MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by suavesito | 2025-04-19 18:23:41+00:00
I think that most people that are "scientific" are unable (because of our education) to _try_ to think about the validity of this way of _understanding_.

I like to think that societies in Latin America (and, importantly, all around the world) survived thousands of years not because of luck, but because the cultures (language, traditions) they developed had ingrained the "scientific knowledge" necessary to survive in the conditions that lived in. An important part of it was that they did not see only as rulers and owners of the world, but only as one part of it. That is one of the basis of what people call magical thinking, but it is sound once you stop disqualifying it just because the word "magical" is in it.

And, I mean, literally, only those who could adapt and understand their world to survive, survived. The knowledge maybe was not as fast evolving as the scientific methods allows to be, but it is, ultimately, the same method. Try, fail, and repeat. Those who were successful survived.

The knowledge ingrained in the culture, traditions and understanding accompanying it was, and _is_, a fundamental part of the solutions that allowed them not to only survive, but to thrive in their environments.

The first comment in this post says that you do not need the culture to carry out the solutions. That may be true, but it does miss that our culture is the strongest (after "basic necessities") incentives we have to choose some things over others. Or understanding of the world is our culture, and our understanding of the world is what makes us take some actions instead of others. You might be able to mimic technical solutions, but to fully understand them, you need the culture that developed them, as it is _literally_ the understanding of the world that allowed the solutions to exist.
by sunshowers | 2025-04-19 18:25:29+00:00
It's alright. Human languages aren't really logically tight the way computer languages are.

An example that goes completely unremarked on is "near miss", which logically means something that came close to missing but actually hit, and yet in idiomatic use means the opposite. People also get upset at "literally" to mean "figuratively", another one I find strange because it's an intensifier.

Clarity matters more in formal writing, and "couldn't care less" isn't particularly formal in any case.
by churchill | 2025-04-19 18:25:49+00:00
You're trying to find a pattern where none exists: so, if Canada did not intentionally cultivate Trump admin. insiders, does that excuse Trump being monstrous to them?

Hell, Denmark loans out Greenland as an unofficial American protectorate and the US retaliates by seeking to just steal their territory, despite their almost insane pro-American bias. To the extent of sending the VP there to challenge Denmark's hold on its sovereign territory?

Again - that's the guy you're reasoning with?

That's before you factor in the American Right's virulent hatred for Indians, who they see as parasitic, simply for coming to work in the US on H1Bs. I hope it works out perfectly for all parties involved.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-19 18:26:00+00:00
I've never heard of that either. But I can guess it's meant to shield the requesting library for financial liability if the patron never returns it. If they're on the hook for replacing the book, then...

And actually, there are a number of academic books I've had to request through ILL because they're only in a handful of libraries, the initial print run from the academic press was probably 500 at most, and replacing one would probably cost $1,000, simply because there's only one person in the world currently with a copy to sell (if you're lucky), and they can basically set their price.
by 9x39 | 2025-04-19 18:26:12+00:00
Science and tech is obsolete like the format of paper encyclopedias? (It isn't.)

It's worth considering if a short-term focus on stocking fad romantasy comes at the long-term expense of a body of knowledge. Consider the classic value of college degrees - they're (largely) not optimized for fad pop knowledge or even vocational skills, instead optimizing for a rounded body of knowledge considered to be broadly 'educated'.
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-04-19 18:26:13+00:00
> In Italy, ordering an espresso takes five seconds.

Have you had espresso in Italy? By all measures, the worst coffee I have had anywhere in the world, on the level of instant coffee in 2010 (remember that?).

I personally don’t complain when people emphasize the compelling story of their offerings – it typically coincides with a high-quality brew!
by zdosb | 2025-04-19 18:26:31+00:00
Hey HN,

It’s a clean, fast site with 500+ curated questions across categories like career growth, feedback, team dynamics, and more. No signups, no fluff, just questions that you can actually use.

If you run 1-on-1s (or dread them), maybe it’ll help. Would love feedback or ideas—especially from folks who lead teams or are building tools in the people/leadership space.
by myfonj | 2025-04-19 18:26:57+00:00
My pleasure :] N.b., if you'd like to try fiddling with Backdooms in that Sandbox, either use the "original" HTML payload (with or without `data:text/html,` prefix in the content), or use "verbatim" (`data:text/html;verbatim,` prefix) when trying that last dataURI payload from the comment, otherwise all `%23` would be double encoded, so you'd get wrong colours. ";verbatim" turns off implicit URI Encoding. (It is not part of the tech, just my hacky hatch to be able to test both "true" dataURIs that can be used "verbatim" in URLs, or have convenience of auto-encoding, but have to extract sandbox iframe resulting payload afterwards, for "ejecting" the "project".
by myself248 | 2025-04-19 18:27:05+00:00
Or if you're primarily reachable by an app that can't launch until AFU, the phone reboots silently and you don't realize it, and you're incommunicado.

Some time later, you need to do something on the phone, you unlock it, the app starts up, and a flood of messages pours in. Wow, some of those would've been really useful to receive in a timely fashion! Whoops!
by Arainach | 2025-04-19 18:27:28+00:00
No.

Liking coffee is only one aspect of a person. Once you're talking you can learn more, make connections, and potentially have a friend who you keep talking to even after you return home.

To give a more HN-specific example: If you work at a software company in the US and go to a software company in India/Poland/etc. aren't you going to find the same people at home? Of course not, their job is only one small part of who they are.
by lxgr | 2025-04-19 18:27:29+00:00
Now I know how a spot of rust looks like under an electron microscope and that stainless steel is an alloy of iron and other elements – but did I miss it, or did the article not explain why rust can still form on it, other than "alloys are never perfectly blended"?

Is it clusters of (mostly) elemental iron that are too far away from the effects of the nearest chrome atoms to benefit from the oxidization protection?
by paganel | 2025-04-19 18:27:32+00:00
I find the world pretty chaotic as it is right now, and pretty split up, seeing and directly experimenting an international informal community that ignores borders somehow makes me more relaxed, gives purpose to a place/city I'm in at a certain moment in time.

Later edit: I'm over-reaching/exaggerating to make a point, but what I'm doing it's similar in spirit to how back in the European Middle Ages many foreign merchants were seeking accommodation at places very similar to what they had back home, think of the Hanseatic League and of all the Hanseatic Houses spread throughout the merchant cities from the Baltic or the North Sea. This one was for London: The German Hanse in London and the Steelyard [1]

[1] https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-german-hanse-in-lon...
by jruohonen | 2025-04-19 18:29:02+00:00
"The situation was similar to the one Sartre had experienced in connection with his own resistance novel. Sartre had remarked at the time that, in a bourgeois age, the writer was the object of universal mistrust, as literature was essentially subversive. 'The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists... who regard the writer as suspect.'"

Ref. (the orwellfoundation.com hyperlink):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318842

Though, as also noted in the article, he was the last Finnish writer to be officially censored by the state.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-19 18:29:04+00:00
In this process one can only show they are unable to authenticate the packet's length matches the length the header said it should have been i.e. you can only authenticate that nobody tried to claim the MTU should change. You have not provided any authentication to the parts of the message signaling the MTU is now supposed be 0x500.

The authentication header can only helps you authenticate when the MTU stayed the same as expected during delivery, it cannot help you authenticate the signals claiming MTU was supposed to be something else as those modifications, inherently, do not come from nodes partaking in the authentication header. The malicious middleman could falsely truncate a single packet to 0x500 bytes just as easily as they could falsely create an ICMP packet claiming the MTU is 0x500 bytes, in both cases the only thing you know for sure is "someone is trying to claim that last packet was too big".
by charleslmunger | 2025-04-19 18:29:44+00:00
>My point is that memory is usually the least of one’s problem, even on average machines.

The average machine a person directly interacts with is a phone or TV at this point, both of which have major BoM restrictions and high pixel density displays. Memory is the primary determination of performance in such environments.

On desktops and servers, CPU performance is bottlenecked on memory - garbage collection isn't necessarily a problem there, but the nature of separate allocations and pointer chasing is.

On battery, garbage collection costs significant power and so it gets deferred (at least for full collections) until it's unavoidable. In practice this means that a large amount of heap space is "dead", which costs memory.

Your language sounds interesting - I've always thought that it would be cool to have a language where generational GC was exposed to the programmer. If you have a server, you can have one new generation arena per request with a write barrier for incoming references from the old generation to the new. Then you could perform young GC after every request, only paying for traversal+move of objects that survived.
by const_cast | 2025-04-19 18:30:02+00:00
He doesn't like it, and it's also horseshit.

The problem here is that the police ALREADY have systems upon systems upon systems in place to ensure they never have to take accountability, ever. Police _literally_ get away with murder, but more importantly, they routinely get away with lesser offenses.

I mean, if we can't even charge someone like Chauvin without first burning down a few cities, could you just imagine how many clerical errors get swept under the rug? How much false evidence is floating around? How many innocent people are behind bars?
by noirbot | 2025-04-19 18:30:40+00:00
Sure, but sometimes you also want to travel. I find myself doing this a lot when I'm on a trip - you want to dive into a new culture or location, do things you wouldn't do, but you also need time to recharge and feel something a bit more normal.

Coffee shop or brewery or dive bar culture can vary some place to place, but there's usually core elements of the sort of social contract that are core to it and can provide a sense of routine or homely comfort even when you're staying at a hotel in another country. Having an experience that's 80% the same as the one you'd have back home can make it easier for you to recognize and appreciate that 20% difference sometimes and learn about a new culture.
by xp84 | 2025-04-19 18:31:01+00:00
I recognize that that is part of the protocol's design, but how common is that in practice on the modern Internet? If I'm using say, Outlook, or even some personal home server, and I have mail for example @ gmail.com, I would expect two things:

1. Microsoft, or my server, would look up the MX for gmail and send the email directly there, where I'd presume it's safe from maliciousness (obviously Google itself has access to it, I admit)

2. The only server that would accept mail from my server and relay it for me would be someone I'm paying, and they probably would accept it over TLS right?
by caprock | 2025-04-19 18:31:02+00:00
Add more diverse characters which overlap with the personas you're seeking to appeal to?

I'm not sure there aren't already highly educated viewers. I'd also point out that not all highly educated people are the same.

In the end I find most wrestling enthusiasm stems from childhood viewing with friends or family.

In current times though, it also has to compete with the adjacent mixed martial arts.
by behnamoh | 2025-04-19 18:31:56+00:00
> People are bored, insecure, or just looking for something to latch onto. So we pay more for a label that makes us feel seen. It’s not about taste—it’s about signaling. And cafés know that. They exploit it. Ruthlessly.

This is a poor take on what's actually a rich cultural shift towards variety seeking. What's wrong with that? The author could go to a regular cafe and have the regular coffee they want, but some people want trying new things.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-19 18:32:48+00:00
Wan 2.1 (and Hunyuan and LTXV, in descending ordee of overall video quality but each has unique strengths) work well—but slow, except LTXV—for short (single digit seconds at their usual frame rates — 16 for WAN, 24 for LXTV, I forget for Hunyuan) videos on consumer hardware. But this blows them entirely out of the water on the length it can handle, so if it does so with coherence and quality across general prompts (especially if it is competitive with WAN and Hunyuan on trainability for concepts it may not handle normally) it is potentially a radical game changer.
by simonh | 2025-04-19 18:33:23+00:00
When I was staying with a friend in Norway once we visited his mother, and to me she sounded like someone with a broad Durham/Newcastle accent (my mother is from there) speaking German. A lot of north east words are germanic, or Scandinavian. My grandfather was a farmer near Durham and pigs were swine, children were bairns.

As for American influence, my youngest daughter picked up a lot of that from Youtube at one point, and I once interviewed a girl from Gravesend with such a strong US accent I assumed she'd grown up over there.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-04-19 18:33:55+00:00
Am I surprised this was downvoted? No, of course not. In this thread, about unikernels, we must limit the discussion to the narrow mindset that unikernels are a menaingful and useful abstraction. Me chiming in pointing out that they aren't, with my rationale, isn't welcome. And we wonder why Bobby can't program.
by lxgr | 2025-04-19 18:33:57+00:00
It can be frustrating for people that simply don't care for the variety and now have to make choices in a place where they used to be fine with an order of "one coffee, please".

Personally (quantity over quality when it comes to coffee), as long as I can still do that and get a hot, caffeinated, sugar-free (in regions where that's the default) beverage, I don't mind.
by tomjakubowski | 2025-04-19 18:33:58+00:00
> If you work at a software company in the US and go to a software company in India/Poland/etc. aren't you going to find the same people at home? Of course not, their job is only one small part of who they are.

Yes, and (back to the original point) despite cultural differences, you will have something in common to connect with one another! (complaining about software)
by curtisblaine | 2025-04-19 18:33:59+00:00
It's not really hard to have a default coffee type + size and serve that when the client asks for a coffee with no specifications. I wonder why no fancy coffee place does that. I guess it has to do with that hostile strain of sales tactics where they screw with your instincts and blind spots to sell you things you don't really want. I'm growing more and more intolerant with that kind of tactics, because they're everywhere and you need to actively fight with them to avoid your money being essentially scammed out of your wallet. I wonder if there's something one can do to screw with them back.
by noirbot | 2025-04-19 18:36:18+00:00
I mean, it's seldom that complicated even. They just went from having one choice of espresso to, likely, at most 3. The most fancy coffee shops I've ever been to usually don't have more than a couple espresso options dialed in at any given time. If you don't care, just pick the cheapest or ask for the person's favorite.

I'm sure there is some influencer/performative aspect to this as well that the author is reacting to, but the complaint strikes me mostly as a "I was ok with the status quo, and I dislike that other people prefer things other than that". Having preferences and choices is not by default some sort of pretentious thing!
by Centigonal | 2025-04-19 18:36:52+00:00
One thing the author fails to take note of here is that Iranians have historically been extremely precious about their bougie little drinks. From tea and coffee houses to summer cordials like sekanjabin, basil seed drinks, and sour cherry sharbat to the dozens of varieties of doogh to all the little fresh juice places in Tehran, getting way too into beverages is an enduring Iranian cultural tradition (albeit fancy coffee comes with an unusually high price tag).
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-19 18:37:04+00:00
I didn't have a parent-child relationship. I didn't live with my mother or father, they were mostly absent in my life after the age of four and I was homeless by 16, after seeking emancipation for many years earlier and my parents denying me.

And fuck "the will" of the people who raised me, they were extremely abusive and traumatized me in every way imaginable, including through sexual repression and agency to chose my own destiny and seek my own sources of truth, knowledge and creativity. They sought to enact a chilling effect by surveilling me at every level of my life, including through my school systems. They repressed nearly every creative outlet I engaged in, including programming or exploring computer literacy, fearing it would turn me homosexual or turn me into a "hacker".

When he wasn't punching me in the face me or throwing furniture at me, or beating me with a belt for hours until I stopped crying, because "men don't cry", my grandfather used to shake and choke me violently and tell me I was a demon and would never love anyone or be loved by anyone.

They were evil people and I do not support any institution or government which wants to perpetuate the experience I had for other children. I seek to enable children to have access to knowledge and tools they need to determine their own destiny, and I firmly believe that full access to information and supporting institutions will naturally lead to a more empathetic society than will restriction of information.
by sapphicsnail | 2025-04-19 18:37:22+00:00
> After all, my library could be run by Scientologists attempting to propagandize children, or Soviet-era

I admitted it was a leap and you're absolutely free to clarify what you meant instead of pointing out some ridiculous edge cases without explaining yourself.

> Regardless of what material it is, yes, anyone who propagandizes children really is "dangerous", and not in the fake patronizing way that the the author of the article means it either.

I don't see how having books with queer characters is propaganda but having books with straight characters isn't. I'm queer and I don't go around insisting that people ban Christian books from the children's section even though I think those values aren't great.
by const_cast | 2025-04-19 18:38:04+00:00
Sure, if the thing in question were someone being tried with a crime.

Rather, it's the opposite. It's not "punishing" police to say "hey, you can't use this evidence". That's not a punishment for them, they shouldn't personally be offended by that. And we certainly shouldn't be comparing that outcome to as if the police are being put behind bars.

We shouldn't be putting people behind bars with bad evidence just because we didn't know it was bad when we got it. No, we should retroactively say "hey, we can't use that evidence". If that hurts the police's fee fees I don't think that should come into play. I don't think that's a metric we should be optimizing for.
by anyfoo | 2025-04-19 18:38:24+00:00
Since this is math, I feel pedantic. It may not be a notable world record, but it’s still a world record. There are infinitely many non-notable world record categories. I currently hold the one for saying the word “fbejsixbenebxhsh” the most number of times in a row. Nobody cares, but it’s still a world record.
by avidiax | 2025-04-19 18:38:39+00:00
If you've ever tried to enable jumbo packets on your LAN, you'd soon learn that it causes lots of problems.

First, every L2 "dumb" switch that doesn't support your jumbogram size just silently drops the packet, which is no good.

Then, you have to figure out what size of jumbogram every device on your network supports, and select the minimum. In many cases, you'll have clients that don't support it at all.

And I hope all your OSes support setting an MTU per route, and you enjoy setting special routes on all of your clients, since Path MTU discovery, even where it is enabled and supported, at the very least adds latency to every connection, if it even works at all.

And god help you once you try to scale up your sweet jumbo frame solution. Plenty of routers have strict ICMP rate limits either imposed in software or hardware (because ICMP may be handled in an anemic CPU). So those ICMP fragmentation needed packets aren't reliably returned to your clients. It's even worse if your ISP doesn't block jumbograms outright. You will soon learn which of your ISPs peerings do or don't support jumbograms and whether they do or don't emit or forward ICMP.

The only advisable way to use jumbo frames is if you are running a datacenter and you have a group of machines that can be properly configured for route-based MTU and that would benefit from jumbo frames, and every piece of hardware you buy is carefully specced to support it.
by ololobus | 2025-04-19 18:38:52+00:00
I can only second this. I have an old iPhone with a second sim-card, because I need it from time to time. And Apple introduced this auto-reboot a bit earlier, iirc last year. The problem is that after rebooting it also disconnects from wifi, so e.g. SMS/handoff synchronization stops working until you enter a passcode. This is very annoying because it was very convenient for me to receive calls/SMS to my main iPhone.

It’s a good and reasonable feature, especially if for some reason you are afraid of state or security agencies in a place where you live, or maybe during travel. It’s still questionable, because in some states you can indeed go to jail if you don’t unlock. Yet, I really want to be able to turn it off for use-cases like mine.
by jl6 | 2025-04-19 18:39:17+00:00
It’s not that confusing. “Has a womb” is not a common definition of “woman”. Women don’t stop being women after having a hysterectomy.

The woman in question is a woman because her sexual differentiation followed the female pathway. Just because in her case that pathway led to a DSD variant doesn’t undo the rest of her female development or make her a little bit less of a woman, or male, or a third sex.
by varjag | 2025-04-19 18:39:19+00:00
Just like with software, oftentimes you can bisect, sometimes you can't. There are some common approaches to roughing out problematic areas (checking power rails, confirming known oscillations, clocks and regular signals…). When you have the schematics, just as with source code you often can make educated guesses. With an unknown design though it is a laborious process akin to debugging a third party binary executable.