RALaBarge | 2025-04-28 17:01:00+00:00
I have such great memories of the blackout. I was in college at the time, so obviously indestructible.

The first night, we had 2 grills with 10ft high flames roaring but I would say in a controlled fashion. The cops quickly asked us to not do something dumb like that anymore and we agreed.

Memories of the local party stores selling 40oz's for pennies on the dollar, as the outage would last days but the booze would not. It didn't really turn into anything bad for us in SE Michigan other than a fun story I can tell my internet pals about 20 years on.

If I recall correctly, we were also somehow the first house in the neighborhood to get power restored...I remember playing a Dreamcast with a hacked NES emulator running Rampart 2 player. I never made good on it, but I always said I wanted to make a shirt that read "I blacked out in the black out of '03"...which is probably for the best.
by oilman | 2025-04-28 17:01:09+00:00
In 99.99% of real-world scenarios, the rig would have other options to bootstrap a black start—like fully charged air tanks, backup power from a support vessel, or even emergency battery systems. The hand-cranked air compressor is really a last resort tool. We test it during commissioning to prove it could work, but in most cases, it’s never used again in the rig’s working life. It’s there for the rarest situations—like if a rig was abandoned during a hurricane, drifted off station, and someone somehow ended up back onboard without normal support. It’s a true "everything else failed" kind of backup.
by tiwarinitish86 | 2025-04-28 17:01:10+00:00
Traces are one of most difficult observability signals to work with. You need a lot of work on the application and infrastructure instrumentation to get it right.

Once the hard work is done on the client side, you'd expect to extract max value from the this trace data (and not set small retention to save cost).

We worked hard to understand (and explain) how OTEL traces can be efficiently stored, queried and analysed on Parseable using the ubiquitous Parquet file format. Read on!
by leereeves | 2025-04-28 17:01:19+00:00
You should keep in mind that the media isn't unbiased. It's mostly owned by global corporations that want to continue profiting from labor arbitrage, who don't always give us all the details.

For example: the Canadian woman who was detained at the border. Not many people heard that she was working here illegally (self-employed while here under a TN visa that doesn't allow that).

Edit: I call it arbitrage because (oversimplifying) they manufacture a product for one hour of labor in one country and sell it for one hour of labor in a different country. It's only viable because it takes advantage of a difference in wages between the labor markets.
by abhchand | 2025-04-28 17:02:12+00:00
I’m working on SimpleeFood, a simple self hosted recipe app.

https://github.com/abhchand/simplee-food

I found most of the offerings out there to be too bloated. Recipes are a simple thing - you want to store them, search them, and view them easily.

It has a full screen viewing mode for easy cooking with your tablet or phone.
by maedayx | 2025-04-28 17:02:28+00:00
Learning iOS development by building a the habit-tracking app I wished existed - habit tracking has been done to death, but I couldn't find anything that worked exactly the way I wanted, so I figured I'd build it. I've found Swift / SwiftUI alternately delightful and infuriating so far. Most of my experience has been with web tech, so it's exciting to build something that doesn't run in a browser.
by photochemsyn | 2025-04-28 17:02:43+00:00
Wikipedia qualifies as toxic Internet for many people for several reasons: it's heavily manipulated by political and corporate interests as part of their image polishing media strategy, the links that are used to provide credibility for articles are poorly curated and often broken, and the internal power (deciding which articles get heavily edited by invested interests etc.) structure of Wikipedia is mostly hidden from the public.

If anything, children should be taught that Wikipedia is not a reliable source, meaning citing a Wikipedia article in a bibliography for a paper should never be allowed by any responsible educational institution.
by arcsincosin | 2025-04-28 17:03:11+00:00
I'm building a simple web-based drawing app for home sewing patterns. It's a little bit CAD and a little bit sketching tool. Born of my desire for easier and 100x cheaper home drafting tools. The app is still quite early (adding Bezier tools today) and the core workflow is not functional: of draft, lay out, print, repeat, only draft is working. But one step at a time! https://github.com/twaldorf/flatland-client
by z5h | 2025-04-28 17:03:22+00:00
A Prolog TUI library that sticks to relational/logical programming, is conceptually simple, complete, and performant. Only requires some core ansi features that exist or are easily implemented in most Prologs. Currently have stuff like nested scrollable areas, toggles, frames, buttons, layouts working.

Also, a visual programming language implemented as a PICO-8 script, where the "programming" is done fully in the sprite editor.
by privong | 2025-04-28 17:03:25+00:00
"Hieroglyph" [0] was an attempt to address this and write positive science fiction. It was a project at ASU and a book[1] of short stories accompanied by a webpage with essays describing the genesis of the stories and responses to the stories. The book included pieces by Doctorow, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Ster­ling, and others.

I heard about it late last year and picked up a used copy. I ended up reading about 2/3 of the stories and, 10 years after the book's publication, my general feeling was:

1. The stories are overwhelmingly positive and sometimes compelling. But a decade later, the real-life uses of most of the technologies used a plot devices has fallen short of the aspirations in the stories. Reading the stories left me with a feeling of disappointment, seeing that we as a society opted to use most of the technologies in more negative ways (mass surveillance, continued indifference to the amount of carbon we are dumping into the atmosphere, etc.). As a result the stories also felt very naive.

2. The book contains copious links to essays that are hosted on the webpage [0]. They are all gone now; from what I can tell, none of the essays are available at the original URLs. There are also no redirects. The essays have disappeared.

I suppose point 2 is perhaps simply ironic and not much more. I am not sure how to take point 1 though; maybe it is just difficult to read positive predictions that turned out to not happen. Maybe they had an impact though, and things could've been worse in the absence of the books? I am not sure.

[0] https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/

[1] https://www.book-info.com/isbn/0-06-220471-8.htm
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-28 17:03:27+00:00
Well, they're learning from the adults.

Soon as Trump's term started he started removing any mention of slavery from the Smithsonian cuz 'merica.

That's really the concerning thing. Liberals and conservatives not only dislike ideas, they dislike history and facts. That's what makes them dangerous.

On the left it seems you at least had a few moderates who had the good sense to keep the wing nuts in line. We tried the right, thinking we might get better governance, and have discovered, to our collective horror, that the right is wing nuts the whole way down. So you get things like tariffs, and purges, and wild 4$$ ravings about plane crashes being caused by too many blacks.

In the US we need to take things back in hand or it really will be way too late to do anything. These extremists will run the nation right into the ground.
by avni5 | 2025-04-28 17:03:55+00:00
For small pieces of content, doable through the IIAB implementation of usb_lib and upload2usb. Content is also easily available to client machines that are connecting to the IIAB.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814433#43816392

For less ephemeral learning bouquets (i.e., curated content), an implementor can customize their IIAB their specific content and then image/clone as needed.

https://wiki.iiab.io/go/FAQ#How_do_I_customize_my_Internet-i...?
by ModernMech | 2025-04-28 17:04:31+00:00
The moment you see it. People will call you crazy, and and an alarmist, and hyperbolic, but it's your duty to call it out and to keep calling it out from the moment you recognize it until it goes away. And don't let anyone tell you you're wrong, because the number one tool of fascists is plausible deniability. They thrive on Hanlon's razor. The love to play in a gray zone, to get you upset, and then to say "you're overreacting" when you call them out for exactly what they're doing. Don't fall for it.
by christophilus | 2025-04-28 17:04:48+00:00
Dunno. The crystal sphere wouldn’t tell me anything. If I’m the kind of life form that requires such sphere in order to evolve in the first place, then of course I’d observe such a sphere around my planet— otherwise I wouldn’t be there to observe anything!

If I lived on such a planet, I might say, well, I’d need a big sun-like outer gas giant in order to prove we’re significant. As it is, we’re just a little crystal sphere in a huge universe.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-04-28 17:05:01+00:00
I was really excited for the release of that omnibus, I remember actually marking it on my calendar lmao and then I physically handled it and realized it was too big to actually hold and read.

I checked it out from the library instead and spent a day leafing through it admiring the illustrations and reading some of the additional stories and afterwords that I hadn't seen before
by whytevuhuni | 2025-04-28 17:05:06+00:00
I would keep lifetime generics, but remove traits and type generics (and therefore the really complex trait bounds, most of the GAT/RPITIT shenanigans, etc). I feel like that would remove most of the complexity, while leaving a mostly C-like language.

At most it should have pointer generics (similar to void* or Box<dyn Any>), where the generic function can't assume anything about the data, the data has to be heap-allocated, and the generic function can own and move the pointer around. Enough to implement collections, maybe iteration, and nothing else. Enough to not need monomorphization.
by gavmor | 2025-04-28 17:05:20+00:00
I'm sure that the complex logic and state management were not trivial to implement, but the link said GUI so I wanted to see some screenshots, but all I saw were two very dim simple forms.

This space is REALLY struggling to graduate from Gradio-like design sensibilities.

That being said, I'm looking forward to playing with this, congrats on the launch!
by foldr | 2025-04-28 17:06:08+00:00
Lots of countries outlaw hate speech. I know that Americans tend to think that this is a slippery slope to totalitarianism, but much of the rest of the world disagrees. And America in its present state isn't a great advertisment for its own particular model of public discourse and political freedom.

Obviously, you can also be jailed in the US for social media posts that break the law. Here is one example:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer...

It's tasteless to bring up rape cases that are irrelevant here. The tweet we're talking about was posted in the wake of the Southport stabbings. Nobody can seriously suggest that historical failures to investigate rape cases in Pakistani communities can be related to an outburst decades later about burning down hotels housing asylum seekers.
by mncharity | 2025-04-28 17:06:55+00:00
https://openhub.net/ . Other platforms?

Any platforms emphasizing rendezvous? Like... Let me know whenever someone on my <fun people list> commits a new project, or is looking for help. Any meet-and-hacks later today, anywhere on the planet, which welcome virtuals? Happy to do 20 minutes of pair programming now - you know my profile - is anyone around? Text me whenever a flash-mob hackathon gets going. Notify me whenever code, any language, seeks help with <expertise domain>. Using my profile-3, find me a couple of candidate tickets for later. ... Sort of AI-facilitated social networking for humans and code.
by dlivingston | 2025-04-28 17:06:58+00:00
I'm in favor of the university's project and think many more projects like this are needed.

The internet is swarmed with bots. I would estimate something like 25% of all Reddit, X/Twitter, YouTube and Facebook comments come from bots. Perhaps higher.

It's not like r/CMV was some purely human oasis in the Reddit bot-sea.

It's a tough pill to swallow, but the internet is dead as far as open forum communications go. We need to get a solid understand of the scope, scale, and solutions to this problem -- because, trust you me, it will be exploited if not.
by milesvp | 2025-04-28 17:07:22+00:00
I am a firm believer that the brain has finite resources. It is fundamentally no different than a muscle, in that, the muscle has resources at its disposal, and using those resources causes them to deplete faster than they can recover. This means, that at best, you can optimize how you use your brain, similar to how you can optimize how you use your muscles. You can train, to get "more" out of your brain, similar to muscles. But at the end of the day, there is only so much your brain can do. I have found, through fairly good time keeping, that I can do ~6 hours of deep work in a 9 hour period. Maybe 7 in a 12 hour period. This is the amount that puts me at the edge of burnout, and requires no other commitments in my life. 4-5hours in a 7.5 hour day is sustainable. Others may be able to do more, or less than this, but many people are fooling themselves if they think they are doing good work that is also deep for more than this, for more than say 4 weeks at a time.

That said, if you can find ways to use very different parts of your brain... well, then you can squeeze out more performance. In the same way that in the gym, if you find exercises that isolate different muscle groups, you can squeeze more sets in throughout your workout.

I have seen this with people who can produce a lot of output, they tend to not do the same thing all day, but find ways to work on unrelated projects. So, I'm not terribly surprised that you have an urge to code now that your brain is focused on non code related things for a large part of your day.
by conductr | 2025-04-28 17:07:26+00:00
It's not full proof but something as simple as snail mailing a secret token for the human to confirm could be a large deterrent to a lot of online fraud. If you use a stolen credit card with a billing zip code of 12345 and can't receive snail mail in the same zip code, that's a red flag.

Maybe it's not this but point is, just make the person do some IRL action. Visit the registrars office to get an ID photocopied, or something like that. It's great to have everything online now, but it doesn't have to be 100% all the time. Just streamline the IRL part as much as possible and keep it as a security check in the process if nothing else.
by williamscales | 2025-04-28 17:07:34+00:00
I’m no expert but I think it has to do with this effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex-induced_vibration

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian_harp

Edit: might be a completely different kind of oscillation than I was thinking of. https://news.sky.com/story/spain-portugal-power-outage-lates...

So I would also like to understand how this works :)
by actinium226 | 2025-04-28 17:07:39+00:00
So first of all, this is awesome and props to you for some great work.

I have what may be a dumb question, but I've heard that Lua can be used in embedded contexts, and that it can be used without dynamic memory allocation and other such things you don't want in real time systems. How does this project compare to that? And like I said it's likely a dumb question because I haven't actually used Lua in an embedded context but I imagine if there's something there you've probably looked at it?
by scottfalconer | 2025-04-28 17:08:46+00:00
A minimalist, text-based memory system designed to naturally store and recall important events. It emphasizes simplicity, portability, and human-friendly structure by using six optional fields: who, what, when, where, how, and thing. These fields capture factual context clearly, deferring interpretation for later use or analysis.

https://github.com/scottfalconer/vibedb

I still have no idea if it's a good idea or a bad idea but it's been fun to think through.
by kazinator | 2025-04-28 17:09:06+00:00
> Not everything is C,

AutoTools are squarely oriented toward C, though.

If you're not using C or C++, you're probably not using AutoTools.

(I think I might have seen someone's purely Python or shell script project using Autoconf, but that was just ridiculously unnecessary.)

> Having generated files in the release tarball is a good practise

Without a doubt, it is a good idea to ship certain generated files in a source code distribution. For instance, if we ship a generated y.tab.c file, the user doesn't have to have a Yacc program (let alone the exact version of the one we would like them to use).

What's not good practice is that anything is different in the release tarball compared to the git commit it was made from.

"Release tarball" itself a configuration management antipattern. We are a good two decades past tarballs now. A tarball should only be a convenience for people who don't need a git clone.

Every generated thing that a downstream user might need should be in version control, and updated whenever its prerequisites change. This is a special exception to the general rule that only primary objects should be in version control. Secondary objects for which downstream users don't have generation tools should also be in version control.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-28 17:09:15+00:00
It's not "Apple's" service, for starters; the website very clearly states "The online store is operated by a third-party provider authorized by Apple to sell genuine Apple parts and tools." (https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair)

Normally this is the part where you'd take your phone to a cost-competitive repair shop for the same fix-me-up. Except you can't, because Apple stopped selling those people phone parts so they could profit off this instead.

Caveat emptor, repair shops warned you for years.
by joecool1029 | 2025-04-28 17:09:44+00:00
No, because the devices now do authentication of the base station. You would need to issue sim cards with your own service (and then obviously you could track your own carrier's users). Cannot just force other devices to connect to it that are on different carriers. 2G they didn't do this so the malicious base station could just lie about what it was and encourage devices to connect.
by sgerenser | 2025-04-28 17:09:53+00:00
I think the 5-10 mph above the limit that most people drive originates from the fact that police in most U.S. jurisdictions will almost never ticket someone going less than 10mph over the limit (except perhaps in school zones or construction zones). Due to that, the unofficial limit over time naturally drifts up to just under where you're likely to be ticketed.

This unofficial leeway likely developed due to things like mechanical issues with speedometers and tires causing reasonable doubt about actual speed within a few MPH. If they were to raise the official speed limit by 5-10MPH, then people would just do 5-10MPH above that. If police then started enforcing much more strictly, you're going to jam up the courts with more people contesting a 1mph over ticket as being due to speedometer calibration or whatever. Or just in general being much more resentful of the police for being so draconian.
by int_19h | 2025-04-28 17:10:02+00:00
Those are called rockets, not missiles.

And if you look at the "Applications" section on RTEMS website, the very first entry (https://www.rtems.org/applications/hardware/avenger/) says:

"The Avenger (http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/avenger.html) is fully automated, short-range Avenger air defense system. It is a lightweight, highly mobile, easily transportable surface-to-air missile fire unit with eight Stinger missiles in two missile pods. It acquires, identifies, tracks and engages targets (low-flying helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft) from a stationery or moving position."
by divbzero | 2025-04-28 17:10:22+00:00
The Pale Blue Dot is an incredible image but actually understates our cosmic insignificance. Voyager 1 hadn’t left the Solar System at the time and is still light years from our nearest stellar neighbors. Even our farthest stellar neighbors—the individual stars that form constellations in our night sky—are situated in just one section of the Orion arm of the Milky Way. And the Milky Way is, of course, just one galaxy among hundreds of billions.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-28 17:11:10+00:00
Elon lied and said he had funding secured to take tesla private.

SEC came in and got a settlement from tesla because it was a crime.

This in late 2018 however changed the situation greatly at tesla. Shortly after this, yes the model Y and Cybertruck eventually happened but tesla really slowed down. Not well known, but essentially the usa government took control of tesla after this. The government even voided his compensation as being ceo. Essentially forcing him to work for free.

If I look at Tesla's financials right now.

12.87% % of Shares Held by All Insider

But "all insider" isn't just Elon himself. That's all the peoples at the top.

You might imagine that Tesla is basically on autopilot now. Elon doesnt even own that much of tesla anymore. Doesnt really direct it much anymore. Far more interest in other private interests like spacex.

Then you have political movements of domestic terrorists firebombing and vandalizing teslas that have nothing at all to do with elon or tesla.

Tesla is in bad shape.
by roguecoder | 2025-04-28 17:11:38+00:00
"Woke" just means "admitting actual history happened".

It is impossible to be an actual nerd and not be woke. Money-men "founders" have nothing but distain for the geeks that made them rich.

[Edit: I see people don't like this, but are simply down-voting rather than engaging. What is your definition of "woke" then, if not an awareness of America's history?]
by tialaramex | 2025-04-28 17:11:40+00:00
This also true for private wind power. Britain has a measurable amount of hill top farms where it just makes good economic sense to install a wind turbine and get free electricity. But we don't meter it, it shows up in charts as an absence - on a windy afternoon maybe Britain is seemingly consuming 4GW less electricity than it "should be". If the wind drops that load reappears on the grid and must be handled by existing infrastructure.

None of this gear is suited to a black start. If you had total grid loss for a month you could doubtless rewire it to power the farm when it's windy despite no grid, maybe even run some battery storage for must-have services like a few lights so they keep working on still days but you could not start the grid from here.