MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hinkley | 2025-06-23 17:21:05+00:00
The way I deal with this at work is: we both work for a person who can fire us for looking at them funny. The threat of dismissal is sufficient for us to expect our peers to be rude neighbors but not criminal ones. If the divisions get big enough that this gets blurry, well then it’s simple enough to ask for private VMs/separate Kube clusters. The Conway’s Law aspects of server maintenance cycles when you report to separate directors/VPs is self evident.

And of course collocating different classes of work can lead to a bug in a low priority task taking down a high priority one. So those also shouldn’t run in the same partition. Once you’ve taken both of those into account, you’ve already added some security in depth. It’s hard even to escalate a remote exploit into a privilege escalation into attacking a more lucrative neighbor.
by 9rx | 2025-06-23 17:21:20+00:00
> The Luddites were not opposed to technology and change.

Conservatives aren't opposed to change, they are only hesitant of it. They worry about what negative effects the change might bring. Like, say, "the owning/ruling class's ability to buy and consolidate more labor as technology improved."

I guess the Luddite movement is conservative after all. Not sure what was up with the earlier comment trying to paint some other kind of picture.
by Arnavion | 2025-06-23 17:21:25+00:00
CPUs guarantee what they guarantee, and if they guarantee that a certain instruction takes an operand-independent time then it does.

For example a RISC-V CPU implementing the Zkt extension is required to implement a whole bunch of logical and arithmetic integer operations with operand-independent timing. This includes the two "branchless move" instructions from the Zicond extension, czero.eqz and czero.nez.
by like_any_other | 2025-06-23 17:22:26+00:00
> What people say they want and what people choose to buy are very different things.

As the mac & cheese box featuring Super Mario in the article hints, a big chunk of these people are children. Is it any surprise they don't make the most rational of choices?

On the other hand, this is like asking an alcoholic if he wishes to quit drinking. He'll say yes, but then go into a bar on his way home from work... People claim to want to be healthy, yet their discipline isn't perfect and their will is not iron - what hypocrites!

On the third hand - people do vote and lobby for what they say they want (in this case banning artificial dyes). Why should we give preference to their decisions in the market, vs. their decisions in the voting booth? Or in other words - why do purchasing decisions reveal preference, but voting decisions do not?
by throw0101c | 2025-06-23 17:22:32+00:00
> Dedicated X servers were not cheap.

As a one-time uni sysadmin back in the day, our EE lab(s) we had students running Matlab on a Sun E3500 with the display going up on a diskless ~10 year old Sun SparStation 5s that we had lying around (originally from the early 1990s).
by weatherlite | 2025-06-23 17:23:00+00:00
Even if what you're saying is true (theocracy, subhuman etc etc), the reality is we have almost 60 years of experience saying Israel isn't irresponsible with nukes. We can't say that about any of the other countries in the region like Iran, Turkey, Syria, Yemen etc etc. It would be one giant experiment to have everyone armed with nukes.
by luckylion | 2025-06-23 17:24:12+00:00
I'm not sure what you think the IAEA is, but it's not just some blog of some guy on the interwebs that speculated about things.

> 87% is from an environnemental sample

and we all know, highly enriched uranium occurs naturally and can be found anywhere! Getting almost-weapons-grade uranium is actually a random byproduct when you try to enrich it from 1% to 3%, because that's how math works: you purify something and it suddenly catapults to 30x the purity that would've otherwise taken you months to years to achieve.
by shihab | 2025-06-23 17:24:12+00:00
In one view, the fact that it's a software problem is actually a weakness of (GPU) hardware design.

In the olden, serial computing days, our algorithms were standard, and CPU designers did all sorts of behind-the-scene tricks to improve performance without burdening software developers. It wasn't perfect abstraction, but they tried. Algorithm led the way; hardware had to follow.

CUDA threw that all away, exposed lots of ugly details of GPU hardware design that developers _had to_ take into account. This is why, for a long time, CUDA's primary customers (HPC community & Natl labs) refused to adopt CUDA.

It's interesting that now that CUDA has become a legitimate, widely adopted computing paradigm, how much our view on this has shifted.
by grep_name | 2025-06-23 17:24:15+00:00
> I figured this is a good place as any to see if anybody else has been exploring this question

Sure, tons of articles about similar efforts if you search for the term 'small web'. In particular, I like gemini and tildes (tilde.town, tilde.team, tilde.club, etc) which are actually pretty neat if you take the time to ssh in and checkout the ecosystems they've built. The tildes in particular might surprise you, gemini can be a bit of a ghost town if you don't know where to look though.

Tildes technically aren't public since you have to login to them, but they're not that different from social media in that respect (and since membership usually involves messaging the server owner personally, it's hard to imagine bot activity getting too bad). Gemini is public but you have to use a (usually terminal-based) browser program in order to interact with it and usually self-host a gemlog if you want a 'website' on it.

These communities make me happy because you tend to find people who use xmpp or IRC or alternative platforms there and kinda get away from the enshittification loop. It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea, and I'm sure since this is HN I'm going to get some very snarky responses for mentioning these things as alternatives, but my experiences with exploring the communities around these technologies have consistently made me smile, which is downright weird in the current year. It's got me considering checking out usenet, which I'm too young to have used before outside of direct downloads.

In retrospect, it's funny because all of the things I mentioned are technically 'not the internet', which might honestly be your answer.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-23 17:24:35+00:00
The thoughts about bringing it back home are nothing new, though. And not limited to BSW/AFD at all.

See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Goldreserven#Diskussi... for some history.

Or some articles from around 10/2012:

https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/warum-das-deutsche-gold-i...

https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/bundesbank-soll-den-ganze...

https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/bundesbank-enthuellt-so-v...

(yooze trännzläyshun!1!!)
by jprjr_ | 2025-06-23 17:24:44+00:00
A lot of Icecast/Shoutcast streams either lack HTTPS support, or they don't have CORS headers, or not the right CORS headers.

Like a very common issue is - if you don't have an access control allow headers header for icy-metaint - you can't pull out the embedded Shoutcast metadata client-side. You now have to pull now-playing type data via some other method, like polling the Icecast API - which may not be available. A lot of servers don't send any CORS headers, some only send the allow-origin header.

In theory stream producers can use Ogg to encapsulate the stream and use bitstream chaining to have in-band metadata. That limits the codecs to Vorbis/Opus/FLAC, which are all great codecs - bigger issue tends to be how the browser handles chained bitstreams in audio elements. My understanding is - they just don't handle it at all.

So - if the goal is to play the streams in the browser and ensure you have a consistent experience, it makes sense to proxy them all into some common format like HLS and serve it over HTTPS. You can have timed ID3 metadata, and eliminate CORS and mixed-media issues. This does mess with the stream's ability to accurately measure things like, how many people are listening.
by jyounker | 2025-06-23 17:24:50+00:00
The problem historically was that when consumers were given detailed ingredient labels, they often decided to not purchase the products. Chemical and food manufacturers spent vast amounts of money to get ingredient labels watered down so that consumers wouldn't see the chemical names. In the 70s labels were much more detailed.

Labels like "natural flavors" exist to cover up what's actually in the food. "natural vanilla flavoring" sounds much nicer than "vanillin and acetovanillone extracted from waste sawdust".
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-06-23 17:25:02+00:00
Yes, the FDA has been emphatic that the folic acid supplementation program is a success and we would be fools to think anything else. The reality, as best I can tell, is more nuanced and for a minority of people it's possible to have too much of a good thing, particularly where 5-MTHF would be more beneficial.[1]

I don't hope to resolve the debate, only to point out it should be possible to eat bread that is not fortified with folic acid, if for no reason than I'm not in the high risk group targeted by the FDA and there are potential benefits from reducing folic acid intake in the context of robust intake of folate from other sources.

Or, even simpler: why can't I buy bread without folic acid?

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11930790/
by fitsumbelay | 2025-06-23 17:25:43+00:00
noticed this too after skimming the post, feels like the full title = "I use my terminal (and so should you )"

Plus one for pro-terminal posts. As a chromebooker I've found that all I need is terminal and browser. Switching to my Mac OS seems kinda maximalist and I rarely use much outside of the terminal and, you know, more browsers
by daft_pink | 2025-06-23 17:25:49+00:00
Pretty sure that many governments around the world have pretty advanced monitoring equipment capable of tracking the movements of nuclear material. Just sayin’.

I’m sure they aren’t telegraphing capabilities, but aren’t monitoring devices trained on iran nuclear sites that have been in place for decades.

The intelligence value alone of knowing where materials are going would be so valuable that this has to be in place.
by jacek | 2025-06-23 17:25:56+00:00
> They should switch to an SOC with mainline Linux support so you don't have to throw it out in three years.

Starting 20th of June this year (so 3 days ago) every new phone released in European Union will need to have software updates for at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market. This might be the first one released under new regulations. Also looking at Fairphone's history it looks like they really support their phones for a long time.
by jordanb | 2025-06-23 17:26:08+00:00
Probably true, in that if you try to travel interstellar distances you'll going to have to deal with very hot particles hitting your ship on occasion. If you travel slowly the more time you're going to be spend getting hit by high energy particles. If you try to travel quickly you're going to have to deal with more relatively high energy particles. It's potentially enough to make interstellar travel impossible.
by londons_explore | 2025-06-23 17:26:34+00:00
People going thirsty due to nestle buying it all for bottled water is a western media myth.

It's true that plenty of people have water shortages, but those shortages prevent them from watering their crops - there's still plenty everywhere for drinking - which is what nestle is selling too!

Bottled water is arguably the best thing in places where water is scarce, because very little is wasted, compared to piped systems where leaks account for far more water than what ends up getting drunk.
by cbolton | 2025-06-23 17:26:38+00:00
You can import settings.typ in top.typ, and then import top.typ in education.typ. This way the variable/function definitions will propagate.

Or you can import settings.typ in all files that need it (education.typ, etc.).

What doesn't work is to have a file like top.typ contain

import "settings.typ": * import "education.typ": *

and hope that this will make settings available in education.typ. Because each .typ file is "pure" in the sense that it only knows the variables/functions that are defined in the file, or imported. This way you don't have a file magically affecting the bindings available in another file, which is nice.

It's true there are cases where you'd like something like the above. Currently you can do something like that using states and context (basically putting the "settings" into the document and retrieving that) but it's not so nice. In the future the plan is to make this nicer by allowing custom type definitions (and having show rules and set rules work with them as they work with built-in types).
by pxc | 2025-06-23 17:27:03+00:00
If you don't want to write a giant regex like this yourself, there are some ready-made tmux plugins that add things like this to copy-mode.

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-fpp

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat

https://github.com/Morantron/tmux-fingers

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-urlview

Any configuration or plugin that leans on the built-ins is probably going to be faster, so consider that w/r/t tmux-copycat.

I also really like tmux-resurrect, which saves and restores sessions for you; tmux-continuum, which runs those automatically; and the tmux-zen plugin for Oh-My-Fish:

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum

https://github.com/sagebind/tmux-zen/tree/master

It's pretty easy to get a very nice tmux setup going!
by siliconc0w | 2025-06-23 17:28:19+00:00
This was the most telegraphed attack in history of warfare. Trump was tweeting about it, we were moving troops and planes, even specifics of the attack plan were discussed ahead of time. There are satellite photographs of them lining up trucks. I wouldn't be surprised if they cut up and moved the centrifuges. 1000% they moved the uranium.
by antonymoose | 2025-06-23 17:28:30+00:00
Sadly, I think the lack of care for the other, and for social cohesion in Western nations preclude this.

Several years ago our next door neighbor applied for a zoning variance to allow their home to be used as an AirBNB. All was fine for the first month or two, then a graduation party booked it, 20 vehicles show up and parked on all the neighbors yards, loud party late into the night, etc.

All of this was reported for noise violations, parking violations, etc. to both the police and to AirBNB. Neither took any action.

Months later a college fraternity booked this AirBNB for the entire summer. All of the above plus nightly backyard ragers going until 2 AM. Neither the police nor AirBNB did a damn thing about it. We reached out to zoning to see if we could protest the variance after the fact and told no, the only way for the variance to be revoked would be for the police to make so many calls to the house that it is deemed a public nuisance. Except the police won’t show for nuisance calls and even if they did it would take years of this for a hearing to be held which may or may not decide on our favor.

So… as much as I love the idea of the Japanese civic style. I would never give up strict zoning in America for it. People suck.
by ElijahLynn | 2025-06-23 17:28:40+00:00
"While not a hard edge, or a "wall" as it has sometimes been called, here both spacecraft measured temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin (54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit), which is why it is sometimes also referred to as a "wall of fire". The craft survived the wall as, though the particles they measured were extremely energetic, the chances of collision in this particle-sparse region of space are so low that not enough heat could be transferred to the duo."
by myth_drannon | 2025-06-23 17:28:48+00:00
What's the point? Persians are friendly towards Israel, it's the religious loonies that hold the power, and they can't be eliminated even with many nuclear strikes. As an armchair internet analyst like myself, I'm 100% sure Iran has nukes just no good delivery mechanism. The few missiles they bought from NK that could have delivered a nuke, they used to randomly shoot at Israel.

The closest Israel came to using nukes was in `73 when it looked like it was about to be overrun by Arab armies on multiple fronts and also many suggested it should have dropped it on Gaza on Oct 7, but that would be seriously stupid even just for revenge, since you can't repopulate the area later.
by revenant718 | 2025-06-23 17:28:55+00:00
I am inclined to agree with you. Card-carrying socialist and all that. But I wonder if you could share a good-faith rebuttal of this point.

It's more than evident that software has automated away all kinds of wage labor from the aforementioned typist pools to Hollywood special effects model-makers.

What's different now is that it is actually the software creators’ labor that is in danger of automation (I think this is easily overstated but it is obviously true to some degree).

I get that it feels different for us now that OUR ox is the one being gored. And I do think there will be no end of negative externalities from the turn towards AI. But none of that refutes the above respondent's point?
by carabiner | 2025-06-23 17:28:56+00:00
I went to a cafe in Niseko that looked straight out of a ghibli movie. Stacks of older records in the corner, pothos vines draped over window sills. If you know Niseko, you know this is not the vibe at all since the whole town is mostly Australians (who are louder and more boisterous than Americans). I went in there and it was only a few Asian tourists. So peaceful. Then one American came in, and the entire vibe shifted for the worse as he tried talking over me and shouting across the room to the other table. Sigh.
by tanvach | 2025-06-23 17:28:58+00:00
Some people will say that iOS has an option for ‘reduce transparency’ that mitigates the issue. But every time I turn it on, there’s a general lack of design polish in the OS and apps due to it not being the default.

Another point: I wonder how much of this is for the OS designer/UX/UI team to justify their existence at Apple. Suspect it’ll start out very glassy and gets flatter over time, so that they can claim ‘improvement to user experience’ over many years to come.
by jszymborski | 2025-06-23 17:29:13+00:00
Smartwatches similarly have had the same effect for me and I can anecdotally recommend it.

I think another thing to consider is having ways for people to reach you _without_ your cell phone. For instance, I have a home phone, and calling my cell also rings that home phone. You could set up something similar if you have an office phone, or using a softphone on your desktop. That leaves you with instances where you leave home or the office, which are honestly cases where I'm personally least likely to look at my phone because I'm usually doing things that occupy my full attention (unless I'm commuting where I'm often reading a book on my phone).
by NexRebular | 2025-06-23 17:29:50+00:00
It is possible, yes, but I would prefer to have full linux-free support for production use. There is on-going work for FreeBSD Cuda, though[0]. Just have to wait and see.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-04-2024-06/#_part...
by msgodel | 2025-06-23 17:31:13+00:00
The problem is that it's not really up to Fairphone. Qualcomm and Google have to collaborate to provide the artifacts that Fairphone packages and signs for their devices. If for any reason they're unable or unwilling to do that there's nothing Fairphone can do. (and they have pretty consistently failed to do this after just a couple years. In the past it sounds like Fairphone has managed to hack around it with varying degrees of success.)

This is why using SOCs with poor support and closed drivers like this is a terrible idea.
Show HN: M7 Stock Diversifier – AI-Powered Portfolio Diversification for Techies
by haichuan | 2025-06-23 17:32:08+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been building a tool called Equity Copilot, and I just launched a new module I hope might be useful for techies who receive equity-based compensation.

If you’re like many employees at large tech companies, a big chunk of your net worth is tied up in your employer’s stock. That might feel like loyalty, but from a portfolio perspective, it’s concentration risk.

I wanted to build a tool to help you take the first step toward diversifying out of that: the M7 Stock Diversifier.

It’s a new module that helps tech employees understand how to rebalance their equity holdings using Modern Portfolio Theory (won a Nobel prize).

You start by inputting your main stock holding (often your employer). The tool then: - Analyzes your position and recommends a diversification target from a short list of top mega-cap stocks (the "M7") - Runs an optimization to suggest a risk-efficient allocation between your stock and the recommended diversifier - Displays the Capital Allocation Line, allowing you to visualize your risk/reward tradeoff and pick a personalized portfolio mix (including a cash allocation if you want lower volatility)

Diversifying into the M7 is a common choice, and with the M7 Stock Diversifier you can do so optimally from a Modern Portfolio Theory perspective.

You can try it out here: https://equitycopilot.app/m7-stock-diversifier And I’d love any feedback, ideas, or critiques you have.

Thanks!
by nozzlegear | 2025-06-23 17:32:13+00:00
> USA hasn't formally declared war since 1942.

That's true but misleading. Congress has consistently authorized military action in almost¹ all of the extended wars and conflicts the US has been involved in after 1942. It's not like those presidents have ignored Congress and not sought congressional approval.

¹ Weasel word: I'm sure I've missed some but the big one I can think of is Libya during the Obama years, which didn't have congressional approval and wasn't a declaration of war either.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-23 17:33:18+00:00
> In the mid-late 70s labels on foods and cleaning products told you exactly what was in them.

This is not true, and for some reason this seems to be a common urban myth.

The distinction between natural and artificial flavors goes back to 1906, and in 1938 there was a stronger law requiring the disclosure of artificial flavoring, color, or preservatives. I don't know if you're referring to the 1958 Food Additives and Amendment Act, but that didn't really affect ingredient listings either -- it was about food safety, not disclosure. But there was nothing substantially different about ingredient listings between the 1970s and today. I honestly don't know where you got this information, or what kind of ingredients you were under the impression that your father was able to analyze. The 1960s and 1970s was definitely the era when awareness around these things began to grow among consumers, so it definitely helps explain your father's attention to these things. But the idea that disclosure requirements have been watered down, or that this is due to corporate lobbying, is something like an urban legend. There are certainly issues around trade regulation and naming, like which species of fish are or are not allowed to be labeled as catfish, similar to how champagne can only come from a particular region of France. So there is definitely massive lobbying around geographical disclosures and naming. But the idea that there has been some kind of massive shift of disclosure in terms of chemicals is just not true. If you look up the ingredients on actual historical processed snack labels from the 1970s, they're not any different from today.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-06-23 17:33:19+00:00
It's not clear there is anything Israel could do which would elicit more than strong, but carefully chosen, words of condemnation from the west.

Certainly Nuclear strikes against Iran would be a huge overreach. But no other country is going to retaliate with a Nuclear strike on Israel. If for no other reason than it would certainly lead the US deploying its nuclear arsenal. Especially with the current administration, no one would count on them choosing a path of de-escalation.