MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pr07ecH70r | 2025-05-23 12:16:26+00:00
My son (who is 7 and knows already basic maths) can tell you that if a giant production like Apple moves to the US will cost at least 90% or even more to produce. This automatically will make them 110+% more expensive, which will destroy the demand. And who will pay?! The biggest market - USA (~43% as of 2024) Interesting who are the finance advisors of the guy in the white house?!? Good luck!
by lucideer | 2025-05-23 12:16:36+00:00
> I don't understand the tone of aggression against ACME and their plethora of clients.

> ACME idea good, ACME implementation bad.

Maybe I'm misreading but it sounds like you're on a similar page to the author.

As they said at the top of the article:

> Many of the existing clients are also scary code, and I was not about to run any of them on my machines. They haven't earned the right to run with privileges for my private keys and/or ability to frob the web server (as root!) with their careless ways.

This might seem harsh but when I think it's a pretty fair perspective to have when running security-sensitive processes.
by DicIfTEx | 2025-05-23 12:17:07+00:00
I believe your modernisation attempt misinterprets the dino reference and its connection to the the previous clause about the floods; should it not rather be something like Mud overflowed the streets, as though the waters had only just retired from the face of the earth and it would not be shocking to meet a dinosaur etc. etc.

Although, as the comments on the original post discuss, this does rely on background knowledge that when Dickens was writing, there were popular theories associating dinosaurs with the Biblical flood.

For my part, I confused 'Megalosaurus' with 'Megalodon' and pictured a large shark stranded writhing on Holborn Hill by the sudden loss of its waters; an error which, paradoxically, helped me get closer to the intended meaning (which was, we know now, itself incorrect).
by d--b | 2025-05-23 12:19:24+00:00
I won't find the post, but the advice I read here that worked for me was something like : "If you want to do a project and are scared of the size, just start and see how far you can go".

This really lifted the pressure off. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work in the end, just see how far you can go. It's really simple.

This allowed me to launch a product, make a few thousand bucks from it, and then fold it, cause it wasn't such a good idea.

This same advice allowed me to finish the 1st version of a screenplay I wanted to write. I am in the 2nd version now. We'll see where it goes.
by curt15 | 2025-05-23 12:20:24+00:00
If Linux libraries had that much respect for backward compatibility, there would never had been any demand for Flatpak. Flatpak (and snap) is merely a workaround for the lack of a common "Linux platform" with comprehensive, versioned APIs analogous to the Windows API or Android API. After all, Flatpak essentially provides a way to run a distribution (provided by Flatpak runtimes) inside the host distribution.
by dagw | 2025-05-23 12:21:07+00:00
While a valid point I don't think it is expecting too much for an English major to be familiar with the literature of the country of origin of the language they're studying?

I guess the big question is where in their study are they? I'm assuming it's perfectly possible to get through high school in the US without ever studying any 19th century UK literature. I certainly got through school in England without studying any US literature at all.

If we're talking students a few weeks into their first term at University then it is not at all surprising that they've never read any literature from England. If on the other hand they're a few weeks from graduating, then it would be much more surprising.
by duxup | 2025-05-23 12:21:14+00:00
> who are the finance advisors of the guy in the white house

As far as we know there’s nobody with an education in this administration who is making any sensible argument why these random choices make sense / will produce.

Everyone in the administration who takes questions are political appointees / politicians and they to a person eventually ignore any specific questions and then tell you how great Trump is. The press conferences are creepy at times.

The little info that leaks out from insiders indicates Trump doesn’t take advice from even his own staff often and they are blindsided by tweets frequently.
by fidotron | 2025-05-23 12:21:50+00:00
"However, the text message, which must have been sent just before the sub failed, took longer to reach the ship than the sound of the implosion."

Right . . . they need to explain their reasoning there because it doesn't add up.

Or did the comms apparatus actually survive and relay the buffered message after the fact? Which in turn means it could be recoverable.
by mystified5016 | 2025-05-23 12:21:50+00:00
Honestly inflation is such that any denomination less than a full dollar is almost worthless.

The only application of fractional currency in modern USA is in making every price end in 99 cents for stupid reasons. Everyone has been conditioned to mentally round up any price to the next dollar.

There's nearly nothing you can buy today for less than a dollar. There's no point in any smaller denominations.
by rollcat | 2025-05-23 12:22:18+00:00
Catan is played widely enough that many groups tend to introduce their own house rules[1]. E.g. one of my rules is: rolling 2 is the same as rolling 12, so these hexes are slightly less undesirable.

I guess if this really matters, you could come up with some set-up rules to swap some 3s with 11s, 4s with 10s, etc, so that biases towards 1-2-3 are less impactful. But that would be painstaking and annoying. I absolutely wouldn't care to do that, unless we track ELO and have an evenly matched group, which is a bit absurd in a casual game. And as in any strategy game FFA, everyone will still gang up against the current leader (even with imperfect information).

[1]: https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-01-house-rules/
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-23 12:22:35+00:00
>America is currently a victim of Trump's batshit insane policies.

You're not a victim over your voters' democratic choice. If I choose to cut my nose to spite my face, I'm not a victim. Why are people so bad about taking accountability over their actions? It's always someone else's fault.

>Most Americans are not in favor of this

Most American voters voted for this, this is how democracy works: sometimes your candidate wins, sometimes the other candidate wins, and you have to just suck it up and live with it till the next elections, this isn't being a victim. Rinse and repeat.
by lxgr | 2025-05-23 12:22:36+00:00
PDFs are the opposite of what I personally want from an archival format. I primarily want to be able to read the article on any screen size (on the go, when there's no Internet connection), and PDF falls flat for that.

Even on my computer, not many pages have a nice print stylesheet, and the result frequently looks horrible/nothing like the original page.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-23 12:22:53+00:00
> but the author's tone makes it sound like she hates the protocol and all the extra work she needs to do to make the Let's Encrypt setup work.

The problem is, SSL is a fucking hot, ossified mess. Many of the noted core issues, especially the weirdnesses around encoding and bitfields, are due to historical baggage of ASN.1/X.509. It's not fun to deal with it, at all... the math alone is bad enough, but the old abstractions to store all the various things for the math are simply constrained by the technological capabilities of the late '80s.

There would have been a chance to at least partially reduce the mess with the introduction of LetsEncrypt - basically, have the protocol transmit all of the required math values in a decent form and get an x.509 cert back - and HTTP/2, but that wasn't done because it would have required redeveloping a bunch of stuff from scratch whereas one can build an ACME CA with, essentially, a few lines of shell script, OpenSSL and six crates of high proof alcohol to drink away one's frustrations of dealing with OpenSSL, and integrate this with all software and libraries that exist there.
by Avamander | 2025-05-23 12:23:41+00:00
> It's that more complex stuff is inherently more prone to security vulnerabilities

That's overly simplifying it and ignores the part where the simple stuff is not secure to begin with.

In the current context you could take a HTTP client with a formally verified TLS stack, would you really say it's inherently more vulnerable than a barebones HTTP client talking to a server over an unencrypted connection? I'd say there's a lot more exposed in that barebones client.
by criddell | 2025-05-23 12:24:17+00:00
Here's a heuristic that somebody gave me a while ago: using the word "just" in the way you did is a signal that you don't understand the topic.

John's document covers why he's doing what he's doing:

> Fundamentally, I believe in the importance of learning from a stream of interactive experience, as humans and animals do, which is quite different from the throw-everything-in-a-blender approach of pretraining an LLM. The blender approach can still be world-changingly valuable, but there are plenty of people advancing the state of the art there.

He thinks interacting with the real world and learning as you go isn't getting enough attention and might take us farther than the LLM approach. So he's applying these ideas to a subject that he's an expert in. You don't seem to find this approach interesting but John does (and I do too, for the record).

Everybody dismissing him might be right. Those keeping score know that Carmack's batting average isn't one thousand. But those people also know Carmack has the resources to work on pretty much whatever he wants to work on. I'm happy he's still working hard at something and sharing his work.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-23 12:24:25+00:00
It's a relatively very minor challenge compared to burning massive amounts of gas, coal or oil for the same energy of the blades over the lifetime. The big picture is that wind turbines are a massive improvement over that.

There's a very minor challenge (compared to decades of coal/gas related emissions) of what happens to the blades after their useful life ends. Mostly you are just putting something that doesn't naturally degrade very well in a landfill where it sits and doesn't degrade very well. It might be leaking some toxic stuff slowly over a very long time. Compared to all absolutely massive amounts of other stuff we dump in landfills, what happens to the blades is probably not the most urgent thing to tackle from an ecological point of view.

Of course, windmill construction at scale involves a lot of steel, concrete, and blades. So if would can do the same job and perform well, that's still interesting to do. We take something that's already amazingly good and make it even better.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-23 12:25:29+00:00
> a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto surfaces without the need for any external energy

As a similar comment note, it's like a high tech Dehumidifier bag. https://www.amazon.com/Wisesorb-Moisture-Eliminator-Fragranc... The bags have Calcium Chloride and absorb water from unsaturated air and make small drops of water. It's obvious that they get depleted, and to use them again you must buy a new one or boil all the water to get the crystals again.

In this new material, the droplets are attached to the material. To remove them you must use energy. They don't just drop to a bucket bellow the device magically. You can't use it to "harvest" water without energy. You can sweep the droplets with a paper towel, but now to remove the water from the paper towel you need energy.

> With a material that could potentially defy the laws of physics in their hands

This does not break the laws of physics. It would be nice that the PR department of the universities get a short course explaining that if they believe the laws of physics are broken, then they must double check with the authors and then triple check with another independent experts. Tech journalist should take the same course.

Note that the bad sentence and the misleading title is from the university https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-discover-a-new-cl...
by Bjartr | 2025-05-23 12:28:57+00:00
I expect because without the far bulge, 12 hour tides can't be explained. One bulge would mean 24 hour tides. Not that either explanation is actually correct, but the two bulge explanation matches the obseved periodicity, which is all most people would ever need or care to know about tides these days.

I can't for the life of me understand why graduate level oceanography courses would be teaching it though.
by tialaramex | 2025-05-23 12:29:37+00:00
> The acme client doesn’t have to run on the servers itself.

This is really important to understand if you care about either: Actually engineering security at some scale or knowing what's actually going on in order to model it properly in your head.

If you just want to make a web site so you can put up a blog about your new kitten, any of the tools is fine, you don't care, click click click, done.

For somebody like Rachel or many HN readers, knowing enough of the technology to understand that the ACME client needn't run on your web servers is crucial. It also means you know that when some particular client you're evaluating needs to run on the web server that it's a limitation of that client not of the protocol - birds can't all fly, but flying is totally one of the options for birds, we should try an eagle not an emu if we want flying.
by eviks | 2025-05-23 12:29:42+00:00
"unergonomic" exactly! But that's the same for an mp3 podcast episode! You can't easily save one on a mobile to auto-sync with your other computers and also allow highighting/tagging/syncing playback position/favorites.

Ergonomic is precisely the core value proposition of all these services, "dumb" save has been possible for any such content since forever.
by newccount | 2025-05-23 12:30:58+00:00
If you read the original list of demands[1],very few of the bullet points seems to be actually about the protests and anti-semitism, with the bulk of the demands involving DEI , reverse-DEI (i.e. more inclusion of white, conservative voices ) and greater federal control and oversight over Harvard's administration. If you read Harvards's response[2], you will see that the university is more than willing to co-operate on 'anti-semitism' and suppression of the protestors, but are pushing back against all the other items.

It seems that what is portrayed as a dispute over Palestine, antisemitism and qamas is actually a cover for a power-struggle between the liberals and conservatives ( such as the Heritage foundation, Project 2025, and Yarvinites)

[1] - https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

[2] - https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

edit : But when i think of it more, maybe it is about Israel and Zionism but over a longer time-scale than recent events. If you look at some of the early anti-'woke' and anti-left movements like the self-proclaimed 'Intellectual dark web', lot of them are zionists who viewed the growing liberal disenchantment with zionism in the college campus and left-wing activism (including pro-palestine activism like the BDS movement) as an existential threat to Israel.
by xethos | 2025-05-23 12:31:04+00:00
The study in question is... questionable, at best, IMO.

Discussed elsewhere, and a comment there summarized (and led to further discussion) why the study is not as representative as we might assume.

Link below [0], as it's simultaneously far too long to re-post here (especially from mobile), yet well worth the read. That said, for ease of reading, the opening paragraph starts:

There's a lot of awful stuff that has been discussed already, but I feel like some of this is "catastrophized" because the researchers set up the subjects to fail by setting the standards in a way that you wouldn't expect the students to succeed.

I agreed with the rebuttal to the study, and think the study is hardly all it's cracked up to be

[0] https://tildes.net/~humanities/1nz8/they_dont_read_very_well...
by WillAdams | 2025-05-23 12:31:44+00:00
I'd really like to see a mapping software which was flexible enough, and informative enough to allow ad hoc hybrid route planning --- hoping to take up bike rafting at some point in the near future, so an idea trip would be:

- park the vehicle near where the trip will ultimately terminate near to a water access point (so need to know about ramp presence and parking)

- pedal in to some remote water area where one can transition from bike to raft

- by water explore a bit, optionally gain access to some area which is remote and not normally accessible by bike, land and possibly ride around a bit (only if area will not be damaged by bike tires)

- exit area by going downstream --- but no rough rapids since I'm not young anymore and have had my fill of fishing gear out of the water and refloating a canoe/kayak, arriving at the vehicle after a fairly easy bit of paddling

If someone has a good suggestion for a map which provides this information in a consistent and reliable and accessible format, I'd be glad --- my first couple of attempts at route-planning have had me opening multiple sites/windows/views to the point where keeping track of which information I was trying to get from which window became a chore.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-23 12:32:08+00:00
The only logical choice for Apple is to pay the 25% tariff.

And the only logical choice for consumers/voters is to decide if they want to support this "tax" and by extension, it's proponent.

The simple fact is that we now live in an interconnected world. It is simply not possible or practical to natively produce everything that goes into an iPhone. Not now, not within the decades to come and probably not ever.

And decrees from the fuhrer and pining for yesteryear won't change this.
by patch_collector | 2025-05-23 12:32:25+00:00
I love how clean it is!

One personal use case that I'd love to see supported (when you get your mobile apps implemented) is the ability to add articles via the 'share' shortcuts. I get mailing lists with links, and I don't want to stop to read an article while clearing out my inbox. So if a link looks interesting, I use the 'share' feature to add it to Pocket, and then I'll go back to it later -- without opening my browser.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-23 12:32:44+00:00
> thought static content should just be HTTP

Yep, I've seen that argument so many times and it should never make sense to anyone that understands MITM.

The only way it could possibly work is if the static content were signed somehow, but then you need another protocol the browser and you need a way to exchange keys securely, for example like signed RPMs. It would be less expensive as the encryption happens once, but is it worth having yet another implementation?
by nulld3v | 2025-05-23 12:32:47+00:00
> Trump won, because he and project 2025 represent what conservative Christians want and because republican party want it. And people forever blaming anyone else are just enablers. This has nothing to do with what democrats do or signal. That is utterly irrelevant

That explains why people voted for Trump. That doesn't explain why people didn't vote for Harris.

> This is not about how economy is doing in reality. It is not about what democrats signal.

1. Republican voters either want to destroy the working class, or are detached from reality and believe the lies from Fox News.

2. Maybe it's not about what the Democrats signal. But let's pause for a second: what did the Democrats signal? What was the big message that the Harris campaign really wanted people to know?

> And working class economical concerns are not addressed by republicans at all ...

What do you mean? Trump said grocery prices would drop on day 1! He said he would end the Ukraine war on day 1! And the war in Gaza too! He said he would bring jobs back to America!

The Republicans absolutely addressed the economic concerns of the working class. Of course, it was all a lie, but it doesn't matter if your voters just believe anything you say.
by tux3 | 2025-05-23 12:32:53+00:00
I think managing stateless infrastructure is much easier, if anything goes haywire you can expect a readiness probe to fail, k8s quietly takes down the instance, and life continues with no downtime.

It is also perfectly possible to roll your own highly-available Postgres setup, but that requires a whole another set of precise configuration, attention to details, caring about the hardware, occasionally digging into kernel bugs, and so forth that cloud providers happily handle behind the scene. I'm very comfortable with low-level details, but I have never built my own cloud.

I do test my backups, but having to restore anything from backups means something has gone catastrophically wrong, I have downtime, and I probably have lost data. Everything to prevent that scenario is what's making me sweat a little bit
by danaris | 2025-05-23 12:35:09+00:00
a) I am currently a victim of other people's choices. This isn't me cutting my nose off to spite my face: this is a group of people deciding "we will now all cut off our noses", and the ones who don't want to being held down and cut against our will.

b) Again, it was a plurality of Americans, not a majority, who voted for Trump. And, again, polls increasingly show a majority of Americans disapproving of what Trump is doing.

Acting like this is just "politics as usual" is a big part of what got us into this absolute mess.

Acting like this is just "politics as usual" now, after all the stuff he's already done that is blatantly unconstitutional, illegal, and treasonous, is pretty clearly based on some motivated reasoning.

So, which is it? Do you support his rise to dictator, or do you just enjoy shitting on people who are experiencing a horrifying disaster that will destroy their country and their entire lives as they know them?
by cliffly | 2025-05-23 12:35:37+00:00
We all interact with structured data models constantly, like literally thousands of times each day, just indirectly.

Every single credit card purchase gets classified by a model as fraud or ok. When you go to Netflix and see recommended movies, it's all predictions on structured data. Every single post in every social media feed is there because a model predicted you'd like it.

Realistically, it might be more like 10s of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of predictions that we engage with in a day.

If reality matches the benchmarks for this model, it can kick off a whole new category of models that can potentially be bigger than LLMs
by JoshTriplett | 2025-05-23 12:36:27+00:00
> Why? The days of MITM boxes injecting content into HTTP traffic are basically over

The reason you don't see many MITM boxes injecting content into HTTP anymore is because of widespread HTTPS adoption and browsers taking steps to distrust HTTP, making MITM injection a near-useless tactic.

(This rhymes with the observation that some people now perceive Y2K as overhyped fear-mongering that amounted to nothing, without understanding that immense work happened behind the scenes to avert problems.)
by bananapub | 2025-05-23 12:36:28+00:00
tangentially, for anyone looking to make their lives easier, you can run `acme-dns` on a spared 53/udp somewhere, CNAME the _acme_challenge. from your real DNS hosting to that, then have `lego` or whatever do DNS challenges via acme-dns - no need to let inscrutable scripts touch your real DNS config, no need for anything to touch your HTTP config.