MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-21 22:38:48+00:00
I was a gifted/troubled kid who was taking high school classes half time in the 4th grade at the school I was later to attend as my regular high school.

Circa '81 or so they had a PDP-8/A with a printing terminal and two VT-61s which were unusual in that they had a block mode, though we ran a multiuser BASIC system that didn't take advantage of it until I looked up in the manual how to put it into block mode.

My understanding was that this system was designed for word processing at small newspapers where it would be used to do all the typesetting as well as incorporating classified ads and that a newspaper had ordered it and never taken delivery which was why we got a deal on it. It looked a lot like the "DEC Word Processor" in the article, particularly the dual disk drive.

The PDP-8/A had 32k words of 12 bits each, but regular pointers where 12 bits so it had a rather ugly scheme to access multiple pages of 4k words. We had the Crowther & Woods Adventure and a BASIC interpreter that could be used in single-user mode with the printing terminal and we could also boot it up with a three-user BASIC.

Years later my school got a VAX-11/730 and the PDP-8 was donated to the computer club that was advised by our new physics teacher and I tried plugging in one of the VT-61s into the same current loop plug that the printing terminal was plugged into and it caught on fire because of the dust inside, we cleaned the other one out good and managed to get it running again.

Given that the Apple ][+ had 64k of RAM addressable with 16 bit pointers it was probably a better machine than the 8/A overall, but the terminals for the 8/A were 80 columns whereas the ][ came with only a 40 column screen although 80 column cards for it were not unusual and when Apple made the late step of ASICizing the ][ they eventually built in an 80 column VDC.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-06-21 22:41:06+00:00
>> Giant warriors walking through a city in flames

Huh. I never noticed this before but that scene is very much like

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the Rumbling in Attack on Titan, when the Colossal Titans are sent to destroy the world by Eren.

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Also see Figure 4, "Giant warrior falling apart while charging up to fire".

Possible inspiration, maybe?
by vishnudeva | 2025-06-21 22:42:44+00:00
There are too many blanket statements in this article that aren't well argued or even explained. This for example is just a series of assumptions:

""" The attack on “silos” usually comes from people outside of a silo, generalists who don’t have deep disciplinary knowledge or focused training. These people don’t want their ideas validated by a community of experts. They find expertise to be inconvenient. The image of the silo as narrow, contained, a kind of ivory tower, seems to support the claim that those in them are narrow, out of touch, or secluded. """

The links in the first paragraph actually do quite a good job of explaining what people mean when they say Silos are bad. No one claims that disciplines and departments and teams should become a single blob. This article might be defending something that needs no defense and is not under any attack.

I did enjoy reading about the history of Silos :)
by alexjplant | 2025-06-21 22:42:55+00:00
They are but they aren't.

Excepting niche cases (like filling out carbons in triplicate at car dealerships and such) typewriters are pretty anachronistic. It is, however, amusing that over the past decade as things have digitized fewer people seem to own printers. Without a printer a computer fails at the simple task that a typewriter is inherently designed for - putting words to paper. Anecdotally <50% of my friends have a printer in their home... I wonder how that compares to typewriter ownership 50 years ago?

Regardless it's pretty clear that the author of the site is a big typewriter fan hence their statement. I find it contrived, but hey, it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round.
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-06-21 22:43:28+00:00
The facts: - FDA policy now limits readily approved boosters only to people over 65 or those with high-risk conditions. - The CDC officially removed routine COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women in May 2025. - The FDA adopted a stricter “vaccination regulatory framework” requiring randomized controlled trials for new boosters aimed at low-risk populations. - Across HHS and CDC, there have been substantial layoffs—around 20% in FDA and CDC—alongside overhauls that have disrupted pandemic preparedness programs and health agency capacity. Your friendly check on the shitty times we live in. Good luck with Covid, MAGA doesn't believe in vaccines.
by jack_h | 2025-06-21 22:43:40+00:00
I don't understand this scenario. If everyone is on UBI then most people are essentially near poverty. Where are these CEOs deriving all of their profit from?

I personally think a far more likely scenario is that small businesses of one or a few people become vastly more commonplace. They will be able to do a lot more by themselves, including with less expertise in areas they may not have a lot of knowledge in. I don't think regular employees today should see LLMs as competition, rather they should see it as a tool they can use to level the playing field against current CEOs.
by delusional | 2025-06-21 22:43:49+00:00
You're picturing a utopia at the limit of some idealized world. Try and take a second to return to planet earth.

There will not be a "quality" dial that you get to tweak to decide on your perfect quality of soup. There will be graduations, and you will be stuck with whatever the store provides. If you want medium quality soup, but the store only carries 3 brands of soup (because unlike in your utopia somebody actually has to maintain an inventory and relationships with their supply chain) and your favourite brand decides to bottom out their quality. It's not "good actually" because of economic whatever. Your soup just sucks now.

Oh but "the market will eventually provide a new brand" is a terrible strategy when they start spicing the soup with lead to give it cinnamon flavor or whatever.

I'm not an ethereal being. I'm a human, I need it to be good now. Not in theory land.
by throwanem | 2025-06-21 22:46:21+00:00
Obviously. But how obviously to someone who assumes anything without an Internet connection is constitutionally unsurveillable thereby? How does it occur to you to destroy a ribbon, or consider all the other methods by which a sufficiently motivated adversary will defeat your toy air gap, if you believe your air gap isn't a toy?

Of course we are deep into the realm of movie plots already, where we've fantasized a superstate-or superhuman-level adversary still somehow capable of being defeated by "going crude." But if that's where we're going to hang out, why half-ass it?
by Atlas667 | 2025-06-21 22:46:47+00:00
> The third worlders fighting over cobalt don't want peace, they want wealth for themselves.

They are enabled into fighting by big, huge interests. They ship them weapons and rationales.

Who are the customers in the end? Western nations. They create the abject poverty, they use poor governments to exploit and enslave their own people. There is no "poverty" in the world only exploitation. All poverty is fabricated and sustained.

Why is it that Mali is one of the poorest nations on earth but is also one of the top 10 exporters of gold? How does that work?

Capitalism is not voluntarism. That is the myth of philosophical liberalism.

To say that someone who owns as much wealth as a few million people is equal to those same millions of persons who directly own nothing except credit(debt)? It's a myth.

Voluntarism would only be true if we were on equal economic standing. Therefore voluntarism implies that no one can be coerced or leveraged, its a moot and infantile viewpoint of social dynamics.

The "silent majority" has no real way to speak. You choose candidates based on talking points who can then REALLY do anything they please. That is called "trusting campaigns", not democracy.

In reality what happens in elections is that we are choosing a group of people to enact policies based on the market-demands of a society that cannot control its market/production. There is a huge disconnect. It's not a real influence WE have. It's an influence that is given.

IE. The majority of people dont want to use plastic materials for anything related to their consumption. But plastic is cheap and easy to produce. I'm sure that if given a choice people would rather their society work a bit more, spend a bit more of human-energy if it means we dont have nuts full of microplastics.

It is how we produce that determines what choices we have, and how we produce is determined by market dynamics which are reduced to sustainability of production and profits. It is profits that determines production, not consumers' will.

So tell me: if we dont directly control the options we have, but you say we are making a choice, what is that?

There is another word for that. Coercion, manipulation.

I dont want child soldiers killing for control over resources or kids mining for 12 hours a day, I want a good, cheap phone. It is not the same.

Is there really no other way? I would sure as hell try to have it any other way.

Whoever conflates these is doing so because they profit off of it, not because its the only way.

In capitalism the heads of production and their profits determine the directions of our societies.
by bobbruno | 2025-06-21 22:46:58+00:00
If the law has specific clauses about this that the contract disrespects, these conditions are not worth the paper they are written on.

At least in Brazil you can't enforce something the law doesn't allow in a contract - that clause would be considered void without nullifying the contract. And Labour law in Brazil leans (or used to lean) more in favor of the employee,so yes, the law would win. Another aspect there is that unions are more common than in the US, and they will help in such cases.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 22:48:11+00:00
The fact remains that Bill Clinton (2 terms), George W Bush (2 terms) and Barack Obama (2 terms) all utilised the waiver in the original legislation. Donald Trump in his first term didn't, which makes him an outlier.

My point is that one can suggest that as opposed to being supportive to Israel like former presidents that Donald Trump is friendly to Israel, giving them what they want without asking for anything tangible in exchange.

Please note that I will not continue to talk to you if you reply again without referencing the additional context I added. Talking past your conversational partner is rude.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-21 22:49:33+00:00
>could be that 10kg was kept for all we know!

Doubtful. Finding such a hoard and reporting it to the authorities for formal examination by default means showing where you found it so the site itself can be examined by archaeologists. They'd likely be able to tell if you'd found more than you reported in the cache site. It's like forensics, but for ancient artefacts and ruins, pretty sophisticated at times.
by stevage | 2025-06-21 22:49:34+00:00
That really does sound depressing.

I remember when I applied for my first professional job in 2004. I didn't even want the job, I applied out of obligation to get unemployment benefits for another two weeks. So I applied to a senior engineering role, as a grad, and somehow was given an interview. I didn't get the role, but they called me back to say someone else more junior had just quit and offered me her position.

Much easier times for new grads.

Side note: one of my colleagues there had a new baby. This week I learnt that baby has just had a baby.
by gnabgib | 2025-06-21 22:49:50+00:00
Recently The Honeywell Kitchen Computer (51 points, 6 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42296485

Older When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) (50 points, 2022, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-21 22:50:21+00:00
Circa 1990 I was on the movie committee of the student council at my undergrad school and had the job of periodically checking out a 16mm projector from the library and lugging it across campus to the student union building where we'd show a movie every Friday. I remember showing Rebel Without a Cause. We had a video projector in the same room though and had found it was cheaper to get a license to show VHS tapes which was a lot easier on the projectionist although it was much worse quality.
by xhunmon | 2025-06-21 22:50:52+00:00
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by MPSFounder | 2025-06-21 22:52:48+00:00
There is a difference between being friendly to Israel, and putting Israel's wellbeing above US interests. When American elected representatives state the American capitol can burn as long as Israel flourishes, do you believe these representatives have our best interest in their heart, or are they answering to rich donors (AIPAC) who could destroy them whenever they so choose? A subjugated slave may think highly of his master as Voltaire used to say, it does not alter the fact he is a slave with a master. There are those who wish to believe America gains from Israel (whether it is intel, or a satellite in that region of the world, etc), which justifies funding it. That is the greatest lie ever told. America is a slave to Israeli interests, nothing more. There could be a million USS Liberty and Rachel Corrie incidents, and it does not alter the hierarchy of the status quo: America serves Israel. We can put a spin on it to sleep warmly at night, but make no mistake of who is the master in this relationship, and who is the subjugated servant.
by neom | 2025-06-21 22:53:40+00:00
One area of business that I'm struggling in is how boring it is talking to an LLM, I enjoy standing at a whiteboard thinking through ideas, but more and more I see push for "talk to the llm, ask the llm, the llm will know" - The LLM will know, but I'd rather talk to a human about it. Also in pure business, it takes me too long to unlock nuances that an experienced human just knows, I have to do a lot of "yeah but" work, way way more than I would have to do with an experienced humans. I like LLMs and I push for their use, but I'm starting to find something here and I can't put my finger on what it is, I guess they're not wide enough to capture deep nuances? As a result, they seem pretty bad at understanding how a human will react to their ideas in practice.
by immibis | 2025-06-21 22:55:07+00:00
With these services the forwarding happens at a lower level. The traffic doesn't come from them - the source address is whoever actually sent the traffic. And the destination address is you, but the Internet thinks they are hosting you. They can't just forward the same packets to you because they'd just go back to the DDoS provider because that's where "you" "are". So they put the packets inside other packets and send them to you on a different address.

I suppose they could rewrite the destination to be your real address, and then send them to you without extra layers; you wouldn't get to know what the original destination address was; maybe if you only have one, it doesn't matter.
by kragen | 2025-06-21 22:55:08+00:00
Polyethylene only rarely contains plasticizers, and it doesn't harden or crack unless continuously exposed to sunlight—neither LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, nor UHMWPE. It seems like you have your plastics mixed up. Possibly you're thinking of polyvinyl chloride, which does sometimes behave in the way you describe polyethylene describing, but not in all cases.

The plastic buckets I use in my house are food-grade polypropylene 20-liter buckets with hermetically sealing lids. Polypropylene, like polyethylene, does not need plasticizers to remain resilient to impacts; its biggest problem is creep. The handles do sometimes fall off, but they're easy to put back on.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-06-21 22:56:27+00:00
[not legal advice]

Having talked to lawyers about this sort of case, be prepared to speak to several to find a match, or read between the lines - when you ask questions like, “If I break this clause, what sorts of liabilities am I exposing myself to, and how often in your experience does that happen?” Be prepared for, “as my client, I don’t advise you to do that.” Not super helpful in my case, as I was trying to understand the possible outcomes and likelihoods.

The best advice I got was from a business mentor which was, “if you don’t rub it in their face, they probably won’t notice, and probably won’t care.”

Which is, as you mentioned, a probability calculation.

What I would personally guess [not legal advice] is that you rate the likelihood of your employer suing higher than they do (absent anything egregious).
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 22:56:31+00:00
In the video you linked, I think she was being hyperbolic in order to stress the level of support that the US has for Israel. I don't think she meant it literally.

If the US's support for Israel ever hurt the USA in places that it genuinely cared about, then I think you'd see its support for Israel diminish or even dissipate. As it stands support for Israel is very convenient for the US industrial military complex and the USA's long-term strategic objectives in the Middle East which IMHO are large factors in its willingness to support it.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-06-21 22:57:58+00:00
You describe three potential undesirable outcomes:

- consolidation, such that there are only a few different choices of soup

- a race to the bottom in quality

- poisoning

These are all possibilities under our current system, and we have mechanisms (laws and market competition) which limit the extent to which they occur.

What is it about extreme automation technology that you think will increase these prevalence of these issues? By what mechanisms will these issues occur more frequently (rather than less frequently), as production technology becomes more capable?
by immibis | 2025-06-21 22:57:58+00:00
There are many reasons Cloudflare should be hated. The main one is that their goal is to centralize the Internet. A secondary one is all those bloody captchas. A tertiary one is that they often block Tor, even if you pass a captcha. Yes, it's configurable, but their recommended settings are the ones that help break the internet. A fourth one is that many DDoS-for-hire sites are protected behind Cloudflare, which allows them because they are good for its business model. Need I go on?

However in this case I think we can rely on them to tell us what they did. If they say they got a 7.3 Tbps UDP DDoS, chances are good they actually did.
by HexDecOctBin | 2025-06-21 22:58:22+00:00
It's a shame Firefox on iOS has failed/refused to support third-party content filters [1] since 2019. Just because they can't bring Gecko doesn't mean they shouldn't try to gain mindshare for the Mozilla Firefox brand on one of the biggest platforms, yet they refuse to put in the resources.

1: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/5198
by aziaziazi | 2025-06-21 22:58:26+00:00
> enough food and water in gaza

Here’s what I read on Wikipedia:

> The water resources of Palestine are de facto fully controlled by Israel […] The airstrikes led to a 95% reduction of water resources […] Gazans were limited to 3 litres per day, litres under the UN emergency limit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_...

"The siege of gaza’s water" by CSIS: https://www.csis.org/analysis/siege-gazas-water

> genocide which require both intent and follow through […] are present among anti-zionists and all of Israel's enemies

Hum, there’s many people that have "anti" zionism or Israel ideas but at the same time don’t want death, destruction let alone a genocide. Let’s say someone is anti trump party or anti USA (for good or bad reasons), they doesn’t necessarily are anti Americans (_the people_) and for sure most don’t want a genocide!!! For sure some of them does, but you can’t blame or reject any ideas because some of their members views. Listening calmly the moderate part is always better that pointing out the extremists.
by Atlas667 | 2025-06-21 22:58:44+00:00
I agree.

The point of the genocide in Gaza is to erase internal resistance. To erase internal cultural, ethnic and religious ties to their enemies. Eliminate "the enemy within". This is why they are ending a peoples. Straight colonial-racist-genocide of the retro variety.

And also, I do believe it is the whole key to the middle east:

It is a colonial war "playground".

Western Capitalist Block VS Eastern Capitalist Block fight using the people middle east. It is the current global center for proxy wars. Maybe its been working as a sort of vent preventing an all-out WW3.

These world leaders just use us poor people for the profits of their capitalist class.
by delichon | 2025-06-21 22:58:58+00:00
Maybe data and hypothesis should be published independently from conclusions, such that the conclusions of the researchers are not privileged over others. Without the conclusion, the peer review of the data can be more neutral and focused. Peers can review conclusions on their separate merits.

If the experimenter is in a better position to judge their own data than others, then they have not included sufficient data.